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OOC
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IC
Name: Rey
Canon: Star Wars
Canon point: immediately after her death in Rise of Skywalker
Age: 20

History: here

Personality:

Positive:

- 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.

- Endless optimism: 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.

- 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.

Negative:

- Isolationist: As a defensive mechanism, Rey has perfected the art of keeping other people at a distance by being, at times, quite unkind. She'll show people her teeth (literally), 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? While this does improve to a small degree during her time training with Leia she is still very much more likely to isolate than be a part of the team.

- The Dark Side: Just as she feels the call to the Light, Rey feels a call to the Dark side 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. Again this tendency to wish to do violence is called out during her confrontation with Palpatine, all of it combining into one big ball of anger who every now and then would like to do a murder.

- Self-doubt: For a large portion of her life, Rey stays mired in the past. She sees herself as 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. It isn't until it's impossible to deny her connection to the Force that she seeks training, but even once she has she still doesn't entirely trust herself and fully believes it wouldn't be impossible to fall to the dark side.


Powers/Abilities:

- the Force: Rey is now a Master in the Force, which gives her the abilities to do things like read and influence minds, perform various acts of telekinesis, heal, and fight with a lightsaber. While she also has the ability to use Force lightning, this power is something that is uniquely Palpatine-esque and something she will not purposefully try to use.
- 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


Regret: Being unable to rely on others and that translating into all of the running away from them to deal with her problems on her own. If she had been able or willing to ask for help or maybe not argue so much about accepting help her life would have been so much easier.

Suitability: The easy answer to this would say the Force and the ability to use Rey as a front lines fighter, which is definitely true but also not all she could contribute. With her powers she's also an incredibly valuable resource when it comes to healing and protection, with her ability to read minds and extract information or tell if people are lying. She's a soldier, yes, but she would also fall into spy or medic roles just as easily. She also has extensive knowledge of how to repair and improve star ships, not to mention piloting them, and she's a deft hand at most mechanical things.

Inventory: the clothes she was wearing and also Luke and Leia's lightsabers

Sample:

- TDM THREAD


Sometimes, when she closes her eyes and lets her breathing even out, she sees the lightning. In arcs from her fingertips or like a branch of violet heat stretching above her, she sees it burned across her eyelids like some sort of awful nightmare she can never wake up from. The legacy of a Palpatine, something that had, she had thought at the time, caused the death of of those she thought of as family.

It's awful to think of that transport Chewie had been on, the foolish tug of war between her and Kylo Ren, the desperation that had twisted her grasp of the Force into a perversion of power just because she pushed too hard. She's terrified of that part of herself still because it's still there, even now. She is and always has been equal parts Light and Dark, too brash and too prone to heated anger to really feel like she has a right to call herself the last Jedi. It's only because of Leia's faith in her that the mantle doesn't feel stolen, entirely unearned, but it still doesn't always feel exactly right.

She doesn't feel like just Rey as much anymore, either. She feels the connection to the Resistance so strongly now, loves her found family too much to ever do what Luke had done and run from them, but has she earned the right to take his last name? She isn't sure of that, not yet. Neither a Skywalker or a Palpatine, but certainly more one than the other. This place, as odd as it is and as difficult as it seems at times, offers her a new path. It gives her the time and the chance to learn which path feels like hers, takes away the pressure of having to come up with all the answers to questions people far better than her struggled with.

She may close her eyes and see lightning, but she sees the Force winding through all living things as well. Balance.

She can do with a little bit of that.