Oh man! I love sorting people. Ok ok let's see here.
For me, the defining positive and negative traits of the four houses are as follows:
Gryffindors are brave, passionate, adventurous, desire recognition for their accomplishments, are associated with the element of Fire, and want and even need external validation. They care about people, their group, but at their worst they will try to stand above others if it means they get the praise they think they deserve. Like fire they can be quick, hot, and can hurt you, but will burn out if the situation shifts.
Ravenclaws are curious, investigative, researchers, knowledge-gatherers, associated with the element of Air, are future-driven and want to know the why and the how of everything, and they are enriched by their internal validation. They do not need external support, not even from their own peer group, but they highly value others who can keep up with them intellectually and understand their mutual need to withdraw.
Hufflepuff is comfort and care, unity, belonging, nurturing, and solidarity—the idea that the tide rises all boats. They are the Earth element, grounded and practical and welcoming. They are the quintessential 'all for one and one for all' group, and will avoid taking too much individual credit for something if it means it might make someone else feel badly. They are tangible, grounded in the here and now.
Slytherin, the Water element, values ambition and achievement, reputation, esteem, image, appearance. They, like water, can have a lot going on beneath the surface even when the top looks calm. They are confrontational, not just to get a short-term goal of recognition like a Gryffindor, but for the long game. They understand are are driven by history and tradition.
So based off of this, considering the characters as we meet them means looking at their natural temperament plus the effects of what their life and situation has brought them. Rey, although she is alone, private, mistrustful, self-taught in many ways (flying, repairs, etc) and has a lot of Ravenclaw qualities, her heart is very much Hufflepuff. She is of the earth, visually, physically, and in every way—she is about day to day survival, maintaining things as they are until her family can return. So family, belonging, compassion for lesser beings, this drives her, even though her circumstances have made her tough-skinned to survive.
So, Hufflepuff Rey, with Ravenclaw undertones.
Finn has spent all his life training and being the best, but his realization that what he is a part of isn't the truth, isn't ethically right, and isn't something he can be a part of any longer drives him to take huge risks to get away at any cost. He doesn't leave for personal glory, or for some long-range plan, or for some thing other than desperation and escape. He doesn't even leave to join the Resistance. The way he bonds with the first person who shows him a scrap of gentleness and affection, though? To me, that is straight-up Hufflepuff. Once he's out of immediate danger, we get a sense of his true motives: I'm just here to rescue Rey.
Hufflepuff Finn, for sure.
Poe, however, is a Gryffindor. Hard to separate out fanon!Poe from canon!Poe, but yeah, ace pilot? Brave and cocky and a little bit reckless? Yep.
Kylo Ren... what can I even say about Kylo Ren? His hair is so big, it's full of secrets. He punched me in the face once, it was awesome. Kylo Ren wants to be a Slytherin. He really, really wants to be. He thinks he can play the long game, be strategic, be restrained, stealthy, manipulative—but he's a hothead. He burns, and flares out. He thinks he has what he needs in Rey, but he makes a mistake. To him, embracing the dark side and embracing Vader is his way of reaching for that calm surety that Snoke keeps dangling in front of him as the ideal. His whole hallmark is lack of emotional regulation, lack of identity. Slytherins are typically very sure of their identities. Kylo Ren is a Gryffindor—yes, I know, I know. But he is. He is the shadow side of an unfulfilled, frustrated, fucking angry Gryffindor.
When Gryffindors are frustrated, they get angry, they lash out. Slytherins, they wait and bide their time and then drown you. Ravenclaws detach, disassociate, float away and conceal themselves from you. Hufflepuffs are just extremely disappointed in your life choices and punish you by not bringing you those cupcakes you like, that'll show 'em...
I really think Leia is a Slytherin. She carries the weight of her people on her shoulders, has a huge sense of duty and responsibility to that tradition and will do what it takes to stay in the long game, even if it means putting herself at risk. She is very strategic, cunning, a quick-thinker. 'Somebody has to save our skins.' Leia was the one who wanted to send Ben away for training, and she and Han (who is a Gryffindor, and you can't tell me otherwise I won't hear it la la la) disagreed on this. They may have even agreed on the what, but not on the why—train him because he needs help, he's hurting, he needs a better role model than I am, says Han. Train him because he will always have this power and he should learn to focus it, says Leia. They don't communicate on the same level, but they are both right, in a way. From a certain point of view, as it were.
Oh and Luke is totes a Hufflepuff.
Hux, I think, is a shadow Ravenclaw. Able to reason his way into abstraction, counting lives as numbers on a page. This many, and we will have the truth prevail. There is a right way and a wrong way to think, and I will show you the right way. He doesn't give two shits about the Force or mysticism, he is about rigid adhesion to a very specific Dogma. His speech reveals, he isn't doing this, really, for him and for his glory, but because he thinks he represents the messenger of truth. A closed off, evil Ravenclaw can go so esoteric that they don't even see humans as people, but prefer them faceless, orderly, and in nice neat lines.
Re: If you were planning a TFA/Harry Potter crossover...
For me, the defining positive and negative traits of the four houses are as follows:
Gryffindors are brave, passionate, adventurous, desire recognition for their accomplishments, are associated with the element of Fire, and want and even need external validation. They care about people, their group, but at their worst they will try to stand above others if it means they get the praise they think they deserve. Like fire they can be quick, hot, and can hurt you, but will burn out if the situation shifts.
Ravenclaws are curious, investigative, researchers, knowledge-gatherers, associated with the element of Air, are future-driven and want to know the why and the how of everything, and they are enriched by their internal validation. They do not need external support, not even from their own peer group, but they highly value others who can keep up with them intellectually and understand their mutual need to withdraw.
Hufflepuff is comfort and care, unity, belonging, nurturing, and solidarity—the idea that the tide rises all boats. They are the Earth element, grounded and practical and welcoming. They are the quintessential 'all for one and one for all' group, and will avoid taking too much individual credit for something if it means it might make someone else feel badly. They are tangible, grounded in the here and now.
Slytherin, the Water element, values ambition and achievement, reputation, esteem, image, appearance. They, like water, can have a lot going on beneath the surface even when the top looks calm. They are confrontational, not just to get a short-term goal of recognition like a Gryffindor, but for the long game. They understand are are driven by history and tradition.
So based off of this, considering the characters as we meet them means looking at their natural temperament plus the effects of what their life and situation has brought them. Rey, although she is alone, private, mistrustful, self-taught in many ways (flying, repairs, etc) and has a lot of Ravenclaw qualities, her heart is very much Hufflepuff. She is of the earth, visually, physically, and in every way—she is about day to day survival, maintaining things as they are until her family can return. So family, belonging, compassion for lesser beings, this drives her, even though her circumstances have made her tough-skinned to survive.
So, Hufflepuff Rey, with Ravenclaw undertones.
Finn has spent all his life training and being the best, but his realization that what he is a part of isn't the truth, isn't ethically right, and isn't something he can be a part of any longer drives him to take huge risks to get away at any cost. He doesn't leave for personal glory, or for some long-range plan, or for some thing other than desperation and escape. He doesn't even leave to join the Resistance. The way he bonds with the first person who shows him a scrap of gentleness and affection, though? To me, that is straight-up Hufflepuff. Once he's out of immediate danger, we get a sense of his true motives: I'm just here to rescue Rey.
Hufflepuff Finn, for sure.
Poe, however, is a Gryffindor. Hard to separate out fanon!Poe from canon!Poe, but yeah, ace pilot? Brave and cocky and a little bit reckless? Yep.
Kylo Ren... what can I even say about Kylo Ren? His hair is so big, it's full of secrets. He punched me in the face once, it was awesome. Kylo Ren wants to be a Slytherin. He really, really wants to be. He thinks he can play the long game, be strategic, be restrained, stealthy, manipulative—but he's a hothead. He burns, and flares out. He thinks he has what he needs in Rey, but he makes a mistake. To him, embracing the dark side and embracing Vader is his way of reaching for that calm surety that Snoke keeps dangling in front of him as the ideal. His whole hallmark is lack of emotional regulation, lack of identity. Slytherins are typically very sure of their identities. Kylo Ren is a Gryffindor—yes, I know, I know. But he is. He is the shadow side of an unfulfilled, frustrated, fucking angry Gryffindor.
When Gryffindors are frustrated, they get angry, they lash out. Slytherins, they wait and bide their time and then drown you. Ravenclaws detach, disassociate, float away and conceal themselves from you. Hufflepuffs are just extremely disappointed in your life choices and punish you by not bringing you those cupcakes you like, that'll show 'em...
I really think Leia is a Slytherin. She carries the weight of her people on her shoulders, has a huge sense of duty and responsibility to that tradition and will do what it takes to stay in the long game, even if it means putting herself at risk. She is very strategic, cunning, a quick-thinker. 'Somebody has to save our skins.' Leia was the one who wanted to send Ben away for training, and she and Han (who is a Gryffindor, and you can't tell me otherwise I won't hear it la la la) disagreed on this. They may have even agreed on the what, but not on the why—train him because he needs help, he's hurting, he needs a better role model than I am, says Han. Train him because he will always have this power and he should learn to focus it, says Leia. They don't communicate on the same level, but they are both right, in a way. From a certain point of view, as it were.
Oh and Luke is totes a Hufflepuff.
Hux, I think, is a shadow Ravenclaw. Able to reason his way into abstraction, counting lives as numbers on a page. This many, and we will have the truth prevail. There is a right way and a wrong way to think, and I will show you the right way. He doesn't give two shits about the Force or mysticism, he is about rigid adhesion to a very specific Dogma. His speech reveals, he isn't doing this, really, for him and for his glory, but because he thinks he represents the messenger of truth. A closed off, evil Ravenclaw can go so esoteric that they don't even see humans as people, but prefer them faceless, orderly, and in nice neat lines.