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

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started by master_shaitan, Feb 17, 2016.

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Is Rey the daughter of Luke Skywalker

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    He is. Unless they want to recontinue the force...which of course would make these a Disney star wars story..not an in context continuation of the saga
     
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    While I was on my walk today, I was thinking about evidence for and against who Rey will turn out to be:

    Rey (random)
    Cons:
    - The Skywalker lightsabre is the family heirloom. Ren could Force Freeze a plasma bolt mid-air and hold it until he left Tuanul village yet could not summon the sabre to him, yet Rey could?
    - Leia and Rey's embrace has love music accompanying it, plus the hug itself symbolises love and not wanting to be apart. This would just feel wrong.
    - Why would Ren feel compassion for someone he doesn't even know?

    Rey (Luke's daughter)
    Pros:
    - She's deserving of the family heirloom.

    Cons:
    - Leia and Rey's embrace would be understandable but wouldn't have the right impact if they were aunt and niece.
    - Ren's compassion for her would be understandable but would not have the right impact if they were cousins.

    Rey (Han and Leia's daughter)
    Pros:
    - She's deserving of the family heirloom.
    - Leia and Rey's embrace would have the right impact if they were mother and daughter.
    - Ren's compassion for her would be perfectly understandable. Explains why in TFA he resisted causing her pain.
     
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    There seems to be a lot of confirmation bias in this analysis. I find it hard to believe that there are no pros for random and no cons for Solo
     
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    I have the one and only reason which matters and why Rey is Luke Skywalkers daughter: Disney's lack of imagination and being a marketing ran machine looking in the rear-view mirror instead of going forward.
     
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    A crazy idea: Maybe Laura Dern could be playing a false role [as Admiral Holdo] when the real one would be Rey's mom. And this doesnt mean that Luke will be the dad. I say this because the story of Rey's parents needs an explanation, and a simple sentence to summarize everything seem weak to me (given the Hype of TFA with this).
     
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    Based on Daisy Ridley's comment that Rey's parentage is "obvious" in The Force Awakens, I don't think anything is more blunt and obvious than the fact that the Skywalker family lightsaber calls to her. Not to mention, her character's personal goal is to be reunited with her family, and the film ends with her going to find Luke. (Plus, although I do believe there are explanations for this, Han and Leia do not react to her as if they know her.)

    I've said it before and I'll say it again. I've believed pretty much since the first trailer for The Force Awakens dropped that Rey was Han and Leia's daughter, and even after the film, I firmly believed that up until a few months ago. It makes so much sense that she's a Skywalker. I mean, her name alone has some implications that she's a Skywalker.

    For starters, lots of names in the Original Trilogy had symbolic meanings. "Darth Vader" roughly translates to "dark father" and "the absent one," both of which are important in regards to his relationship with Luke. (He's evil, he's his father, and he was absent for most of his life.) Leia translates to "child of Heaven" or "heavenly," which indicates that she is pure and innocent. Luke translates to "light-giving."

    Now, let's look at Rey. Her name means "king" in Spanish, which is defined as a ruler, "especially one who inherits the position by right of birth." (Just like how she inherits the lightsaber by right of birth.) The king is also defined as "the most important Chess piece," just as she's arguably the most important character in the Sequel Trilogy. In relation to Luke, "Rey" when spelled with an "a" is something that comes directly from the sun. (Luke's name means "light-giving," so she'd essentially be coming from Luke because she is his child.) In the film's earlier stages, she was named Kira, which translates to "shining," "glittery," "ruler," and "beloved." ("Shining" and "glitter" both relate to the whole idea of light, "ruler" is also a translation for Rey, and "beloved" might give us some clues about her relationship with her parents before being abandoned.)

    Additionally, that Rey's Survival Guide book or whatever it's called implies that Rey doesn't remember her family, but believes she was left on Jakku by mistake. What I took from this is that, even if she saw her parents, she wouldn't have a clue who they were because she can't remember them. It's like she has amnesia or her memories before being left on Jakku were taken out of her brain. Therefore, I believe her mind was wiped to protect her, and being that Luke supposedly doesn't know who she is when she arrives on Ahch-To, Luke doesn't know that he has a child.

    That's just my theory, though.
     
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    I'm holding out hope that somehow Ray is a Solo. I think her being Luke's daughter would be too obvious. Bloodlines makes her being a Solo difficult but not impossible.
     
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    Pretty sure Bloodlines is the TV show with Ben Mendhelson :p

    I don’t actually think her being a Skywalker is too obvious at this point: other than character progression which seems to parallel each other, we don’t really have much, if anything, to go on.

    Plus, even if it is the most obvious option and 70% of the audience expects it, it ultimately comes down to how this information is relayed to us.

    If LFL are even attempting to go for a twist regarding Rey’s parentage - which I highly doubt, given how vocal everyone’s been about it when asked - then perhaps Rey doesn’t know, Luke doesn’t sense it, and Snoke, in the final act of the film, is actually the one who reveals this, for instance.

    To me, at least, I’m much more concerned at this point about the execution of the reveal of Rey’s past/parents than I am about finding out who they are, and seeing as it’s RJ at the helm, I have nothing but confidence in the story he’ll tell us in December.

    Even if Rey is a Kenobi.
     
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    I think the most obvious answer in TFA is that her parents are dead.

    - It's what Maz implies. And after telling Rey that the saber called to her she immediately separates Luke from "her family", who she says are never coming back - whilst Solo (her uncle) is upstairs.
    - The theme of TFA was about making family rather than finding them. This is what Daisy Ridley herself described in an interview when she said that "Rey and Finn find their families in TFA".
    - No one recognises Rey. No one talks about a lost Skywalker child or indeed a lost wife of Luke's. No one senses who she is. No one speaks of a tragedy that occurred in Luke's life before the Jedi order fell.

    As for your analysis of her name:
    - Darth Vader was not Luke's daddy when he was given that name.
    - Heroes are always given symbolic names that likely relates to something heroic. Whether she is a Skywalker or not, she will be the the "light" and "king".
    - We can invent many meanings and symbols to fit our theories. Luke might mean "light-giving" but it is also similar to "Lucas...".
     
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    I think that's plausible, but how was she left on Jakku? And why is she so strong in the Force that she scares/interests pretty much everyone she meets? Plus, I still feel like for them to continue to market these films as the Skywalker family saga, one of the main characters would have to have the Skywalker name, even if Ben technically fulfills that requirement as Leia's son.

    Really, I feel like what happened is she was taken from her family and presumed to be dead, so the people that left her on Jakku were not really her parents. She could've been taken before anyone knew she existed. (Like I said, Luke may not even know he has a daughter, and if that's the case, Han and Leia wouldn't know about her either.) No one speaks of a past tragedy, but what was said about the past was intentionally vague. Why would they mention anything about Luke's past anyways? It would give away her identity very early on, so I think it's safe to say that there's enough evidence to go either way.

    True, the meaning of her name could mean nothing, but Kira was changed to Rey (while still preserving the meaning of the name), and when the Original Trilogy was released, the intent wasn't to have a bunch of big reveals. It just kind of happened naturally. Now, I feel like they almost have to shroud things in secrecy to have a big shocker moment, like they did in The Empire Strikes Back. The name alone doesn't solve the mystery, but I do feel like the choice was absolutely intentional.
     
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    Man I hope not. Making everyone important be related to everyone else important is such a cop out to me.
     
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    Luke is a major part of this trilogy and he is the original Skywalker. No matter who Rey is, this is definitely part of the Skywalker saga
     
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    There's around 21 major actors in episode VII, discounting tiny rolls and extras. Even if we take 15 as a conservative estimate for decent roles in all 8 Star Wars films made. That's around 120+, of which 5 could be Skywalker/Solowalker. Anakin, Luke, Leia, Ben and Rey.

    That's hardly everyone, infact it's a pritty small percentage really.

    The fact that SW is the most successful film franchise ever, and the most lucrative, and a cultural phenomenon... why would you not continue to make the main character a Skywalker/Solowalker.
     
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    So, I’ve been toying with the idea for a while now that Luke doesn’t know that his daughter was out there for whatever reason, and that the burning Temple scene we’ve seen perhaps has more to do with this than it does Kylo’s fall. The TLJ trailer from earlier this month is clearly misdirecting us in many ways: but how, exactly?

    I stumbled upon a recent post on Wordpress, which is an intriguingly excellent read, all about Snoke, Rey and Ben. Of course, it’s filled with speculation, but I think it’s the most cohesive and detailed Rey Skywalker theory I’ve seen around, hence why I’ve posted that part here. This entire paragraph is linked to the original Wordpress post, which talks about a range of things, from the writer’s thoughts on Snoke’s place in all of this to Ben and Rey adoring each other as cousins.

    It’s well worth the read.

    Now for their Rey Skywalker theory:

    We know that while the galaxy was mostly at peace between the final defeat of the Empire at the Battle of Jakku and the rise of the First Order shortly before the events of The Force Awakens several bad things happened: The Falcon was stolen, Rey was abandoned on Jakku, and Ben Solo did something that made his parents think “there was too much Vader in him” so they sent him to train with Luke which led directly to Ben’s fall and the destruction of Luke’s fledgling Jedi Order. I propose that these events are all intertwined.

    Rey’s survival guide confirms that the Falcon had been on Jakku for as long as she could remember. So the ship was stolen long before Ben Solo fell and Han returned to a life of smuggling. There is a deleted scene from The Force Awakens that shows Kylo in the Falcon cockpit doing a similar pose to what Han did when he first walked into the cockpit. They are both likely doing the same pose for similar reasons. They are experiencing strong memories of being there before, positive memories for Han, mixed for Kylo. This means that the Falcon was likely stolen when Ben was old enough to have significant memories of being there before. So it was likely stolen when he was an older child at the earliest. This puts the window of time for the Falcon to be stolen around the same time that Rey was abandoned on Jakku.

    I think Rey is Luke’s daughter and she was separated from Luke when the Falcon was stolen.

    All we know about the Falcon being stolen is that Han thinks it was stolen by someone named Ducain and Rey says that Unkar Plutt stole it from the Irving Boys who stole it from Ducain. We also know from the incredible cross sections book that Ducain and the Irving Boys as well as Unkar Plutt made modifications to the Falcon.

    It’s interesting that just a few lines after Rey explains the Falcon’s history of ownership is this exchange:

    Rey: “This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in 14 parsecs!”

    Han: “12! 14…”

    Yeah, this line got a laugh, but it could also potentially have a more important purpose. It shows us that Rey’s knowledge of the Falcon’s history isn’t perfectly accurate (even if she sounds sure of herself when she says it). If Rey’s second statement regarding the Falcon’s history isn’t quite right then it calls into question the accuracy of her first statement as well. Rey likely heard where Unkar Plutt got the Falcon from Unkar himself. He has no reason to be honest with her and possibly even has a vested interest in lying to her which calls the details of the story into question.

    We know that Snoke, above all else, does not want Luke training new Jedi as they would pose a major threat to him and doubly so if one of those Jedi happened to be Luke’s child.

    After Return of the Jedi Luke went on and extensive search for Jedi Temples and Lore. (Bloodline mentions this and the Shattered Empire comics show him going after a pair of Force sensitive trees taken from the Jedi Temple.) I think that during this time Luke either found part of the Chosen One prophecy during his research or had a conversation about it with the Force ghost of Anakin. This would have led Luke to the conclusion that while Anakin was destined to bring Balance to the Force, Anakin’s descendants would be the ones that would need to keep it in Balance. Luke would also have come to realize that the descendants of Anakin also had the potential, like Anakin himself, to throw the Force totally out of balance if they fell to the Dark Side. I believe that during this time Luke also got married and he and his wife had a little girl: Rey. In Rey, Luke would have seen all of the hopes of a galaxy made right and a new caretaker of the Force itself.

    Han and Leia were also happily married, but Han still felt a desire for adventure and a bit of a wanderlust from time to time, so when Rey was about 5 he decided to take Ben and go visit Luke and his family. (We know from Bloodline that Leia was still in sporadic contact with Luke up until 6 years before The Force Awakens. It’s not a stretch to assume Han likely was as well.) While Han and Ben were staying with Luke and his family Rey came to absolutely adore Ben. Ben also quickly came to absolutely adore his little cousin because she loved him and looked up to him when he was so used to feeling neglected by his too busy mother and his father who leaves far too often.

    I think Ducain was a criminal gang leader and the Irving Boys were working for/with him. We know from Bloodline that the First Order had a rather cozy relationship with various criminal organizations throughout the galaxy, so it’s not a stretch that Snoke would hire a gang of criminals to do his dirty work. Ducain and his gang then staged a raid on the planet where Luke was investigating ancient Jedi lore and a fight broke out. Luke put Rey somewhere where he thought she would be safe and tells her “I’ll come back, Sweetheart. I promise.” Little does Luke know that the attack was a ruse, the intended target was his daughter. The place Luke leaves Rey was likely inside a stone building of some kind, possibly an old Jedi Temple where he was doing his research. Han and Luke’s wife go with Luke to help fight off the attackers. Luke and Han become embroiled in the fight and at some point Han learned that the boss is called Ducain, which is why he asks if Ducain was the one that had the Falcon. When Luke was sufficiently distracted the attackers pivoted back toward the temple. Luke’s wife ran back home toward her daughter. Under attack the ancient structure began to collapse. Rey was knocked to the ground and potentially suffered a head wound. (There is possible support for this in Rey’s Forceback in the Force Awakens. When the vision shifts from the hallway in Cloud City to Luke and R2 the hallway twists, Rey falls to the ground, rock collapses around her, and there is a loud slam. The vision sequence was carefully crafted to tease but not to answer, nothing was added on accident. The collapsing stone is likely more than just a transition.) The criminals staging the attack find a (potentially unconscious) Rey and drag her out.

    Ducain and/or someone from his gang (possibly the Irving boys) see the Falcon and decided to take their chance, slipped aboard the Falcon with Rey and got it fired up. Just as the Falcon takes off, Luke’s wife runs into the damaged Temple looking for her daughter and the building fully collapses on top of her. Luke felt his wife die and then couldn’t feel her presence or Rey’s.

    In the scene in the Forceback with Luke kneeling next to R2 and the scenes from the Last Jedi trailers where Luke is buried in rubble and watching the temple burn Luke’s face is never shown. Instead he is identified by his mechanical hand.

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    Luke is supposed to be about 53 as of The Force Awakens. Ben fell to the Dark Side when Luke was about 47. When Rey was left on Jakku Luke would have been about 39. Making Mark Hamill look 47 would be a simple matter of dying some of the gray out of his beard and maybe using makeup and/or CGI to smooth out a few wrinkles. Making him look 39 would be much more difficult. An easy way around that if they wanted to show Luke the night he lost his daughter would be to have him keep his hood up and identify him with his hand rather than show his face. It’s possible that the trailers are being misleading and the burning temple and Luke being trapped under rubble are from the night Luke lost Rey, not the night Ben wiped out Luke’s students. This would mean that Luke ran into the temple after his wife and only barely avoided her fate.

    The collapse (and possibly also the fire) would have rendered Luke’s wife’s remains unidentifiable. Sensing bad things happening through the Force hasn’t been shown to be precise, but rather as a general sense that something awful has happened, a disturbance in the Force. It’s plausible that Luke would simply sense “death” when his wife died and assume that Rey had been killed along with her mother if he could no longer sense either of them and had good reason to believe that Rey had been in the building when her mother was killed. (It’s also possible that he was knocked out and didn’t sense his wife die at all.) The building collapse and lack of identifiable remains would have excused in Luke’s mind the absence of his daughter’s body.

    The pilot of the stolen Falcon made their way to Jakku. Possibly because the Falcon was having mechanical problems (because, hey, it’s the Falcon) and they had to land to make repairs or possibly it was damaged during the theft. There are several reasons for Jakku to be their chosen destination. Jakku is the jumping off point to the Unknown Regions so if they were supposed to meet a First Order contact that would have taken Rey to Snoke it would be a logical place to meet. It’s also the galaxy’s biggest junk yard and at the time Rey was taken there it would have been much less picked over than it was when we saw it in The Force Awakens. If the Falcon needed repairs before heading into the Unknown Regions, Jakku would be a good place to stop for parts. Jakku is also home to the Imperial Research facility. It’s possible that Rey was being taken there to be the subject of some nefarious experiment. We know that Ducain and the Irving boys made modifications to the Falcon. We also know from The Phantom Menace that major repairs (such as replacing the entire hyperdrive) can be made to starships in less than a day. So Ducain and the Irving Boys could have made the repairs to the Falcon while keeping Rey confined aboard. While on Jakku, some disagreement could have broken out among Ducain and the Irving Boys that led to the Irving boys staging a mutiny against Ducain, possibly killing him in the process. The ownership of the Falcon then transferred from Ducain to the Irving Boys.

    I can’t see Unkar Plutt running aboard a ship and flying off with it, but we’ve seen that he knows how to drive a hard bargain and I could see him conning someone. Also, he does have thugs willing to do his dirty work. So Unkar either cons the Irving Boys or uses his own thugs to force them to give up the Falcon. The Irving boys leave on the next ship off Jakku (possibly a ship belonging to another member of their gang).The ownership of the Falcon has now passed from the Irving Boys to Unkar. Unkar would know the chain of the ownership of the Falcon because he watched it all happen in front of him. The Irving Boys leave Rey behind with Unkar Plutt. Rey watched the ship take off and thought that her family was aboard. She cried for them to come back and Unkar took her by the arm and led her away.

    Due to the trauma she suffered (possibly also a head wound, possibly also some experiment at the research facility) Rey loses all of her memories of what happened prior to being left on Jakku except one (Rey’s Survival guide confirmed that Rey does not remember her parents at all). The junior novelization of the Force Awakens mentions that Rey remembers a voice telling her “I’ll come back, Sweetheart. I promise,” and that the voice came and went and that she felt that that voice never left her alone. Over the years she remained on Jakku because she clung to that voice. She knew from that voice that someone somewhere out in the vast galaxy loved her so she waited for them. What she didn’t realize was that she was waiting for the wrong people in the wrong place.

    To add my own quick thoughts on why Rey’s memory of them leaving her on Jakku might be tied to her parents is because of how we psychologically associate things: she associated being left on Jakku with being left by her parents, even if that wasn’t the case.
     
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    Thank you for posting this! I really like this theory. It's similar to mine, but nowhere near as in-depth. I've had suspicions that the Falcon and Rey being on the same planet, in the possession of the same person, at the same time was a bit too coincidental. Given that Rey doesn't remember her parents and wouldn't be able to identify them anyways, it's plausible to assume that her idea of who they are is flawed. I've always believed that the people she thinks are her parents are not actually her parents. Her being taken on the Falcon is entirely plausible as well.

    The only thing with the theory you posted is that it ignores the fact that Ben would know who she was. Now, granted, I do think he has suspicions of who she is based on his dialogue in The Force Awakens (especially when he says, "It is you!" in the novel during their fight), but it seems odd that he wouldn't say something. Besides, he also seems to have an interest in this girl from Jakku, and if Ben knew that she was left there, then why wouldn't he or anyone else go after her?

    Also, Luke has no idea who Rey is when she shows up on Ahch-To in The Last Jedi, and this theory indicates that Rey was very much a part of Luke's life. Even if he did believe she was dead, why wouldn't he recognize her? She looks the same as she did when she was a child.

    That's why I still believe that Luke may not know Rey exists, or he and Rey had their memory wiped to protect her identity. Depending on how the attack on his Jedi Temple occurred, if he feared she was in danger from a great force, such as Snoke, he would surely do all he could to protect her. Her knowing who she was and being aware of her own capabilities would lead Snoke right to her, so if she had lost her memory, she couldn't tap into those abilities and lead anyone to her. Luke not having memory of her would also avoid any emotional attachments giving away her location, should he be captured. This would also explain why Lor San Tekka was on Jakku and had the map to Luke, but didn't appear to have any contact with Rey or anyone. He was there for when the time was right so that Leia and Rey could eventually find Luke again.
     
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    I am not a fan of theories that use mind wipes / amnesia.
     
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    Likewise. Though thankfully they've been used very little (have they even been used at all in canon?) in Star Wars so far, so I might be willing to forgive it being used once if they played it really well.
     
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    If they were going to go down the mind wipe route, there should have been scenes in TFA where Rey goes ‘I can’t remember’ or something like that. They need to sow in the audiences mind that she is unable to remember certain things.
     
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    Neither am I, but it's the only thing that makes sense, regardless of who her parents are. She legitimately does not remember them. The Survival Guide confirms this. I asked a while back if mind wipes appear in any other canon materials, because I don't think they do. I mean, if they do it, it needs to be handled right. To me, having someone powerful in the Force, such as Luke, do it for her own protection would be pretty powerful. With Luke and Leia, they were hidden from each other, but with Rey, she's hidden more from herself. She literally has no idea who she is or where she comes from.
     
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  20. Finn is a Jedi

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    I don't care if Rey is Luke's daughter (as long as it is explained well) I do however hope that regardless of Rey's parentage we find out that Luke had a son at some point earlier on the 34 years who he successfully trained and set out in the galaxy on some unspecified task (which would be used to explain his absence, perhaps investigating a certain blue skinned alien species for future stories). Name him Owen Skywalker (since they wasted the Ben name on a child who really has no purpose being named Ben). It really irked me that (as far as we know) Ben is the only child of the OT main characters and I hope they somehow explain that Luke did in fact have a child (who isn't Rey). I also would like to see a Lando kid with a badass name like Julius, Denzel or Augustus Calrissian.
     
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