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Character Basics:

Character Name: Peter Pan
Journal: exceptone
Age: Roughly 15 (formerly in his late 30s/early 40s, in actuality somewhere in the 300s)
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Canon Point: The end of 3x08, "Think Lovely Thoughts"
Debt:

Class A: 55 years

Betrayal (abandoning Rumpelstiltskin, among other things)

Murder (ordered by Pan and includes Greg, Tamara, and likely enough people to fill Dark Hollow with shadows)

Class B: 170 years

Kidnapping (the Lost Boys, Wendy, and presumably other children)

Fraud (E V E R Y T H I N G with Henry, for starters, and fraud in his Malcolm days)

Class C: 15 years and 6 months

Abandonment/Neglect

Failure to accept responsibility

Gambling

Reckless Endangerment

Traumatizing your loved ones

Using abilities to mess with people

GRAND TOTAL: 240 years and 6 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Malcolm History & Peter Pan History

Personality:

Peter Pan may look like a regular boy with fantastic eyebrows, but he's anything but ordinary. Once upon a time, Pan was a man who didn't really bother to grow up. As Malcolm, he lied, cheated, gambled and drank his way through life, and somehow would up saddled with the responsibility of being a father in he process, something he was wholly unprepared for. Although he obviously cared about his son, Rumplestiltskin, he behaved more like a friend or a reckless brother, and often shirked his responsibilities to go get drunk or cheat people out of money. Sometimes, he even took Rumple with him. What a great dad. In any case, he seemed pretty content to be a drunken layabout for the most part, but he possessed enough self awareness to recognize his faults: that he was never cut out to be a father.

When Rumple presents him with an opportunity to go anywhere he wants, it brings back his fondest memories of a place he visited in his dreams as a boy: Neverland. Once in Neverland, an obsession with youth is rekindled in Malcolm. He's fixated on trying to recreate the Neverland experiences he had as a boy, but finds them impossible as an adult, and with Rumple "holding him back" by reminding him that he can't fly. This drives him to make a terrible bargain with the Shadow, Neverland's sole inhabitant: trade Rumplestiltskin for a chance to be young again. Malcolm displays a rare moment of self-reflection and criticism, in that he declares himself weak and knows that wherever he and Rumple go, he'll only go back to his old ways and screw things up again. This is then twisted into a rationalization to support his yearning for youth: since he's not cut out to be a father, then Rumple's better off without him, anyway. He's doing Rumple a favor by allowing the Shadow to take him away. And, oh, look at that, he just so happens to get what he wants-- his childhood restored-- in the process.

This behavior demonstrates that Malcolm (and Peter Pan) is a twisted, greedy person. He abandons his son and, within moments, seems to forget about him, immediately going on an adventurous flight around Neverland, rather than mourn the loss of his child (although it is worth noting that he has a semi-regretful expression on his face for a moment). Once he becomes Peter Pan, he regresses almost completely into adolescence. While he doesn't forget Rumplestiltskin, he does seem to disassociate himself from his old life and from his very role in Rumple's life. In subsequent encounters with Rumple, refers to himself in the third person, going "your father" rather than "I/me" whenever he talks about abandonment or forgiveness. While Pan likely hasn't actually forgotten that he once was Rumple's dad (despite Rumple's accusation that Pan forgot about him), he has pushed that relation to the back of his mind, where it can no longer trouble him or get in the way of his enjoyment of youth. As Pan, he is, despite his origins as a man, a child. He isn't an adult trapped in a child's body-- in a way, he's the opposite of a character like Claudia from Interview With a Vampire, who's an old soul cursed with youth. The vices and characteristics he had as an adult-- drinking, gambling, among others-- are all but nonexistent as Pan.

Pan's obsession with youth supersedes everything else in his life. He is willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to retain his perma-adolescence, including his own son and great-grandson. His selfish actions have had repercussions that have haunted his family through several generations, and he simply doesn't care, so long as he gets what he wants. That Henry will die in the process of him becoming truly immortal, well, that's just a sacrifice the kid'll have to make. Once Henry does (somewhat unwittingly) make that sacrifice, Pan doesn't even flinch or appear remorseful in any way. He simply appears triumphant.

Pan fully embraces his youth, and is, admittedly, not the most well-behaved boy in Neverland. Forever fifteen(ish), Pan is still a child in some ways, but he lacks a child's thoughtless cruelty. His own is much more pointed, deliberate. He's sadistic and manipulative, and he clearly enjoys causing suffering and strife in others. In one example, he tries to make a deal with Hook to kill an already-dying Charming as a show of loyalty to him. Pan wanted to make Hook commit murder just to prove that he does have such a degree of control over the pirate's life. He doesn't, of course, and his little plan to kill Charming fails, but that doesn't change his intent. Another show of his sadism is his treatment of the Darlings. He keeps Wendy captive for roughly a hundred years, keeping her brothers alive to do his bidding under the threat that he'll harm her if they don't... and forcing her to do his bidding under the threat that he'll harm her brothers if she doesn't.

Whether it's through force, clever manipulation or just twisting the truth a little bit, Pan tends to get what he wants. Pan's a capable liar, and he can also be charismatic, to boot. He can come across as charming, friendly, and fun-loving in order to get somebody to come around to his way of things. On the flipside, he's equally capable of presenting himself as a malevolent force, going so far as to threaten to make Emma a true orphan. He's also capable of, through his leadership, turning a pack of children (well, teenagers) into cold-blooded killers who follow his every command. He's ruthless, and he's not to be trusted. Even though he may not personally kill people, it's clear that he doesn't value human life, and he will send his Shadow or his Lost Boys to do the dirty work of dispatching his enemies... and his pawns, once they've outlived their usefulness.

He enjoys making deals with people, similar to his son, but unlike Rumple, it's all simply part of a game to him. In fact, to Pan, everything is a game. Seeing if Emma can unlock his secret map, driving a wedge between Baelfire and Rumpelstiltskin (in the past and in the present), snatching Henry away from his family-- all of these are just part of the game to him, and it doesn't matter to him whether people get hurt along the way. In fact, he's probably counting on it, and he does what he can to encourage more strife and bloodshed, such as (again) offering Hook a way off the island if he personally kills Charming. It's all in the name of fun, adventure, and getting what he wants from people.

Peter is a clever, resourceful boy. He's extremely intelligent, and he has a way of coming across as having a great deal of knowledge about others' lives, their hopes and weaknesses. He tends to take this knowledge and turn it on people as a weapon. It's difficult to say if there's something magical about his seeming omniscience, or if he's just extremely good at gathering information and reading people. Either way, he knows his enemies well, and he tends to know the best ways to deal with them.

Oddly enough, Pan seems to feel some camaraderie with children who feel lost and abandoned-- the very way he made Rumplestiltskin feel when he abandoned him as a child. When he gets lonely, he seeks out children who feel unloved in order to bring them back to Neverland as his new friends. Although he's their leader, he largely eschews responsibility, preferring to let the Lost Boys do what they want, even if it costs them a few fingers. There is no saying "no" in Neverland, and nobody has to apologize for anything. It's very much a child's paradise... with some Lord of the Flies elements on top of it.

TL;DR: He's a magical dickhead who won't grow up.

Powers/Abilities: The scope of his abilities are sort of vague in canon, given the fact that in Neverland, all you really have to do is believe for something to happen. He has a connection to the island; he knows when somebody leaves and when somebody arrives, and apparently, it's only by his will that people can depart from Neverland. It's established that he can fly-- with pixie dust-- and he can teleport, cast complex barrier spells and start fires. He's also immune to certain spells (he's unaffected by Rumpelstiltskin's sleeping spell that knocks out the rest of the Lost Boys) and is likely extremely difficult to kill, given that he has a knack for doing things like catching arrows that are shot at him. Additionally, his shadow is an entity unto itself, and it can tear others' shadows out, killing them. However, he rarely keeps his shadow with him (and it either won't be traveling to Teleios with him, or he'll just have a normal, non-magical shadow affixed to him).

Despite his near-eternal youth, Pan isn't immortal; he's on a timer, and once it reaches its end, he will lose his youth and die. Also, as a magical being, he's vulnerable to squid's ink-- it incapacitates him for a period of time.

Appearance: Peter Pan is portrayed by Robbie Kay. He looks like this.

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