Thread by @stardustskywalk

"Rey admitted the truth about her parents, Rey Nobody is canon!!!!"

Have you all ever heard of the unreliable narrator trope? The trope (typically used in literature) where the narrator disbands that element of trust you expect from them and contradicts themselves? /1

Typically in this trope, you have to go back and figure out what's true and what's not true.

Both Kylo and Luke fit into this trope in TLJ. /2

From Luke's perspective, we figure out quickly that he's intentionally cut himself off from the Force after his First Lesson is unsuccessful and Rey turns to the Dark side of the Force.

Just as well, Luke seems to be hiding something from Rey the entire time. /3

It can be seen in his attempts to brush Rey off, in the deleted scene where he convinces her that a neighboring tribe of Caretakers comes and raids the island. Rey takes her lightsaber out and begins to intervene before discovering that it's a party instead. /4

Whilst all of this is happening, we see Rey and Kylo start to ease their tensions around each other before Kylo reveals to Rey a second perspective of the night that Kylo turned, in which Luke tried to kill Ben and Kylo intervened.

This is important. /5

Once Luke finally gives the actual events of that night, Rey decides that she can redeem Kylo and flies back to the First Order.

We've seen qualities in Luke that really represent the unreliable narrator trope. There's one last thing I want to bring up about Luke, though. /6

When Yoda comes and talks to Luke later, Luke states that he "can't be what [Rey] needs her to be". Combined with the fact that he seemed ready to open up to her after reconnecting to the Force, there's definitely something there and I think Luke wanted to protect Rey. /7

We don't know what he wanted to protect her from, but that's where we discuss Kylo.

Kylo (from what we know) wanted Rey to turn to the Dark side. We see it when he kills Snoke and asks her to join him, but we first see it when he says that Luke tried to kill him. /8

In doing this, Kylo provoked Rey. It didn't help that when they touched hands, it gave Rey an incomplete vision of redeeming Kylo which gave him and Snoke what they wanted: A second chance to end any chances of Luke saving the Resistance. /9

Once Kylo is ordered to kill Rey, he chooses to follow Rey's vision temporarily and kills Snoke. He then kills the Praetorian guards with Rey before deciding to convince her to join him. /10

Taking away any hopes of Rey's vision coming true by asking her to join the Dark side, he forces her to admit that her parents were no one.

While this could very obviously be true, I have a few issues with this. /11

First, Kylo gives her hope by stating that his Force vision when their hands touched was of seeing her parents. Since Rey's vision turned out to be a lie, I can't imagine that Kylo's turned out to be a lie either.

There's more, and this is just a base theory. /12

Assuming that Kylo did know who Rey's parents were and the Force vision was simply a lie, he could definitely twist that to his advantage. Rey has no memories of them herself (all she knows is waiting on Jakku). If he knows something, it does Kylo no good to tell her. /13

Using this to his advantage would seem convincing enough for Rey to join the Dark side, right?

However, we see Rey resist him and she leaves him to die, again.

Kylo is intentionally telling the story so that he is the victim! We can tell that isn't true. /14

I think he fits the unreliable narrator trope as well as Luke does: We see the parts and pieces come together but they turn out to mean something else in the end.

Is Rey someone important to the story's daughter? Personally, I think so. However, that's up to you to decide. /end

Supplemental reading:

TVTropes on unreliable narrators: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.…

TLJ case for Rey Skywalker: swshadowcouncil.com/the-tlj-case-f…

Also, don't forget to drink a glass of water and take care of yourself. 🔆😀