Once a respectable member of the King's Navy, I eventually turned to piracy after finding out that my king was corrupt, and became pirate captain of the Jolly Roger. After I apparently take a woman named Milah, her husband Rumplestiltskin confronted me but was too cowardly to do anything about it. Years later, after Rumplestiltskin became the Dark One, he saw me and my crew at a tavern and confronted me once again. He challenged me to a sword-fight, and used his dark magic to win. Rumplestiltskin planed on ripping out my heart, until he was confronted by Milah, who had become a pirate. Rumplestiltskin found out that I and Milah were in love, and Milah went with me willingly, hoping to escape being the wife of a coward and explore. Milah offered Rumplestiltskin a magic bean in exchange for mine and Milah's lives. However, when Rumplestiltskin angrily started questioning her, asking her how she could abandon her own son, Milah bitterly replied that she wanted to escape her miserable life, and that she never loved Rumplestiltskin. Furious, Rumplestiltskin ripped out Milah's heart and crushed it, killing her. He then cut off my hand before vanishing. Replacing my hand with a hook, I and my crew sailed to Neverland, vowing revenge against Rumplestiltskin. I worked for Peter Pan, and after a deal gone wrong with the deity Poseidon, I stole Ursula's voice. Eventually, I returned to the Enchanted Forest and allied with Cora Mills just before Cora's daughter Regina unleashed the first Dark Curse. I, Cora and a part of the Enchanted Forest were protected by a forcefield. After the first Dark Curse was broken, I and Cora sought to find a way to travel to Storybrooke, the place that the Dark Curse sent all of the inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest, as I wanted revenge against Rumplestiltskin and Cora wanted to reunite with her daughter. After Snow White and her daughter Emma returned to the Enchanted Forest, I constantly switched alleigances, helping them collect a magic compass from the top of a Giant's Beanstalk, but then stealing an unconscious Aurora's heart in order to stay in an alliance with Cora. Although Emma and Snow returned to Storybrooke, I used a petrified magic bean to create another portal, so that I and Cora traveled to Storybrooke as well. I shot Rumplestiltskin's girlfriend Belle in the shoulder, causing her to fall over the town border and lose her memories, before I was hit by a car belonging to Greg Mendell. I recovered and tracked down Rumplestiltskin - who was looking for his son Baelfire - in Manhattan, and used my poisoned hook in an attempt to kill Rumplestiltskin. I was kidnapped by Baelfire's fiancee Tamara and Greg, and I formed an alliance with them, giving them a powerless Regina for questioning. However, when Tamara and Greg obtained a doomsday device known as the Trigger, I chose to realign my alleigances with Emma, Snow and the others and when Tamara and Greg kidnap Emma's son Henry, I use a magic bean to sail my ship through a portal to Neverland with Emma, Snow, Rumplestiltskin, Regina and David. Due to spending centuries in Neverland, I act as a sort of guide for the others as we journeyed to rescue Henry from the clutches of Peter Pan. It was eventually revealed that I am in love with Emma, and although we kiss once, Emma claimed not to love me back. When we return to Storybrooke, Pan casted a second Dark Curse which spread across Storybrooke and whisks everyone back to the Enchanted Forest, including me. However, Emma and Henry managed to escape the curse, but Regina modified their memories so that they forget all about everything that has happened in Storybrooke, with magic etc. I managed to go to New York when the third Dark Curse takes everyone back to Storybrooke, and convinced Emma to drink a memory potion that restored her memories. Due to her light magic, Emma was believed to be the one destined to defeat Zelena, also known as the Wicked Witch of the West, who wants Snow and David's unborn baby and second child in order to fuel a time-travel ritual. However, Regina was the one to break the curse and defeat Zelena. Although, after Rumplestiltskin killed Zelena, her life essence opens the time-travel portal, and eventually Emma and I are sucked into it. We managed to escape, returning to modern-day Storybrooke and bringing Marian with us. Emma learned that I gave away my ship for a magic bean to find Emma, prompting her to kiss me.
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