The new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is as great as a fan could hope for, offering numerous tantalizing glances at the next chapter in the sci-fi saga. But while most every character's story is fairly well developed, for the most part Finn remains a cypher. After getting his back sliced up by Kylo Ren at the end of Force Awakens, we know he and new character Rose will going to rally for the Resistance, but what if there’s more to his story than that? Namely, what if Finn's story involves him finding his family?

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Family has always been a big thing in the Star Wars universe, even outside of the exploits of the legendary Skywalkers. In Force Awakens, their shared lack of a genetic family is what unites Rey and Finn, even as families are both born and destroyed around them. Finn, specifically, is involved in the destruction and creation of families. He’s an outlier from other Stormtroopers in the First Order in that he cared for others in his squad, something viewed by Captain Phasma as a weakness. When he defects at the start of the film, he’s met with cries of “TRAITOR!” by his former friends. He shattered his First Order “family” and subsequently formed a new one with Rey, Poe and other members of the Resistance.

Throughout Force Awakens, Finn and Rey’s personal journeys mirror one another, so much that the film didn’t reveal who the “true” Jedi between them was until the it hit theaters. (And even then, only during the second act; prior to that point, the movie is appropriately cagey in regards to which one of them Snoke is referring to about an “awakening.”) Because Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have enchanting chemistry throughout the film and play the youngest characters -- Rey is 19, and Finn is 23 by the time we meet them -- it’s easy to see why the film lets their storylines play off each other.

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Where Rey felt obligated to stay because she was convinced that someone, anyone, would come back to Jakku and claim her as their family, Finn was the opposite. He wanted to run from his past, as far as the galaxy as would take him, because there wasn’t anything worth going back to. The return of Luke’s lightsaber in the film is what unites both Finn and Rey in that it’s what causes their true, heroic selves to, pardon the wordplay, awaken. But even as Rey found that she could only run in one direction towards Luke, Finn found that he had to stay and fight, something Maz Kanata took note of when correcting her assessment of him in the film’s novelization: “Now, I see the eyes of a warrior.”

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For Last Jedi to follow that same formula for these two characters makes sense; even though they’ve both found family in the Resistance, they still have a longing for their own flesh and blood. Rey, at the very least, has memories that are likely locked away and can be peeled back with enough training. But Finn most likely has no memories of his old life, not even an idea of what his name was, since the Order kidnapped him at an incredibly young age. Star Wars' storytelling excels at the long game, so his line about being taken away about his family likely wasn’t just to humanize an already pretty humanized character.

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Just as Last Jedi is bringing us Rey’s powers in full Force, the film may also give us a more concrete answer on Finn’s possible Force sensitivity. It’s long been a topic of debate since Awakens, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that he’s got some of the Force in him as well, though it’s clearly not as strong as Rey. There are different types of Force users beyond the Jedi, as Rogue One showed us with Chirrut Imwe. Not to mention, we don’t know what the First Order actually does with anyone who’s Force-sensitive. We could be looking at a situation where Finn can tap into it, but not so much that it would be noticeable to whatever tests the Order has, if any, or it was regarded as too weak to be considered worth mentioning to Snoke.

Also worth noting are Finn and Rey’s opposites on the First Order. Rey found her true self facing off against Kylo Ren, and for most of Awakens, he was Finn’s opposite as well. Now that Ren and Rey have cemented themselves as true enemies, that means Finn and Phasma will become each other’s real nemeses. The latter two were robbed of the the confrontation that cemented them as such in the last film, but Last Jedi clearly isn’t going to make that same mistake again, since they’ll be facing off at some point during the film -- John Boyega's even hyped i by declaring, "If you've ever had a crappy boss...You'll wanna see this fight...." It’s not just going to be satisfying for those who had issues with their superiors at work; it will also (hopefully) show that Finn is able to move on in the same way that Rey was when she finally accepted who she was.

No character’s story truly ends in Star Wars in one movie, much less a person who is one of the main faces of a new trilogy. Even if it turns out Finn isn’t a Jedi like many want him to be, there’s still clearly something going on with him that Last Jedi needs to follow through on. His and Rey’s stories are much too similar for that to be a coincidence, and it’d be a waste of Boyega’s considerable talents. Luke may be the last Jedi, but Finn and Rey are something new and, possibly, even more exciting.