Reply To: Was Rumple a Lost Boy? (spoilers!)

[Josephine]

I think Pan is Rumple’s older brother. We talked about this in chat last week, and it’s a stretch but it makes perfect sense! I do have a reason for my madness…

Peter Pan makes his first appearance in a book called The Little Bird.  A few chapters are devoted to the character Peter Pan and his early life. They were later extracted to make the story Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.  Very few know that Peter has a younger brother.  At the end of the story, a very young Peter decides to return to his mother and coming back to the house finds the window closed and her holding another baby.  He think’s she’s replaced him and so he flees to live with the fairies.  Here is an excerpt. 

 “I wish now to go back to mother for ever and always,” they had to tickle his shoulder and let him go.

He went in a hurry in the end because he had dreamt that his mother was crying, and he knew what was the great thing she cried for, and that a hug from her splendid Peter would quickly make her to smile. Oh, he felt sure of it, and so eager was he to be nestling in her arms that this time he flew straight to the window, which was always to be open for him.

But the window was closed, and there were iron bars on it, and peering inside he saw his mother sleeping peacefully with her arm round another little boy.

Peter called, “Mother! mother!” but she heard him not; in vain he beat his little limbs against the iron bars. He had to fly back, sobbing, to the Gardens, and he never saw his dear again. What a glorious boy he had meant to be to her. Ah, Peter, we who have made the great mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us. When we reach the window it is Lock-out Time. The iron bars are up for life.

 

So now we have a history of Peter having the existence of a brother.  Eddy and Adam are twisted enough to include this little detail.  They would definitely be aware of it since Peter Pan is their favorite story.  So we have a boy, with no mother and a brother who had taken his place.  I’d say he might be a little bitter about that and want his revenge in some way.  So my theory is all this is an elaborate plan…from the seer, to the Dark One curse, to the taking of Henry, to destroy the brother who took attention away from him.

Rumple also fits because we know next to nothing about his early life.  We know his father was killed for fleeing and he was raised by spinsters.  We know nothing about his mother.  It’s possible that either/both of his parents had a previous child.  A brother that Rumple would now nothing of. 

I had more on the theory last week, but I can’t remember it at the moment…but it was brilliant. 😛  Hopefully, I can eventually remember it.  I used to come up with sound theories and now everything is outlandish and cracktastic.  I think I’ve cracked.