Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25896389-20150514071947/@comment-4453062-20160405195003

DarKingdomHearts wrote:

A theory me and several other fans had back during 3A was that Peter Pan was Rumple's older brother. This would have tied better with the original Peter Pan story, as Pan did have a younger brother, who his parents replaced him with after he went to Neverland. On that note, though, I do understand why the writers went the route of him being his father. Pan being his father opened up a bunch of father-son parallels that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Both Pan and Rumple abandoned their sons, though for obviously different reasons. 'You traded Baelfire for the power of a dagger. And I traded you for youth. We're more alike than you think." But yeah, I think Pan being his brother could have worked on a different level, and I'm intrigued at what could have been.
 * Peter Pan as Rumple's best buddy intead of his dad