Anakin: So what are your interests, boy?

Din: Your son in my room

Anakin: [taken aback] Pardon?

Din: The sun and the moon. astrology.

Luke Skywalker's boyfriends call him "kid" I'm sorry I don't make the rules

For the one word prompt: pillow!

Me, writing post-s3 fic? That's a first!

One word prompts!

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The first night Din sleeps in the house on Nevarro, he doesn’t.

The bed is too soft, the entire place too quiet, too peaceful. It sets his nerves on edge. He should be glad for peace and safety for the two of them, especially Grogu, and a place to permanently rest his head after so long. A place he can just exist, guard down, no weapon within reach because there is no fear of attack.

He punches his pillow irritably, stewing in his own insomnia. He hates it, actually. He hates that he has been a cord pulled so taut for so long it cannot be relaxed. He hates that his resting state is wariness. He hates that all he knows how to be is a fighter. He thought peace would be easy. How very wrong he was.

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After two months and a week of listless days and restless nights, Carson Teva finally comes calling, and Din couldn’t be faster to take him up on whatever mission he has. He’d assumed he would take to idleness quickly and easily. He did not – instead it has grated on him, leaving nowhere for the tightly-wound energy he has honed all his life to go. He has something to do now, however, an outlet for the warrior's edge he cannot rid himself of.

They pair him, to his surprise, with Skywalker.

“I thought you had a school to run,” he says, after some awkward silence on their first mission.

“A Jedi’s duty is to the galaxy,” Skywalker replies, and, oddly, though Din believes he has faith in those words, he also thinks he doesn’t have faith in the way he says them.

And it’s true, because every piece of carefully honed façade eventually falls away the longer they work together, the longer they unpick the Imperial remnants and undermine the links between these pockets of oppression in the dark. He goes from Skywalker to Luke, and from Luke to something deeper. He spends longer periods at the house on Nevarro, and its four walls start to feel less like a peaceful cage and more like… like a home. Grogu is thrilled to have him around again. It is like a piece was missing, and they didn’t even know it.

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It takes five months, two weeks and two days for Din to finally settle. The bed is still softer than he’d like, but it’s not as bad anymore. He has a purpose, something he never thought he’d actually miss.

Of course, the journey to the Mines ended up being a waste, he supposes, seeing his helmet stare back at him from his bedside table, but it is worth it to see Grogu and Luke without barriers, in the full sunshine, in all the colour nature gave them. And as he hears Luke’s soft breathing beside him, deep in slumber, he thinks yes, it is worth it, for his head to rest easy on its pillow.

would you ever consider writing another fic like Blooms with friendly din and anakin sharing luke? (Platonically for anakin ofc) i love that fic and reread it probs 3 times month i love the dynamic of din and anakin loving each other but foghting for their blonde amazing starlight

:D I don't think i would be against it! I am so happy to know so many have enjoyed Blooms. It was such a fun, guilty-pleasure fic that consumed me. Always love to see that it consumed others. I was actually chatting with friends about a Din was raised by Emperor Vaderkin as his apprentice/heir (started from being picked up by Death Watch and then joined/recruited by the Death Troopers--who are supposedly some of the top warriors in the Empire, and then Vaderkin sees his potential and sorta adopts him) so it would be Dark Din...but a Din who is very kind (still darkly kind lol) to Luke after he's found cause he fell in love with Luke instantly Then Vaderkin and Din as both family who care for Luke and also very much rival for his attention begins. Love the idea of that a lot XD

What if I was a lonely brooding man but my features softened as I stared at you adoringly?

it's what she would've wanted

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In my au, I have different ideas about Din and Luke, for example in this comic, the reason why Din took off his helmet is because he is not in his clan and he has no limit to take off his helmet. Like Boba.

Luke is also a Sith in my au, but not in a way that he really accepts it...

Your wizard husband and child✨

The best fics are the ones that recognize that although Luke Skywalker may APPEAR on the outside to be a normal friendly twink who happens to have cool powers, especially when contrasted with such ship partners as Boba or Din or even Han, he is arguably the scariest person alive in the galaxy around the prequel era. AND, crucially, he is also a fundamentally weird guy. This man was homeschooled on a rural farm his entire life and then apprenticed to a swamp gremlin who showed him how to tap into the cosmic power of the universe. He blew up the death star age 19, killing approx 2 million-ish Imperials. He is a vortex of Force power that can communicate with the ghosts of dead Jedi. He’s staring into the distance and mumbling to himself and doing Yoda aphorisms and casually pulling out the “yeah I could crush that guy into a paste with my mind (:” and nobody around him knows what to do with that. I think he is a character who has very little frame of reference for how a Jedi or a person in general is supposed to act and there is some thing about him that is by necessity really fucking weird and a little scary but he’s so nice that it can throw you off the scent a little bit. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

When your dads are flirting in front of you, but you are just a 50-yr old baby and take things to mean literally

i’ve been messing around the idea of luke and leia growing up together and then palpatine dinluke somehow returned

alas no one is perfect so here we go again

dinluke advent 13 <3