My household’s been watching a lot of Star Wars lately, and we’ve been doing a lot of speculating about Eps. VIII and IX, especially on the character of Rey. So who do people say she is? I’ve heard theories that say she’s:
-Daughter of Luke
-Daughter of Han & Leia/Sister of Kylo Ren
-She’s a Kenobi
-She’s the re-incarnation of Anakin Skywalker (“Luke, are you my father?” “No, *you *are *my *father!”)
My eight-year-old son and I have been chit-chatting about different possibilities, and one that we both dig right now, as highly-unlikely as it probably is:
-She’s the daughter of Ezra Bridger, who may or may not have turned to the Dark Side. We’ve further come up with the story that Sabine Wren is the love child of Obi-Wan and Duchess Satine Kryze. Sabine was then adopted by Deathwatch as a Mandalorian tot. Sabine and Ezra end up together, and they produce Rey, thus making Rey the granddaughter of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who will ultimately face off against the grandson of Anakin Skywalker.
Anyway, what are people’s thoughts on Rey? On a side note, I’m really hoping more characters from the TV series make their way into the overall arc. The Clone Wars and Rebels have produced some amazing characters that deserve the big screen treatment (more than just Saw Gerrera).
I find the Obi-Wan / Sabine / Ezra theory interesting, but I’m doubtful that they would have a major plot point (Rey’s parentage) depend on familiarity with two different TV series (even though they’re both canonical).
If Rey is not the child (or grandchild) of an established character from the older films, I’ll be highly disappointed…and, given her connection to Anakin’s / Luke’s lightsaber, I think it’s a fair assumption that she’s a member of that bloodline.
I’m going to guess that she’s Luke’s daughter, with a secondary possibility of her being a grandchild of Anakin (but not Padme), via a liason that wasn’t depicted in the Prequels (though that feels cheap to me).
It’s possible that she’s a child of Leia and Han (though, really, she’d only need to be a child of Leia’s), but this seems less likely to me.
Edit: I can’t resist saying, “She’s not my kid! I swear!”
The latest speculation I’ve read is that she is the granddaughter of Palpatine. Some people come to this conclusion based on a supposed similarity in their techniques with the lightsaber among other things.
Of course no explanation is given as to whether he is a maternal or paternal grandfather or who her parents might be.
While the idea of her being an Anakin clone with Anakin’s abilities is pretty dumb, at least that would explain her being able to pilot and fight like a trained Jedi.
If she’s the daughter of Han and Leia, then either their memories were erased (maybe this is possible but I don’t think it’s likely) or they abandoned her (highly, highly out of character).
A daughter of Luke makes a bit more sense, perhaps – especially if Luke thought she was dead (if Luke had to put her somewhere anonymous, I don’t think it would be with such an asshole as Unkar Plutt). Perhaps she was just starting out in training when Ben Solo (perhaps about 15-17 years old) turns to the dark side and becomes Kylo. Kylo and his Knights of Ren (I would presume they are other recruits that he turned) slaughter the rest of the trainees, perhaps while Luke is away for some reason. At the end of the slaughter, Kylo can’t bring himself to kill young Rey, his cousin, so he fakes her death and brings her to Jakku, leaving her with the first asshole who has a place for her (Unkar Plutt), perhaps making a vague threat that she must be kept alive or else. When Luke returns, Kylo and his Knights challenge and taunt him. In Luke’s fury at the loss of his padawans, and especially the loss of his daughter, he touches the dark side and almost kills Kylo and the Knights, before pulling back from the brink. Feeling the incredible grief of the loss of his daughter and the trainees, as well as fear from how close he came to turning to the dark side, he abandons his efforts to remake the Jedi order and exiles himself.
Of course, this would lead to the question of the identity of Rey’s mother – and the fact that Jedi aren’t supposed to procreate.
Well, at least we should find out pretty quickly into the next movie, if it’s true that they’ll start right where the last one left off.
The RPG explains this. There, all your skills are based on your stats. So, if you’ve got a 4 in Agility, you are excellent in both piloting and melee even if your background puts you living in an attic eating fish heads for 20 years. Yes, I’m being silly. This is for the convenience of game design and not meant to explain the movies. But… I’ve always thought that a lot of the heroes in Star Wars had strangely broad skill sets. Everybody can pilot, repair and shoot whether princess or farm boy. The game seems to reflect this.
I’m not 100% sure how, but I’m convinced she’s a Skywalker.
I believe this because of the 2nd teaser video for The Force Awakens, which is Luke’s voice saying “The force is strong in my family. I have it, my Father has it, my sister has it…you have that power too.”
Just a hunch, but I think this quote will actually come to life between Rey & Luke sometime during Ep. VIII - hopefully right after she hands him his lost light saber.
Yeah, the theory I’ve heard is that she’s a reincarnation of Anakin. That the force knows when it needs balance, so it incarnates The Chosen One at the right time. Anakin and Rey would be the most recent incarnations of the same person that’s been bringing balance for thousands of years.
I don’t see how this trilogy, which rebooted the saga with an EpVII that echoes EpIV so strongly, could avoid having Rey be a Skywalker. Daughter, reincarnate, clone - whatever works.
Better that she just be a random kid who happens to be strong in da Force and is adopted into the clan than she turn out to be some offshoot that doesn’t satisfy some big, central Destiny theme.
They also like plot twists. This is why I think her being a Skywalker (unless it’s something crazy like being a reincarnated Anakin) is too obvious.
ETA: What Flik said.
My thoughts on why I think Rey is a Kenobi: It’s Obi-Wan who’s speaking to her when she has the lightsaber vision, not Anakin*. If Anakin were her relative, why wouldn’t he be the one speaking to her when she touched his lightsaber? Plus, and I know it’s a minor thing, but her accent. None of the Skywalkers had British accents. Kenobi did. Daisy Ridley kept her British accent for the film, John Boyega (also British) was instructed to lose his accent for the film. So accents apparently matter to the movie makers for some reason.
*This could also be an argument for her *being *Anakin.
But here’s the thing - Luke wouldn’t know that. His entire experience with Jedis is a few hours with Obi Wan and however long he was with Yoda. And Yoda was probably too busy training Luke to [del]be his unwitting tool[/del] defeat the emperor that they never had time for the finer points of the order.
Plus, even if Luke did know, there is a case to be made that such a rule lead to Anakin’s manipulation by the emperor and his subsequent fall to the dark side, and maybe they shouldn’t keep that rule.
This… All signs seem to point to it, so I suspect they will subvert that.
The Sabine/Satine theory is really cool, but I agree with kenobi 65. No way they’ll lean that heavily on the 2 TV series.
I also agree that Han and Leia should have recognized her, or at least mentioned a daughter if she was theirs. (Something like, “We lost our daughter, it was too much to lose our son too.”)
I’d really be OK if she was just some random girl. Daughter of one of Luke’s protege’s that was killed when Ben became Kylo Ren, or something like that.
Adam driver is 9 years older than Daisy Ridley, if that matters. (And Cailey Fleming, who played Young Rey in the vision is 15 years younger than Ridley.) It’s not really clear how long Ben has been Kylo, but if he was responsible for Rey being separated from her parents and/or their deaths, he would have been about 16/17, if the actors’ ages are the same as their characters. (as the film was made about 2 years ago) It’s a bit young, but it could happen.
