Rey and Ben Solo Relationship Timeline: Key Moments & Turning Points
SW Lore · 20 min read · CCSabers Alex Chen
Rey and Ben Solo are a Force dyad — two beings who form one entity in the Force, the most powerful pairing in SW mythology. Their bond was created the moment Ben Solo became Kylo Ren (~28 ABY), long before they met in person. From their first encounter on Takodana (34 ABY, TFA) through Force-vision exchanges in TLJ, the throne room alliance against Snoke, and Ben's redemption on Kef Bir, their relationship escalated from enemy and prisoner to the only connection either of them had ever felt that matched the full scale of what they were. Ben Solo sacrificed his life on Exegol (35 ABY) to revive Rey after she defeated Palpatine. His last act was to give her everything he had left. She took the name Skywalker. He became one with the Force. The dyad was complete.
In the seven-film arc of the Skywalker saga, Rey and Ben Solo represent something genuinely new: a relationship between two people who are not simply connected by circumstance, blood, or loyalty, but by the Force itself — as a deliberate act of cosmic balance. Their story is the sequel trilogy's emotional spine. It is the story of two people who were each other's only real mirror, and what happened when they finally stopped fighting what the mirror showed.
This guide covers both layers of that story: the complete timeline of what happened and when, and the six key turning points that explain why each moment changed everything — for Rey, for Ben, and for the Skywalker legacy.
The Force Dyad — Before They Ever Met
The Bond Was Created Before Their First Conversation
According to Marvel's canon comic The Rise of Kylo Ren (Charles Soule, 2020), the Force dyad between Rey and Ben Solo was formed at the exact moment Ben Solo killed the previous leader of the Knights of Ren and fully became Kylo Ren — approximately ~28 ABY, years before the events of TFA.
At that same moment, on the desert planet of Jakku, a young Rey felt a sudden, inexplicable coldness. She had no name for the sensation. She did not know that somewhere across the galaxy, a door had just slammed shut on a person — and that the Force, in response, had created a bridge connecting that person to her.
The dyad is the Force's own creation, not Snoke's. In TLJ, Snoke claims he engineered the connection to observe Kylo Ren through Rey. This is a lie. The bond existed before Snoke had any reason to build it. What Snoke did was exploit a connection that was already there — and even that exploitation could not control what the dyad ultimately became.
A Force dyad grants both members: real-time Force communication across any distance, the ability to pass physical objects through the bond, Force healing capable of restoring life, and — when both members stand together — a combined power described in SW lore as "the power of life itself." There had been no confirmed dyad in living memory before Rey and Ben. The Rise of Skywalker tells us that Palpatine recognized the dyad and feared it, which is why he wanted to drain it rather than fight it.
The Complete Timeline: 34 ABY – 35 ABY
First Meeting — He Chose Her Over the Map
Rey and Kylo Ren first met on Takodana (34 ABY, TFA) when he sensed her Force presence and chose to pursue her rather than continue searching for BB-8. He captured her, brought her to Starkiller Base, and interrogated her without his mask — the first time he had removed it before someone who was not his superior.
The decision Kylo makes on Takodana is rarely analyzed as carefully as it deserves: he has a mission — recover the map to Luke Skywalker. BB-8 carries the map. BB-8 is with Rey. The tactical choice is to pursue the droid. Instead, Kylo turns and pursues her — drawn by something in her Force presence that he cannot account for and does not yet have language for.
In the interrogation room, he removes his mask without being asked. He tries to read her mind; she reads his instead, and sees his fear of never living up to the power of Darth Vader. He is shaken. He exits and tells Snoke she is stronger than she should be. His voice carries something Snoke does not notice and Hux would not understand: a quality adjacent to wonder.
First Duel — "You Need a Teacher"
After Han Solo's death on Starkiller Base (34 ABY, TFA), Kylo Ren pursued Rey into the forest. Their duel ended when the planet fractured and separated them. During the fight, Kylo stopped attacking and offered to be her teacher — the first time he framed their relationship as something other than adversarial.
Kylo Ren finds Rey in the snow forest after killing his father. He is not entirely in control of himself — the act of killing Han Solo has done something to him that he did not anticipate, and it is visible. When Rey picks up the Skywalker saber with the Force and it passes Kylo's outstretched hand to reach hers, something shifts in his expression: recognition, close to awe.
At one point in the duel, he stops. He tells her she needs a teacher — that she has power she does not understand. The offer is genuine, not tactical. He is already, in his fractured way, reaching toward her before either of them understands why. The ground splits between them. She escapes. He is evacuated, injured. Neither of them is done with the other.
Across the Galaxy — Real-Time Force Communication
Between Ahch-To and the Supremacy (34 ABY, TLJ), Rey and Kylo Ren began experiencing involuntary Force vision-links — real-time two-way transmissions in which they could see, hear, and eventually touch across lightyears. Physical objects could be passed through the link. Snoke claimed to have created the bond; this was false.
The Force-links begin without warning and embarrass both of them. Rey finds herself looking at a shirtless Kylo Ren in his quarters on the Supremacy. He finds himself looking at her in Luke's hut on Ahch-To. They are immediately uncomfortable, immediately defensive, and — this is the detail that matters — immediately honest in ways they are not honest with anyone else.
Over multiple links, they begin to talk. Not negotiate, not recruit — talk. He tells her the truth about what happened the night Luke's temple burned: that Luke came to his bedside with an ignited saber and fear on his face. She tells him about the isolation of Jakku, about waiting. They are giving each other things neither has given anyone else: their actual version of events, without institutional framing.
The Deepest Contact — Two People Who See Each Other's Emptiness
After descending into Ahch-To's mirror cave seeking answers about her parents and finding only endless reflections of herself, Rey contacted Kylo through the Force bond and told him what she had experienced. He listened. He said: "You're not alone." She replied: "Neither are you." They reached toward each other through the bond and touched.
The mirror cave is SW's most explicit statement about Rey's wound: she is someone who has organized her entire identity around waiting for a family that is not coming, and when she looks into the cave she sees only herself, multiplied infinitely, without anyone beside her. She walks out and immediately, without planning to, reaches for the one person who has been listening.
Kylo does not give her a strategy. He does not try to recruit her in this moment. He just says she is not alone — and means it, because he is also not alone when she is in the link, and that is the first time in years that has been true. The hand-touch through the Force bond is the most physically intimate moment in their relationship before Exegol: skin contact across lightyears, neither of them able to explain to anyone else what just happened.
The Alliance — Ten Minutes Against the Praetorian Guard
Brought before Snoke on the Supremacy (TLJ), Rey was ordered executed. Kylo Ren rotated the Skywalker saber and killed Snoke instead, then fought alongside Rey against the eight Praetorian Guards. After the fight, he offered her a place at his side. She refused. He told her: "You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me."
Killing Snoke is the most consequential single act Kylo Ren takes before his full redemption. He does it to save Rey — and also, simultaneously, to take power for himself. The two motivations exist in the same action, which is precisely the kind of moral complexity the sequel trilogy handles best. He kills his master. Then he fights beside his enemy. For ten minutes, there is no Kylo Ren and no Rey — just two Force-users in absolute synchronization, reading each other's movements without signals, covering each other's angles without rehearsal.
When it ends, he offers everything: his rule, the galaxy, a place beside him. She says no. He tells her the truth about her parents — abandoned on Jakku, sold for drinking money — and then says the line that almost breaks her resolve: "You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me." It is manipulation and truth simultaneously. She takes "Ben's hand" in her mind — but Kylo Ren's hand is the one in front of her, and she cannot reconcile the two. She says no. She leaves. He lets her.
"You're nothing. But not to me."
— Kylo Ren, TLJ
She Stabbed Him. Then She Healed Him.
On Kef Bir (35 ABY, TROS), Rey and Kylo Ren dueled on the wreckage of the second Death Star. Rey stabbed Kylo with his own saber. Then, sensing Leia's death and its impact on him, she used Force healing to restore him. She took the Falcon and left. He threw his crossguard saber into the sea and walked away as Ben Solo.
The Kef Bir duel is the moment the sequel trilogy's central tension reaches its physical peak and then breaks. Rey stabs Kylo — it is the right thing to do, and she does it without hesitation. Then Leia dies across the galaxy, and Rey feels it through the Force the same moment Kylo does. She sees what his mother's death means to him. She makes a choice that is not tactical, not obligatory, and not what anyone has asked of her: she heals him.
Force healing costs the healer their own life force. It is not a small gesture. She gives him enough life to stand, takes the Falcon, and goes. He stands on the wreckage, looks at the sea, and does the thing that closes the Kylo Ren chapter: he picks up the broken crossguard saber and throws it into the water. He is Ben Solo when he climbs back down.
Together Against Palpatine — The Dyad at Full Power
On Exegol (35 ABY, TROS), Ben Solo arrived to fight alongside Rey against Palpatine. Rey was killed defeating Palpatine. Ben used the Force dyad to revive her, transferring his remaining life force. She kissed him. He became one with the Force. Rey took the name Skywalker.
Ben reaches Exegol using a technique from Force lore — triangulating through the Force bond — and arrives to find Rey after she has defeated Palpatine at the cost of her own life. He kneels beside her. He places both hands on her, and through the dyad, gives her everything he has left: his life force, his strength, the last of Ben Solo.
She opens her eyes. She sees him. There is a moment — no words, just recognition — and then she kisses him. The novelization describes it as "gratitude, acknowledgment of their connection, celebration that they'd found each other at last." He smiles. Then he is gone, and she is alone again, but differently: the Force bond tells her, in the way it has always communicated between them, that he is still there. Always.
In the film's final scene, Rey stands on Tatooine — Anakin's planet, Luke's planet — and buries the Skywalker sabers in the sand. She ignites her own blade: yellow, built by her own hands, from her own cloth, carrying no one else's story. A woman asks her name. She pauses, feeling the voices of the Jedi who answered when she called at Exegol. Then she answers: "Rey Skywalker."
Key Moments & Turning Points
The timeline above records what happened. These six turning points answer the deeper question: why did each moment change everything — for Rey, for Ben, and for what the Force dyad ultimately became.
He Chose Her Over the Map
Kylo Ren's decision to pursue Rey rather than BB-8 on Takodana is the turning point where the Force dyad first acts on the conscious level — pulling one half of itself toward the other before either party understands why, and establishing the pattern that defines their entire relationship: he reaches for her first.
The strategic logic of the situation is clear: the map is in BB-8, BB-8 is with Rey, pursuing Rey is pursuing the map. But this is not how Kylo frames the choice. He pursues her — her Force presence, the specific quality of it, something he has never felt from anyone except possibly himself. He brings her back personally. He interrogates her personally, without his mask, which he does for no one.
In the interrogation room, the dyad performs its first documented function: she reads his mind instead of him reading hers. She sees his deepest fear — that he will never match the power of his grandfather, that the darkness he has chosen is an act of performance rather than nature. He is seen, completely and accurately, by someone he tried to probe. The effect on him is visible. He leaves the room having learned more about himself than about her.
This is the moment that establishes the fundamental dynamic of their relationship: the Force dyad creates mutual exposure neither of them asked for, neither of them can control, and neither of them can ultimately resist.
Discovers she can access Force abilities she has never trained for, apparently triggered by proximity to someone who carries the same Force weight she does. She reads Kylo's fear without trying. She doesn't yet have context for what this means — but the Force does.
Encounters the first person who sees through him completely and does not use it to manipulate him — she is simply accurate. It is the most disarming thing that could happen to someone who has built an identity on being unreadable. She reads him. He does not forget it.
"You're Not Alone" — The First Real Truth Between Them
"You're not alone / Neither are you" is the turning point where Rey and Kylo Ren stop performing their institutional roles for each other and speak, through the Force bond, as two people who have never had anyone understand the specific shape of their isolation — until now.
Rey's wound is abandonment: she has spent her life on Jakku telling herself her family is coming, organizing her identity around waiting, refusing to grieve what she already knows is lost. When the mirror cave gives her nothing but herself reflected endlessly, without anyone beside her, the wound opens fully. She reaches for the Force bond without deciding to — it is the most honest reflex she has.
Kylo's wound is expectation: born a Skywalker, trained by Luke, manipulated by Snoke, pulled apart by two sides of a Force so strong it has never been stable in his body. He has never been permitted to simply exist without someone having a plan for what he should become. In the Force bond, Rey has no plan for him. She is just talking to him.
The hand-touch is the turning point within the turning point. Physical contact through the Force bond is not a documented ability — it is something the dyad produces spontaneously, without precedent. The Force is closing the distance between them faster than either of them is choosing to travel it.
Finds, for the first time, someone who meets her isolation with equivalent isolation rather than with pity or advice. He does not tell her she is not alone in the way people who have never been truly alone say it. He is also alone. The symmetry is the comfort.
Is heard, accurately, by someone who has no reason to comfort him and every reason to condemn him. He cannot account for her response — it fits no category of interaction he has ever had. He starts to listen to her the way he has never listened to Snoke: without calculating what comes next.
"But Not to Me" — The Offer She Almost Took
The throne room is the turning point where Ben Solo gets closest to being saved before Exegol — and where Kylo Ren's inability to fully let go of his own darkness makes that salvation impossible, producing the line that haunts the rest of the trilogy: "You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me."
Killing Snoke is an act of genuine agency — the first time Ben Solo has made an uncoerced choice since the night Luke's temple burned. He does it partly for Rey and partly for himself, and the two motivations cannot be cleanly separated, which is exactly the problem. He is not free. He has removed his master but not the frame his master built inside him.
The ten minutes of fighting the Praetorian Guard together are the clearest demonstration of the dyad in action: they have no time to coordinate, no shared vocabulary, no practice fighting as a pair. The Force does it for them. She extends her hand for his saber; he sends it without looking. He steps in front of a blade aimed at her back without seeing it approach. They are one fighting unit, and both of them know it, and both of them know what it means, and neither of them can say it while standing in the throne room of the Supreme Leader's flagship.
His offer afterward — galaxy, rule, a place beside him — fails not because Rey does not feel the pull, but because she is looking for Ben Solo and being offered Kylo Ren's kingdom. The line "but not to me" is the most honest thing he says in the entire trilogy: it is the moment Kylo Ren admits, in public, in front of her, that she matters to him more than his ideology. It is also the moment he demonstrates that he has not yet developed the capacity to make himself small enough to reach her. She leaves. He lets her go, which is either love or defeat or both.
Wants to take "Ben's hand," as she says in TROS — she felt it in that moment. What is in front of her is Kylo Ren's hand. She cannot bridge the gap. She leaves having chosen the Resistance, which is correct — but she carries the weight of that choice across the next film.
Makes his best offer and watches it fail. He cannot follow her because he has chosen the dark side as his identity and cannot yet imagine himself outside it. He becomes Supreme Leader. He is, in some legible way, more alone than he has ever been — because he can now see exactly what he cannot reach.
She Stabbed Him. Then She Chose to Heal Him.
The Kef Bir sequence is the turning point where the sequel trilogy's central antagonism reaches its physical resolution — not through a winner, but through two consecutive choices: Rey makes the choice she must make, then makes the choice she doesn't have to make, and the second one is the one that changes everything.
The duel on the Death Star wreckage above the waves is the hardest fight in their trilogy. They are not holding back. Rey is fighting Kylo Ren, who stands between her and what she came to do. She stabs him. It is correct. It is necessary. It is also, the moment she has done it, something she cannot leave as the final word between them.
Then Leia dies. Rey feels it through the Force simultaneously with Kylo — she feels what his mother's death does to him, the specific quality of that collapse, and she makes a decision that has no institutional justification and no tactical benefit: she heals him. Force healing costs life force. She gives it freely, to the person she just stabbed, because of something she felt through the dyad that she cannot translate into a policy position.
She takes the Falcon. She goes. He stands at the water's edge and does the thing that finally closes the Kylo Ren chapter for good: he throws the crossguard saber into the sea. Not destroyed — discarded. He walks away from it. The person who climbs down from the Death Star wreckage has a different name than the person who climbed up it.
Makes a choice that cannot be explained as strategy: healing an enemy at personal cost because she felt what his mother's death meant to him. This is the moment she stops interacting with Kylo Ren and starts responding to Ben Solo — the person she told herself she was looking for since TLJ.
Receives healing from the person he stabbed — and then, alone on wreckage above the sea, hears his father's voice. Han Solo's ghost appears (a Force memory, per novelization) and says the line from Starkiller Base: "I know." Ben Solo throws his weapon away. He knows what he has to do.
A Mother's Last Word — The Final Bridge to Ben Solo
Leia's death is the turning point where two separate story lines — the Han & Leia story and the Rey & Ben story — converge in a single act of Force sacrifice: Leia uses the last of her life to reach her son, completing what Han started on Starkiller Base, and making Ben Solo's return the result of both his parents' love rather than Rey's alone.
Leia has been fading throughout TROS — the effort of reaching Ben through the Force bond in TLJ cost her significantly, and she has been withdrawing from the field to preserve enough strength for one final act. She waits until the moment she senses through the Force that her son is at the right point — standing on the edge, capable of choosing differently — and then she calls his name and dies.
The mechanics matter: Leia uses the Force to reach Ben while Rey is in contact with him through their dyad. Rey feels Leia's death. Kylo feels it. The Force bond between Rey and Ben carries Leia's final transmission through both of them simultaneously. It is, in a specific and extraordinary way, the most complete expression of SW's family theme: the parents reach the child through the person the child loves, and the love passes through the bond that the Force created to connect two broken people.
Ben Solo's redemption is not Rey's achievement alone. It is the accumulated weight of two parents who never stopped reaching for him. Han on the bridge. Leia at the end. Rey at Kef Bir. Three people, two generations, one choice.
Feels Leia's death and Ben's reception of it simultaneously through the dyad. She understands, in this moment, that she and Ben are not separate from the larger Skywalker story — they are the place where it resolves. Her willingness to carry that is what "Rey Skywalker" means.
Receives his mother's final Force transmission while standing at the water's edge. Then he hears Han's voice — a memory so sharp it appears as a figure. He says "I know" back to his father, picks himself up, and goes to find Rey. He arrives at Exegol as Ben Solo.
He Gave Her His Life — The Dyad at Its Only Full Expression
Ben Solo's sacrifice on Exegol is the turning point where the Force dyad performs its only fully documented act of life-transfer in SW canon — and where the relationship between Rey and Ben Solo reaches its only possible ending: not a resolution that leaves both of them standing, but one that leaves both of them whole in the only way the story could afford.
Ben arrives at Exegol having triangulated Rey's location through the Force bond. He fights his way past the Knights of Ren using a single blue saber — Leia's saber, passed to him via Rey, now returned to a Solo in a Skywalker body for the last battle. He reaches Rey and finds her dead. He does not hesitate. He places both hands on her and channels his life force through the dyad, reversing her death at the cost of his own.
This is not a common Force ability. It is the specific power of the dyad — "the power of life itself," per the lore — available only when one member of the dyad transfers their Force energy to the other. Ben Solo does not survive this. He knows he will not survive this. He does it anyway, which is the "I know" of Exegol: he knows what it costs, and he spends it.
When Rey opens her eyes, she looks at him and sees Ben Solo looking back — not Kylo Ren, not the Supreme Leader, not the person who killed his father. She kisses him. He smiles — a smile that carries more weight than any line he says in the trilogy because he so rarely does it — and then he is gone.
The Force bond does not sever the moment Ben dies. He tells her across it, later, that he will always be with her. The dyad, created to connect two people across impossible distance, turns out to be capable of one more transmission: across the distance between life and what comes after.
"Ben."
— Rey, the last word she says to him, TROS, Exegol
Receives the most complete act of love in the sequel trilogy: Ben gives her everything he has left, which is his life. She wakes up, recognizes him, kisses him, loses him — all in thirty seconds. She takes his name. She becomes Rey Skywalker. The legacy continues through her.
Dies as himself — as Ben Solo, with Leia's saber in his hand and Rey's face the last thing he sees. His last expression is a smile. He becomes one with the Force having made the one choice that his entire arc was constructed around making: he chose love over power, freely, with full knowledge of the cost.
Relationship Evolution at a Glance
| Era | Status | Emotional Theme | Defining Moment |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~28 ABY | Dyad created — neither knows | Force acting as fate | Ben becomes Kylo Ren · Rey feels cold on Jakku |
| 34 ABY · TFA | Captor and prisoner | Antagonism with unexplained pull | Kylo removes mask · mind-probe reverses |
| 34 ABY · TLJ early | Reluctant correspondents | Mutual exposure through the bond | First Force vision-links begin |
| 34 ABY · TLJ mid | First real connection | Recognition of shared isolation | "You're not alone / Neither are you" · hand touch |
| 34 ABY · TLJ throne room | Brief allies · then divergence | Love that cannot yet reach its object | Kill Snoke together · "But not to me" · she leaves |
| 35 ABY · TROS Kef Bir | Enemies · then something else | Anger giving way to compassion | Rey stabs Kylo · then heals him · Ben walks away |
| 35 ABY · TROS Exegol | Dyad complete · then parted | Love at full cost | Ben revives Rey · the kiss · he dies · she carries him forward |
What the Force Dyad Actually Means
Two People Who Were Each Other's Only Real Mirror
Rey and Ben Solo share a structural wound: both were abandoned into circumstances that shaped them before they could consent to being shaped. Rey on Jakku, building an identity around waiting. Ben under the weight of a name that expected him to be three different people simultaneously — Solo, Organa, Skywalker — and then Snoke's voice telling him he was none of them correctly.
The Force dyad makes them mirrors for each other in a way nothing else in their lives does. When Rey looks at Kylo Ren, she sees someone whose darkness comes from the same place her determination does: from someone who decided they had to be enough for themselves because no one else was coming. When Kylo looks at Rey, he sees someone who has made the same survival calculation he made and arrived at a completely different answer. The dyad insists they look at this. Neither of them gets to look away.
Force Fate vs. Free Will — What the Dyad Doesn't Determine
The dyad is a condition, not a destiny. It creates a connection; it does not dictate what either party does with it. This is the sequel trilogy's most careful distinction: Palpatine wants to exploit the dyad, Snoke wants to weaponize the bond, and neither of them account for the possibility that both members of a dyad might choose how to use the connection rather than being used by it.
Every significant moment between Rey and Ben is a choice: Kylo choosing to pursue Rey instead of BB-8; Rey choosing to go to Ben on the Supremacy; Ben killing Snoke; Rey healing Ben on Kef Bir; Ben going to Exegol when he did not have to. The Force created the channel. They decided what to send through it. This is the sequel trilogy's answer to the prequel's tragedy: Anakin could not choose love over fear. Ben Solo, in the end, could.
Was Ben Solo's Sacrifice Enough? — The Redemption Question
This is the most debated question in the sequel trilogy's fandom, and SW canon does not resolve it cleanly — which is probably the correct artistic choice. The critique is legitimate: Ben Solo committed mass atrocities as Kylo Ren, and dying to save one person does not arithmetically cancel that. The defense is also legitimate: SW's redemption theology, established with Vader, has never been about moral arithmetic. It has always been about the last choice — what a person does with the free will they still have in the moment they still have it.
Ben Solo's entire arc is the story of a person who was manipulated into a role before he could fully understand what he was choosing, and who spent three films fighting his way back to a moment of genuine agency. His death on Exegol is that moment: completely free, completely costly, completely chosen. Whether it is "enough" depends on whether you believe redemption is a transaction or a direction. SW has always argued it is a direction. Ben Solo, at the end, is unambiguously pointing the right way.
Where to Watch: Their Complete Story
The Rey and Ben Solo story unfolds across the entire sequel trilogy plus expanded canon. Watch in this order:
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Conclusion: Two Halves of the Same Whole
The relationship between Rey and Ben Solo is SW's answer to its own mythology: after three trilogies about bloodlines and prophecy and the weight of inherited names, the saga's final statement is a love story between two people who were connected by something older than any of that, and who spent three films deciding what to do with the connection.
The Force dyad did not make their choices for them. It created a channel and left the choices to them. Kylo Ren chose to pursue Rey on Takodana when he could have pursued BB-8. Rey chose to go to the Supremacy when she could have stayed on Ahch-To. Ben killed Snoke for reasons neither purely selfish nor purely selfless. Rey healed Ben when she had no obligation to. Ben went to Exegol when he could have survived by not going. These are not the actions of people obeying a bond. These are the actions of people choosing, repeatedly, toward each other.
Ben Solo dies as himself — smiling, light, the Skywalker name redeemed from within. Rey lives as herself — carrying his name forward, her yellow blade a new chapter no one has written yet. The dyad is complete. The saga ends. What remains is the Force, and the people who chose to use it well.
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