Battlefront II, The Last Jedi and Rey's parents (WARNING! SPOILERS)

for Ren to be interrogating Del, it had to happen within five years prior to TFA (and probably a lot closer than farther).
this matches up with the vague "decades later" that the game provides, as it would be over twenty years, but less than thirty.
we also know Lor Tekka was traveling before he came back to Jakku (probably to rendezvous with Poe).

either way it would require some timeline gymnastics to make sense of Zay being Rey.

 

You're right. I assumed 1-2 years before TFA but if it happens RIGHT before... I think it makes things a little more interesting. Either Del purposely lied to Kylo to protect LST... or something/someone else on Jakku, or (and the much more boring) LST really did take the map to Bayora and then Del lost contact with him and doesn't know where he is now.

But yeah... Battlefront 2's campaign... as much as I like it falls into that trope a lot for me. I question the events of certain things in relation to the timeline.

 

Clearly not lookalikes.

/s

 

Wasnt this already put to rest with the DLC leaks?

 

Hushhh, let the kids have some fun.

 

Haha fair enough.

 

Maybe they trolled people with the leaks ? Or is it just with the story ?

 

Also, at some point in time it's just easier to cease fighting and trying to convince others to believe your own opinion, especially on the Internet, where heads butt contstantly and with ncreased intensity.

PS. This theory is getting a suprising amount of traction.

 

OK, so I haven't been active for awhile, but I played through the storymode the first night I got the game, and I just had to get back on. I had heard the speculation about Iden and Del being Rey's parents and I was doubtful myself, but after playing through it I really think it could go either way. I think this theory is the best one to be able to explain Rey's parentage, and either Lucasfilm is deliberately trolling us, or there is something to this. It's also interesting that the last piece of the story is being released like a day before TLJ is released in theaters... just saying.

 

As others have said, myself included: the leaked dialogue from the next chapter in the campaign points to Rey not being their daughter.

Pablo Hidalgo has also denied that the campaign should not be played prior to watching the film due to it containing massive reveals or spoilers.

And LFL are certainly into trolling people at this point: Gallius Rax in the Aftermath novels was set up pretty convincingly to be a favourite to be Snoke, and in the last book of the series, Empire’s End, Chuck Wendig (the author) takes it to a whole other level of trolling with a boy described to sound like Snoke meeting Jar Jar on Naboo. So they’re not at all against doing that.

 

What's the leaked dialogue?

 

Their daughter is called Zay, and is either a playable or (more likely) a companion character. She is present on Athulla and on other missions with Iden.

Considering that this is in the lead-up to TFA in terms of timeline, and in the real-world up until TLJ, I think that we might see her take part in some battles during TFA, and possibly even in the Battle over D’Qar or the Battle of Crait if it does tie into TLJ at all.

 

Firstly, the game doesn't spoil anything - nor will it. It doesn't say "they are Rey's parents". It hints at it. The films will confirm it - that's how Pablo treats spoilers. He waits until the reveal occurs in films and books.

Secondly, having a daughter called Zay doesn't rule out having another daughter called Rey. I always wondered whether Rey's line about waiting for her family, included the notion of a sibling.

Thirdly, I have a lot invested in this theory to be honest, because if these two former imperials that reflect everything in my "Rey's parents were Imperials theory", aren't her parents then that theory likely goes down the toilet! So treat my retorts with a large pinch of salt!!

 

it doesn't go down the toilet at all.
besides, these two Imperials defected and fought for the Rebellion.
i still contend that Rey's parents, if Imperial, would make the most sense as loyalists--and that's part of why they may have been on the run.

 

Hope is not lost today!

 

although, when you take the EU as a whole, there is the whole child-snatching program.
if Rey's parents were loyalists, they may have gone to Jakku as a rendezvous to connect to peeps throwing together the FO.
but the FO would have wanted their child as much as them--maybe even more so.

so we're back to the option that Rey was dumped by desperate parents in order to protect her from the FO and the New Republic.
parents without resources or defenses, for whom Plutt was the only option.
because no parent would do this to a child unless they were scumbags or in mortal peril (or both, frankly).

so Ben felt abandoned and ran away to join up.
Rey was abandoned to keep her from being a part of it.

eh. just kicking ideas around.

 

I generally like the idea of some relatively unknown characters being Rey's parents. Personally I enjoyed the BF 2 campaign way more than I expected after all the bad reviews. Don't worry, I didn't buy the game since I don't want to support EA's/Disney's questionable monetization system... However, even though I found both of her supposed parents to be quite likable characters none of them displayed any signs of being a forceuser. If they indeed turn out the be Rey's parents then everyone who has been screaming "Mary Sue" since the release of TFA would unfortunately have a point. So even though I think OP's theory might turn out to be true I would prefer someone else to be Rey's parents.

 

If Rey’s parents are/were Imperials, then I think that Iden and Del being her parents are the best candidates for achieving this.

I was just playing the odds and pointing out why they might not be her parents is all

 

Battlefront 2 expansion trailer released earlier.

Seems to debug another Rey parentage theory at the end. Girl who looks to be the teenage daughter looks nothing like Rey.