Why Killian Jones is the truest Captain Hook
Here’s what Barrie himself wrote in “Peter and Wendy” describing Hook.
His black hair gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy
save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly.
In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air
and I have been told that he was a raconteur of repute.
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding
and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different cast from his crew.
“That should deter me from any malfeasance”
A man on indomitable courage…
In his dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates, and it sometimes gave him intuitions. Suddenly he tried the guessing game.
Killian to Zelena: “No, you won’t. If you could have killed Emma, you would have.” (OUAT 3x17)
Ever a dark and solitary enigma, he stood aloof from his followers in spirit as in substance.
It was Peter’s cockiness. This had got on Hook’s nerves.
The idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly.
“This is a stunning view of the sea, there’s no sight like a full moon on the waves…” (OUAT 5x08)
But above all he retained a passion for Good Form. However much he may have degenerated, he still knew that in the end this is all that really matters.
He had a playful humour at moments.
A different treatment was accorded to Wendy, who came last. With ironical politeness, Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged. He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully distingué, that she was too fascinated to cry out. Perhaps it is tell-tale to divulge that for a moment Hook entranced.
