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There have been very few fandoms as large or as influential as the one Star Wars first gave rise to in 1977, and the common narrative around that fact gives a lot of credit to George Lucas’s savvy creative control. Maybe it’s all of the above: an old phenomenon rendered in a new way, like The Force Awakens itself.
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Depending on who you ask, envisioning Rey and Kylo together is a textbook response to a movie like this, a problematic fantasy based on regressive tropes around gender and race, or a glorious embrace of two complicated characters whose duality embodies everything great about Star Wars and might hint at the story of the next two sequels. And there are, of course, many stories that don’t involve romance at all.īut the mix of passion and controversy surrounding Reylo stands out for what it can reveal about the dynamics around fandom and Star Wars in 2016.
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Some people have crafted elaborate tales about the dalliances of Jessika Pava, a Resistance pilot who’s onscreen for only a few seconds. Further down the popularity list are stories about Finn and Rey. Another prominent ship features Kylo and General Hux, Domhnall Gleeson’s young-Hitler-type character.
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Shortly after its release, many mainstream media outlets noted an outpouring of interest in the idea of John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn dating Oscar Isaac’s fighter pilot Poe (conforming with the outsized popularity of man-on-man stories across many fandoms, there are more works about this possibility on Archive of Our Own than about any other pairing from The Force Awakens). Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt. So The Force Awakens was bound to trigger a diverse body of amateur riffs on the characters created by J.J. In the descriptive tags for Forms, another popular Reylo story on Archive of Our Own, the author Trebia wrote “Not incest until proven guilty in a court of law,” and, “Riding the bus to hell either way.”įan fiction is an inevitable part of the response to any feat of storytelling today-and perhaps always has been ( some people argue that many of Shakespeare’s works, based off myth and history, qualify as fan fiction). Because: Aren’t Finn and Rey, not Kylo and Rey, the obvious will-they-won’t-they couple of the movie? Isn’t the scene where Kylo uses the Force to invade Rey’s mind reminiscent of rape? Doesn’t he become totally irredeemable once he kills his father, one of the most beloved characters of the Star Wars universe? Aren’t they maybe siblings or cousins? These questions are very much on the minds of many Reylo shippers. Which might, for some people, seem surprising.
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Four of the 10 most-viewed Star Wars stories on Archive of Our Own (a plurality), and many of the top Force Awakens-inspired works on other sites like and Wattpad, are also about Rey and Kylo-or as the Internet has come to know them, “Reylo.” The pairing has come to be the Star Wars fan-fiction world’s heterosexual “ship”-slang for “hypothetical relationship”-of choice by a wide margin. This appears to have been a relatively common reaction to the Disney film that revived the Star Wars franchise with one of the highest box-office grosses of all time. “Kylo and Rey stuck in my mind like popcorn kernels in my teeth,” Rosie said. But both women walked out of The Force Awakens fascinated by the same two characters. Rosie’s history with Star Wars was very different from Ricca’s: She remembers scribbling down her own tales about Qui-Gon Jinn, the Jedi played by Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace, at age 9. The very first user to leave a comment on the story (“I was snorting up fan fiction like cocaine from my phone,” she remembers), she soon joined Ricca as an editor and co-author. But then Ricca started adding new chapters, at the rate of one a day, expanding the scope of the story in directions both sexual and not, spinning a narrative about what might come after The Force Awakens ends.Īmong the many readers was a 25-year-old named Rosie. Her opus began as a short piece of erotica in which Rey, the heroic character played in the movie by Daisy Ridley, and Kylo Ren, the villain played by Adam Driver, use a psychic bond accidentally forged in combat to conduct a form of telepathic phone sex from across the galaxy.
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“I started writing fan fiction pretty much as soon as I left the theater,” she said, explaining the origins of Interstellar Transmissions, a 55-chapter saga that’s the length of an average Harry Potter novel and now stands as the most popular Star Wars-inspired story on the fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own. What the New Kids on the Block Taught Me About Social Networks Courtney Klossner