After more than one year since release of the Force Awakens and the just announced title of Episode8: The Last Jedi , I finally put together My theory about Rey's origins.
To my point of view Rey is simply Luke's Daughter.
My arguments :
- The age is compatible : this seems obvious but it is necessary ! Luke is born 19 BBY and Rey 15 ABY. That means that Luke was 34 when she is born and this fits.
- The Skywalker theme: In TFA the Luke Skywalker music theme from ANH is use when Rey takes into the fight with Kylo Ren and accept the Lightsaber heritage ? This cannot be a coincidence that the same music theme is used there. Especially because in TFA we have during the whole movie new music themes. This is the one moment with the recall from the theme of the farm boy. Just listen to the music of the 2 events of pictures bellow.
- The Vision that starts with the corridor of the confrontation Vader(Anakin) and Luke. Why this location? Why not the death Star tower at the end of ROTJ ? Because it is where Darth Vader reveals that he is Luke's father. So Rey receives hints of her family : Grand father and Father.
- The Maz sentence about the heritage of the Light sabre.
And off course the question everybody has is : why did Luke abandoned Rey on Jakku to a horrible guy like Unkar Plut?
Weel to my mind it is simply because it is not Luke but ... Kylo Ren who has hidden Rey on the junk yard planet!.
Thanks to the Bloodline Novel we can calculate that Kylo Ren (= Ben Solo) is bored 5years ABY. It means he is ten years older than Rey. In Rey's vision we see her being left on the desert planet at the age of around 6 or 7, That would make Kylo Ren being 18 and this makes it possible!
Why he would do that ?
Here bellow some arguments:
1. The pull to the Light males him save her !
It is known that due to the influence of Snoke among other things, Ben Solo turns to the dark Side and destroys the Jedi apprentices of Luke. In the vision we see Kylo Ren in the middle of the massacre (this is definitely before TFA because he has his mask that is being destroyed on Starkiller base). The age of Ben would be around 18 years old that fit (Anakin turned Darth Vader at this age).
BUT we also see that he saves Rey from the massacre by killing one of his acolytes! Most probably he saved the young Rey at this point! Why ? Because for a moment he has been pulled to the Light.
In TFA, when Kylo is confronted with his past coming back (in the form of his father) he is pulled to the light. He needs to force himself back to the dark side. And he says that it is not the first time.
So my theory is that during the destruction of Luke's academy, Kylo Ren could not kill the girl and he secretly took her away and abandoned her on Jakku probably in order to hide her from Snoke! (We see Kylo walking toward her to take her in the Vision).
2. Kylo knows that there is a powerful girl on Jakku !
An other clue is the crazy reaction Kylo has when he hears that a Girl helped in the escape of BB-8 from Jakku ! It can be because he knows that there is a girl with a great potential on this planet.
Last but not least, in the TFA novel, when Rey grad the Lightsaber from the snow, Kylo murmured "It is you ...!". So he recognizes her. Basically he knows her from the past.
3. Kylo made her forget with a mind trick!
On the Contrary, Rey says in TFA that she thought Luke Skywalker was only a myth. So this would indicate that she does not know him.
Kylo Ren seems to have very good mind tricks abilities: to take informations form the mind, to turn someone asleep and probably others.
It could be that Kylo managed to manipulate her mind in order to make her forget her past. He would do that in order to avoid that she tries to find him, seek revenge or become a threat to the First Order. An argument that support that is the fact that she does not seems to know that she is a force wielder.
That would explain also why she learns so fast how to use the force. Because her memories are coming back.
4. Luke thinks she is dead.
And what about Luke? I think that Luke what actually not present during the massacre and arrives too late. Think about how desperate he his in the scene that shows him on the ground near R2. We can expect that if he does not find the girl he probably concludes that she has been killed together with the other padawans. This is a further cause of his exile!
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Well, that is it. This is what I expect. However I am also very very interesting in alternative speculations like for example the Palpatine bloodline ! Very nice theory to !
I also know that a lot of people are hopping that she is not Luke's daughter because they would like to have a bigger surprise! I can sure understand that. Let see.
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