Post Praetorian said:
So essentially Rey was initially trained in the force at a young age…said training remained dormant…but her bare and meager existence upon a treacherous world allowed her implicit training in its usage during her intervening years awaiting the return of her family…?It is a possibility…indeed a potentially plausible explanation…although I suspect it not to have been at all officially considered. Still, it bears pondering…
I currently sit on the fence when it comes to the theory that Rey was previously trained at a young age. I certainly think it’s a solid theory, but if it’s not the case, that would be fine too imo.
Still, living all those years in isolation, where the only person that matters is you, you tend to discover a lot more about yourself. What makes you angry, frustrated, depressed, happy, enlightened, motivated, etc and how to deal with it. Now, I’m not saying her time in isolation was her training in the Force. What I am saying is that she developed key traits of a Jedi should embrace, such as I mentioned, patience.
It does stand to reason when put in such a way…something akin to the inner training of the hermit combined with the rough and tumble scrabble for survival of a Spartan…
Yet her lack of seizing an apparent windfall in the potential sale of the droid is odd under such conditions. I wonder what could possibly have motivated her to resist the offer…suspicion that it was worth far more perhaps?