I could see him being Pan, the look would fit. But “a very dark side and has beliefs and a way of life that he will fight fiercely to defend,” doesn’t really sound like Pan to me, though I suppose a darker side of the character may have developed after being stuck in our world.
If we’re to assume that Ethan’s character comes from outside SB and is a storybook character, then an adult Pan is an obvious choice.
Could Barrett potentially be from our world but NOT a storybook character? Like, some sort of paranormal hunter type, who senses there’s something going on in that area and comes to try and stop it? Maybe someone who’s been keeping an eye on Neal and follows him there? Dunno that they’d consider introducing unrelated real world people at this stage of the game, (or ever) though, so that may be too far fetched of a theory. Just got to wondering about it because it’s not like Pan would have a wildly different “way of life” or beliefs to the inhabitants of SB, whereas someone from our world who thinks magic is evil would. Unless that’s relating to Pan having defended his magical way of life while being stuck in our world.
@Naomi wrote:
How old was Peter in the story?
Wikipedia sez…
The notion of a boy who would never grow up was based on J. M. Barrie’s older brother who died in an ice-skating accident the day before he turned 14, and thus always stayed a young boy in his mother’s mind.[2] The “boy who wouldn’t grow up” has appeared at a variety of ages. In his original appearance in The Little White Bird he was only seven days old. Although his age is not stated in Barrie’s later play and novel, his characterization is clearly years older. The book states that he has all of his baby teeth, and Barrie’s intended model for the statue of Peter that was erected in Kensington Gardens was a set of photos of Michael Llewelyn Davies taken at the age of six. Early illustrations of the character generally appeared to be that age or perhaps a few years older. In the 1953 Disney adaptation and its 2002 sequel, Peter appears to be in late childhood, between 10 and 13 years old. (The actor who provided the voice in 1953 was 15-year-old Bobby Driscoll.) In the 2003 film, Jeremy Sumpter was 13 at the time filming started; by the end of filming he was 14 and had grown several inches taller. In the movie Hook, Peter is said to have left Neverland many years earlier, forsaking his eternal youth and ageing normally. When remembering his buried past, Peter is shown as a baby, and little boy, and also a near-teenager, suggesting that the ageing process does not entirely stop in Neverland until puberty or just before, or that Peter aged a little bit every time he left Neverland to come to the real world. When Peter says, “I remember you being a lot bigger,” in the final duel, Hook answers, “to a 10-year-old I’m huge.” He is portrayed by Robin Williams, who turned 40 during production of the film.
…so they could make him anything up to an early teen before he stayed in our world and aged to mid 30s.
Since we know he can traverse between Neverland and our world, he could have been in our world when the curse hit. Maybe that prevented him from going back.
Cool idea, that’d make sense.