Yup, Daisy actually said that. For a whole year we’ve been debating about who could have left Rey on Jakku at the tender age of five. But the answer had been provided for us even before the release of TFA in cinemas.
We’ve been speculating on whether she was left there by strangers, kidnappers, other members of her alleged family or people who were ordered to kill her. But according to Daisy, Rey was abandoned by none other than her own parents. Not one parent but both parents. This also means that her parents are totally aware of her existence because they were the ones that abandoned her.
This is the full quote:
“Rey’s parents left her at 5. We meet her when she’s in her late teens, early 20s.”
The full article is here. It was published on the 11th of December 2015
Well, the most important thing we can take away from this is that there’s no way either Luke or Leia would ‘leave’ a child of theirs to a life of misery and then completely forget about her existence. Therefore, there is no way that Rey is their daughter/niece
DAISY’S BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE DAY 1
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Rey speculation [1/?]
Early on in the film, we see Rey being adorable in her X-Wing pilot helmet.
I remembered seeing the numbers “733” on her helmet on my first viewing.
But then I realized it wasn’t “733”, it was Aurebesh.
The supplementary materials, specifically the TFA Visual Dictionary and Rey’s Survival Guide, shed more light on this.
She finds a crashed X-Wing, it belonged to a squadron called the Yellow Aces.
She finds a pilot helmet, belonging to a Dosmit Ræh of the Tierfon Yellow Aces.
She makes a doll of an X-Wing pilot by hand,
she enjoys wearing the helmet and, at least when she was younger, liked to pretend she was Ræh, X-Wing pilot.
”You can get a clue to what happened to these fighters based on whether the
ejection seat’s inside or not.” This will be important to my next post but I figured I’d mention it while we’re here.
She runs flight simulators scavenged from downed ships and practices them during her limited free time.
”THANK YOU YELLOW-4!!!”
Now I know that you’re thinking, “sure, it says Yellow, but that doesn’t mean it’s Tierfon Yellow Aces.”
On the left you’ll see:
Flight computer–capacitors and memory drive salvaged, 2 portions, transponder ID says fighter was Yellow-4 (Tierfon)
At the top you’ll see:
“Canopy–missing (ejected)” “Cockpit–ejector seat fired”
So we know Dosmit Raeh likely survived and, if still alive, is likely still on Jakku.
”Don’t miss the repulsor lifts–I scavenged a bunch of those for my
speeder.”
Rey used primarily X-Wing parts for her personal speeder, most importantly the steering and engines, indicating familiarity with
those parts.
These are all facts from Rey’s Survival Guide and the TFA Visual Dictionary.
Rey searches probably hundreds of downed ships, and dozens of X-Wings, so why
does this book keep mentioning this one? Why does it tie everything together?
And why on earth would you give this character the name Raeh if you
weren’t going to do anything with it? Well we’ll get into more of this later but for now the important thing is Rey taking the identity of Ræh from a young age, and choosing to use that name as her own.
When Finn (who also doesn’t have an actual name) asks her for her name she replies “I’m Rey”, not “My name is Rey”. It’s a tiny detail and much too little to be theorizing from but wouldn’t it be great if both Rey and Finn at that moment were using names they adopted, not ones they were born with? And Rey instead of saying her name is Rey, responds with a simple “I’m Rey”, because that’s the identity she’s chosen, she is Ræh.
Also keep in mind that this happens immediately after Rey flies the Falcon, and is even excitedly telling Finn how she’s never flown like that before. She’s never felt more like Ræh, Ace pilot, than in this moment, and so when asked who she is, she uses the identity she took as a child, which now seems more apt than ever.
(Credit and thanks to @harquinns for the beautiful gif at the start, and to @expelumos for the black and white gifs at the end, they were the only ones I could find that show that very important hesitation just before Rey says her line in the 4th gif, almost as if she’s about to say something different at first)
I’ve realized that the more diverse a cast is, the easier it is to spot the racist fans. They won’t ship a white main character with the black girl who’s his love interest because it’s “heteronormative” (it isn’t) and they want more “gay representation”. But then when his best friend is also a person of color they don’t ship them together because they just “don’t see them that way”. But then they’ll headcanon a Tragic Whiteboy Backstory for the kid that said literally 8 words to the main character. That kid will be their favorite character, their sweet little “cinnamon roll”and there’ll be 40,230 m/m fics of him and the main character. “Representation”. My ass.
it’s okay, you can say Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“black *girl*”
“and there’ll be 40,230 *m/m* fics of him and
the *main character*.”
I don’t remember Rey being Black.
I don’t remember Rey being Male.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t The Force Awakens you’re talking about, but let’s
pretend it is.
(There’s a fair amount of text here and since I know some people can’t be bothered, here’s
the most most important part:
Here are the numbers from fanfiction.net
37, 700 fics involving the Finn/Poe pairing
37, 400 fics involving the Rey/Kylo pairing
37, 800 fics involving the Rey/Finn pairing
Yeah, seriously, go to fanfiction.net right now and check.)
Okay, on to some analysis, and opinions.
Rey describes Finn as her “Friend”, and while that certainly doesn’t mean it
Can’t Ever Happen, it is evidence against Rey having romantic interest in Finn (she’s probably never had friends before so that’s way more important to her
right now).
“But then they’ll headcanon a Tragic Whiteboy
Backstory for the kid that said literally 8 words to the main character.”
What exactly is a Tragic Whiteboy Backstory in the SW universe? What does that
mean?
It’s true we don’t know much about Kylo, but – I mean, he descends from the Skywalkers,
so yeah it’s really not much of a stretch to assume his backstory is tragic.
And from what little we see of him, he’s a reasonably complex character with
huge ramifications for the entire concept of the Light and the Dark and the
nature of the Force.
There are overtly sexual overtones between Rey and Kylo, Disney has basically
taken the classic/dated presentation of sexual awakening (see: Death and the Maiden.
[Better yet, see this massive in-depth analysis that I’m frankly still in awe
of https://ohtze.tumblr.com/post/137735730948/death-and-the-maiden]), and used
it, rather brilliantly in my opinion, as an allegory.
It’s not a sexual Awakening that Kylo
provides Rey, but The Force Awakens likes to present it that way and poke fun at the
whole concept. Maybe Kylo and Rey will get together at some point maybe not,
but the way their relationship is presented in the film makes that conclusion difficult
not to reach.
It’s entirely possible the only reason it’s being presented this way is for the
sake of parodying that sort of story, but regardless of the intent – it’s
there, and I don’t understand why anyone is surprised or offended that it’s a
very very popular ship. And yes, Kylo is a bad dude, but SW is all about redemption,
in case you hadn’t noticed.
Lots of people ship Finn and Poe, actually.
There are certainly people who don’t, and a lot of those people are likely homo
‘phobic’ bigots, but some are just people who legitimately “don’t see them that
way”, and that’s fine.
That being said, yep, the Star Wars fandom is full of racists and sexists and
other terrible people, like most fandoms, just – much bigger and older.
Typically I find the works that teach the best morals have the worst fans. Star
Wars, My Little Pony, Steven Universe, Christianity, etc. The more the core
message is Love, the more likely people will be to completely miss the point and spread hatred in its name.
But I digress.
Anyways, the point is: Rey/Finn is evidently the most popular ship so relax.
Rey/Kylo is fine. Kylo has the potential to be an incredible character.
Finn/Poe is doing well too.
People have different ships and that’s okay.
Not *everyone* who disagrees with any of these ships is a bad person, even
though some definitely are.
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Oh no. Oh no, what? Wrong fuses.
‘Rey’s such a bad character, she’s such a Mary Sue, she never makes any mistakes that puts herself or the other main characters in peril, she doesn’t have any flaws, she’s so boring,’
JainaSolo1994 
