#dartain

[arliganzey]

bed chem.

(part two: juno.)

Qibbu’s Hut, entertainment sector—strike team operational house—early evening, 371 days after Geonosis

So … how long does it take two squads to finish their meals in the bar?

Long enough, I think.

–

After a hot shower, Etain and Darman fall back into bed, both sated and exhausted. Darman brushes Etain’s wet hair out of her face and pulls her into his chest. As long as they were alone, he would steal as much of her as he could.

Etain takes a deep breath, memorizing the way Darman feels—the firmness of his body against hers, the strength with which he holds her, and the peaceful way his mind comes to rest. He is a glowing light, bright and warm like a campfire at full burn.

The future is as inevitable as the turning of the galaxy, but for now, Etain basks in Darman. She looks up from where she’d curled her face into his chest to find him staring at her intently.

“What?” she grins.

“I’m counting your freckles.”

“Counting my freckles? Why?”

“Someone’s got to,” he insists.

Etain giggles, running her fingers over his shoulder. “How many are there?”

“At least ten.”

They both break into a fit of laughter. Etain rolls onto Darman, lying on him like a big pillow, and stares down into his face. They’d already made love twice and three times would be too much, not to mention surely the others would be back soon.

She kisses him anyway with nothing more than a brush of her lips. “Now how many?”

“I’m up to twenty-nine.” Darman grazes her skin with his fingertips, making idle shapes along her back, and if Etain doesn’t concentrate on his mind, then she can let the randomness of his touches cause a shiver.

They keep pausing to stare at each other, and Etain continues to marvel at how different he is from his brothers. It’s in his eyes, and the way he smiles, nothing at all like Niner or Fi or Atin or any of Delta.

Darman’s head rests back onto the pillows. Etain is staring at him, and he isn’t used to someone who isn’t one of his brothers paying such close attention to him. “You don’t have to read my mind, you know. You could just ask.”

“I wasn’t—oh, Darman.” Etain sits up.

And Darman flinches, realizing he’s said something wrong based on the way she frowns. “I didn’t mean it like that.”

“I know.” Etain smiles, a little sad to think her Jedi-ness would always be strange to Darman. “I was only admiring your eyes.”

“My eyes?” Darman’s brow knits. He thinks she’s the one with eyes worth admiring, green with flecks of amber.

“Mhm.” Etain brushes her hand over his forehead. “And your nose.” She follows the bridge of his nose. “And your lips.” Her index finger lands on his lips, one of the softest parts of him.

Darman flushes. There is a joke in there about saying he’s one of a kind. He forgets to say it as Etain traces the line of his mouth.

Her hand goes lower, down his throat, over his collarbone. When Darman locks eyes with her darkened gaze, he doesn’t have to read her mind to know what she’s thinking.

[orangez3st]

Drabble Challenge May 2025 by @thedrabblecollective Day 30: Hat | Masterpost

take me back to...

✧ Star Wars | Darman Skirata/Etain Tur-Mukan ✧

Darman does a double take at his cyare. “May I know why you're wearing that?”

Etain nudges her sun hat. “A smart move to not get my face sunburned?”

“But I love it more when your mesh’la little freckles aren't in the shade.”

“You're very poetic,” Etain chuckles.

Darman smiles. He gestures around the vast plains of golden fields. It is harvest season. “Remind you of something?”

Etain huffs. “Qiilura.”

“You were intriguing.”

“That's one word, Dar. Are you certain it wasn't ‘exasperating’? Or ‘draining’?”

Darman laughs, the corners of his eyes crinkled—a trait that she loves dearly. “Never.”

Mando'a glossary Mesh'la: beautiful

A/N: As you can probably guess, The Night We Met by Lord Huron came through in my playlist. I'm aware this is terribly OOC (haven't gone through the novel series) but I love imagining them in this scenario. Year is whenever after O66 ☺️ o fellow Dartain stans this is for you!! 💛 @arliganzey

Credit: bottom divider by @/enchanthings

[verpine-art]

3B Etain 4H Darman - she’s thinking loudly about his overdeveloped trapezius muscles

this is my magnum opus

repcomm requests open

[fulcrumjaigeyes]

I made this ages ago and should of uploaded it but here I am doing it now lol

Darman and Etain on Qiilura

I've only read up to the second book but love this ship

[forcesavetheclones]

you mentioned that you don’t ship rexsoka, do you support any of the other Jedi/clone ships?

Absolutely! we love the jedi/clone ships as long as they are both grown ups and it’s clear that they don’t have a specific family-like relationship.

please send me/tag me under everything you see with Codywan ~ Antoinette

[alor-ika]

Darman!

some dartain for one of my friends :)

[arliganzey]

to me, Darman and Etain are the most vanilla, nervous-about-getting-to-second base couple ever,

AND YET

they canonically fuck

[sqlmn]

genuinely just sat there and drew blondes for two hours

[captainmaze]

why am I expected to go to work lunches when I’m rereading repcomm. Do they know I’m crying over the first dartain interaction

[orangez3st]

HEYA FOLKS if you're not aware yet I'm posting Star Wars drabbles about canon and of course legends characters till the end of the month! So if you wanna catch up here's the link to the masterpost 💛

These aren't x reader or x oc—they're all interactions between 100% existing characters so have a go y'all ✊🏼

Spoilers bcs why not: featuring characters from Andor, TCW, Tech and Echo (and maybe some more from TBB?), some more canon pairings, one (1) Foxiyo, one (1) Dartain (pls gimme ideas what Repcomm ship to write), AND one rarepair of which I'm sure I'm the only shipper in the galaxy

Comment your prompts and/or pairings if you want me to write an exactly-100-word drabble of them 💛

[licorishh]

double ?? upload ???? yeaaaahh i've gotten FASTERRrr for whatever that's worth so complementary blyla because guess what i miss them too (nobody was surprised by that)

[cityscidewalks]

Oh boy another tag game. Thanks @orbitalmirror ❤️❤️

3 ships I like: Why is this harder than it should be? Uhh Dartain, F!Revan x Bastila, and Rock Lee x Sakura

First ship ever: Sarah x Jareth from Labyrinth

Last song I heard: mmm Hero's Come Back but the last one I actively was listening to and sought out was Ascensionism by Sleep Token

Favorite childhood book: Either wump world or Bernstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree

Currently reading: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Currently watching: Naruto Shippuden. Maybe I'll actually finish it this time

Currently consuming: as in eating/drinking? Nothing, it's past my bed time

Currently craving: a feeling beyond survival mode. And chocolate

NPT: @arliganzey @still-nix-d-goffic @ithillia

[fulcrumjaigeyes]

My bio:

Hi I’m a guy from 🇯🇵 that likes Star Wars especially tcw

My ships:

Rexsoka, Blyla, Foxiyo, Cody x Barriss, Dartain (Darman x Etain), Dinbo, Fives x Shaak Ti

u can talk to me in Japanese if u like

Some facts about me:

I used to live in the states LA

I’m studying to get into medical school

I love Apple products

I’m a big EDM fan (Martin Garrix, Zedd, Avicii, illenium, Nurko etc)

I collect a ton of Lego clones

(I sometimes post photo edits of them)

[countessofbiscuit]

Etain took Darman to Manarai Mount. They ate overpriced food and had their holo taken by a weequay who’d complimented Etain’s ripening in rough Basic.

Still, it didn’t feel like playing at love. The warmth which flipped up into Etain’s chest and down between her legs like that pendulum ride was indescribably real. 

So was that Force-knot, deep in her belly. Inexplicable and karked-up ... and how would she break it to Dar? 

Not in public, anyway. They’d climbed into bed without fanfare; and so mellow was the atmosphere, Etain was asleep before she could pick her moment. 

It didn’t last. 

. . . . . 

i don’t subscribe to KT’s Etain-Forced-a-pregnancy-to-fulfil-Dar’s-life tradwife agenda; it was a complete shock to both of them, sue me. a drabble.  

[arliganzey]

Just gauging interest so I can plan accordingly to finish my dartain AU where everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

My plan is to write these shorter scenes for sharing on tumblr and then expand the story to repost on AO3! Any smut scenes won’t be required reading for the plot, it’s just for funsies~

[arliganzey]

the intense urge to write their fix it fic where they don’t get pregnant until after the war (or close to the end?). NO SECRETS NO DEATHS

The only drama is Darman and Niner don’t get out right away after Order 66 like in canon 👀

How to stop thinking about Darman and Etain 24/7 tutorial pls