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You know how, in one of my favorite parts of The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon’s like “guess what friends I totally found the Chosen One” and everyone is like SIGH UGH Ohhhhkay QUI-GON. And Mace Windu is like [side-eye] “You believe it’s this…boy?” while looking totally done?

I was thinking about this and realized what we really need is an AU where the reason they’re so annoyed by all of this and don’t take it 100% seriously is that this isn’t even close to the first time Qui-Gon has claimed to have found the Chosen One. Like, the Order already has a slew of initiates that came to the Order in the first place because at one point or another Qui-Gon was sure they were the Chosen One. He’s brought home plant life and brought it to the Council Room and been like, “It was the will of the Force that I bring back this shrub: I believe it is the Chosen One.” 

Probably also why they were completely not buying that he had been attacked by a Sith on Tatooine:

“We were attacked by a group of Sith lords in those caves.”

“A swarm of Mynocks, your Padawan reported, Master Qui-Gon.”

*cackles* YES HE TOTALLY CRIES WOLF ABOUT THE DAMN SITH ALL THE TIME. 

“I am sorry we missed the meeting. I was terribly injured by an unknown assailant. I can only conclude that it must have been a Sith Lord.” Meanwhile Obi-Wan is standing behind him in the Council Room, slowly shaking his head and mouthing “no it wasn’t. He got stung by a bee.”

this is all Valid but also if we’re being honest like if ur friend showed up with some random kid and was like ‘this child is the reincarnation of jesus christ, and i was just attacked by a woolly mammoth’ u would uhhhh probably not believe him

😂 Indeed. This makes Qui-Gon’s semi-annoyance at them for not immediately buying his story even funnier. DUDE: you can’t just drop this kind of information and expect your coworkers to buy this entire insane story without validating any part of it independently. Honestly it’s probably saying a lot about their faith in Qui-Gon that they didn’t just laugh him out of the room or send him to the healers to check for head injuries.