#dinfeld

If they quarrel.

Some guy on ebay: Why is this person only buying cards with Bill Burr on them....

I've been thinking about the people I ship Din Djarin with, and realized that there's an inverse relationship between how much I ship a given couple, and how chill they are together.

Don't get me wrong, I'll happily ship Din with almost everyone, but the ones I get super into? Gimme some good angry fights.

(this says more about me than it does about any of these ships, and this is also 100% not a knock on any of the ships listed or not listed here. It's just me doing some pointless meta about my own tendencies)

In order:

Paz. I love him. They apparently fight all the goddam time. You cannot tell me there is not history there. It makes the times they're on the same side all the more impactful (and adorably awkward).

(I also ship Paz with Axe for the same reason)

2. Migs Mayfeld. Migs is just such a snarky shit, they have every reason to hate each other (/Migs has every reason to assume Din is gonna kill him). They've got the whole fun double-crossing history, and in many ways they're opposites and foils, but ultimately Migs respects and understands Din, and Mando is willing to trust him

3. Cobb Vanth: I mean, their first real interaction is "take it off or I will," so no surprise here. Vanth is very clearly 110% into Din, and they get over the violence phase of their relationship way faster than Din does with either Paz or Migs.

4. Boba Fett. They don't really have a murder phase of their relationship. We get a li'l tension and then they're besties. I ship it, but I'm not as into the ship, 'cause like, how can I ship Mandalorians if I haven't seen them fight each other?

5. Luke Skywalker. I love this ship because it's just...so logical, what with the coparenting. It's a ship in a slightly different category because it lends itself so much to the domestic/parent narrative. But if I'm reading Din/Luke fics, I like a nice (un)healthy dose of tension and possibly violence while they get to know each other

6. Omera. I love Omera/Din as a "what could have been if his life was very very different" ship--especially given that she apparently has some violence in her past that she's now escaped and found peace from.

Relationship: Din Djarin/Migs Mayfeld, Din Djarin & Grogu | Baby Yoda

Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Laboratories, Science Experiments, Action/Adventure, Pre-Relationship, Not Quite Enemies to Lovers, more like workplace annoyances to partners in crime, Humor, Ambiguous/Open Ending

Word count: 7,513

Summary:

Din’s new job as a security guard at Empire Labs LLC would’ve been ideal if not for one small detail. Migs Mayfeld just never shuts up. An argument between the two leads to an accidental discovery of a tiny, green child locked in a high security lab. Din can see a single way forward: he needs to steal the kid from his employer’s clutches. Unfortunately, the only one who can help with that is Mayfeld, who happens to be the most annoying person in the world.