hey so I’ve been getting a strange uptick in asks recently that end up being somewhere along the lines of “how would Din Djarin feel about a chubby S/O” or “I’m really short, do you think Mando would like that?” or “I have small boobs, how do you think Din would react to an S/O that’s flatter-chested” and other things vaguely similar to that and I feel like I should remind yall
Din Djarin comes from a radical offshoot of a culture that goes out of their way to obscure the way they look
like I don’t know if yall wanted me to tell you that he’d prefer an S/O with those specific traits or without them or what, and I obviously can only speak for the Mando in rough day, but I think there might be a bit of a misunderstanding of his character if you’re asking about how his perception of you would change based on physical descriptions. Din hasn’t showed anyone his face for decades. The people who saved him as a child raised him with their helmets on—when he was a teenager, he once went multiple calendar years without seeing even a glimpse of another person’s skin besides his own. It was jarring the next time he saw a face—it looked alien to him, the sight of eyes blinking and a mouth moving. His entire world was armor and metal of vaguely different shapes and sizes and colors for so long that character was the only distinction that could reasonably be made.
So basically what I’m trying to say here is that it’s very strongly ingrained within his upbringing to disregard appearance as being anything even remotely related to value or worth. If you were self-conscious about your looks or your body or anything like that, Mando wouldn’t even be able to tell. Seriously. Like it genuinely wouldn’t even be a thought in his mind and he’d just wonder why you were acting strange in certain situations. Even if you gave him all the context clues in the world, he’d still have no fucking idea and might even accidentally make the situation worse, that’s how foreign the concept is to him.
All he knows is that he thinks you’re pretty. But if you asked him, he wouldn’t exactly be able to explain why. There isn’t any specific physical trait the Mandalorians really even acknowledge, much value over any other from a cultural/social standpoint, and the galaxy is way too vast for fads to take over more than one or two sectors. What’s appealing changes from year to sector to planet to xenospecies to individual, so even if he had a real reason to do so, he couldn’t keep track of any of those things. He thinks you’re pretty, that’s all he knows and that’s all he’d be able to tell you.
I can tell you that Mando has been on his own for a very long time. He’s had flings here and there, but there was no substance to them. It was always just quick, dirty, and he never even took his gloves off, much less his helmet. It was a stress reliever, that's it. So even though he may not be able to explain it in a way that makes sense, it’s like… everything about you is pretty to him. And ‘pretty’ isn’t really the word he means, but it’s the word he uses because it’s the word he used as a child, the last time he even thought of outward appearance as something that could be judged. What he says is that you’re pretty. What he means is that without you, he wouldn’t have any definition for the word at all. Whether it’s small boobs or stretch marks or scars or being short or having a tummy or whatever, the only fondness or preference he has for any physical attribute would develop specifically because it applies to you. So if he had to choose, he supposes he could.
If he had to choose, he’d say he prefers a certain hair color on his S/O, but only because that’s the color of your hair. Gun to his head, he could describe a specific stature or build that pleases him the most. Yours. Though he’d have trouble doing it and wouldn’t ever willingly volunteer the information, Mando could theoretically describe every single one of his physical preferences to an artist sitting opposite to him and at the very end of it, he’d just be handed a portrait of you. Or someone that could easily be you, and it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising to him. The only person he’s ever loved looks similar. That’s all he knows.
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