nothingimpossibleonlyimprobable:

emmandhook:

fandomflail:

I love that it is now CANON that Emma’s basically a slob and Killian’s a bit of a neat freak. I’m so here for… 

“Bloody hell, Emma, would it kill you to make the bed once in a while?”
“What’s the point if you’re only going to sleep in it again?”
“That’s daft, Swan, with that logic you shouldn’t be bathing everyday!”
“Maybe I would, if I could get away with it!”
“What?”
“What? Shut UP, Killian.”

Killian be like: 

For real tho, it makes a lot sense. When a man joins to the navy, the 97% of them ends up by having super important routins, strong discipline, a sense of caring and appreciation for things. And let’s not talk about cleaning the house, they want everything done before lunch.
Unlike Emma, she had an unstable childhood, living in different houses where they probably had different ways of thinking or doing stuff. It’s hard to add a good habit that you never had in your life.
I like this contrast between them, it’d be funny to see a domestic scene dealing with these things.
Considering how patient he is with her all I can imagine is him teaching her some silly stuff, like: “Don’t you think this is the best way to fold these clothes?” as he shows her the super militar style of folding clothes.
(I swear is not that good but it’s practical). 

Emma was raised in foster care, she probably didn’t have much, probably had a very small place to keep her stuff, and never was allowed to spread out or claim too much as her own for fear of losing it. Once she learned theft and pickpocketing, “stuff”, to her, was just what you needed to survive, it had little value to her since it had little value to everyone else around her too. Even the car is stolen, just a vehicle, method of transportation and, occasionally, sleeping quarters, and while it was one of her first possessions once freed from prison, soemthing she seems to have taken care of considering what must be the mileage on that thing, it’s still just a “thing” to her.

Now, consider that Killian grew up with literally nothing, no possessions, nothing of his own as an indentured servant on someone else’s merchant ship, trading in food and commodities. The ship he served on eventually went down, all possessions he might have sneakily acquired lost with it as well. From there, he went straight to the Navy where, yes, emphasis is placed on structure and discipline and order, but again he still wouldn’t have much besides for the uniform from the navy and whatever trinkets he might manage to purchase on a midshipman/Lieutenant salary, which isn’t much either.

Once he goes pirate, he suddenly has not only a ship, an entire place to keep the treasures he might decide to acquire from now on, but also memories of his brother and his past as well as a new future. Of course he’d have it neat and orderly, it’s his first time ever having a place of his own, and he gets to show off his treasures to anyone who ventures into his cabin, both for him and most likely in memory of Liam, who never got a chance to have anything of his own. Each and every thing he’s ever owned from then on probably had a specific place, a featured setting in his only home, something that meant a great deal to him, something he was proud of.

Two lost souls, both with very little of their own, but two very different approaches to the value of things, and the care in them. It just fits so perfectly with who they are, and I cry.