What's up Star Wars Fans?
My name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
There's a Star Wars leak floating around that is raising a lot of questions about Rey's
origins, and it might also debunk a popular theory about Rey being a clone.
I haven't discussed the Rey clone theory yet-- I'm planning to later in the week--but that
theory is pretty weak--sorry for the folks who buy it, but I can't cosign on that at
all.
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Okay--so back to the Rey theory --an image posted on Reddit that may be from The Rise
of Skywalker visual dictionary has a line describing what we saw in Rey's forceback
vision in The Force Awakens, saying "A tiny Rey watches helplessly as a starship pulls
away, marooning her on the unfamiliar world of Jakku."
Now if Rey was abandoned on Jakku, and the planet is not at all familiar to her, then
it would cast some doubt on the thought that Rey was born on Jakku.
It also casts some doubt on Rey being a clone who was created on Jakku--which has never
made sense to me.
Now what every article I've read about this leak says is that Kylo Ren lied to Rey about
her parents in The Last Jedi when he told her that she was sold for drinking money and
died in a pauper's grave.
I'm going to take a different train of thought than everyone else because it does not make
sense that Kylo Ren would lie to Rey about her parents in that moment.
I mean, the two of them have shared memories.
Whatever Kylo Ren is saying to Rey, in that moment, if she had not also seen it--wouldn't
she speak up and say,"No Ben, that's not what happened, why are you trying to play me?"
I think whatever Kylo Ren saw, it happened--but here's the thing-- what if those people were
not Rey's parents?
See--if you had asked me back in 2016 about Rey's origin, and I know I have said this
on a video, I would have told you that I thought Rey displayed early signs of her force sensitivity.
The Ahsoka Tano novel says that children will show signs that they are force sensitive--if
they do not receive any kind of training, it just sort of goes dormant--like they forget
how to levitate objects-- so it just goes to show that you don't need training to use
the Force, it's like learning to walk--but if you wanted to become an Olympic class runner,
then you will require a lot of training.
Anyway--my thought back then was Rey is showing signs that she's force sensitive.
Her parents went looking for Luke Skywalker, and Rey was either abducted or her parents
were tricked--meaning "Hey, yes, leave her with me, I'll make sure she gets to Luke!"
Of course she doesn't, and she ends up spending the next 15 years stranded on Jakku waiting
for her parents to find her.
Rey's survival guide, or Rey's Story, which was The Force Awakens told completely from
Rey's point of view, seems to indicate that Rey believes something went horribly wrong
that separated her from her family.
Now there's another reason I initally thought that Rey had been abducted or kidnapped--and
it has to do with her accent.
Now the really bad Rey Kenobi theories used Rey's accent as a premise for why she is a
descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi's, but in Star Wars, an English accent just means that you
are from the Core Worlds.
Like John Boyega does not use his real accent as Finn because Finn was probably abducted
from a planet in the Outer Rim, Wild Space, or even in the Unknown Regions if there were
human populated planets in the Unknown Regions.
So when you think about Rey being stranded on Jakku, like we were intially led to believe,
the fact that her speech is like someone from the Core Worlds, and the possibility that
she displayed signs of being Force sensitive as a toddler, I am starting to buy what Rey
said initially--that a mistake happened when she was young, resulting in her being separated
from her parents.
I don't think that Kylo Ren lied to her at all.
Maybe her parents actually did come back for her, and they died on Jakku.
It's also possible that Kylo Ren interpreted one of Rey's memories as her parents-- I mean,
according to Rey's Survival Guide, she lived with more than 1 family on Jakku--she was
sort of like a foster child who had multiple placements before she finally emancipated
herself and went to live on her own.
I know some people who hate the whole "Rey of Jakku" thing, or basically everything about
The Last Jedi, would like to see parts of the story retconned in The Rise of Skywalker.
A retcon isn't going to happen, and it's not necessary at all.
I mean if you're playing in a big golf tournament, you don't get to take a mulligan.
You shoot your shot, and you play the ball where it lies on the next shot.
Same thing with episode 9-- You take what happened in episode 8 and just continue building
on the story.
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