This stunning Dark Rey cosplay predicted one ofRey Skywalker’s best and most haunting scenes inStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. ThoughThe Rise of Skywalkerhad its issues, it did examine Rey’s fear and trauma as she carried the burden of being the last Jedi and the shock of her upbringing and heritage.Given her grandfather’s identity, darkness was something intrinsic in Rey, and her arc inThe Rise of Skywalkerwas about trusting herself and her instincts, fighting the darkness at every turn.
Of course, Rey still had moments when she thought the darkness might overwhelm her, giving us the haunting visual of Dark Rey carrying a unique blood-red,double-bladed switchblade lightsaber.One cosplayer predicted Rey’s dark appearance over 2 years beforeThe Rise of Skywalkerwas released. In 2021,cosplayer saira(@sairaspooks) posted a throwback to a dark Rey cosplay she’d done around the timeStar Wars: The Last Jediwas being promoted and previewed.
This cosplay even predicted Dark Rey would wield a double-bladed red lightsaber. Rey’s inky black outfit and the character’s trademark hair buns complete this impressive and propheticStar Warscosplay.
Realistically speaking, it would have made more sense for Rey to turn to the dark side inThe Last Jedithan inThe Rise of Skywalker,when Kylo Ren offered to take her hand and show her the full extent of her strength. If she’d given in,The Rise of Skywalkerwould have then been about them discovering thepower of the Force Dyadtogether – providing audiences with a better understanding of this mysterious phenomenon – and the film could have still ended up with Rey and Kylo taking on Palpatine together, an act which, given this isStar Wars, would have pushed them back to the light.
Realistically speaking, it would have made more sense for Rey to turn to the dark side inThe Last Jedithan inThe Rise of Skywalker,when Kylo Ren offered to take her hand and show her the full extent of her strength.
Together, Rey and Kylo would have made a formidable dark side duo. It would have been difficult for the Resistance to deal with, considering Luke would probably still have died on Ahch-To, Leia wouldn’t have been at full strength, and the only other Force-sensitive person around, Finn (at least the film would have been able to explore his character’s true potential), would have had a lot to learn.Star Warsis about light prevailing over darkness, of course, but it’s still interesting to think about what might have happened ifReyhad become Dark Rey inStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerinstead.
Source:@sairaspooks
Rey Skywalker
Daughter of a “failed” Palpatine clone, Rey became part of a mysterious phenomenon known as the Force Dyad - a vergence in the Force that bound her to Kylo Ren. Trained by both Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, Rey fought against the First Order as an ally of the Resistance. She ultimately triumphed against Palpatine himself, channelling the full power of all Jedi.
