Write your own Peter Pan story

Peter Pan

A boy who never grows up and ran away from home the day he was born to live among the fairies in Kensington Gardens before settling in the Neverland. He leads the Lost Boys, can fly, fights with a sword, imitates voices perfectly (including Captain Hook's), and forgets his own past adventures almost as soon as they happen. He carries no pocket money and knows nothing of reading or writing, considering himself above such things.

Wendy Darling

The eldest Darling child, who flies to the Neverland with her brothers John and Michael after Peter Pan visits their nursery to retrieve his shadow. She becomes the Lost Boys' storytelling 'mother,' mends their clothes, tells them the story of their own parents, and wears Peter's first 'kiss' (actually an acorn button) on a chain that later saves her life by deflecting an arrow. She eventually returns home and grows up, later sending her own daughter Jane to Neverland with Peter.

John Darling

The middle Darling child, who flies to Neverland with his siblings and becomes a pirate-style 'first mate' figure among the Lost Boys. He introduces the mermaids to a new way of hitting their bubble-balls with their heads instead of hands, the only mark he leaves on the Neverland. He wears a top hat during the flight to Neverland out of habit from home.

Michael Darling

The youngest Darling child, small enough that in the underground home he sleeps in a hanging basket rather than the shared bed. He is fascinated by pirates and adventure and eagerly joins Peter and his siblings in flying to the Neverland.

Mr. Darling (George)

The Darling children's father, a City clerk obsessively concerned with respectability, household budgets, and matching his neighbours. After tricking Nana into drinking her own medicine and being humiliated, he banishes her to the yard, indirectly causing the children's flight; in remorse he later lives in Nana's kennel and has it carried to his office by cab daily, becoming a minor public sensation.

Mrs. Darling (Mary)

The children's mother, a romantic-minded woman who first heard of Peter Pan in her own childhood and keeps a habit of tidying her children's minds each night while they sleep. She discovers Peter's severed shadow and stores it in a drawer, and waits faithfully with the nursery window open for her children's eventual return.

Nana

A Newfoundland dog employed as the Darling children's nurse, found in Kensington Gardens. She is meticulous about baths, coughs, and school escort duty, and it is she who catches Peter's shadow in her mouth as he escapes out the nursery window, an act that leads to her being chained up and the children's disappearance.

Tinker Bell

A fairy bound in service to Peter Pan, communicating in a bell-like language only understood by those who have heard fairy speech before. She is intensely jealous of Wendy and tricks Tootles into shooting Wendy with an arrow, for which Peter banishes her for a week. Later she nearly dies after drinking poisoned medicine meant for Peter and is saved when children around the world clap their hands to show they believe in fairies.

Captain James Hook

The elegant, sinister captain of the pirate ship Jolly Roger, who lost his right arm to Peter Pan and had it thrown to a crocodile that has stalked him ever since, saved only by the ticking of a swallowed clock inside the beast that warns him of its approach. He wears an iron hook in place of his hand, uses it to kill subordinates such as Skylights and Jukes, was educated at a great public school and remains tormented by anxiety over 'good form,' and is ultimately defeated by Peter Pan in a sword duel aboard his own ship and pushed to the waiting crocodile.

Smee

Captain Hook's mild-mannered bo'sun and closest confidant aboard the Jolly Roger, notably good-natured despite his piratical trade; he is the one who actually cuts Tiger Lily free from her bonds on Peter's false orders and later cuts poor Slightly's ropes as well.

Starkey

A pirate crewman aboard the Jolly Roger who refuses Hook's order to fetch water from the mermaids' lagoon and is accused of mutiny for it, ultimately leaping into the sea in despair rather than face Hook's hook.

Tiger Lily

The proud princess of the Piccaninny tribe and the most beautiful of its women, courted by every brave yet fending off marriage with a hatchet. She is captured and tied to Marooners' Rock by the pirates until Peter Pan, imitating Hook's voice, tricks the pirates into freeing her.

Tootles

The least lucky of the Lost Boys, who always misses the big adventures through bad timing, giving him a gentle, humble melancholy. Tricked by Tinker Bell into shooting Wendy out of the sky with a bow and arrow, he later redeems himself by standing up for Wendy against the other boys and serves as bo'sun when the Lost Boys sail the captured pirate ship home.

Slightly

A Lost Boy notable for claiming to remember life before Neverland and for having secretly whittled his hollow tree entrance to fit his own overgrown girth (from drinking too much water), a secret Hook discovers and nearly uses to murder Peter with poisoned medicine. He keeps count aloud of pirate casualties during the final battle.

Nibs, Curly, and the Twins

Four of the remaining Lost Boys who live under the ground with Peter and Wendy; Nibs is the one who first spots Wendy flying overhead and mistakes her for a great white bird, while the unnamed Twins are notable chiefly for not knowing what they themselves are, being unsure enough of their own identities to always act together.

The Darling Nursery, 14 [address]

The London nursery home of the Darling family, where Nana's kennel stands and where Peter Pan first enters seeking his lost shadow. The window is always left open by Mrs. Darling in hope that her children will one day fly back through it.

Neverland

A magical island reached by flying 'second to the right, and straight on till morning,' home to Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, mermaids, fairies, the Piccaninny tribe, and a crew of pirates. It contains a lagoon, a Mysterious River, a home underground, and shifts appearance to match whatever the children who dream of it expect to find there.

The Home Under the Ground

The Lost Boys' subterranean dwelling, a single large room with a floor you can dig through to fish, mushroom stools, a shrinking-and-regrowing tree trunk used as a table, and a big bed lowered each night at 6:30 into which all the boys pack like sardines (except Michael, who sleeps in a hanging basket). Each boy has his own hollow tree used as a private entrance, sized to fit his particular body.

Mermaids' Lagoon

A lagoon where mermaids play games with rainbow-coloured bubbles as balls, hitting them with their tails between goals at each end of a rainbow; mortals who try to join always cause the mermaids to vanish. Marooners' Rock stands in the lagoon, used by pirates to maroon and drown captives at high tide, and it is here that Peter and Wendy are nearly drowned after rescuing Tiger Lily.

The Jolly Roger

Captain Hook's pirate brig, a grimy vessel armed with a big gun called Long Tom, eventually captured by Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and sailed home to London with Peter as captain, Nibs and John as mates, and Wendy the only woman aboard.

The Lost Boys

A band of boys who fell out of their prams as babies and, if not claimed within seven days, are sent to the Neverland; Peter thins their numbers whenever they begin to grow up, since growing up is against the rules. At the time of the story there are six, including Tootles, Slightly, Nibs, Curly, and the Twins, and they wear bearskins and are forbidden to resemble Peter in appearance.

The Piccaninny Tribe

A tribe of 'redskins' encamped on the Neverland, led by the brave Great Big Little Panther and the princess Tiger Lily, distinguished from the 'softer-hearted' Delawares and Hurons by their fierceness. They wage an ongoing war with the Lost Boys and are massacred in a surprise pirate attack orchestrated by Hook.

The Pirate Crew of the Jolly Roger

Captain Hook's crew of cutthroats, including Smee, Starkey, Cecco, Jukes, Mullins, Noodler, and the black pirate, who terrorize the Neverland and are ultimately wiped out by Peter and the Lost Boys in a climactic shipboard battle.

Peter's Shadow

Peter Pan's shadow, severed when Nana slams the nursery window on him as he tries to escape with it. Mrs. Darling rolls it up and stores it in a drawer; Peter later retrieves it with Tinker Bell's help and, unable to stick it back on with soap, has it sewn on by Wendy.

The Thimble and the Acorn Button

Because Peter does not know what a kiss is, Wendy gives him a thimble instead, and he gives her an acorn button in return, which she wears on a chain around her neck. The button-kiss later deflects Tootles's arrow and saves Wendy's life.

Hook's Deadly Drug

A virulent yellow poison Hook blends himself from the venom of poisoned rings he has collected, which he always carries in case of capture. He pours it into Peter's medicine cup intending to kill him, but Tinker Bell drinks it herself to save Peter, nearly dying as a result.

Long Tom

The Jolly Roger's large deck gun, used by the pirates to signal and to fire on suspected intruders in the lagoon; Starkey leaps onto it in despair before throwing himself into the sea to escape Hook.

Growing Up

In this world, all children except Peter Pan are fated to grow up, a fact Wendy first realizes at age two. Growing up is treated as a kind of betrayal or tragedy within the Neverland, and Peter periodically 'thins out' the Lost Boys if they show signs of aging.

Fairy Belief

Fairies' lives depend on children's belief in them; when Tinker Bell is dying from poison, Peter calls out to dreaming children everywhere to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and enough affirmative belief saves her life.

Good Form

Captain Hook, a product of an unnamed great public school, is privately tormented throughout his piracy by whether his actions constitute 'good form,' a nagging inner voice of schoolboy propriety that undermines his confidence even at his moments of triumph.

The Crocodile

A crocodile that swallowed Captain Hook's severed arm and developed a taste for the rest of him, following him from sea to sea. It also swallowed a clock, whose ticking warns Hook of its approach; when the clock finally runs down, the crocodile is able to catch and presumably devour Hook after his duel with Peter.

The Never Bird

A bird that nests on a rock in the lagoon and speaks its own language, largely unintelligible to Peter. During the flood at Marooners' Rock she sacrifices her own eggs, floating her nest to Peter and Wendy so they can use it as a boat to escape drowning.