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Well, I think it has something to do with the Lost Boys in the Peter Pan story. The only reason Peter came for Wendy was to be a mother to the Lost Boys – tell them stories,mend clothes, cook etc. Now the story is turned on its ear and we have this shadow/recruiter person seeking only boys (but Wendy did get to go for one night). Maybe because they needed boys to fight Hook and the pirates? Good question!
I think because it was searching specifically for Bae thus wanting only boys until he found him.
Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.
It does beg the question that if the shadow only wants boys, why did it take Wendy in the first place?
I need to rewatch but that wasn’t the first time the shadow came to see her right? Cause she had to promise Bae that she wouldn’t go with it. That kinda tells me the shadow has had a few chances to figure out that Wendy is not the kid he/it was seeking…right? The whole thing is very puzzling but I agree that it was likely searching for Bae.
Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.
No idea! In the play, Wendy asks why there are no girls, and Peter says “Girls are much too smart to fall from *their* carriages!” (The lost boys are the babies who fall out of their carriages when the nurse is looking the other way.)
@MysteryKat25 wrote:
It does beg the question that if the shadow only wants boys, why did it take Wendy in the first place?
Peter — assuming that’s who the shadow is — doesn’t want to move on from childhood (where it’s Us versus Them), but he’s not being entirely successful at resisting growing up and is noticing girls.
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@TheGoldenKey wrote:
I think because it was searching specifically for Bae thus wanting only boys until he found him.
Poor Bae can’t freaking catch a break!
@MysteryKat25 wrote:
It does beg the question that if the shadow only wants boys, why did it take Wendy in the first place?
So it could scare Bae into surrendering himself in the place of one of Wendy’s brothers. If this Shadow was after Bae, it knew enough to know that he wouldn’t willingly fly off to a magical world.
Why would this thing be looking for Bae? Strictly something to do with his father? Or is there something special about Bae himself?
I’m still thinking he could be Peter Pan and instead of Peter looking for his shadow, maybe his shadow is looking for him. It’s a weird stretch but I don’t know why else the shadow thing would be so focused on Bae. I do agree with the reason for swapping out though, that it realized and/or learned from Wendy that Bae wouldn’t want to come willingly and figured out that Bae would sacrifice himself for the good of the Darling children.
Keeper of Hook's Trenchcoat.
My theory was it was Rumpel that tried to use magic–and originally Rumpel said what he was didn’t mix well with fairy magic. So that may be why the shadow is after Bae or connected to him somehow. I think that Bae escaped is important–unlike other boys who land on NL, Bae fell in the water and went to Hook’s ship. I think maybe Bae ends up flying with fairy help and never technically sets foot on NL.
We also don’t know where the Dark One curse came from originally–BF implies it doesn’t belong in FTL. What if it came from NL? I’m thinking it is from a different realm than that too but NL is creepy.
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