thelastjedicritical:

Headcanon time: 

This was inspiried by @lj-writes incredible meta about Finn being immune to the Force. 

Now of course this could simpy be an anomaly in the Force but I’m not a fan of “that’s simply how it is”, so I couldn’t help but connect this to the overall story and to a headcanon I’ve tried to somehow connect Finn to for a while.

First: I LOVE Jakku – much unlike Finn. 😀 One thing I love in particular are the dead-enders, why they are seemingly insane and what they might be guarding. 

We know, even thanks to TLJ LOL, that the First Order was looking for Force sensitive children and paid huge prices for them. But what for? A secret army? The only other Force sensitive beings we know of who are somehow connected to the FO right now are the Knights of Ren and they are Luke’s former students who joined Kylo. Of course it’s possible there are more of them now but I keep wondering if the FO wanted to do a little more with these children than train them. 

And here’s where my favorite Jakku theory comes in. There indeed is/was a secret Imperial Base on Jakku. In my headcanon it’s obviously connected to the Emperor’s original plans. In his need to control the Galaxy he started an experiment on Jakku that, if successful, would increase the Force powers of regular people to insane degrees to the point they could control physical matter entirely and alter reality. Obviously the experiment never worked, so the base essentially contained the machinery for a failed experiment. Since Jakku wasn’t, as originally planned, destroyed this set up stayed in place. 

Flash foward a few years… Snoke decides to continue the Emperor’s plans but  succeed this time. This includes the experiment. So the FO start kidnapping and buying not just children for the Stormtrooper program but also specifically Force sensitive children to build an army but also to continue the experiment. So they return to Jakku and begin to further develop the experiment, so that it works this time. Of course Snoke’s final goal is to make it safe and then use the devices on himself. However the experiment is extremely dangerous and it’s calculated that only people with a very high Midichlorian count can even surivive it, especially in the beginning stages. So the FO begin to kidnap and collect children with the highest Midichlorian numbers. This also explains Snoke’s interest in Kylo. He’s meant to be his final test subject before he transforms himself. Of course all test subjects who complete the experiment successfully are meant to be killed because the risks of just one of them turning against Snoke are too high. 

Finn and Rey – whoever she is could be up for debate, you know what my take would be – are part of a group of children the First Order wants to use for the experiment. While the experiment is being set up something goes horribly, horribly wrong. The FO personal loses control of the machines, everything sort of implodes and the entire energy created by them gets released into the surroundings. Most of the people there die, including the children. The only survivors are the dead-enders, Finn and Rey. The dead-enders who up to that point were FO officers who had been guarding the entrance of the base lost most of their memories, are injured and completely confused. Finn and Rey are wandering around confused and without any memories around the debris of the destroyed base. 

After a while a recovery team arrives. They find the confused dead-enders and two children who are still arrive. They quickly check if the experiment had any effect on Rey and Finn. To their disappointment the malfunction seems to have taken the girl’s Force abilities away completely but there is something odd about the boy.  They decide that without Force sensitivity or memories the girl is useless to them but they can’t bring themselves to kill her, so they leave her with Unkar Plutt and later tell Snoke that she died as well. The boy shows odd anomalities though, so they take him back to the FO to explore it further. They leave the dead-enders there, seeing they keep guarding the base since they’re aware some of the locals might’ve heard the explosion and could come looking. The idea is that whoever turns up to check what happened only finds the confused and injured officers and decides better not to look further. Which is exactly what happened. 

 Back in the FO’s headquarters It’s discovered that Finn is in fact absorbing the Force like a black hole and no Force user can influence him or use the Force on him. The FO officers advise Snoke to have the boy killed but he’s too curious about this unwanted result and decides he should be observed and hidden inside the Stormtrooper program. Almost nobody knows of his existence. Meanwhile Rey starts living a scavenger life on Jakku and after a few years the massive block the experiment caused to her Force abilities and her memories losens up when she’s sleeping. 

I can add several details to this but that’s truly the essence of it. I hope you like it a bit. 

OMG I love this. Such a creepy story possibility that actually answers the seeming coincidence of Rey being found on Jakku of all places. I can also imagine alternative versions–maybe Finn and Rey were both trying to hide and actually got away for a while before the soldiers caught up to them, and Rey, hidden better because she was smaller, helplessly watched as Finn was taken away. She herself might fall in with hard-up scavengers who later sell her, with her confused memory taking them for her parents. It could be why both of them were so drawn to each other, because their repressed and messed-up memories still reacted unconsciously at the sight of each other.