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Domestic murder family would never work- stay with me now. Will and Abigail's relationship is not what the fandom makes it out to be- stay with me now.
Many of Will and Abigail's interactions are Will’s imagination, meaning it was not accurate to how their relationship actually was. At best Abigail seems weary of Will, at worst she seems scared and uncomfortable around him. Abigail trusted Hannibal more than Will and saw him as more of a father figure for her. She goes to Hannibal multiple times in season one.
We can’t know what she thought of Will during season two, however she seems to be emotional and glad to see him again in Mizumono and tells him she did not know what else to do so she did as Hannibal said, implying a sense of her not wanting to comply and no longer having the same trust in Hannibal after he confessed to being the copycat killer.
Domestic murder family could never work; while I do believe some part of Hannibal did love Abigail and see her as a surrogate daughter, even if he was manipulative and did kill her- but this is my point. While he did love Abigail, he did not love her enough, and was willing to sacrifice her for Will betraying him. She was always going to be used by Hannibal to toy with Will’s feelings, because his feelings for Will were stronger than those for Abigail. Which proves my point that Domestic murder family would never work realistically.
The scene where Hannibal apologizes for taking Abigail away- when Will thought she was dead before Mizumono, did seem sincere to me; he was genuinely sorry. He killed Abigail out of pure hurt and I do not believe he was being rational as he was so deeply betrayed by Will that all he wished to do was to show him how much he had hurt him.
I don’t think Will would ever forgive Hannibal for what he did to Abigail, even post-fall. However he could come to finally accept and make peace with what was done, but he would never forgive Hannibal for it.
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.