Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-264749-20130218073608/@comment-6402365-20130218220946

Since we've been speculating on Neal and Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, I thought I would quote a few key parts out of Peter Pan. I'm not sure how the writers might adapt this story, but according to J.M. Barrie the Lost Boys do somehow get from this world to Neverland, and that there are fairies living in Kensington Gardens. Not sure how this will work with OuaT saying that Earth is the Land Without Magic. But, after rereading this part out of Peter Pan, I definitely do not think that Neal is Peter Pan, because Peter Pan ran away from home the day he was born. He is cocky and innocent in a lot of ways...he even has his first laugh still. Neal (Baelfire) doesn't have that kind of innocence, and he arrived there at 14, not the day he was born. I think he might have just joined the Lost Boys. Here are the quotes from Chp. 3:

"I don't know," he replied uneasily, "but I am quite young." He really knew nothing about it, he had merely suspicions, but he said at a venture, "Wendy, I ran away the day I was born."

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"It was because I heard father and mother," he explained in a low voice, "talking about what I was to be when I became a man." He was extraordinarily agitated now. "I don't want ever to be a man," he said with passion. "I want always to be a little boy and to have fun. So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies."

.....

The sound come from the chest of drawers, and Peter made a merry face. No one could ever look quite so merry as Peter, and the loveliest of gurgles was his laugh. He had his first laugh still.

......

They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with more questions.

"If you don't live in Kensington Gardens now -- "

"Sometimes I do still."

"But where do you live mostly now?"

"With the lost boys."

"Who are they?"

"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses. I'm captain."

"What fun it must be!"

"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."

"Are none of the others girls?"

"Oh, no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams."