That quote was unhinged. He’s clearly online a lot and sees what’s going on and what people are saying but the only people he decides to call out publicly on stage are us solo fans who complained about 1D because we want more solo music. It’s also that quote at Socceraid when he was kissing Harry’s ass, then the accidental like on a larry reel at daft o’clock in the morning, before he quickly removed it, while at Glasto with Harry there and with everything else going on too, including his gf (I don’t think that relationship is real at all but we won’t get into that) I do NOT like this at all. I feel like he’s reverting back and going back to serious toxic situations of the 1D days.
When I think about the solo fandom through the years, all the fandom projects we did, the streaming parties, the most requested live requests, calling radio stations to play his solo songs, showing up to the smallest venues, buying multiple copies of the albums to get Walls and FITF charting, the pride I felt seeing him sing onstage at LTWT… I feel very, very funny.
Din going back to Tatooine after the season two finale because he’s heard about Boba and Fennec offing Bib Fortuna and taking over, right?
Boba looks at Din who’s all :(((((((((((((((( because the Jedi took his kid.
It’s for the best, really. Grogu’s with his kind now, and Din saw what the Jedi is capable of, knows Grogu’s in good hands.
Din’s great, it’s just like.
Raining.
Inside his helmet.
Boba sighs and Fennec rolls her eyes as she grabs booze because it’s going to be that kind of day, isn’t it?
Boba asks Din who the Jedi is.
“...Cara said his name was Skywalker?”
Boba is like what.
And then brief rundown of That Time Some Assholes Booted Boba Fett Into a Sarlacc Pit, but also.
“Don’t blame them for it,” because Boba did his best to kill them first, they were just better at it in the end, and anyway, it was a job, you know? Nothing personal. And then, “Skywalker, though, huh?”
An Din is like “...yes?”
Boba sighs, because he’s known two of the bastards in his time, you know?
One of them went bad, the other has bad taste in friends.
(Like, hey, no real hard feelings about Luke, but Han? Complete bastard, and no, Boba’s not being irrational.)
Din maybe sticks around for a while because nowhere else to go and such.
Boba looks at the Darksaber clipped to Din’s belt like he hears the lie, but no skin off his nose what Din does, and anyway, just having Din around is enough to have people thinking twice about trying to start anything with Boba.
One Mandalorian bounty hunter is bad enough, but two of them? Might as well dig your own grave.
Din is like, really? But Boba doesn’t seem to mind him being around and doesn’t ask questions as to why he’s there.
Fennec mostly leaves him be, but after a week or so she drags him off into the middle of nowhere and they spend a day sniping womp rats and other assorted pests.
They trade pointers, tips about the things they do best and how to counter them.
It could be a mistake because they tell each other kind of things that can be used against them, get them killed, but it’s like. They’re not enemies anymore, if they ever were that - never personal, just a job, survival. Not...quite friends really, but there’s an understanding there like there is between Din and Boba, and Boba and Fennec, and it’s just.
Yes.
AND THEN.
Some asshole in a hooded cloak shows up almost exactly like he did all those years ago when Jabba was running the place and Boba is just.
Tired.
So tired.
Yells at Din that his young man is here to see him and he and Fennec go off and idk, plot world domination or something elsewhere, who can say.
Meanwhile Luke looks at Din all, “So, uh. I’m here to rescue you?”
Din is ??? because what does that mean??? And also, “Boba’s not my enemy.”
Hell if he knows what Boba is, or Fennec, come to think of it, but it works for them.
“Huh, well that changes things,” Luke tells him, and takes a seat next to Din. Snags the glass of whatever hellbrew he’s been nursing because it’s foul, and also alcohol content to kill a man and such. “Also, that’s disgusting.”
Din is like well, yeah, but they’re on Tatooine and this isn’t a high-class joint, and he’s pretty sure no one bothered cleaning out the bones from the rancor pit after some dick came in and killed poor thing years ago.
(Boba’s told him stories, but Din maybe doesn’t realize that Luke was the dick who killed the rancor and broke its handler’s heart like a bastard.)
Luke is suspiciously quiet after that, because look, okay, look. Extenuating circumstances and whatnot, and anyway.
“Grogu set my school on fire.”
Because he misses his dad and Luke had other things on his mind and forgot to give Din his number - to contact Grogu! Not for other reasons having to do Din’s face and the fact it’s a very nice one!
Wait.
That came out wrong, but yeah, Din’s kid’ is a little terror and Luke doesn’t know what else he was expecting because he knew Yoda, and anyway.
Luke Skwalker walks into a shady as hell place on Tatooine and gives a tall, dark, mysterious stranger he’s known for all of ten minutes his number, because of course he does.
This is the story Din tells Leia and Han and the others when Luke takes him to meet the family and they ask him he and Luke met.
Luke never hears the end of it even after he tells them, wait, no, no that is not how they met at all, Din. >:(
But it’s too late to do anything about it now and Luke never hears the end of it.
