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I am looking for a co-author to help me on either of these two projects. Sorry the post is a little long but I feel it helps give an idea what each project is about.
Project 1 = Alistair and the Wolf:
Cover for Alistair and the Wolf = See Attached Image
Basic Info for Alistair and the Wolf = Action / Survival, LGBT+ Dark Fantasy, BL Romance, Pseudo-Shota
Basic Premise of Alistair and the Wolf:
People say we had peace once, before my time. Our country was young then, born from the blood of revolution and terror. Through suffering, we forged a shining republic of virtue, freed from the tyranny of gods and kings... but our enemies to the east grew envious and their envy turned to anger, plunging our world into war. Our people fought with the valor of heroes for decades and from their sacrifice came the opportunity for a decisive strike against the barbarians. The strike worked and our victory was at hand, our leaders promised us peace in our time but the barbarians would not go silently into the night. On the eve of their defeat, they unleashed a devastating plague upon their own people. The plague spread across the world like wildfire turning men into monsters. Peace in our time became peace never again… peace only in death.
And thus the world of Men was shattered into three. The Lycanthrians being the largest of the three factions quickly overwhelmed most of the children of Men. Brought to the brink of extinction, humanity’s remaining population now survives only in extremely fortified City-States. The Vampires, being the smallest of the three factions, used their superior knowledge of the Arcane and their advanced technology to become the master race of this new world born of blood.
The plague not only transformed mankind but the world as well, scorching the sky and covering the world in an endless dark. Soon the radiant golden light of the sun became a distant memory… a hollow vestige of its former glory. The woods and forests grew wicked and thick reclaiming much of the world that Man had stolen and it was into this cold and nightmarish world that I was born… My name is Alistair and this is my story.
Project 2 = Neverland Origins:
Basic Info for Neverland Origins = Epic Dark Fantasy, LGBT+, Mythological, Historical.
Basic Timeline of Events for Neverland Origins:
Bolded Events are mostly about Peter Pan
Italic Events are mostly about Smee
Normal Text Events are mostly about Hook
In the year 810 A.D. Peadar Paorach is sacrificed to the Supreme Dullahan by a group of Lillithian Druids in order to seal the union of the Lillithian Order and the Draig Family. Peadar is killed but is found by Lord Pan (of Greek Mythology) and Tinker Bell. Pan takes mercy upon Peadar because he senses a powerful soul within the boy. Following his hunch, Pan and Tink take the boy's soul to Master Ishrakie (The Pale Witch of Gates, Goddess of Mirrors and Vrill. She is also the creator of the Neverlands and Wonderland). Tink and Pan ask Ishrakie if Peadar can be made the Lord of the Neverlands. Ishrakie agrees the boy's soul could be strong enough and so she grants him the Vita-Vrillian Admin Codes for the Neverlands. Ishrakie then frees the Neverlands from their Great Slumber that was established after the murder of Thanatos ( The previous Lord of the Neverlands ). Peadar wakes up in the Neverlands with Tinker Bell and Pan before him. They explain Peadar’s new role as Lord of the Neverlands and his role as Ver Kindra Toten Fuhren (Guardian of Dead Children).
Lord Pan and Ishrakie re-establish the Council of the Ten-Nations and then Peadar is dubbed with the last name of Pan as a vote of confidence in the Peader to fulfill his new role. Tinker Bell is assigned as Peadar’s advisor and mentor to help him acclimate to his new duties.
After some time Peadar is visited by Lord Tu'er Shen (The Architect of Male-Love [Platonic and Sexual] and Divine Brotherhood) who discusses Peadar’s predecessor Thanatos. Tu’er Shen and Thanatos had a romantic relationship (“we had a very deep… passionate relationship. His murder ravages my heart with bitter despair. Though I may not seem distraught, my soul bleeds from the loss of him”). Tu-er Shen offers his hand in friendship and support to Peadar before returning to his lunar palace. During the visit, Tu-er Shen suggests Peadar seek out friends to make his new role and duties less lonely just as Thanatos did and mentions the Order of the Lost Boys that Thanatos had once established but was ended upon his murder and the falling of the Great Slumber upon the Neverlands.
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Benjamin R. (Rewndell) F. (Finally) Smee is born in West London in the year of 1804 A.D.. He is raised by his Indian mother after his father dies in service to the crown. When Smee is nine years old his mother is sexually assaulted and murdered on her way home from work by some racist British sailors on shore leave. Smee sees the ending part of the attack but is unable to help her. The death of his mother fills Smee with a desire for revenge from a young age. Then when he was 10 years old ( in the year 1814 A.D. ) he attempts to avenge his mother and fails. Instead, the tables are turned on him and the men who killed his mother are about to kill him but he is rescued and taken in by Captain Nemo who nurses him back to health and teaches him to forsake revenge and pursue a more spiritual and enlightened path.
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In the year 1808 A.D., when he is thirteen years old James’s ( Captain Hook’s ) mother ( Verina Ivy Fordon ) dies while giving birth to James’s younger brother who also dies during the birth as James and his father ( Abraham Matthews Fordon ) watch in horror. His father becomes inconsolable and kills himself just two weeks later, leaving James alone. James actually killed his father because his father was a physically and emotionally abusive drunk who had attempted to strangle his mother causing her to go into labor in the first place thus James blames his father for killing his mother and his would-be younger brother. James’s father noticed his son’s bisexual tendencies early on and began stepping up his abuse of James in an attempt to “cure him of his wickedness” ). The ‘corrective abuse’ given to James by his father creates a deep inner-loathing of his father but also of his own queerness thus making him aggressive and violent towards those in his peer group who he perceives as sissy or queer.
After his father’s ‘Suicide’ James is shipped off to his salt of the Earth uncle who takes James on little boat trips planting the seeds for James’s love of being on the water [ This is referenced in Book I Chapter 10 ]. However, upon noticing James’s bisexual tendencies James’s uncle also decides he wants nothing to do with him and thus uses James’s inheritance to send him off to school. At school, James is bullied by faculty and students alike for his deeply awkward nature and is seen as a broken loner with no social skills or hope of making friends.
In the year 1811 A.D. James enters his second year at school during which he meets a new teacher by the name of Charles Marrows. Charles takes James under his wing and helps him come out of his shell resulting in a dramatic improvement in James’s Academic and Social Development (Not necessarily on matters of making friends but certainly on matters of social etiquette and aristocratic behavior and customs) James is 15 years old at this time.
Charles is very affectionate towards James and even accepts James’s developing bisexuality. With Charles’s help, James accepts his own queerness but still keeps it to himself as much as he can. James does develop romantic feelings with another boy named Ulrich Smyth. During this time James remembers his love of the sea and dedicates much of his free time to studying all he can on sailing.
He also starts practicing fencing at school with Ulrich to help them both relieve stress and perfect their swordsmanship skills. However, in the Winter of that year, Charles is shot and killed while James and he are out walking, the attacker is a first-year student (13 years old) named Kurt Adler who cries to the arresting police that Charles had molested him (This is never proven or verified). This leaves James destroyed and dismayed, Ulrich does his best to help James cope with the loss and one night while chatting they end up kissing (This is James’s first kiss and was loosely referenced in Book 1 in Chapter 10).
With Ulrich’s help, things almost manage to return to normal for James. However, when Kurt is given a slap on the wrist by law enforcement and the courts, James is enraged and feels that Kurt escaped justice. Kurt is given a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue at school due to a very large donation from his daddy to the school administrators and local politicians.
One night James catches Kurt off-guard in the school showers and knocks him out, he then takes him to a kill-room he set up in an abandoned house in the nearby port city not far from the school and brutally tortures and murders Kurt. James leaves the dead boy to rot in the abandoned house and returns to school in time for classes the next day. Rather than being distraught by what he had just done instead James feels more confident and emotionally centered than he ever has in his life. James and Ulrich continue to develop their relationship.
In the year 1813 A.D. James turns 18 and he and Ulrich move into a flat in the nearby port city. However, his world is thrown into chaos when he catches Ulrich cheating on him with a girl and proceeds to plan and carry out their murder. Living alone James now starts to spend most of his time in taverns among the local dock-workers and sailors. During this time living alone, James starts giving in to his dark desires. James begins prowling the streets by night looking for victims on whom to unleash his sadistic and psychopathic tendencies.
During this time James gets into a bar fight and ends up saving the life of a Brethren Republic Captain by the name of Captain Jacob Spires who is impressed with James’s rough and tumble nature and skill with a blade. Jacob Spires offers James a spot on his crew should he ever want it.
Just after turning 19 years old ( 1814 A.D. ) one of the boys that James had tortured and was about to kill escapes and makes his way into a crowd of people. James knows this means he will probably be arrested soon so he quickly packs his bags and makes his way for the docks where he hopes Captain Jacob Spires is docked. He catches Jacob just as they are about to depart for their next voyage. Desperate to escape England before he is arrested James accepts Jacob’s offer and becomes part of his crew thus officially beginning his career as a sailor/pirate.
It is likely that during his killing spree James tortured and killed over a dozen boys. When the bodies of James's victims were finally found it was discovered most of them had been killed with meat hooks leading local residents to begin referring to this unsolved and dark chapter of their history as the legendary Terror of the Hook. This is the first time anyone has referred to James as Hook although he does not identify himself that way… yet.
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When Smee turns 15 years old (in the year 1819 A.D.) he confesses to having romantic feelings for Captain Nemo. However, these feelings are not reciprocated. Although Captain Nemo is respectful in his rejection of Smee’s affections it still leaves Smee emotionally wounded though he does suppress the pain. During this confession Captain Nemo also revealed to Smee his intention to announce that he would be marrying Mishka Kallie; a girl who Smee had saved just a few weeks before from being murdered by a group of drunkards (mirroring when Nemo rescued him from a similar situation).
Jealous of the love between Mishka and Nemo, Smee begins to descend into darkness. Eventually, his slip into madness is put into hyperdrive by the news that Mishka has become pregnant with Nemo’s child. This news is the last straw pushing Smee over the edge.
Smee tries to apply the dark arts to kill Mishka before she can give birth but the spell backfires, creating a massive storm so great that even the mighty Nautilus is almost destroyed. During the storm, lightning strikes the Nautilus causing its power core to begin overloading. While attempting to escape the vessel before it explodes, Smee becomes trapped under an iron beam and is saved once again by Captain Nemo allowing Smee to escape in one of the last ejection pods but Captain Nemo is struck from behind and knocked unconscious by another bit of falling ceiling debris.
Smee is the last one to look into Captain Nemo’s eyes before the captain dies (not actually dead, Smee is mistaken) and the guilt of Nemo’s death never leaves Smee. During the storm, Smee’s pod is picked up by a typhoon and taken to the Neverlands.
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When James is 22 years old ( the year 1823 A.D. ) James is swallowed up by a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean which brings him to the Neverlands. Upon arriving in the Neverlands, Hook washes up on the shore of Blackfrost Port where he is found by Smee. Smee is 19 years old but still looks like he is 15 due to the effects of the Neverlands slowing his aging process.
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Smee reports Hook’s arrival to Mistress Thorn (the Queen of Blackfrost Port) and Captain Pescaro of the Jolly Roger. Smee works as a cabin boy on the Jolly Roger. The relationship between Smee and Pescaro is not sexual. Smee is gay but he has standards that Pescaro does not meet. Pescaro did once attempt to force himself on Smee but Smee scared him off with mysticism. Pescaro is a superstitious man and so deemed it best not to force the matter ever again. Instead, Pescaro turns his dark desires to other young members of his crew and young street boys in the various port cities of the Neverlands (This is done to reveal the meaning of Hook’s Insults against Pescaro from Book 1). Hook joins the Jolly Roger and serves alongside Smee under Captain Pescaro.
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Tinker-Bell guides Peadar as he carries out his reaper duties for the first time by retrieving the soul of and consecrating the grave of David Barrie ( the older brother of J.M. Barrie [it is the year of 1866 A.D.]) A young (six years old) J.M. Barrie sees Peader but collapses from exhaustion and so Peadar takes J.M. Barrie back home and tucks him back into bed before flying back to the Neverlands with Tinker Bell.
Tinker-Bell takes Peadar to meet her sisters who inhabit the sacred grounds of Hyde-Park and Kensington Gardens (on Earth it is the year 1885 A.D.) Peadar is welcomed by Tink’s siblings and is told the origins of Fairies.
The Pirates on the coasts of the Neverlands begin to greatly expand in number and Captain Pescaro of the Jolly Roger quickly rises to become their overall leader. Feeling lonely, Peadar takes Tu-er Shen’s advice and decides to re-establish the Order of the Lost Boys. So he returns to Earth and begins to search London for a child to take with him back to the Neverlands (it is the year of 1891 A.D.). While flying over London he hears the heart of Jared Willard of 251 B Baker Street (The Lost Boy known as Slightly) calling out for an adventure. Peadar finds Jared Willard and takes him off to the Neverlands to become the first of his Lost Boys.
The adventurous Slightly suggests that Peadar and he start a campaign to keep the increasingly expansionist and belligerent pirates in line and that they should recruit more boys to help. So he and Peadar go back to Earth (it is the year 1895 A.D. on Earth) and Tinker-Bell suggests Kensington Gardens Orphanarium as a recruitment spot. There they recruit Shawn W. Prestin (the Lost Boy known as Tootles) and Richard G. Fisher (the Lost Boy known as Nibs). They return to Neverland to find that the Pirates have begun attacking the Piccaninny Tribe led by Chief Great Big Little Panther. So a gathering of the Ten-Nations is called at which Peadar introduces his new Lost Boys. Peadar receives a full briefing on the recent Pirate attacks and learns that under Captain Pescaro and Mistress Thorn of Blackfrost Port, the pirates have declared a new official government known as the People’s Republic of the Neverlands. According to the Mermaids the People’s Republic has already declared all of the Neverlands to be their rightful territory.
Tinker-Bell realizing that this represents a significant threat to the current established order of the Neverlands begins to work with the other leaders of the Ten-Nations to draft an appropriate battle-plan while the Lost Boys are dispatched to help defend the Piccaninny Tribe while Peadar goes back to Earth to recruit more Lost Boys from the Kensington Gardens Orphanarium (it is the year 1900 A.D. on Earth). However, this time Peadar only finds one acceptable/willing boy to take back with him. A boy by the name of Gideon Andrew Sullin (the Lost Boy known as Curly). Peadar and Curly arrive at the Central Piccaninny Camp as the moon takes its place in the sky.
Peter is informed by his Lost Boys of some recent but minor pirate skirmishes since he left. Just before dawn Captain Pescaro leads a surprise attack against the Piccaninny Tribe’s Central Camp. During the battle Captain Pescaro and Peadar engage in fierce personal combat with each other and it seems like Pescaro is going to win but before the killing strike can be carried out Pescaro is shot from behind by the youngest member of his crew. A boy by the name of Adrian Wainscot (a 15-year-old boy who Pescaro had raped earlier. An act secretly witnessed by Hook but Hook never reported it). This unnoticed surprise attack gives Peadar the chance to deliver the killing blow to Pescaro.
Hook sees the actions of Adrian but decides to let him go due to the guilt he feels about killing Kurt. Witnessing Pescaro raping Adrian earlier and seeing the look in Adrian’s Eyes after the surprise attack on Pescaro forces Hook to internally recontextualize his previous killing of Kurt. Adrian flees into the woods and begins a self-imposed exile away from the Pirates and all the other Ten-Nations. He eventually becomes the Shadow of the Neverwoods.
After Pescaro is killed Hook declares the battle a loss and orders a full-scale retreat of all forces back to Blackfrost Port in order to regroup. Hook orders an emergency meeting of the Pirates Council in order to determine the Matter of Succession.
After the battle Peadar, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys agree one last recruitment trip is in order given the extreme aggression just displayed by the Pirates. So Peadar with Tinker Bell goes back to Kensington Gardens to get more recruits while the current Lost Boys go and report on the battle to the Council of the Ten Nations.
It is the year 1904 A.D. on Earth when Tink and Peadar arrive. They recruit Samuel and Jacob Muldrow (the Twins). While flying over London but before recruiting the Twins, Peadar senses the mind of the now-adult J.M. Berrie and finds him standing alone in a high observation balcony watching the first-ever stage performance of Peter Pan. Peadar comes up behind Berrie and has a brief but deeply meaningful conversation with him after which Berrie thanks Peadar and Peadar thanks him before flying off to recruit the Twins. During this conversation, however, Berrie asks if what he wrote would come true? If Wendy is real? Peadar smiles and says he hopes so and as for Wendy Peter says “he will look into it”.
Peadar returns with Tink and the Twins to find that Hook has kidnapped Princess Tiger Lily while she was out foraging for medicinal herbs and is holding her hostage at the Crimson Altar. During the battle, Peadar slices off Hook’s right hand which is then swallowed by the Crocodile.
Keeping his promise to find out if Wendy is real. Peadar and Tink begin to patrol London on a regular basis until one night in 1911 A.D., Peadar finally senses Wendy’s mind crying out for adventure and so he goes to her window and spies on her as she tells stories about him to her brothers. At this moment Peadar and Tink finally know that Berrie’s story is true and meant to play out as he wrote it so Peadar and Tink accept it as destiny and this brings us up to the start of the first Peter Pan stage-play.
Anyone who is interested can also reach me at Discord. My Discord name is Lexshira#5207
Project 1 = Alistair and the Wolf:
Cover for Alistair and the Wolf = See Attached Image
Basic Info for Alistair and the Wolf = Action / Survival, LGBT+ Dark Fantasy, BL Romance, Pseudo-Shota
Basic Premise of Alistair and the Wolf:
People say we had peace once, before my time. Our country was young then, born from the blood of revolution and terror. Through suffering, we forged a shining republic of virtue, freed from the tyranny of gods and kings... but our enemies to the east grew envious and their envy turned to anger, plunging our world into war. Our people fought with the valor of heroes for decades and from their sacrifice came the opportunity for a decisive strike against the barbarians. The strike worked and our victory was at hand, our leaders promised us peace in our time but the barbarians would not go silently into the night. On the eve of their defeat, they unleashed a devastating plague upon their own people. The plague spread across the world like wildfire turning men into monsters. Peace in our time became peace never again… peace only in death.
And thus the world of Men was shattered into three. The Lycanthrians being the largest of the three factions quickly overwhelmed most of the children of Men. Brought to the brink of extinction, humanity’s remaining population now survives only in extremely fortified City-States. The Vampires, being the smallest of the three factions, used their superior knowledge of the Arcane and their advanced technology to become the master race of this new world born of blood.
The plague not only transformed mankind but the world as well, scorching the sky and covering the world in an endless dark. Soon the radiant golden light of the sun became a distant memory… a hollow vestige of its former glory. The woods and forests grew wicked and thick reclaiming much of the world that Man had stolen and it was into this cold and nightmarish world that I was born… My name is Alistair and this is my story.
Project 2 = Neverland Origins:
Basic Info for Neverland Origins = Epic Dark Fantasy, LGBT+, Mythological, Historical.
Basic Timeline of Events for Neverland Origins:
Bolded Events are mostly about Peter Pan
Italic Events are mostly about Smee
Normal Text Events are mostly about Hook
In the year 810 A.D. Peadar Paorach is sacrificed to the Supreme Dullahan by a group of Lillithian Druids in order to seal the union of the Lillithian Order and the Draig Family. Peadar is killed but is found by Lord Pan (of Greek Mythology) and Tinker Bell. Pan takes mercy upon Peadar because he senses a powerful soul within the boy. Following his hunch, Pan and Tink take the boy's soul to Master Ishrakie (The Pale Witch of Gates, Goddess of Mirrors and Vrill. She is also the creator of the Neverlands and Wonderland). Tink and Pan ask Ishrakie if Peadar can be made the Lord of the Neverlands. Ishrakie agrees the boy's soul could be strong enough and so she grants him the Vita-Vrillian Admin Codes for the Neverlands. Ishrakie then frees the Neverlands from their Great Slumber that was established after the murder of Thanatos ( The previous Lord of the Neverlands ). Peadar wakes up in the Neverlands with Tinker Bell and Pan before him. They explain Peadar’s new role as Lord of the Neverlands and his role as Ver Kindra Toten Fuhren (Guardian of Dead Children).
Lord Pan and Ishrakie re-establish the Council of the Ten-Nations and then Peadar is dubbed with the last name of Pan as a vote of confidence in the Peader to fulfill his new role. Tinker Bell is assigned as Peadar’s advisor and mentor to help him acclimate to his new duties.
After some time Peadar is visited by Lord Tu'er Shen (The Architect of Male-Love [Platonic and Sexual] and Divine Brotherhood) who discusses Peadar’s predecessor Thanatos. Tu’er Shen and Thanatos had a romantic relationship (“we had a very deep… passionate relationship. His murder ravages my heart with bitter despair. Though I may not seem distraught, my soul bleeds from the loss of him”). Tu-er Shen offers his hand in friendship and support to Peadar before returning to his lunar palace. During the visit, Tu-er Shen suggests Peadar seek out friends to make his new role and duties less lonely just as Thanatos did and mentions the Order of the Lost Boys that Thanatos had once established but was ended upon his murder and the falling of the Great Slumber upon the Neverlands.
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Benjamin R. (Rewndell) F. (Finally) Smee is born in West London in the year of 1804 A.D.. He is raised by his Indian mother after his father dies in service to the crown. When Smee is nine years old his mother is sexually assaulted and murdered on her way home from work by some racist British sailors on shore leave. Smee sees the ending part of the attack but is unable to help her. The death of his mother fills Smee with a desire for revenge from a young age. Then when he was 10 years old ( in the year 1814 A.D. ) he attempts to avenge his mother and fails. Instead, the tables are turned on him and the men who killed his mother are about to kill him but he is rescued and taken in by Captain Nemo who nurses him back to health and teaches him to forsake revenge and pursue a more spiritual and enlightened path.
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In the year 1808 A.D., when he is thirteen years old James’s ( Captain Hook’s ) mother ( Verina Ivy Fordon ) dies while giving birth to James’s younger brother who also dies during the birth as James and his father ( Abraham Matthews Fordon ) watch in horror. His father becomes inconsolable and kills himself just two weeks later, leaving James alone. James actually killed his father because his father was a physically and emotionally abusive drunk who had attempted to strangle his mother causing her to go into labor in the first place thus James blames his father for killing his mother and his would-be younger brother. James’s father noticed his son’s bisexual tendencies early on and began stepping up his abuse of James in an attempt to “cure him of his wickedness” ). The ‘corrective abuse’ given to James by his father creates a deep inner-loathing of his father but also of his own queerness thus making him aggressive and violent towards those in his peer group who he perceives as sissy or queer.
After his father’s ‘Suicide’ James is shipped off to his salt of the Earth uncle who takes James on little boat trips planting the seeds for James’s love of being on the water [ This is referenced in Book I Chapter 10 ]. However, upon noticing James’s bisexual tendencies James’s uncle also decides he wants nothing to do with him and thus uses James’s inheritance to send him off to school. At school, James is bullied by faculty and students alike for his deeply awkward nature and is seen as a broken loner with no social skills or hope of making friends.
In the year 1811 A.D. James enters his second year at school during which he meets a new teacher by the name of Charles Marrows. Charles takes James under his wing and helps him come out of his shell resulting in a dramatic improvement in James’s Academic and Social Development (Not necessarily on matters of making friends but certainly on matters of social etiquette and aristocratic behavior and customs) James is 15 years old at this time.
Charles is very affectionate towards James and even accepts James’s developing bisexuality. With Charles’s help, James accepts his own queerness but still keeps it to himself as much as he can. James does develop romantic feelings with another boy named Ulrich Smyth. During this time James remembers his love of the sea and dedicates much of his free time to studying all he can on sailing.
He also starts practicing fencing at school with Ulrich to help them both relieve stress and perfect their swordsmanship skills. However, in the Winter of that year, Charles is shot and killed while James and he are out walking, the attacker is a first-year student (13 years old) named Kurt Adler who cries to the arresting police that Charles had molested him (This is never proven or verified). This leaves James destroyed and dismayed, Ulrich does his best to help James cope with the loss and one night while chatting they end up kissing (This is James’s first kiss and was loosely referenced in Book 1 in Chapter 10).
With Ulrich’s help, things almost manage to return to normal for James. However, when Kurt is given a slap on the wrist by law enforcement and the courts, James is enraged and feels that Kurt escaped justice. Kurt is given a slap on the wrist and allowed to continue at school due to a very large donation from his daddy to the school administrators and local politicians.
One night James catches Kurt off-guard in the school showers and knocks him out, he then takes him to a kill-room he set up in an abandoned house in the nearby port city not far from the school and brutally tortures and murders Kurt. James leaves the dead boy to rot in the abandoned house and returns to school in time for classes the next day. Rather than being distraught by what he had just done instead James feels more confident and emotionally centered than he ever has in his life. James and Ulrich continue to develop their relationship.
In the year 1813 A.D. James turns 18 and he and Ulrich move into a flat in the nearby port city. However, his world is thrown into chaos when he catches Ulrich cheating on him with a girl and proceeds to plan and carry out their murder. Living alone James now starts to spend most of his time in taverns among the local dock-workers and sailors. During this time living alone, James starts giving in to his dark desires. James begins prowling the streets by night looking for victims on whom to unleash his sadistic and psychopathic tendencies.
During this time James gets into a bar fight and ends up saving the life of a Brethren Republic Captain by the name of Captain Jacob Spires who is impressed with James’s rough and tumble nature and skill with a blade. Jacob Spires offers James a spot on his crew should he ever want it.
Just after turning 19 years old ( 1814 A.D. ) one of the boys that James had tortured and was about to kill escapes and makes his way into a crowd of people. James knows this means he will probably be arrested soon so he quickly packs his bags and makes his way for the docks where he hopes Captain Jacob Spires is docked. He catches Jacob just as they are about to depart for their next voyage. Desperate to escape England before he is arrested James accepts Jacob’s offer and becomes part of his crew thus officially beginning his career as a sailor/pirate.
It is likely that during his killing spree James tortured and killed over a dozen boys. When the bodies of James's victims were finally found it was discovered most of them had been killed with meat hooks leading local residents to begin referring to this unsolved and dark chapter of their history as the legendary Terror of the Hook. This is the first time anyone has referred to James as Hook although he does not identify himself that way… yet.
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When Smee turns 15 years old (in the year 1819 A.D.) he confesses to having romantic feelings for Captain Nemo. However, these feelings are not reciprocated. Although Captain Nemo is respectful in his rejection of Smee’s affections it still leaves Smee emotionally wounded though he does suppress the pain. During this confession Captain Nemo also revealed to Smee his intention to announce that he would be marrying Mishka Kallie; a girl who Smee had saved just a few weeks before from being murdered by a group of drunkards (mirroring when Nemo rescued him from a similar situation).
Jealous of the love between Mishka and Nemo, Smee begins to descend into darkness. Eventually, his slip into madness is put into hyperdrive by the news that Mishka has become pregnant with Nemo’s child. This news is the last straw pushing Smee over the edge.
Smee tries to apply the dark arts to kill Mishka before she can give birth but the spell backfires, creating a massive storm so great that even the mighty Nautilus is almost destroyed. During the storm, lightning strikes the Nautilus causing its power core to begin overloading. While attempting to escape the vessel before it explodes, Smee becomes trapped under an iron beam and is saved once again by Captain Nemo allowing Smee to escape in one of the last ejection pods but Captain Nemo is struck from behind and knocked unconscious by another bit of falling ceiling debris.
Smee is the last one to look into Captain Nemo’s eyes before the captain dies (not actually dead, Smee is mistaken) and the guilt of Nemo’s death never leaves Smee. During the storm, Smee’s pod is picked up by a typhoon and taken to the Neverlands.
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When James is 22 years old ( the year 1823 A.D. ) James is swallowed up by a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean which brings him to the Neverlands. Upon arriving in the Neverlands, Hook washes up on the shore of Blackfrost Port where he is found by Smee. Smee is 19 years old but still looks like he is 15 due to the effects of the Neverlands slowing his aging process.
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Smee reports Hook’s arrival to Mistress Thorn (the Queen of Blackfrost Port) and Captain Pescaro of the Jolly Roger. Smee works as a cabin boy on the Jolly Roger. The relationship between Smee and Pescaro is not sexual. Smee is gay but he has standards that Pescaro does not meet. Pescaro did once attempt to force himself on Smee but Smee scared him off with mysticism. Pescaro is a superstitious man and so deemed it best not to force the matter ever again. Instead, Pescaro turns his dark desires to other young members of his crew and young street boys in the various port cities of the Neverlands (This is done to reveal the meaning of Hook’s Insults against Pescaro from Book 1). Hook joins the Jolly Roger and serves alongside Smee under Captain Pescaro.
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Tinker-Bell guides Peadar as he carries out his reaper duties for the first time by retrieving the soul of and consecrating the grave of David Barrie ( the older brother of J.M. Barrie [it is the year of 1866 A.D.]) A young (six years old) J.M. Barrie sees Peader but collapses from exhaustion and so Peadar takes J.M. Barrie back home and tucks him back into bed before flying back to the Neverlands with Tinker Bell.
Tinker-Bell takes Peadar to meet her sisters who inhabit the sacred grounds of Hyde-Park and Kensington Gardens (on Earth it is the year 1885 A.D.) Peadar is welcomed by Tink’s siblings and is told the origins of Fairies.
The Pirates on the coasts of the Neverlands begin to greatly expand in number and Captain Pescaro of the Jolly Roger quickly rises to become their overall leader. Feeling lonely, Peadar takes Tu-er Shen’s advice and decides to re-establish the Order of the Lost Boys. So he returns to Earth and begins to search London for a child to take with him back to the Neverlands (it is the year of 1891 A.D.). While flying over London he hears the heart of Jared Willard of 251 B Baker Street (The Lost Boy known as Slightly) calling out for an adventure. Peadar finds Jared Willard and takes him off to the Neverlands to become the first of his Lost Boys.
The adventurous Slightly suggests that Peadar and he start a campaign to keep the increasingly expansionist and belligerent pirates in line and that they should recruit more boys to help. So he and Peadar go back to Earth (it is the year 1895 A.D. on Earth) and Tinker-Bell suggests Kensington Gardens Orphanarium as a recruitment spot. There they recruit Shawn W. Prestin (the Lost Boy known as Tootles) and Richard G. Fisher (the Lost Boy known as Nibs). They return to Neverland to find that the Pirates have begun attacking the Piccaninny Tribe led by Chief Great Big Little Panther. So a gathering of the Ten-Nations is called at which Peadar introduces his new Lost Boys. Peadar receives a full briefing on the recent Pirate attacks and learns that under Captain Pescaro and Mistress Thorn of Blackfrost Port, the pirates have declared a new official government known as the People’s Republic of the Neverlands. According to the Mermaids the People’s Republic has already declared all of the Neverlands to be their rightful territory.
Tinker-Bell realizing that this represents a significant threat to the current established order of the Neverlands begins to work with the other leaders of the Ten-Nations to draft an appropriate battle-plan while the Lost Boys are dispatched to help defend the Piccaninny Tribe while Peadar goes back to Earth to recruit more Lost Boys from the Kensington Gardens Orphanarium (it is the year 1900 A.D. on Earth). However, this time Peadar only finds one acceptable/willing boy to take back with him. A boy by the name of Gideon Andrew Sullin (the Lost Boy known as Curly). Peadar and Curly arrive at the Central Piccaninny Camp as the moon takes its place in the sky.
Peter is informed by his Lost Boys of some recent but minor pirate skirmishes since he left. Just before dawn Captain Pescaro leads a surprise attack against the Piccaninny Tribe’s Central Camp. During the battle Captain Pescaro and Peadar engage in fierce personal combat with each other and it seems like Pescaro is going to win but before the killing strike can be carried out Pescaro is shot from behind by the youngest member of his crew. A boy by the name of Adrian Wainscot (a 15-year-old boy who Pescaro had raped earlier. An act secretly witnessed by Hook but Hook never reported it). This unnoticed surprise attack gives Peadar the chance to deliver the killing blow to Pescaro.
Hook sees the actions of Adrian but decides to let him go due to the guilt he feels about killing Kurt. Witnessing Pescaro raping Adrian earlier and seeing the look in Adrian’s Eyes after the surprise attack on Pescaro forces Hook to internally recontextualize his previous killing of Kurt. Adrian flees into the woods and begins a self-imposed exile away from the Pirates and all the other Ten-Nations. He eventually becomes the Shadow of the Neverwoods.
After Pescaro is killed Hook declares the battle a loss and orders a full-scale retreat of all forces back to Blackfrost Port in order to regroup. Hook orders an emergency meeting of the Pirates Council in order to determine the Matter of Succession.
After the battle Peadar, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys agree one last recruitment trip is in order given the extreme aggression just displayed by the Pirates. So Peadar with Tinker Bell goes back to Kensington Gardens to get more recruits while the current Lost Boys go and report on the battle to the Council of the Ten Nations.
It is the year 1904 A.D. on Earth when Tink and Peadar arrive. They recruit Samuel and Jacob Muldrow (the Twins). While flying over London but before recruiting the Twins, Peadar senses the mind of the now-adult J.M. Berrie and finds him standing alone in a high observation balcony watching the first-ever stage performance of Peter Pan. Peadar comes up behind Berrie and has a brief but deeply meaningful conversation with him after which Berrie thanks Peadar and Peadar thanks him before flying off to recruit the Twins. During this conversation, however, Berrie asks if what he wrote would come true? If Wendy is real? Peadar smiles and says he hopes so and as for Wendy Peter says “he will look into it”.
Peadar returns with Tink and the Twins to find that Hook has kidnapped Princess Tiger Lily while she was out foraging for medicinal herbs and is holding her hostage at the Crimson Altar. During the battle, Peadar slices off Hook’s right hand which is then swallowed by the Crocodile.
Keeping his promise to find out if Wendy is real. Peadar and Tink begin to patrol London on a regular basis until one night in 1911 A.D., Peadar finally senses Wendy’s mind crying out for adventure and so he goes to her window and spies on her as she tells stories about him to her brothers. At this moment Peadar and Tink finally know that Berrie’s story is true and meant to play out as he wrote it so Peadar and Tink accept it as destiny and this brings us up to the start of the first Peter Pan stage-play.
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