chewyguts asked:
tell me about your interpretation of din djarin
limnsaber answered:
Oh my gosh oh my gosh ok so the thing about this guy. And one of the best things about this guy in my opinion. Is that he’s never more himself than when he’s serving others
Just in the first episode, the first real acts that we see him do that illustrate his larger character beside the scary stoic business-minded bounty hunter are providing for the tribe, dedicating a portion of the bounty he returned with to the foundlings, and saving Grogu. He’s the covert’s sole provider, Paz Vizsla says they only go above ground one at a time and he is the sole person to do it. He dedicates himself to his community and the foundlings. When he is quested with returning Grogu to his people, he stops at nothing to do so.
He didn’t have to go back for Grogu. If we believe as much of the business-minded bounty hunter that we saw in the first episode, he didn’t have to go back at all. He did. At every moment we see him turn around and help people and it’s not because he has to, or because he’s been commanded to, but because there’s something inside of him that’s the root of all this. This is who he is
Sure, sometimes it is for money or something in exchange, but that’s part of his arc too. He goes from being the wordless lone wolf to someone that goes out of his way to help people. He learns it from Kuiil, who is the first to help him along his journey, but not the last.
He brings peace to Sorgan. He helps Nevarro. He frees Calodan on Corvus. He he kills the krayt dragon on Tatooine and brings peace to two peoples. He swears himself to Boba Fett in return for an act of kindness he can never repay. This is why he swears himself to Bo in season 3, if you’re so inclined, because he sees the good Bo is trying to do and wants that for himself and his family and his community.
This is why he’s the wandering knight. And this isn’t some code he’s sworn to like a medieval knight, dedicated to kindness or a code beside his Creed, but something that’s just him. This is him deciding to help others.
(And that’s why even as he’d excel as ruler of Mandalore even though he’d hate it lmao. Because he doesn’t want to be someone people look to, except for Grogu, he just wants consciously or unconsciously to do the right thing. He keeps accidentally putting himself in positions that frame him as a leader to his people. He keeps stepping up to do the right thing.)
Din dedicates himself so deeply to the Creed and his culture and the foundlings and his community. Duty to his faith and being under service are a core part of him!!! The journey that we go on with him is all about serving Grogu, about caring for him and keeping him safe with the end of goal of returning him to his people. And through this Din learns about himself! And about his world! And about how he loves! There’s this undercurrent of deep deep kindness he serves everything he believes in. It’s loving Grogu. It’s the kindness. And being dedicated to an ideal. He’s so fucking cool
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