

It was this willingness that led her to not only help BB-8 be free of Teedo's interference and Plutt's attempts to acquire the droid, but also led her to help BB-8 in its mission to return the star map it carried to the Resistance. Despite seeking out a meager existence in the scorching heat of the Western Reaches planet, Rey possessed a heart full of generosity and a willingness to help other people in need. The harsh realities of such a world like Jakku could have easily made a person cynical or guarded against sympathy and weaknesses, but not Rey. Rey is an extremely pure-hearted, kind, brave, heroic, and benevolent individual. She is portrayed by Daisy Ridley, who also voices Cottontail from the 2018 live action film Peter Rabbit and Mary Debenham in Murder on the Orient Express 2017, and by Cailey Fleming as a child, who also portrayed Judith Grimes from The Walking Dead. She then rejects her lineage and adopts the Skywalker surname to honor the ones she truly considers as family. However, just like Luke, she resists the dark side of the Force and, with the help of Ben Solo and the Jedi of the past, she defeats her grandfather. She also discovers that she is the granddaughter of Sheev Palpatine, the Emperor of the fallen Galactic Empire. She eventually succeeds in doing so, when she risks herself to save his life after their last duel on the ruins of the second Death Star, and Ben Solo is convinced to return to the light out of love for his parents and Rey. Upon learning what happened at the night that Ben Solo fell to the dark side, Rey becomes determined to bring Kylo Ren back to the light. She and Ben share a Force-bond, later revealed to be the result of them being two halves of a dyad in the Force. After discovering that she is an extremely powerful Force-sensitive being, she is trained in the Force by the reluctant Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and later by his sister Leia Organa.ĭuring her journey, she also develops a complicated relationship with the central antagonist who is the son of Leia and Han Solo, Ben Solo (known as the dark warrior Kylo Ren), as he is her archenemy but also her love interest. Rey begins as a scavenger of the desert planet Jakku until she encounters Resistance droid BB-8 and former stormtrooper Finn (FN-2187) as well as Han Solo and Chewbacca. She is a Jedi Knight that fights to help the Resistance.

She is one of the three protagonists (alongside Anakin and Luke Skywalker) of the Skywalker Saga, serving as the protagonist of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Rey, later known as Rey Skywalker, is one of the protagonists of the Star Wars franchise. ~ Rey confesses her feelings to Kylo Ren. I need someone to show me my place in all this. ~ Rey to Luke Skywalker about her Force powers. I don't know what it is or what to do with it, and I need help. Something inside me has always been there, but now it's awake.
