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jihef03 · 2 years

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Gonna sound weird but I kind of see Peter and Hook being brothers rather than Hook being a parental figure to Peter.

I mean, Peter *was* inspired -in part- by Barrie’s own brother, who died at 13 and also happened to be their mother’s favourite. When came the time to give Peter a rival, Barrie made up a neurotic english-educated man, gave him *his* first name James, and set both characters in a competition to win the approval of their “mom” Wendy with Hook as the clear loser.

Not saying this was intentional of anything (probably a bit intentional, but no so much), but yeah this definitely influenced my view of Peter and Hook’s relationship. I’m not saying it negates the parent thing as well, it’s more about what i personally took from the works.

#peter pan #captain hook #james hook #james barrie #admitedly it also comes down to which version we're talking about #the whole parent thing completly flew over my head with disney hook when i was a kif #but mostly because i can't imagine this version tutoring a child #hoffman hook i can see it specially since this the movie where peter is a father himself so parallels #tim curry too if you're fine with violent outbusts and gaslighting #i'm not letting any child near isaacs' hook however #then again whatever the version i just have hard time picturing hook as a dad #he doens't have the requirments #danny kaye hook has more of weird uncle vibe

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