#oc: zara dolomar

[rose-of-oz]

𝐑𝐄-𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆… 𝐌𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐑

❝ Zara Dolomar was a child of the Galactic Empire. Born on the planet Zairene to a general father of noble blood who prided himself on living in the upper levels of the dictatorship, Zara grew up hiding in stairwells and around corners as menacing men in Imperial uniforms came in and out of her family's grand estate, discussing plans to crush rebellions and further the Empire's terrible agenda with her father. Almost from the moment she was born, she and her siblings had had it drilled into them that children of their status were nothing more than objects, meant to silently obey whatever orders they were given and paste on false smiles when they were out in public, being paraded around the streets of Zairene whenever their father wanted to give the downtrodden citizens the image that he was, in fact, a loving family man.

Zara had spent her entire childhood witnessing her father conspire to harm and frighten so many innocents, completely powerless to stop it. So it wasn't much surprise when, after the Empire fell and General Dolomar was finally jailed for his crimes, Zara became a bounty hunter - a profession which would allow her to deliver justice to those who had done wrong, and even earn a few credits doing it.

Four years after her first successful hunt, Zara has earned quite a bit of money and a lot of respect among the bounty-hunting community, known for her trademark determination and sarcastic but cherry personality outside of the hunt. Life is decidedly better than it had been during her childhood, and Zara is content to focus on nothing but her next job (and potentially trying to score a date with a certain helmeted fellow bounty hunter whose voice she adores).

And then Mando, the same bounty hunter she's been nursing a crush on for more than a year, steals back his latest bounty and prompts a manhunt featuring every hunter on Nevarro. Not wanting to see an innocent child get experimented on, Zara takes a risk and helps Mando and the child escape the planet in exchange for the chance to stick around and traverse the galaxy with them. (After all, she reasons to the stoic Mandalorian, she basically had to raise her youngest sister, she'll be a great help taking care of the child.)

Now, on the run from a great many people alongside a wrinkled green baby and a ridiculously attractive man with so many emotional walls she fears she'll never be able to climb them all, Zara has to wonder if she wouldn't have been better off just staying on Nevarro.

Oh well. At least she knows she'll never again be as powerless as she once was. Mando may be stubborn and grumpy as all hell, but he respects her in a way she could never imagine anyone from her past respecting her.

Now, if he would just flirt back at her once, she might mind almost getting killed on the daily for him a little less... ❞

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Happy Valentine’s Day 💕 @daughter-of-melpomene

[rose-of-oz]

Thanks so much for the tag!! Since it was you who tagged me, I’ll share some facts about my Mandalorian baby Zara!!

— Zara was really the only one of her father’s children to not grow up to believe in the Empire’s propaganda. Her brothers and sisters all fully believed that Palpatine and the Empire were the rightful rulers of the galaxy, and her youngest sister Miri was the worst, often yelling at Zara whenever she defied their father about how she’d probably grow up to become a “filthy Rebel”.

— Zara is a very good shot, but she rarely uses actual blasters - rather, she has a pair of blaster cuffs that can be activated using small button attached to her gloves that she uses instead.

— In addition to speaking Basic, of course, Zara can also understand Binary and Huttese, though she can’t speak them, and of course she also starts learning Mando’a the closer she and Din get.

Tagging: @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @auxiliarydetective, and @manyfandomocs. <3

Reblog this post with 3 facts about one of your OCs and then tag 3 creators who you'd like to post facts about one of their OCs!

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Hello there! You happen to be on my OC Creator Bingo card and I would love to hear more about Zara 👀 I was going through her character tag and I'm already very interested in her story!

- @thechaoticfanartist

AHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING ABOUT MY GIRL ZARA!!! (Also you’re on my Bingo card too, so look out for some interactions with your posts about Grim my beloved!!)

(Putting this under the cut because it got LONG.)

Alright, so as you read in Zara’s intro post, Zara’s father was a high-ranking general in the Empire’s military, and her family was already fairly wealthy and basically nobility on their home planet of Zairene. As a result, Zara grew up in a large mansion her father’s family had owned for generations, wearing nothing but fashionable clothes made from expensive fabrics and eating an abundance of delicious food while the planet’s less fortunate citizens starved in the streets under the Empire’s rule. But none of this meant that she lived in a happy or loving home - her father was rarely at home due to his military duties, and when he was he did not want to see or hear from his children at all, except to force them to get dressed up like dolls and trot them out around town to preserve the image of a perfect family he liked to maintain in public. Her mother, who never raised a finger or her voice when her husband would shout at their children and call them names for doing the slightest thing that displeased him, was also not around much, which left Zara to essentially raise her three younger siblings on her own, since most of her family’s servants were too afraid of her father’s wrath to interact much with his children.

Zara, however, was not afraid of her father - or at least not enough to stop her from constantly acting out and defying him. She would speak up at the dinner table to give her opinions on things, sneak out of the house at night to attend parties in the village, and once ripped up an awful, scratchy dress that she had been given to wear for a military ball and wore it as a cape around her shoulders instead. This created a dynamic of deep animosity between Zara and her father, as well as damaging her relationships with her siblings, who couldn't see why she had to keep defying him and making everything worse for all of them, but she couldn't seem to stop pushing back - in her mind, she may not have been able to stop the Empire's reign of terror over the galaxy, but she could do her part to stop her father's reign of terror over his own house.

But even so, when the Empire finally fell and General Dolomar was arrested and jailed for his many crimes, Zara didn’t feel a shred of satisfaction. The Rebellion had fought, sacrificed, put their lives on the line to end Emperor Palpatine’s reign - what had she really done against her father, beyond talking back or putting herself in front of her siblings when he was on a tirade? It was these thoughts, this fierce desire she still had to fight back and take down those who would hurt others, that encouraged her to run away from that cold, unloving mansion in the middle of the night, away from siblings who still disliked her and a mother who could hardly look at any of them, and pay her way onto a departing merchant ship so she could finally escape Zairene and all the bad memories and feelings it held.

From there, Zara took any odd job she could get and constantly hopped from planet to planet, never staying anywhere longer than a few months. But on every planet she stopped at, she would seek out any known bounty hunters that were to be found there and ask them to teach her their skills. Sometimes the hunters wanted credits in return for their tutelage, sometimes they didn’t, but either way, over a period of two years, Zara learned several different types of hand-to-hand combat, a multitude of different weapons, and the best ways of tracking down a target - and she made sure to stay under the tutelage of each hunter until she had all but mastered whatever skills they had to teach her. And after those two years, when she finally felt she was ready to properly hunt and bring in any criminals she could find, she went to the nearest Bounty Hunter’s Guild agent she could find and asked for a job.

Over several more years, Zara gained something of a reputation among the bounty hunting community, both for her impressive tracking and fighting skills and the contrast between the way she acted on and off a job - she’d always been a bright and friendly soul, and that didn’t change when she was interacting with her fellow hunters away from the hunt. Eventually, she developed a semi-stable base on Nevarro, renting a small apartment there where she could stay in between jobs… and that was when she met the mysterious and intriguing helmeted hunter everyone just knew as the Mandalorian.

Zara was drawn to Mando right off the bat; there was just something about him that made her want to get to know him better, and whenever the two of them ran into each other, she would always do her best to strike up a conversation, never deterred by the short answers Mando would give or how awkward he always seemed to be when talking to her. If she had ever thought she was actually making him uncomfortable she would have stopped in an instant, but she knew the helmeted warrior didn’t actually dislike her; he just had a lot of walls up and didn’t really know how to talk to people who weren’t targets or other Mandalorians. The other bounty hunters she considered friends, and even Greef Karga the local Guild agent, teased her often about her little crush on him, but it wasn’t really that Zara had feelings for him (at least not yet) - she just thought Mando needed a friend, and she was happy to try her hardest to be that friend for him.

But when the hunters of Nevarro got word that Mando had stolen back the bounty he’d recently dropped off with a mysterious and wealthy client - a baby, which Zara hadn’t exactly been happy with him for at first - and was attempting to flee the planet, Zara realized she was going to have to force her presence onto him a little more, because she would be damned if she didn’t help him save an innocent child from having whatever the client had been planning to do to it. So she tricked Greef, leading him to Mando’s ship and telling him she would hide on it and then shoot the Mandalorian from behind while the Guild agent distracted him. Of course, that was not what actually happened - Zara shot Greef over Mando’s shoulder, disabling him long enough for the three of them to get off of Nevarro in the Razor Crest. Mando was reluctant to trust Zara or bring her along at first, unsure why she had decided to help him instead of just trying to get the kid back like all the others, but she sharply reminded him that she’d never be able to take a bounty hunting job again when word got out that she’d betrayed and shot a Guild agent, and she’d risked that to help him and save the child. And when she informed him that she had experience taking care of children, having basically raised her younger siblings, and could take care of the little green baby until they could get him somewhere safe, Mando really had no choice but to agree to take her along.

And this began Zara’s crazy adventure of travelling around the galaxy, taking care of a fifty-year-old baby who could use the Force, evading all the people who wanted her and her companions dead… and falling in love with a grumpy helmeted warrior along the way.

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Labyrinth prompt:

"That's not fair!" "You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is."

(A/N: Decided to go with my The Mandalorian OC Zara! Thanks a bunch for this!!)

“You never should have run, dear,” General Dolomar purred, looking his daughter directly in the eyes as he pressed the blade that much further into Din’s neck. The sharp metal finally broke skin, a thin trickle of blood rolling down her beloved’s brown skin, and Zara had to bite down on her tongue to keep from crying out; she knew that any noise would only make her father angrier.

“You always were the most disappointing of my children,” the former general continued, a slight sneer working its way into his words now. “Always so willful, so disobedient. Always going out of your way to defy me. You know, maybe I ought to kill this Mandalorian after all. It might teach you the lesson you so desperately need to learn.”

“Don’t! That’s not fair!” Zara burst out, hating herself for the words as soon as they left her mouth. They sounded so ridiculously childish, but it seemed just being around her father did that to her, reduced her to the scared little girl she had been when she’d still lived under his thumb.

General Dolomar hummed, a smug smile overtaking his face. “You say that so often. I remember you saying it all the time, even when you were a child. I wonder what your basis for comparison is.”

Something in her father’s words, so condescending and full of contempt, snapped something inside of Zara, and she yanked the blaster from her belt, pointing it straight at the old bastard’s face. The general pressed the knife into Din’s flesh again, but the Mandalorian didn’t even flinch and Zara didn’t fire, so he didn’t do anything more than that.

“The bar’s pretty damn low after living with you for so long,” Zara snarled, cocking the blaster and finally meeting Din’s eyes. He gave her a small nod, much too slight for her father to ever notice, his body already tensing, ready to attack as soon as Zara took her shot. “Now let. Him. Go.”

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Zara world building wednesday ?

(Oh my gosh, thank you so much for asking about my girl!!)

BASICS:

full name: Zara Meline Dolomar.

gender: Cisgender women.

sexuality: Heteroromantic, asexual (sex-neutral).

pronouns: She/her.

OTHERS:

family: Garo Dolomar (father), Palia Dolomar (mother), Tinor Dolomar (younger brother), Shan Dolomar (younger brother), Lin Dolomar (younger brother), Miri Dolomar (younger sister).

birthplace: Talos, capital city of the planet Zairene.

job: Bounty hunter.

phobias: Failure, her father, drowning.

guilty pleasures: Alcohol, practical jokes, spicy food.

MORALS:

morality alignment?: Chaotic Good.

sins - Lust/Greed/Gluttony/Sloth/Pride/Envy/Wrath.

virtues - Chastity/Charity/Diligence/Humility/Kindness/Patience/Justice.

THIS-OR-THAT:

introvert/extrovert: Extrovert.

organized/disorganized: Disorganized.

close minded/open-minded: Open-minded.

calm/anxious: Anxious,

disagreeable/agreeable: Agreeable.

cautious/reckless: Cautious.

patient/impatient: Impatient.

outspoken/reserved: Outspoken.

leader/follower: Leader.

empathetic/unemphatic: Empathetic.

optimistic/pessimistic: Optimistic.

traditional/modern: Modern.

hard-working/lazy: Hard-working.

RELATIONSHIPS:

otp: Zara + Din Djarin.

ot3: Zara + Din Djarin + Luke Skywalker.

brotp: Zara + Grogu.

notp: Zara + Boba Fett.

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OH MY GOD, MY BABIES (😭😍😍). Thank you so much, Anna, I adore this!!!!

VALENTINES EXCHANGE

Zara Dolomar and Din Djarin for @daughter-of-melpomene

I hope you like it!

[rose-of-oz]

Zara and Din/Mando for the ship ask?

(ZARA AND DIN MY BELOVEDS <3. Thanks for this ask!!)

who made the first move: zara.

who kissed who first: zara was the first one to kiss din over the helmet, but din kissed zara first the first time she saw him without it.

who started the relationship: zara, in strict accordance with din’s comfort level.

who remembers things: din generally remembers things more.

nicknames for each other: din calls zara all the usual mando’a terms of endearment - cyare, mesh’la, the works - while zara likes to call din “love”.

who is more likely to pay for dinner: din.

who normally cooks: zara.

who remembers anniversaries: they’re both pretty good at remembering.

what would they get each other for gifts: generally more practical things, like weapons or medical supplies, but occasionally they will bargain for a bit of the other one’s favorite food or some small trinket that reminded them of the other.

most trivial thing they fight over: how often din forgets to restock the crest’s medical kit.

how often do they fight: not very often; they’re both pretty chill and really hate fighting with their partner.

who uses all the hot water: din.

who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working: also din.

who leaves their stuff around: zara.

who remembers to buy the milk: zara.

who controls the netflix queue: in a universe where netflix exists for them, it is one hundred percent zara.

who steals the covers at night: zara. and then she promptly kicks them back off in the middle of the night, leaving din to search for them while he’s still half-asleep.

who cusses more: zara.

who does most of the cleaning: they share the duty pretty equally.

what’s their favorite non-sexual activity: playing with grogu together.

who’s the cuddler: din, surprisingly (because he is BIG touch-starved).

who’s the big spoon/little spoon: din is the big spoon while zara is the little spoon.

who’s more dominant: din.

who is the dirty talker: zara.

what do they do when they’re away from each other: worry, mostly, given that they’ve made enough enemies for that worry to be justified when one of them is off by themselves. however, they both do their best to just go about business as usual when they’re by themselves, if only to keep grogu from sensing their worry and getting worried himself.

what would they do if the other one was hurt: they both definitely have the reaction of getting angry once they’re sure the other one is okay and wanting to make sure whoever hurt their partner gets hurt back, but din is more the one who freezes up for a minute whenever zara gets injured; she’s one of the only bright spots in his life aside from the kid, one of the people he loves more than anything, and even the thought of her getting hurt is enough to make him freak out enough to stay frozen for a moment before he springs into action.

a headcanon: they don’t always get decent caff over the course of their travels, but zara absolutely loves it, so whenever they stop somewhere for long enough to get supplies, din always makes sure to buy zara a cup or two of caff - he knows she needs it, and more importantly, he would be willing to get her anything she liked so long as she just asked.

send me a ship!!

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☘ for any oc you want

Thanks a bunch for this question! I decided to go with Zara, my Mandalorian OC, for this one!!

☘ : My muse’s relation with their family. (If they speak with each other and how much, if they are close or estranged, e.t.c.). 

Oh, Zara’s relationship with her family is a… tough one, to say the least. Her father was a wealthy general for the Empire when it was still going strong, and as such he always felt the need to present an image of a perfect, content family to the public, but within the walls of the family’s mansion it was not like that at all. General Dolomar firmly believed that children were meant to obey and only be seen, not heard, so Zara and her siblings were never allowed to speak in their father’s presence without permission. He had total control over the entire household and basically refused to acknowledge his wife or children except to trot them outside and show them off to the public during parades or gatherings. Zara was a bit of a rebellious kid, at least by her father’s standards, so the two of them often clashed, and she was only too happy to see him gone when the Empire finally fell and he was jailed for his crimes.

Zara’s relationship with her mother isn’t quite as antagonistic as the one with her father, but it isn’t what anyone would call good either. Her mother was just as dominated by her father as she and her siblings were, Zara can admit that, but she also never raised a finger or spoke a word to help her children when her husband would shout at them or call them terrible names for displeasing him. There is a part of Zara that understands why her mother never helped them, her words would have done nothing and probably would just have angered her father even more, but she was still their mother, and Zara finds it kind of hard to forgive any mother that would let her children live in fear like that.

Zara also has four younger siblings - three brothers and a sister - whom she basically had to raise herself with the help of the family’s servants, since her mother was absent much of the time and her father did not want to lay eyes on his children unless absolutely necessary. Despite this, however, they never actually managed to be very close; Zara’s siblings could never understand why she had to keep defying and angering their father when it just made everything worse, and they would often argue about it. Her sister, especially, bought wholly into the Empire propaganda the Dolomar children were constantly having drilled into their heads, and saw Zara’s attempts at going against their father’s authority as a sign that she was going to become a “filthy Rebel” someday. None of them actually managed to reconcile before Zara left her home planet to become a bounty hunter, but despite all their differences and arguments, Zara still loves her siblings dearly, and can never help but miss them and wish things could have turned out better.

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[ginger-grimm]

VALENTINES EXCHANGE

Zara Dolomar and Din Djarin for @daughter-of-melpomene

I hope you like it!

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oc masterlist — fantasy/sci-fi media

𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

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𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐬.

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INTRODUCING… MY THE MANDOLORIAN ORIGINAL CHARACTER, ZARA DOLOMAR

❝ Zara Dolomar was a child of the Galactic Empire. Born on the planet Zairene to a general father of noble blood who prided himself on living in the upper levels of the dictatorship, Zara grew up hiding in stairwells and around corners as menacing men in Imperial uniforms came in and out of her family's grand estate, discussing plans to crush rebellions and further the Empire's terrible agenda with her father. Almost from the moment she was born, she and her siblings had had it drilled into them that children of their status were nothing more than objects, meant to silently obey whatever orders they were given and paste on false smiles when they were out in public, being paraded around the streets of Zairene whenever their father wanted to give the downtrodden citizens the image that he was, in fact, a loving family man.

Zara had spent her entire childhood witnessing her father conspire to harm and frighten so many innocents, completely powerless to stop it. So it wasn't much surprise when, after the Empire fell and General Dolomar was finally jailed for his crimes, Zara became a bounty hunter - a profession which would allow her to deliver justice to those who had done wrong, and even earn a few credits doing it.

Four years after her first successful hunt, Zara has earned quite a bit of money and a lot of respect among the bounty-hunting community, known for her trademark determination and sarcastic but cherry personality outside of the hunt. Life is decidedly better than it had been during her childhood, and Zara is content to focus on nothing but her next job (and potentially trying to score a date with a certain helmeted fellow bounty hunter whose voice she adores).

And then Mando, the same bounty hunter she's been nursing a crush on for more than a year, steals back his latest bounty and prompts a manhunt featuring every hunter on Nevarro. Not wanting to see an innocent child get experimented on, Zara takes a risk and helps Mando and the child escape the planet in exchange for the chance to stick around and traverse the galaxy with them. (After all, she reasons to the stoic Mandalorian, she basically had to raise her youngest sister, she'll be a great help taking care of the child.)

Now, on the run from a great many people alongside a wrinkled green baby and a ridiculously attractive man with so many emotional walls she fears she'll never be able to climb them all, Zara has to wonder if she wouldn't have been better off just staying on Nevarro.

Oh well. At least she knows she'll never again be as powerless as she once was. Mando may be stubborn and grumpy as all hell, but he respects her in a way she could never imagine anyone from her past respecting her.

Now, if he would just flirt back at her once, she might mind almost getting killed on the daily for him a little less... ❞

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[rose-of-oz]

💬 + Zara or Mack?

"My father..." Zara paused and took a deep breath before continuing, needing to steel herself before she spoke about the man who had caused so many people so much pain.

"My father was controlling. He was a lot of things other than that, too, none of them good, but controlling's the first word I think of whenever I think of him. He always had to have the final say, always had to be the only one making the decisions. For everything, not just when it came to military things. I remember one time my mother wanted to throw a ball at our house to celebrate the Empire's tenth anniversary... she hadn't even started arranging for the decorations before my father completely took it over."

She scoffed. It wasn't the least bit funny, but scoffing was better than bursting into tears, and at this point that was her only other option.

"My point is, I don't think he was capable of letting another person have any power if they didn't outrank him. Not his own wife, and definitely not his children. My siblings and I didn't have voices, we weren't even allowed to speak in my father's presence unless he spoke to us first. We weren't allowed to leave the house alone, we couldn't read or watch anything he hadn't approved, we couldn't do anything unless he allowed it. He had power and we had none."

Before she could stop it, a sob ripped itself free from her throat, and she clapped a hand over her mouth to stop another one from breaking free. Mando took a step forward, as if to comfort her, but she stepped back and shook her head once, sharply. She didn't need his pity, not when she needed to finish speaking and was almost sure to completely break down if he offered any form of physical comfort.

Taking a moment to compose herself, Zara heaved a deep breath and drew herself up, looking right where she imagined Mando's eyes to be behind his helmet and not allowing her voice to waver.

"You want to know why I'm so determined to protect that kid? It's because I refuse to let another child have their power and their choices taken away from them the way mine where. In every child's eyes, I see me and my siblings. And I'll be damned if I don't protect this child the way I couldn't protect them... the way I couldn't protect myself."

Send me 💬 + an OC and I'll write a short blurb featuring a quote I've written for them!

[rose-of-oz]

𝖍𝖔𝖜 𝖉𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖔𝖈 𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉?

Decided to do this uquiz for my Star Wars OCs! I'll tag @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @come-along-pond, and @stanshollaand, along with anyone else who wants to do it!!

𝒁𝑨𝑹𝑨 𝑫𝑶𝑳𝑶𝑴𝑨𝑹:

𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖑𝖞.

your teeth are bared, as they have been, your jaw aching for so long as growls slip free. you always have to defend yourself. you lash out in fear. you need someone who does not shrink back... a hand falling slowly to your shoulder, however briefly, in a reminder that you do not have to lunge. there is no danger here, now.

𝑳𝑰𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑨 𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑯:

𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖑𝖞.

your teeth are bared, as they have been, your jaw aching for so long as growls slip free. you always have to defend yourself. you lash out in fear. you need someone who does not shrink back... a hand falling slowly to your shoulder, however briefly, in a reminder that you do not have to lunge. there is no danger here, now.

𝑨𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑨 𝑪𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑰𝑹𝑬:

𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖑𝖞.

you crave a hug that cracks your ribs... the feeling of your wandering soul being crushed back into the bones that can't seem to hold it. you need a hand gripping yours so tightly you almost fear it may leave a bruise, a reminder that you are here. and that you are not alone.

𝑹𝑯𝒀𝑺 𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑼𝑺:

𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖑𝖞.

you need to be held as though you're going to break. you need someone to trace your scars like cracks in a wall, crumbling. their touch is almost painful; you've been without it for too long, without someone to hold you. but, you cannot bring yourself to pull away.

[rose-of-oz]

🖊 + Zara may or may not have once had a crush on one of the figureheads of the Rebellion

I honestly love this (😅😍)?? And yeah, I think it's fully possible that she might have had a crush on Leia or Luke (but probably not Han; the roguish ones aren't really Zara's type).

Send me 🖊 and a headcanon for one of my OCs and I'll tell you what I think!

[ginger-grimm]

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Zara Dolomar and Din Djarin for @daughter-of-melpomene

I hope you like it!