Like seriously, if Rey is okay picking a family name she isn't related to, why didn't she just *do* that? Why didn't she *already* call herself Rey Skywalker since Luke was her hero? Why didn't she pick Solo after Han died?
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I know it's supposed to be that she was fine with no surname until she learned she was a Palpatine, but like... Why not just stay with one name if that bothers you? I'm not going to add an extra non-Hitler name to my name if I find out Hitler is a secret relative
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
the class implications make me pretty uncomfortable Rey takes a last name because only peasants have just a given name and she's obviously too important for that
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BootlegGirl
Well no, it's implied that not having a family name at all is extremely unusual regardless of your class In the old Empire you couldn't even enlist unless you wrote *something* down for your surname
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Now I'm wondering if there were a few thousand other poor bastard enlistees who wound up as "Solo".
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This kind of thing - imposing a new naming system on the peasantry via a centralized bureaucracy, often for the purpose of military conscription as well as taxes - is why you get lots of unrelated people with similar placeholder surnames
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merletastic and
The Dutch didn't typically have family surnames until Napoleon conquered them in 1811 and forced a census on them for tax purposes This is why while "von" ("of/from") in a German name implies a noble house, in Dutch everyone has a name like that and it means nothing
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Isn't "van" more common in the Netherlands?
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Sorry, yes, I meant to add that in Dutch it's the cognate "van"
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