Rei is Han Solo's daughter.

dizzyur said:
What if she ends up being Luke's kid tho

Jaina Solo Fel was a Human female Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order, member of the Jedi High Council, the wife of Jagged Fel, the twin sister of Jacen Solo and the older sister of Anakin Solo. Born to Han and Leia Organa Solo, she inherited her father's mechanical aptitude and her mother's Force sensitivity, resulting in her eventual training at the Jedi Praxeum. During her time there as a youth, she had many adventures, including helping to thwart the Second Imperium, where she helped Zekk abandon the dark side of the Force and join the ranks of the Jedi.

dizzyur said:
What if she ends up being Luke's kid tho

Nyarlathothep said:
... But Han Solo didn't seem to know her at all. Nor did Leia.

I once saw a theory saying Rei was Anakin's reincarnation. I liked the theory, even if it seems unlikely.

MortalMelancholy said:
Wat? So you're telling me that:
+=!!!???!?

Blackheart said:
I dont think shes hans daughter, it suits the narrative more to have her be skywalkers. The only thing that made me think it might be was the fact she had parents and they left her on jakku. I guess if she is hans seeing her father die might turn her to the darkside which might be a good plot device for the last films.

Lothloran said:


And while, yes... Yoda said that a Jedi NEVER attacks only defends, we've seen many examples of Jedi attacking as long as it preserved the greater good, such as in the clone wars or during the chaos that ensued after Order 66 was passed, we see Yoda straight up decapitate two clone troopers.

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Clebardman said:


Ninja'ed T__T. I came here just to post this.

Here, have a kawaii Rei gif:


Best grill in the whole world, 3d included.

HapHazrD said:
You give Abrams way too much credit.

Lothloran said:

You're probably right. I'm sure the next film or two will reveal how right you are. :( I'm just hopeful that he has SOME respect for the greater story of Star Wars and doesn't completely sodomize it's ravaged corpse.

HapHazrD said:


Talking about sodomy, I'm not too familiar (understand mostly ignorant) with the extended universe, but is there a notourious gay couple in it ? Cause I remember seeing Abrams was pretty adamant about making one appear.

It has been stated that from April 2014 onward, all released material should be considered canon unless stated otherwise

Lothloran said:

As far as I know... in terms of Lucas Canon, it goes G-Canon: For George Lucas canon, anything in the original 6 films and anything else published or unpublished that Lucas oversaw or had any involvement with
Then T-Canon, for the television series,
C-Canon for continuity canon, this is where SOME LGBT characters exist in video games. Specifically in Knights of the Old Republic it was possible for Juhani to profess her love to either a male or female.
And in KotORII Luxa and Belaya were lesbians. That's pretty much as far as it goes.
There's some debate about Goran Beviin in the Legacy of the Force series being in a gay relationship with Medrit Vasur...

So... yes but it's not strictly *serious* canon. Since the games have definitely deviated from the higher levels of Canon before.. Rogue Squadron and X-Wing being prime examples of this.
According to the official Canon list released by Kathleen Kennedy, NONE of the Legacy of the Force novels are main canon, and certainly none of the games are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon

HapHazrD said:


Ok so seeing as there was talk about a Poe/Finn romance and both actors actively encouraged it, that Rei/Poe (Jaina/Jagged) romance may be already thrown aside.

My best guess is they took their ideas of characters from the extended universe and remodeled them to fit their agendas. If Rei was really Kylo's sister, more than a surprise, it would be a disappointment to me. I mean they already made a copypasta from episode 4 to 7, they don't need to take the same sibling relationship.

SaturdayKrush said:
Rey being Han Solo and Leia's daughter makes no sense. It's never mentioned in the movie that they even have other children.

Han Solo and Leia express no familiarity with Rey either. They don't know who she is.

Rey was abandoned on that planet long ago and has since been waiting for her family to return.

Why would Leia and Han Solo abandon their daughter and never go back for her on the planet they left her in?

Why kill off Han Solo and miss a possible family reunion?

None of it makes any sense. The Force Awakens had a terrible plot and Rey was OP from the very beginning. She pilots Han Solos ship better than him despite it being her first time, is able to use the the force mind ability with zero training and beat the main sith villian in not only a duel but read his mind and block his mind reading abilities. Overall a terrible edition to the franchise.

More importantly why does Fin have an upbeat and emotional personality when he was training to be a stormtrooper since he was a child. What the actual fuck?

Lothloran said:


LOL why? why would they abandon her? Because she's Jedi and Kylo Ren wiped out ALL the Jedi Luke was training. D. U. H.
The reason Leia didn't even acknowledge familiarity with her (even though she DID when Han died, the way they spoke implied a MUCH more intimate relationship than "Hey, I just met you and this is crazy, Han is dead, killed by his baby!")
Would be to protect her from the attention if it came out to the public that she was force sensitive.

DUH
D. U. H

Plus you just answered your own questions. The story itself was sloppy... if the story were told perfectly then maybe your point would be much more valid, but as it were, the whole thing is so murky and poorly written, any argument like "It doesn't make sense" and I'd be like "well... yeah, and? None of it makes sense but this is plausible based on the extended universe that Abrams is drawing material from"

I also said that Rey could be Lukes daughter because they DID swap Ben Skywalker for Ben Solo, making Lukes son's name Han Solo's son's name, it would leave a space to gender swap the Skywalker child.
However, that would totally destroy the established continuity that Abrams is drawing from, because I'm telling you this, pretty much everything in the Ep. 7 film is just a re-named person/location/thing from the original G/T/C levels of canon. ;0

I would be extremely disappointed if she were Luke's daughter simply because Ben Skywalker doesn't even learn from Luke to begin with, Jacen solo is his first master, and the way Ep. 7 ended it doesn't look like Rey is going to take up learning from Kylo Ren.

Of course, Abrams IS telling his own story... and none of that matters, the point is he IS still using the extended universe as a basis for his script.

ViolettSky said:


This was my impression all along, I doubt she's his daughter

SaturdayKrush said:


Luke was training Kylo Ren until he rebelled. Rey is almost the same age he is. The theory doesn't make sense.

Ezekiel said:
I highly doubt she's Luke's daughter because that would be far too predictable and bad writing. I don't think even JJ Abrams, as a writer, is that dumb. Everyone is expecting this. She may have been trained by Luke Skywalker, but I believe that's it. I hope she's not related to anyone from the previous movies. The galaxy is huge. Why does everything need to be connected?

Lothloran said:


Because the material he based the script on from the extended universe.

Soul-Master said:
Pretty sure the extended universe isn't really cannon. The only thing that truly matters are the 7 movies released thus far and the ones upcoming.

G-canon was George Lucas canon: Considered absolute canon, it included Episodes I–VI (the released films at that time), and any statements by George Lucas (including unpublished production notes from him or his production department that are never seen by the public). Elements originating with Lucas in the scripts, filmed deleted scenes, film novelizations, reference books, radio plays, and other primary sources were also G-canon when not in contradiction with the released films. G-canon overrided the lower levels of canon when there was a contradiction.

T-canon was Television canon:[7] referred to the canon level comprising only the animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the two television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Its precedence over C-Level canon was confirmed by Chee.[8]

C-canon was Continuity canon: consisting of materials from the Star Wars expanded universe including books, comics, and games bearing the label of Star Wars. Games and RPG sourcebooks were a special case; the stories and general background information were themselves fully C-canon, but the other elements such as character/item statistics and gameplay were, with few exceptions, N-canon.

S-canon was Secondary canon: covering the same medium as C-canon, it was immediately superseded by anything in higher levels of canon in any place where two elements contradicted each other. The non-contradicting elements were still a canon part of the Star Wars universe. This included certain elements of a few N-canon stories.

N-canon was Non-canon: "What-if" stories (such as stories published under the Star Wars: Infinities label), crossover appearances (such as the Star Wars character appearances in Soulcalibur IV), game statistics, and anything else directly contradicted by higher canon ends up here. N-canon was the only level that was not considered official canon by Lucasfilm. Any published material that contradicted things established in G-canon and T-canon was considered N-canon.

SaturdayKrush said:
The movie feels like some sorta fan fiction with an enormous budget. Terrible writing and pacing through out.

Dandy-san said:
nah, I think she's Luke's daughter.

if she was Han's daughter why would her parents treat her the way they do? no reason, especially considering they know all about Kylo Ren and apparently raised him, and thus have no reason not to raise a daughter and drop her off somewhere instead

if she was Luke's kid it all makes sense, because Luke's been in hiding/exile/whatever after the Jedi school of his failed and didn't want to take his kid and risk her life being hunted during that, and left her with that alien to grow up. this also mirrors how he was treated by Obi Wan, left on a desert planet to be raised by locals for his own protection

I didn't put much thought into this though, so criticize it as you want

Dandy-san said:
woah, she was left to slave traders? I was under the impression he left her with the big junk dealer alien that she brings scrap to for food. unless he's the slaver? I only saw the movie once so I might've forgotten if he was a slaver or not

Dandy-san said:
oh shit, that is kind of slavery, I didn't even think of it like that, lol. I just figured they were paid in food because the scrap wasn't worth much and they stayed there cause they were too poor to afford a way off.

I guess I didn't think of it that way because everyone has freedom of movement

Dandy-san said:
lol, alright. well, Luke wouldn't leave his daughter with slavers then. do you think maybe she's not related to any of them?

Silverstorm said:
Han's kid? No, his reaction to her kinda displayed "Never had a long lost daughter".

Luke's kid? No, he would follow "the code" too much to reproduce. And I would dislike this, if it were the case.

Reincarnation? I hope not. I dislike this second only to the one sentence above.

And wasn't there a whole debacle about Disney removing all canon from the extended universe before 2012?

Silverstorm said:
I really wanted to see that video ;_;

#2- If the characters weren't mentioned from the films or shows from Lucas (at the time), then they can't be included in a serious discussion. Mara Jade is interesting cause she has validity til a point--she was never in media from Lucas himself. She made an appearance in outside media, even in a franchise video game as a secret character--but that doesn't make her character nor anyone from below T-canon "real". So Ben is just a character from novel based on a work, that the author likes at this point.

#3- I saw that, but it still doesn't make the past expanded universe anymore true, it almost just means there is a treasure-chest of plot points, and narratives that Disney can now dig in because it didn't really happen (Because they got rid of it, and now anything they release is the canon).

Lothloran said:


#2 Fair enough, but C-canon is still considered as legitimate in terms of defining the universe, even if Lucas himself doesn't recognize it, the fans do, Plus nothing in C-canon can contradict G-canon or else it becomes N-canon. While it might not be officially established, it's not officially denied either.
It really does come down to Disney saying "everything that happened before no longer matters" still though...

#3 That's also true, but JJ Abrams is too inept to come up with anything really original, I think we can safely assume he's going to borrow a lot from the discarded C and S canon, I mean... he can't shit on the series too badly or Disney is going to lose a LOT of money... Admittedly though, the group of people who really care is so small, that no matter what he does they're going to make tons of money. Ep 3 still made major money even after fans were disappointed with Ep 2... Smh.. They can do no wrong, but still. I like to believe that fans would condemn anything that seriously messed with the story as it's known.

Ezekiel said:
I highly doubt she's Luke's daughter because that would be far too predictable and bad writing. I don't think even JJ Abrams, as a writer, is that dumb. Everyone is expecting this. She may have been trained by Luke Skywalker, but I believe that's it. I hope she's not related to anyone from the previous movies. The galaxy is huge. Why does everything need to be connected?

ViolettSky said:


Because Star Wars is the story of a family, not of some random poor orphan girl from Tatooine, so it's not unlikely that she's related to someone