05 q&a

[megtryoshka]

What's this thread even for?
I try to get out all the information that I possibly can. I really do, so, if I find that there are questions about something or things that I might need to clarify they will be found here. I hope that I'll be able to cover everything and that no one will be confused at some point.

I don't understand Neverland's layout... can I have a map?
Yes actually you can! I based this version of Neverland off this map, right here. The only difference is that I moved Mermaid Lagoon/Marooner's Rock to the area between Parcel Pass and Pixie Hollow, while Pirate Cove takes over the maze and the Marooner's Rock on the map became Skull Rock. Nifty huh?

I thought you never grew up in Neverland?
That is a good point, in Disney's Peter Pan no one ever aged, however in the book it is posed that Neverland time does indeed move forward, it is however, sporadic and unpredictable. J.M. Barrie wrote: "The passage of time is ambiguous, in the novel Peter Pan mentions that there are many more suns and moons in Neverland, which makes time difficult to track. And although widely thought of as a place where children never grow up, Barrie wrote that Lost Boys eventually do grow up and leave, and fairies live typically short life spans." So it goes that your lost children will indeed age, and they may leave or become pirates when they hit the age of eighteen - as it is a tradition for lost children to be kicked out of the pack on their eighteenth birthdays.

How is their home hidden from the pirates if a lost child becomes one then?
When a lost child is kicked out of the group on their eighteenth birthday they are removed from Neverwood and the Piccaninny tribe gives them a magical drink - some redskin medicine man sort of mixture - that causes them to forget a lot of things about their stay with the lost children. Sometimes they even forget they ever were one! Generally the lost child will take the medicine without fuss because they want to protect their friends and loved ones.

How does time pass compared with the real world?
It passes very, very slowly… For every one Neveryear there are perhaps five to ten of our actual years gone by. In the book, when Peter Pan would come back to visit Wendy it varied from being annually to triennial and so on until she was too old to go to Neverland with him for spring cleaning. So we're saying that anywhere from one to ten years could pass depending on how long or short some of the days in Neverland are.

What if we want to make a character like Wendy?
Well, first off we're non-canon so your characters cannot have any affiliation with those that appear in the movies or books - character relations are rather inconsistent anyway. Secondly, children that are just visiting Neverland will be sorted into the lost children group - since that's what they'll be. The only rule for this is that if you're making a visitor they have to be between thirteen to seventeen years old because any older and they're going to become a pirate - and they don't take kindly to desertion.

So... was Peter really a pirate?
Bahaha, you'll just have to stick around for events to find out.