I Feel Such Deep Love And Hatred Towards Hannibal As A Show.

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

Radiohead is so them

"Post-fall Hannibal would kill Chilton" No he wouldn't.

Hannibal wants Chilton alive, surviving more than living, cause that's the lesson Chilton needed to learn.

Chilton always believed he was in charge of people, that he had power over them. When he truly didn't.

He felt like he had power over the fake Chesapeake ripper, and for that he got his organs removed while awake. He thought he had power over Will, and the fact that Hannibal was the real Chesapeake ripper, and that got him framed and shot by Miriam. Lastly, he thought he had power over the Great Red Dragon, and that got him burnt alive.

He has suffered time and time again, every time because he went against Hannibal, and believed he has power over the situation. But he never truly did.

So he would keep him alive, as a cruel reminder that he is powerless, and that he would be dead if Hannibal wanted to.

Rewatched the pilot; time to rant about foreshadowing

Will wrote a standard monograph on Time of Death by Insect Activity, right? Well, Hannibal likes to use victims body parts to feed snails (i know they are not insects but stay with me rn), enhancing both of their tastes in the process.

Hannibal wrote a paper about the Evolutionary Origins of Social Exclusion, right? Again, Will is a very lonely and isolated person, mainly as a survival mechanism.

What i'm trying to say is: They both wrote about each other without knowing.

They are star crossed lovers, destined soulmates. Even in a world without the other they would search for things alike them.

"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.

Okaaaay time to explore the parallels between Francis Dolarhyde/Reba McClane and Hannibal/Will! ⬇️

In TWOTL, we see Will & Reba talk about what happened with Francis Dolarhyde.

"W: In the end, he couldn't kill you, and couldn't watch you die.

R: I drew a freak.

W: You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man, with a freak on his back. There is nothing wrong with you.

R: I know there's nothing wrong with me. In making friends I try to be wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. I've been with a few. The blind attract them.

W: Not just the blind."

See? "In the end, he couldn't kill you, and couldn't watch you die", and that's true about Hannibal & Will.

The dialogue between Reba & Will reflects how Will used to see himself/his relationship with Hannibal. It reminds us that Will used to be wary, too. Better to be alone than in bad company. Before knowing Hannibal, Will was alone most of the time, and ofc you can choose to be alone because you enjoy it, but I don't think the way Will isolated was entirely joyful. He did it to protect himself. Because he knows that the very way he sees the world can attract people who are dangerous to him, can attract people who "foster codependency". He's seen it before, his "uniqueness" makes him vulnerable.

And for a moment, Will genuinely believed Hannibal was a freak. Once he accepted his true nature, accepted to adapt, evolve, become, once he gave in to his real self, he was able to be at peace with who he is ("There's nothing wrong with you") and with who Hannibal is ("You drew a man, with a freak on his back."). He humanizes Francis, in the same way he humanizes Hannibal.

Also, side note, but the "Not just the blind." line could be a way to refer to Will's empathy. He does see, he sees a lot, he sees too much. And that, too, attracts dangerous people.

In a way, Will and Reba are very much alike, because they were both able to see beyond what's visible, to get to know the person they love. Reba's blindness allowed her to see past Francis' physical appearance which he was insecure about, making him feel seen in a way he craved, feel loved for who he was, just like Will's empathy allowed him to see the art in Hannibal's murders, allowed him to sneak a peek behind the person suit and access who Hannibal truly was.

Later, Will & Francis talk:

And this resonates with Hannigram, too. Francis chose to only share a little, "in a way she could survive". Hannigram didn't. They both let themselves be seen, be known. They both changed the other, and got changed by the other, whether they wanted to or not. "I chose not to change her," said Francis, and I'm not sure neither Will nor Hannibal could have chosen not to change each other. They belong to each other so deeply that they actually don't want to trick the monster inside themselves to let the other survive.

"F: I would like to share.

W: You shared with Reba.

F: I shared with Reba a little, in a way she could survive.

W: You didn't change her.

F: I choose not to change her."

They will change each other so thoroughly, that whatever will come out of their mutual transformation, isn't Will & Hannibal, as separate beings, anymore. They are one. They've consumed each other to the point that survival doesn't matter. They embrace their own nature and each other's nature so entirely, that being together surpasses the mere fact of being alive. Being loved is being changed, and they got changed in the most complete way.

i keep seeing ppl talk about a fic like this, and i think it's a sign for how my fanfic should go

Hannigram fic idea: post fall, they don't fight each other over forgiveness, past events, Abigail or uncertainty over their feelings for each other.

They'll have to prove fate that they are going to stick together and never let go, though, even if their hands are bleeding.

Drawtober Day 4

BURN very fond of how this one came out id like to tweak it abit later and print it out but for today its done!

"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?"

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.