well, it’s all just rumors at this point, isn’t it? We’re all speculating and other fans have every bit as much right to think of ways consistent with their hopes for the show as we do.
Now that Eric cannot be Hook, I assume there’ll be some who jump off the ship, but I am still up for it being a mix of Andersen’s unrequited love and Disney. After reading about Andersen’s inspiration for the story, I am also totally up for them to make a twist for a LGBT character here, though I prefer it not be Ariel merely for Hookriel sake. If it is Ariel though, then that’s cool too.
I’ve also read some who are convinced ERIC is Regina’s love, and that Ariel will only be a 1 episode character! Kind of the inverse of Hookriel….it’s I don’t even know the ship name.
If Hook were Ariel’s son, then he might hate mermaids just like Red was afraid of werewolves without knowing she was one. I’m ok with that. There’s nothing illogical (other than timeline headaches really, but if Ariel is immortal or went to NL, that cures that I guess…).
But right now, the idea of Hookriel appeals so much more to me. I even like the fanvids with animated HOok and Ariel together !
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass