Shy, insecure Anakin seems like a great idea for making the most of Hayden’s performance in AOTC. You could perhaps leave in his cockiness when Jedi-ing (“If you’ll excuse me!”), to show a contrast between his (over)confidence in his space wizard day job, but his lack of confidence regarding all the interpersonal skills the Jedi never taught him/even deterred him from learning.
Exactly. Plus, as a Jedi, he should be doing stuff he’s not sure either. But sticking to a code because.
In my mental cut, Anakin stays on Naboo while Padme wants him to leave to Tattooine, but he sticks to what was requested. Only Obiwan’s distress call gets him to Geonosis. At the end of the movie Shmi is dead and that leaves its scars.