Love Don’t Hate it - One
Pairing: Dyn Djarrin (Mando) x reader
Warnings: None?
Summary: To understand the story of you and the Mandalorian you must know the events before it
A/n: I worked so hard on this chapter it felt like it’d be 3k long, but surprise surprise it’s just 1.1k. Anyway the next ones will be longer. Enjoy
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The story of how you met the Mandalorian was a long one, because to explain how you met him or why you decided to help him raise a baby started way before. While the empire still ruled over the galaxy you found a holocron, the reason you were where you were when you met the Mandalorian.
You found it hidden far from eyesight when you went for a walk. In a small alley you saw it laying in the trash. Why it was thrown away you didn’t know, but you were too curious to leave it. Thus, you picked it up and took it home to find out what the machine meant.
In the confined space of your home you placed it on the table in front of you. Here you knew no one was watching, somehow you had the need to open it here. There was some feeling in your gut that you shouldn’t try to pry it in public.
The dodecahedron machine intrigued you, to say at least. With little to no clue what it was you found it to be a challenge opening it. You had tried nearly anything, from using your bare hands to try breaking it open with a crowbar.
You were close to giving up, that was when you had a last idea. Something that scared you to your very core, a power deeper than your thoughts could comprehend. It was an unknown force you could feel around you.
When you were still young you discovered this power, you and your friends joked about having powers and you acted like you were going to lift up a rock with ‘magic’. To your shock the rock moved a bit, not a lot, but enough for you to notice it. Ever since that day you tried to forget it, pass it off as a dream. ’It couldn’t be real’, you thought, but you always knew that it did happen. That you were just trying to slide it off as a way to cope with it. You wanted to be normal and not being that scared you.
Feeling scared of yourself is a feeling no kid should be feeling, but because of that small movement you did. You were completely terrified of that day. But something inside you told you that you should try to breach the machine with that power.
You extended your hand and focused on the machine, trying to do the same as you’d done many years ago. To your utter shock it worked, a hologram of a little green man was shown from the machine.
“Master Yoda, I am,” he spoke. That was the beginning of your future.
Listening to the words he had to say you adapted your life to them. You left your home planet of Coruscant to train to become a Jedi in peace, knowing that you’d be a dead person walking if anyone found out.
So you took the first opportunity you could get to leave and you took off to Sorgan. You practiced on your force skills there, opting to first be able to meditate before you would make a lightsaber.
You sat there for weeks straight, only taking a break to eat or to go to the bathroom. You meditated until you had a better understanding of the force, you meditated until you could see spirits of the force, the man, of what you learned was a holocron, showed up. You lost complete track of how much time had passed by during all this. The only company you had were the force-spirits.
It went like this for a while, until master Yoda told you to start working on your physical strength too, since you already became mentally strong.
Following his advice you started to climb the trees, run through the forest and practiced your fighting skills with the help of the spirit of master Kenobi. Of course you regularly meditated to keep your mind clean.
You even left for a few days to retrieve a kyber crystal from Datooine. You meditated with the crystal for a few days to bond with the crystal. You always found great peace in meditation, it felt like no one could hurt you then, with the added bonus of holding your crystal you felt even more peace than before. After that you collected all the items necessary to make your lightsaber. It had a basic design, not over the top, you only added the bonus of a leather handle to better your grip on it. When you lit the weapon it gave a green hue, you stared at it for a while, mesmerised by the sheer beauty of it.
“It’s beautiful,” you breathed out. You twisted it around you, letting the force guide you, like master Yoda said, ‘the force is an ally and a powerful one.’
After a few more months practicing with the weapon while continuing your previous training you began to wonder how long it’d still take until you became a jedi. You thought you were ready to aid people in need, but you had to have the approval of your masters first, they know better when you’d be finished.
So, you asked the masters if you were ready for the trials. “A good padawan you have been,” answered master Yoda, “but a master not yet.” You nodded your head, slightly disappointed with the answer, yet you understood it.
“Thank you, I do have a question though, could I possibly take on a job outside of my training, I can barely afford food anymore.”
“A job you can have.”
Obi-Wan nodded his head, “be careful not to grow attachment to anyone there, remember a jedi must love all-”
“But not think one being is perfect,” you finished the oh so known sentence. “Thank you masters,” you bowed your head down, you left to go to a village and there you were accepted to work in restaurant facility.
You poured the drinks behind the bar. It was a pretty simple job and it paid a decent amount, enough to support yourself.
You liked it there, you had the added bonus of getting some free food once in a while and soon enough you had enough money to buy a piece of fabric to start working on your traditional Jedi robes.
Life had changed drastically for you, but you were always one to enjoy the new.
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