Seriously since I accidentally stumbled on the idea I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m now wondering if it’s less an idea and more an actual possible theory. I haven’t seen this cross my dash, but I’m sure someone else has already thought of it so it’s not new, just new to me.

-The Black Fairy resides in a realm where time works differently.
– On Neverland time is frozen.

– The Black Fairy steals children.
– On Neverland children visited the realm in their dreams long before Pan. This is how Malcolm knew of that realm, he’d dreamed about it as a child. Pan obviously then went on to abduct children properly.

– The Black Fairy and Malcolm are Rumple’s parents.
– The shadow was present on Neverland before Pan, it is what gave Pan his power. I think it was Hook that said Pan had merged with a demon?
– In all the time Bae was on Neverland Rumple couldn’t locate him there.
– Rumple’s power couldn’t locate Gideon because he was in the Black Fairy’s dark realms and beyond his reach.

What if Neverland is one of The Black Fairy’s realms? What if Pan was working for his former lover the entire time? Something obviously drew The Black Fairy and Malcolm together. The similarities between them subsequently might not be coincidence, not if they were working together.

I’m extremely tired and I feel like there is a revelation just hovering at the edge of my mind. I just can’t quite get to it. Anyway, what do people think?