Ok, then I’ll consider the Hook = Pan theory. But the Pan/Hook animosity is such a huge part of the mythology of PP that to make them one and the same…I don’t know. You lose so much story potential. When I believed that Neal was also Nealfire Pan, it could go either way: Hook and Pan as enemies or Hook and Pan as father figure to a lost boy, which would have been a great way to explore Neal, Hook, and Rumple.
I do think Hook’s backstory is really important and will shed a lot of light onto this whole situation, but I think at most he’s a lost boy.
Well the animosity can still be very much present it will just be a consistent inner struggle between Killian’s good side and bad side and it goes along with the quote villain trapped inside a heroes body/hero trapped inside a villains body.