Captain Hook

## **Biography**

### **Brennan Jones**

Sir Brennan Jones was a former English aristocrat in medieval ages who was part of the navy. His work, however,w as much to structured and pompous for Brennan's liking, that summed by the fact he found the king was corrupt, he was discharged from the navy for rude behaviour.

Upon this events, Brennan started a life of crime, taking his sons Killian and Liam to explore different worlds. When a young Killian was afraid of Storm, Brennan told him he would have nothing to fear as long as he looked into his heart and decided the kind of man he wanted to be...Sadly their family moments would not last for so long, as at the next port, people were waiting to apprehend Brennan for his status as a fugitive thief. Thinking of only himself, he sold his sons into the ship's servitude and then escaped on a rowboat.

In the play, it is implied that Hook attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford and his final words are "Floreat Etona", Eton's motto. In the novel, Hook's last words in the novel are a similarly upper-class "bad form", in disapproval of the way Peter Pan beats him by throwing him overboard.

James was a young man and acted as Boatswain to Blackbeard. His brother meanwhile joined the Navy. he betrayed Blackbeard and helped set him up for an ambush. He then joined his brother on a mission.

### **Liam Jones**

Killian and Liam were stuck into servitude under Captain Silver as deckhands. During a storm at sea, Captain Silver, wanting the eye of the storm due to the king being willing to pay well for it, ordered the ship to be sailed into the hurricane. Knowing this will doom everyone, the Jones brothers threaten him with a bloody siege if he doesn't surrender.

After the captain relents and is taken hostage, Liam begins plotting a course to get the ship to safety. Offered a deal by Hades that'll secure his future as captain, Liam mislead Killian into thinking their only option is to dive into the eye of the storm and ride things out. He gives Killian his ring, which always helped to lead him home, to symbolize his confidence in the decision.

Putting his faith in Liam, Killian then rallies the crew into having hope they will survive. After steering the ship into the storm, the entire crew die, just as Hades wanted, while the Jones brothers survive, having gained temporary immunity from death because of Hades. Arriving at shore, Liam presents the eye of the storm to a navy officer, fabricating a story about finding it in the wreckage.

Since Liam insists desires a navy commission rather than a money reward from the king, the officer stations both brothers on the Jewel of the Realm, with Liam becoming its captain and Killian as a lieutenant. Sometime after earning his place as captain, Liam is summoned by the king to sail to Neverland and retrieve the plant Dreamshade for medicinal healing purposes.

At some point, he is given a sextant, star charts leading to home and back, and a sail woven from Pegasus feathers. Choosing to bring along his brother, Lieutenant Killian Jones, as his right-hand man on the trip, they depart when all preparations are ready.

On the journey there, the Jewel of the Realm is attacked by two other vessels, but with the help of the Pegasus feathered sail, the ship glides into the sky to safety. Reaching Neverland, Liam and Killian take a rowboat to shore, where the island's inhabitant, Malcomn, posing as Peter Pan, reveals Dreamshade is actually used for poisoning.

While his brother begins to suspect their king has dishonorable intentions with the plant, Liam chooses to ignore Pan's warning. To prove Dreamshade is harmless, he purposely cuts himself with one of the plant's branches and passes out from the rapidly spreading poison. Desperate to save him, Killian accepts help from Pan, who grants access to the island healing spring and warns that neither he or Liam should leave Neverland unless they are willing to pay the price.

Not knowing what the boy truly means, Killian cures Liam with the water. Only when the brothers attempt to leave the island, with plans of revealing their king's lie about the Dreamshade, Liam dies, as the price of the cure is he can only stay alive by remaining in Neverland forever. After burying Liam at sea, Killian rallies the ship crew into abandoning their loyalty to their former king in order to live as pirates "with honor" instead

Barrie stated in the novel that "Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze". He is said to be "Blackbeard's bo'sun"(boatswain) and "the only man of whom Long John Silver was afraid".

### **"James"**

While In Neverland, a young Captain Hook, then known as simply James, met a roguish, talented pixie-dust fairy named Zarina that had betrayed Pixie Hollow, the homeland of Tinker Bell and the fairies of Neverland, and left to live amongst the pirates, befriending James once she did. James, himself, posed as a benevolent lad who appreciated Zarina, unlike the rest of her former friends. Zarina was known to be one of the most intelligent fairies in Pixie Hollow, and despite being a dust-keeper fairy (a fairy who harvests and nurtures fairy dust for other fairies to use) she proved to be an amazing innovator, figuring out ways to make various colors of pixie dust each with its own unique magical properties, such as the powerfully dangerous ability to switch fairy talents, as well as create her very own pixie dust tree, though that trick required the use of the mystic blue pixie dust. Zarina stole the blue dust and brought it to James and his crew as part of a plan to create their own Pixie Dust Tree, thus giving the pirates an endless supply, enabling them to fly and plunder the Seven Seas to become fabulously rich.

However, though she's able to escape most of Pixie Hollow, including the wise Queen Clarion, Tinker Bell and her friends (Silvermist, Fawn, Vidia, Iridessa, and Rosetta) travelled to James' ship and were nearly able to foil Zarina's plot, but the pirate fairy was able to outwit her former friends, and the plan was set back into motion. Eventually, at their Skull Rock home base, a replica of the Pixie Dust Tree is created, and James, as well as his crew, soon find themselves with an endless supply of dust, thus completing the first part of their scheme. With that done, James no longer had any use for Zarina, leading him to double-cross and imprison her in a lantern, revealing himself to be a ruthless villain who only looked out for himself. With Zarina and her friends captured, James and the crew prepare themselves for the voyage. Tink and the others managed to escape and grab the blue pixie dust, but before they flew out of Skull Rock, James arrived, threatening to drop Zarina into the sea if the fairies don't return the dust; Tink, who still cared about Zarina, handed it over. James soon covered the ship with the golden fairy dust, enabling its flight and setting off to the Second Star to the Right to enter the mainland in order to begin their plundering. He put Zarina's teardrop-shaped vial full of blue pixie dust around his neck and threw her into the sea anyway, despite his promise to Tink. Tinker Bell and the others saved Zarina, reuniting and teaming up with her; they eventually caught up with the ship and challenged James and his crew to battle. James accepted and he and Zarina engaged in a duel.

After a swordfight, the ship fell sideways, causing James' crew to fall overboard into the sea and the pixie dust was released into the ocean. James fell, tried to savor the dust, only to plummet to his apparent death. However, he survived and with the ability to fly, no less. With his new powers, he battled Zarina once more, but it again ended in the captain's humiliation. Zarina overused the dust on James and he went flying. James then flew into a wave, and fell into the water. His ship was then stolen by Zarina, Tink, and the others. As James cursed the fairies for their heroic efforts, a small crocodile began snapping at him, believing he was a codfish, causing him to swim away in fear, leaving his crew behind, although they were amused of their captain's misfortune. Little did James know that small crocodile would one day grow up to become his nemesis Tick-Tock the Crocodile.

Some time afterward, James found himself stranded at sea, only to eventually be rescued by a fellow by the name of Mr. Smee, meeting his soon-to-be most trusted assistant for the first time.

### **1700's**

In the late 1720s, James exited neverland, people that knew him were surprised he had not aged a day. He made at least one voyage across the Indian Ocean, where he discovered a body of a half-dead sailor in the water. His men pulled him out, and before the sailor died, he told them that his ship was attacked and destroyed by a pirate ship flying the red flag of no quarter.

Some time later, James sailed for Portugal, where he encountered Don Rafael, the pirate Lord of Caribbean, an old friend of his, at Oporto. While having dinner in a tavern, James told Rafael of his tale, in which Don Rafael would later repeated it to the pirate captains assembled at Shipwreck Cove.

"You'll never guess who I encountered at Oporto a few months ago. [...] James. [...] He's lost a hand. [...]he said it wasn't so bad, the hook was as good as a dagger in a fight. [...] He didn't look a day older, not a day. [...] James was a lot more...subdued. [...] The tavern's keeper's little lad came round to collect our plates, and when he turned and saw he, for just a second he looked—scared. No, worse than that. Terrified. [...] Can you imagine that? Afraid! Of a young boy!"

After their discussion, James sailed off back to Neverland.

In the 1770's, a pirates' conference was set near Rose Island and was attended by Captain Clegg, Slaughterboard, John Silver (a descendant of Captain Silver), Pugwash, Captain Hook, Captain Blood, Guybrush Threpwood and Pysse-Gummes. It's unknown if the Captain Hook here was James Hook or Killian Jones

### **Losing his hand**

Peter Pan cut off Hook's hand and fed it to a crocodile. It continued to pursue him, its coming indicated by a ticking clock it swallowed.

### **Jake and the Neverland Pirates**

Hook encountered a group of three children; Captain Jake, Izzy, and Cubby (two boys and a girl) who were pirates in Never Land, looking for treasure. Because of their status as Pirates they were not friends with Peter or Hook. Hook had a mother, Mama Hook, who kept him "honest" if he got tempted until her death. He also had a romantic attraction towards a female pirate but nothing came of this.

### **Peter and Wendy: 1904**

In 1904, Hook antagonized Peter and the Darling children he had brought to Neverland. He attempted to kill Peter with a bomb and poison. Peter overthrew him and he fell into the jaws of the crocodile, scolding Peter for his "Bad Form".

### **Peter Pan In Scarlet: 1926**

Ravello, a circus man in a constantly ragged woollen coat, offers Peter a servant and to ensure his well being in the search for the treasure. Ravello provides – through a red coat and a bad influence – that Peter Pan is increasingly in the direction of acting like Captain Hook . He sees himself not as a living person, because he only eats eggs and no longer sleeps there. He is old James Hook, who escaped the crocodile, when the muscle contractions of the stomach meant to crush and digest Hook, which broke the vial of poison Hook kept with him at all times. The poison killed the crocodile, and Hook used his hook to claw out, but he was mutated(or rather scarred) by the stomach acid, changing Hook to an uglier man. The scarred visage that emerged from the crocodile's stomach was not the noble pirate who went forthwith from the deck of the *Jolly Roger*, but Ravello, the travelling man. Ravello has many animals: lions, bears, and tigers.

Ravello gave another clue to his true identity when one of the Lost Boys asks Ravello his name: he thinks for a while as if trying to remember, and finally says the name his mother gave him was Crichton, but that names given by mothers don't mean anything.

One of Ravello's trophies was an Eton trophy dated 1894. This is unlikely to be his. It must also be said that Hook in this book denies that he was ever with Blackbeard, claiming that he would never have served such an uneducated man and that all suggestions that he has are merely rumours started by his enemies. Only upon receiving Wendy's kiss, and five weeks' worth of sleep, does the real James Hook again reveal himself.

### **Encounter with Jane Darling: 1940**

During the Blitz, Hook mistakes Wendy's daughter Jane for Wendy and uses her as bait to lure Peter Pan to his death. After this fails, he promises to take Jane home if she will help him find the island's treasure, and "not to harm a single hair on Peter Pan's head". This last promise is kept when he pulls a single hair from Peter's head, declaring "the rest of him is mine". After their defeat he and the crew were pursued into the distance by a giant octopus.(This seemed an odd choice in the film but makes more sense if you remember that the Crocodile is dead by this time(as mentioned above). Unlike in the film however, the octopus did not pursue Hook, it was simply a wild animal that burst out of the water to attack him and was also a threat to Peter.

### **Confrontation with Peter Banning: 1991**

Hook kidnapped the children of the adult Peter(now known as Peter Banning) to lure his arch-enemy back to Neverland and give the middle-aged man three days to rekindle his spirit. Hook has been somewhat depressed since Peter Pan left Neverland to become Peter Banning, and Hook worried he has nothing left to accomplish; he had long since killed the crocodile and made it into a quiet clock tower. Despite killing the crocodile, he remained terrified of a clock's ticking. At Mr. Smee's suggestion, Hook attempted to persuade Peter's children that their father never loved them, in order to coerce them to stay in Neverland. He is successful with Jack, Peter's son, who soon saw Hook as the attentive father figure that Peter has never been. Peter's daughter, Maggie, mistrusted Hook immediately and refused to be swayed. Hook decided to hold Maggie hostage until Peter's failure to rescue her ruined her faith in him. This backfired when Peter and the Lost Boys rescued her immediately. Jack saw Hook stab Rufio to death in a duel and realised how much his father cares for the Lost Boys. Jack turned against Hook and embraced his real father. As Peter left the ship with his children and the Lost Boys, Hook ordered him to come back. Maggie told him off, stating Hook needed a mother to straighten his bad attitude. After Hook vowed to kidnap future generations of children in Peter's family, Peter and Hook engaged in a final duel amidst a circle of Lost Boys, wherein Hook was apparently "eaten" when the crocodile clock tower fell on him.