https://m.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/3xfst7/the_force_awakens_theory_rey_is_not_who_we_think/

Link where I got the info so no it's NOT MADE UP BY ME

IM NOT EVEN SMART ENOUGH TO COME UP WITH THIS BY MYSELF & I'm still typing in caps omg !!

Anyways a friend of mine had me thinking about it and I got to say it's been bothering me all day now that I had to look it up

So here's the article / theory:

I'm probably the last one to find out about this but omf I just had to share

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The Force Awakens theory - Rey is not who we think she is

In the new film we are introduced to Rey, a wonderful character who is smart, funny, and likeable. You can tell a lot of work went into writing her character to connect her with the audience in a meaningful way, and she is clearly the protagonist of this new trilogy.

We aren't given much information on who she is, though. We know she is essentially orphaned on Jakku, isolated from the rest of the galaxy and is not willing to leave the planet because she is waiting for her family. Rey is desperate for a father figure, and is beyond horrified when Kylo Ren kills Han Solo. We know family is important to Rey.

She's also a skilled pilot, a gifted fighter, a natural force user, and treats droids with respect. She would rather go hungry than sell a droid she knows nothing about and only just met. She uses the force without any training or experience, and beats (an admittedly wounded) Kylo Ren in a lightsaber battle. We know Rey is powerful and compassionate.

Rey is also an incredibly skilled mechanic. She fixes the Millenium Falcon on the fly multiple times without a second thought. When she does this, Han Solo looks at her in a very peculiar way. Here's a ship that spent a good long time being garbage, and before that had complicated mechanical issues that Han Solo and Chewbacca couldn't solve throughout the entire Empire Strikes Back. We know Rey is good a fixing things, it's second nature to her.

So who is Rey? Right now the going theory is that she is Luke Skywalker's daughter, and perhaps had her memory wiped after being trained by him some time ago. I don't think either of those are right. I think we are meant to assume she's Luke's daughter, but if it were that simple there would be no reason not to reveal it in TFA. So what's my theory? Rey is Darth Vader. She is Anakin Skywalker reincarnated through the Force.

This explains why Rey looks like Shmi Skywalker, why she is so naturally powerful and so in tune to the Force, and why she exhibits skills that are so in line with who Anakin Skywalker was before his fall to the dark side. Anakin Skywalker was meant to be the chosen one who will bring balance to the Force, yet he technically failed in that mission. The Jedi were destroyed and the Empire rose to power wielding a super weapon that threatened the galaxy. Darth Vader redeemed himself and killed the Emperor, sure. He saved his son and set the stage for the Jedi to return to the galaxy. Yet 30 years later there are no Jedi, Luke Skywalker is a myth and the dark side is rising again, this time with an even more terrifying super weapon that threatens the galaxy.

There is a reason Rey has vivid force visions that we see, like Anakin Skywalker did in the prequels. She has a powerful connection to Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber because it's her lightsaber. It's why one of the first things she sees during her vision is Cloud City because it was the first step that turned Vader to the light. Leia is wary of Rey at first because she was once Darth Vader, but they embrace like family at the end after Han Solo's death. Leia is reminded that family redeemed Vader, and family will save her son because that connection is more powerful than the dark side. It would go a long way toward redeeming Kylo Ren in the end if Rey is Vader since he reveres him in an almost religious way. Kylo Ren will never be the one to assume Vader's legacy because he doesn't honor what Vader truly was - an honorable man that lost everything because he wanted to save his family, and when tested could not stand by and watch his son die.

So why did the Force bring the chosen one back? Snoke is Palpatine, it's that simple. The Force was never balanced because Palpatine either never died, or he found a way to bring himself back from the dead using the dark side. The timing makes sense. Rey is about 20 years old, it took Qui-Gon around 10 years to bring himself back, and TFA is set 30 years after the Emperor's assumed demise. It explains why the First Order is bent on having a Death Star-esq super weapon and why Snoke considers using a clone army.

Basically, it would bridge the prequels and original trilogy to the new films, and would complete a cycle of birth, death and rebirth, allowing Anakin Skywalker to fulfill his destiny as a Christ like figure, and go a long way toward paying the galaxy back for his crimes. Rey will fulfill the destiny of the chosen one as she finally saves the galaxy from the dark side. It's all in the very first line of dialogue from The Force Awakens: "This will begin to make things right."

Edit: Seriously, watch the movie with this theory in mind and you'll see so many moments with Rey that are Anakin Skywalker callbacks. The way she looks at the lake on Maz's planet, or wears that helmet like a kid, or gives Kylo Ren a Vader like kick, and the way she holds her lightsaber, or the way her breathing is emphasized when she starts using the force against Ren. She is Darth Vader, there is no doubt in my mind about this

Although some speculate that she may be Obi-Wans granddaughter... There's a lot of theories but in reality we don't know the real truth

Here's the clues to why she may be his granddaughter

clues:

The accent

The only two "good guys" in the entire series who have British accents are Obi Wan and Rey (if you exclude C3PO). This likely isn't an accident since other British actors (i.e. John Boyega, Liam Neeson) perform with American accents.

The Jedi mind trick scene

The scene in which Rey persuades her Stormtrooper (007) captor to open her cell door and drop his weapon strongly echoes Obi Wan's successful uses of the Jedi mind trick in both the OT and Prequels -- one of his signature abilities. This is not the plot twist you're looking for.

Poking around Starkiller Base

The scenes of Rey scaling the walls and tip-toeing around the First Order's Starkiller HQ echo Obi Wan in A New Hope sneaking around the Death Star and disabling the tractor beam. A superficial homage to Episode IV or a breadcrumb leading to answers about the Third Trilogy's protagonist?

"Ben Solo"

The only reference to Obi Wan in The Force Awakens comes with the reveal of Kylo Ren's real name: Ben. That climactic moment serves to highlight two key things: 1) a reminder of the overall importance of "Old Ben" Kenobi to the broader Star Wars story, and 2) the notable absence of any references to Obi Wan up until that moment -- the only major A New Hope character not to get a prior visual cameo or major plot point (so we think). This omission looks like a filmmaker's "sleight-of-hand," guiding us away from a reveal about Obi Wan later in the new trilogy.

But the clues continue to pile up, addressed here.

Similar costumes between Rey and Obi Wan (in the Prequels).
Both Ewan McGregor's and Alec Guinness's voices appear in the key basement lightsaber flashback scene at Maz's.
And, lastly, JJ Abrams has suggested that Rey's loneliness is a key to her origin, likely a referencing Obi Wan's status as a lonely hermit between Episodes 3 and 4. Unless Rey is Yoda's granddaughter but probably not.
Sure, these are all basic clues that could easily be discounted, but there's ample fodder with which to rack your brain...

"How satisfying would that be to learn that the nine episode arc is really, underneath it all, about the Kenobi family and not the Skywalkers?"
The deeper strain of this "Rey Kenobi theory," however, is rooted in the concept that Star Wars has always had a certain narrative symmetry: good versus evil, light versus dark, small versus big, faith versus technology. Characters even refer to bringing "balance to the force." These patterns abound in the Star Wars universe, appearing again and again in both minor and major ways. Many have even been critical of how closely The Force Awakens mirrors earlier narrative patterns and beats. That criticism is fair, but it's being used for intentional effect to both guide and misguide and play with our assumptions and expectations.

With that said, here are the juicier reasons why Rey being Obi Wan's granddaughter would ring true and be so satisfying to the completion of the story:

Symbolism of the lightsaber

While the movie seems to imply that Rey's inheritance of Luke's blue lightsaber is a "passing of the torch" from one Skywalker to another, we shouldn't forget who gave Luke that lightsaber in the first place: Obi Wan. The lightsaber had been in Obi Wan's possession for 20-30 years or so between Episodes 3 and 4, and is even presented to Luke from a wood chest similar to the chest later seen in Episode 7 in Maz Kanata's castle-bar (yet another clue). It is Obi Wan's passage of the lightsaber to Luke, along with encouragement to learn the force that propels the entire story forward. This key scene in Episode 4 (arguably the most important scene in all seven movies) even includes Obi Wan's misdirection about Luke's father, a narrative trick repeated in The Force Awakens.

All that being said, think about how much more poignant Episode 7's final scene of Rey handing Luke his own lightsaber becomes if it's again a Kenobi reuniting a Skywalker with their weapon, compelling them back to the fight. Of course we all know that the burden of the lightsaber is now Rey's whether she wants it or not...

Reversal of the mentors

It wouldn't be wild speculation to assume that Luke will now train Rey in the ways of the Jedi in Episode 8. If Rey is a Kenobi (admit it, you're convinced), this would be a profound and emotional reversal of the role of mentor and teacher: a Kenobi training a Skywalker followed by a Skywalker training a Kenobi. Narrative symmetry.

Parallels to Kenobi vs. Skywalker duels

Both Episodes 3 and 4 end with fateful duels between Obi Wan and Anakin/Darth. While there are certainly duels between Skywalkers (5 and 6), I'd suggest that Rey and Kylo Ren's duel at the end of 7 becomes much more dramatic if we eventually learn that they are refighting the battle of their grandfathers, not two battling cousins or siblings.

Depth of Obi Wan as a character

One obvious question that grows from the "Rey Kenobi theory" is: with whom would Obi Wan have had a child? When? Like monks, aren't Jedi's supposed to resist attachments? Despite Obi Wan's significant role in the first six movies, we know surprisingly little about him and what makes him tick. A backstory (uncultivated in I, II & III) about a forbidden love, perhaps, can enrich and deepen his character in surprising ways. It might answer another question: what was Obi Wan doing while in hiding for those 20-30 years before finally connecting with Luke on Tatooine? Maybe he wasn't the lonely hermit that we thought.

The twist of the series

Assuming that Rey isn't just the hero of this new trilogy, but also the character that ultimately brings "balance to the force", the reveal that Rey is a Kenobi and not a Skywalker, as we're being led to believe, would be the twist of the entire nine episode arc.

We're told at many points in the Prequels that Anakin Skywalker was "the chosen one" -- the Jedi who would bring balance to the force. Not only was this obviously false, but in Episode 7 we've essentially learned that Luke has also failed miserably in his attempt to bring peace to the galaxy. Luke's Jedi training of Ben Solo (a Skywalker descendant) was clearly such a disaster that it turned him to the dark side.

In all, the Skywalkers are a pretty mixed bag: powerful, but emotional, petulant and frequently tempted by the allure of evil. It's Ben Kenobi in the earlier episodes that is truly virtuous, noble and pure of heart. He's our true hero. He's incorruptible. He sacrifices himself at the end of A New Hope to show Luke the power of faith in the force, saving him and the galaxy in the process.

Wouldn't it then make complete narrative sense for a Kenobi (Rey) to be the true hero of the saga -- perhaps even saving the soul of another conflicted Skywalker (Ben Solo/Kylo Ren) later in the new trilogy? How satisfying would that be to learn that the nine episode arc is really, underneath it all, about the Kenobi family and not the Skywalkers?

My favorite moment in the series comes in Episode 5 when Luke has abruptly and hastily cut short his training and Force Ghost Obi Wan laments, "That boy is our last hope." Yoda replies, "No... there is another..."

Written originally to be a reference to Leia, how dramatic would it be for the "another" to ultimately mean a Kenobi? After all, we do learn pretty quickly in Episode 7 that Leia never becomes a Jedi. If Rey is a Kenobi and if by the close of Episode 9 she's brought "balance to the force," then all of the previous movies take on a new meaning. Even Obi Wan's Force Ghost from Episodes 5 and 6 takes on a much more spiritual purpose than to just provide convenient story exposition. If Rey is revealed as a Kenobi, it changes the entire paradigm of the series.

While of course the "Rey Kenobi theory" is just a nerdy (very nerdy) theory and could easily be false, in my opinion it's just too potentially satisfying to be ignored. If the narrative patterning (nostalgic borrowing from the OT) from Episode 7 is carried into the next movies, I'm guessing (hoping) this will be revealed in Episode 8 --  the big twist that people will be talking about for days, weeks and years into the future.