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Princesses
In General
- Damsel Scrappy: In-universe. Most of them have little to no self-preservation instinct, leaving Robin to basically babysit them and clean up their messes.
- Damsel in Distress / Distressed Dude: All of them are in some sort of (usually magical) trouble and need Robin to rescue them and give them their happily ever after.
- Princess Classic: Deconstructed. They're pretty much useless and hopelessly spoiled people who yank Robin around on their whims.
Snow White
Snow White
"Over my hot coals she will!"
The first princess Robin has to give a happily ever after. A girl who was poisoned by her Wicked Stepmother and now sleeps in a hut in a forest.- Adaptational Jerkass: Snow White in the original fairy tale was a kind, diligent girl. This Snow White is a spoiled, pretty useless brat who complains when Robin rescues her and then does little to help from there.
- Broken Pedestal: Her self-absorbed attitude makes Robin come to the conclusion that maybe princesses aren't as cool as she thought they were.
- Royal Brat: Is of the opinion that because she's a princess she shouldn't have to do anything.
- Sleepyhead: When Robin wakes her up, she complains about it, then goes back to sleep under the table the first chance she gets and won't wake up again, even when Robin violently shakes her. The thing that finally gets her off her butt is Robin pretending that the queen has come to attend Snow White's wedding.
Sleeping Beauty
Briar Rose
"Can I wish for… a friend?"
The second princess Robin has to give a happily ever after. A boy who was cursed by the thirteenth witch, Hira, to prick his finger on a spindle wheel and sleep.- Brainless Beauty: There's no denying he's a beautiful child. Too bad he's about on par with his parents in the intelligence department.
- Dumb Blonde: Strawberry blonde like his parents and not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
- Forced Sleep: Just like in the original tale, the witch succeeds in placing him in an enchanted sleep.
- Gender Flip: Sleeping Beauty was a girl in the original fairy tale, whilst this world's version of Sleeping Beauty is male.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blonde, thick hair and is a nice, if somewhat dim, young boy.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Due to living his life sheltered in the palace, Briar doesn't have any friends his age. The Wise Woman uses this to get him to prick his finger on the spinning wheel, claiming that it's a magic wheel that can grant wishes, including giving someone a friend.
Rapunzel
"I suppose you’ll do, as long as you’re here to rescue me."
The third princess Robin has to give a happily ever after. Once renowned for his long golden hair, this princess now lives in the desert, hair cut and waiting for his Prince Charming.- Babies Ever After: Him and the former Prince Charming had two children before Mother Gothel made him disappear.
- Gender Flip: Rapunzel in the original tale was a woman. Rapunzel in Forever After is a guy.
- Mr. Seahorse: Implied. He had two children with the former Prince Charming who is male. Would later be subverted as one of the creators stated in an instagram post
that this wasn't a case of "mpreg", but simply happily ever after-magic. - Royal Brat: Downplayed, since he isn't royalty, but has pretty grandiose ideas of what a princess deserves. Despite living in a perfectly nice cottage where he has to want for nothing he still refuses to be given the happily ever after until Robin builds him some nice furniture and laments that there's no one around to tell him how pretty he is.
The Little Mermaid
Aurelia
"Pain is nothing compared to the anguish in my heart."
The fourth princess that Robin must help. The youngest daughter of the sea king who is destined to rescue a prince and give her voice in exchange for legs to be with him.- Alliterative Family: All of her siblings' names start with the letter A.
- The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest of the sea king's daughters.
- Become a Real Boy: Aurelia desperately wants to be human, because she thinks mermaids are soulless and that the prince will be able to get her into heaven.
- Character Development: Spending time on the surface with Robin and Tank helps her realize that while she loves and is fascinated by the human world, she doesn't actually want to give up her tail to live in it. In the end she forgets all about her premature crush on Damir, decides against taking the Sea Witch's deal and instead stays in her father's kingdom, having achieved a new dream of studying humankind for her people.
- Didn't Think This Through: The main reason everyone around her disapproves of her crush on the prince. For one, all she has of him is a statue, so it's not even sure if he exists. She also apparently is all but ready to permanently cripple and torture herself just for a chance she might be with him. And the one offering her legs for her tail is a shady sea witch she has no reason to listen to.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Crazy enough to be willing to take a deal that will make it feel like you’re walking on knives whenever you walk and have your tongue cut out just to win a guy you’ve never met before.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: Has fallen head over heels for a man she's never even seen, based on a statue that might not even be him. And is willing to sacrifice her old life and her comfort just to be with him. Robin even describes her crush as "very fifteen".
Urikohime
- Born from Plants: She was born from a melon, hence her name.
- Damsel in Distress: The most straightforward example so far. She's kidnapped by the Wicked Witch and his goons and brought into Momotaro, presumably for leverage.
- Flat Character: She only appears as the out-of-place damsel in distress for Momotaro and the Prince Charmings to save and is barely characterized beyond that.
- Forced Transformation: Is turned back into a melon by the Wicked Witch to mess with the heroes. Thankfully it doesn't last.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Urikohime means exactly that: Melon Princess.
- Rescue Romance: She falls for Momotaro after he and the princes save her from the Wicked Witch.
Vasilisa
- Adaptation Amalgamation: Vasilisa (who, per her backstory, originates from the tale Vasilissa the Beautiful) and the Firebird are characters from distinct Russian fairy tales. In Forever After, they are one and the same.note
- Be Careful What You Wish For: In her own story, she went to Baba Yaga to ask her for a light, as all the candles in her family's house had mysteriously gone out. After making Vasilisa complete a few tasks for her, the witch obliges. By turning Vasilisa into a magical firebird whose flames she cannot control and who ends up burning her family and her home to ashes.
- Blessed with Suck: The Baba Yaga gave her the power to turn into a firebird every night, so she would never have to fear the dark again. Unfortunately, Vasilisa cannot control the flames the firebird creates and often ends up burning everything and everyone around her while in its form.
- Broken Bird: By the time Ivan meets her, she's rather pessimistic about her life and future, having been a prisoner for most of it. The added trauma of being responsible for her step-family's death and having her lover betray her likely doesn't help. She also suffers the latter again later on when Ivan hurts her as the Firebird.
- Dark and Troubled Past: In her own story, she was sent into the Baba Yaga's woods by her step-family to get a light after all of their candles went out. After successfully completing the tasks Baba Yaga set her, she was "rewarded" by being given the powers of the Firebird. Unfortunately Vasilisa couldn't control that power and her fire burned her step-family to cinders when she returned home. She ended up Walking the Earth completely alone, until meeting the Tsar who tricked her into believing he was in love with her, then sealed her in a tower in order to keep the Firebird at bay.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: She dies in-between Robin and Tank finishing her and Ivan's fairy tale and returning to close it so Baba Yaga can't be recruited by Hook. The Baba Yaga reveals that the Tsar had Vasilisa lured away and imprisoned by Koshei. Vasilisa died of a broken heart in captivity.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She's lost her family, was betrayed by her lover and cursed to turn into a firebird every night and seemingly put her trust in the wrong man. But in the end said man makes up and apologizes for hurting her, making her realize that he really does care and the two become a happy couple.
- Girl in the Tower: Ivan finds her being kept prisoner in the Tsar's tower. Sort of subverted as the tower wasn't built to imprison her, specifically, only the Firebird she regularly turns into.
- Happy Ending Override: By the time Robin and Tank return to Vasilisa's and Ivan's fairy tale, Vasilisa has been lured away and died while being held captive by Koshei.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has red-blond hair and is a very kind and warm person.
- Hero of Another Story: She had her own adventure before starring in Ivan's story. Unfortunately it had no happy ending.
- Selfmade Orphan: A non-malicious example. During Vasilisa's first transformation into the firebird, she burned her entire family to death, due to being unable to control her flames and the family not being worthy enough to withstand them.
The Light Princess
Coira
"Have you come to try and cure me too?"
A princess who was cursed to lose her gravity when she was a baby.- Cursed with Awesome: She doesn't get why everyone around her is so hung up about her "curse". She herself thinks it's fun to float around without a care. Subverted as the very nature of her curse makes her unable to care about its more negative aspects. When temporarily rid of it while swimming in the lake, she is shown to enjoy being able to feel emotions and is devastated when Makemnoit drains the water.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She begs Robin to help refill the lake. Once she realizes Robin just gave her life so that she could swim again, the guilt and heartbreak hit her full-force. Luckily, the onslaught of emotions both cures her curse and restores Robin.
- The Pollyanna: Deconstructed. Her curse made her light in body as well as in spirit, making her unable to feel any negative emotions. As a result Coira takes no one and nothing seriously and is ridiculed by the people of her kingdom for being an airhead.
- Rosehaired Sweetie: Has light pink hair and is a cheerful sweetheart.Downplayed, as a large part of the cheerfulness comes from the curse.
- What Is This Feeling?: Due to the curse rendering her unable to be anything but happy, she is completely unfamiliar with any other feeling. When she discovers at least part of her other emotions during her swim in the lake she's fascinated.
Eurydice
A nymph who was the lover of Orpheus in his lifetime. He passed away from a snake bite.
- Affectionate Nickname: Orpheus calls him Eury.
- Ascended Extra: In the original myth, Eurydice merely served as the motivation behind Orpheus' journey and was given no agency herself. The Forever After version of the myth actively defies this by having Persephone give Eurydice the chance to choose whether he wants to return to life with all its hardships or remain peacefully dead.
- Failed A Spotcheck: He apparently didn't even realize he was dead until Persephone summoned him and Orpheus spelled it out to him what happened.
- Gender Flip: In the original myth, Eurydice was a female nymph while in Forever After he's male.
- Identity Amnesia: While in the Elysian fields, he completely forgets about his life and Orpheus. Persephone gives him his memory back in order for him to make a choice between returning to the world of the living with Orpheus or staying dead.
- The Lost Lenore: To Orpheus. His death causes her such pain that she willingly treks down to the Underworld to reunite with him.
- Posthumous Character: He is already dead by the time the story starts.
- Undying Loyalty: He's willing to forsake an afterlife of luxury to go back and be with Orpheus in the living world.
Odette (Spoiler Warning)
Odette's Witch Form
A princess who is (usually) turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer Rothbart and rescued by the love of prince Siegfried.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Damian theorizes that continually being turned into a swan might have given Odette a sort of resistance to magic, which is why he was able to keep his memories after his story was reset.
- Damsel out of Distress: A Rare Male Example. Odette got tired of being used as little more than incentive for the prince of his story, so he taught himself magic by watching Rothbart, broke his own curse and then cursed Rothbart and the prince and her entourage instead.
- The Dog Bites Back: Has turned Rothbart into a swan and imprisoned her in the same cage she put him in when Robin, Tank and Damian show up.
- Forced Transformation: The way the story is supposed to go, Rothbart was to turn him into a swan, a form Odette could only escape from when the moon shone on swan lake. Before Robin and crew arrived, that was how things went, but Odette subverts it this time around and turns himself back into a human permanently.
- Gender-Blender Name: Odette is usually a girl's name, but due to Odette and Siegfried being gender-flipped in this version of the story the name is given to a man.
- Gender Flip: Odette is female in the original fairy tale, but is a young man in Forever After.
- I Just Want to Be Free: The reason Odette performed a Hostile Show Takeover of his own fairy tale was that he got tired of not being allowed to be anything more than a reward for Siegfried for learning her lesson about true love while getting his heart broken himself every time Siegfried easily fell for Rothbart's Capture and Replicate scheme. When Robin, Tank and Damian foil his plans he becomes so distraught at the thought of everything being returned to the status quo, he tries to kill himself to escape it and as a last form of defiance.
- Living Macguffin: Deconstructed. Odette is not supposed to be anything more than a Distressed Dude in his story, forced to stay a swan until Siegfried learns a lesson about true love and rescues him. Due to his acquired immunity to the reset magic that sets stories back to the beginning as soon as they're finished, Odette remembered how he repeatedly tried hard to gain Siegfried's love, only for Siegfried to easily fall for an impostor every single time. He eventually grew so tired and frustrated with having no control over his life that he decided to change the script and become the villain himself.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Downplayed. Odette has long white hair and by the time Robin and her friends show up has performed a Hostile Show Takeover of his own story and turned everybody, including Siegfried, into swans. However, when the heroes talk to him, he reveals he only did it due to being tired of being a Living Macguffin whose feelings don't matter to those around him and finally wanted some agency over his life.
Heroes
Momotaro
"It is my destiny to defeat these demons and bring peace at last!"
The Hero of the Momotaro fairytale. A boy born from a peach and destined to slay the demons threatening his home.- Beware the Silly Ones: As hammy and detached from reality as he might come across, there is a reason why he's the hero of the story. The demon army finds this out the hard way.
- Born from Plants: He was born from a giant peach.
- Combat Hand Fan: His weapon is a paper fan that can cut through demon bodies like a hot knife through butter.
- Commonality Connection: He falls for Urikohime almost immediately after learning she, like him, was Born from Plants.
- Forced Transformation: The Wicked Witch turns him and Urikohime back into fruits when it looks like Momotaro might overpower him all on his own. They get better.
- Happily Adopted: The farmers who discovered his peach also raised him and he seems pretty fond of them.
- His Name Really Is "Barkeep": "Momotaro" is just Japanese for "Peach Boy".
- Large Ham: Is pretty fond of breaking out into heroic speeches about destiny and the right thing to do.
- One-Man Army: Honestly, one wonders if he even needed Robin, Lea and Tank for backup in the first place. He utterly decimates the Wicked Witch's demons in battle and probably would have saved Urikohime all on his own, had the Wicked Witch not turned him back into a peach at the last second.
Alice
- Beware the Nice Ones: Alice is usually timid and sweet, but they can be very sharp-tongued if pushed too far.
- Break the Cutie: Defied by them in the end. Wonderland comes very close to making them lose their mind, but thanks to Tank and Robin's encouragement they eventually regain their resolve and fight back against Wonderland's hostile nonsense.
- Challenging the Bully: A huge part of their character arc comes with their refusal to take their mistreatment at the hands of Wonderland's citizens lying down any longer. They call the Cheshire Cat out for deliberately trying to confuse them, stand up to the Mad Hatter and the March Hare when they try to gang up on them and decide to face the Queen of Hearts head on about her false accusations.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The caterpillar described them as "rather vague". They apparently didn't know their own name when it asked for it and the little flashes we see of them point to them being a rather confused child. Downplayed, as Alice does turn out to be a bit peculiar, but is otherwise a perfectly normal child, who was just rightfully confused about Wonderland's weirdness.
- Coming of Age Story: Their journey through Wonderland is this for them. With a bit of help from Tank and Robin, they learn that feeling displaced in the world is a normal part of growing up and that they don't have to take crap from adults or anyone for that matter, just because they're a kid.
- The Cutie: An adorable little child with a polite and endearing demeanor.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Alice is a blonde and a very sweet and polite child.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Alice's eyes are baby blue and they're a very innocent kid indeed.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: They're a very agreeable person and at one point reveal that they have a cat at home named Dinah. They don't really care for the Cheshire Cat though, as he's a lot scarier than your average house cat.
- Sanity Slippage: Implied by the caterpillar's monologue about them. Their time in Wonderland has seemingly made them more and more distraught, to the point they cannot recall their own name. Subverted, as while Alice is weirded out beyond belief by Wonderland and their misadventures seem to have left them with some form of anxiety, they are completely sane otherwise.
Aladdin
- All-Loving Hero: In the end she willingly gives the magic lamp to her "aunt", after realizing the sorceress just wants to go home, despite everything she made Aladdin go through.
- The Chosen One: Only she can open and enter the Cave of Wonders without being immediately swallowed by the desert.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father died shortly before the arrival of her "aunt".
- Gender Flip: Aladdin was a male in the original fairy tale, whilst this world's version of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp is female.
- Good Is Dumb: Aladdin is a very earnest and friendly young woman, but she's also painfully easy to deceive. See Super Gullible below.
- Hidden Depths: Despite her naivetè, Aladdin is surprisingly emotionally intelligent and insightful. It's those qualities that allow her to woo princess Badroulbadour in the end.
- The Pollyanna: She's very chipper for someone who lost her father and is implied to be living in poverty with how she is failing as a merchant.
- Super Gullible: She easily believes a woman who she just met to be her aunt, even agreeing to follow her on a journey out of town, not even knowing where she'll end up.
Ivan
- Big Beautiful Man: Ivan is attractive and pretty muscular, but is also pretty hefty, with a big gut and meaty pecs.
- Composite Character: Ivan merges the individual Ivan Tsarevich (Prince Ivan) heroes from at least two fairy tales: Marya Morevna / The Death of Koschei the Deathless, and Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A blond and a kind, caring and optimistic guy.
- Husky Russkie: Ivan is muscular, chubby, tall, and comes from a Russian fairy tale.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After losing Vasilisa's trust, he has to go through several trials to find her again, but once he does, he's able to convince her of his remorse and the two of them finally get together for real.
- In Love with Love: Even though he has no idea who they're gonna be, the mere idea of finding his true love spurns him on through several hardships. He slowly grows out of this over the course of the story, accepting that love needs work and trust on both side, not just wishful thinking.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction when it's revealed that the firebird he just violently subdued and choked was really Vasilisa is immediate horror and regret.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: A staple of his character is the acquisition of powers in one moment that are either brushed aside or completely forgotten about the next.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Twice over. Him cracking Vasilisa's dome while scaling her tower leads to the Firebird escaping when Vasilisa turns again. Then, when he manages to find the Firebird, he uses unnecessary force when subduing it, even choking the poor thing hard enough to leave a bruise. Vasilisa, horrified that Ivan would so willingly hurt a part of her, declares him not worth her trust and flies off.
- In a moment of desperation, he relases Koshei the Deathless to find Vasilisa again. Kosehi ends up being indirectly responsible for Vasilisa's death.
- Stout Strength: He's pretty muscular and rather fat, and is even able to lift a tree that was blocking the group's way. Justified, as Robin mentions he gets New Powers as the Plot Demands.
Ming
- Adaptation Name Change: In the original short story of The Magic Sword, the scholar was named, "Ning". In this adaptation of the story, her name is "Ming".
- Brainy Brunette: Has brown hair and is a scholar who has studied so thoroughly for the exam she can recite classic literature from memory.
- Cowardly Lion: Even though she is scared out of her mind after her encounter with the spirits, she still agrees to investigate the strange happenings around the temple.
- The Dutiful Daughter: Her main reason for wanting to become a scholar is a wish to support and bring honor to her parents and sisters.
- Gender Flip: Ming was a man in the original fairy tale, whilst this world's version of Ning is female and named Ming.
- Genki Girl: She's very optimistic and recovers from disappointments quickly.
Anansi
Kweku Anansi
"So you like stories. I know a few."
A trickster who owns every story ever told. He seeks to trick Brother Death so he can feed his family.- Animal Motif: Spiders, obviously. One of his monikers is "Anansi the Spider", he has a lot of spiderweb and spider imagery associated with him, he himself shifts between being a human connected to spiders to just a spider himself and his ponytail evokes the image of spiderlegs.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Infamous for this. As a trickster largely acting on selfishness, he tends to be on the gray side even in stories where he's arguably the hero. In the story Lea meets him in, he's planning to steal from Death himself, but justifies it with Death hoarding food that Anansi needs for his wife and children. It's telling that at the end of his story, Lea doesn't abduct Death but Anansi himself to join the villains. The next time we see him Anansi seems to have made himself quite at home with the bad guys. Though it was later revealed that he supposed was not actually pleased with Lea and Hook abducting him from his story and had no real choice in the matter, and thus was biding his time until he could separate from her side.
- Everyone Has Standards: While Anansi was willing to trade Lea to Old Drybones for food, he seems genuinely horrifed when he returns the next day and is informed by a furious Lea that Death tried to eat her alive.
- I Have Many Names: Par for the course for Anansi, he's known by many names. Tank mentions that in his grandma's stories, she called him "Aunt Nancy" and he introduces himself as "Kweku Anansi".
- The Trickster: One of the most iconic ones in African mythology, no less. He is infamous for the tricks he plays on near everyone, his most prolific one being tricking the Sky God into letting him have every story on Earth.
Dorothy
Doro
- Gender Flip: Dorothy in the original book was a girl. Doro in Forever After is a boy.
- There's No Place Like Home: His goal and the reason he traversed Oz in the first place was to return home to his aunt and uncle.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Zig-zagged. We do get to know him a bit, as he lives long enough to tell Robin his story, how he came to be Damian's prisoner, and showcase some of his personality. But shortly after Lea kills Doro to reset the story and de-power the Wicked Witch, so Hook can take over his army. Doro's death also isn't permanent, since he comes back once the story has fully reset.
Tangle
Tangle
- Gender Flip: Tangle is female in the original story. Justified, because he is representing a younger version of Tank.
Mossy
Mossy
- Gender Flip: Mossy is male in the original story. Justified, because she is representing a younger version of Robin.
Orpheus
Orpheus
- Beautiful Singing Voice: She's the daughter of a muse, so of course her singing is literally divine. So much so in fact, she manages to charm not only Cerberus, but also the queen of the Underworld Persephone.
- Determinator: Once she's told there might be a way to get Eurydice back, she's immediately willing to try and faces off against an assortment of Underworld creatures and gods in order to reunite with him.
- Gender Flip: Orpheus and Eudryice have their genders swapped in this tale.
- Magic Music: The melodies she plays are so moving and powerful they can change the weather and charm a literal Hellhound.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Defied. Like in the original myth, Orpheus begins to be plagued by doubts during her and Eurydice's escape from the Underworld, questioning whether Eurydice is even really following her as she can't hear him (he was gagged so he can't call out to her) or feel him (since he's a ghost she's unable to feel his hand in hers). She comes this close to turning around to look - but then Tank prevents her from doing so and encourages her to look forward to her life with Eurydice instead of always looking back where there's only death.
- True Blue Femininity: Her hair, clothes and eyes are various shades of blue and she's a slender and elegant bard who solves her problems with music, not through fighting.
Siegfried
Siegfried
- Entitled to Have You: Siegfriend seems to think that her and Odette ending up together is a given, to the point of ignoring the obvious signs that Odette doesn't like her (such as breaking her crossbow and leaving her and her men trapped as swans).
- Gender-Blender Name: As a result of being genderflipped. 'Siegfried' is a rather unusual name for a woman.
- Gender Flip: In the original fairy tale Siegfried was a young man while in Forever After she's a young woman.
- Royal Brat: Implied. Siegfried is a very demanding person and doesn't like when someone tells her 'no'. When one of her servants remarks that Odette broke her crossbow, Siegfried dismissively answers that her mother bought her a new one right after.
- She Is the King: Siegfried is a woman, but is still referred to as a prince.
Peter Pan
Peter
- Berserk Button: Peter really doesn't like it when other people mention Wendy. Hook managing to bring Wendy to the dark side is still a sore spot for him.
- Fiery Redhead: Orange hair and quick to threaten someone with a dagger if they upset him.
- Manchild: Deconstructed. His flippant childish nature and refusal to take responsibility for anything is what ended up driving Wendy away. Wendy realized that Peter only saw her as a mother figure to take care of him and not a friend. It's only when Peter finally abandons his eternal childhood and grows up, losing the ability to fly in the process that Wendy is convinced he can change and the two of them reconcile.
Wendy
Wendy Darling
Wendy's Current Appearance
A girl from England who accompanied Peter to Neverland along with her brothers.
- Big Sister Instinct: Sensing that the tides were turning in Neverland, Wendy sent her two younger brothers John and Michael back home before joining Hook's crew.
- Face–Heel Turn: Hook managed to get Wendy to join the pirates by the time Robin, Tank and Damian arrive in the story.
- Team Mom: Deconstructed. Peter originally brought her to Neverland to be this to him and the other Lost Boys. Wendy felt used and disappointed after realizing Peter only wanted her to be everyone's caretaker instead of a participant in their fun. This led Wendy to join Hook's crew of pirates so she, too, would never have to grow up. Peter himself acknowledges that it was unfair of him to try and force Wendy, who was herself a child into a parental role.
