Din Djarin/Bo-Katan Kryze

Din/Bo-Katan, also called Dinbo or Bodin, is the pairing of Din Djarin and Bo-Katan Kryze from The Mandalorian.
==Ship name==
The ship name refers to how Bo-Katan calls him "Din," while most characters call him Mando. Inversely, Din first calls her "Bo" in episode 3.03, the only person since her sister Satine Kryze to call her that.
The names DinBo and BoDin were both batted around, with a preference for DinBo. People liked how DinBo sounds like Himbo. There was concern BoDin would be mixed up with BobaDin. Nonetheless, the phrase "BoDin for the win" helped BoDin persist.
==Background==
While shipping is never universally agreed upon, their partnership in a more general sense is pretty widely agreed to be essential to uniting the Mandalorian people. Bo-Katan is a very secular, modern Mandalorian, while Din is a very faithful traditionalist. Their ability to work together, learn from each other, and respect and tolerate the points where they disagree is basically a microcosm of what ideally the entire Mandalorian diaspora would do.
==Interviews==
After season 3, there was an interview with Bo-Katan's actor Katee Sackhoff where she said that there were discussions on set about the ship, and that she and Brendan Wayne (Din's body double) joked about it.
The interview contains a silly segment where they joke about various ways Din and Bo could have sex while accommodating Din's helmet requirements. Proposed scenarios include Bo staring at herself in reflection off Din's helmet, Bo keeping her eyes closed, a BDSM style blindfold, a trip be rebaptized afterwards, and having sex in the sacred waters themselves.
==Fandom==
Din and Bo-Katan first meet in the second season, and the ship was born as a rarepair.
In the third season Bo-Katan becomes a main character and the relationship between the two becomes increasingly central, and shippers began flooding in.
==Themes and tropes in fanworks==
===The Helmet===
Fanworks are constantly negotiating Din's helmet Creed interacts with intimacy. Common answers include:
* Din simply breaking the Creed for Bo.
* Postulating that the Creed has an caveat allowing Children of the Watch to remove their helmets in front of their spouses (extrapolated from real-life niqabi rules).
* Bo agreeing to have her vision obstructed, by way of a blindfold, turning off the lights, or simply promising to keep her eyes closed.
===Parenting===
The pair co-parenting Din's son Grogu is central to many fanworks.
Sometimes Din and Bo have a second kid, either adopted or biological. Typically this one is a human child, who will grow up within their lifetime. It has been suggested that such a kid could become Grogu's caretaker when their parents die and Grogu is still not an adult.
===Bo's family===
Parallels have been drawn to Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze (the Kryze sisters: seducing devout men away from their austere religious vows since the Clone Wars). There are some Everybody Lives AUs where Din gets to meet them.
Din tells Bo, "Your father sounds like an interesting man. I would've liked to have known him." Bo tells Grogu, "Don't worry. My dad was the same way. He's just proud of you."
===Others===
* Arranged or political marriage to unite the Mandalorians
* Keldabe kiss
==Controversies==
* Age: Some have pointed to Bo-Katan's age in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and said that by the time of The Mandalorian she is in her 50s, and that she is too old for Din who is thought to be around 40. Proponents have said that Din and Bo-Katan appear to be close in age (Katee Sackhoff being 43 and Pedro Pascal 48) and that this age thing is just detractors grasping at straws to find a concrete reason to legitimatize their amorphous dislike. And that — if they are to take that criticism seriously — objecting to this age difference is sexist, considering that Han/Leia have an age gap of about a decade and it's widely considered fine there. Complicating this is the matter that neither Din nor Bo-Katan's birth year is canonically stated, so their age gap can either be estimated up or down depending on the ulterior motives of the person doing the calculation.
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
Them in their helmets sharing a Keldabe kiss (a gesture of affection where two Mandalorians resting their foreheads against each other) is a very popular motif.
File:Rainybearstudio Din Bo-Katan Keldabe kiss.jpg|by @rainybearstudio
File:Bonk sayilovedragonage.jpg|*Bonk* by sayilovedragonage
File:Ni kar'tayl gar darasuum - eithniel.jpg|Ni kar'tayl gar darasuum by eithniel
File:PATU3595 Dinbo.jpg|by patu3595
File:@artlordkarina Grogu and his mommy and daddy.jpg|Grogu and his mommy and daddy by @artlordkarina
File:Callmevexx Dinbo.jpg|by callmevexx
There is also other art topics.
File:@rainybearstudio - Did I really want to be Mand'alor, or did I want him.jpg|Did I really want to be Mand'alor, or did I want him? by @rainybearstudio
File:Eurydia Din Bo-Katan.jpg|by eurydia
File:Grogu drawing his family - kryze andy.jpg|Grogu drawing his family by @kryze_andy
===Manips===
File:Keldabe kiss manip by pog-soup.jpg|by Pog Soup
File:Goodbye scene manip by pog-soup.jpg|by Pog Soup
===Fancomics===
File:Din is a cuddler (Domestic Din and Bo).png|Din is a cuddler by @Mandorizz
===Fanvids===
* "Call it what you want" by Jexendo 2000
==Resources==
* Archive of Our Own tag: Din Djarin/Bo-Katan Kryze
* Discord group: dinbo stan gathering
* Tumblr tag: dinbo
==Referances==
Category:Het Pairings
Category:The Mandalorian
Category:Star Wars Relationships