carbonylcookie:starksren:I’m Rey.#I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about how much I want r
carbonylcookie:starksren:I’m Rey.#I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about how much I want rey NOT to be a skywalker#I’ve heard arguments for both sides but ultimately I think that that this story#of this girl from nowhere who is no one becoming something brave and clear-eyed and bright; a true knight errant#and the new hope for something new—a new order a better sort of jedi#works better and truer if rey is just rey#this girl whose personal story is small and tragic and hers it belongs to her there’s no enormous galactic significance to it#she’s a girl left on a desert planet with her gaze turned up to the stars waiting for her family to come back to her#I don’t know the idea of rey skywalker bothers me I want her to be just her#with all the uncertain wide-eyed hoping and searching and aching and anger and strength#I don’t need her to be more than she is#in a weird way she could be the luke that luke wasn’t#because he was Important he was the destined child he was going to save the galaxy#but rey can be rey and still save the galaxy; alongside a stormtrooper whose programming didn’t take and a hotshot pilot who#just happened to be there#they can be enough#they can be more than enough (via notbecauseofvictories) -- source link
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