#din: *john mulaney voice* Now We Don't Have Time To Unpack All Of That

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truly din is like running on autopilot after grogu gets captured. he doesn't let himself think too hard about it, he just immediately jumps into action, the "what do i need to do to fix this" mode without actually processing what any of it means emotionally. in a way, he's been doing that for the entire show - the covert gets destroyed in chapter 3, and we never see him deal with the emotional ramifications of that, either. it's just immediately him on the run with grogu. he doesn't have time to stop and feel anything about it, he's just taking things one at a time to survive. the only time we see him deal with what happened in chapter 3 is in chapter 8 - when he's literally faced directly with physical evidence of it, the pile of mandalorian helmets in the tunnels. and even then, he only takes a moment to grieve before he's once again forced to action, to leave it behind.

so when grogu gets captured in chapter 14, he does the same thing. he focuses on survival first, his plan of action, and doesn't really process what has happened yet. because he CAN'T, not when grogu is in danger. and unfortunately, as season 2 progresses it just gets worse. he loses grogu, and he doesn't think about it. he takes his helmet off in a room of imperials, and he doesn't think about it. he storms an imperial light cruiser and gets the shit kicked out of him by a droid, and he doesn't think about it. it's just "keep going, and don't stop to think about it, not yet." so when he loses grogu for good at the end of chapter 16 (or at least, for good at the moment), that's it. it's all over. his quest is complete, moff gideon is defeated, he's no longer on the run. he can finally stop and breathe - and only now can he really process everything that has happened, and everything he's lost in such a short amount of time.

i really want to see him deal with all this emotionally in season 3, to really unpack everything he's been pushing to the side and feel the weight of it now that he can no longer ignore it

#i mean perhaps it's also just bad writing that we never got to see him like #react emotionally to literally anthing that happened in chapters 14-16 #but i'm choosing this explanation. that he's just repressing everything for later on. :) #everything that could ever possibly go wrong: *goes wrong* #din: *john mulaney voice* Now We Don't Have Time To Unpack All Of That #brot posts #mando posting #i mean i do think it is more this explanation than just bad writing #because theres absolutely no way chapter 15 would happen. shake his very core beliefs. and not have that examined #there absolutely needs to be a reckoning with that lol #but he just. simply cannot reckon with it yet. not when grogu is still in danger. so he puts his helmet back on and continues forward