what made you choose this muse?
ooooh boy, which part do you want, the end or the beginning?
lmao well, me being me, i went into my screening of tfa like “don’t do the thing, don’t pick up another muse, don’t do it, don’t doooooo it”. but as soon as she slid down her hill, i was toast. heck, i’ll be honest, as soon as i heard rey say “i’m no one” in the trailer i think i knew - especially since part of me shouted back “NO YOU’RE NOT, I KNOW YOU’RE NOT”. but it took a long time for me to do anything about that inkling, obviously. there were urls saved and there were headcanons aplenty in 2015, but part of me also wanted to be along for the ride. there were two more movies in the trilogy left and i wanted to know what happened.
cut to driving home after seeing tros. i was raging. the further i got from the theater the less i liked the movie, and most of it had to do with rey. she was in the middle of nowhere again with no one (alive), without her friends, and without her dyad. as much as i convinced myself she wouldn’t stay on tattooine, THAT’S where the movie ended??? so i got home, i sat on the couch, and started up the blog i’d waited four years to make fueled by pure irritation. if the writers weren’t going to give rey her due, i would. in my own weird and private rp way, that’s what i set out determined to do.
since then she’s become my absolute favorite and i can’t fathom ever dropping her at this point. there’s too much that she’s capable of and so many places she fits. and she’s fun. all my muses have been pretty fun or else i wouldn’t have written them, but rey of jakku is on an entirely new level altogether. her story inspires other, separate stories for me to pursue elsewhere and the magic just keeps on going.