@Phee wrote:
@Naomi wrote:
But more importantly, Peter Pan is one of those characters who can travel between non-magical/magical worlds, so there’s a good explanation for why he wasn’t caught by the curse. My personal theory is that he was in our world when the curse hit – and that prevented him from going back to Neverland. And so “the boy who never grew up”…well, grew up.
That’s part of my theory about how Bae could have also been Peter Pan and still ended up in our world. 😉 Going back to the first part of your comment though, if Barrett does end up being someone who is in our world, but visits SB, then that’s a nice little nod to how Peter can travel between magical and non-magical worlds, so could be a hint to his identity.
Yes, that was also part of my Bae/Peter Pan/Henry’s Father theory I posted back in September. Here’s the link: https://oncepodcast.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1462
I’m having a problem with it now though. As I said in my opening post here, I’m still rooting for my theory, however, I can’t ignore clues we’ve been given about Neal’s age and it’s starting to throw me off the whole Neal/Bae/Peter Pan theory.
On Neal’s FBI wanted poster, it states he was born in 1977. That would make him 35 years old, 7 years older than Emma. Now, that could make Neal Peter Pan, as in the actual books he’s believed to be about 7 years old. Thus, if he got caught here when the curse hit, he’d be seven. So, saying he was born in 1977 would be correct.
However, he can’t be both Bae and Peter Pan as that would mean he was 14 when he got caught here. Thus he would be 42 and not 35, I can’t see them making him 14 years older than Emma and he sure doesn’t look like he’s 14 years older than Emma. Besides, why go to all the trouble to show us the poster that gives us a 7 year age difference.
If he is Bae, he did not arrive before the curse hit nor when the curse hit. It would have had been at least 7 years after the curse.
Now, maybe they’ll show us something that explains the age gap of 7 missing years. I don’t know. Maybe if he was Peter Pan, he regressed in age once he hit Neverland. Rumple does have the ability to do that so who’s to say Bae didn’t meet someone else who did as well. Maybe other worlds were not affected by the curse and it was business as usual other than being able to port to the EF or SB. That might account for Bae coming to the real world as Peter Pan, 7 years after the curse hit and staying. Who knows……..sigh………
As I said, I really want Neal to be Bae and I really want Bae to be Peter Pan. But I’m having my doubts about our OUAT trinity as the moment even though I’ve got a PANtastic theory about it all! 😆
The only thing I know for sure is that he is Henry’s father.
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