Wendy Darling

## **Character Biography**

Wendy Angela Darling was a young girl who was taken by Peter Pan to Neverland. Many decades later, she attempted to tell Peter Banning, the now middle-aged version of Peter Pan, about his past.

### **Stories of Neverland**

Wendy used to tell her brothers, John and Michael Darling, stories about Neverland, including Captain James Hook, and a young hero known as Peter Pan. She always believed that the stories were true.

### **Meeting Peter Pan**

One night, Peter Pan's shadow, which had always been mischievous, escaped to Planet Earth, forcing Peter to come down to his home planet to look for it. He tracked it down to the house of the Darlings, a British family living in London. When he tried to catch his shadow, he woke **Wendy Darling** and her siblings John and Michael. Wendy was thrilled that Peter Pan was a real person, and offered to sew Peter's shadow to his feet.

After this , Peter was so happy he told Tinkerbell to sprinkle fairy dust upon the children, and showed them how to fly. He then took them to Neverland.

### **Wendy's injury**

Tinkerbell became jealous of Wendy, thinking that she was getting more attention from Peter, so she tricked the Lost Boys into thinking Wendy was a bird. When the young girl flew over with Peter, the boys shot her with an arrow, believing that she was chasing Peter. When Pan found out about Tinkerbell's trick, he didn't speak to her for a whole week. Meanwhile, the Lost Boys built a hut for Wendy so she could recover.

### **The kidnapping**

Main article: The Battle of the *Jolly Roger*.

Wendy became like a mother to the Lost Boys, and Peter would listen to her tell the boys stories at nights. However, the villainous Captain Hook wanted to get revenge on Peter, so he concocted a plan to kidnap Wendy, John and Micheal Darling from the Lost Boys’ hideout. Hook then tried to force the children to walk the plank, into the waiting jaws of the Tick-Tock Crocodile below. Fortunately, Peter Pan and his band of Lost Boys launched a rescue mission, freeing the Darlings while Peter duelled Hook.

The duel ended when Peter pushed the captain off the side of the *Jolly Roger*, leaving Hook to the mercy of the enormous crocodile. The pirates, thinking their leader dead, threw down their weapons, and the Lost Boys won the battle.

### **Peter loses his memories**

After the battle, Wendy and her siblings returned to Earth. Peter promised to visit every year, and take them to Neverland again. However, Peter began to lose track of time, due to the fact that in Neverland, time is different, and so Peter began to not come for many years.

One fateful night, he flew in through the bedroom window to discover that Wendy was now an old woman. Peter was shocked and distraught by this as Wendy attempted to explain by showing Peter her granddaughter, Moira Darling, who lay asleep in the bed. When Peter saw her, he fell in love and gave her a kiss. With this, he lost all his memories of Neverland and the Lost Boys, and became a normal mortal boy.

Eventually, Wendy decided to give Peter a place to live in an orphanage she had founded. Peter grew up, was adopted by the Banning family, and married Moira. They had two children, Jack Banning and Maggie Banning.