OK, so uh, correct me if I'm wrong here.
So, in most literature, when there's a prophecy, it's going to happen, end of story. Right? Well, if you prepared for a prophecy to happen, say by training someone to be a hero, because you know that it will happen, aren't you just making sure it DOES happen, just reaffirming people's beliefs that, yes, prophecies definitely do exist and are always true, regardless of whether or not that's actually true? Because the hero was trained to go out and fight the generic villain, they probably WILL, making them somewhat likely to defeat them because they've been trained to do so? And if the villain hears about the prophecy but realizes it talks, at some point, about him invading the hero and that leading to his demise, wouldn't the only way to assure that nothing happened mentioned in the prophecy to gamble that you actually lived in a world with free will, therefore negating the prophecy from happening?
Maybe you could make a story about a prophecized girl realizing this by dying before the prophecy saying she would. I don't know.
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