dexi-green:

Everyone is arguing and wondering about Rey’s parent[age] but what about Finn’s??

Where is the family he was stolen from, or did they give him up for some reason? Have they been searching for him? Do they know that he was taken by the First Order? Do they think he’s just a Stormtrooper? Are they alive? Where is he from?

What about Lando Calrissian or Mace Windu? Could Finn be related to one of them. One of theirs son or nephew or grandson? Rey can be connected to everyone in the movies, what about Finn? How is he connected to things in an even larger way than before? What’s his real name?

Give me those Finn theories.

I don’t have a Finn origin theory, but I do have a Finn theory for the future.

Finn may not have an origin theory. He is just one of thousands of Stormtroopers with the same story: taken from infancy, trained to be a soldier. But unlike others, he breaks the mold and becomes what he is.

Whispers begin to swirl through the Stormtroopers about this one lowly trooper of the sanitation department who dared defy the First Order. As time goes on, his number, and later his name is whispered almost reverently among the troops.

To the First Order, Finn becomes akin to a virus as word of his defection and now, apparent heroism spreads throughout the ranks. The First Order becomes terrified. And so they send bounty hunters to hunt down FN-2187, to make an example of him. He eludes capture, but even if he didn’t, it was already too late. A fire has been stoked and is now spreading. One by one, the troopers defect to join the Resistance, until one becomes ten, ten becomes a hundred, and a hundred becomes thousands. And one day, they will all be led by one General Finn, whose natural born leadership and charisma serves as a beacon for the Stormtroopers in their fight against the First Order.

We all want to know where Finn came from, but to me, I think its importance will pale in comparison to what he could very well become: an ordinary man who came from nothing but who will someday rise up to change history.