What if Rey has no parents? What if she’s not even a human, she’s just a huge group of midi-chlorians acting together to form a human-like thing?
I hope her parents are nobodies. The idea that every important character has to be related to some high status family is ridiculous and vaguely fascist. Gotta have that good blood to make a difference, I guess. When everyone is related to or knows everyone else it makes the SW universe claustrophobic.
Oh, come on. Even Anakin and Vader look nothing alike, so that pretty much tells us what standards we’re working from here.
Eh, I actually know a guy who lost his legs, and when he was getting fitted for prostheses, got them to add a few inches to his height. No reason Anakin couldn’t have done the same.
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was; better, stronger, faster, and, like, a couple inches taller, maybe?”
It’s so obvious that Luke is her father that if he’s not it’ll be a major plot twist. Note that hearing the voices of Force ghosts point to Luke: he’s the only one who can see or hear them in all of Episodes I-VII.
I understand where you’re coming from, but the Star Wars gestalt is monarchial and fascist.
If Luke is the father, then who is the mother?
“There was no mother…I can’t explain what happened.”
They’re certainly planning something with her parents, given that they made it a point to show them only so vaguely.
Well, I’d like to think that, if Luke is Rey’s father, that Luke wouldn’t abandon her on Jakku, which would mean that Rey’s mom ditched Luke at some point either before or after Rey’s birth and then ditched her. So there’s a possibility that Rey is a child that Luke never even knew about. Maybe Mom is someone Luke was training who went rogue and left with Kylo when the “Knights of Ren” started up? A little teacher-student dalliance?
I have it! Phasma! She was untalented as a Jedi, so she left Luke and joined the First Order early, rising through the ranks! She’s secretly been searching for her daughter while conducting operations on Jakku! It all makes sense now!
Also, Yoda heard Force ghosts in ESB, because of the “there is another” conversation.
No, no, that was Yoda responding to Luke’s hallucination. 
Yeah, I forgot about that.
I think Luke abandoned his daughter and her mother just like he abandoned everyone else. I expect Rey’s mom was killed by Kylo or his cronies.
Yoda also presumably heard Qui-Gon’s force-ghost voice in SITH, or else his little chat with Obi-Wan at the end makes no damn sense. (And we’re apparently meant to figure that Obi-Wan managed to hear him, and learn the turn-into-a-force-ghost trick from him, while meditating in the desert for all those years.)
Sense, rarely Yoda does make.
Truth, do you post.
I like the idea that she is Luke’s daughter that was hidden from him to keep her safe (or perhaps her death was faked) because he crossed over to the dark side at some point due to his his anger/rage/sadness with Kylo. I’d love to see the whole Mara Jade thing become part of the canon.
Of course, there is this plausible theory, too:
https://plus.google.com/+RaymondMendiolaIV/posts/3sKvEpWkmRn
Fluency in multiple varied languages is also extremely common and effortless, much like an RPG.
Heck, I’ve become so fluent in Shyriiwook, I don’t even notice the subtitles when Chewbacca speaks.
I read a compelling case in a Quora thread that Rey’s parent’s are nameless scavengers who sold her to Unkar Plutt for money to get off Jakku.
[QUOTE=Christian Mueth, Guy with a quora account.]
What many people don’t notice is that she’s already dressed in cheap Jakku garb. And, she’s yelling “come back"— not “don’t leave me here". Furthermore, she’s been left with Unkar Plutt— not something a decent person would do.
All of this combined suggests that she was already living on Jakku. Following this line of logic, we can presume that her parents were poor, and that they sold her/left her to Unkar so that they could afford to leave Jakku. None of the characters that people theorize to be Rey’s parents would have done any of this.
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I also like his theory for how it is that Rey suddenly becomes Force-sensitive.
I like this bit - it makes sense, as you say.
Not so much for this. I feel that she’s always been Force-sensitive, certainly before she touched the saber.
Evidence: she flew a freighter inside of a freakin’ Star Destroyer, on rather limited experience (so far as I know). That’s very much a facet of Force ability, the ability to anticipate like that.
Then again, she was also really, really familiar with the interior of that Star Destroyer, having made a living off of exploring and looting it.