POSSIBLE MANDALORIAN SPOILER

1. The same scientist/doctor who was there when Mando saves baby yoda from The Client (Werner Herzog) is there at the lab in Chapter 1 on Navarro
2. They harvested baby yoda’s blood

3. Remember when Qui-gon Jin tested Anakin’s blood and found that his midi-chlorian count was THROUGH THE ROOF??

4. Midi-chlorians exist in the body on a cellular level and are what makes a being in the Star Wars Universe strong in the force (when found in an abundance.)

5. Baby yoda is strong in the force. VERY strong. Moff Gideon was harvesting his blood to gather his midi-chlorians and inject them into fetusus to make SUPER SOLDIERS (dark troopers). He is weaponizing force sensitivity. The plan? To make a new generation of with that has uncontrollable, hybridized and thoroughbred power.

WE RIDIN, DEY HATIN

After catching up on The Mandalorian then doing a Youtube crash course on Mando history, I had a thought. What if Din’s parents survived the battle droid siege on Aq Vetina? Buckle in, more theorizing beneath the cut!

Why do I think Din Djarin’s are not dead? 

One of the cardinal rules of any character death is that unless it is shown on screen, it should be regarded with skepticism. Allow me to list what we do see in young Din’s flashback:

Din’s parents fleeing in terror as their settlement is besieged by Separatist battle droids:

Din’s parents hiding him away in a bunker:

The bright flash and shudder of an off-screen explosion, which is implied to be the cause of his parents’ deaths:

One may argue that the bodies weren’t shown because of the rating, but keep in mind this is The Mandalorian we’re talking about. Within minutes of the first episode, we witness a bar fight ending in multiple explicit deaths. Heck, the poor guy who tries to escape the violence gets quite graphically bisected by a door! 

Even as the Din’s finder pulls him from the bunker and flies away from the war zone, we do not explicitly see the red-cloaked corpses of his parents in the ruined village. 

Perhaps they were able to get away. Perhaps they’re trapped just out of view under piles of rubble. Either way, we can’t know for certain that they were confirmed casualties of the war.

Why don’t these Mandos return Din to his family as their creed dictates?

What’s stopping them from returning to the settlement once the dust settles to check for survivors? The immediate assumption would be that of course this was done off-screen to save screen time on more important things. But keep in mind these are members of the Death Watch, infamous for their dubious and at times absent sense of morality. 

They are not above exploiting, terrorizing, and massacring non-Mandalorians , as seen in their occupation of this village on Carlac:

Leading up to their coup against the New Mandalorians in The Clone Warsseries,they have a history of rubbing elbows with Darth Maul to stage terrorist attacks in Sundari, then swooping in just in time to save the day.

Who’s to say they wouldn’t be above baiting a Separatist army to some random, insignificant village? Spiriting away its younglings in the chaos to convert into fresh recruits would be so easy.These traumatized kids will see them as saviors and become unflinchingly loyal to their cause. 

Children are the Mandalorians’ future, but in securing their future they all but doomed the Aq Vetinans’. 

Admittedly, most of the “evidence” listed above is based purely on speculation. 

So let us now examine this theory from a more meta perspective. 

We already see some story parallels between Din and Grogu:

I. The Helpless Caretaker

The Djarins hide Din in a bunker to conceal him from a danger they can’t protect him from:

 Despite his best efforts, Din is unable to protect Grogu from the Imperial forces:

II. The Unexpected Savior

The Mandalorians descend from the heavens, decimating the enemy droids:

 Luke Skywalker arrives out of nowhere, easily cutting down the Dark Troopers:

III. The Foster Caretaker’s Teachings

A Mandalorian takes Din far, far away from his homeworld. He’s given training that his parents could not provide which helps him survive in this crueler galaxy:

 Luke Skywalker takes Grogu far, far away to Yavin 4, where he helps the youngling recall his training in ways that the Force-null Din cannot:

IV. Homecoming at a Price

InBook of Boba Fett, Grogu is given a choice to either return to Din or stay on the path of the Jedi:

His decision to stay with Din delays the revival of the Jedi order, but Grogu’s ready to let go of an idealized relic of his childhood. Objectively, it was a millennia-old cult whose stagnation and ignorance culminated with its downfall at the execution of Order 66:

If Din’s character arc is designed to echo Grogu’s, let us see what has happened thus far:

In the second season of The Mandalorian and episodes 5 and 6 of Book of Boba Fett, Din’s Mandalorian identity is thrown into flux. 

He met Cobb Vanth, an outsider wearing stolen Mandalorian armor not out of malicious sacrilege but to protect his people:

He met the helmet-less Nite Owls who claimed to be Mandalorians:

He met Boba Fett, who rejects the Mandalorian identity despite proudly wearing his father’s armor:

And as a final nail on this metaphorical coffin, he was excommunicated by his covert for removing his helmet to protect his foundling, exposing flaws in a creed he so unfalteringly followed until then:

He’s tasked by the Armorer to complete an impossible mission: find redemption through the Living Waters of Mandalore. Despite everything he has learned, Din feels like he has no choice but to go through with it because the Mandalorians are the only family he has…or are they?

 If he finds out his parents were alive after all this time, he will face a choice similar to Grogu’s. Returning to his long-lost family on Aq Vetina means giving up his potential to become the perfect Mandalorian: rightful wielder of the legendary Darksaber, steadfast follower of the creed, the man who can rally his people to return to the soon-to-be-revived planet Mandalore. Perhaps, like Grogu, he will choose love over glory. 

Perhaps he will choose to be Din Djarin instead of the Mandalorian.