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Hannibal (2013-2015)

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Sometimes I think of how Hannibal is often exclusively portrayed or referred to as the cannibal of the show in fandom, and that gets me thinking about Will’s own intense potential for pathological cannibalism. Will is a man who deals with “huge amounts of fear”, as Hannibal said to Jack after he first met him, and that fear is a result of his huge amounts of anger and self-repression. He is wrathful first and a lamb second, by his own design. He was fired from the police force for refusing to pull the trigger on a presumably violent suspect— he later tells Hannibal, shaky, still relative strangers, that killing GJ Hobbs felt “good and powerful.”

He knew what pulling that trigger would awaken. Hannibal asks him if he considers Hobbs his victim, and the answer is a resounding no— Hobbs, in Will’s mind, is “just dead.” Will seemed to deal with his dark urges and disconnection from a normal sense of empathy and feelings for others by isolating himself and allowing others to direct his life for him, stripping himself of control to neuter his dark potential. Even after realizing what Hannibal cooks his meal with, he has no issue coming over for dinner. Even an agent who was pretending at neutrality would likely have huge issues with that if they weren’t disinclined to morality and the intrinsic worth of life already. He licks his Randall-laden fork while staring Hannibal down, seductive. The meat, too, is “just dead”— and by his hands, at his will. He goes above and beyond whenever presented with any excuse, tearing Randall apart for his tableaux, biting out a chunk of Cordell’s cheek to counterbalance his complete loss of autonomy, drugged and restrained.

Will kills for the rush and the power he wields over others while Hannibal kills to make his art, to assert his power over creation. Will taunts people coldly for fun, he fantasizes about gore and bondage. He takes enjoyment in chasing Freddie and sacrificing Chilton, having vendettas against them both for lessening him. Killing his victims isn’t enough of an assertion of his own power and freedom, they have to be completely immobilized, hanging in empty space like shanks of meat. Randall’s suit was his true body as he saw it, Will strung his suit up with chains just as he suspended Chiyoh’s prisoner in ropes. Power and the lack of it are gravitational forces in Will’s life, and pathological cannibalism is notorious for being an ultimate expression of power, the base matter of the unfortunate victim feeding one’s own, allowing one life. Total victory through biological, animal subservience. Will is a fisherman, a dog trainer, a studier of insects. He understands the hierarchy of the food chain.

Bedelia confirms for Will that Hannibal aches for him out of love. Hannibal surrenders on his knees at Will’s rejection, unable to live a life without him. Whatever can pain the Devil and make him kneel to sacrifice his worldly kingdom is something twice as fearful. Will’s a cannibal by the dictionary definition, but so is nearly everyone in the show, ignorantly. What matters more here is that his mindset is already highly conductive to that of cannibalism. He has the same intense drive for claimation and reclamation of power as Hannibal.

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gf was like "can i tell you something weird" and then said that they're into cannibalism as a concept as if they didn't know i have an entire sideblog dedicated to it? 😭😭😭

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"i asked chatgpt—" yeah well i asked will graham and he said "this is my design" and then passed out

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tell me, will. why did you bring me to burger king

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I made a NSFW Hannibal paper doll and dressed him up :)

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“I’d been talking to Lee Pace, actually, about playing the role of the Red Dragon, because Lee and I go way back, and he was very interested in doing so, so I was always thinking Lee was going to do it, and I was poking pins in the “Halt and Catch Fire” voodoo doll hoping that he would be available, but that show came back – which I’m very happy ultimately that it did for everyone involved in it – but I was also shaking my fist at the same time because I wanted to work with Lee again on the show, but once Lee was unavailable I knew exactly who I was going to go to.”

— Bryan Fuller, on initially wanting Lee Pace for the role of Francis Dolarhyde. (x)

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If there's one thing that gives me the ick it's when people paint Will as being much less educated/knowledgeable than Hannibal and give him a distaste for all Hannibal's interest. Some of you act like this man never opened a book. He WROTE and published one?? He has bookshelves full of classical titles in his house (he has a big house. We only ever get to see his living room and kitchen, who knows what kind of study he has that’s filled with books). Including poetry (he has Shakespeare and Wilde on his shelves, who knows what else with less big spine titles). That man has a big house! He doesn't put his bed on the ground floor for no reason. And no, Will wouldn't dislike classical music and neither would he be new to it. He has a piano with sheet music (so actively playing) at home. I wouldn't be surprised if he plays more instruments. Maybe not as obscure as Hannibal's harpsichord and theremin, but more nonetheless. Will likes art, too!!! He knows a couple of things about S. Botticelli, better assume he knows other things, too. He can also cook. Yes, not like Hannibal, but that man wouldn't let Will sous-chef if he was a bad cook no matter how in love he may be with him. There's gotta be some skill to get permission to use Hannibal's kitchen, no matter how pretty someone may be. Hannibal can discuss any subject he wants with Will because he'll catch onto it. I'm not even going to start on the fact that some people act like Will isn't able to keep up with Hannibal's conversations and metaphors. That man bounces them back at him twice as hard. Will Graham. Isn't. Stupid. !!!.

He's not clueless, he's not uncultured, he's not pedestrian. The fact that he prefers a minimal life, masking his knowledge and also his wealth (because he is wealthy, but that's a different story), over Hannibal's eye-catching dramatics doesn't mean that he doesn't have it. Yes, not as much as Hannibal, but they do have similar interests. If anyone would be clueless it's Hannibal, because I can guarantee that man DOESN'T know how to fix a boat motor or utilise fishing gear. They are way more alike than some make them out to be, Hannibal just has a huge amount of theatrics that Will doesn't care for. Hannibal flaunts his personality, Will owns it. That's the difference. 

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Hannibal 2.11 "Kō No Mono"

Hannibal, chapter 48

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Hannibal Lecter x Clarice Starling quotes used in NBC Hannibal 1/?

He looked up and saw her [Clarice] and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes do not carry, and in the sudden quiet of the drawing room, they both heard him take his next breath. "If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time." His dark eyes held her whole. - Hannibal by Thomas Harris

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I could write an essay on this scene. The absolute admiration in his eyes. The smile. The poetic nature of it all. (He's a drama queen by nature as well, but I digress). The way he looks like he just got the air knocked out of him. HE WAS SO IN LOVE IM SICK

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x13 || 3x10 || 3x13

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Tbf Will must have bought his house in like 2008 or even earlier - the house in the photo looks like it recently got remodeled to look as uniform and grey and beige as possible whilst hiking up the price.

I doubt that he paid 1.6 million. Still impressive that he could afford a house, yeah, but he's not filthy rich, not like Hannibal.

people thinking Will is poor as an elite fbi consultant who is the author if a book used in training annnnnd is a leading professor at the academy??? babe he earns around $290k a year with the high profile cases. wake up my man is just a simple man leave him alone with the poor accusations!!

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