@AntBee wrote:
I know before we got confirmation that Neal was indeed Baelfire that people who hated the idea often did so because they couldn’t see Bae growing up into Neal, but I think it would definitely change someone to be abandoned by the person that that person thought would always be there for him/her like Bae thought with this father. He already had to deal with his mother leaving him, because I’m sure once he grew older, he figured it out that she really wasn’t kidnapped, and then his father abandons him too.
Further, If he were dropped into this world straight from FTL, then that had to change him a lot too, since he was without a family and had no idea about how our world works. If he tells people the truth, I’m sure he realized quickly that he would be labeled as crazy. If he keeps it to himself though, then he always has to keep some kind of distance between himself and others even when he loves them like he did Emma. On the other hand, even if he is Peter Pan or got dropped somewhere else first, it would have the same kind of effect on him, and definitely change him.
Yep, I get that point, but I don’t know, it is a difficult issue to explian…just… I had so many expectations on Bae -as a child-!
I mean.. he was more emotionally more mature than his dad, even being a child of 14. I just expected time and experience gave him more insight that what he shows. Not only the fact of becoming a thief -that can perfectly fit the scenary you explain, it is completely understandable, he was broken and lonely – but… he doesn’t even give the chance to his father. Ok, he left him, bleblabla, (and besides, that Rumpelstiltskin’s “oh, no prob: let me turn back the clock and recover the wasted years” was an epic fail given the circunstances) but when Emma told him that he made her the same that his father did to him is all like “oh, c’mon sweetheart! I know you’remadat me but it was not that much!”. So, from my pointof view, he has changed from be a mature teenager to be an inmature man.This is just a silly example XDD It is just that i can’t find the proper way to explain what i meant by how he grew up :S :S