This is something that has bugged me for awhile, so I’ll ask my shipmates first: did Hook lie to Bae in 222? About PapaHook? Because Killian Jones grew up well adjusted and hopeful and I was a big advocate of “oh I’m sure he’s not lying about PapaHook…” but after 305, I’m not sure anymore.
I’ve never been convinced that he was telling the truth to Bae about his own father. Having seen part of his backstory now, I do lean more heavily on the side that he was lying, though we can’t really say 100% for sure. Maybe all 3 of them, Killian, Liam, and their father, went off to sail the seas, and their father abandoned them both, it’s just that Hook didn’t mention the bit about his brother. So even if it wasn’t a complete lie, it was still at best a half truth, because he was playing up the, “My dad left and I was all alone in the world, just like you,” but we now know that he always had Liam.
But with Hook, nothing happened directly TO him. His brothers death wasn’t powerful enough, to me, to have a man suddenly give up his entire way of life. How was it the loss of hope? It meant his king had lied, but was it enough to make him jump from point A to point X? It is just something that bothers me, I guess. Hook could have sailed for a different king, or left the navy and gone and done something else. But he chose to become pirate.
I can buy the sudden change because Liam was the only family he had and he suddenly lost him. He was angry at the King for having sent them to NL based on a lie, angry at Liam for having been stubborn and stupid enough to cut himself with the dreamshade, and thanks to Pan’s, “Well, you totes goaded him into doing that,” he was also angry at himself, and also angry at Pan for not having divulged all the necessary information about the cure. So that’s a fair amount of anger to boil over and make him snap like he did.