1-7 for Dark Hook and Legend.
Thanks, K!! Somehow I knew you’d pick Dark Hook Comes to Storybrooke and The Legend of Captain Killian Jones
1. What is your favorite thing about this fic?
dhcts: That I wrote it with @winterbaby89, and the process of it made us life long friends.
Legend: The overall feeling I managed to infuse in the fic, and @artistic-writer’s art she made when it was still a half-assed idea.
2. What is your least favorite thing about this fic?
dhcts and Legend: That they are complete. I miss writing them.
3. What was the scene that was the easiest to write?
dhcts: The prologue. Laura had bits of the initial dialogue for it already and the entire scene just flowed exactly as we both pictured it. We knew then that we could really do this crazy thing together.
Legend: The flashbacks.
4. What was the scene that was the hardest to write?
dhcts: The final scenes, but only because we didn’t want to face the truth. The story had been told and was coming to an end.
Legend: When Henry almost got crushed by the chandelier. I fought with capturing the action when so many things were happening at once.
5. Is there anything you wish you did differently?
dhcts: I still wish we had given Killian a different car, lol. Whenever Laura and I disagreed on something we would take turns on who got their way (if it wasn’t a pivotal issue to the overall plot). It was her turn to win on that one 😝
Legend: Not a thing
6. Favorite line of narration
dhcts: SOOOOOOO many, but the one that always sticks out is: Killian doubted very much that Swan had ever properly dealt with the man’s betrayal and abandonment, more likely she’d buried it deep within herself, only to quarry it later in order to erect the walls that surrounded her heart.
Legend: The curse of him - Captain Killian Jones, the legendary ghost of Misthaven that had haunted the Jones Manor for nearly three centuries.Three centuries of existing just out of step with the living around him.
It had nearly driven him mad those first few decades, watching his brother live out his life with a wife and children at his side. Liam had returned to Misthaven from his station in London after his little brother had gone missing, refusing to give up the search for some sign of Killian’s whereabouts. Killian had yet to acquire the skill of object manipulation, and attempting to communicate with his brother had been useless. No one could see or hear him. He was damned to the audience of his brother’s grief, and then tormented by the life Liam had the privilege to enjoy as he raised a family and experienced the love of the same woman until he took his last breath.
Killian had hoped that when the moment of Liam’s passing came he might have the opportunity to be reunited with him, but his curse made it impossible. Killian realized then that he did not exist on the same plane as the living or the dead. He was isolated. Alone. Forever cursed to walk the halls and grounds of the place where he had lost everything.
7. Favorite bit of dialogue
dhcts: “I’ve never been free!” Killian roared causing everyone to take a step back from him. “I have only ever known dark masters. Indentured in servitude, commissioned to a treacherous king, bound by my own vows of vengeance, and bartered into villainy by a demon boy only to finally be cursed as one of Regina’s puppets the same day I became the newest pawn of the Darkness.” Killian could feel his control slipping, his anger creating cracks for the Darkness to seep further into. “If I am to be enslaved again then at least let it be at the hands of a merciful master.” Killian held the dagger out towards Emma and declared, “You have to take it.”
Legend: “What’s the matter, Swan?” he questioned softly, his expression cautious yet overflowing with a type of hopeful anticipation. “You look as though you’ve seen a ghost.”
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