It's not said that we'll ever see it that way. Mum told some time ago, that when C2 started her ex was heavily involved in the plot designe. He made, as she said, quite a strong influence. After there break up she changed some aspects of the plot. Might have been Alex at the start of C2 but with that it cloud have changed. It's like with C3 at the start, where there is an consistency issue, where in one page Alex was already clothed and the next he isn't and Mum, like she told, was just to lazy to fix it.
So we might have to live with that "little" inconsistency.
P.s. Hope I retold everything correct. She mentioned it quite a while back.