#finding Grogu

[vvitchering]

Din’s new Nevarro neighbors realizing pretty quickly that the new guy will help you with anything if you ask him nicely. Got a leaky roof? He’ll climb up there and patch it and clean out the gutters while he’s at it. Old and need someone to run into town and pick up some groceries for you? How many potatoes do you need, ma’am? Some creep keeps harassing you? Don’t worry about it, it’s taken care of.

Din has all the thank-you pies, cakes, and pastries he and Grogu can eat.

[drooliesblog]

Luke and Grogu study drawings

[rooksunday]

what about a version of ‘din discovers boba is a clone’ and:

side quest activates!

(yessss din loves a side quest)

and six months later din turns up at boba’s palace like hi hello i found forty eight of your siblings i hope you have clean sheets or whatever xoxo gotta jet there’s a bunch more waiting for a pick up at spacebucks and those old guys get cranky

[loliefeather-art]

Too Late

[beskarfrog]

i didn't expect it to be someone like you, i didn't expect you to be like me

[shirozora-draws]

Five months later, here we are to close the book on the first arc and open to the first pages of the second arc.

This was an interesting exercise in taking what little I know about a world from the existing canon and building up the background/environment. Took inspo from Andor's set designs and added some post-war organic flair (I hope). Always wanted to draw some Leia, and it sure won't be the last time.

Painted and repainted the background while knowing full well that I'll just end up blurring it and drowning it in hazy cold morning light anyway. Bringing an Auzituck gunship out of its simplified animated origins into a more... "realistic" space has been challenging but I love creating metal textures with rough brushes and I'm gonna keep doing it. Can't wait for more chances to draw Din in this particular design.

I'll have a later post regarding the pop-up shop. For now, I need a weeklong break from the two months of stress between finishing the chapter draft and getting this out onto the Internets.

[stealingpotatoes]

In tl4j, who acquires the most children and who is the weirdest about it?

1. luke and 2. what does that mean dude!!!

[cobbssecondbelt]

The differences between Din and Paz's relation with their foundling are quite interesting to observe.

Paz explicitly refers to Ragnar as his son, and Ragnar calls him ''dad'' without hesitation. We don't know how long they have been together, but they are family, there's no doubt about it for anyone.

Meanwhile, Din has had Grogu under his wing for 3 years, and despite their obvious bond and everybody else saying otherwise, he still refuses to acknowledge himself a parental figure. Even without the threat of having to hand Grogu away, Din can't quite yet let himself embrace the role of a father fully. Probably because he knows the pain of losing parents and knows Grogu will eventually lose him before he's even out of childhood, and therefore can't bring himself to this level of emotional vulnerability (even though his love for his foundling is evident), as other people have already mentioned.

Paz and Ragnar don't have that. Obviously nobody is safe from an early death, especially not Mandalorian warriors, but for them it is a risk, not a certainty. Din knows Grogu will outlive him by centuries. He knows he will only be a blip in his lifetime. And maybe he wants to protect Grogu from the great pain that inevitably comes with great love. Even if it's too late for that.

Din still has a long way to go and a lot of things to learn about loving. And think Paz can teach him plenty, without even realizing it.

[p4nishers]

HE'S TALKING TO GROGU. HE'S NARRATING WHAT HE'S DOING AND SHOWING HIM THE SHIP. HE'S LITERALLY PARENTING HIM LIKE. AHDHHENSS HE'S GIVEN UP ON ANY PRETENSE OF NOT BEING A FATHER NOW HE'S JUST FUCKING LEANING INTO IT AND WHERE IN SEASON 1 HE WOULD ONLY TALK WHEN LITERALLY NECESSARY HE'S NOW FUCKING NARRATING WHAT HE'S DOING AND GIVING GROGU ADVICE JUST TO TALK TO HIM?????!!!!?!! LIKE WATCH THE FIRST EP AGAIN AND NOTICE HOW HE TALKS LIKE TWO SENTENCES THE FIRST 20 MINUTES. HE'S EMBRACING BEING A DAD AND TRYING SO HARD FOR GROGU IM LITERALLY GOING INSANE.

[padawansuggest]

SpaceTok

*camera pans over to a speeder window and a sign attached to it*

Sign: He is fine, he has his favorite snacks and the window is rolled down. He has his favorite music and games.

*camera pans up to look inside the speeder where Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi is intensely focused on a Space Switch (Spitch) with headphones on and surrounded by snack wrappers*

Obi-Wan: *sees a camera pointed at him and waves*

[sadcena]

I love whenever people talk about Din breaking the creed they are always like, "He broke the creed for Grogu! He loves him so much!😭 💖" But dance around the fact that he actually broke the creed for American comedian, Bill Burr

This is who he broke the creed for

[rosettart]

dinluke meet-cute part 2

if these panels are so incredibly packed that they’re unreadable….I’m sorry 🙏 I blame 2016 youtube sketchbook tours for making me this way

[constellation-skirmishes]

unrecognizable

i dont even know what grogu actually looks like anymore

[kanansdume]

The Mandalorian switched from writing a story following the arc of Ice Age (2002) to writing a story following the arc of Shazam (2019) in-between seasons 2 and 3, and this is why a perfectly satisfying ending to a two season miniseries got ruined.

[omgahgase]

dinluke drabble

din is definitely the husband to sew all of luke's clothes and repair his gloves when training gets a little too intense or he comes back from a scouting mission with tears in his jackets and robes because "babe, you wouldn't believe what i found at an old jedi temple!" luke goes digging into his torn satchel and pulls out a holocron, proudly showing it off like one would to a large fish freshly caught in one of yavin's lakes.

"that's great, cyar'ika, but can you tell me why your clothes are in tatters?"

"oh," luke says, as if he just realized how the sleeve of his tunic is torn at the shoulder. "i was attacked."

"...by what?"

luke ponders for a moment, eyebrows scrunched and hand under his chin, then, "i don't know. it was too dark to see. but i made it out alive!" he spreads his arms out wide, showcasing his still in tact limbs and the large, ragged tear along the side of his ribs. if din squints, then he can see faint scaring, the effects of too sharp claws, and a splash of blood that he prays isn't luke's.

then he sighs. did he expect anything less from his husband? obviously not because he's already pulling out his sewing kit out from the kitchen drawers.

"give me your cloak and leave the rest of your clothes in the washroom. i'll get to the worst of them later."

luke bounds up to him and smacks a loud, wet kiss to the apple of din's cheek. "thank you. i swear this is the last time."

din hum, unconvinced. "that's what you said last week when you came home in your underwear."

"hey, it's not my fault! i didn't know those vines would try to eat me!"

"the vines didn't try to eat you, love. the creatures controlling them did."

"well," luke huffs, pressing the warming indent of a smile to din's cheek, "at least you didn't have so sew much."

"that's because you didn't come home with much."

luke kisses him one last time with a conversation-ending raspberry for good measure, then he scampers off to the 'fresher, saying something about how din didn't really mind his lack of clothing when they were alone.

din sighs again because, yeah, luke made a point there, then he picks up his husband's cloak and assess the damage. it's not as bad now that he looks at it, but the giant, singeing hole on the back conjures up more questions that luke will most definitely disregard with a wave of his hand.

as din is threading the needle and wondering just what kind of attack might've caused this much damage, grogu chooses that moment to enter the kitchen. he doesn't greet din or ask where luke is or say much, for that matter. because he's too busy holding the seams of his torn shirt and looking at din with his too big, too dark eyes. he lowers his ears, sheepish, and smiles, not as sheepish when he's also giggling.

din doesn't even sigh this time because he had a feeling his son would enter their home exactly like his husband did. call it the force or a father's intuition, or even just a sixth sense for knowing when his jedis do anything involving the need for a needle and thread and-slash-or a batca patch. without looking up from his work, din holds out his hand and grogu is slipping out of his top to levitate it directly into his palm.

"your father is in the 'fresher, ask him to find you another shirt."

grogu gurgles an affirmative sound and waddles off down the hall. from behind, din can see a little tear in his shorts where it looks like something bit him. whatever it was, din hopes grogu bit it back. he also hopes luke notices the tear and puts it in with the rest of the clothes that need repairing.

it's not an easy job, taking care of two jedi with a penchant for trouble, both luke and grogu have proven that it's a handful, more than what either of them may realize. so it's a good thing din has two hands and is more than willing to accept whatever his jedi throw at him.