Mandalorian catch all!

[foundlingfather]

WHO: Din Djarin/Mando, anybody else!
WHERE: Around Coruscant
WHAT: Things and stuff!
WHEN: 900 years in the past, in a galaxy far far away
WARNINGS: None...? Will change as needed
NOTES: Feel free to tag in your preferred style, I will match it.


A. Disappearing act

Mando didn't stick around for too long after landing, and dealing with Grogu's distress. Maybe a day, maybe two, as they made sure the people, that didn't know the planet, were settled. Then one morning, he's gone. Having left in the early hours of the morning, just before sunrise. When most, if not all, were probably asleep. He had his people to find, and a low profile to keep. What better way to do that, than to disappear into the city.

Using the credits the Agrii provided, he took a speeder down into the lower tiers of the city. Where he knew he'd find them. Or more accurately, they found him first. With their spies within the city, it didn't take long for word of a new, strange, Mandalorian to make it to Coruscant's Mandalorian inhabitants. After being confronted, and proving he wasn't just someone that stole a Mandalorian's armor, Mando was taken to the enclave. For the first time in almost a year, he finally felt like he was home.

Being amongst Mandalorians once again, is what he needed. He finally could heal and maybe, just maybe, resolve the conflict that had been going on within him.

B. Honest living

It's days later, before he manages to extract himself from the enclave once again. With no small amount of reluctance. Even though he'd taken his comm with him, it had been switched off pretty much since he left. He hadn't wanted to be found. He needed to do this on his own. So any messages sent to him, went unanswered. Switching it back on, one of the first things he did, of course, was to send a message to Obi-wan asking how Grogu is. Before he checked for any other messages that may have been left.

He's not leaving the lower levels yet, however. Feeling far more comfortable down here, than he would in the upper tiers. Even though he knew the Agrii were some how providing credits, he didn't like having to depend on them for currency. The main way he knew how to do that? Bounty hunting, and down in these levels, it was easy enough to pick up bounty hunting jobs. Earning a fair amount of credits in only a few days.

C. Moving up.

Eventually he'll head up into the mid tier levels, checking out shops, and seeing what's available. At some point, he'll even get back to the original hangar they all started at. To check on what had been done since he was gone.

D. Wildcard

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[foundlingfather]

The word 'Jedi' gets a quick jerk of the helmet and a 'no' gesture from Din, even as the vendor gives Cobb a strange look. Din waits until they're walking again to continue. Easily falling into step with Cobb, like it's the most natural thing to do. A deep sigh escaping him.

"I don't like it either." He doesn't like not having ready access to Grogu. That he can't just go get the kid. "He rarely left my side back home. Now it's been a week." A week that Din would admit he needed. But a week is still a long time. "If I could. I would just go get him." He wants to show Grogu his people too, it's the only chance he'll probably have. But he's no match for thousands of Jedi either, if they perceive him as a threat. "I hope they see reason." Obi-wan understood it. He just hoped this ancient council would feel the same way.

"I'm sure you will." His tone light, as there might just be a small smile under the helmet. Oh Din well remembers the incident at the camp. The long talk they had that night, coming to a mutual understanding of each other.

His answer about where they're going gets stalled by the asking what to call him. Making him pause, as the thought rushes through his mind. "No. It wouldn't." He manages, after long moments of silence. Dank ferric, he didn't think this through. But Cobb was right.

"Call me.." He swallows on a touch of sudden nerves. "...call me Din." Some how it felt fitting, that Cobb would be the first out of their group to get his name.

Yes! I'm totally cool with folks taking it.

[heypartner]

As if anyone would confuse Cobb with a Jedi. He'd seen them walking around in their robes and such. He had armor and a blaster and no sense of another energy in the galaxy.

"If they don't, I can walk in there. I'll just borrow the kid for awhile." Cobb saw no problem with walking in, grabbing Grogu, and walking out. He wasn't a Mandalorian, what sort of protest could they raise to that? "If it comes to that. I don't think Obi-Wan will let it but... it's not right to keep a kid from his dad."

There was something deeply personal there that Cobb didn't want to touch right now but he'd absolutely help steal the kid back from the Jedi. Without hesitation.

"Well, Din, nice to meet you," he said with an easy smile. "Promise I won't use it around the others. Mando and partner only. Well, maybe the occasional friend."

If Din wanted to stay anonymous around the others, that was fine with Cobb. Some people didn't want to be known like that. There were folks back in Mos Pelgo who had changed their names after being freed to distance themselves from that time. Din had his reasons for protecting the name.

\o/

[foundlingfather]

Cobb's not the only one, with feelings they don't want to touch on. There's a roil of something in Din's chest, and a slight shift in posture, that he tries not to think too hard on. When Cobb says he'd be willing to walk into the temple to get the kid, to help him and Grogu reunite if the Jedi decide to be obstinate about it. If Cobb only knew just how much that meant to him. In fact it earns him more than a few approving looks, from Mandalorians around them.

When he finally manages to speak, after fighting to push the feelings back down, it's just a uttered quiet-- "Thank you." There's an edge to it he doesn't want to touch, and he's thankful the helmet keeps Cobb from seeing his face. The words shouldn't matter, it's an offer probably anyone, specially those from Agra-10 that know him, would give. Yet, hearing them from Cobb gives them a different feel.

There's a couple more moments of silence from Din, before the name thing gets an appreciative nod of the helmet from him. "You're...the first. From our group to know my name." Which after this trip will probably be changing. Din just needed to get it in his head, that this wasn't their world. Neither was Agra-10. There really wasn't a reason to hide his name. Even Obi-wan had stopped going by 'Ben' some time ago.

[heypartner]

Cobb reached out and briefly squeezed Din's shoulder. The kid was clearly important to Din and it was hard to be apart from him. He assumed that was the cause of the hitch in Din's voice.

"You and I have a little bit more history than everyone else, partner." Cobb couldn't help the little bit of smugness in his voice. He liked being the first, liked knowing that Din trusted him a little bit more than everyone else. "Though, you should probably tell your kid if you haven't. I don't think Grogu can talk but shouldn't he know as well?"

Din might have a reason for not telling Grogu. Maybe something about the Creed but Cobb didn't think so. "Unless he already does. I guess I'm assuming a lot with that, huh?"

No matter what feelings he had Cobb really shouldn't assume he was somehow more important than Grogu. The kid came first.

[foundlingfather]

The brief squeeze of his shoulder, makes him turn the helm to look at Cobb. Feeling the warmth of the hand, even through the suit, he can feel a brief prickle along his skin. Leading to another brief pause.

"We do." There's people who gets along with, that he'd probably consider friends. But there wasn't that natural connection he had with Cobb. The feel of ease he had around the man. However, he's distracted by the reminder of Grogu, and he turns his helm back forward, tilting it down a little. It was the creed that had kept him hiding his name, from all but a few. Cara and Greef only knew it because of Gideon. Who really had no right to know it in the first place.

"No, he doesn't." Din doesn't know that Grogu already knows it. He wasn't in a state to realize it at the time, what with nearly dying and all. Story of his life. "I'm...telling him next." Really, Grogu would have been first one he told, his kid came first above all others. Whatever feelings he may have. But extenuating circumstances got in the way, and really, he can't have Cobb calling him Mando here. "But you needed something to call me."

[heypartner]

Cobb had a smile for Din when he looked his way. The universe was an unforgiving place. It was even worse when they were getting jerked around by all powerful aliens. It was good to have someone trusted at your back. Cobb would be there for Din when he needed him and he trusted Din would do the same for him. It mattered that bond they shared.

"I guess I could've stuck with partner. But I'm glad to know you, Din." He might never see Din's face but he had his name. It was another little bit of trust between them. Cobb was careful with bonds but he couldn't deny this one.

He didn't want to.

"So, where we going now? You said it was somewhere I had to be on my best behavior." Cobb didn't think Mandalorians had temples like the Jedi but what did he know? Din's people were practically myth in his time. Most of what he knew before meeting Din were old stories and half of those were made up he had realized as he learned more and more.

If they were headed to some sort of sacred place, well, he would definitely keep his mouth shut and his head down.