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I bet the people claiming that the Battlefront developers are ‘disrespecting’ Rey’s chosen identity by not calling her Rey Skywalker in the game are the same people who flat out refuse to call Ben Solo by his name even after he redeemed himself and rejected his Kylo Ren identity.

Also, Rey is a fake person. She didn’t “choose” anything. Shitty writing is shitty writing. This is the same bullshit logic as “oh well Ben ~chose~ to sacrifice himself for Rey so how can you criticize it” oh idk because Ben isn’t real? He was written by people whose writing choices I have every right to critique? If you can’t criticize a story because that’s disrespecting fake people then literary analysis is already dead. Fiction isn’t history. Someone sat down and made the whole thing up.

Rey Skywalker is a bullshit writing choice that turns SW into a “good victim/bad victim” purity narrative. And a grown woman “adopting” the name Skywalker after the whole family is dead, and dead specifically because they were targeted by her grandfather for their blood relation to each other as descendants of the Chosen One Anakin Skywalker, after the last blood Skywalker was thrown into a pit to die for the sins of his actual grandfather for no other reason than Ben was unfortunate enough to be born related to him which was also why he was targeted by Palpatine from birth…………is total bullshit. It reads like some kid finding a mass grave of a family execution and stealing their last name because that’s how we find our legacies now, by just taking them from people. They died for the sins of the legacy so you could LARP it without consequences.

And never mind that when Ben tried to deny who he was because who he was got a child predator in his head since birth, this was decried by the narrative and turned him into a villain. But when Rey does it….it’s fine. She can deny she’s a Palpatine and claim she’s a ~Skywalker~. But Ben never had the luxury to turn off and on when his legacy was going to make him the target of grooming and abuse. It’s vile and disgusting, because of the soulless thoughtless implications these hacks of writers couldn’t be bothered to care about. 

Rey Skywalker can get fucked.