Name: Katy Age: 24 Contact Info:go play zelda @ plurk, gmail, and aim Other Characters: none
Character Information
Name: Killian Jones, or Captain Hook as he's more regularly known! Canon: Once Upon a Time Age: old as sin. Looks 30ish. Is actually more than three hundred, thanks to a very extended stay in Neverland. Gender: Male Canon Point: Season 2 Finale Background Link:Wiki Inventory: Hook will come wearing a pirate outfit, including a leather duster, a black shirt, leather pants, a leather vest and a pair of boots. It's not actually the warmest, though. He's a pirate and he carries around a great deal of knick-nacks: doubloons, more jewelry than he needs (including an earring, multiple rings, and a necklace) a spyglass and a compass, flint, a lockpicking kit, exactly one glove, a flask of rum, a paper portrait of Milah, and his namesake, even though it's been dulled (per mods).
Personality: Killian Jones defines himself by two things; that he is a pirate, and that he is a gentleman. One could certainly argue that sometimes, one cancels out the other... and in some instances, that's accurate. Sometimes he manages to be both, sometimes he is either one or the other, and it can be difficult to guess which he will pick at any particular moment. He is at his finest when the two are harmonious. He lived for a very long time where his pirate side had more or less taken over, and flashes of the gentleman were at a bare minimum. In recent times he's trying to switch that around, and while he still calls himself a pirate and fancies dressing like one, he wants to be seen as something more than that.
His pirate side influences him plenty. Pirates are known for swashbuckling, carousing, womanizing, and adventure, and all of these are accurate of Hook. He takes sailing very seriously, it is one of his greatest loves. He gave up his ship for a very good cause but he still calls himself a captain, even if his vessel has been traded to an inferior pirate. He tends to not appreciate dictation, and likes to make his own choices and live as a free man. He gives orders well and was quite respected by his crew, while he had them. He's charismatic and well spoken, both things that aided him in his captaincy.
He certainly likes the more lascivious, hedonistic sides of being a pirate, too. He is very fond of his rum, and he's quite a drinker. One might say alcoholic but Hook would rather say he's a drinker than a drunk. The fact that he's never seen without alcohol might be a warning sign. In fact, he seems to drink no matter the occasion and no matter his mood, which really doesn't bode well. Is he really an artifact of his time, where alcohol was the only safe thing available to drink? Maybe that's a part of it, but not the entirety, not that he's keen to admit it.
Hook likes women and it is very evident. He is quite a flirt, and will happily flirt with anyone that will flirt back...and sometimes with people who don't. He can be particularly lewd in his suggestiveness, and does not seem to think there is a wrong time for innuendo. He used to be a womanizer, and one who doesn't know better might think he still is, but it is all empty. He's still a flirt, yes. Nothing is likely to happen beyond flirting, though.
He's also an adventurer. He does like excitement and exploration. He's not the guy to sit on the sidelines twiddling his thumbs. Killian Jones vowed a vendetta against an immortal, invincible wizard, suffice to say he's not afraid to put his life on the line. In fact, he's a little too casual with it at times. He proclaims to be a survivor and well, he's alive isn't he? It just seems he falls into danger a little too quickly, be it from thoughtlessness or because he cares less about the possibility of dying than he really should. He'd rather go down fighting than not fight at all. Even though he cares more about preserving his life as of late, he'd still sacrifice it for the people that matter most to him.
Pirates are also known for the cruelty and bloodthirsty natures, and sadly, Hook cannot claim complete innocence from that. He can be a very destructive, dangerous individual, but generally for a purpose. Above all, Killian Jones believes in love. He'd fight for love, kill for love, and die for love. Love turned him into a monster, and love brought him back from it. Killian loves and loves intensely, and some of the best and worst things he's ever done were done for love. Unfortunately, his worst things were all pretty terrible, and during his time trying to avenge his first love, he did many things that would mark him as a villain. He's not incapable of awful things to suit his purpose, but he's also not above feeling badly for it. Especially now, he wears the darkness in his heart quite heavily. Hook sees himself as a villain and he likely always will. It's only recently that he's tried to turn himself around and he is not quite sure he believes that he can ever really overcome it, that he'll ever deserve a happy ending. He may never deserve it, but he'll die trying to get one.
Pirates can also be quite selfish, after all, and even in his best of moments, Hook is certainly that. He can be greedy, self centered, a cheat, and he is a very gifted liar. At his darkest he was constantly lying, and while he doesn't fall into that trait as often now, it's certainly still there and he will on occasion, usually to protect himself and hide his mistakes. In some ways, his greatest lie of all was when he became a pirate. It was a persona to protect himself after a grievous loss, and he has been spinning it so long that even he has started to believe that is all he is.
The gentleman in him still exists, and it has been out more and more as he tries to turn his life around. Hook is surprisingly respectful of women considering the world he is from and the sort of thinking that was prevalent. He can get pretty crude sometimes, but he would never force himself on a woman. He also wouldn't sit idly by as one is mistreated. There have been times this has been overridden by his pirate side, and he's not proud of it.
For a pirate, he can be pretty old fashioned. He's the kind of guy that will offer an arm or open a door for someone else, though it's more likely he'd do it for a woman. He's not so old fashioned that he'd wait for marriage, but he is old fashioned enough to commit himself to one person and not betray them once he does. He's not a cheater, despite a tendency to flirt. When he's with someone he's incredibly faithful. In fact after he developed feelings for someone, even with no hope of seeing her again, he still didn't take the opportunity to sleep with someone else when it was absolutely assured. The gentleman in him might want to marry the woman he loves, but his first love was already married and his newest one, well, he's got a ways to go before that's an option.
Hook has a code, and while it may not be as rigid as some of the more noble company he has started to keep, he tries to live by it. He will stand up for what he believes in, he will fight for what matters to him, he will give all he has to protect the people he cares about. That list is not incredibly long but Hook has sacrificed his life and his livelihood to protect Storybrooke on more than one occasion, even when there was no guarantee it'd get him anything. Arguably he did that because the people he cared about are in Storybrooke, but that sort of sacrifice is generally rare of villains.
Killian Jones defines himself by these two things and undeniably they are a tapestry that piece together and make him who he is. There is one last part of him, though, that has also been fundamental in shaping who he is. He's less happy to admit it, but being an orphan has also been fundamental in making him who he is and still continues to affect him, though he likes to pretend otherwise.
He once told Emma that those who are abandoned all carry the same mark, and it's true of him too. Killian's abandonment built a foundation of distrust, a need to learn to survive that certainly still affects him in his day to day life. The loneliness of a child that was not loved or cared for as they should have been will always follow him like a shadow. He craves what all lost boys do, for family and a home, and every taste of it he's ever had he's lost. He expects to be disappointed because that is all he's ever known. By choice or by fate, he always ends up alone. For some time he conditioned himself to stop trying, to stop letting people close enough to lose them, but it only made his heart cold and dark. He finally is trying to earn a place for himself, and he isn't sure he will ever deserve one, but he will fight for it anyway. He can be guarded and evasive about his past, he doesn't enjoy breaking into old unhealed wounds, and he still mourns every name he's lost. It's just that now he's trying to live for hope instead of what is already gone.
Killian Jones is not a good man. He is no longer active in villainy but he is heavy with his flaws and mistakes and nobody is more aware of them than he is. Still, there is good in him, despite his darkness, and once upon a time he used to be a man of honor. Maybe he can never really be that man again... He's still going to try. Villains don't get happy endings, but perhaps there is hope for a flawed man that wants redemption for his mistakes, and is willing to fight to get it. After all, a man unwilling to fight for what he wants deserves what he gets.
Flavor Abilities: Hook does not have any sort of magic. His extended age is from being in Neverland, not from any supernatural ability. All of his skills are purely human, though he does have a few: like navigating by the stars, swordfighting, and lockpicking!
Suitability: Hook is at a canon point that he's trying to be a better person. He will be keyed mostly into survival, and very determined to find a way back to Storybrooke to be able to help save Henry, but he will also be willing to help others. He'll at least be open to trying, despite a generally tendency toward selfishness. He has knowledge about survival, though perhaps never in a cold climate, and he can teach less able characters some hints for survival. He also knows how to navigate and could potentially make a map of the town to help other characters ICly navigate.
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Captain Hook/Killian Jones | Once Upon a Time | Reserved
Name: Katy
Age: 24
Contact Info: go play zelda @ plurk, gmail, and aim
Other Characters: none
Character Information
Name: Killian Jones, or Captain Hook as he's more regularly known!
Canon: Once Upon a Time
Age: old as sin. Looks 30ish. Is actually more than three hundred, thanks to a very extended stay in Neverland.
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Season 2 Finale
Background Link: Wiki
Inventory: Hook will come wearing a pirate outfit, including a leather duster, a black shirt, leather pants, a leather vest and a pair of boots. It's not actually the warmest, though. He's a pirate and he carries around a great deal of knick-nacks: doubloons, more jewelry than he needs (including an earring, multiple rings, and a necklace) a spyglass and a compass, flint, a lockpicking kit, exactly one glove, a flask of rum, a paper portrait of Milah, and his namesake, even though it's been dulled (per mods).
Personality: Killian Jones defines himself by two things; that he is a pirate, and that he is a gentleman. One could certainly argue that sometimes, one cancels out the other... and in some instances, that's accurate. Sometimes he manages to be both, sometimes he is either one or the other, and it can be difficult to guess which he will pick at any particular moment. He is at his finest when the two are harmonious. He lived for a very long time where his pirate side had more or less taken over, and flashes of the gentleman were at a bare minimum. In recent times he's trying to switch that around, and while he still calls himself a pirate and fancies dressing like one, he wants to be seen as something more than that.
His pirate side influences him plenty. Pirates are known for swashbuckling, carousing, womanizing, and adventure, and all of these are accurate of Hook. He takes sailing very seriously, it is one of his greatest loves. He gave up his ship for a very good cause but he still calls himself a captain, even if his vessel has been traded to an inferior pirate. He tends to not appreciate dictation, and likes to make his own choices and live as a free man. He gives orders well and was quite respected by his crew, while he had them. He's charismatic and well spoken, both things that aided him in his captaincy.
He certainly likes the more lascivious, hedonistic sides of being a pirate, too. He is very fond of his rum, and he's quite a drinker. One might say alcoholic but Hook would rather say he's a drinker than a drunk. The fact that he's never seen without alcohol might be a warning sign. In fact, he seems to drink no matter the occasion and no matter his mood, which really doesn't bode well. Is he really an artifact of his time, where alcohol was the only safe thing available to drink? Maybe that's a part of it, but not the entirety, not that he's keen to admit it.
Hook likes women and it is very evident. He is quite a flirt, and will happily flirt with anyone that will flirt back...and sometimes with people who don't. He can be particularly lewd in his suggestiveness, and does not seem to think there is a wrong time for innuendo. He used to be a womanizer, and one who doesn't know better might think he still is, but it is all empty. He's still a flirt, yes. Nothing is likely to happen beyond flirting, though.
He's also an adventurer. He does like excitement and exploration. He's not the guy to sit on the sidelines twiddling his thumbs. Killian Jones vowed a vendetta against an immortal, invincible wizard, suffice to say he's not afraid to put his life on the line. In fact, he's a little too casual with it at times. He proclaims to be a survivor and well, he's alive isn't he? It just seems he falls into danger a little too quickly, be it from thoughtlessness or because he cares less about the possibility of dying than he really should. He'd rather go down fighting than not fight at all. Even though he cares more about preserving his life as of late, he'd still sacrifice it for the people that matter most to him.
Pirates are also known for the cruelty and bloodthirsty natures, and sadly, Hook cannot claim complete innocence from that. He can be a very destructive, dangerous individual, but generally for a purpose. Above all, Killian Jones believes in love. He'd fight for love, kill for love, and die for love. Love turned him into a monster, and love brought him back from it. Killian loves and loves intensely, and some of the best and worst things he's ever done were done for love. Unfortunately, his worst things were all pretty terrible, and during his time trying to avenge his first love, he did many things that would mark him as a villain. He's not incapable of awful things to suit his purpose, but he's also not above feeling badly for it. Especially now, he wears the darkness in his heart quite heavily. Hook sees himself as a villain and he likely always will. It's only recently that he's tried to turn himself around and he is not quite sure he believes that he can ever really overcome it, that he'll ever deserve a happy ending. He may never deserve it, but he'll die trying to get one.
Pirates can also be quite selfish, after all, and even in his best of moments, Hook is certainly that. He can be greedy, self centered, a cheat, and he is a very gifted liar. At his darkest he was constantly lying, and while he doesn't fall into that trait as often now, it's certainly still there and he will on occasion, usually to protect himself and hide his mistakes. In some ways, his greatest lie of all was when he became a pirate. It was a persona to protect himself after a grievous loss, and he has been spinning it so long that even he has started to believe that is all he is.
The gentleman in him still exists, and it has been out more and more as he tries to turn his life around. Hook is surprisingly respectful of women considering the world he is from and the sort of thinking that was prevalent. He can get pretty crude sometimes, but he would never force himself on a woman. He also wouldn't sit idly by as one is mistreated. There have been times this has been overridden by his pirate side, and he's not proud of it.
For a pirate, he can be pretty old fashioned. He's the kind of guy that will offer an arm or open a door for someone else, though it's more likely he'd do it for a woman. He's not so old fashioned that he'd wait for marriage, but he is old fashioned enough to commit himself to one person and not betray them once he does. He's not a cheater, despite a tendency to flirt. When he's with someone he's incredibly faithful. In fact after he developed feelings for someone, even with no hope of seeing her again, he still didn't take the opportunity to sleep with someone else when it was absolutely assured. The gentleman in him might want to marry the woman he loves, but his first love was already married and his newest one, well, he's got a ways to go before that's an option.
Hook has a code, and while it may not be as rigid as some of the more noble company he has started to keep, he tries to live by it. He will stand up for what he believes in, he will fight for what matters to him, he will give all he has to protect the people he cares about. That list is not incredibly long but Hook has sacrificed his life and his livelihood to protect Storybrooke on more than one occasion, even when there was no guarantee it'd get him anything. Arguably he did that because the people he cared about are in Storybrooke, but that sort of sacrifice is generally rare of villains.
Killian Jones defines himself by these two things and undeniably they are a tapestry that piece together and make him who he is. There is one last part of him, though, that has also been fundamental in shaping who he is. He's less happy to admit it, but being an orphan has also been fundamental in making him who he is and still continues to affect him, though he likes to pretend otherwise.
He once told Emma that those who are abandoned all carry the same mark, and it's true of him too. Killian's abandonment built a foundation of distrust, a need to learn to survive that certainly still affects him in his day to day life. The loneliness of a child that was not loved or cared for as they should have been will always follow him like a shadow. He craves what all lost boys do, for family and a home, and every taste of it he's ever had he's lost. He expects to be disappointed because that is all he's ever known. By choice or by fate, he always ends up alone. For some time he conditioned himself to stop trying, to stop letting people close enough to lose them, but it only made his heart cold and dark. He finally is trying to earn a place for himself, and he isn't sure he will ever deserve one, but he will fight for it anyway. He can be guarded and evasive about his past, he doesn't enjoy breaking into old unhealed wounds, and he still mourns every name he's lost. It's just that now he's trying to live for hope instead of what is already gone.
Killian Jones is not a good man. He is no longer active in villainy but he is heavy with his flaws and mistakes and nobody is more aware of them than he is. Still, there is good in him, despite his darkness, and once upon a time he used to be a man of honor. Maybe he can never really be that man again... He's still going to try. Villains don't get happy endings, but perhaps there is hope for a flawed man that wants redemption for his mistakes, and is willing to fight to get it. After all, a man unwilling to fight for what he wants deserves what he gets.
Flavor Abilities: Hook does not have any sort of magic. His extended age is from being in Neverland, not from any supernatural ability. All of his skills are purely human, though he does have a few: like navigating by the stars, swordfighting, and lockpicking!
Suitability: Hook is at a canon point that he's trying to be a better person. He will be keyed mostly into survival, and very determined to find a way back to Storybrooke to be able to help save Henry, but he will also be willing to help others. He'll at least be open to trying, despite a generally tendency toward selfishness. He has knowledge about survival, though perhaps never in a cold climate, and he can teach less able characters some hints for survival. He also knows how to navigate and could potentially make a map of the town to help other characters ICly navigate.
RP Samples:
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