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star wars - Did Rey have an X-wing pilot doll?


In my second viewing of The Force Awakens I thought I briefly saw a crude hand-made doll in Rey’s home that looked an awful lot like an X-Wing pilot. It appeared to have a helmet and an orange suit with white vest. Am I remembering correctly? She seems to know something about the rebellion so this could make sense.


Luke Skywalker in an X-wing fighter pilot uniform.



Answer



Yes, the factbook 'The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary' specifically confirms that it's an "Alliance pilot doll".


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More specifically, (according to the in-universe journal 'Rey's Survival Guide') it's a depiction of Captain Dosmit Ræh, a Rebel Alliance pilot whose helmet Rey discovered when she was a child.


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There's also some good background on the doll to be found in the Junior novelisation




She wiped her mouth on her sleeve and took stock of her few possessions. They always brightened her day and reminded her that there was more to the galaxy than life on Jakku.


She had a doll she’d sewn together as a younger girl from the fabric of an orange flight suit. A canister stored rare flowers she’d plucked in the desert. Then there was the computer Rey had built out of scavenged parts.



Rey is depicted as being quite clearly smitten with the idea of The Rebellion so it's hardly a step of the imagination to think of her as finding their hunky pilots highly attractive in her younger days, or even envision herself as one of them.



Last, a banged-up pilot’s helmet she’d found in a Rebellion-era X-wing rested on a shelf. This was something she couldn’t toss away or redeem as salvage. It would be like dishonoring the pilot who had worn it.




This is also backed up by the Official Novelisation which describes it as a




... handmade doll fashioned from reclaimed orange flight suit material



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