SPECULATION Leia drops Rey on Jakku?

To Unkar Plutt ? Good mom.

And she didn't ask Lor San Tekka to search for her but she sent Poe to find a map ?

She wasn't that hard to find in she was sent to Jakku.

Leia is a general of the rebellion, she lives in a headquarter with many many guards. Proof is that Kylo Ren didn't even know she was on DQuarr. She could have protect her on many other meanings. She's the boss, she's not any given citizen. Knowing she was raised as a princess, it's not a really good behaviour for a mom especially not trying to fix her mistake. It was a deliberate choice from her to prefer her son.

In TFA, when Finn told her about the girl, she doesn't really seem to give a blast about this and if there hasn't been the shield to desactivate, she would have blown up Starkiller without any remorse.

The Skywalker are really evil persons.

And I'm not going to quote JJ saying that Rey and Leia had NEVER met.

 

A mother ( a real one ) won't quit without a dead body and a funeral.

And if she thinks she's dead and Rey doesn't remember her, how will they find out they're related ?

 

I don't think Leia dropped Rey off because of the following.

It's an interesting coincidence that Unkar Plutt was the last one known to have custody of Rey on Jakku, and also the last one to have possession of the Falcon on Jakku (before Rey and Finn took off with it). It's another interesting coincidence that when Han found the Falcon, he also found Rey. IMO, these coincidences were not just random things put in the plot by JJ and LK. Instead, they hinted at a parallel between what had happened to the Falcon and what had happened to Rey. I think that just like the Falcon, Rey had been stolen from Han and Leia, passed through various hands, and then ended up on Jakku.

 

Rey's parentage is truly driving everyone mad.

But if Vader was with, talked to Leia then tortured her not sensing she was his own daughter...then anything is possible.

I don't know the timeline of what all went down from when Ben was sent to be with Luke but it is possible that Rey taken, stolen, or Leia after they split up found out she was pregnant and sent her away. Who knows but she is not a nobody I don't care what anyone says.

 

There's a big difference, Leia isn't dead and she's wealthy and has a ton of means to search for her daughter. In the novels, she's worried about politics not especially to find a lost daughter whom she never burried.

I meant quit searching not quitting on life. This is the definition of terrible parenting.

But why not ... I'm not sure this would be profoundly satisfying and good writing.

There might be a reason but they better find something more acceptable. There might be a lot of possibilities but none of the one I've read seems worthy to professionnal writers.

I'd rather see her kidnapped because of Han's bad relations and inclination for swindle.

Maybe she was in the falcon when Ducain stole it

Like those parents who forget their child in a gas station when they go in holidays ( just kidding ).

 

Han and Leia didn't properly separate until sometime between Bloodline and TFA, so that's less than six years before TFA.

 

I had thought of this very theory before and fits mythologically but when it came to Leia hiding her pregnancy and Rey's birth from Han and the rest of the galaxy, I realized it was very unlikely.

 

If I was 13 and parents hid my four year of sister away because they were scared of me I'd probably turn to the dark side. Clearly whatever worldview they have I don't want to have anything to do with.

 

I'm thinking it was Luke (her father) who dropped her off after the Knights of Ren killed off Rey's mother. He figured that if Kylo was looking for him he wouldn't look for Rey. Why Jakku? Because he was familiar with desert planets since he grew up on one but didn't want her to be on Tatooine because that would be too obvious of a hiding place.

 

According to the Toy Story Chicken Man a.k.a. Pablo Hidalgo, Kylo was 29-30 during TFA and Rey 19. If TFA happens 30 years after Endor, he was likely born a year after Endor, so I'm sticking with 29.

My theory is that he had sort of normal childhood - from Bloodline references - and started getting Force moody in his early teens.

6 years before TFA they were still together. I mean, apart since he was with the races and she on the Senate and then the Resistance, but so far we don't know when the Jedi massacre happened.

Months after Endor he resigned his general commission, then went ahead with his shipping company and had his racing team.

I don't put so much weight anymore on what they say. I mean, it's not like if something happens differently in the movies contrary to what they said they are going against continuity or whatnot. Especially after that backpedaling he did with Rey's parents.

And aside of it, there is a ton of ways what they said could be interpreted "from a certain point of view". I am going to mention Game of Thrones here just to make a parallel point, but same happened with the "Is Jon Snow dead" situation where everyone swear Jon Snow was deader than dead and "oh, guess what? He did die, but he was revived."

Later, Adam Driver might say "well, yeah he felt abandoned but, it wasn't like that at all. His parents did care for him but it was Snoke messing up with his head."

Great post. Agree with it.

And after all these months of speculating, I just realised I do not care, I just hope whichever is her origin it is truly satisfying. Obviously, not everyone will be pleased about it. But hey, sometimes you cannot make everyone happy.

True.

 

or that it happened at all.

just a reminder to everyone that when Abrams and Driver talk about Ren Ben's headstate, they are talking about his headstate, not objective factual information. when Driver says the kid has the weight of the world on him because of who he is, that's how Ren Ben perceives himself (same as with the abandonment thing).

Leia obviously thought she was doing what was best for him; he took it perhaps as being dumped off and unloved.
clearly Leia loves her son. but expecting the kid to have any sort of rational perspective given the horrorshow of a position he's currently in is asking too much.

+1

delight us, Story Group. the details are just details.

 

That would be an interesting twist.

Agree. That is why *don't mean to spoil anything here* I thought Ben Solo was somewhat similar to Albus Severus Potter. Being the offspring of two famous characters might be daunting.

 

It's interesting in all the stories they are both drawn to young people in various ways. In Bloodline, for instance, Leia points this out a few times, and she seems to not be close to anyone really, intimately, save for her gffa type skype chats with Han, even those young people around her. Casterfo kind of becomes a friend, but still it's not close. Such a loner. She points that out about Han with mentoring Greer, and seeing that with Luke and all that, and then says something along the lines referring to Ben, but it not being possible. It's kind of sad. I am sure that Kylo Ren did feel by the point of TFA especially with everything that happened with Snoke, and whatever caused him to be sent to Luke by probably Leia, as she said it in the movie. I know a lot of people who I loved their parents, but they will say something like they never did this or that and they are resentful, like they couldn't have done enough. It's a matter of perception. Pablo said something in a tweet about how the stories often direct you away from what you know, and do you believe the character you have always trusted, or this new character, and used the example of the comic book with Sana Starros claiming to be Han Solo's wife, and who to believe, but he was referring to this thing with Kylo Ren and feeling abandoned by his parents. Will have to find that tweet. I in no way think Leia put Rey on Jakku. Rey says she believes how ever she got there it was a mistake. I first thought after the movie that Kylo Ren did it, even at being a young age, but then later on, realized that was impossible, because at 15 that disaster with Luke's temple, whatever it was, probably did not happen then. Where's that timeline when you need it? There is so much that isn't part of the movie that clears up some of that kind of conjecturing, that it's hard for everyone to keep up.

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Here is that timeline thread. https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet....ne-of-events-not-final-from-rotj-to-tfa.8331/

 

There was that deleted scene from the Bespin dream that revealed Snoke had been manipulating Ben Solo his whole life.

Except one tries to help people, the other has some alone time with a hemet , and kills children .

 

I absolutely love this theory. I'm a strong believer in Han and Leia being Rey's parents and have often speculated that Leia hid Rey from Han. Until I hear it for myself nothing will stop me believing that she is a Solo.

Congratulations on a brilliant post