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Second Chances

Mand'alor!Din x Fem!Reader/oc (see below)

Din finds you one night on Coruscant, in the gutter, a starving artist that has hit rock bottom, he saves your life. You and Din come from vastly different backgrounds but find that your struggles are not so different and your attraction undeniable. Together you face obstacles like, assassination plots, a battle for the throne, crippling depression, existential trouble with the Darksaber, and rival clans.

See each chapter for warnings please read notes below

Word Count: 117,000

ACT I- one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

ACT II- ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen

ACT III- nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two

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and maybe I've only added two paragraphs today but they were very important paragraphs.

oh HELL yeah brother

you think he's quiet because he's scary and dangerous. he's actually quiet because he's not comfortable with social cues. also because semi verbal king.

his syntax is my favorite bc he swings wildly from speaking like an old knight and not using contractions (masking frfr) to saying things like "wizard" and it directly depends on how comfortable he is around you to how relaxed his speech is

all of his friends are people he's collected in the oddest of ways, and for various reasons, but a common thread is his friends just treat him like A Guy who sometimes needs to be called out on bullshit (peli, cara, kuill, greef, zeb, commander ward) and not A MandalorianTM that they project onto what they think he's like bc he's got the "faceless" helmet and doesn't talk a lot (the old crew from the prisoner, other bounty hunters, etc)

does he wear the helmet bc it's his religion or does he wear it because he likes not showing his face and having to worry about facial expressions? the answer is yes. thinking about any time his helmet is off and it's just vulnerable expressions. bro is making all kinds of expressions under there and nobody would know

he's a lil dyspraxic. he's like Marc Spector, he's really good at fighting and throwing his body weight around bc hes already careening around the corner anyway might as well make it look intentional. yeah he is good at being sneaky but the two aren't mutually exclusive.

the bounty hunting is great because it's routine without being monotonous. get the puck. track the bounty. capture them. bring them in. get paid. get the puck. rinse and repeat

he's also very literal (that gifset of ig trying to make a joke and din being like. you mean my brain 😐). the "din doesn't know he's a main character" joke and it's just him being an autistic king minding his business. also some of the tension with other mandalorians. have you ever been autistic and thought you had something in common with somebody else but they Do It Wrong? yeah

also reasons I think he doesn't care that grogu doesn't speak in basic. he knows grogu understands even if he doesn't respond verbally. I bet he talked even less as a kid and whoever his guardian was treated him the same way he treats grogu.

also something about him hanging out with the tuskens. trust the autistic guy to hang out with the people everybody else hates/assumes the worst of (off topic but I'm favorite part of s2e1 the marshall is when they're sitting around the campfire and din is clearly on the side of the tuskens over cobb. cracks me up every time)

Happy Javi G day (I’m making it a thing)

1. does din djarin ever sleep with a blanket on

2. if din gets in a bed with blankets does he remove his armor and get under the covers or lay on top of the blankets like he’s in prison

3. does din miss being a child and getting snuggled up under a big comfy blanket without any armor

4. is din completely unable to sleep unless theres beskar digging into his skin

5. is din ever scared one of his five billion worn weapons will be set off in his sleep

6. Would there ever be circumstances that would permit din to remove his armor (save for the helmet of course), take off the flight suit, and put on a set of satin pajamas and sleep under a big fluffy comforter.

7. when was the last time din slept in an actual bed that wasnt the cot on the crest or his twin sized mattress on nevarro

These are my spontaneous thoughts:

1. Without the armour, yes. He’s only a man.

2. If he feels safe or isn’t on a job or doesn’t expect to have to fight for his life in the middle of the night, then he’d probably take off the armour. And then he’d slip under the covers. It rarely happens though.

3. Yes. I don’t think he lets himself dwell on these thoughts though.

4. No! He can sleep without beskar digging into his skin! It’s just… it takes a lot to make him feel safe enough to take of all that beskar.

5. Nope. He’s fucking methodical about them and makes sure they’d never go off. (“I’m a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion…”)

6. See 2. All things considered I guess the stakes are so high it almost never happens. He craves it though. And doesn’t admit it to himself. That’s why I have to write fics where he does exactly that (amongst other things). Someone has to take care of that man.

7. He doesn’t remember.

8. Yep. He’s not getting any younger, is he.

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Before and after VFX shots of Pedro in the Mandalorian and Grogu

PEDRO PASCAL as ALEX SERIAN Behemoth! (2026) dir. Tony Gilroy