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Tinkerbell? Wendy, John, and Micheal Darling live in Victorian England.
Wendy is the oldest, at 15, Micheal is youngest, at 7, and Jonathon has only just recently turned twelve.
Wendy, as her parents note, is a budding young woman, and soon it will be time to find her an appropriate suitor.
In the meantime, they intend to send her to a finishing school for young ladies so that when her time comes, she will be a prim and proper lady.
Wendy, meanwhile, is not entirely enthused by this.
She wants to live, she wants to learn, she wants to be free, and even though she is the oldest, she wants nothing to do with responsibility or being an adult.
Along comes Peter, asking Wendy to become his mother in Never Never Land.
Wendy isn't really sold on the idea, but she comes along with The Boy Who Wouldn't grow Up, along with her two brothers.
When they get there, the place isn't anything like what Wendy was told it was.
Later, we learn that NNL appears the way one wants it to appear, depending on ones age.
For children, it's a magical place filled with fairies, mermaids, large forests and playgrounds for as far as the eye can see.
For adults, it's something else entirely, a land of stagnation and decay, the result of arrested development, or so says Captain Thomas Alexander Hook, soldier of Her Majesty's Army.
(By the way, this Hook is just as avaricious as his original pirate namesake!)
Wendy, being both and neither, sees things in another light.
It is both paradise and prison (interesting visual here: as Wendy looks one side of something, it looks beautiful and perfect, but when she looks at from another way, it looks decrepit and rotten) and worse, it is war zone of the worse kind.
According to Princess Tiger Lily, Pan and Hook have raging a war for centuries.
For Peter, it's all a game, but Hook takes it deadly seriously.
(The damage on Tinkerbell's suit is a result of Hook shooting at her and scoring a slight hit. Tink's arm is scarred from the damage, but she covers it with a long gauntlet of leather. Tink is also responsible, in her own way, for keeping the Lost Boys alive. Peter and crew have DIED, multiple times, but Tink's magic revives them before they know they've been killed. This is the reason Peter thinks he's playing with Captain Hook, while in reality, Hook has killed Peter so many times that the good Captain is starting to develop a psychosis, killing his own men because he thinks they're Pan in disguise!)
Very soon, Wendy, John, and Micheal discover that Hook has plans for NNL, ones involving the rich gold and platinum ores found in NNLs mountain regions.
One thing of note, this version of Tink is no silent partner in the war games.
Instead of wielding a fairy wand, she wields a saber and a magical flintlock pistol.
She may be jealously protective of Pan, but that's only because she knows Pan doesn't see the real and obvious danger all around him.
As the pretend fighting ratchets up to actual warfare, The Darlings have a choice to make: keep Never Never Land pristine, or allow it be exploited by the schemes of Capt. Hook.
Before I get into the description, let me preface by saying I am more than willing to be flailed because this interpretation of everyone's favorite pixie isn't a line-by-line reproduction of the Disney design, nor is it based on any description found in J.M. Barrie's famous books.
With that said, let's get on with the description…
Anyone who knows me knows I hate, hate, HATE the term "reimagining" or "reinventing".
Both of these terms seem to strike me as a lack of creative focus/drive and should be stricken, henceforth, from the English language.
Even so, I have no other term for this particular drawing.
Yeah, it's a "reimaging" of "Peter Pan", starring that cantankerous fairy, Tinkerbell.
So here the story, as I have "reimagined" it (Shit, sorry, Mr. Barrie, but I can't help it. You have all express rights to rolling in your grave now).
Okay, folks, you may now began with the flailings…

Peter Pan © J.M. Barrie
Redesign concept © Steven Ambrose Moncivais

Description

Tinkerbell? Wendy, John, and Micheal Darling live in Victorian England.
Wendy is the oldest, at 15, Micheal is youngest, at 7, and Jonathon has only just recently turned twelve.
Wendy, as her parents note, is a budding young woman, and soon it will be time to find her an appropriate suitor.
In the meantime, they intend to send her to a finishing school for young ladies so that when her time comes, she will be a prim and proper lady.
Wendy, meanwhile, is not entirely enthused by this.
She wants to live, she wants to learn, she wants to be free, and even though she is the oldest, she wants nothing to do with responsibility or being an adult.
Along comes Peter, asking Wendy to become his mother in Never Never Land.
Wendy isn't really sold on the idea, but she comes along with The Boy Who Wouldn't grow Up, along with her two brothers.
When they get there, the place isn't anything like what Wendy was told it was.
Later, we learn that NNL appears the way one wants it to appear, depending on ones age.
For children, it's a magical place filled with fairies, mermaids, large forests and playgrounds for as far as the eye can see.
For adults, it's something else entirely, a land of stagnation and decay, the result of arrested development, or so says Captain Thomas Alexander Hook, soldier of Her Majesty's Army.
(By the way, this Hook is just as avaricious as his original pirate namesake!)
Wendy, being both and neither, sees things in another light.
It is both paradise and prison (interesting visual here: as Wendy looks one side of something, it looks beautiful and perfect, but when she looks at from another way, it looks decrepit and rotten) and worse, it is war zone of the worse kind.
According to Princess Tiger Lily, Pan and Hook have raging a war for centuries.
For Peter, it's all a game, but Hook takes it deadly seriously.
(The damage on Tinkerbell's suit is a result of Hook shooting at her and scoring a slight hit. Tink's arm is scarred from the damage, but she covers it with a long gauntlet of leather. Tink is also responsible, in her own way, for keeping the Lost Boys alive. Peter and crew have DIED, multiple times, but Tink's magic revives them before they know they've been killed. This is the reason Peter thinks he's playing with Captain Hook, while in reality, Hook has killed Peter so many times that the good Captain is starting to develop a psychosis, killing his own men because he thinks they're Pan in disguise!)
Very soon, Wendy, John, and Micheal discover that Hook has plans for NNL, ones involving the rich gold and platinum ores found in NNLs mountain regions.
One thing of note, this version of Tink is no silent partner in the war games.
Instead of wielding a fairy wand, she wields a saber and a magical flintlock pistol.
She may be jealously protective of Pan, but that's only because she knows Pan doesn't see the real and obvious danger all around him.
As the pretend fighting ratchets up to actual warfare, The Darlings have a choice to make: keep Never Never Land pristine, or allow it be exploited by the schemes of Capt. Hook.
Before I get into the description, let me preface by saying I am more than willing to be flailed because this interpretation of everyone's favorite pixie isn't a line-by-line reproduction of the Disney design, nor is it based on any description found in J.M. Barrie's famous books.
With that said, let's get on with the description…
Anyone who knows me knows I hate, hate, HATE the term "reimagining" or "reinventing".
Both of these terms seem to strike me as a lack of creative focus/drive and should be stricken, henceforth, from the English language.
Even so, I have no other term for this particular drawing.
Yeah, it's a "reimaging" of "Peter Pan", starring that cantankerous fairy, Tinkerbell.
So here the story, as I have "reimagined" it (Shit, sorry, Mr. Barrie, but I can't help it. You have all express rights to rolling in your grave now).
Okay, folks, you may now began with the flailings…

Peter Pan © J.M. Barrie
Redesign concept © Steven Ambrose Moncivais