one time i was in a texting argument with my friend about if whether Hook would have actually surrendered Milah if Rumple actually like dueled him, and if Killian'd have gone easy on him or not.
To prove my point, I wanted to attach screenshots of that 5x10 scene, where he says this:
(While we're at it, can I just quickly point out that I love so much how nasty Dark Hook is ,,,, SOILED AKAOFSADAGSKGSJSAGJ blud stopped holdin back)
...But I couldn't attach screenshots bc my friend back then hadn't yet seen season 5, so I cut the clip and isolated the audio, and uploaded it into the chat, and now, two years later I still have the random ass audio of this moment saved in my files lmao
if darkness is gonna be used as an analogy for addiction then i wish it would at least be done WELL. no meta because nothing else needs to be said and i'm right
Thinking about how on OUAT Dark Hook tells Emma that she's an anchor to try to hurt her but the thing is he's right. Emma is an anchor for Hook. But anchors aren't bad things. Ships need anchors. Anchors keep ships where they're supposed to be, keep them on course, keep them in safe harbors. So of course Dark Hook would see her anchoring him as a bad thing because the only thing that he cares about is freedom at the cost of all else. Freedom taken as the highest or only good becomes the freedom to destroy yourself and others, the same way a ship without an anchor will be taken off course or drift away or smash against rocks. And that's exactly what Dark Hook's course of action is-- pure chaos, smashing himself against the rocks. Killian in his right mind would absolutely agree that Emma is his anchor, but he'd see that for what it is: she connects him to home, to his safe harbor, keeps him on his course. And he does the same for her.
AND, it's in that role that Emma eventually saves Hook from the Darkness-- it's through seeing her at the climactic moment by the lake that the anchor keeps him from being swept out to sea.