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ST Rey's Lineage / Parentage / Name

Discussion in 'Sequel Trilogy' started by interxavier01, Dec 19, 2015.

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Who are Rey's parents?

  1. Luke and ????

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  2. Han and Leia

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  1. interxavier01

    interxavier01 Jedi Knight star 1

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    This is assuming that she is really Luke's daughter. (Not that I believe it's true but that's a different matter)

    With 30 years of back story needing to be uncovered, what is the story of Rey's mother? Is she dead? Is she still alive? Is she under Snoke's captivity?
     
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  2. Wonderllama

    Wonderllama Jedi Padawan star 1

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    I get the sense they're never gonna show her on screen. She's just this woman Luke met, maybe killed by Kylo Ren.
     
  3. interxavier01

    interxavier01 Jedi Knight star 1

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    The very reason I hate the idea of Luke being her father. A huge plot hole is left with Rey's mother.
     
  4. Markpro

    Markpro Jedi Knight star 1

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    Kylo Ren killed her when he turned to the darkside while Luke's padawan...maybe :cool:
     
  5. TheRevanchist

    TheRevanchist Jedi Knight star 2

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    Jacen Solo killed Mara Jade, right?

    Kylo Ren killed Luke's wife/lover, whoever is she.
     
  6. interxavier01

    interxavier01 Jedi Knight star 1

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    Pretty much everyone is leaning on the idea that Luke is her father. I don't see why JJ won't use another bait-and-switch like he did with Finn supposedly being force-sensitive. I remember when we first learned their names, people started calling Finn the new Luke Skywalker. The production team saw this and decided to show Finn with a lightsaber just to throw more people off.
     
  7. LadyPadme

    LadyPadme Manager Emeritus star 5 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    While I can see Luke as being her father, I actually prefer the idea of Rey being Han and Leia's daughter. For Luke to have a daughter, you'd have to spend the next movie (or two) going into Luke's backstory, to explain someone being Rey's mother, and why they were apart at the end and why Rey ended up being abandoned, and for Luke to have also loved and lost just like Han and Leia is far too much, IMO
     
  8. Darth Zane

    Darth Zane Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    My opinion is that we've already met or at least seen Rey's mother somewhere else, we just don't know it yet. When we find out who she is, it should reverberate back through canon and send tons of people off to buy what she's been in already. With that in mind, my top choices for Rey's mother are:

    -Felicity Jones' character from Rogue One (she's the only non-OT to be given a movie so far, the timeline matches pretty well, and she looks like Rey)
    -Aphra from Darth Vader (she's Vader's personal agent, a play on Mara Jade, she knows the story of Luke and Leia's mother, and she also looks like Rey)​
    -Shara Bey from Shattered Empire (Poe's mother; she's the least likely choice here, but she was given a lead role and that would make Rey and Poe half-siblings).​

     
  9. Darth-Seldon

    Darth-Seldon Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    That is a few lines of exposition in Episode 8. The look on Luke's face at the end of the film already shows that Luke has loved and lost. He is in exile having lost everything. This would just explain what he went through.
     
  10. LadyPadme

    LadyPadme Manager Emeritus star 5 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    But isn't it enough for Luke to have felt his failure with Kylo Ren and the end of his Jedi Academy as enough loss? Why does he also have to have loved and lost a woman and a child?
     
  11. DANNASUK

    DANNASUK Force Ghost star 7

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    This is why I don't think Rey is his daughter - a huge plot hole in who the mother is/was
     
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  12. Satipo

    Satipo Force Ghost star 7

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    Rey having an unknown mother as yet is not a plot hole. It's story we don't yet know.
     
  13. Bobatron

    Bobatron Jedi Master star 4

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    Isn't this 7SA or "Rey's Parentage" thread stuff?
     
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  14. Satipo

    Satipo Force Ghost star 7

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    Ah, yeah, sorry. My bad!
     
  15. stoteh

    stoteh Jedi Knight star 1

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    You're quite right, however this was in the marketing to the film that they threw us off. This is the ACTUAL movie that is implying she's Luke Skywalker's offspring, and if you watch it the second time (I just did last night), I dunno about you guys but I really really am more convinced that she's Luke Skywalker's daughter. I actually have a theory I will post in another more appropriate thread about it, that Rey actually knows this and is told offscreen by Leia just before she goes to meet Luke. The second time watching the movie really made me feel this if you watch Rey closely in the last few scenes.
     
  16. 11-4D

    11-4D Force Ghost star 5

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    There was no mother. Luke carried him, he gave birth, he raised him. He can't explain what happened.
     
  17. JediDrunk

    JediDrunk Jedi Knight

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    I don't see why people think it would be hard to come up with a plausible backstory for Rey's mother if she is indeed Luke's daughter. It could be as easy as Luke meeting someone/falling in love and then she dies during child birth. This could be done with a few lines of exposition.
     
  18. Darth Doop

    Darth Doop Jedi Master star 4

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    After a night of hard drinking on corucant, Luke wakes up with more than beer in his stomach. :p
     
  19. CnlSandersdeKFC

    CnlSandersdeKFC Jedi Knight star 2

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    Maybe, no, and no.
     
  20. CnlSandersdeKFC

    CnlSandersdeKFC Jedi Knight star 2

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    Rey: "What happened to my mother?"
    Luke: "Exposition. she died to Kylo."
     
  21. Vorax

    Vorax Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Rey is quite young in the movie, and Kylo if that scene is literal was an adult while she was a small child. Maybe she had no mother or father, she was born through the Force.
     
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  22. jaxxxxx

    jaxxxxx Jedi Youngling

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    I'll go with:

    Leia is not Luke's sister after all, nor is she Anakin's daughter. The princess was a decoy to protect the real twin daughter because that's how Padme's family history rolls.
    When Luke said to Obi-Wan that Leia is his sister, Obi-wan did not actually confirm or deny anything. And we know Obiwan has a history of deception by claiming
    that he sees the truth from a different point of view. Obi-wan obviously still wanted to keep the twin sister identity secret, even to the extend of pointing Luke in the wrong
    direction again. So that would make Rey the daughter of the real twin daughter of Anakin and Padme.

    Other than that theory, Rey is the daughter of Wedge, the best fighter pilot in the galaxy where there is no such thing as luck. This would make the third star wars series
    a winner in the populist category, opposite the empire and jedi entitlement system.
     
  23. Bran Kenobi

    Bran Kenobi Jedi Knight star 2

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    I think Rey's mother is Plasma. When she finds out they threw her in the trash compactor her journey to the dark side will be complete. :emperor:
     
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  24. andromedasteps

    andromedasteps Jedi Youngling

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    It'd make sense if Felicity Jones's character in Rogue One is Rey's mother. Rogue One is released in between TFA and Episode VIII, which would be a chance to explore the identity of Rey's mother without having to just leave it at some lines of exposition in Episode VIII. There's still the question of what happened to her afterwards during the time skip between the OT and the ST, though. Either she died in the backstory (killed by Kylo or something like that) or she's alive and plot-relevant, and I don't think we can get into the latter without just speculating about Episode VIII itself.
     
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  25. The Jaded Irk

    The Jaded Irk Jedi Knight star 1

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    Leia. Gotta keep the bloodline pure. Han wasn't happy!
     
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