From the moment Qui-Gon found him, Anakin kept beating impossible odds. He wins the Podrace. He destroys the Trade Federation control ship. He survives battles that should have killed him and achieves things no one his age should have been capable of.
The problem?
Success can teach the wrong lesson.
When someone repeatedly overcomes impossible challenges, they can develop what psychologists call an invulnerability bias: the belief that the normal rules don’t apply to them and that somehow they’ll always find a way through.
Anakin didn’t just believe he was powerful. He believed he could beat anything.
Death. Loss. Fate itself.
That’s why Padmé’s visions hit him so hard. For the first time, he was facing a problem he couldn’t outfly, outfight, or outsmart.
And he couldn’t accept it.
Was Anakin’s downfall caused by fear… or by a lifetime of being told he was the Chosen One?
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