SPECULATION Is Luke Rey's Father? - The Evidence For and Against

Only thing that bugs me about a presumed dead child, and her being "Rey Solo" is that Leia would know if she was dead. It's like her thing. She would know.

 

Considering how we see her react when Han dies in TFA, I'd say you're onto something there.

 

She knows Luke is alive. She bonds with her son in Aftermath Life Debt. Even if she had a kid, and they took it and said it died at birth, she would know. I just know she would.

 

I'm sure someone has done this, but like, I just noticed today:

luke skyYwalkER - FLIP IT: REY
jYn ERso - FLIP IT: REY

The placement is perfect (Y then ER).

I'm just saying.

I'M JUST SAYING.

 

Take Rey Skywalker/Solo
Flip it around: Skywalker/Solo Rey
Compressed Skywalker/Solo => Kylo
Change y to n (positive/yes to negative/no) in Rey => Ren
So (main hero) Rey Skywalker/Solo <==> Kylo Ren (main villain)

 

Here's something to consider, I hadn't really thought much about it for quite some time really. In the novelization of TFA when Rey grabs the lightsaber, Kylo Ren thinks to himself "It is you!". The reason I was reminded of this is because I was playing Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens yesterday and when I got to that point in the game, after Rey grabs the lightsaber, Kylo actually says that line out loud(voiced by Adam Driver no less).

Based on this we know that regardless of her lineage, Rey is indeed an important person and not just a nobody. We also know that Kylo was already nursing suspicions about just who she might be.

This detail, while important definitely doesn't settle any debates about who Rey's parents are. The reason I bring this up is to pose a question to those denying that Rey is related to any of the characters of the OT.

Why do you think Rey is important to Kylo and who or what do you think he thinks she is?

I don't submit this question in a spirit of antagonism, I'm just genuinely interested in hearing people's opinions and answers on this. Who knows, if your argument is strong enough you may convince me and others. Fire away folks!

 

Sounds somewhat plausible, however there is still the scene where Kylo throws his tantrum and then suddenly gets more angry and interested at the mention of a girl. Could it be that Kylo knows of the importance of Jakku to the Dark Side and knows of the importance of a girl in particular on that planet? We now know of extra importance being assigned to Jakku thanks to the Aftermath book series. Is it possible that there could be a prophecy that the Dark Siders are aware of regarding Jakku and a powerful female Force User(hopefully not in some stupid story development about the Chosen One being reincarnated)? Interesting stuff no matter how you cut it, lineage or no.

 

http://www.starwars.com/databank/han-solo

It's already been shown in the new canon that Han Solo lost the Falcon before Ben betrayed Luke. Rey said it's been on Jakku for longer than she can remember (Rey's Survival Guide).

 

my impression of what piques him particularly about the "girl" is that there's a possibility he's seen her before in a Force vision of his own and he's starting to connect the dots, but as @master_shaitan said, he doesn't entirely put it all together until she takes the saber. pure speculation, of course, but i think the book more than anything "misleads" us to think he knows her somehow because he's constantly poking at the puzzle until the "it is you" line.

but i agree with Hidalgo on this one (amazingly): he's referring to the "awakening" (and possibly now fully understanding that his destiny with Rey is intertwined).
once he makes this connection, his attitude changes. he stops throwing her at trees and starts testing her mettle.

 

Interesting stuff, I'm definitely not completely down with Ben Solo being redeemed though. I think it would be more interesting to see him get more and more evil without a redemption. JJ did say that the Force Awakens in the film, the Light Side through Rey and the Dark Side through Kylo. Basically, we saw the the moment Kylo truly chose his path when he murdered his Father. That was the moment he fully rejected the Light and fully embraced the Dark Side(made all the more obvious by the visual symbolism of the light literally dying as the Starkiller fully swallowed the sun in that scene).

Rey will no doubt save the galaxy, but I don't believe that necessarily means that she will redeem Ben Solo.

How so?

I do like the idea of he and Rey sharing visions. It could certainly be that that's the case and would make for an interesting twist.

 

whether they are related or not, i'm rooting for a serious Force bond between the two. it would deliciously complicate their interactions and a be a nifty way to dispense a lot of exposition and development quite efficiently. the fact that the two share an emotional state of abandonment and isolation also means they might share an empathic connection as well.

while i think it would make an interesting story overall, i still fight it because of the implications for our OT heroes. and even though Ren is trying his darndest to embrace the Dark, he doesn't strike me as out of the Light yet. even though Starkiller swallowed the sun, it burped it back out again when it was destroyed. in Han's death, Light was literally reborn. i think that will come back to Ren Ben in the end.

 

lol @ Rey sympathizing with Kylo's feelings of "abandonment". He had everything she ever wanted and voluntarily threw it all away.

Maybe he should spend 15 years in the desert and then they can have a talk.

 

yes, he's privileged. that doesn't change his feelings, which however much they are absurd to us, are very real to him.
i like the contrast of that, frankly. she can give him perspective because of it.

 

I highly doubt that was intentional symbolism there, especially considering that the only light the Starkiller spits out is a star system destroying laser of death . Also, it seems odd to set up the imagery of the Light dying only to immediately undermine it, which I don't think they did.

 

i don't know how it can't be deliberate. it literally turned into a sun; recreating that which it had originally destroyed.
there's no reason for it to have done that except to make a point. otherwise it could have just blown up like another Death Star.

 

Being Luke's daughter would make her very powerful and more interesting to Snoke. Other than being Palpatines grand daughter or rebirth of the "Chosen One" the story would become stale.

Rey pretty much needs to be related to Anakin as Kylo's future is grim even if he goes into the light. Personally, I think Leia will bring him to an end, probably in the act of saving Luke.

 

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