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SPECULATION Rey's Real Name

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started by PrincessLeiaCB3, May 27, 2016.

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What do you think is Rey's real name?

  1. Padme

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  2. Jaina

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  3. It's actually Rey

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    48.6%
  4. Satine

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  5. Other

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    23.8%
  6. We will not actually find out at all!

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  7. Breha

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  8. Beru

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  9. Shmi

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  10. Kira

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    7.6%
  1. OKP23

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    Waste of marketing if her name isn't Rey...
     
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    Actually...Disney will be able to keep marketing Rey merchandise with her in her Jakku clothes/staff but also market more of her character as a new name altogether.
     
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    What, like Finn and Kylo Ren? Those aren't their birth names either.

    The reason you use an alternate name with Ridley's character is so that the characters in the story do not recognize her new name.
     
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    Having Rey not be her original name would make sense in the context of one of the central themes of this new trilogy, IMO: identity.

    From the very first trailer ("Who are you?" "I'm no one.") to Lor San Tekka talking about the truth of Kylo Ren's family, to Finn getting a name, to "Are you Han Solo?" "I used to be", to Kylo separating "Ben" from "Kylo Ren" ("Your son was weak and foolish, so I destroyed him."), everything in the ST screams "quest for identity".

    Adding to that, the main question that kickstarted the ST was "Who is Luke Skywalker?" Not even what his name is, but who is he, really?

    As such, it would fit if her original name wasn't Rey and it would put her in the heart of the ST theme, which is where a main character's place should be.

    Personally, I think it fits if she's Luke's daughter with another name, too. She's been "Rey the scavenger" her whole life, now she's supposed to be "___________, the daughter of the last Jedi". Which of the two identities is she supposed to embrace? The one she came from, or the one she made herself? Which one is more important and for whom? Which can drive her through some much needed inner struggle and character development and make her embrace both identities (hense, finding balance), and make her opposite to Kylo Ren who rejected the idenity he could make for himself and embraced only where he came from.

    So yeah, Rey not being her original name would fit. Will we ever know it? Ummm...
     
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    Lets see how deep the rabbit hole goes this time, ey?
     
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    Rey Mysterio?
     
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    The wrestler, I doubt the Master of the 619 would agree.
    [​IMG]
     
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    this so fits her atm... she is a mysterio and a rey!
     
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    It will go so far until the new theory is that Rey is Anakin Skywalker---oh wait :eek:.
     
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    Thea means light as well as Kira. Rey means ruler, but it also could be like sun ray.
     
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    I dont think that Kira would be a real name since Disney already used it in The Lion King 2 .
     
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    Yeah, thinking those were names they were thinking about to mean the same thing. There is a thing too with Ben meaning son, and using a Vigènere cipher and the key Skywalker putting the name Kylo and it comes out at "sons". Some nerd figured that out, or something. There are Vigènere cipher tools online, I tried it and it works.
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    I forgot the other thing. Ren means Lotus and so does Padme.
     
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    Don't want to spoil things but Rey's real name is actually ... Daisy !!
     
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    Either we're looking too much into it or there'es something to it *CONSPIRACY THEORY*
     
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    As @MagnarTheGreat showednin his most above in Before the Awakening it says a girl who CALLED herself Rey. This leads me to believe her name is either a different name all together or one in which she shortens to Rey (i.e. Jen shortened form of Jennifer)

    I think in the end, no matter what it is, she keeps the name Rey.
     
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    Well it's been said like that for a while now..."Rey" has always been her name but only from what she know as in she is figuring her identity at the same time as we are ... are you implying her name is: Reyniffer?
     
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    That's funny. I'm using Jen/Jennifer as a real world example. I'm sure there are plenty of names she could have that could be shortened to Rey.
     
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    How about Rar Rar Rinks ?
     
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    I think ReyRey Binks would be better
     
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    What about Rylo Skywalker ?
     
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