That kind of feeling doesn't appear out of nowhere, and having your idol choose you as his successor is going to amplify whatever's already there. Power shows you who you are, I believe is the saying.
Feeling like he can't measure up, like he's not good enough to protect his friends or the world at large since people keep getting hurt as he figures things out, like others always choose someone else first even despite objective evidence... it's hard to refute. And then he sees what it did to Wukong, how it isolated him, how he had to eventually go after everyone he loved.
MK being who he is, that's why he's the one for the post. But he's doubting if he can do it, if he even wants it. Especially since he was thrust into it all of a sudden, he didn't have millennia to get there like Wukong did.
So yeah, some of it is that heroics is a fucked up, self-sacrificing job that tends to attract fucked up, self-sacrificing people. Some of it was always in him. Some of it is expectations, both from himself and around him. Some of it is fear. It's a lot of things.
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Feeling like he can't measure up, like he's not good enough to protect his friends or the world at large since people keep getting hurt as he figures things out, like others always choose someone else first even despite objective evidence... it's hard to refute. And then he sees what it did to Wukong, how it isolated him, how he had to eventually go after everyone he loved.
MK being who he is, that's why he's the one for the post. But he's doubting if he can do it, if he even wants it. Especially since he was thrust into it all of a sudden, he didn't have millennia to get there like Wukong did.
So yeah, some of it is that heroics is a fucked up, self-sacrificing job that tends to attract fucked up, self-sacrificing people. Some of it was always in him. Some of it is expectations, both from himself and around him. Some of it is fear. It's a lot of things.
--None of them insurmountable, by the way.