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seekingcrocodileName: Killian Jones (aka Captain Hook)
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Scrubs Color: Black
Visible Age: Mid-30s
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11"
Physique: Fit
Complexion: Normal/Northern European
Hygiene: Excellent
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Defining Marks: His left hand is missing and replaced with a hook (hence his nickname); he has a tattoo on his right forearm (a heart, a dagger, and the name Milah)
Accent/Speech: English (what everyone thinks of when they think of an English accent)
Bearing/Demeanor: He's confident and sure of himself. Maybe sometimes a little too sure of himself.
Gait: Typical for a man of his height and age.
Habits: He carries a flask with him (or at least, he does when he has one). He takes great care in his appearance and in keeping his living quarters clean.
Skills: He has a range of skills, both esoteric and more obvious. He has the ability to lead and the ability to delegate tasks, and realizes the importance of doing some of the work himself instead of just having others do it. He has another skills such as navigation, including advanced math, basic astronomy, map reading, and to encode his charts so that no one else can read them. He also has other skills related to sailing: basic carpentry, net repair, fishing. Having spent many years as a pirate, he's a skilled thief and liar, and can tell when others aren't being exactly truthful either. He also knows Greek from his time in the navy.
History: Is here.
Personality overview: Even though he is a pirate and takes pleasure in everything that life brings him, he considers himself a gentleman. It's not like he was born a pirate, after all, and as such he has a code of honor that he follows though this code does get derailed quite a bit during his quest for vengeance. Even he has his limits. It was his brother's death that drove him to become a pirate; he realized that he could no longer serve a dishonorable king. He didn't adopt the lifestyle because it appealed to him. He even seems to hold in contempt those who focus simply on the baser aspects of being a pirate, such as Blackbeard.
Some might consider some of the things he does to be cruel, such as his treatment of Smee, but they're not. He has certain rules, and he expects those rules to be followed, by every member of his crew. They're like a family, and the actions of one reflect on the others. All of the loyalty that they give to him, he has earned, by being fair to the crew when he needs to be, and he returns that loyalty to them. When he made the decision to turn pirate, he gave every man on the crew the option to leave if they didn't agree, and every one of them stayed with him.
If he's betrayed, however, or his trust is broken, he will act quickly and without mercy. When Rumpelstiltskin killed the woman he loved, it took three hundred years for his anger to abate enough for him to be able to agree to a truce. That anger is still there though, bubbling just beneath the surface, for the justice that Milah never got and everything that Gold has going for him despite all that he's done.
He's not typically a violent person, but if he feels backed into a corner, he'll fight his way out. He can be patient, given the proper motivation, but generally if something bores him, he'll move on to something or somewhere else. He's the charming sort, able to talk (or flirt) his way out of just about anything. It is how he has survived for so long, after all. He's confident, some might say too confident, and he's got a bit of an ego. That ego never really goes away, but when he makes a meaningful connection with someone, he'll start to show them some of the pain underneath.
Sailing and the sea are his number one love, and without them he's at a bit of a loss as to what to make of his life. He wants a chance to start over, though, and to that end he is finding ways to redefine himself. He's been hurt or let down enough in the past that he doesn't trust easily, nor does he allow others to trust him easily. When he first meets someone, he comes across with a lot of bluster and swagger, but once he's determined that someone is worth his time, he'll start to let them see what's underneath that facade.
The first truly defining moment in his life was the death of his brother Liam. Liam was his captain, and his older brother, and the only family he had left in the world. Dealing with Liam's death would have been difficult under any circumstances, but it was even more difficult because not only did he lose his brother, he lost trust in the man he had sworn to serve. He found himself facing a difficult decision: continue to serve the man who had proven his dishonor and cost the life of someone close to him, or break the vow he had sworn. It's all about good form with him, and he decided that it was better form to refuse to serve a man who would deny his enemies a fair fight. In one moment he has lost his innocence and naivete and learned not to trust the world as a whole. It's a lesson he's still feeling the effects of all these years later.
He lost his adherence to good form after the death of Milah. He became driven entirely by his desire for revenge, and every decision he made was with the goal of achieving it. For all that time in Neverland, and up until the moment when he realized he hadn't gotten his revenge after all, he lost sight of who he truly was. He came to realize that getting his revenge wasn't worth his own life, and some of that was connected to Emma. He had slowly been discovering that there were things he wanted in his life again, and if he wasted it searching for revenge, he'd never get the things he truly wanted. This is the realization that gives him a new motivation for making decisions: Emma.
He takes action based on what's best for Emma, or on what Emma would want him to do. It might be the right thing to do, but he's not doing it to be a hero. He's doing it for Emma's sake. He doesn't even think of himself as a hero. He's a former villain who's trying to figure out what sort of man he is now. He hasn't quite figured it out yet, and he still struggles with the temptation to return to his old habits, but is able to get past them with a gentle reminder of everything he's got going for him now.
He starts to get some of his trust in the world back during his time in Storybrooke. He still doesn't trust Gold as much as the rest of the group seems to, but after Gold took the most important person from him and they've tried to kill each other multiple times, that's a rift that won't be repaired. He does put his trust in Emma though, and by extension the rest of her family, and Regina. It's a slow process, and while he's not sure he'd trust David or Mary Margaret to give any thought to his interests, he at least has figured out how to trust them not to let him die, even if this is because they wouldn't let anyone die, not because they'd go out of their way to save his life. He might not automatically trust anyone he meets, but he is trusting new people easier than he used to, and is getting better about earning their trust in return.
Application: His full application is here.
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Scrubs Color: Black
Visible Age: Mid-30s
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11"
Physique: Fit
Complexion: Normal/Northern European
Hygiene: Excellent
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Defining Marks: His left hand is missing and replaced with a hook (hence his nickname); he has a tattoo on his right forearm (a heart, a dagger, and the name Milah)
Accent/Speech: English (what everyone thinks of when they think of an English accent)
Bearing/Demeanor: He's confident and sure of himself. Maybe sometimes a little too sure of himself.
Gait: Typical for a man of his height and age.
Habits: He carries a flask with him (or at least, he does when he has one). He takes great care in his appearance and in keeping his living quarters clean.
Skills: He has a range of skills, both esoteric and more obvious. He has the ability to lead and the ability to delegate tasks, and realizes the importance of doing some of the work himself instead of just having others do it. He has another skills such as navigation, including advanced math, basic astronomy, map reading, and to encode his charts so that no one else can read them. He also has other skills related to sailing: basic carpentry, net repair, fishing. Having spent many years as a pirate, he's a skilled thief and liar, and can tell when others aren't being exactly truthful either. He also knows Greek from his time in the navy.
History: Is here.
Personality overview: Even though he is a pirate and takes pleasure in everything that life brings him, he considers himself a gentleman. It's not like he was born a pirate, after all, and as such he has a code of honor that he follows though this code does get derailed quite a bit during his quest for vengeance. Even he has his limits. It was his brother's death that drove him to become a pirate; he realized that he could no longer serve a dishonorable king. He didn't adopt the lifestyle because it appealed to him. He even seems to hold in contempt those who focus simply on the baser aspects of being a pirate, such as Blackbeard.
Some might consider some of the things he does to be cruel, such as his treatment of Smee, but they're not. He has certain rules, and he expects those rules to be followed, by every member of his crew. They're like a family, and the actions of one reflect on the others. All of the loyalty that they give to him, he has earned, by being fair to the crew when he needs to be, and he returns that loyalty to them. When he made the decision to turn pirate, he gave every man on the crew the option to leave if they didn't agree, and every one of them stayed with him.
If he's betrayed, however, or his trust is broken, he will act quickly and without mercy. When Rumpelstiltskin killed the woman he loved, it took three hundred years for his anger to abate enough for him to be able to agree to a truce. That anger is still there though, bubbling just beneath the surface, for the justice that Milah never got and everything that Gold has going for him despite all that he's done.
He's not typically a violent person, but if he feels backed into a corner, he'll fight his way out. He can be patient, given the proper motivation, but generally if something bores him, he'll move on to something or somewhere else. He's the charming sort, able to talk (or flirt) his way out of just about anything. It is how he has survived for so long, after all. He's confident, some might say too confident, and he's got a bit of an ego. That ego never really goes away, but when he makes a meaningful connection with someone, he'll start to show them some of the pain underneath.
Sailing and the sea are his number one love, and without them he's at a bit of a loss as to what to make of his life. He wants a chance to start over, though, and to that end he is finding ways to redefine himself. He's been hurt or let down enough in the past that he doesn't trust easily, nor does he allow others to trust him easily. When he first meets someone, he comes across with a lot of bluster and swagger, but once he's determined that someone is worth his time, he'll start to let them see what's underneath that facade.
The first truly defining moment in his life was the death of his brother Liam. Liam was his captain, and his older brother, and the only family he had left in the world. Dealing with Liam's death would have been difficult under any circumstances, but it was even more difficult because not only did he lose his brother, he lost trust in the man he had sworn to serve. He found himself facing a difficult decision: continue to serve the man who had proven his dishonor and cost the life of someone close to him, or break the vow he had sworn. It's all about good form with him, and he decided that it was better form to refuse to serve a man who would deny his enemies a fair fight. In one moment he has lost his innocence and naivete and learned not to trust the world as a whole. It's a lesson he's still feeling the effects of all these years later.
He lost his adherence to good form after the death of Milah. He became driven entirely by his desire for revenge, and every decision he made was with the goal of achieving it. For all that time in Neverland, and up until the moment when he realized he hadn't gotten his revenge after all, he lost sight of who he truly was. He came to realize that getting his revenge wasn't worth his own life, and some of that was connected to Emma. He had slowly been discovering that there were things he wanted in his life again, and if he wasted it searching for revenge, he'd never get the things he truly wanted. This is the realization that gives him a new motivation for making decisions: Emma.
He takes action based on what's best for Emma, or on what Emma would want him to do. It might be the right thing to do, but he's not doing it to be a hero. He's doing it for Emma's sake. He doesn't even think of himself as a hero. He's a former villain who's trying to figure out what sort of man he is now. He hasn't quite figured it out yet, and he still struggles with the temptation to return to his old habits, but is able to get past them with a gentle reminder of everything he's got going for him now.
He starts to get some of his trust in the world back during his time in Storybrooke. He still doesn't trust Gold as much as the rest of the group seems to, but after Gold took the most important person from him and they've tried to kill each other multiple times, that's a rift that won't be repaired. He does put his trust in Emma though, and by extension the rest of her family, and Regina. It's a slow process, and while he's not sure he'd trust David or Mary Margaret to give any thought to his interests, he at least has figured out how to trust them not to let him die, even if this is because they wouldn't let anyone die, not because they'd go out of their way to save his life. He might not automatically trust anyone he meets, but he is trusting new people easier than he used to, and is getting better about earning their trust in return.
Application: His full application is here.
