lillpon:
no one:
literally not a soul:
me: do you ever think about how Rogers not only was feeling the loss of being separated from his daughter, without of course knowing how to explain that feeling, but he was also deprived of his connection to the sea? like the curse made it specific that he never visited the ocean despite having had a strong wish to do so and that made him even more miserable and sometimes i wanna cry for sweet detective muffin ;_;
Ah, Gothel’s curse is so beautiful, because while most of the recipients of it are just, like, different or whatever, but getting on with their lives, whatever, the curse did Hook SO dirty that it had to have been done on purpose.
Granted, he was already separated from Alice before the curse, so their separation IN the curse was a given. But that separation is Gothel’s fault in the first place, so it just adds to the petty shit she’s done to him.
But the sea thing you said. I mean, the sea calms and comforts him. OG Hook said as much, and even Dark Hook found its presence soothing. To deprive him of it entirely is just needlessly cruel.
And the loneliness. I mean, the angst when he explodes with, “Because I don’t have anybody!” is so painful to watch T_T Hook always had a crew. Acquaintances. People around. Friends, even. Rogers was just… so alone.
And she channeled his obsessive need to reunite with Alice into an even more obsessive need to find her, so she could use him to free herself when the time came. She fucking used his pain to benefit herself.
Sorry, I could talk forever about the curse and how it did him wrong.
I mean, I hate it… and I love it. Gothel is just the kind of vindictive villain who literally fucks people over just to do it. And that is SO great from a whump standpoint. I mean, that kind of villain will toy with their victim just to watch him squirm, simply because it amuses them. There’s nowhere you can’t take that kind of dynamic. You can do whatever you want. I love it.
