Rey in The Force Awakens (Possible Spoilers)
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My theory (and it is only a theory) Rey is the daughter of one of Luke's students.
He did. He even asked if the was cute. She never answered, though.
My money, and I'll bet some real money on this is that Rey is Lukes daughter and another Jedi who was killed by the Knights and Ren which is the main reason why Luke went into seclusion. If it turns out that said partner was a red head, I won't be that impressed although can a red head and a blonde make a brunette?
As for Rey, I think she is fantastic and it's equally fantastic that there is a female kickarse Jedi in the Star Wars Saga.
As for Rey, I think she is fantastic and it's equally fantastic that there is a female kickarse Jedi in the Star Wars Saga.
The thought crossed my mind, but I find it hard believe that Han, Leia, and Kylo wouldn't have acknowledged her as their family at some point. You could find ways around that if you really wanted, but I think the whole thing works a lot better if she was Luke's daughter who they never knew about.
I've heard that one two, but I think their wouldn't have been as much secrecy around her parentage if it wasn't a familiar character. The reveal would be a lot more powerful if she was the daughter of a main character, and since Han and Leia are ruled out in mind that leaves Luke.
^ I actually just mentioned that in the movie thread. I have read comments on-line from someone who is proficient with the staff in real life, and he observed that all of Rey's "saber" techniques were actually staff techniques.
Ren was badly injured too wasn't he? He got one of his lungs shot out or something just before the fight.
Yeah, I'd say he wasn't at 100%. That helped Rey, too. But my point is, she has a background in fighting with a handheld weapon. She's not some neophyte picking up a weapon for the first time.
I am in that camp, too.
But of course, that doesn't prevent Luke from being her father anyway.
Let's say Obi-Wan and Satine had a secret daughter, or Obi-Wan never even learning about her.
The last meeting between them, that we know of, happened during the clone war.
So that hypothetical daughter might ve roughly the same age as Luke, maybe a couple of years older than him at the most.
After Return of the Jedi Luke starts to search the Galaxy for force sensitive potential Jedi students.
One of them, Satine's daughter he finds on Mandalore, a grown woman now and she follows him to his new Jedi academy, where also many younglings, Ben Solo among them, train. there they fall in love.
Believing that he can manage balancing his Jedi duties with his relationship, one of his student's falling to the dark side escape's him, but not before his now wife bears a little baby daughter.
Ben, not feeling the special treatment he believes he should get as the grand son of Darth Vader and nephew of Luke himself, becomes convinced by Snoke to have a higher calling and having to destroy the other Jedi apprentices, Luke's wife among them.
To save his daughter from the onslaught of the Knights of Ren, he gives her into the hands of a freighter captain to fly her to Leia and Han.
The Captain is diverted and has to abandon her with the promise to come back for her soon or betrays his trust and sells the girl into slavery on Jakku instead.
Luke, unable to find her after he learns Rey never got to Leia, is broken. Together with the guilt over losing his nephew to the dark side he is unable to start over with training new Jedi and decides to find Tython and study the Jedi of old in the first temple there.
Sorry, got carried away there a bit.
Hm, yeah, should have said "as far as we know"...
Makes me wonder if, when she builds her own lightsaber, she'll make a staff instead of the typical sword-sized grip.
That is another possibility.
I was pretty well convinced prior to seeing the movie that her staff was a lightsaber-staff and she would fight Ren with it after revealing her secret-Jedi-ness. They did make a point of her having it on her trip to find Luke after it disappeared for half the movie.
I was pretty well convinced prior to seeing the movie that her staff was a lightsaber-staff and she would fight Ren with it after revealing her secret-Jedi-ness. They did make a point of her having it on her trip to find Luke after it disappeared for half the movie.
Nah, I was thinking more like a naginata. Except with a lightsaber blade.Like.... maybe a "double-bladed" light saber?
