Hannigram is not queer bait, Will is
He is the queer at the end of the fishing hook, baiting Hannibal into biting it
it's so funny cause you can see that they never watched the show, cause Hannibal draws self insert art of him and his boyfriend as Patroclus and Aquiles (no gayer thing on earth, but still the least gay thing they did)
Gen Z “Alpha-Bros” on TikTok idolizing Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal and wanting to be just like him is so funny to me because
1) That’s a fag
2) Hannibal would immediately put them on his list, though the meat would probably be too rancid to eat
3) Hannibal’s purest desire in this world is to be Will’s house-wife who wears a cute pink little apron with a bow on it and who always has supper on the table for when his husband gets back from fishing
maybe having Will wake up (after the Verger farm) to Hannibal playing the piano, and realizing why it was tuned..
Also Hannibal lovess the piano and i'm sure he would play something beautiful for Will
I think we as a society need to talk more about the fact that Will owned a piano. We were robbed. We could have had a piano scene.
"Can we move?" Will asked as soon as he entered his and Hannibal's new home.
"We just moved in here. What happened?" Hannibal replied from the kitchen.
"Got caught in small talk with neighbors. They were curious about how a handsome single father like you managed to bring up such a wonderful son."
"I don't have any son." Hannibal said a bit confused. To that, Will sighed.
Hannibal parted his lips as the realization started to sink in.
"No."
"Yes."
"What did you say to that?"
"That you are not my father, obviously. To which they excused themselves and implied that nowadays age gaps between siblings are something usual."
"How vile. Is there a part where they don't call me old or where we are not involved in an incestuous relationship?" Hannibal asked while washing a wine glass.
"I told them you are my partner. And now they are sure we are CEO's or something. I didn't want to say more." Will said as if he was trying to delete the conversation from his brain. "Can we move? Please?"
"You have to learn to be more precise."
"Forgive me, Hannibal, I forgot the gay flag in my car but I promise I will carry it everywhere from now on."
"No, I'm just saying that you are allowed to call me your husband," Hannibal said, "I do refer to you like that."
"I can't see any ring on my finger."
The glass almost slipped into the sink.
"Well, you said we are beyond marriage. You even said that a stupid ring did not stop you from running away from...your previous commitment." He reminded him.
"Then go ahead, tell these religious people we have a gay relationship and that we don't plan to get married. Ever."
"Is living in sin something you are suddenly preoccupied about?" Hannibal teased.
"Is proposing to me something you are terrified of?"
Silence from both.
"Living in sin, Hannibal? Did you really say that?" Will asked, no longer able to keep a serious expression.
"You started talking about religion first," Hannibal replied casually. "And to answer your question, I would rather die than receive another rejection from you."
"You haven't proposed because you believed I would say no." Will reflected. "No, I wouldn't say "no". I said we are beyond marriage because I see us as more than married already. We are committed to each other, aren't we?"
"Will," Hannibal started as the look in his eyes softened, "As soon as these cookies are ready, I am grabbing your hand and we are visiting all the neighbors. And I am introducing you as my husband. I am committed to you eternally with or without a ring."
Will averted his gaze from Hannibal's, a little taken aback by the sincere confession. "We can't even have a proper fight anymore. Disgustingly sweet."
"I could say it all again while holding a knife against your neck."
"I am even more concerned about the fact that I might like that."
(...)
The fact that Jack doesn't talk about the lamb. Cause he is too focused on the fight between him and Hannibal (and the Red Dragon), so he doesn't talk about Will, he doesn't care about Wills perspective or for his well being, for him Will is indeed just a tool, just fine china.
He only cares for Will when he needs to catch something, or someone. Then, he is back on the shelf, not even to be cared for.
But Hannibal reminds him of the Lamb. Cause for Hannibal, Will is extremely important. His becoming is the most important thing in Hannibal's life.
His wrath is not one to be looked over.
And at the end of the day, Will did push himself over the edge. As Jack was way too focused on the "big killers" to not notice him.
God's sacrificial lamb turned to the devil's side.
i love to call Hannibal pathetic for this, cause he is such a calculated man, yet he risks everything for Will
He risks his life, his mind, his freedom
And at the end, he fully lets Will throw him off the cliff, cause he was truly vulnerable to him. And it's something that man would have never done before meeting Will.
With that, it's clear that Will changed Hannibal in so many ways, cause he turned him weak to his emotions, he became empathetic
Sometimes I watch the show and try to think of Hannibal’s perspective and it’s a total trip. Like. Imagine you’ve been able to control and pick and choose your emotions and reactions your whole life, due to being somehow psychopath-adjacent. And the only time you couldn’t was when you were little with your baby sister, and it’s probable that as your brain matured, the possibility of feeling and forming connections like that dried up entirely. You read the psychiatric journals, and occasionally there’s something about a man who can connect with others so deeply he can become an echo of them. And then you meet this man, and he mocks your comment about eye contact while holding yours.
An understanding passes between both of you that you have hidden depths. Instead of killing him, you bring him breakfast, and make him dinner, and serve him drinks. Instead of being able to toy with his mind without a care, you think of him and your chest clenches, and your gut swoops, and his face and voice and his rude little barbs invade your mind like glittering parasites that you can’t remove. These feelings are alien, and they’re also yours. You know, deep down, why you’re letting him live, why you stare after him, why you toe the line of risking it all for him. But you don’t want to face it. It’s terrifying, this horizon of who you are and can be that looms before you with no choice of your own.
Framing him presents a convenient opportunity for ridding yourself of this thing he brings on in you, this total lack of control, this fever-dream surrender that breaches the walls of your mind and the tics and tells of your body so effortlessly— but you miss him. You don’t miss anyone, and the one person you do is more of an imago that never was able to grow into her own real person. But the you you’ve helplessly become certainly does. You’ve become an addict. You cannot let him rot when his presence gave your monochrome world color, you can’t quit the drug you’ve always shunned. This is all a devil’s bargain, certainly, but you’ve already damned yourself, and all that’s left to do is plunge further. Oh and by the way. The infuriating man in question looks like this:
Like okay then, good luck not having the crashout of the century 😭
In my Hozier era if u can’t tell
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I believe Abigail was a representation of a the possibility of a "normal" life for Will and Hannibal, together.
Like, i agree with some people in the thought that they had more of a connection with what she represented, than who she was. The thought of them being together.
Don't get me wrong i do feel like they had a connection with her (Hannibal cause she reminds him of Misha, and Will cause she brings his paternal side). But she was nothing more than a gift, in Hannibal's eyes. Something to give to Will, if he followed him to this life, or to take away if he felt betrayed.
So her death is even more meaningful if you think that it's basically Hannibal saying "If you can't have this life with me, then you can't have this life with anyone else". She dies, and their normal life dies with, like the stag did.
Will tried to keep her alive, cause he wanted that life. But he had been too late to that realization, the realization that he picked Hannibal. And Hannibal took that as him picking Jack
Will hallucinating Abigail was more of him trying to understand why he wanted to go after a man that had done so much harm to him, and to others. He found it hard to accept the fact he wanted to be/ become a terrible man.
Also,, I don't think she would survive a family life with them, she would die in Will's or maybe in Hannibal's hands (possibly as a show how devoted they are to each other, willing to kill).
Because no person can survive their relationship if not themselves.
So yeah, in all probabilities, Abigail (Father's joy), was destined to die in her father's arms, it was just a matter of which one.
OMG I NEED TO WRITE THIS-
hannigram au where you are born knowing your soulmate’s future biggest secret.
will has known his whole life about the "Chesapeake Ripper"-- the serial killer identity of his soulmate. he's had his time to come to terms with it. to accept that he will never be normal; but nor will his soulmate.
and so the first time the name shows up in the papers-- the first time his soulmate's kills appear as glossy exclusives on tattlecrime.com-- will makes goddamn sure that he's the first one assigned to investigate the case.
sometimes i feel like all we need to do to get a hannibal season 4 is just to bother streaming services
like let's comment on Netflix or on Prime's instagram/ twitter account. It's normal behavior for fans
cause all Bryan Fuller need is funding, so let's annoy streaming services until they fund him :)
Things I think happened during season two's therapy sessions/date nights we didn't get to see:
- Fucking, tbh.
- Sleepovers. We see scenes where they are drinking wine and it's raining and dark out, maybe some nights it was too late or the rain or snow was bad so H told Will to stay. He probably left early, maybe even before H woke up, but it could've happened okay??
- H telling Will about Mischa and his parents. We know Will knows more about Mischa because Chiyoh asks him something and he answers like he knows the story, so H told him and the "I let you know me, see me" was waaay too raw so yeah, 100% he opened his heart out to Will about the whole thing. I think Will also told H about his childhood.
- Casual talks about random shit. I bet Will changed the aftershave, or not but I bet they revived that conversation. Or about food preparation, preferences, too, I just know H wanted to know Will's favorite everythings.
- Little touches. Come on, H tucking a lose curl in those fireplace, wine nights? It happened. Will delicately touching H's lower back as he passed by a smaller space.