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queerbutstillhere · 4 years ago

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*starts aggressively fetching the receipts* YOU GUYS DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE ASKING FOR YOU DON’T KNOW

OKAY SO

First of all a MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILER WARNING for Chapter 15, aka Episode 7 of Season 2. Certain people are not allowed to allowed to touch this post, and they know who they are.

We first meet Migs Mayfeld in “The Prisoner” episode 6 of Season 1 (also known as Chapter 6). In this episode, he’s an asshole and its clear him and Din do not get along. Hell they get into multiple fights and Din ends up leaving Migs aboard the Republic prison ship, thus being the reason he ends up in jail. In Chapter 6 Mayfeld constantly pokes at and insults Din, as well as threatens Grogu a few times.

In Chapter 6, their dynamic is very hostile. Mayfeld is clearly very intimidated by Din, and expresses this by challenging Din, trying to establish dominance quickly. It’s hard to read Din, but I think he felt like treating Mayfeld like a puppy nipping at his heels. He’s not threatened, he knows he’s capable of handling Mayfeld. And of course this just eggs Mayfeld on more.

And of Course, as is required by any side character in The Mandalorian, Mayfeld taunts him over his Mandalorian helmet, giving us this beautiful foreshadowing.

Which YES I screamed when I realized the foreshadowing in that. Yes I realize.

Now! We move on to chapter 15. Mayfeld is in prison because of Mando. Cara comes and fetches him, and hes confused, but goes along because what other option does he has. And then he sees Boba. You can tell immediately that he’s still afraid of Mando, judging from his reaction to Boba, and his posture as Din walks up to him.

He keeps his eyes down and talks quietly. “So what, you came here to kill me?” He’s given this chance, after he’s told what the job is, to run. They all walk away, aboard the Slave I where he’s left completely alone. He could run, make a break for it, and you see in his eyes that he’s considering it. But you can also see, just from the simple interaction with Din and Cara that he’s changed some. The reaction he has to Cara calling him Imperial is what tells me that.

But when he finds out what the job is, he helps anyway. You could argue that he was doing it for himself, but Cara made it very clear that there wasn’t anything he would be getting from this. Maybe it was from fear, maybe it was from the goodness of his heart, who knows. But he helps, and willingly gives them the information they need. And I think it says a lot that Din went to Migs in the first place, hell he could have probably intimidated this information out of someone, but instead he went to Migs Mayfeld.

And ofc, in classic Migs Mayfeld fashion, he starts pointing out Din’s armor, I think as a defense mechanism. He’s scared - or rather, terrified - of Din, and he instinctively chooses the fight reaction over a flight reaction. So he talks, he poked at the Mandalorian’s, about the creed, about the helmet.

One thing that really stuck out to me was this scene

Din can see that Mayfeld is anxious over the rhydonium (which is fair enough, i feel like you should be a little more concerned about hauling EXPLOSIVE SHIT, DIN). He chooses to reassure him. “Drive steady and you’ll get us to the refinery.” He had faith in Mayfeld. He shows it in this one scene alone. He already has some level of trust in Mayfeld.

Another scene here is the “I’m just a realist. I’m a survivor, just like you.” “Lets get one thing straight, you and I are nothing alike.” Which really is just a punch to the gut.

Now after we get through the pirate battle and get into the have the Brown Eyes scene. They get to the Refinery and Mayfeld is immediately all business, until he sees Hess. And even then, you can see some change from Chapter 6. He apologizes. You can see he feels bad, because this is it for Din’s chance at getting the kid, but he can’t go in there. And when Din decides to go in, Migs tries to explain, tries to stop him, because he understands. Even for as much as he pokes at Din for it, he understands that Din has his creed, that he refuses to take that helmet off in front of everyone, and while he may not understand why, he understands that it is there, and that it means everything to Din.

And of course we have our brown eyes scene. Migs risks his own safety, and hell, even the safety of their mission, just to go save Din. Because he must have seen Din’s panic, even from outside the mess, and known that Din was not okay. Din’s never been around people with his helmet off, this is never a situation he’s been in before. Migs just swoops in and saves him, doing his famed fast talking to save both their asses. And you can see Migs do a couple of double takes, because why wouldn’t he. He’s been wanting to see Din’s face since the day they met. Curiosity is only natural. But despite this, he focuses on the problem at hand.

As they’re talking to Hess, Din is panicked. I think he and Migs switched panic roles, as Migs is now perfectly calm, and Din looks like he’s about to be sick. He’s attempting to engage, and answer Hess, just trying to get this over with. And when Migs starts to challenge Hess, they make eye contact and Din tries to signal him no. But other than that one moment, he only looks directly at Din once, right before he shoots Hess.

In this moment, they’re both very vulnerable. Migs because of the conversation with Hess, Din because of his helmet gone.

And of course Din’s alarmed face after Migs shoots Hess gets me every time

And then after their brief shoot out, Din is hesitating, but Mayfeld immediately moves. “You did what you had to do. I never saw your face”

The fact that Migs turns away sends me. Not only is he giving Din some privacy, as much as he can, to put his helmet back on, but he’s leaving his back exposed to Din. I don’t know if this was an intentional choice by the directors, but just the fact that he’s just leaving himself open like that, to an armed and highly deadly man with a creed saying no one is allowed to see his face? It’s either trust, or it’s willingness to accept that he won’t survive. And Din doesn’t take a shot, he had an opportunity, we all know he could’ve made that shot, but he doesn’t.

Also the immediate demeanor change in Din after he gets the helmet back on is really cool to me.

At the end of the episode, Din has no indication of any hostile intentions towards Migs. As if he’s just okay with the fact that Migs is now the only living person to have ever seen his face. In fact he encourages that Cara lets him go free.

I don’t know all of Din’s reasons for this. Trust, resignment, I don’t know. But I think it speaks volumes. He chose to let Migs live. Migs knows this. No one else knows how much of a deal this was. His little nod to tell Migs to get out of there? Good shit folks Good shit.

In less official proper format, MIGS MAYFELD HAD A BI PANIC ATTACK WHEN HE SAW DIN DJARIN’S FACE AND DECIDED HE NEEDED TO RESCUE THE PANICKING MAN. THEIR CHEMISTRY WENT FROM HATE/FEAR TO MUTUAL RESPECT IN ONE EPISODE AND I’M FUCKING HERE FOR IT. THEY HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL.

#YES I JUST REWATCHED CHAPTER 15 WHILE DOING THIS WHAT ABOUT IT #I HAVE BRAINROT #AT LEAST YOUR NOT CAI WHO HAS TO LISTEN TO THIS SHIT EVERY DAY #btw as disclaimer this is obviously just my speculation and opinion but i was asked so lets go #as a story writer i feel like i have some rights to read into this a bit #yes this is partially just a character study on migs mayfeld #so what #migsdin #dinmigs #i will champion this ship by myself if i have to ok #din djarin #migs mayfeld #the mandalorian #korey rambles #korey answers #asks #mininacl #anon

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