And it’s not just the place itself that is the cause of this but rather its ruler, Peter Pan. In Once Upon A Time‘s world Pan is demonized– he is literally called a demon by a character with whom he shares a past. He is an old, angry soul trapped in a forever youthful body, and he manages to strike fear into even some of the biggest villains we have met those far. How he does this is by being a master manipulator of those around him.
“Our characters are all looking for a happy ending; they’re all looking for love. It’s just what choices do you use to get them? Some people are okay playing hardball; some people want to do it the right way. Peter Pan is an interesting story, and I think as it slowly unfolds…he’s a sick, twisted kid…He gets in your head and says ‘Oh what is the thing that you’re most insecure about? I’m going to exploit that!'” Kitsis said.
“Somebody who refuses to grow up has to have a lot of problems because it sounds great when you’re sixteen but when you start to turn twenty-five or older you go ‘Oh God, I would hate to be 16 again!’ or ‘I’m missing out on all of the things of life.’ And he just hit the pause button. This guy is probably there alone, and we started to think about Heart of Darkness, and Peter Pan started to become Kurtz to us, and we started to talk about having to go back up the river to get him.”
FREAKY!I I can’t wait to meet Peter Pan!
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy