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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Replying to @arthur_affect @merletastic and
Van Rijn ("from the Rhine"), van der Berg ("from the mountain"), van Dyk ("from the dyke") Which, of course, led to particularly defiant families having the name "Zondervan" ("without a van")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merletastic and
I would guess that most people in Han's situation would've just tried to make something up to borrow a common surname ("I'm Han... Smith") and thus made it even more common, or used something like a place name
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The way the recruiter phrases his question ("Who are your people?") indicates this is probably not uncommon, a bunch of people signing up under the equivalent of names like "Han Pittsburgh" or "Han Cleveland"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merletastic and
Han is just being kind of recalcitrant and uncommunicative in this scene and the recruiter decides not to waste time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merletastic and
It would be kind of interesting and ironic if "Solo" actually were a standard orphan name to have Ben still be named that even though he's not an orphan (but feels like he is)
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