The Hookriel/FishHook Relationship Thread

[AtlanticaDream]

That’s awesome Phee!! So jealous 🙂 mine pales in comparison lol, not that skilled with photoshop yet lol

[AtlanticaDream]

So I just deviated from my original Hookriel wish list and thought of a theory that would be both very dark yet kinda awesome in my opinion. I had originally wanted Hook to be Eric, and for him and Ariel to meet as kids (I still kinda want this anyways).

But I was thinking about the curse of the mermaids and how maybe it is in all mermaids nature to want to drown humans. What if Ariel has in the past actually done this, and while she is now fighting this side of her and being the awesome Ariel we all know and going against her kind. Yet what she did in the past during of a moment of weakness still haunts her. And WHAT IF this person was Eric, a boy she once loved (either as a friend or more). I’m gonna go further on this crack theory and just combine them and say that Hook knew Ariel and her kindness, yet when she succumbed to instinct (maybe as a consequence of a broken deal?) he saw the sweetest girl he knew do this to maybe one of his crew members? Which is why he is so adamant about the curse of the mermaids. Of course once Ariel had seen once she had done she snapped out of it, but maybe it is HER that doesn’t think she is worthy of a relationship which is why Hook is still bitter

Proud Keeper of the Dinglehoppers

[kfchimera]

Interesting, but I think Hook has enough bitter from Milah’s death. I kind of like the idea that Ariel may have hurt Eric, and feel unworthy of love or something, and is in general in a darker place that puts her on Hook’s wavelength (I wrote that then realized the pun but not changing it).

“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

[Phee]

Thanks KFC and AltanticaDream. 🙂

Last night while I should have been falling asleep, I was instead trying to lock in some Hookriel headcanon, because it’s all over the place right now. LOL

Like AtlanticaDream, I’ve had it in my head for a while that they first met when they were younger. (Though I’ve imagined that that “meeting” was just long enough for her to save him from drowning, and he was mostly unconscious so never even got a good look at her.) If he’s been in NL, and mermaids age at a different rate and can live for a few 100 years, she could have been in FTL up until the events of Skin Deep and a mid-30s actor would fit for present day.

The other day I posted that perhaps she’d gone off exploring when she was younger and had gotten herself to FTL but was trapped there. For a while now I’ve thought that if she was in FTL, she could have overheard some humans talking about the legend of Captain Killian Jones and how rumour had it he’d gone to NL. She’d have assumed him long dead by then because humans don’t live as long as merfolk, but suddenly she’d have hope that he was alive, and she’d be motivated to find a way back home to NL and to Killian.

So, last night when I was putting this together in my head and coming up with some more crack to add to the theory, I thought that perhaps she’d heard about how the EQ had a way to jump between realms. Now admittedly, I have yet to check Skin Deep and Hat Trick against the t-word, and that could potentially throw off my theory, because I’m banking on Regina having Jefferson’s hat.

Anyway, I imagined Ariel swimming up to that shoreline near Regina’s castle, and asking for help. Regina can help with the realm jumping, no worries because she has the hat, but can’t help with the transformation to a human, because by that time, she could only transform the colour of a strand of her hair. But she knows that Rumple could help with that bit, and like KFC said, she could do with an excuse to go see him to rub Belle in his face. But even if he doesn’t help her with the mermaid thing, it’s no great loss to Regina.

So Rumple says he can make a potion for the mermaid to become human, but in return, he wants her voice, (because mermaids have beautiful, magical voices, so it’s a handy thing to have in his collection of magical stuff). Either he’s already shown Regina how to take someone’s tongue, or he teaches her then and there.

Regina goes back to Ariel, who’s waiting on a rock near the shoreline. She gives her the potion, takes her tongue, then throws down the hat and tells her that once she gets in there, she just has to go through the door that looks like water and she’ll be home. Ariel jumps down off the rock, into the hat, and heads back to NL.

Once there, she swims up to the JR and clings to the side to have a peek, and she sees Killian. (Would mirror the scene from the movie.)

She goes back to see her family one last time, and her father, though happy to see her, scolds her for having run off by herself so many years ago. Without her voice, Ariel can’t explain that she’d been trapped in another world and had only now found a way to get back.

She swims to shore, drinks the potion, gets her legs, and finds a stray sail from a shipwreck to wrap around herself. Then just after that happens, Hook is standing on deck with his little telescope and spots her, and orders the crew to lower the rowboat so he can go ashore to pick her up, because he knows that NL is no safe place for a pretty, young, nearly naked lady to be running around on her own.

I think this is officially my new headcanon. For at least the next 5 minutes. Until I change my mind yet again. 😛

[AtlanticaDream]

I love this theory! It’s all tied up in a pretty little bow too which is a bonus! even if Regina didn’t have the hat, we know Jefferson has worked with her before, so maybe this was one of those times

Proud Keeper of the Dinglehoppers

[kfchimera]

So there is going to be a Prince Eric…so not sure how it would work, unless Ariel loses him.

“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

[AtlanticaDream]

Maybe it will be a young prince eric cast I.e. a young hook 🙂 but maye she does lose him

Proud Keeper of the Dinglehoppers

[RumplesGirl]

I have sadness in my soul.

*sigh* Stupid crackship making me wish it was real.

Eric left Ariel for Vanessa. Eric is in the past and we only see him in flashbacks.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[AtlanticaDream]

Exactly, don’t give up hope! There must be an awesome Hookriel explanation, I’ve seen plenty in fanfictions

Proud Keeper of the Dinglehoppers

[Josephine]

Am I the only Hookriel fan that is glad that Hook isn’t Eric?

I never really wanted Eric and Hook to be one and the same. I’d rather Eric be someone from her past and she doesn’t become romantically involved with Hook until after all the Captain Swan stuff is sorted out. I’d like to see her introduced for the two episodes listed, go away for a few and then come back in the back eleven. She’s too iconic to have just a two episode arc, so I predict this is just an introduction and she’ll be back for more after Neverland is sorted out.

Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.

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