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Lol not really. Like I’ve said, Neal was in love with Emma and he betrayed her. Hook was not.
So Neal doing what he did, even though he didn’t want to, in order to help Emma achieve her destiny and find her family is unacceptable yet Hook screwing Emma over to get what he wanted because he didn’t love her is?
I would like him to apologise to Belle too. But in fairness to Hook, Belle was the only weakness the Dark One had that could be used against him, until Rumple left SB and didn’t have magic anymore. And also, we can’t forget that Rumple very cruelly murdered Milah (I don’t like Milah, but Jeez what a horrific death), and his servant (and countless others), so his treatment of women isn’t the best either!
So by the playground logic of “he started it, he did it first”, Hook was justified in causing Belle’s personality to be erased, leaving her frightened and not knowing who she was. By that logic, Rumple was justified doing what he did to Hook by killing Milah since Hook “started it”. Rumple’s no saint but his treatment of women in general has been a lot more respectful than Hook’s has been.
I think he is a good guy underneath it all. He was nasty to people because that’s what was expected of him, so he gave it to them. “You reap what you sow”. If you expect the worst from people you’ll get it. And the innuendo-spouting is his way of protecting himself IMO, much like Emma’s walls.
Hook was nasty to Belle and was going to kill her in QoH just because she was of no use to him. She had only just met him so she didn’t expect the worst of him to warrant that. Hook ripped out Aurora’s heart so that he could bribe his way into Cora’s good graces again. Hook has no issue about causing harm to innocents if they stand in his way.
It’s unfair to make out like Hook can do no wrong because it’s everybody’s else’s fault he does what he does. That’s almost like saying that it’s Snow’s fault that Regina became the evil Queen, slaughtering entire villages, because Snow told Cora about Daniel.
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