With our new chain of events, they are merely paying Plutt to watch over her while they search the Jakku desert for Lor San Tekka’s village. As for why they don’t take her with them, I probably wouldn’t want to take my child for a dangerous search through the scorching desert, either, especially with assassins hot on my tail.

My initial drafts of this idea placed a hard emphasis on the fact that, genetically, they are two individual bloodlines that Palpatine merely kickstarted. True, they’d be related through the Force, but that just ties in with the dyad side of things.

Regardless, I do see the potential of changing our narrative to only Rey being a successful manipulation of the Force by Palpatine. It’s easier to write in a semi-condensed way than I’d imagined - “Palpatine’s dark experiments led the Force to create my grandfather as a counter. But ultimately, his influence over it triumphed. You’re his heir. You… are a Palpatine.”