(Albeit, Hook was trapped in Neverland for the vast majority of it... and then in suspended sleep waiting for 'The Curse'* to be broken).
And Hook did almost kill Rumple, only for Rumple to survive anyway.
And it resulted in Hook (temporarily) erasing Belle's memory to get her to forget that she loved Rumplestilskin (who is also The Beast)... which, honestly, I couldn't see as all that evil because Belle is so blindly in love with Rumple that she gave no credence whatsoever to Rumple having murdered his own wife. (I know, right?!) I had hoped being mind-wiped would give her a bit of objectivity... instead it just turned HER sort of evil until she got her memory back, and still left her infatuated with Rumple but no longer trying to convince him to do good.)
At any rate, Hook's calling off vengeance has never been that he forgave Rumple. It was that Hook realized that the vengeance had turned him into a villain, that it made him do terrible things, and that that's no way to live if you ever want to be happy.
Then Rumple killed himself (and Peter Pan... who in the Once-verse is evil) in order to save everyone else.
Thus it became a moot point until Rumple's resurrection (and Rumple is kinda crazy and grief-stricken at the moment since his son -- who had been one of the Lost Boys and who Hook had affection for -- died.)
Eeeeeeeeveryone is related on Once.
* The premise of "Once Upon a Time" is that in order to find his long lost son, Rumplestilskin manipulated The Evil Queen (of Snow White) into enacting a curse that would send The Enchanted Forest into "a world without happy endings" (aka 'the 'real'/modern world') where they were trapped in a 30 year fugue state, living out an unhappy, unchanging alternative existence until Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter Emma(sent ahead through Narnia's wardrobe as an infant) would return to them to break The Curse (which she did in Season 1)
So the little town of Storybrook, Maine in 2014 happens to be populated by the likes of Snow White, Prince Charming, Red Riding Hood, Belle "Beauty", Rumplestilskin (aka "Beast" aka "The Dark One") ...and these days Captain Hook, Robin Hood, Tinkerbell, The Wicked Witch of the West, etc. -- turns out ALL the fairytale lands are 'real'.)
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Date: 2014-04-03 05:17 pm (UTC)(Albeit, Hook was trapped in Neverland for the vast majority of it... and then in suspended sleep waiting for 'The Curse'* to be broken).
And Hook did almost kill Rumple, only for Rumple to survive anyway.
And it resulted in Hook (temporarily) erasing Belle's memory to get her to forget that she loved Rumplestilskin (who is also The Beast)... which, honestly, I couldn't see as all that evil because Belle is so blindly in love with Rumple that she gave no credence whatsoever to Rumple having murdered his own wife. (I know, right?!) I had hoped being mind-wiped would give her a bit of objectivity... instead it just turned HER sort of evil until she got her memory back, and still left her infatuated with Rumple but no longer trying to convince him to do good.)
At any rate, Hook's calling off vengeance has never been that he forgave Rumple. It was that Hook realized that the vengeance had turned him into a villain, that it made him do terrible things, and that that's no way to live if you ever want to be happy.
Then Rumple killed himself (and Peter Pan... who in the Once-verse is evil) in order to save everyone else.
Thus it became a moot point until Rumple's resurrection (and Rumple is kinda crazy and grief-stricken at the moment since his son -- who had been one of the Lost Boys and who Hook had affection for -- died.)
Eeeeeeeeveryone is related on Once.
* The premise of "Once Upon a Time" is that in order to find his long lost son, Rumplestilskin manipulated The Evil Queen (of Snow White) into enacting a curse that would send The Enchanted Forest into "a world without happy endings" (aka 'the 'real'/modern world') where they were trapped in a 30 year fugue state, living out an unhappy, unchanging alternative existence until Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter Emma(sent ahead through Narnia's wardrobe as an infant) would return to them to break The Curse (which she did in Season 1)
So the little town of Storybrook, Maine in 2014 happens to be populated by the likes of Snow White, Prince Charming, Red Riding Hood, Belle "Beauty", Rumplestilskin (aka "Beast" aka "The Dark One") ...and these days Captain Hook, Robin Hood, Tinkerbell, The Wicked Witch of the West, etc. -- turns out ALL the fairytale lands are 'real'.)