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DinLuke Week 2024: Voting Begins!!🖤💚

Hello, fellow DinLukers! Now that season 3 is over and a movie is on its way in place of a season 4, some of us fans have been missing our boys and their little green son.

Here's an upcoming event that could rouse your interests 👀

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Voting will be open from May 19th to May 30th! The final prompts will be posted not long after, so keep your eyes out for it!

💫 DinLuke Mini Bang: Interest Check 💫

To our dear DinLuke fic writers, fan artists, and beta readers, the time has finally come for our much anticipated DinLuke Mini Big Bang! 🎉

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dinluke advent 13 <3

din: do you want to keldabe kiss

luke: what does it mean

din: we just touch our foreheads

luke: ok *proceeds to bonk din's head the same way one would headbutt during a football match*

Dinluke is a warm safe spot for me yet sometimes it feels dark and angsty too.

FINALLY MADE THE STAR WARS SERVER IVE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT!! 🥺🥺

i’ve been making the rounds in the dinluke and star wars roleplay twitter circles and i wanna talk to more of y’all! so bop on over and let’s have a great time yall ✨💚

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OH MY GODDDDD THIS IS ADORABLE!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 YOUR ART STYLE WARMS MY HEART

Say less 😩✋🏼

I think it’s pretty poggers that grogurt has 2 dads.

Original prompt by @princexfineas

https://princexphineas.tumblr.com/post/640505474051080192/this-but-dinluke-din-is-in-lukes-arms

i’ve seen you reblog this link on a lot of dinluke things. can you please elaborate instead of dropping it without context? people can be wary of clicking links due to ip grabbers.

about the video, honestly i don’t think this is going to happen. no sources have been linked in the description, and we already know that they’re planning mandalorian s3. if we don’t get a luke show, fine, that’s okay. we can still continue our hcs and fanfics and fancanon for fun.

i don’t know what your intentions are with this, but people are just having fun. please let us just have fun.

local mand’alor and jedi master move to remote island together with their little green son

local mand’alor and jedi master move to remote island together with their little green son

i read an article a little while ago on mlm ships involving men of color, and i really love how the dinlukes ive interacted with and seen art and writing from havent played into the stereotypes that were mentioned in it, like making din overly masculine and making luke dainty

they’re both kickass dudes, just because you ship luke with another homie doesn’t mean he loses that part of him

i also love seeing subversions in hcs, like din getting flustered over things luke says to him, that’s cute and men of color usually don’t get to have that moment in ships

so thank y’all keep up the good work

this but dinluke

din is in luke’s arms

we two kings

luke having little scars all over his arms and neck and din asking what fight he got into and luke bluntly responding “sandstorm”

wind took his poncho one day back on tatooine and he never forgot

posting it separately from the rb but look at you strawberry din fields rollin on i love it when you call my name-

i did not expect this to get as much traction as it did already so

strawberry dress/romper modern au!din

grogu likes the strawberries, 🥺🍓

also the mask in my modern au, he wears it in place of his helmet 😔 gotta respect The Way

thinkin bout dinluke strawberry dress and black dress

yeah the meme has passed but i can still consider it

thinkin bout dinluke strawberry dress and black dress

yeah the meme has passed but i can still consider it

what if din, the laconic mandalorian, tried telling jokes to luke but he would have to have it written on his palm because he’d be too stressed to recite it but the ink would smear due to him sweating and he’d mess up the punchline but luke would laugh nevertheless because he finds din trying to be funny very sweet 

[taps the mic]

dinluke wall•e au? perhaps

thank you for your time

[taps the mic]

dinluke wall•e au? perhaps

thank you for your time

OK I've hyped myself up enough to post this. I wrote a dinluke inspired song! This idea has been rattling around in my head for a while but got hit by a wave of motivation a couple days ago. Hope y'all enjoy!

Thanks to the wonderful people on the dinluke server for giving me enough confidence to post this here. Their kind words really eased my anxiety.

Also- the lyrics are in the description of the video if anyone wants to see them and the Mando'a I used.

(Note, I'm not a professional musician, so forgive my mediocre performance and production)

I have too many DinLuke ideas and I need opinions other than my own. What should I focus on first? I'm crippled by decision making. (I'll put more detailed descriptions below the cut if you care about that)

Feel free to comment any other opinions, I am struggling with the indecision. And if anyone wants to scream with me about any of these ideas I would welcome it with open arms :)

Meet Pre ANH AU: Din and Luke meet while Din is on a job on Tatooine and Luke inserts himself into Din's job (because he's bored) Din gets injured and has to spend time recovering under Luke's care and they fall for each other. Din has to leave once he recovers and promises to come back for Luke as soon as possible but, unbeknownst to both of them, Luke is pregnant.

Fantasy AU: Sort of a King Arthur vibe with Din finding the Darksaber and needing to reclaim the ancient kingdom of Mandalore. Din doesn't desire the throne, simply wanting to take care of Grogu (a boy he saved from a band of thieves) but he can't avoid his destiny. Luke is a Druid who wants to teach Grogu, who has Druid abilities, how to use magic and ends up assisting Din on his quest. The usual suspects also show up and help along the way.

Post S2 canon divergence: This is just my take on a slow burn gffa dinluke with a lot of the usual tropes. Mostly just "the wacky adventures of The Jedi and The Mandalorian: acquire children" because I need more of that in my life.

Greek Mythology AU: Luke is the demigod son of Anakin, the god of the heavens. He grew up to be a renowned hero, as many demigods do, and was sent on many quests. His newest quest sends him to the underworld to deliver a gift to the god of the dead. Little does he know, a vengeful god and the king who sent him on his quest have set him up. When Luke gets to underworld he finds out that he was meant to be the gift. Now he has to deal with Din, the god of the dead, who is outraged by Luke's arrival.

Apocalypse AU: The world has been taken over by a sickness that horrifically mutates people, animals, and even plants into killing machines. Din is just another survivor trying to make it through another day but finds his priorities change when he meets Grogu. Not long after taking in the child, Din realizes that the young boy has the ability to influence the creatures that have taken over the world. When people come after Grogu for his abilities Din has to put his trust into a mysterious man, Luke, to keep his son safe.

Medieval fantasy AU: The new Duke of Mandalore, Din Djarin, comes to Coruscant, the capital of the United Republic of Kingdoms, to sign treaties and make alliances. Many people expect Din to marry to strengthen his position so all eyes are on him, much to his discomfort. Meanwhile the Skywalker family's position is threatened by old enemies, leaving them vulnerable to attack. To solve both their problems Luke and Din get married, but now they have to convince everyone that this is a love match and not a marriage of convenience.

Harry Potter AU: This was mostly inspired by a comedy bit pointing out that Harry Potter was just Star Wars but with shitty lightsabers. The story would take place during the tri-wizard tournament and follow a similar storyline to the original. However, this has a focus on the romance between Din and Luke (obviously), the champion from Mandalore (Durmstrang) and the chosen one respectively. (Also I can make Luke trans just to stick it to JKR)

Spy X Family AU: Luke is a spy sent to look after Grogu who is an asset to the republic. Din found Grogu first on a job and is informed of Grogu’s importance by the mandos (mercenary guild). Republic wants Grogu to become a politician that can unite the two factions (Republic and Imperials). Mandos want Grogu to be knowledgeable of Mandalorians and be sympathetic to their causes. Both want Grogu to go to this elite school (has family requirements) that lead to Din and Luke making a fake family with Grogu to further the goals of their respective sides.

Okay so I know probably no one will see this but I just wanna know if Jedi mind tricks would actually work on Din because he’s such a himbo? Like?

I just imagine Luke bringing Din in while he’s visiting Grogu at the temple as an example of how to use your mind tricks:

Luke-(Jedi hand wave)”you will bring us some cookies”

Din-“...what”

Luke-(again, still as confident)”you will bring us some cookies”

Din tilts his head in confusion.

Luke-(slightly embarrassed, still trying)”you will bring us some cookies”

Din-(mocking the wave because he’s a himbo)”no”

And just all the students laugh and Luke gets really embarrassed and Din is still left confused trying to look to Grogu for an explanation

In the vein of those Din and Luke meet on Tatooine before they live the Star Wars?

I propose that Din is the ~sweetheart from back home story Luke tells people if they ask about that kind of thing, you know?

Nineteen year-old Luke who gets tossed into the deep end whe he joins the Rebellion, right?

Farm boy from Tatooine in a starfighter squadron filled with people like Wedge and Janson.

And all the hurry up and wait that happens, and a card game that springs up between missions. Some late night somewhere - Hoth, maybe - and it was just a little too much to toss and turn all night in the bunks, maybe tale a stroll through base. Stop by the hangar because someone’s always there - weather lie this you can bet someone’s fixing something or adapting it to make it work in these conditons, and anyway, anyway.

Hell of a lot better than being stuck with your own thoughts you know backwards and front.

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Snippet from chapter 11 of You Are Safe, You Are Home

Luke sighed as he sat planning out his garden while Din sat through council meetings. He hadn’t wanted Din working blindly so he decided to finally start planning out his garden. Ideally he’d like trees in it. Brylark, Dewdrop, Heart Berry, and Willow, specifically.

Brylark because he had a Wookie Padawan already who specifically wanted his lightsaber hilt to be wooden and it would be nice to have access to it for his temple, even at the cost of his own personal garden. Dewdrop because they were pretty and he really liked the fruit on the one occasion he had gotten to try it. Heart Berry in case he didn’t feel like the Dewdrop fruit, and Willow because it was an important part of folklore on Casiey’s home world.

Sadly because they were underground he likely couldn’t have trees in it, so he’d skip them entirely, even if something felt so right about adding trees to it. He supposed he could do two versions, one for if they could grow trees and one without. He'd have to talk to Din about it tonight.

He stretched as he leaned back in his chair. So far he’d planned mostly flowers, some ivy, and ferns. He wanted to add a few herbs here and there, but he wasn’t sure what to add specifically. Maybe some nysillin or twin-scented natterbloom? Behot was originally native to Mandalore; maybe he could plant some in his garden.

Luke sighed. He was getting nowhere with this.

Staring at the hologram of the garden so far he brushed his fingers over the flickering image of Queen's Heart. He had so many other flowers, multiple types of roses, black lilies, bluebell squish, aura blossoms, millaflower, vomur, vanserv, sunburst, sun-dew.

Star flowers would be hard to find now that Alderaan was gone but if anyone could do it it was Din.

So many other flowers he’d added, but he kept bringing himself back to Queen’s Heart, the flower his mother had planted all over Theed when she was Queen.

A choked sob escaped his throat. He wanted his mom right now. Wanted her to hold him and tell him everything was going to be okay. Tell him how she and his father managed to make things work when they had to be separated almost all the time. Maybe give him some tips about ruling an entire planet? He wasn’t sure, he just wanted his mother. Wanted some memory of her or something to keep her with him.

they all do make some valid points *shrugs*

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In My Dreams, Shadow’s Call (You’re the Light at the End of the Hall) snippet/ WIP Wednesday

“Okay, just a bit of mascara and you’re done okay?” Winter asked.

Luke nodded. He was so nervous. Even if he wasn’t getting a bad feeling with the force, he felt this was a bad idea. A thousand what ifs ran through his head. The worst of which was “what if Din hated this side of him after he saw it?”

“Flutter your lashes for a minute.” Winter said.

Like but his lip and did as he was told. Winter moved her hand to the other side of his face once he was done.

“Again.” She said.

Luke once again did as he was told. Meanwhile Leia let out a loud “aha” and triumphantly pulled out a dress from her wardrobe. Luke didn’t dare look until Leia was ready to show him. He’d made that mistake before and had to attend a ball with a black eye and Leia had to take anger management classes. He knew Leia wouldn’t hit him again, but she would probably shave his stuffed toys in his sleep. Or maybe she’d finally give up on being petty. In three years she’d be queen after all.

“There, you’re done.” Winter said, capping the mascara.

“Before you look, put this on!” Leia cried rushing over with the gown.

Luke gasped. It was a miniature version of their mother’s lakeside gown. Instead of the usual yellow, pink, purple it went from white to a sky blue. Luke tried not to cry. Leia knew that his favorite of all their mom’s dresses was the lakeside one.

“You have no clue how hard it was hiding this from you.” Leia said. “Rae-Lye spent months working on this for you. We’re lucky she used to be a tailor.”

Luke blinked in surprise. Din’s mom had made this for him? She’d been in on Leia’s plan? Luke couldn’t believe it. He ran his hand over the fabric. It seemed so well made, he’d have expected their usual tailor to have made it. A grin broke out on his face as he pictured Rae-Lye working on the dress in the servants quarters after a long day of work just to surprise him. He’d have to do something nice for her as a thank you.

He hurried to get changed. He was excited to put the dress on. To look like his mother. To wear something his best friend's mom had made just for him. It might be a bit tame for a ball, but he wanted to wear it regardless. He could dress it up with a shawl or cape like his mother did.

“How do I look?” Luke asked, giving a twirl and he stepped out from behind the privacy screen.

“Gorgeous!” Leia said, clapping her hands. “Come look at your makeup!”

Luke walked over to the mirror and gasped at his reflection. Winter had done an all natural look, except for the eyeliner which added a pop of sky blue to his face. He loved the way he looked. It was definitely better than when he did it, but then again Winter was trained to do makeup and he wasn’t.

In My Dreams, Shadows Call (You’re The Light at the End of the Hall) snippet

It had been a good day, overall for Din. You had to understand, the fire in the kitchen wasn’t their fault. Kind of, and Luke had used his powers to put it out quickly. The scolding they’d gotten for it was a small price to pay for all the pasties they’d managed to snag from the kitchen. Which led to where they were now. Sitting in Luke’s room gobbling down their stolen stash of snacks, giggling like a couple of idiots.

When Din and his family had first moved to Naboo’s capital city Theed five years ago, he’d never imagined his best friend would be the prince his family served. If you had told nine year old him he’d be allowed to call the then six year old prince by his first name he’d have called you crazy. Luke was his best friend, the King, Anakin, treated him like a second son. It was more than he could have dreamed of. Still, as he glanced at Luke, with filling on his cheek, he couldn’t help but wish they were older.

Din grinned before leaning over and licking the filling off Luke’s cheek.

“Ack! Din what the heck?!” Luke cried.

“Consider it payback for that time you were convinced you were part tooka and felt the need to groom me like one.” Din said.

“What the heck?” Luke said, laughing and shoving him. “I was like, six!”

“Exactly! I waited five years for my revenge.” Din said laughing.

“What? You’re so mean!” Luke cried.

“You love it though.” Din teased.

“Love? Who-who said anything about love?!” Luke asked. “Y-you’re crazy!”

‘Well, that was a weird reaction.’ Din thought, putting another pastry in his mouth.

Luke, for his part, had buried his face in his hands and pulled his knees to his chest. Something he only did when he was embarrassed. Din assumed it was because of his reaction. He held out a pastry, trying to cheer him up

Since a few people asked, I will be working on the DinLuke Anastasia Au and posting it on Ao3. I’m calling it In My Dreams, Shadows Call (You’re the Light at the End of the Hall) based on a line from my favorite song from the Broadway musical. My younger sister is helping co-write it because I was overwhelmed by the fact people actually want to see this. She doesn’t have an ao3 account (that I know of) and isn’t writing entire chapters, just parts of them. If the writing style suddenly changes, that’s why. I’ll be posting snippets of the story on hear as I write it. In the meantime Here’s a picture of Luke as Anastasia I’m working on

Okay so has anyone done like a DinLuke Anastasia AU? Because honestly I was listening to the Anastasia Broadway soundtrack (again) instead of my usual DinLuke playlist and like all I can think is this au.

Like Padmé and Anakin are King and Queen of Naboo, with the royal twins Luke and Leia. Don’s parents are servants who moved to Naboo from Aq Ventina and got jobs in the palace. Din is like only a few years older than Luke in this as opposed to their cannon age gap. Because of this they often hang out (I doubt Padmé or Anakin would have issue with him being friends with the hired helps kid just given who they are) Luke is Din’s best friend, but Luke’s beat friend is forever and always his twin sister Leia, though Din is a close second. Both have a crush on each other, but neither voice it.

Then when Luke is eleven and Din is like fourteen, not quite a full on revolution but enough people are unhappy with things that a group of them Storm the palace and kill Anakin and Padmé. Leia escapes with Bail Organa and is adopted by him, but Luke isn’t as lucky. Din helps him into the servants quarters, but Luke drops the music box his mom had made when he and Leia were babies. Din goes back for it, but witnesses his parents being executed for refusing to give up the twins location causing him to black out and stay separated from Luke. Luke meanwhile escapes, but falls down a hill and hits his head losing his memories. The next day a kind old lady finds him and offers to help him find somewhere to stay.

“What’s your name child?”

“I think it’s Lu…. Lu… Luka?”

“Very well Luka, let’s find you somewhere warm for the night”

Fast forward ten years, things have gotten worse, Luke is struggling to find and keep a job, Din WAS a Mandalorian, but they aren’t very welcome around Naboo anymore after one of them was involved with the murder of the King and Queen and disappearance of the Prince. He has Grogu still, but he’s a human in this au because I say so. He’s mute and likely the Star Wars equivalent of a nonverbal autistic. Grogu doesn’t like the helmet much either, he doesn’t like not seeing his dad’s face, so the helmet (and the rest of the armor) goes.

Greef and Cara come up with the plan to fool Leia, who is offering a reward for anyone who can return her brother to her. (She knows he’s alive because she can sense him in the force) Din wants no part in it, but is struggling with money and affording to care for Grogu and the amount of money offered, even split between them, would be life changing. So he, reluctantly, goes along.

The group eventually meet Luke, hoping to get off world and find his family, and agree he looks just like the missing prince (no duh). Greef and Cara are elated that Luke has no memories and just wants to find his family meaning no extra split in the reward. Din on the other hand feels bad for taking advantage of someone who looks just like his best friend. Luke for his part, recognizes Din, but can’t figure out how he knows him, or how he knows his name.

The group begins making plans to leave Naboo. Din is left with Luke and Grogu. Luke asks Din if they could have met when they were kids because he feels like he’s met him before. Din confesses he was very close to the prince before he went missing and how he was his best friend. Luke asks if he believes he’s really the prince and Din admits he doesn’t know. He doesn’t want to believe his best friend would have forgotten him. Luke reminds him that he can’t remember anyone or anything from before he was eleven. (Cue in my dreams sequence) Luke accidentally floats some things making Din believe he might just be the prince. (Force users are rare and even rarer would be someone who looks so similar to Luke with force sensitivity)

After months of traveling via shuttles (no one has a ship) Din, feeling guilty eventually confesses everything to Luke, who he’s started falling in love with. Luke confronts Greef and Cara about using him to get a reward and trying to con someone who is just looking for her brother. Luke agrees to continue with them, but only to see if Leia is his sister and as he doesn’t trust Greef or Cara anymore he doesn’t want to see them afterwards. Din promises to help Luke find his family if Leia isn’t his sister and the two end up spending the night together.

Meanwhile Bail convinces Leia to give up the search, at least temporarily for her sake.

Stuff happens, Luke and Leia reunite, Luke gets his memory back, Din realizes Luka and Luke are the same person when talking with Luke results in him remembering the time Luke convinced his parents to let Din ride in the parade with them. Someone tries to kill Luke and Leia, Din stops them. Din and Luke get together, Luke adopts Grogu and the three decide to live a quiet life though Luke remains close to Leia.

I might have to write this actually.

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“Want me to make some tea?” Luke asked, taking his hand. “Maybe we can try the HearthSpice?”

Din nodded, not trusting his voice at the moment. Then he noticed the shiny object in Padmé’s hair.

“Wait, Veré, are you wearing a karking tiara?” He asked.

Luke and Zoya burst out laughing. Jade sighed and shook her head, muttering a “told you it’s too much.” Padmé smiled and covered her laughs with her hand.

“Din, yesterday was the only day I’ve seen her not go through at least fifteen changes of clothing and I think that was because Luke was trying on her clothes.” Zoya said. “Yes she wears a tiara to bed.”

“I don’t go through that many outfits.” Padmé said.

~~~~

“Here.” Luke said, handing Din the cup of tea. “It probably won’t taste the same since your parents added stuff to it, but I hope it’s at least still a comfort.”

Din gratefully took the tea. “Thanks sahe’as.” He said.

He took a sip of the tea. It wasn’t as warm or earthy as his parent’s tea, likely the lack of herbs his parents added. Still, it was warm and comforting.

Tears started running down his face.

“Cyare what’s wrong?” Luke asked.

Din set the cup down and sobbed. He couldn’t remember his parents, but he missed them. Badly. He wanted nothing more than to have them hold him in their arms one more time.

Luke hugged him.

“I’m sorry.” He murmured. “I know I’m not them, but maybe I can offer you some comfort this way?”

“I miss them, Luke. I miss my mummy and daddy.” Din said. “I know it’s childish to call them that, but that’s what I was still calling them when I lost them.”

“Shh,” Luke hushed. “It’s okay. I won’t judge.”

Din just held him closer and continued to sob. He couldn’t say everything about it, not yet. He wanted to, but he just wasn’t ready to talk about it anymore than he had.

“I’ll be here when you are, I promise.” Luke murmured.

Din sobbed harder. What had he done to deserve him? To deserve someone so patient and understanding?

“Is he gonna be ok?” Ollie asked.

“He’ll be fine Ollie.” Luke said. “Just, don’t get anymore dead things, that’s the last thing that’ll help.’

Din choked out a laugh as he continued to cry. He wouldn’t have the same attachment to some random lizard, but he appreciated what Luke was saying.

“Then how can I help?” Ollie asked.

“Just give him space, okay?” Luke asked. “If he asks for anything specific from you, you can help that way, okay?”

“Okay Luke!” Ollie said. “Feel better Din.”

Din nodded against Luke’s shoulder and gave a small wave as the girl scampered off. Din had a feeling she wasn’t going anywhere far, probably hanging around the hallway for when he was coherent enough to request something of her.

“It’s okay, let it out.” Luke soothed.

Din continued to sob for a good couple of minutes before they turned into sniffles and hiccups. Luke held him through it all, murmuring sweet nothings and comforts like Din had for him not too long ago. Today wasn’t off to a great start.

“I’m sorry Cyare, I thought it’d help.” Luke apologized.

“It did Luke.” Din murmured. “I just miss them.”

“You’re allowed to miss them Din.” Luke said. He paused and Din could feel something click in place in their bond. Like he’d just realized something. “Did you ever even grieve for them?” He asked.

Din stiffened. He’d been content to just forget all about them until now. He wasn’t sure he was quite ready to grieve and let go either. He knew he needed to, but something about it just didn’t feel right yet.

“Cyare.” Luke sighed.

“I know, I’m sorry.” Din said. “I just started feeling close to them, I don’t want to let them go yet. I’m not ready to say goodbye.”