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Riadse96 wrote: Wow these are alot of great ideas but here's just my ideal. This Felix is just the storybrooke counterpart of Peter Pan along with the lost boys who were kids at Henry's school. In the orginal story, it is never explained why the shadow is even separate from Peter's body, but my theory is just that the shadow is the evil form of Peter to which somehow they got separtated. Perhaps magic is at play in creating the evil version...

I think the real Peter Pan is eventually going to pop out of no where and be all like "Oh Wendy, I am so sorry that my shadow terrorized you all. Want to go to Neverland?" and the Disney story occurs. The creators of the show in their podcast  (Second Star to the Right recap) said "Peter Pan was their favorite fairy tale" so it would seem odd for them to just "demonize Peter Pan" as what I and many other viewers felt and quite hated.

We can only hope the real Peter Pan is not only some evil shadow, and no:

PETER PAN CANNOT BE DEAD!!!!!! In the original story - which I am actually reading currently - Peter gets seperated from his shadow when the window shuts closed on it during his first visit to the Darlings. And in the original book Peter is described in a somewhat sinister manner as 'terribly clever and a being who takes children who have passed away to the afterplace.'  (not an exact quote but the best way I can recall it. And then there is this exact quote: “I don’t know whether you have ever seen a map of a person’s mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child’s mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads on the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with sex elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate-pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine threepence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on, and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...” ―  J.M. Barrie,  Peter Pan   

''So it seems that Neverland is more a place in the mind very similar to the Netherlands. It could be they are one in the same and that the shadow is Peter but also Neverland is in the physical Peter's mind. It would be an interesting twist and typical of the writer and creators of LOST.''