Reply To: The Hookriel/FishHook Relationship Thread

[kfchimera]

After watching Freya Tingley in beneath the waves–I think a mute Ariel could be powerful.

I almost typed something similar to Jo about Princess Bride, but I lost my post hitting a back button or something! I think Hook is a mix of Wesley and Ignio,  I think to ignore his comic and frustrated attempts to kill a man more powerful, his willingness to work for someone more evil (Vinzeni/Cora) is to ignore a lot of what drives Hook.  He is not Wesley trying to get back to Buttercup-Emma.   He did not “earn” Milah with patience and steadfast true love (far as we know, he swept her off her feet), yet there is something there more romantic than just Iginio.

I think they can show a young boy dressed in white, blue cloak that is not fancy peasant garb, on a ship.  The captain is chatting with the boy about how the war in his kingdom is finally ended and he can return home now, to meet his real parents, but then they’re interrupted with the warning that they are being boarded by pirates. The Captain (Davy Jones) says a pity that everyone abandoned ship, as he wanted a fight.  Then he sees this  boy left behind trying to fight the pirates off.  He admires the bravery of the boy, says something about fighting for what you want, and says he won’t kill the boy if he will serve him.  The boy says never, and the Captain laughs and says he’ll change his mind.  Then we cut to Colin made up to look younger, fighting alongside the Captain as he’s dying, and its clear they have forged a bond by now, and he tells Killian Jones to take over the JR.  So that tracks with the boy feeling his father abandoned him, his story to Bae not being entirely truthful and why he didn’t remember his royal background.

Something that suggests without stating openly that he is Eric.

Then later they can flashback to Ariel just naming the guy Eric in a reverse of the scene in Little Mermaid where he guesses her name, once they have cleared up any CSF teasings.  The mystery generally isn’t who these people love, it is how they overcome obstacles to be with that person.  So I don’t think they have to hide the Eric-Hook very long if they go with it.

As for when Ariel meets Eric, I think it is post-Milah, and it involves how he got out of Nl.  I think she met him there, and fell for him, and she struck a deal with Ursula/Regina.  Hook leaves NL instead of choosing to be with her, in the traditional backfire, Ariel lets him go, pining away..  Hook knew about Belle in the tower, that Regina had her, but we don’t know how.  Regina knew about Hook and his vengeance, but we do not know how.

This way Regina can be Ursula/Vanessa, without it being a romantic thing with Hook (just the usual flirty/dangerous vibe they have), she cuts a deal with Ariel that ends badly for Ariel, and Ariel is only pining for 28 or so years, not hundreds.   What’s 28 years if you have true love as Charming said….but of course Hook never knew Ariel sacrificed something to let him escape.  He never knew she loved him and saved him.  And when she sees him again, she will misread his interactions with Emma and there’s angst, without there being an actual love rhombus.