Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151211170125/@comment-25926288-20170104232738

Aine1989 wrote: Farerb wrote: Just as long as we remember that their so called love story started when she found him hiding under a pile of dead bodies he either helped kill or stood by and watched. He didn't work for Cora by choice-she had tortured him into working for him ("when you hold a heart, you control it") and she'd have killed him for interfering.

And it's a trope-enemies to lovers. It happens all the time, in fiction, in another universe. All the couples on this show met in messed up ways because its a fantasy, fairytale show (Snowing met afte she assualted and robbed him and he blackmailed-with the threat of death-her into doing something for him). If the trope doesn't do it for you personally fine, but that doesn't mean its a bad relationship. The trope is fairly common. However, Hook work for Cora of his own free will. Cora never commanded him to do a thing, never tortured him, simply gave him a choice "listen to Regina or team with her". Clearly he had a choice because he double-crossed her (twice).