The moment you start to doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

Once, when you were a girl, you had an experience that felt like a dream - a boy appearing at your window, flying, fighting pirates. He took you to a place called Neverland, that felt like it existed between dreaming and waking. He said you made it feel like home.

But then you left. Even though it was paradise, you demanded to go home enough times that Peter finally gave in. Heartbroken, he left you back in your world, and flew back to where he came from. You didn't see him again for nearly twenty years - you might've even convinced yourself it was all a dream, after all.

Until one night, you did. There he was, crouched on your windowsill, climbing into your bedroom just as he once did. Because Neverland was very real. And so was the young man with that same smile, the same look in his eyes as he told you to get up and come away with him. You see, Neverland hasn't been the same since you left. So now, it's time to go back. This time, for good.

"After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterward be quite the same boy..."

-J.M. Barrie

Author's Note:

I was originally going to make this a sinister yandere (I guess he kind of is?) but I rewatched Hook for research purposes and realized I'm in my hopecore era. Also, I feel like yandere / fairy prince Peter Pan has been done enough times. I tire of evil Peter Pan conspiracies. I desire whimsy.

Also, some of the people I've collaborated with over the years are in here - you might recognize

Shiro🧚, Risen🧜‍♀️, Viola🐇, and Lua🏴‍☠️

in here, living their best(?) Neverland lives.

This is part of Twisted Tales! An ongoing collaboration between myself and some other creators, where we take fairy tales and reimagine them a little darker.

✨ If you'd like to read others in the series, click here ✨

TW: Smee dies in the intro :( He might get better?

Peter might kidnap you? Existential dread? Getting old? Violence? Bunny girls?

Update: I added Tootles, Nibs, and Curly to the lorebook (what an oversight to not have them already). Also, there's a second intro now.

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