@onceuponamirror wrote:
But Hook hates/doesn’t respect cowards. He always has. Suicide itself is cowardly, so he can’t literally kill himself. Instead, he wants to be killed so that it is an “honorable death,” (in his eyes) so he goads people into it, particularly when he challenges Cora to see if she’ll kill him in 2×08. He’s waited 300 years, he can’t just end his own life at that point. He needs to feel like he’s equated to something, like delaying death wasn’t all for not (again, in his opinion).
And I definitely don’t think he’s nihilistic–that’s the opposite of having a code, which he’s proven he does have. He’s definitely suicidal–TWICE he asks Rumple to kill him.
Somewhere in the past 300 years, Hook’s vengeance turned into a death wish. I don’t think he was ever wholly conscious of that fact–Hook didn’t know he wanted to die until he realized he had nothing to keep him alive.
Hook is impulsive and was improvising the way through his revenge–he was always just trying to get on the same level as Rump and work it out as he went. But when he was actually faced against Rumple without the option of killing him, all he wanted was to be put out of his misery.
This is very well said 🙂