[ heel-turn is the right description, but that's part of the problem: he's completely capable of such a quick turn, and he's just as capable of reversing it. the fight with bae was enough proof of that, and maybe some awareness of that is what keeps him from reading too deeply into her guarded response.
it's the right response, in any case. hook's blindsided, caught up in a healthy dose of hindsight, and that's enough to make him abruptly civil — but here and now, stolen away from his admittedly hollow victory and faced with a new place and new information, unpredictable's probably an understatement. that much is made clear by the underlying hardness in his voice, and in the end that civility seems more like a mask, tiding him over while he untangles the rest.
focusing on the current situation isn't exactly preferable, but at least it's simpler. he manages to make the gesture reasonably nonchalant when he raises his hook, drawing back his sleeve slightly to get a glimpse of the numbered tattoo. ] Assigned quarters, I assume?
[ in this case, at least, the edge is more aimed at the implication that he'll be settling in. he has no intention of being here for six months. ]
laughs a little bit at poor emma tho
it's the right response, in any case. hook's blindsided, caught up in a healthy dose of hindsight, and that's enough to make him abruptly civil — but here and now, stolen away from his admittedly hollow victory and faced with a new place and new information, unpredictable's probably an understatement. that much is made clear by the underlying hardness in his voice, and in the end that civility seems more like a mask, tiding him over while he untangles the rest.
focusing on the current situation isn't exactly preferable, but at least it's simpler. he manages to make the gesture reasonably nonchalant when he raises his hook, drawing back his sleeve slightly to get a glimpse of the numbered tattoo. ] Assigned quarters, I assume?
[ in this case, at least, the edge is more aimed at the implication that he'll be settling in. he has no intention of being here for six months. ]