I was inspired to craft this theory upon recently watching The Force Awakens and noticing that Snoke says "Han Solo" with an absolute contempt in his voice that there was no chance these characters didn't know each other on a personal level.
Let's get one thing out of the way right now: Rey is the long lost daughter of Han Solo and Princess Leia.
Anyone remember the not Disney animated feature that was the most incredible not Disney animated feature from the 90's "Anastasia"?
If you've never seen the film, allow me to describe a movie for you.
A child helplessly watches as a means of transportation carries away the only family she has left.
Years later on the verge of adulthood, the child has been under the care of an abusive authorities figure.
The girl longs to leave the place but due to circumstance can not.
The girl longingly watches a ship depart the place she is stuck.
The girl rescues a helpless character and reluctantly allows it to follow her.
This leads to the girl meeting a young man desperate to escape his past.
The girl finally leaves the place she's been stuck for so long.
The girl is abducted by the villain, the young man pursues and fights for her freedom, ending in him unconcious and the girl fearing for his life.
The girl summons a power within her she didn't know she had and retrieves the villains weapon before he does, much to the surprise of the villain.
The girl is reunited with her family but leaves again to embrace her destiny.
I just described the plot of Anastasia, but this being a Star Wars thread, you probably picked up on some similarities to The Force Awakens.
You're not the only one
That's Jett Lucas, son of George Lucas, who has stated multiple times before that he knows the direction of the sequel trilogy.
Don't just take his word for it.
http://reyamidala.tumblr.com/tagged/reyanastasia
The similarities are striking, to say the least.
There's a ton of evidence that's been overlooked that Rey will end up being a Solo. Han and Leia's conversation about "dealing with it in their own ways" was taken to mean the fall of their son Ben Solo, but we know Ben fell in part because he felt like Han was an absentee father. If Ben fell because Han went back to smuggling and was absent from his life, why does he say in TFA that he went back to smuggling to deal with "it" in his own way?
Simple, because "it" isn't talking about the fall of Ben Solo. "It" to quote the visual dictionary, refers to a "deep and profound tragedy" that ripped the Solo family apart. Again, at face value one might take it as a writing inconsistency and think it's just referring to Ben's fall, but peel back the lairs and it becomes clear that some other profound tragedy ripped the Solo's apart.
Something like losing a child.
Think about how obsessed Kylo Ren becomes with Rey. What if his whole fall centered around Snoke convincing him his father was too weak to save his sister? Now along comes this force sensitive girl and he feels like he gets a chance to mentor the sister he never had.
Or Han's stops in mid sentences or how he looks at Rey when she knows the Falcon so well. He's bothered by these things and the acting isn't subtle. The guilt of losing his daughter is shining through.
One of the most maligned issues in The Force Awakens is when Leia embraces Rey and not Chewbacca. It makes a little more sense if you consider she not only lost her husband that day, but her son as well, and down the ramp comes a girl that would be about the same age as the daughter she lost years ago. Suddenly that scene makes a ton more sense.
There's a lot more evidence to this theory in the book Bloodline, which even features a music box with lyrics that perfectly match the most popular song from Anastasia, but I want to keep this theory grounded in the films.
Now if Rey was somehow lost to the Solo's and it played a massive part in the fall of Ben Solo, then it stands to reason that Snoke himself could have been the one to orchestrate Rey's disappearance.
But why? Why does Snoke need Ben Solo? Snoke has an army of Stormtroopers raised from birth to kill. He has the finest military minds in the galaxy. He has super weapons capable of wiping out star systems. What the **** does he need Ben Solo for?
The answer is that he doesn't. Ben is personal.
Snoke orchestrated the disappearing of Rey to tear the Solo family apart because he felt wronged.
In even further examining the parallels between TFA and Anastasia, it's worth noting that the villain in Anastasia sold his soul for evil powers in order to do one thing and one thing only: destroy a man and his family whine he felt had wronged him.
It just so happens that there is a character in the Star Wars films that would want to rip apart the Solo family for what being wronged by Han (And an absolutely huge theme people are overlooking from TFA is that Han's past is catching up to him with consequences)
Boba ******* Fett.
Last we saw of Boba, he was tumbling into the Sarlacc pit.
Snoke's face looks pretty ****** up, almost melted. Like the kind of damage stomach acid might do.
In expanded media, there have been tons of events foreshadowing a much more important Fett character.
It is now canon that Fett is the one who tells Vader that Luke is his son. Snoke has an intimate knowledge of the going ins between Vader and Luke. He witnessed Vader's moment of realizing he had a son.
There have been two separate instances of foreshadowing that Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc in Aftermath.
The Knights of Ren. It is incredibly pertinent to know that the planet Mandalore is still canon, but that "Mandalorian" has not yet once been used in canon so far. The term could now be "Mandaloren" as in Mandeloren Knights. The Knights of Ren. This is further backed by several of the Knights wearing Mandaloren armor.
The name "First Order". Snoke isn't trying to bring back the Empire, he's trying to bring back the first ultimate power the galaxy ever saw and bring it back under Madaloren rule.
The story group has said that "Snoke is not human, but he's humanoid". Boba isn't human. He's a clone, this fits.
Snoke knows the name of the Millenium Falcon despite it being inactive on Jakku for god knows how long.
Boba Fett is the second most popular character from the original trilogy to Darth Vader. His return would not be a head scratcher for casual audiences.
Kylo's hilarious quip about leader Snoke considering using a clone army suddenly becomes a brilliant foreshadowing moment.
IN CONCLUSION
My theory is that Boba "Snoke" Fett arranged for Rey Solo to be kidnapped and killed so that he could corrupt Ben Solo and destroy the Solo family, making them suffer a fate worse than death.
Snoke didn't account for the fact that the abductor of Rey (my money is on Phasma) would have a change of heart and desert the girl on Jakku.
Now the re-entrance of Rey into her brother's life will ultimately result in him discovering Snoke was behind it all and will set up a path to his redemption.
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