@Kranen wrote:
1) Bae did come to our world first but somehow found a way of getting home. Instead of going back to the EF though, he somehow ended up in Neverland.
Neal told Emma: “It’s a long story. Short version, is this world wasn’t my first stop when I left home.”
2) In The Crocodile, Smee (from memory) asked Hook where they were going when he opened up the portal. Hook replied ‘Neverland!’ indicating that he somehow already knew about it. Maybe he had been there before before, when Bae first came through?
Ah, the debate the divides the fandom, had Hook been to Neverland before or not! I actually wouldn’t be surprised if he’d been there before, because he did seem very sure about where he wanted to go.
Still not sure that it would match up in this instance though.
Milah left with Hook when Bae was, what, 7ish, (I’m crap at estimating kid’s ages)?
Bae went down the beanhole when he was 14.
At some point after that, Rumple killed Milah and then Hook promptly left for NL.
So for Hook to have gone to NL after Bae had, he’d have to have gone with Milah. And Hook knew Bae there. Which would mean Milah would have seen Bae there too. And it certainly didn’t seem like that had happened in The Crocodile when they were discussing her having left Bae.
@Demileto wrote:
The point is, we’ll be seeing a flashback on Baelfire’s POV whose focus will be the relationship he had with Hook; it’s possible, maybe even likely, that Hook/Bae had some sort of surrogate father/son relationship when he first arrived at Neverland, which means he lived in Hook’s ship during his first years there. We know, however, that it ended somehow, and finding Wendy as a prisioner of the Captain could very well have been it. Bae releases her, they escape, we get to be introduced to Wendy without necessarily introducing Peter or the other Darling children.
That would be a cool way to work Wendy in on her own!
As for my own headcanon, I’ve dreamed up that Bae knew Ariel both as a mermaid, (sort of filling the Scuttle role from the Disney movie, as the one she questioned about how the human world worked), and as a human, (he’s got experience being around mute girls), which would work with any NL flashback from Bae’s POV.