Killian had been hunting this crocodile skinned bastard for years. Always out of reach, taunting him, making his life hell and hurting the ones he cares about must. He was so close, he's gotten the blade he needed to kill Rumple once and for all but the trickster had gotten to Blackbeard. The dark one got him to make a deal, all Edward wanted to do was protect Killian but the price had been his heart, in turn the emotion of love he had for Hook. When Edward came to him to show his newfound powers and the deal he struck it was the worst thing. Edward unknowingly struck a deal with the very enemy they had been hunting together.
There was no time to scold his lover for how stupid this was, that life was not worth living without his love. They had to kill Rumple quickly, Edward's fire powers proved useful in this plan so Killian could use the dagger. It was close, but Hook managed to get up close and personal to the dark one and plunged the magical blade into his chest. Though what he learned in that moment was that there is always a dark one, those powers then flowed into him as Rumple died.
the disparity in emma and killian’s dark one experiences is just SO funny to me. emma goes on a series of quests where she puts her morality and her soul on the line all in the name of banishing darkness from the world while preserving her relationships with her loved ones. meanwhile hook dials the Theatre Kid up to 100 and gets in an old man fight
Selected lines from Caitlyn Siehl's magnificent poem:
When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.
Start by pulling him out of the fire
and putting him back together
with the pieces you find on the floor.
There is so much to forgive,
but you do not know how to forget.
When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.
"finished K:CD for the first time the last diamond rush and damn. it's so funny if you're not on kindness & amrit path (i lowkey hate him but nvm) like,, he went thru all this trouble to lure amala to india only for her to kill a couple of ppl and fuck off back to england with killian. i just imagine him sitting at a desk, a drop of sweat on his forehead, coming up with a to do list that's like "force her to come to calcutta ✓ manipulate ✓ propose" with ratan just watching over his shoulder, meanwhile amala is getting dicked down at someone else's wedding + the fact that we had diamond scenes at ratans house? like, he must've felt that. amrit is whining about the messiah, talking bout amala, destiny and whatever while ratans spidey senses are tingling & he's just standing there like 😐"
Guess who’s reading another dark romcom with a psychotic, narcissistic antisocial mmc who has it real bad for the fmc but acts like a dickhead just to get her attention and fall in love with her for just existing.