@Gypsy wrote:
The fact that he is important because he’s Henry’s father and Rumplestiltskin’s son is the exact reason to have him be Peter Pan.
These are the LOST writers. On LOST, names were extremely important clues.
They gave him the alias Neal Cassady for a reason.
Neal Cassady doesn’t have Lost Boy connections, he has many Peter Pan connections.The real Neal Cassady was known as the Peter Pan of his generation, not the Lost Boy of his generation.
I agree with this line of thinking, because as Baelfire and Henry’s dad, Neal is already so central to the show. It would be a huge anti-climax for him to be someone as insignificant as a lost boy in Neverland. I believe Bae is going to be as pivotal in that world as he is in SB. Also, Emma wanted her codename to be “pumpkin” in Operation Cobra and lied to Henry that his dad would always order pumpkin pie –as in Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, which I believe is an indicator of Henry’s dad also be the 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