A (Non-Comprehensive) List of Dinluke Fic Recs
Because everyone else is making lists of their favorite dinluke fics and I decided to join the party. Anything rated G or T on AO3 will be underneath the ‘SFW’ umbrella and anything rated M or E will be under ‘NSFW.’ I’ll also specify whether they’re one-shots or multi-chapter and their approximate word count. Also these lists are in no particular order they’re simply in the order of which I find them in my bookmarks, lol. If I know the author’s tumblr I have tagged them below!
(Edit: This list got very long and I apologise in advance lmao)
SFW FICS:
The Storm by Shirozora (@shirozora-draws)
[45k words multi-chapter]
Din Djarin needs a new ship.
Greef Karga makes him a deal - do some work for the guild and he'll get a brand new gunship. One such job takes him to a planet with a volatile storm system to track down a double-crossing bounty hunter. What he doesn't know is that the bounty hunter is there to loot an ancient Jedi temple. What neither of them know is that someone else is also on the planet searching for the temple.
And then the storm rolls in.
Christ in Repose by spqr (@andthepeople)
[7.7k words one-shot]
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icarus, point to the sun. by luminouskywhiner (@transmascskywalker)
[53k words multi-chapter]
The Mandalorian was born to be a king, and the Jedi was born to be alone.
—
Luke Skywalker reflects on loneliness and isolation, on fear and family.
Broken Threads by Sadie1902 (@sadiebwrites)
[78k words multi-chapter]
The battle is over, the rebels have won. But Luke Skywalker is still reeling from his ordeal in the Emperor's throne room, both physically and emotionally. Wracked with pain and fatigue, he tries to recuperate on Endor with a few days of much-needed rest. But before he even has a chance to relax, he's captured by an enterprising bounty hunter in Mandalorian armor.
Din Djarin can't believe his luck. It's the score of his life, the bounty they all said was impossible. The payout will set his Tribe up well... so long as they don't know exactly who he made a deal with. But the job turns out to be more than Din bargained for when his bounty collapses from mysterious injuries, and he must face the truth of the horrors the Empire has wrought.
Now, on the run from half the galaxy, it's a race against time as Din helps Luke find a cure for the disease that's slowly breaking the hero apart. There's only one problem... they need a Jedi. And Luke is the last of his kind.
Or is he?
Clan of Four by Aristippus and Withercrown (@a-aristippus and @withercrown)
[75k words ongoing multi-chapter]
The Jedi Order, much like the Mandalorian people, had been lost long before it fell. Now the Empire that struck them down has fallen too. The last sparks of these forgotten cultures are ready to be extinguished forever. But could they be rekindled instead?
Rey is a child with no past and no future. To leave Jakku with the Mandalorian, a man who has lost everything, is the easiest choice she’s ever made. There is no way for her to know that her chance meeting with her new protector could lead her to the heart of the Force, the long-forgotten heritage of the Mandalorians, and a very special inheritance.
And no one knows better than Rey that something thought to be lost for good can always be found again.
Lost & Found by @jofngve
[85k words ongoing multi-chapter]
Luke is not entirely sure how he is supposed to handle a situation like this.
"Uh," the Mandalorian says, it fizzles through the modulator. The small girl he is holding in his arms looks up from where she has hidden her face in his neck. "Yeah, so this is Rey."
---
So Mando has a tendency of finding and picking up Force sensitive children to bring them to Luke's finally some-what functioning school on Yavin. Which would be fine if the both of them didn't happen to stumble across the fact that the Empire is also in the business of collecting children.
Contents include: ideologically different pining idiots, space-travel-detective-work, and child-cloning-conspiracies
More Than His Armor by twoseas
[12k words one-shot]
Din visits Grogu at Luke’s academy more than any other parent. Luke isn’t complaining.
The Wanderer and the Seer by aiden_ng
[98k words multi-chapter]
Din Djarin is temporarily relieved of a single dad's responsibilities, only to be saddled with the much greater responsibilities of Mand'alor. Temporarily. Hopefully.
This is not the story of a great man becoming king; it's the story of some dude finding his place in the galaxy, freedom, and personal happiness through having some goddamn decency and good manners. Also the power of love, or whatever.
The Help You Need (The Love You Deserve) by @subtlehysteria
[57k words multi-chapter]
Luke Skywalker could not have predicted the troubles taking on a student of his own could bring about, nor the strange and mysterious Mandalorian who, despite his gruff exterior, was a loving and doting father.
As Luke attempts to build up the Jedi Order anew he also begins to befriend and get to know the Mandalorian and soon realises that they have more in common than he first thought.
Or...
Luke allows Din and Grogu to remain in contact and ends up getting far more than he bargained for.
but home was a dream by redyucca
[39k words multi-chapter]
Din takes off his helmet and learns how to put it back on.
Which is, like, a metaphor.
Where you go, I go too by thiswildheart
[53k words multi-work series]
Excerpts from the shared life of a Jedi and a Mandalorian as they do their best to raise a child, build a school and figure out who they are - and accidentally prove that falling in love can rewrite the future while they're at it.
you’re going to have to relocate the covert by aiden_ng
[6.8k words multi-chapter]
‘This is the Way,’ Din says aloud to the empty cavern. He feels—or he seems to hear—his kin and his vanished forebears echoing the words back to him, ghosts in the walls around him, all the dead and the scattered and the not-forgotten. He walks with them, these watchful invisible companions, on the way of the Mandalore.
No Glory in the West by @leorizanzel
[83k words multi-chapter]
Texas, 1870 - Din Djarin, a bounty hunter with a mysterious past and the quickest draw this side of the Mississippi, finds a new gig escorting a strange young man to his destination.
Inspired by Casual Cowboy Friday and my love for the American West as a whole.
Thaw by spqr (@andthepeople)
[6.3k words one-shot]
That’s what hope does to you, Luke remembers now. It lingers at the back of your mind, whispering maybe, maybe, so that knowing a plan is stupid isn’t enough to keep you from trying it.
Sweater Weather by shirozora (@shirozora-draws)
[22k words multi-chapter]
For two months, Din Djarin has been delivering the same order from the same restaurant to the same address every several days. The customer is a newcomer to Nevarro, a PhD student who seems out of place in the city but has become part of Din's everyday life. Then Luke changes their routine with a small gift and the uneventful, mundane life Din made for himself and his adopted son Grogu starts to unravel.
The Once and Future King by @leorizanzel
[30k words ongoing multi-chapter]
“Din Djarin, the Once and Future King,” Luke declared, his voice somehow ringing through Din’s head rather than through his ears. It sounded as though another voice spoke over Luke’s own. This man was Luke Skywalker, and yet, was not. “You wield the Darksaber, won in honorable combat, as Kings of Mandalore before you. The Force commands you to seek the Child and save it from its doom, and in doing so, will save the galaxy and reunite your people under your banner. Do you accept your quest?”
The Force delivers a dire prophecy to Din Djarin, demanding he take his rightful place as the king of his people. With the help of the last Jedi, he must gather his closest allies and prevent the worst to come.
I have made this place around you by HeadOn_HelmetOff
[25k multi-chapter]
“Do you know who you are, Din Djarin?”
Survivor of Aq Vetina. Mandalorian. Bounty hunter. Apostate. Father.
Mand’alor.
“...No,” he uttered.
Luke nodded sagely. “Then that’s what we’ll focus on first.”
It Was Always You by @subtlehysteria
[15k words one-shot]
He’s strong, powerful, his footwork far better than just your average person who occasionally skates for fun.
As if that wasn’t enough, Luke watches in shock and awe as the man executes a neat triple toe loop, landing near-flawlessly with only a slight wobble.
He doesn’t even register what’s happening, just sprints down the last set of stairs and rams into the barrier, hands raised to cup over his mouth and help project his voice.
“HEY, YOU!”
The man falters, head snapping to Luke. A single thick brow rises in question.
“DO YOU WANNA BE MY PARTNER?” Luke yells.
*
Or, the one where Luke needs a new ice dancing partner and Din just happens to be in the right place at the right time.
crystals in the current by @willowcrowned
[22k words multi-chapter]
Luke gets the message from the child in the early evening.
It’s spring on Yavin, and the wind smells like the glowing purple blossoms that cluster in the corners of old rooms and spring up through the pavement. The air is heavy with twilight, the orange-violet of the sky creeping its way down, filtering through the new-leafed boughs and down to where he’s sitting under a tree.
or Luke takes Grogu, but the sundering on the lightcruiser isn't an ending; it's a beginning.
Like the Dawn by @ace-din-djarin
[14k words one-shot]
Din’s words appear a few months after the attack on his village, after he had been taken in and adopted by the Mandalorians and the grief was still thick in his throat. He doesn’t know, at first, that they are there at all, until his baji’buir looks at him, her golden buy’ce tilted, and says, quietly, “I believe you have your words, ad.” She hands him a piece of shining beskar to use as a mirror, and sure enough, curled under his left ear in a slanting script, there they are. Two words: I am.
—
Just before his eyes slip closed, he sees something else overlaid on what he can actually see — a flash of silver, shining and beautiful. Something in Luke’s heart sings, for just a second, and he hears the Force whispering ‘ this one.’ He strains, trying to see more, but he can’t hold on, and drops down into unconsciousness.
—
Or: The first words your soulmate says to you are written on your skin. Luke and Din travel the galaxy before they find their match.
the body was made soft to keep us from loneliness by torrents
[4.9k words one-shot]
“Hey, Mando?”
Din quickly angles his helmet up again. “Yeah?”
Luke’s looking down at him, mouth wide and his teeth glinting in the afternoon light. “I’m glad you’re here.”
“Oh.” Din stares, holding his gaze through the visor, and nods. “Yeah.” A pause. “I’m glad to be here, too.”
Din learns another way to love.
I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life by @coffeecatsme
[8.4k words one-shot]
The first time Din touches his helmet to Luke’s forehead, it's by complete accident.
Or, 5 times Luke doesn't know Din kisses him and 1 time he does.
NSFW FICS:
oh the things we left behind by @furiosophie
[103k words multi-chapter]
After he commits every single weapon in the hold to memory, Din finds himself cataloging more and more things about Skywalker instead, small observations that carve out a space in his mind unbidden.
---
As much as Din likes to tell himself that he’s just been taking a well-deserved break, the truth is that for the six months following their daring rescue he’s been nothing but truly and utterly lost. That is until Luke Skywalker gives him a ship and hires him to help figure out what the hell the Empire needed the Child’s blood for.
As they drift through the empty void of hyperspace, they slowly find unexpected companions in each other and realize their respective paths might not be as set as they once thought.
Stardust Legacies by @withercrown
[187k words multi-chapter]
The child has found safety with the Jedi, but that doesn't mean the threat is over. What's left of the Empire is still hunting Force-sensitive individuals, and a not-so-chance encounter leads Din to some uncomfortable truths regarding his own nature.
What does it mean to be both a Mandalorian and a Jedi, and what will that mean for the future of the galaxy?
His Beacon, His Harbor by annathaema (moony) (@dosmit-raeh)
[21k words one-shot]
The first thing Din noticed was the fire in the hearth. Near the hearth was a small, handmade crib, and from the crib came an excited cry. It spread through Din's chest like a bloodstain, perhaps it had in fact pierced his heart. He knew that little voice.
“Hey, you,” said Din softly. He dropped to his knees as the Kid scrambled out of the crib and scampered to him, crawling into his lap and burbling happily.
“That’s the most excited I’ve seen him in months,” said Skywalker. Din hadn’t even noticed him sitting across the room at a rough-hewn wooden table, nursing a cup of something. He wore the same carefully neutral expression he'd had on Gideon's ship, but his clothes were now desert-colored and hung loose around Skywalker's wiry frame. His hair was in disarray and it made him look much younger than he'd seemed on the ship; there, he'd seemed world-weary and ancient. Now, Din felt an insane need to protect.
Skywalker raised his cup at Din in greeting, a lopsided smile on his face. “He’s missed you," he said.
“Feeling’s mutual,” said Din gruffly.
___
The Mandalorian becomes Din Djarin.
Din Djarin becomes.
(Luke helps.)
The Father the Son and the Exile by SushiBurrito (@sushiburritonoms)
[138k words multi-chapter]
Luke Skywalker has vanished. Declared a missing person two years after the Battle for Endor, the unofficial bounty for Skywalker has become the largest ever recorded. Hundreds of hunters search the galaxy for his whereabouts; yet despite this, no one has managed to find Skywalker. No one, except a small Force sensitive child and his Mandalorian father.
Or an alternate universe tale where Force visions warn Luke about Ben Solo several decades earlier but the consequences still force him to go on the run, this time directly into the path of Din Djarin.
Last of the Old Gods by angiebodies (@lessthantwelveparsecs)
[106k words ongoing multi-chapter]
A chance meeting puts Luke Skywalker and Din Djarin back on the same path. As Din comes to terms with his obligations to Mandalore, Luke begins to question his own commitment to the Jedi Order. Together they learn that the truths of their creeds are mutable, but their faith in each other is absolute.
Things Stranger Than Reality by Kitty_KatAllie (@spainkitty)
[73k words ongoing multi-chapter]
Nothing happens in Hawkins, Indiana. It’s one of the reasons why Paige and Rose Tico moved across the country from California. But one early Monday morning, at exactly 3:42 AM, something even worse than Oakland’s everyday violence began to hunt through the shadows of that sleepy, safe, little town. And Rey’s the only one who knows.
In the same town, the too-tired Sheriff Djarin has had enough to deal with. Emergency calls about power outs, conspiracy theories about military experiments at the town lab, and a war vet with a too pretty smile and great coffee took all of Din’s time. He never thought life would change, each moment routine and numbing while his past mistakes haunted him. Until a combination of mysterious murders, disappearances, and reports of a wild feral child in the woods turned his life upside down. Perhaps he should’ve listened to Skywalker’s wild theories a little sooner…
buy a big house where we both could live by lacecat
[76k words ongoing multi-chapter]
Din trails behind them and reminds himself this is temporary. He’ll make sure they get to the temple safe, and once he’s sure that Luke agrees to continue training Grogu, he’ll leave them.
Grogu reaches up with his hand to tug at the edge of Luke’s shirt, and Din’s fingers flex at his sides.
This is the way, he tells himself.
It’s Just a Dream I Had in Mind by xXxVioletSkyxXx (@leiainhoth)
[188k words ongoing multi-chapter]
For so long, Din fought the reality of giving the child up, giving him to the jetii and moving on. He had prepared for it, packed a bag and left it all behind, so his son could have the life he deserved.
All until he didn't have to.
Or the one where Luke rescues Grogu on Tython, and Din rescues Luke in return.
The Armour You Wear by @subtlehysteria
[101k words multi-chapter]
The only reason Din even knew about the audition was because of Cara.
“Djarin I swear you were made for this role. He’s a grump who acts all tough but really has a heart of gold and ends up adopting this little kid that was supposed to be a bounty. If that doesn’t scream Din Djarin I don’t know what does.”
Din hated to admit it, but Cara had a fair point.
*
Stuntman-turned-actor Din Djarin thinks he's prepared for whatever The Mandalorian Season 3 has to offer. So when he's informed he's going to be performing his first on-screen romance with award-winning actor Luke Skywalker, he may start to panic just a little. Especially because his character, who, until now, has worn his helmet 24/7, is going to be coming out of his beskar-shell so to speak and go helmetless for multiple scenes. Worried he doesn't have what it takes to give the performance required of him, Din turns to his new co-star for advice. Luke is sweet, an excellent teacher and turns out to be an even more amazing friend.
So what happens when on-screen romance starts bleeding into their real-life relationship?
Bending at the Heart of Me by Chromat1cs (@brightmouth)
[7.3k words one-shot]
His eyelids resisted for a few tries as he fought to drag them open, eyes rolling and shuddering beneath them until they finally peeled open to a soft, buttery light.
There were creatures twittering gently through a wide, open window carved into a wall to his right. The room smelled of cardamom. A comfortable heft of warm, bulky blankets was pillowed around him.
Was he fucking dead?
~
Fennec has business elsewhere, Din is glad to pick up her leftovers for the extra credits, and a certain Jedi has eerily good instincts for swooping in unannounced.
It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me by notaqueenakhaleesi
[67k words ongoing multi-chapter]
“Jedi, this is the Mandalorian. Mando. I found your holo number from an old friend, so I thought I’d give a buzz to see how the kid’s progressing, so, yeah. Let me know. Over.”
“Hey, Mando again. I forgot to mention that he eats anything he lays his eyes on. Be careful he doesn’t eat something that could kill him. Over.”
“…. Sorry, didn’t add that he needs to eat a lot. Is he, uh. Is he eating well? Over.”
“Is this kriffing thing even working? Over.”
“How the…” A crackle of static, then, at last, a voice.
Professor Bug by spqr (@andthepeople)
[7k words one-shot]
“I saw your notes for your lecture on the Jedi Order,” Luke says quietly. “And I know you’re very good at what you do, babe, but I want you to know that like half of it is wrong.”
Din stares at him.
“Okay,” Luke says. He leans over and kisses Din on the forehead. “See you tomorrow. Bye.”
Pragmatics by Derkish
[57k words multi-chapter]
Admittedly, this is not the first time Luke has wound up at someone else’s kitchen table in someone else’s clothes. But it’s not breakfast, Luke’s not an undergrad scarfing down bacon and eggs to cure the common hangover, and Din doesn’t strike him as the kind of guy he’d meet at a house party. The baby is definitely a first.
Luke is a grad student trying to finish his linguistics PhD after an unexpected leave of absence. His neighbor, Din, is a single dad and delivery guy at Pizza Parsec.
(Actually, Pizza Parsec is just a front for the bounty hunters' guild. But Luke doesn't need to know that.)
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