boys need to be bloody and pathetic more often . they need to be whiny and whimpery and desperate i think.

no, no. these are horrors beyond your comprehension. i understand them, though. i desire them carnally.

are we ready to talk about how hannibal knew what will might do on that cliff and still decided to sway his bodyweight so that he'd be holding will and taking the brunt of the fall? are we ready to talk about how hard hannibal tried to make sure if anyone survived the fall, it would be will? are we ready to talk about how, in hannibal's eyes, it was divine intervention because will is his god? are we ready to talk about

hey. *reaches for your face without warning and adjusts your glasses* where do you fall on the spectrum?

re-rewatching hannibal and giggling at how easily hannibal folds.

"im not fond of eye contact" folds. "i don't find you interesting" folds. "how does that make you feel?" folds. "when i go into those dark places, i bring something back" folds. threatens him with a gun? folds. manipulates him? folds. gets him to give himself up and go to prison? folds. says his name twice and adds a please in there? believe it or not, folds.

slutty little men with slutty little waists and a tendency of getting covered in blood are my favorite, actually

"this is my favorite part" i say as the goriest, most nausea-inducing, bloody, bone aching and teeth grinding murder begins to play onscreen

seeing hannibal and saltburn trending at the same time is a moment in history actually.

i think the fact that all of abigail’s parallels point towards her being the embodiment of will’s own dark urges (and how she only became a huge part of his life after he opened up that gateway to his becoming [killing hobbs]) yet she still feels the safest with hannibal is something i really like to think about.

like abigail came into her own easily. she gutted nichols without hesitation. she didn’t even think about it. going along with hannibal’s plan to criminalize will for her death (which could be viewed as a DIRECT parallel to when will refuses to intervene with hannibal’s ploy to get chilton arrested). abigail forcing herself into isolation to keep herself safe with hannibal at the same time will was in jail.

yet somehow both versions of will - and by extension the only version of abigail - are drawn to hannibal. both comfort and horror is found there, by both people — and when abigail dies and leaves both halves of will to deal with hannibal, that same fate is sealed for him.

will and abigail are mirrors in the sense that their similarities are what ends up being their dividing point, i think, and i think that’s shown in how the abigail of will’s mind palace would still go with hannibal. i think that’s why the embodiment of will’s self beyond the curtains he presented to the world was abigail — theyre so similar that the thought of finding the parts of himself that he villainized (in himself) in her wasn’t actually concerning. he knew what she was capable of, and what she’d done, but he’d still loved her (and missed her, as seen in his reaction to seeing her again).

also ??? the parallel of abigail being prepared for her funeral / will fighting for his life (being brought back from the brink of death)???

i think abigail’s death played an integral part in his becoming because it was the death of a dividend — removing a part of the equation that he couldn’t identify without identifying himself.

happy ten years, you psycho bitches.

what do you mean you can't see how cannibalism is the purest form of obsession and devotion??? that love is all about mutual consumption??? that you can love without obsession but you can't obsess without love???

it’s been ten years how does this keep happening.

hannibal pulled the most sopping wet, pathetic little meow meow of a man just by murdering a few people, call that the chesapeake rizzer.

my headcanon is that will knew hannibal was in love with him and just wanted bedelia to say it outright because he's a petty bitch.

i think people misinterpret what i mean when i say will is hannibal's god. we know hannibal is a religious man in the sense that he believes in gods, but does not pray to them.

he has intimate knowledge of them, and believes there could be multiple (as shown by his belief in both christian god and in greek mythos), but he doesn't pray, nor show his religion at all. he is a follower with nothing to follow.

he doesn't like playing god with his kills, not at all. he defies him, even, in that regard. so he doesn't believe himself to be god (though there's a certain god complex that comes with being a surgeon).

and he doesn't believe god to be something overarching and narcissistic — he doesn't believe that god sits in wait and watches violence. his god delivers justice and karma, he believes that he has an itch in his palm to destroy those who are unworthy of the life they've been granted (which, of course, is deliciously reminiscent of how hannibal cannibalizes the 'rude'— those he believes have tarnished the life they've been given).

will does that; at first, by his profiling — when he kills hobbs, when he shoots stammetts, even when he showed no hesitation in trying (twice) to shoot hannibal; then after his becoming, when he has no problem tearing into dolarhyde.

i think that's what attracts hannibal to him — he's blunt (not rude, but that's a subject for a whole different post), he's clever, and he's always had the same urges that hannibal has, boiling just beyond the curtains. he wants people to pay for what they do — and it is not biased in the fact that he tries to make hannibal pay before he understands why he does what he does. he, in hannibal's eyes, is the perfect god — swift, unbiased, and angry (hence his illusion to achilles' anger; the halfgod who could not be bested in battle).

will isn't hannibal's god in the sense of "you are the best, you are the greatest and no one can befell you and you are invincible". he's his god in the sense of "you are the personification of my ideals, you are human but divine in the sense that you may be felled, but you do not go down easily, i love you and worship you for that alone".

he doesn't believe that will is better than anyone, or entirely godly — he believes he embraces his human nature and is still powerful.