SPECULATION Finn's Father

Wasn't he a rebel leader?
Only played a bit in the beginning, it was too much of a timesucker for me...

 

I hope its not Lando... that would be kind of stupid and strange...

 

If they even reveal it, and if it is someone we know already, I think he will be related to Zare Leonis. It was in a Leonis story where we got a good hint that FO troops might be raised from birth to be troopers, which we know now to be the case. The Imperial who had the idea was even a Hux. They could have taken Leonis's son or nephew as punishment for being a double agent. Tam Bastion could still turn out to be his father if Finn is Zare's nephew.

 

The likeness is there, it's better than any Lando ties.

 

Does the timeline work with ages?
I was thinking that, maybe, the empire taking Bastion's son to become a stormtrooper could be the reason he would become a rebel leader...

 

now that would be cool

 

Well Uprising took place around 4-5 ABY so that is possible now Finn is a adult.

 

I just had a strange idea...what if the elite troops for The FO are actually clones. The empire's most elite troopers we repeatedly cloned so every time one died, another one would take their place with imparted artificial memories and training? That would explain why Finn has only ever known how to do "one thing." He is clone number-whatever. This is his lineage and it hurts him in the same way that Luke is hurt by Vader's confession to him in ESB .

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Finn can't be more than 25 so it wouldn't work.

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Finn's expressions we've seen in the media remind me a tad of Lando, like when Lando says, "Wooo!!!" And Finn says it, took.

 

Well JB is 23 so it's close enough,

 

Remember John said his mom guess was close. So I don't think its as deep cut as from a mobile game or a book. And its someone spoilerific to actually hide his name.

 

what Finn does not have a father and Luke took him in only later to be kidnapped by Snoke

 

Interesting, but I don't think it is necessary. Raising kids from birth in a "clone-like" manner is enough to explain why he has only ever known one purpose. And I believe Brendol Hux's plan in that book is a clear setup for Finn. Hux specifically wanted to have normal human troops raised from birth to be as elite as the old clones he worked with from the Clone Wars. I think it is more interesting if they aren't clones and were taken from their families and brainwashed.

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Here is something interesting I forgot regarding Zare's sister. "Dhara [Zare's sister] was identified as a Force-sensitive and abducted by the Inquisitor as part of an Imperial project codenamed Project Harvester." -- Wookieepedia
If she is Finn's mother, or even aunt, it makes sense that he might be Force-sensitive too. Project Harvester is a project to abduct possible future Inquisitors. I believe Zare rescued her though.

 

Maybe Lando will be Finn's uncle then. So it's a small universe, but not that small of a universe.....

 

We have one pretty famous, force sensitive black man: Mace Windu.
And since John Boyega was cast without his skin color being of relevance, that could mean two things:

Finn's parentage is of so little significance that it doesn't matter (which excludes Lando. Sorry Lando!)
It had not yet been penned.
Or it's one of several possible people from different background, who have one significant thing in common.
Like: his (grand-) father was an imperial officer. He was a key member of the rebellion. Or: he/she was a Jedi

I mean, we have literally tons of Jedi to chose from before the temple got wiped out and each of them could have fathered a child to become Finn's parent.

We know that the Empire collected force sensitive kids for Project Harvester and it would explain nicely how Finn grew up within the FO.