100 days of favorite characters ★ day 26 - finn (star wars)
i’m not resistance. i’m not a hero. i’m a stormtrooper. like all of them, i was taken from a family i’ll never know, and raised to do one thing. but my first battle, i made a choice - i wasn’t gonna kill for them. so i ran.
Rey had waited so long on Jakku for her parents to come back for her, scratching out the days against the metal wall of her AT-AT scavenged home. No one ever did. She had vague memories of Unkar Plutt raising her for a few years in a halfhearted, ham-fisted way, before booting her out into the desert to fend for herself as a little girl. Even he had never bothered to check on her. To care.
But then she’d met Finn, and after a short time together, she’d been captured by Kylo Ren and taken to Starkiller Base.
That’s when Finn had done something no one in her life had done before, the thing she’d yearned for her parents to do: He’d come to get her. At tremendous peril to himself. Before anyone knew she could wield a lightsaber or use the Force or any of it. She was nothing, just another scavenger from another godforsaken planet, when he’d risked his life to save hers. And she’d never forget it.
– Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition by Rae Carson