How would you want a plot to be presented?

[Theforgot3n1]

When you're making a custom story that features a protagonist without Amnesia, then you've basically thrown away a large part of their story-telling system. Flashbacks wouldn't make sense and diaries even less (they didn't make much sense with the Amnesia concept either, but would be even worse), and as I see it, you'd be forced to have the protagonist speak his mind a lot, separating the character from the player.

So even if it follows the same pattern, it's still not a bad pattern by any means. You shouldn't fret over the beginning so much, you can still make the story unique in other ways.

Just wanted to motivate and cheer you on your choice of evidently resigning to the original concept.