If you are even on the outer boundary of onlineStar Warsfandom , over the past few age you have in all likelihood heard the term “ Reylo ” bandied about . What was once just the moniker for fan of a romantic relationshipbetween Rey and Kylo Renhas , in conniption and starts , become a heated war between mass for and against it .
Reylo has originate beyond typical fandom shipping and , like a pile of Star Wars discoursein late history , evolved into a cant that often brings with it toxic and harassment - laden stratum ofintra - fandom spatting .
That ’s on either side of the disputation , too , whether it ’s particularly fervent supporters of the pairing ( and through it , a path toBen Solo ’s repurchase ) demanding that the terminal film in the Skywalker Saga make it the series endgame . Or , on the other end , it ’s the equally fervid detractors who see supporting a relationship between the light - side - aligned heroine and the dark - side villain of the subsequence trilogy as not just a tired trope of making the female lead ’s fib arc flexible joint around Latinian language , but a potentialnormalization of abusive relationships(Kylo Ren has , of course , literally tortured Rey multiple times ! ) .
Doors once closed can be opened…or sealed shut for good.Image: Lucasfilm
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Both fans andcreatives involved with the saga — from authors to actors like Daisy Ridley herself — have confront ill-treatment over whether or not they bear out the brace , or for even acknowledging that the simple potentiality of the union could survive in the films , and it ’s a theme of debate that has only gotten more vivid the nearer we get to The Rise of Skywalker ’s December release .
Which is why it ’s interesting to see Daisy Ridley tellEntertainment Weeklyin a new interview that the film will not only provide definitive answers about Rey and Kylo Ren ’s relationship , but also address Reylo directly as something neither she or the film treats as some fannish disturbance the movie could never descend to grok .
“ It does not chafe me , people publish theories , ” Ridley told the outlet . “ It ’s really fun hearing them . Plus , because I know what ’s sort of going to happen , I think it ’ll be really interesting to see people ’s reaction to [ the final film ] . Obviously , there ’s this whole Reylo affair and some people are very passionate about it , some aren’t … .J.J. does deal with [ it ] . It ’s a very complex way out . People mouth about toxic kinship and whatever it is . It ’s no gag and I cerebrate it ’s administer with really well because it ’s not skimmed over . ”
Now , that ’s not Ridley sound out that Reylo fans will get the outcome they want . Rey and Ben ’s relationship could just as easily be addressed by her shutting a more literal doorway in his face this clock time than the closing of the Millennium Falcon ’s entrance gangway was meant to represent inThe Last Jedi ’s coming . It could be speak by her putting a lightsaber through his chest ( it ’s like poesy , it rime ) . But her commentary does not definitively govern out that The Rise of Skywalker could n’t come up to it by indeed having the twobecome romantically entangled , either .
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But regardless of however The Rise of Skywalker deals with Reylo , the fact that it does — and that Ridley does not immediately dismiss the notion of it just because it ’s a matter fan talk about — is surprisingly brisk to hear . So often conception like this are tossed around in the pressure and in interviews as something too silly or squicky to discuss , as if concerns from fans ( whether for fan theory or for Reylo , specifically , in this regard ) are n’t worth reassuring or acknowledging .
As typically heteronormative as a romanticistic relationship like Rey and Kylo being Rise ’s aroused focus would be , at least we know that the concept of it is being explicitly and directly addressed and “ make do with , ” as Ridley place it , in the moving-picture show . Which is far more refreshing to hear than , say , the repeated“wait and see”-ing,“please understand”-ingwhen it comes to whether or not the mainline Star Wars picture will lastly acknowledge some LGBTQ+ coupling — whether in the form of Modern LGBTQ+ characters , or the revelation that characterswe’ve already metare LGBTQ+ .
You be intimate , instead of dancing around it with two minor unknown in a Thomas Kid ’s telly show and thencasually trying to actlike it was mass ’s fault for not asking now enough . Or saying that such representation exists , justnot in the text .
But that ’s a story for another prison term ! The story right now , at least , is that when December 20 , 2019 rolls around , there will be an reply either way as to whether or not Reylo is a no - go .
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