Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151130132802/@comment-91424-20151201204602

Eskaver wrote: Hook seems to have no veil of love around him and used Emma and hurt Emma. Even Rumple didn't verbally crush Belle like that. Nor Nimue to Merlin. Or even Emma to Henry and Hook.

Verbally? Maybe not. But have you forgotten what Rumple did to Belle? And what Nimue did to Merlin? Gold deceived and lied to Belle again and again, and broke her trust, which is far worse than lashing out at someone verbally. And Nimue trapped Merlin inside a tree, where he was stuck for hundreds of years, which is a fate far worse than death.

As for what Hook said to Emma: It is completely understandable. She went against his wishes, and transformed him into the thing he hated most. I think most of us would have reacted the same way and said similar things, if we were in the same situation.