I actually really like that. Even more than what we got, actually. It would line up with all future projects wherein Rey is referred to as a Palpatine, while at the same time her “parents” really are nobodies. It matches with her TLJ vision in the cave, too. She doesn’t really have any parents; she’s just Rey.

It also lines up with the books better than the movie does. In canon, Rey’s dad is a strandcast, a genetically modified clone of Palpatine. But that just makes it confusing to refer to her as Palpy’s granddaughter because, biologically speaking, she’s actually his daughter. But with this idea, instead of her dad being the strandcast, SHE is the strandcast. I suppose you wouldn’t mind using that word to make it clear she’s not a 100% clone, but rather a 95-99% clone? It would make my nerd brain happy.

I was playing Starfield when it first came out a few months ago and there’s a storyline similar to this. There’s a girl named Hadrian who is actually a clone of her “father”, a facist military leader called Vae Victus. She is the only living “clone” of his after the rest died off. She thinks he was killed, but it turns out he was secretly kept alive by his followers. Sound familiar?

EDIT: Omg, we could also finally confirm that Snoke is a strandcast in the movie, as well. Maybe he was one of the only other surrogate children of Palpatine that survived? And Rey was super lucky to not be born all deformed like that.