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CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Rey
Canon: Star Wars
Canonpoint: Post The Last Jedi
Character Age: 19

Appearance: n/a

Background/History: A basic rundown is here with additional content from The Force Awakens novelization as well as The Last Jedi novelization, and her section from Before the Awakening. A summary for Finn's story is first, but hers is right after his.

Strengths:

A good heart: Rey puts up a front a lot of the time, but it doesn't take much to see she's filled with compassion. 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.

Self-reliant: Probably the number one thing that got her through growing up on Jakku was learning to take care of herself. 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.

Endless hope: For most of her life, the only people Rey ever knew were people who went on to betray her or abandon her in some way. Her parents, the other scavengers at Niima Outpost, no one cared about anything but themselves and if that meant they saw her as something to use for their own gain, that's what they did. Despite this, and even though she's had nothing but proof that humans are always, always in it for their own selves, she hasn't lost the desire to find somewhere to belong. She's been burned but she keeps her heart open even though she'd deny it, always telling herself that it's the last time she lets someone in after they hurt her and never actually managing to hold true to that.

Weaknesses:

Denial of self: All through the first movie, Rey never stops insisting on staying mired in the past. She insists she's nothing more than a scavenger, nothing special, just a girl waiting for her family to come find her, and she's apparently content with never leaving Jakku. She vehemently denies there's anything special about her, even going so far as to literally run away from the path Maz Kanata tries to show her and flee from her newfound powers.

Bad attitude: As a defensive mechanism, Rey has perfected the art of keeping other people at a distance by being, at times, as mean as she possibly can be. She'll show people her teeth, shout at them or insult them, and just straight up ignore them if she thinks it might do the trick to keep them at arms length. After all, no one can hurt you if you don't let them in and if she just convinces everyone around her she's terrible company that should work, right?

The Dark Side: Just as she feels the call to the Light, Rey feels a call to the Darkness just as strongly. During her fight against Kylo Ren on Starkiller Base she keeps going after him after he's down, clearly defeated, and a voice is telling her to kill him. She never denies that desire, or the desire to kill in general, despite it being a very not-Jedi thing to feel. She doesn't hesitate when she feels the Dark Side pull her in on Ahch-To, choosing instead to follow where it guides her despite how Luke warns her over and over not to.

Fatal Flaw: Fear of being alone. Despite trying to show otherwise, all Rey really wants is a family. When she fails to find answers to who her family is, where they are, it tears her apart enough to accept comfort from someone she hates, her worst enemy, because at least if she has Ben to talk to she isn't crushingly alone.

Driving Force: Above everything, Rey believes in doing the right thing. It doesn't matter to her what road she has to take to get there, the things she'll have to do to reach her goal, because once she knows the right thing to do - whether that's return BB-8 to the Resistance to help them find Luke Skywalker and bring him back or defy the same man entirely to go and offer Kylo Ren a chance to turn to the light side once and for all, Rey does it. She fights tooth and nail, never willing to give up and willing to put herself in harm's way if it means she can tip the scales in the right direction.

Patron: Immediately, Diana stands out. The positives of being nurturing and protective are things that Rey doesn't readily show just anyone, but in her first scene with BB-8 she saves him, fixes his bent antenna, and even agrees to help him on his quest to find Poe despite trying to be cold and send him away.

On the other side of this, it takes a lot to break past Rey's guard to get to that point. Distant and introverted are absolutely traits of hers when she prefers to spend her time alone in her AT-AT rather than making lasting connections for the 19 years she's stuck in the same place, and if we're talking crude... well...

GAME INFORMATION

Setting Suitability: More than anything, Rey wants to find a place for herself, where she fits and who she is when she's forging that path for herself rather than allowing other people to tell her what she is or isn't. Having distance from her own world would help with that, and if the place she finds herself is somewhere she can fight for the greater good, she'd throw herself into that head first with no questioning. She wants to do the right thing and hey, being removed from home for long enough to take a breath and sit down and think about all the trauma she's been through over the last literal few days would be good for her.

Sample:

Her test drive toplevel is here, along with additional threads here and here