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Sorry for taking that long to answer! I didn't at first, because I wanted to think on it, and it turns out I've got so much to think on it I'm losing control XD So:

Deckhand Killian would be the ultimate woobie. He would beg from early on and crawl adorably into fetal position, terrified with his eyes glistening until someone comes to save him... and it's then that you'd see some self-loathing nature come out, as he would try to move away from their touch and sight, thinking that he became enough of a bother without them having to look at his bloody face.

Lieutenant Killian would stand firm. He would cry, though less easily than Deckhand Killian, and he would despair more easily than the others, especially if the bad guys brought in Liam and threatened/tortured him as well. I would love to see him, you know, struggle between the whole "must be good" thinking Killian used to have back then and his want to sass his tormentors and even make them pay for hurting him. And of course, him breaking down - I'd never say no to that.

Original Killian has a lot of things to choose from; his immediate response being to sass his whumpers and try to escape by any means possible, making his escape his top priority so that he won't go mad - makes one wonder what he went through as a child, not being able to escape from the ship while in the middle of the ocean. Anyway, I digress :P The way he'll desperately try to hide his pain, even when it's in excruciating levels, dude, that hanging-from-chains-in-Hades'-lair-and-still-not-screaming will never not give me great whump feels.

For me, Wish!Hook has pretty much everything Original Killian does; but I do want Alice to get in some trouble if only for us to see his reaction. As I said, I believe he'd be more panicked over her than Original Killian would be over Emma, so I'd love to see him like that. There's also the whole poisoned heart angst (and whump! If Alice goes for a hug again) where he was in so much pain he was literally screaming his lungs out, in front of his daughter (whom I'm sure he didn't want to upset) and then spent a few hours being so weak he couldn't even sit up straight. *heart eyes* It's just so beautiful!

Hello Santa! Yes and no. Tumblr didn’t actually eat your ask, just didn’t bother to notify me about it. So I am left to assume it has been sitting lonely and neglected in my inbox without me knowing about it for a while. 

Oooh, favorite moments, where to begin. I mean, there are so many, so I’ll just go with the biggest.

Rumplestiltskin stealing Killian’s heart. Actually that whole arc. I mean, the scene where Rumple takes his heart is so good. Killian’s panic is perfect because even though he is in immediate danger from his lifelong enemy, it’s panic for Emma, not for himself. And Killian insisting that Rumple just get on with it. Because that’s Killian’s standard approach to pain, to get his tormentors to just get to it already, because the sooner it begins, the sooner it ends. (It says a lot about Killian’s early life that he assumes it is never worth hoping for a reprieve instead.) 

And the whole scene with Emma while Killian is being directly controlled by Rumple! I mean, sure, it’s not as overt of whump as some other scenes, no one is even injured, but the moment when Rumple says “love” through Killian’s voice… *shudders* Of all the scenes in this arc, or most of the things we see happen to Killian, this is one of the things I think would have taken him to longest to deal with the psychological damage from it. (A lot of people right now are up in arms about that scene with Gothel, but I could definitely argue that this is the worst case of noncon committed against Killian in canon.)

And of course the scene in the clocktower when Rumple nearly crushes Killian’s heart. Honestly, it’s not just Killian’s pain here, the scene doesn’t focus on that very much. It is the sheer gleeful menace exuded by Rumple. Am I the only one who thinks he would have taken his time crushing Killian’s heart if Belle hadn’t intervened, enjoying the screams of his “oldest friend”? Of course, it could have been improved by letting us see a little more panic from Emma about the fact that the man she loves is about to be murdered in front of her eyes, but we can’t have everything.

Killian’s “death”. Well, I mean, I shouldn’t put it in quotations because he did die. But he got better. (Which is very important.) Actually the near-death scene in Granny’s was also very good, but the scene where Emma had to stab him was amazing. That terrified little smile he gives Emma, trying to reassure her even though he is clearly terrified. Steeling himself for the pain but still crying out when the sword pierces him. The whole scene is heartbreaking, I’m pretty sure I teared up watching it the first several dozen times, but it’s excellent.

The lovely, amazing scenes from the Underworld! Especially Killian suspended over the river. (But why, oh why did they think magical healing was the way to go? We could have had had Emma gently washing away the blood, revealing wounds hidden beneath caked blood and layers of leather. We could have had Liam, furious at the marks of Hades’ torture painted across his brother’s flesh, refusing to work with Hades regardless of the personal consequences.We could have had Killian still limping and hurting, forced to take the time he needed to slowly heal, in mind as well as body. *Adele voice* We could have had it aaaaaallllllllll. But what we had was still pretty impressive.)

And my newly added favorite: Killian’s cursed heart. I don’t know if you are watching S7, but this is such a very good scene. There are so many mixed emotions in that scene. He is so happy to see his daughter again, so sad that the curse on his heart is keeping them apart, and he is so thrilled when he thinks he can hug her again. Which just makes it worse when he is thrown away from her by magic. It’s so rare for something to be so bad that it has Killian Jones flat on his back, screaming. Especially in front of people who he wouldn’t want to worry about him. But he is so completely incapacitated by agony that he can’t even try to stop his daughter from running away.