Someone else's very interesting Rey idea
I ran across this theory on Tumblr today which posits a very interesting question.
To wit, what if the "family" who left Rey on Jakku was Kylo Ren, after he couldn't bring himself to kill her?
Now, I'm not 100% in agreement with all this person's points, but some of them are mighty persuasive, not least being:
Unkar was not a guardian - she was practically trapped in a role as an indentured servant with barely enough to eat. Does this strike you as a situation a caring parent would leave their child in even temporarily? I don’t care how desperate the parent was - there’s no way they couldn’t have found someone more suitable to look after her. No, this, to me, looks like something a stupid, panicking teenage boy would do who’s in way over his head.
I haven't mentioned it in my previous post or any of the comments because I hadn't made it make sense in my head, but Rey's stubborn, dare I say compulsive, insistence that she has to stay on Jakku has the ring of a belief imposed on her from outside. I haven't been able to come up with a scenario in which I can buy that being Luke's doing, but the ham-handed work of panicky teenage Kylo? Absolutely. And I can also easily buy him tampering with his own memory to further erase the evidence of his betrayal/failure.
There are logistical issues that I'm having trouble seeing a way around at this point, particularly how/when -- presuming this is his little cousin we're talking about (I'm not convinced they're siblings, but it's still plausible) -- he got to Han and Leia and Chewie too.
But it's interesting, and I figured some of you would think so too.
To wit, what if the "family" who left Rey on Jakku was Kylo Ren, after he couldn't bring himself to kill her?
Now, I'm not 100% in agreement with all this person's points, but some of them are mighty persuasive, not least being:
Unkar was not a guardian - she was practically trapped in a role as an indentured servant with barely enough to eat. Does this strike you as a situation a caring parent would leave their child in even temporarily? I don’t care how desperate the parent was - there’s no way they couldn’t have found someone more suitable to look after her. No, this, to me, looks like something a stupid, panicking teenage boy would do who’s in way over his head.
I haven't mentioned it in my previous post or any of the comments because I hadn't made it make sense in my head, but Rey's stubborn, dare I say compulsive, insistence that she has to stay on Jakku has the ring of a belief imposed on her from outside. I haven't been able to come up with a scenario in which I can buy that being Luke's doing, but the ham-handed work of panicky teenage Kylo? Absolutely. And I can also easily buy him tampering with his own memory to further erase the evidence of his betrayal/failure.
There are logistical issues that I'm having trouble seeing a way around at this point, particularly how/when -- presuming this is his little cousin we're talking about (I'm not convinced they're siblings, but it's still plausible) -- he got to Han and Leia and Chewie too.
But it's interesting, and I figured some of you would think so too.