Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20170416050302

MrGenial11 wrote: Is Rey a Gray Jedi? I mean, she definitely fits the mold from what we've seen of her as a Force user, but right now (obviously this will change by Episode VIII in all likelihood) she's not a Jedi at all. Admittedly, I was never an extended universe fan so I don't know the specifics of being a Gray Jedi other than that they strike a balance between Jedi and Sith by refusing to reject emotion and attachment but also not allowing themselves to be ruled by these things. I don't know if you have to be a Normal Jedi first and sort of... defect. If you do, then yeah at the current point Rey just straight-up can't be a Gray Jedi yet. But the "yet" is important. I don't know if Gray Jedi are/will be a "canonical" concept now that the EU has been declared non-canonical, so it's possible that Rey will be the first or there will be a different term. Maybe Luke counts as the first though.

I certainly think that things are leading into Rey being a Gray Jedi at least in spirit if not in name, and I like that because I always felt from what I understood of them that Gray Jedi were simply... better? We know that some of the ways the Jedi order does things are damaging and/or outright wrong (their stance on how you have to conduct yourself is basically what led to Anakin falling to the dark side... I think, I blocked a lot of the prequels out), and the Sith are... well, you know. Luke seems pretty disillusioned with the Jedi at this point and I think that given his role as the retired-but-not-disgraced hero and all, we're meant to believe his changed perspective is for good reason. So, probably she's on the road towards it even if she can't be considered one just yet?