KILLIAN JONES.

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portrayal.

        please note that i mainly write killian as an anti-hero, leaning more towards villainy than a hero. as for following canon, i only follow canon up until he arrives in storybrooke. he does not fall in love with emma, and is not interested in any new relationships after milah. he wants his revenge on rumplestiltskin and that is his sole goal.        

biography.

when killian is still a child, he boards a ship with his older brother liam and his father brennan to explore other worlds. that night, he becomes afraid to sleep during a storm that causes the ship to tilt and sway. brennan comforts him, telling him that there is nothing to be scared of, as long as he looks into himself and can decide the kind of man he wants to be someday. killian decides he wants to be just like his father, and he is lulled to sleep after brennan promises to stay to ensure the room lantern remains lit. sometime after this, he wakes up to find his father gone, and in his panic, he attempts to shake liam awake. only when the captain enters, killian learns brennan sold him and liam into servitude on the ship, in order to elude capture because he is a wanted criminal.

many years later, while killian and liam are still stuck in servitude as lowly deckhands, his brother suggests using their wages to enlist in the king's navy, where they can become respectable men. killian is not confident that he is navy material, but he jokes about liam perhaps becoming a captain one day. overhearing the conversation, captain silver mocks him and kicks over the brothers' water bucket. killian moves to retaliate against him, but he is held back by liam, despite captain silver egging him on. when the captain allows the older jones brother to go collect his wages, at the cost of making killian stay behind, liam promises killian that he will be back for him by morning. that night, killian is offered a drink by captain silver, and he eventually drinks more on his own whim and becomes drunk. while drunk, he also gambles away his money to the captain.

when liam returns, with navy documents to enlist himself and his brother, he finds an incapacitated killian. since the captain will only allow liam to leave alone, he chooses to stay with killian, after tearing up the documents. during a storm at sea, captain silver orders the ship to be sailed into the hurricane, because he wants the eye of the storm, a jewel the king will pay handsomely for. knowing this will doom everyone, the jones brothers threaten him with a bloody siege if he doesn't surrender. after the captain relents and is taken hostage, liam begins plotting a course to get the ship to safety. offered a deal by hades that'll secure his future as captain, liam purposely misleads killian into thinking their only option is to dive into the eye of the storm and ride things out. he gives killian his ring, which always helped to lead him home, to symbolize his confidence in the decision. putting his faith in liam, killian then rallies the crew into having hope they will survive. after steering the ship into the storm, the entire crew die, just as hades wanted, while the jones brothers survive, having gained temporary immunity from death because of hades. arriving at shore, liam presents the eye of the storm to a navy officer, fabricating a story about finding it in the wreckage. since liam insists for a navy commission rather than a money reward from the king, the officer stations both brothers on the jewel of the realm, with liam becoming its captain and killian as a lieutenant.

sometime after earning his place as lieutenant, killian joins his brother for an expedition to neverland. on orders of the king, they must obtain a plant, dreamshade, from the island, which is rumored to heal any affliction. on the way there, they are attacked from behind by two other ships firing cannons. to escape them, liam has the sail released down, which is made of pegasus feathers, and glides the ship to safety in the clouds. once in neverland's waters, they row to shore with a boat. they are surprised by a young boy, peter pan, who claims that dreamshade is dangerous. the boy presses that the plant only leads to doom and exemplifies how easy it is to kill an entire army with poison instead of a messy onslaught. killian begins having doubts, but liam ignores his brother's fears and they go on to find the dreamshade on dead man's peak. in a misguided attempt to prove the plant is harmless, liam cuts himself with dreamshade and passes out from the spreading poison. panic-stricken, killian pleads for pan's help until he allows passage to the island's remedial spring, though the boy warns they should not leave neverland unless willing to pay the price of magic. killian promises to give him whatever he wants and hurries to deliver the water to liam, who is completely healed by it. he turns to repay pan for his services, but the boy is gone. journeying home, liam proposes exposing their king's true nature to everyone, however, he collapses and dies after the jewel of the realm leaves neverland's seas. liam's death has a profound effect on killian, who takes his place as captain of the ship and renames it the jolly roger. after revealing to the crew what type of man their king is, kilian rallies them into deferring from the king's service and embracing the life of pirates "with honor" instead.

during one of many adventures, killian stops by a tavern after his ship is in port. he saves a woman, milah, from a drunk's unwanted attention by punching the man. charming milah, killian appeals to her sense of adventure, talking about the faraway lands he's visited. he invites her to join him, but milah declines, out of obligation to her son and husband. killian accepts her answer and leaves his invitation open for the future, stating that he's in port often, though milah insists her plans won't change. after her relationship with her husband continues to deteriorate, milah disappears to the tavern, possibly to find killian.

in time, milah begins spending most of her time at the tavern, gambling and drinking with killian and his crew. he entertains her stories of his exploits, and at some point, milah tells him about her husband, rumplestiltskin, whose cowardice she hates. one day, rumplestiltskin arrives to bring his wife home, and she initially refuses, until seeing her son baelfire wander in and call for her. that night, milah runs away to join killian's crew, and by morning, rumors spread that she was kidnapped by the pirate. when rumplestiltskin attempts to rescue her, killian agrees to relent only if he wins a duel against him. too fearful of fighting, rumplestiltskin refuses the sword that killian throws at him and backs out of the deal.

killian and milah travel the seas together on the jolly roger alongside their crew. even so, milah thinks of her son, baelfire, and killinan suggests going back to get him so baelfire can have his mother. several years later, killian bumps into a beggar, whom he ridicules as a crocodile. the beggar reveals he is the man formerly known as rumplestiltskin, except he has since acquired vast power as the notorious dark one. at first, rumplestiltskin asks for milah, but killian fibs that she died many years ago. still believing killian forcibly took her from him, rumplestiltskin takes his answer for truth and challenges the captain to a duel. more powerful than he once was, the dark one bests killian and begins ripping out his heart, only for milah to stop him. having previously caught the dark one's associate, william smee, trying to steal a magic bean from the jolly roger, she promises to hand it over if rumplestiltskin will spare killian's life as well as her own.

for the trade, they meet on the ship, where rumplestiltskin confronts his former wife for abandoning baelfire. in spite of her regrets, milah claims she never loved him, to which the dark one tries grabbing the bean, but she tosses it to killian. furious, rumplestiltskin tears out milah's heart, and as killian cradles her in his arms, she murmurs her last vows of love to him. in the next instant, rumplestiltskin crushes the heart, killing milah, before requesting the bean. due to killian's refusal, the dark one cuts off his clenched left hand, which holds the bean, although the pirate previously switched it to his right hand. reeling from the physical and emotional toll, a fuming killian grabs a hook and stabs rumplestiltskin. unaffected, the dark one takes killian's severed hand and teleports away. in a rage, killian takes the hook and replaces his severed left hand with it. after burying milah at sea, he allows smee to join his crew before using the bean to open a portal to neverland.

during the journey towards the island of neverland, killian and his crew members haul a boy out of the water aboard the jolly roger.

hook learns the boy's name is baelfire, and thus, this makes him rumplestiltskin's son. when the lost ones of neverland climb aboard searching for a certain boy peter pan wants, he hides baelfire below deck in a vent. after the lost ones leave empty-handed, smee chastises hook for not handing over the boy them. however, hook has a plan of his own to get close to baelfire as a way of learning more about rumplestiltskin and getting revenge. despite this scheme, he develops a true friendship with baelfire by teaching him how to steer the ship, and they bond over being abandoned by their fathers. baelfire discloses how his father feared his magic powers would all be gone if someone stabbed him with a special dagger. this tidbit gives hook knowledge of a way to kill rumplestiltskin, which conflicts with his growing kinship with baelfire. all this comes to an end when the boy finds a drawing of his mother milah and demands answers from hook. he tells baelfire the true fate of his mother, who ran away to be with him because they were in love, but she died when rumplestiltskin tore out her heart and crushed it. hook tries to alleviate the betrayal of lying to baelfire by bring up milah's past desire to go back for her son so the three of them could be together. since she is gone, he believes they can live out her dream and become a family. baelfire rejects the notion and opts to go to neverland. the renunciation crushes hook, who strays back into darkened emotions as revenge becomes his main and only focus.

at some point, hook begins working for peter pan and travels on the jolly roger to procure items for him. while doing pan's work, he also visits the enchanted forest frequently. at an unknown period later in time, hook returns to the enchanted forest. late one night, he comes across some of king george's soldiers about to execute robert. hook quickly kills the men and takes their gold. not wanting robert to tell king george about his deed, he kills him and dumps his body in a ravine.

on a journey back to neverland to deliver some goods, he scolds smee for eating some of the food supplies that pan is expecting. the crew soon fall under the spell of a mermaid's singing voice as the ship drifts towards some sharp rocks. before they meet their doom, the singing stops, which gives hook time to call for the ship to be redirected away from danger. later, at a pub, a young girl, ursula, entertains patrons with her singing. even hook, who has been obsessed with killing rumplestiltskin, is enchanted by her voice and briefly forgets his troubles. recognizing her voice as the mermaid from earlier, he thanks her for not killing him and his crew. in conversation, she tells him about her father, poseidon, forcing her to use her vocal gift to lure sailors to their death due his hatred for humans since her mother was killed by a pirate. hearing of her desire to go to glowerhaven, hook agrees to take her there for free. on his way out of the pub, poseidon's guards kidnap him for a rendezvous with the sea king himself. poseidon, wishing to keep his daughter from leaving, wants him to absorb her singing voice into an enchanted shell. in return, he can have squid ink, a powerful liquid to paralyze rumplestiltskin. instead, hook tells ursula about her father's intentions, and she steals the ink for him so they can both get what they want. poseidon shows up, and when he is unable to convince ursula to come home, he takes away the squid ink to prove hook only cares about his vengeance. angered that his only hope of revenge is gone, hook spitefully captures ursula's singing voice in the shell so poseidon can never sink another ship again.

breaking into the evil queen's palace, hook frees a prisoner, belle, informing her that rumplestiltskin is endangering her father and that she needs to tell him where the dark one's dagger is. when she admits to not knowing where the dagger is, he knocks her out and prepares to kill her, as the queen, regina, intervenes. regina promises to help him get his revenge on rumplestiltskin once she casts a curse, which will bring everyone to another world, where the dark one won't have his magic and hook can finally kill him. in exchange, she wants him to kill her mother cora, but first, she tests hook by tasking him with facing his father brennan, who abandoned him when he was a child. at first, hook is angry and vengeful towards brennan, but his demeanor softens after his father expresses genuine remorse for his actions and has seemingly become into a better man. hook decides to trick the queen into believing he killed brennan by sneaking his father out of the land with a boat ticket. brennan asks for a second one for his younger son, which hook agrees to procure. the night he delivers the tickets, however, hook overhears his father telling his son the same thing he once told him when he was a child. with his resentment towards brennan for abandoning him once again festering, hook becomes even more upset upon learning the younger son's name is liam. brennan insists he did this to honor the memory of both killian and liam, but hook assumes this is a lie, and that brennan never cared for him at all. tossing the tickets into a fire, hook bitterly considers that if he lets his father go, he won't get what the queen has promised him. he then kills brennan, who, before dying of his wound, tells him it's never too late to change into a better man.

upon returning to the queen's place to tell regina that he completed her test, regina enchants his hook with the ability to remove a heart. she requests that, after he kills her mother, to bring to the enchanted forest, and since the magic hat meant to take him to wonderland must have the same number of people going as the number of people returning, she sends a dead soldier with him. with the hat's power, he ends up in wonderland, where guards bring him before the queen of hearts. after hook reveals he knows the queen's real name, cora, she unmasks herself and sends her courtiers away, leaving her alone with the pirate. he attempts to take out cora's heart, but she laughs at him, admitting she already took it out and placed it elsewhere. she begins tearing out his heart, demanding to know who sent him, until hook admits regina did. learning regina promised him revenge on rumplestiltskin after the curse is cast, cora reveals this is impossible, because the curse will erase hook's memories. hook then agrees to help cora get close enough to kill regina, in exchange for immunity against the curse. returning to the enchanted forest with cora, who feigns being dead, hook presents the body to regina, before leaving her alone with her mother. once regina leaves to cast the curse, he comes back to find cora has changed her mind about killing her daughter. as the curse spreads through the land, cora takes him with her to an island, where she casts a protection spell, keeping herself, hook and nearby inhabitants from the curse's effects for twenty-eight years until the savior breaks the curse.

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