Abrams, who confirmed Finn's secret during a recent Q&A session. According to Abrams, Finn's secret is that he is Force-sensitive, which is hinted at several times in
It wasn't until an Academy screening of “Rise of Skywalker” after the film's theatrical opening that Abrams said Finn wanted to tell Rey that he is Force sensitive.
Following that reset of the status quo, Finn was eventually revealed to be Force-sensitive himself in The Rise of Skywalker but he never became an official Jedi Knight on-screen.
He explains to Janna he knows the force is real and that's why he has done everything he has done since ditching the First Order. He becomes the spokesperson for the Force in TROS. There was no need for him to tell Rey on camera (or us) that he was force sensitive. Besides, she would have known already (us too.
However, the film did not have Finn exhibit any Force abilities. The following movie in the trilogy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, had Boyega return to the role, but once again, Finn did not show any aptitude with the Force.
Finn was then asked to join the Resistance in its struggle against the First Order, but Finn initially refused, believing the First Order to be too powerful. He then confessed to Rey his true identity as a stormtrooper and stated that he was never going back to the First Order.
And then there was a third explanation, the one I thought I'd spotted in my second screening: Finn knew about Rey Palpatine. "You don't know what she's going through," Finn tells Poe after they crash-land the Falcon on Kef Bir, the planet with the horses and the Death Star wreckage. "Leia and I do."
So does Finn love Rey? No, not like that. The films and comments made from those involved in making the trilogy have made clear that despite seeming to have some romantic tension between them, there is nothing going on between Rey and Finn.
He then decides to stage a fight between the two in real life to see if he can finish the dream. However, during the fight, Flame Princess destroys the Ice Kingdom and discovers that Finn set up the fight. Feeling betrayed, she breaks up with him.
Ben Solo/Kylo Ren. Ben Solo is the love of Rey's life. Initially unknown to Rey, she forms a dyad in the Force with Ben. The dyad is an unbreakable Force-bond that makes them one in the Force, despite being born as two physically separated individuals.
During the Battle of Takodana, Kanata gave the lightsaber to Finn. After beating the rogue Stormtrooper on Starkiller Base, Kylo Ren—the grandson of Darth Vader—tried to claim the weapon that once belonged to his grandfather. Instead, it was taken by Rey.
It has been confirmed that DJ are not his initials, but stand for 'don't join' which is quite fitting, seeing that he betrayed Finn and Rose. It also reflects how the character is described as not believing in "big causes" no matter what they are and views the Resistance, First Order, and so on as all being the same.
A crystal embodies the Jedi as the heart of the lightsaber, and pure kyber has no color until it's bonded to the Force user. This process likely resulted in Rey Skywalker's lightsaber being yellow.
Rey's parents moved to hide her from the Emperor, who wanted to use her power, potentially to restore his own body to full power (yikes). Her parents succeeded in hiding her from the Sith bounty hunter the Emperor had sent, and they died for it.
A kiss of gratitude, acknowledgement of their connection, celebration that they'd found each other at last.
Finn's epiphany then becomes the realization that he has to go back; he has to be reincarnated as something else and try again, so that one day, he might reach the 50th deadworld via his own soul's righteousness and be reunited with Jake.
Finn has a complex relationship with his biological father, Martin Mertens, who is shown to be a scoundrel. In season 6, Martin reveals to Finn that he was forced to abandon him as an infant after reaching a crossroads too dangerous for an infant and that he always meant to return for him.
Finn & Flame Princess
Phoebe, a.k.a. Flame Princess, is Finn's first real flame after his long-lasting unrequited crush on Princess Bubblegum. For a while, they go out and have fun together, and their relationship is the epitome of young love.
Despite being enemies, Rey and Kylo Ren share a connection called a 'Force dyad' and eventually become romantically involved with one another. Following Palpatine's final defeat and her own resurrection, Rey adopts the name Rey Skywalker to honor her mentors and their family legacy and renounce her lineage.
Duel of the Fates unused script, page 54. Rey takes Poe's face in her hands and kisses him.
Upbringing. Zayne showed talent in the Force, as many expected, being Rey and Ben's son, but the boy was never trained by his mother. Instead, Rey kept her life as a Jedi Master and as a mother separate from her son, reasons being unknown to anyone for close to twenty years.
In The Rise of Skywalker's novelization, we learn that Rey's father was a failed clone of Emperor Palpatine. He was initially created to be a vessel to house Palpatine and his Sith power.
He then unveils the Final Order, a massive fleet of Star Destroyers built by the Sith Eternal. Palpatine offers the fleet to Ren on the condition that he find and kill the galaxy's last remaining Jedi, Rey, who is revealed to be Palpatine's granddaughter.
In the end, Rey takes the name Skywalker to show that she's the author of her future and can erase a past that was only hers by blood. With that in mind, she represented everything the name stood for, as Anakin, Leia and Luke all wanted more from their lives and chased it.