Happy beginning with you

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, but ESPECIALLY to my CS Secret Santa, @delightfully-difficult-pirate! I hope you enjoy this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it, and it was so nice getting to know someone new in the fandom! Please excuse my formatting, I had to post mobile!

“You were right,” Elsa says, the hem of her gown swishing softly as she rounds the corner from the kitchen to the living room. “That machine wasn’t very hard to figure out.”

David insults and belittles Killian to his face no less than three times - “If I wanted advice, I doubt I’d take it from a pirate” “What I might have to do [Emma and Snow] wouldn’t approve of”-”But you think I would?” “You spend your whole life as a thieving pirate and the one time I need you to be that guy you get cold feet” - and pretty much asks him to lie to Emma so that he can cover up the fact the he “borrowed” something from her…

And in the end, he apologizes because he understands he was wrong - but the narrative doesn’t paint it as horrible. It just shows a man who was sorrowful and distraught and did a few mistakes because of that. It doesn’t blame David nor sugarcoat Killian’s reactions. Killian is hurt by his words, and we see it, but he doesn’t allow his hurt ego to get the best of him. He tries to convince David to not fall in the same pit Killian fell in the past, but understands that his reasons are valid.

And then, that freaking scene.

Do you realize how important that was? A man cried, out of despair and grief and anger, literally bursting out in sobs and kneeling because he couldn’t handle the emotion. And another man who was just his friend comforted him. There was no “toughen up and be a man”. There was understanding and compassion all because they were friends.

And it’s great and huge because you rarely see that kind of a scene between two men. They were allowed to feel upset but there was also acknowledgement of where the limit lay. Killian swallowed his (significantly less but still) hurt feelings for his friend’s sake and David apologized for hurting him, and in the end it was all well. Things like that can happen between friends, it’s a part of healthy human relationships as long as it’s resolved properly.

that signature pirate family spin

           ｡･:*:･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ Merry Christmas, @forgothatyouexisted ｡･:*:･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

My submission from this past week for OnceFanArtFriday on twitter.

Sadly, it did not place first nor second, but it did make it in the top 10