"a more merciful god"
Hannibal, S2E11 "Ko-No-Mono"
In the “Hannibal” novel, the teacup metaphor is used to describe Hannibal’s desire to invert time and reality and bring Mischa back.
That’s the heavy analogy going on in this scene, Mischa and Abigail as shattered teacups and Will mirroring Hannibal’s grief for his sister. "I wish I could give it back”: in a way, Hannibal is trying to create a reality in which he, as a more merciful God, gives Will his beloved girl back - in which the teacup, at least for Will, is able to "gather itself up again".
Imagine how Hannibal must have felt during Mizumono: forcing Will to re-experience Abigail's death and reliving his own trauma through Will, just when he thought he could have a chance to give Will what he himself would never be able to have back.
Nothing on this planet can convince me that he wasn't a natural born killer. He's fucking smiling, enjoying the blood on his hands, even in his mouth. And then he looks up at Hannibal, as if he's finally seeing him in a new light: he's behind the veils with Hannibal now, and for good.
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.
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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 :)
(apart from the year differences) it would make sense cause both Hannibal and House studied at John's Hopkins medical school and could have known each other.
But i imagine they didn't go to a hospital more like Hannibal called House and House got interested on what happened so he went with Wilson to help them
What if I was insane and said Hannibal x House m.d crossover.
Wilson: They're serial killers House! And not to mention CANNIBALS!?
House: Waste not want not, Wilson
Meanwhile hannigram are vibing as if they're not fresh out of the sea and Will is glaring at anyone and everyone while Hannibal complains about hospital food.
i also like to thing that when Hannibal told Will "i gave you a child" he also meant "i gave you a family" in the way that Hannibal had also been Will's wife
There's something so awfully sinister about the fact that Hannibal was locked up, and content to be so, and didn't try to stir up anything in his time in prison ... until he found out about Molly and Walter. And then he immediately sent someone to kill them. To get rid of them. To destroy this life Will made for himself that did not include Hannibal.
Molly being Will's wife was unacceptable. In fact, Hannibal quite literally couldn't accept it. Whenever he referred to her he always said "the wife". Not "your wife". The wife. Not only is it impersonal and dismissive, it also sounds an awful lot like "the woman you're married to but doesn't hold your heart" sounds an awful lot like "the woman you're married to that can't satisfy you like I can". True homewrecker behaviour Hannibal
And Walter... Walter was just a kid but Hannibal didn't care. Hannibal isn't above killing children, especially this one who dared to fulfil Will's fantasies of being a father that Hannibal felt he had full control and power over. Abigail was conditional on Will behaving (and got taken from Will for his betrayal). Margot's baby had to be gotten rid of because Hannibal hadn't given it to him. Hannibal hadn't given Walter to Will either. He had to be dealt with, just like Margot's baby.
Hannibal is genuinely so awful when he's jealous. We don't see it often - it's usually Will's jealousy that we see (with Alana, Bedelia, Randall etc.) but when Hannibal gets jealous it's terrifying.
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 😭
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.
"Hide us from the wrath of the lamb"
"Meat is back on the menu"
"What a cunning boy you are"
"I don't intent Hannibal to be caught a second time"
"You found religion. Nothing more dangerous than that"
Some of my favourite Hannibal quotes in no specific order
"Eat the rude"
"This is my design"
"It's 07:05 pm. I'm in Baltimore. My name is Will Graham"
"Save yourself, kill them all"
"My compassion for you is inconvenient"
"You and I have begun to blur"
"Peter, is your social worker in that Horse?"
"W: I don't find you that interesting. H: You will"
"I don't want to kill you anymore, Dr. Lecter, not now that I find you finally interesting"
"Meat's back on the menu"
"Someday perhaps, that teacup will come together"
"I transformed my passion for anatomy into the culinary arts"
"I forgive you"
"You might want to crawl back in there, if you know what's good for you"
"Have you seen blood in the full moon. It appears quite black"
"Before we begin, you must all be warned, nothing here is vegetarian"
"Nothing here ... Is vegetarian" (Yes, its twice)
"Did you just smell me?"
"It's beautiful"
"Bonsoir"
"That may have been impulsive"
"It makes us tastier"
"It isn't really smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing for a living"
"See. This is all I ever wanted for you, Will. For both of us."
"You dropped your forgiveness, Will"
"If I saw you every day forever, Will, I would remember this time."
"Going my way?"
"Hello, I love your work"
"I'm not interested in a pissing contest with you, Doctor Lecter"
"The same unfortunate aftershave"
"Eat your nose then"
"I have to eat him"
"W: You called us murdered husbands. F: You did run off to Europe together"
"I believe that's what people call a mic drop"
"I'm not fortunate fool. I am yours"
"H: Stay with me. W: Where else would I go?"
"I never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him"
"I like the smell of urinal cake"
"It's nice to have some friends for dinner"
"I would like to have your wife for dinner"
"When do you deliver your wife to my dinner table?"