"Well, you tell him that Han Solo just stole back the Millennium Falcon for good," the old man said, and Rey stifled a gasp.
The wookie added a comment, and Rey looked between human and nonhuman.
"This is the Millennium Falcon?" she asked. "You're Han Solo?"
"I used to be," Han replied.
Finn frowned. "Han Solo? The rebellion general?"
"No, the smuggler!" Rey countered.
"Wait," Finn said, confused. "You used to be?"
He waved a hand. "I mean, uh… I could buy that if it was that you used to be a smuggler, or if you used to be a general, but how do you stop being you?"
"Kids these days," Han muttered. "I don't mean I stopped being me, I mean I stopped being Han Solo."
He glanced back, and two blank looks answered him.
"What?" he asked. "Haven't you heard of someone getting married? I took her name!"
Chewbacca growled, and Han rolled his eyes.
"Yes, we got divorced again, but that doesn't mean I wanted to go back to the Solo name! I mean, seriously… I took her name for a reason, actually more than one reason, but you do too good a job building brand awareness and suddenly you can't change it. It's a real pain, you know."
He tutted. "So I have to use the name Han Solo professionally, or nobody knows who I am. Han Organa! I'm proud of that name, because it actually means something to me."
Rey held up her hand.
"...what?" he asked.
"How does that work?" she asked.
"I married Leia Organa, that's what," Han answered. "So I took her name. Normally it'd be the other way around, but I wouldn't want to make her give up what she kept from the family who raised her, and I wanted to give up the Solo name but it just won't stop following me around!"
Chewbacca said something.
"Huh?" Han asked. "All right, fuzzball, what do you think the problem is?"
Another comment.
"Fine, fine," Han grumbled. "All right, so I went by Han Solo for a while because it was the closest thing I had to a surname. I was just Han, then when I joined the Imperial Academy the recruiting officer called me Solo. And it wasn't until – well, until I married Leia, really, that I realized how much of a problem it was for me that I was still using that name."
"So… a surname is the second part of your name?" Rey asked. "How do you get one?"
"From your family, usually," Han replied. "Which is where I got mine – my proper one, anyway."
Rey looked thoughtful.
"I don't know my family," she said. "Can I just pick one?"
"Sure!" Finn told her. "That's what Poe helped me do when we escaped."
"...what?" Rey asked, confused. "How could you not have a name before?"
Finn looked stricken.
"Ex-Stormtrooper, right?" Han asked. "I know the look. We had some of them in the Rebellion… what matters isn't who you were, it's who you choose to be."
He punched his fist. "Except that I keep being called Solo by people! Even my son's using it as his deadname and honestly that feels like deliberate mockery at this point."
"...you're not with the Resistance?" Rey asked Finn.
"Well, apparently, now I am," Finn replied. "Look, uh… we actually were trying to get this droid somewhere, so…"
"What?" Han replied. "Oh, yeah. So… I guess I can drop you off wherever."
Chewbacca's commlink chirruped, and he checked it, then growled something at Han.
"Right, right," Han said, rolling his eyes. "Naturally. Okay, so there's about three groups of pirates asking for Han Solo and I think they think that's me as well, so we're going to just blast out of here and leave them with the Rathtars I was delivering for one of them."
He disappeared into the cockpit, and a moment later a curse echoed out of the access hatch.
"Who installed a compressor on the ignition line? We need to get that thing off or it'll blow the hyperdrive…"
AN:
Finn and Rey are both a bit unclear on how names work in general.