@Phee wrote:
Hook would have already had an emotional connection to Bae before even going to Neverland, given that I’m sure Milah would have often mentioned the kid with sadness, so Hook may have felt guilt for separating them, and then the fact that that separation is what led to Milah’s death. If Bae hadn’t have existed, then Rumple wouldn’t have become the Dark One, wouldn’t have flown off the handle the way he did, and Milah would still be alive. On some level, I wouldn’t blame Hook for resenting Bae’s existence.
Yes, it could create a parallel between Rumple and Hook. Rumple murders Milah mostly due to his self loathing about the fact that he abandoned Bae not because she did. Then, when Hook comes in contact with Bae again, he might feel guilty about the fact that Milah picked Hook over her own child and that guilt comes out in blaming Bae for Milah’s death. Since I view Hook as a bully that Rumple later modeled some of his Dark One behavior on, I could definitely see him placing the blame on the guilt he feels on someone else like Bae.
So imagine Hook coming face to face with Bae again in Neverland, for the first time since that night in the pub. That situation would be ripe for delicious angst, and would set up the possibility for Bae to discover the truth of what happened to his mother. Bae would have an immediate dislike of Hook if he remembers him as the man who was with his mother that night in the pub. Then perhaps in the middle of him going off at Hook for stealing his mother, (edited to add another thought I just had, that perhaps Hook would try to reach out to Bae at first, knowing that Milah wouldn’t want him being horrible to him, and Bae will reject any attempt of friendship from Hook), which had sent his father spiraling into the hot mess that resulted in his becoming the Dark One, Hook will get riled up and blurt out that Rumple killed her, which Bae wouldn’t want to believe, but part of him would believe it, given the things he’d seen his father do. That would mean that if he is Neal, that’s a whole other level of animosity for them to play out once he’s woven into the present day storyline and has contact with both Rumple and Hook again.
Yes, I don’t think that Nealfire will want anything to do with either Rumple or Hook, but Hook perhaps not knowing all the circumstances behind what happened between Bae and Rumple, thinks that Bae wants to reconcile with his father and blurts out that Rumple killed Bae’s mother out of spite. Baelfire would already feel resentment towards Hook either because he thinks that Hook was responsible for his mother’s death or if he was able to put together bits and pieces of what really happened, his mother’s abandonment, but if Hook told Bae about Rumple killing Milah just out of spite, which he likely could, Baelfire’s resentment could turn into full blown hate. Throw in Hook threatening the Charmings especially Emma and Henry, and any other good townspeople that Baelfire might befriend, and I imagine things could get pretty nasty real fast.
They have to have met in Neverland past, otherwise we wouldn’t have the story of Peter Pan and Hook in our world. If Hook went to Neverland and met Peter roughly 250 years before the curse, that allows ample time for their history to have played out, and their story to have made its sway to our world by the early 1900s, when Peter Pan’s story was first told by JM Barrie.
I just realized that Barrie looks like Barrett. It could be a clue that Barrett is connected to Bae somehow. Or if Barrett is connected to the Netherworld somehow like I believe, then he could be how these stories ended up in other places.