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PLAYER
NAME: Ren
CONTACT: plurk @blahblahren
ARE YOU 18 OR OLDER: yes

CHARACTER
NAME: Rey
CANON: Star Wars
AGE: 19
CANON POINT: Post The Last Jedi

HISTORY:

A basic rundown is here with additional content from the novelization of the movie and her section from Before the Awakening. A summary for Finn's story is first, but hers is right after his.

PERSONALITY:

The underlying theme to Rey is one of isolation. She's lived on her own on a sparsely populated desert planet with no one to give her any assistance or guidance since she was a small child, and it's turned her into a woman who can and prefers to take care of herself. She'll get her own food, take care of her own health, and look after herself and what belongs to her before she'll extend her focus to helping others. Her own survival comes first, it always has, and there's no budging on this for her. She doesn't trust easily, doesn't like to be coddled, responds with disbelief and sometimes outright derision when anyone shows concern about her, and loathes the idea of ever asking for help.

But that doesn't mean she's cold or heartless. She leaps into action to save BB-8 from a scavenger, though the novelization does tell us she does only commit to cutting him free of the net he's been trapped in because she's been insulted and she finds that kind of rudeness unforgivable. A further exploration of this in the form of an animated short shows that she goes out of her way to protect BB-8 from a creature in the desert that tries to eat him, and shows her understanding that the creature was only hungry and has her go so far as to even feed it, in a moment of compassion. She makes the decision herself to help the droid complete his mission and sees it through despite desperately wanting to return to Jakku to go on waiting for her family, and even goes so far as to try to convince Finn not to give up on their task just because he's afraid. She is too, she's terrified she'll miss the chance to reunite with the family that left her behind, but finishing what she started with BB-8 is the more important thing to do and she's willing to sacrifice to get the job done.

She also doesn't have the highest opinion of herself. She insists she's just a scavenger while piloting a big ship like the Millennium Falcon well enough to impress Han Solo and she can count on one hand with fingers left over how many times she's done something she takes pride in. In her opinion, she's just a girl that scratches notches on a wall at the end of every day she's fought to keep herself alive and there's really not much redeeming about her.

What happens on Takodana is the turning point in Rey's life. She finally admits to herself that her family is never coming back, that the belonging she so desperately wants can only be found by looking forward instead of back. She'd turned down Han's offer to be his co-pilot, but she still starts to think of him as a father figure. He and Chewbacca had been heroes to her after hearing stories about them from childhood, so being offered a job by her idol is something that she could have never imagined. Combining these things with a growing friendship with Finn just means that suddenly, for the first time, she's ready to consider a life that doesn't involve waiting on Jakku forever.

Then she touches Luke's lightsaber and the power of the Force finally fully awakens in her. When she learns from Maz Kanata that her destiny will lead her to a bigger role than she'd ever considered possible for herself, her immediate response is to reject it. She literally runs from it, because in her mind there's no way she can handle something so big. Minutes after begging Finn not to give up, not to run, she does the exact same thing.

Before she can get far, though, the First Order attacks. After a very one-sided battle with Kylo Ren she's captured and taken to their base and it's there she finally starts to accept her powers. She turns Kylo Ren's mind probe back on him through sheer force of will, mind tricks a storm trooper into unlocking her bonds and uses everything she learned on Jakku to stealthily escape... right into the arms of Finn, who has come there to save her with Han and Chewie. This is the first time anyone has ever returned for her, it's something she's wanted her entire life, and it once and for all cements her in the path to stick with them, no matter what. They're her family now, and for the first time she really feels like she belongs.

Now, finally looking forward and knowing that she has the strength of the Force at her back, that she has the support of Chewie and Finn and Leia at the very least, she has the resolve to see this destiny of hers through. She has hope for her future for the first time in her life, and every reason to believe that her life can be happy and filled with love instead of lonely and desolate.

Being that The Last Jedi takes place over a couple of days, there isn't much of a change in her core personality over that short a time period. The most notable shift in her is the way she starts to open up to the idea of Kylo Ren maybe being less of a monster, but it's not hard to tell she's not all that shocked when he doesn't turn to the light side in the end after all. What this shows is that even with him, a monster who she hates, she's willing to set aside her feelings and give someone a second chance if she believes there's something redeemable in them.

POWERS:

- the Force: Her grasp on the Force is still new, and she's mostly untrained. Aside from a little bit of guidance from Luke, most everything she's figured out has been on her own, so while she can tap into the Force she tends to struggle to do it well. She can influence someone through the Force and implant suggestions in their minds, but it takes more than one try. She can find it in herself to resist other Force users from exerting their will on her, but it's a struggle. She doesn't seem to have a problem pulling Luke's lightsaber to her in her final fight with Kylo Ren, but it also happens when it's that or watch him murder Finn. Most of her successes come from life or death situations, so as long as she's stressed out she'll probably be fine.
- quarterstaff training
- proficient piloting skills
- scavenging / repairing / building of mechanical items and ships
- speaks multiple alien languages and is very quick when it comes to picking them up

SAMPLES
1ST PERSON: Previous game network thread
3rd PERSON: From the TDM

MISC
PLANS: One of the things I'm most looking forward to is Rey learning how to work with people rather than always trying to do everything by herself. The events of the Last Jedi have left her in a place where that's something she needs to figure out pretty fast, so the chance to do it somewhere that time isn't quite so pressing will be a relief for her.
ITEM: her quarterstaff
CHARACTER @ID SUGGESTIONS: Themes of isolation are always good, and something to do with the jedi has the potential to be something that makes her flustered every time she has to answer those questions. She's still at a place where none of this makes sense to her, after all.
HOW DID YOUR CHARACTER JOIN COST? I'm gonna go with the no memories of it option!