Star Wars Who should be Rey's Father? (NO Spoilers Please)

[Husky_Khan]

So your given the job of script doctoring TLJ before its release, mainly in doctoring the Rey parentage so it can be set up for the final two films of the Sequel Trilogy.

Make your choice and explain it below.

 

[prinCZess]

The Obi-Wan Kenobi idear always struck me as neat...But entirely and completely unworkable in any way that keeps the character heroic. Because child abandonment on shitty, sandy planet just makes him look like a jerk (particularly when contrasted with his treatment of Luke & Leia). I suppose there might be some kind of plot contrivance one could come up with to justify it, but one doesn't immediately occur to me and I worry any attempt would come off as contrived as it would have to be.

Honestly...I'd be tempted to lean hard into the cheesiness and make things 'rhyme' by having Rei be a lost-child found in the woods/desert/etc. by some junk-barge salesperson or other lowlife dude who serves as a father to her, because her actual mother/parents is/are...The Force! *distant thunderclap, the sounds of a million sufferers of PTSD from the prequels crying out at once, my own cackling as flames rise to greet me*
Maybe that's leaning too hard into the cheese, though.

On another tangent, I think it might've been fun to go real avant-garde with it. Make her Ackbar's kid, or Borrsk Fey'la's, or some other prominent alien (hell, even Chewbacca's!). Having a force-sensetive non-human as a main protagonist seems like it'd be a neat change-up to things. This kid who has to deal with being in the shadow of the people who were in the shadows of the 'big three' from the original trilogy, and then they end up with the indoctrinated killing-machine who rejected his place in life and the up-and-coming pilot of the new era in having to confront the bullshit of the Empire's remnants because Leia, Han, Luke and others are more highly-placed dealing with other issues (hyperspace trade routes, perhaps ) and being all commander-y (when they don't go all mentor-y/'don't worry kid, we were terrified reprobates with no idea what we were doing trying to live up to a higher calling ourselves back in the day too').

 

[FriedCFour]

Kylo Ren, and also herself. She should be her own father, Rise of Skywalker should be her falling in love and having a baby with Kylo, and then due to complications it should turn out she is intersex and then have a sex change to be a man. Then, her baby, which is Rey, should be sent back in time to Jaku along with her as Kylo to when Kylo was training to be a jedi. It turns out Kylo was just an implanted memory for Han and Leia, and she has to complete the time loop as a self contained organism of mother father, child, and archnemesis. Which also explains the force bond, because it was really a bond with themselves.

 

[Lanmandragon]

Dude Kirk being the father would ve glorious. The warsie salt would flow so hard it would create a singularity.

 

[Laskar]

Well, if I'm script-doctoring The Force Awakens, then I pull the old switcherooney and make Finn the force-sensitive grandson of Mace Windu. He's the one with the most interesting story anyway, so you might as well structure the sequels around him instead of Rey.

Rey's parents... I don't know. Maybe the interesting story isn't who her parents are, but who left her on Jakku. In that case, I would have altered the first movie's chronology to make it clear that there is something *really weird* about that planet. It's not a very well-known world, but people who do know it try not to stick around. And that crashed Star Destroyer Rey was scavenging looks like it's been there only a few years.

As it turns out, Jakku lies in a region of space where time passes slower. In the time that she's grown from a toddler to adulthood, the Galactic Empire rose, fell, and was reborn again in the First Order. She was a youngling being taken to the Jedi Temple when Order 66 was given, and the Jedi left her there with an acquaintance to keep her safe while he went to learn what happened. This is only hinted at in the first film, and confirmed in the second film.

In the second movie, while training with Luke Skywalker, Rey has Force-visions of the long-lost Jedi, and the acquaintance from Jakku who was supposed to watch over her. She sees the past and present, and sees that the Jedi had rescued something of great value and brought it to the desert planet for safekeeping.

Across the galaxy, guided by Snoke, Kylo Ren is having the same visions.

The third movie is a race to Jakku to find the woman who was supposed to raise Rey, but abandoned her and and pined for her lost friend. She is the link to the Jedi who returned to Jakku with a trove of records from the Jedi Temple, and just barely managed to hide them in a cave in the mountains before succumbing to his wounds.

 

[ShieldWife]

Rey: “Do you know who my father was?”

Spoiler

 

[Deleted member]

TRICLOPS!!!

 

[Deleted member]

 

[Husky_Khan]

Looks more like Tricolous to me... and we all know about his LIES regarding his alledged Palpatine lineage.

 

[Floridaman]

I vote for Jabba the Hutt, for pure lol’s.

 

[Deleted member]

Looks more like Tricolous to me... and we all know about his LIES regarding his alledged Palpatine lineage.

Trioculus, Triclops, Tricloculuous, whatever...