Since we're sharing stuff about birds for the 101, have you seen the video "Cockatoo finding out he is going to the vet" where the terrified, angry muttering sounds downright demonic? Imagine a bug spreading to all the Yoditos and when Din even thinks about going to the doctor the Razor Crest becomes the chorus from Hell (... more so than usual).
Iâm the sole person on the internet who doesnât watch a lot of animal videos, so... But I looked it up for anyone else whoâs curious.
Oh my god that would be awful. Din has to like, literally round them up into carriers because otherwise they flee like stereotypical cats-going-to-the-vet. He didnât even know he had that many hidey-holes in the Razor Crest and how did you get in that ceiling compartment anyway??? (It takes him, Cara, and a bucket of those godawful sugary frog gummies he swore he was never going to let them eat because he is not gonna be that parent, goddammit, his kids will have yaiâyai* food! Hera gave him the gummies and a knowing âmmhmmâ when he told her that.)
The entire time they are making THE worst hell-noise he has ever heard. Even Cara, who has heard the screams of her dying teammates, is more than a little unnerved. (IG-11 asks when Din started using soothing music to lull the children to sleep, what a nice idea, he will add it into his programming.) Winta and the other village children think itâs hilarious and imitate it immediately, even into school the next day. Din is once again in trouble with the Sorgan PTA (mainly because OG Yodito threw in some choice curse words) but his grudge match with the local Karen is less important than his sick children!
Then he has to find a doctor he can actually trust AND who has the patience to deal with up to 101 kids who have trauma tied to the whole âpart of an experiment, extreme Do Not Want reaction to people in white coats with needles.â Kuiil calmly comments that perhaps a bit of rest would do wonders, but Din has already descended into Full Parental Panic Mode and will not be dissuaded. In the end the local medic from the main town is summoned. Between dealing with 101 tiny green beans making the most ungodly noise she has ever heard (itâs like frogs and space crickets in the forest at night, but if that forest was on Korriban) and their very worried and trigger-happy protective father, she has a time (especially when the solution is, of course, just rest and make sure they have plenty of fluids, maybe spread them out so theyâre not crammed on that tiny ship, what the hell). She considers it worth it - the Mando paid well, she has a great story to share in the local cantina, and after no less than 26 of the Yoditos told her to âfuck off" she got all the free spotchka she could drink from the village.
Omera promised her that free spotchka arrangement would be permanent when the poor medic had to come back and tell Din that he caught it, and yes he has to rest, and yes that means he has to stop chasing the children until heâs better, and no giving me the helmet glare will not change my mind, I can hear you sniffling under there, please tell me you sanitize that thing.
*yaiâyai = â*richly nourishing* - peculiarly Mandalorian description of dense, high-calorie food, of great importance to people dependent on highly portable field rationsâ according to mandoa.org. I just really liked the idea of Din being the Mandalorian equivalent of those organic-only parents