GNxDDD Does Bootcamp!

Never-land in Sealand Analysis

Analysis

"Oh, the cleverness of me."

But not really.

I'm going to make this discussion quick because I feel exhausted. I've just come home from a seventeen-hour bus trip and really, I should have written this up two days ago (if not earlier) but alas; I am not that clever. I suppose if I could fly with fairy dust it would have been a far more enjoyable trip but alas I am grown up.

Round 4 for the Fanfic Bootcamp challenge was certainly a test for me. I am not a fan of crossovers. I have never had any desire to see per se an exchange of words between Captain America and Darth Vader. I have never written a crossover, nor do I ever read them because they just do not appeal to me. But alas, boot camp is meant to be challenging and so here I was, wondering what to write.

I thought I had discovered something brilliant a few years ago when I was looking up Hetalia's Sealand and found out his human name was Peter and then seeing a lot of fanfictions name Wy as Wendy. I think Wendy is just the fandom assigned human name for Wy because find anything official on it, but Peter is the canon name for Sealand and my mind was blown! Is Sealand not a little boy who has not grown up who happens to have a friend in Wy whose name may or may not be Wendy?

I thought I had discovered something brilliant but then I read on Sealand's Wiki page that the is a possibility as to him being given the name Peter because of Peter Pan; the boy who does not grow up. I was not that clever. Nevertheless, I used this idea of a Hetalia-Peter Pan crossover story as what I would write for boot camp.

It was hard for me to balance the amount of dialogue I needed to add to this entry. I am conscious of how terrible I am at balancing the amount of dialogue in various chapters I have written. It is something that I need to work.

I took a trip to a small little town (and had limited WIFI) so I was not really sure I would get this entry even in. I took the book, 'Peter Pan' to read on the way down (and then up) and it certainly would have influenced my choice of what to write for this entry. Hook has to be my favourite villain ever so it was a fun opportunity to write around him.

It's mind blowing to me that I have never really incorporated a bit of Peter-Pan-esque elements into works I have written. Not consciously anyway. It was such a big part of my childhood, like I am sure it is for many people. My sisters and cousins and I surely would have played Peter pan adventures in between Narnia adventures. My littlest sister was obsessed with Tinkerbell and a collection of those Tinkerbell spin-off movies. We watched the Disney Peter Pan movie but our favourite was the live-action one; we watched it so many times I'm pretty sure we went through two DVDs. When I was 8 I bestowed the name 'Tinkerbell' on my grandmother's cat; she lived up to the name, she has a tonne of attitude but then she is 12 so I suppose she is allowed to be ill tempered. My bed often was a pirate ship and I was often a pirate. When I was maybe 10 I saw a fairy and when I was 11 I saw a ship in the clouds and I will still swear I saw them to this day.

Maybe it's not that my childhood was influenced by Peter Pan, maybe it is more that Peter Pan encapsulates childhood?

"Oh, the cleverness of me."