Rey

## Relevant Pages

**Rey**, also known as the Girl, the Scavenger and the Last Jedi, is a character in the *Star Wars series.* She is portrayed by Daisey Ridley and Cailey Fleming and débuts in the seventh film, and featured in the eighth
and ninth episodes.

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## History

Rey is born eleven years after the destruction of the First Death Star to unknown parents with Force-sensitive powers. At five years old, her parents trade their daughter for drings and leave her on the planet of Jakku. She grows up to be a Scavenger, hoping that one day, her parents will return. *(The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi)*

Finn reveals who he truly is and attempts to convince Rey to come with him. However, she refuses to abandon BB-8. Seeing he cannot convince her, Finn wishes her luck before leaving. The force within her grows as Rey suddenly hears the sounds of her younger self yelling. Rey later goes down into the basement of Maz's tavern and enters a chamber and finds a chest. She opens it up and finds a lightsaber inside. As Rey touches the Lightsaber, she witnesses Vader's and Luke's duel on Bespin, her family abandoning her on Jakku, the rise of the Knights of Ren, and Ren confronting her on Starkiller Base. As she falls down, Obi-Wan Kenobi calls out to Rey that these are her "first steps"

Maz comes from the tavern and sees Rey holding the lightsaber that called her. Maz later explains to Rey that the lightsaber once belonged to Anakin and Luke and now calls to her. Maz also looks into Rey and tells her that whoever she is waiting for on Jakku will never come back, but later tells her that someone else would be waiting for her: Luke Skywalker. Maz urges Rey to take the lightsaber, as it now belongs to her. However, Rey rejects Anakin's lightsaber and proclaims to Maz she will never touch it again. Rey later flees from the castle with BB-8 following her. Rey tells the little droid to go back, and proclaims that she must return to Jakku. Just as she is going to leave, Rey notices the First Order has found them and tells BB-8 to leave as she distracts the stormtroopers' tracks from BB-8 and follow her instead. Rey uses the gun that Solo gave her and begins shooting at the stormtroopers. Suddenly, she is cornered by Kylo Ren on the planet, who later mobilizes her with his Force Powers. He later demands to know where the Droid is until he probes through Rey's mind and notices she's seen the map. He renders her unconscious with his Force powers and carries her to his shuttle.

Waking up in an interrogation room, Rey comes face to face with Ren again. She demands to know where she is at and where her friends are at, but Ren tells her she is his "guest" and assures her he has no idea where they are at. Ren notices she still wants to kill him, and Rey tells him that is what happens when "you're hunted by a creature in a mask." Ren unmasks himself, which stuns Rey to see he is a normal human man. Ren asks her to tell him about the droid, but Rey attempts to diverge from that. He later reveals that the droid is carrying the map to Skywalker. During the interrogation, he uses the force to probe through her mind, surprising both of them that they recognize a certain energy in each other. Ren later notices that she is so lonely and afraid sees her dream of an island on the ocean, and realizes that she thinks Han Solo as a father figure she never had. Rey attempts to resist him, but Ren continued probing through her mind. Attempting to block him, she angrily tells him to get out of her head, however, Ren continues to probe through her mind to see the missing map. Rey continues to resist the Dark Jedi, claiming she will never tell him anything. Suddenly, Rey turns the tides against him: she ultimately uses her Force powers to block Ren from her mind and probes through his own. Rey notices that Ren is afraid that he will never be as strong as his grandfather as both of them look intensely at each other. He leaves to report to his master while he leaves a stormtrooper to guard Rey. However, using her newly discovered force powers, Rey is able to use the Jedi Mind Truck by releasing her from her restrains and having him leave his gun for her.

As she holds the Luke Skywalker lightsaber split in two parts, Rey asks leia how can they built the Rebellion based on their small group. However, Leia says that there is still hope in the galaxy and promises they will rebuild the Resistence from what they have now.

## Powers and Abilities

* The Force
	+ **Telekinesis**
	+ Mind Trick
	+ Mind Probe
	+ Force Vision
	+ **Force sense**

## Trivia

### Character notes

#### Etymology

* A last name has not been established for Rey.

#### Character notes

* Rey is nineteen years old, and is the same age Luke was in the original *Star Wars* film.
* Her old home was made of an X-wing used by the Rebel Alliance during the First Galactic Civil War.
* Unlike her predecessors Luke and Anakin Skywalker, who were both male, Rey is the first main protagonist to be female.
* Rey has a force bond between herself and Kylo Ren for unknown reasons.

### Production notes

* Her casting call name was Rachel. According to the call, she was young when she lost her parents, and "forced to make her way in a tough, dangerous town." She also has become "street smart and strong" and can "take care of herself using humor" and "thinks ahead".
* She was originally named Kira .
* Finn and Poe Dameron were originally companions of Rey, and were named Sam and John Doe.
	+ Rey and Poe later meet in The Last Jedi.

## References

1. ↑ *Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary*
2. ↑ *Star Wars: A New Hope*
3. ↑ *The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens*