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the lack of fellow travelers fics on ao3 is seriously hurting my soul bc im hurtling thru that thing and then what am i gonna do with my life
love this more than anything thank you
Will and Hidden Toxic Masculinity
The thing about rewatching Hannibal is that you never stop finding something new every single time. It could be your second rewatch or your 5th, but you always catch something new. In my case, it was the realization of hidden toxic masculinity in Will’s character.
When you think of Will Graham, you don’t immediately think “toxic masculinity”. Most people would think “no way” or if you go to the extreme, “Will? Never!”. I certainly didn’t catch it the first few times around. That is until I broke it down and realized it was hidden underneath all the social awkwardness and isolation. And probably all the gothic mumbo jumbo, yes.
In season one, we’re introduced to a highly intelligent and gifted, yet socially awkward and isolated Will Graham. He seems grumpy and rude, but overall harmless, but is he really? We already see some of Will’s manipulative side straight from the get go when Jack offers him a dream opportunity, but can’t pass the psychiatric evaluation to carry a firearm. Through Alana, he finds a way to try to wiggle his way out of it until he’s placed under Hannibal’s care and basically stomps his feet that he didn’t get what he wanted.
And there it is, the first sign. The sign of entitlement.
The thing about Will’s sense of entitlement is it’s something that evolves with time. In earlier parts of the story, we see it as almost bratty and then it turns into something more of possessive and feral. In most cases, it has to do with relationships, something he’s getting used to and also something he craves. A connection. There is nothing wrong with humans wanting connection with others as it’s natural. But in Will’s case, there’s many signs of crossing and even violating boundaries that makes it inappropriate and toxic. That is that he has a tendency to believe he is entitled to relationships he’s not necessarily entitled to have.
Whether it be with Alana, Abigail, or even Hannibal to a certain degree, you see Will getting offended or defensive when they set clear boundaries and/or have a life outside of him.
With Alana, he persistently pursued a romantic relationship with her and despite their mutual attraction to each other, she did set boundaries. Yet you see him continue to attempt to dismantle them and insist they can work out. Even after the first rejection, he drives miles in the snow to announce to Hannibal that he kissed her and that he’s always wanted to kiss her like she’s a sexual conquest. When she came to visit him later in Quantico, he keeps at it, hoping that she’ll come around and accept his advances and gets disappointed in her once again setting boundaries. When he got arrested and escaped, he practically barged into her home expecting her to automatically defend and believe him. And then again in jail, instead of considering her feelings, he said “Dodged a bullet romantically huh?”when Alana is feeling hurt about his supposed actions. After that, she hard rejected him and made it clear that they absolutely weren’t compatible. Yet when he was released after trying to kill Hannibal, he showed her he had no remorse for his actions and practically expected Alana to thank him for his perceived heroic act. No matter how you see it, these aren’t normal things for someone to do. It’s akin to a dog who kills a squirrel and brings it to his owner’s feet, expecting praise. It is disturbing.
With Abigail, regardless of Hannibal’s influence of nurturing paternal feelings towards Abigail, from the get go, Will sought out a special kind of relationship with her. Despite Abigail insisting him killing her father doesn’t make him her dad, Will continues to pursue her. He kept an idealized image of Abigail inside of his mind and became extremely possessive of that ideal. He claims he had bonded with Abigail, but reality says otherwise. Abigail was terrified of Will and believed he would sell her out even in the end. The only Will that Abigail knew is the version Hannibal had told her about. And he says he would be a good father.
When it comes to Hannibal, the first inclination of this entitlement more or less comes when Will comes to his house unannounced during a dinner party expecting them to be alone. Another time, you see him looking subtly offended that Hannibal would have company other than him and before their scheduled appointment. Although their relationship is slowly growing to one of codependency that Hannibal is nurturing, you still see Will expecting Hannibal to be available to him on his time and expectations. And this is season one people…
When it comes to relationships, you see a growing tendency of Will more or less using people to fulfill a need. This is something Hannibal told him directly when it came to him “choosing” his new family. Whether that be normalcy, acceptance, or filling his mind with palatable fantasies, it isn’t a normal or acceptable type of behavior. A relationship of any kind is a two way conversation and more often than not, you see Will disregarding the conversation and turning it into a monologue. He expects others to cater to adjust to him and his wants. It isn’t fair. But inequity is a large part of Will’s character even till the end.
It isn’t until Mizumono and Primavera that he gets a massive wake up call that he realizes, yes, he is toxic and that his toxicity has heavily harmed others including Hannibal.
Usually this is where someone would realize “Wow, I’m such an asshole” and do some self reflection and maybe try to do better…but this is gothic romance. We all know how these stories work when it comes to that. It’s a winding rollercoaster ride.
this is the funniest thing in the world
I think sometimes people in fandom get mixed up with characters being a bottom/sub and being a twink, which only refers to a skinny body type and sometimes some fem presentation. Example #1 is Will Graham. Where on earth did the “Will Graham is a twink” fan consensus come from…. look at him…. look at him…. Ten thousand apology letters from me to Hannibal, good fuckinh lorddddddd
“I’m a good fisherman, Jack…..” Yeah no kidding, you’ve got a record-breaking trout on the end of that line ffs
today i blocked someone for claiming that hannigram is a ship only liked by straight cis women who fetishize gay men
ABO FICS IN 2025
hey so this is my life
I might fucking have an outline for a goddamn fic only if i have the fucking balls to write and share.
the chick that posted abt hannigram being overrated and supported by women who fetishise gay men being an iwtv fan is just so funny to me
who said something about will graham being super likely to get lyme disease because i have a fic rec for you if you haven’t read it yet or weren’t the one who wrote it yourself because that wouldn’t surprise me and if you Are who wrote it, i’m mad at you
im having so many thoughts about emilia clarke as clarice... i can't stop thinking about her my shayla
in my mind this is how clarice looks when she first meets hannibal/will
vs how she looks when she finds them again in florence ten years later
she loses her cherub cheeks, starts wearing nicer clothes (she can actually afford them now). she holds herself with more confidence. she walks with a little less pep in her step, her job has hardened her. she's matured, and will and hannibal almost don't recognise her as the young fbi trainee that interviewed them all those years ago.
Good morning to everyone except Jack Crawford.
Yeah, even Frederick.
But not you, Jack.
Will Graham scar drawing from a few years back!
Making art of my fav queer ships on Pride Month final part: Hannibal and Will ending it with my absolute favorite one
lmao why did will try to call bedelia out by telling her that she was the bride of frankenstein a few episodes after he was about to run away with hannibal to italy to raise a child together??
i hate to break it to you will but i really don't think SHE'S the bride in this scenario
i physically make this face
me when the fic mentions hannibal not liking the cold
i’m laughing my ass off
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Some more of that Hannibal gamer AU :))
this is absolutely nuts how have i never read it before
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18321098
gurl this fic is short but literally changed my life it is so crazy even by hannibal standards literally peak jealous will i genuinely think about this once a week
THAT WAS HOT AS FUCK THANK YOU
the first time will and hannibal fuck is so nasty btw. it think it'd be like mid-late season one or maybe early season two (just sometime after the s1ep7 ambulance scene) and will would be so distracted lately by the thoughtsTM of hannibal and hes so mad at himself for being distracted (and wanting hannibal of all fucking people) and he goes to one of his sessions and vents a lil about how he cant get into the Killer Of The Week's head because hes so distracted and hannibal draws it out of him that its because of thoughts and feelings he'd been repressing before and will doesnt wanna say exactly WHAT thoughts and feelings so hannibal starts asking questions about symptoms and it starts normal like insomnia, mood swings, loss or gain of appetite, etc but then after a few minutes he looks will in the eyes and says in the slut voice (the same one he had when he compared him and will to achilles and patroclus) 'increased libido?' and will is internally freaking but hes kind of into it so admits to that and hannibal does the whole 'tell me will' thing he does and asks if its more a desire rather than thoughts and will is kinda like 'huh yeah i guess' so hannibal asks the nature of it and at this point will is tired and over it and very horny and looks this man in the eyes and goes 'carnal' and then hannibal smiles and plays along for a minute like he doesnt know before will finally just sighs and goes 'tell me, doctor lector, whats the point in drawing this out?' and hannibals internally torn between the ingrained urge to eat the rude and the ingrained urge to eat out will and says sumn like 'are you trying to admit something, will?' so instead of saying anything else will goes over and kisses him and ends up on the desk and hannibal fucks him as rough as will asks for and its so fucking nasty and hannibal has scratch marks on his shoulders and back and ass at the end and will has bruised hips and hickeys all over his neck and chest and then will just leaves and the next time he comes over hannibal goes 'tell me, will, are you still so distracted?' and will fucks him that time and life is good
somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time
Hannibal and Will are, from the start, way more important to each other than we realise. The entire series is, jokes aside, ultimately really a love story above all else. Here's why:
The very first episode of the series we are introduced to Will Graham, our narrator. Even though the series is called Hannibal, the main character is Will and the series follows him through the events of his life. The funny thing is, the series could have started anywhere. Will's childhood, how he became a profiler, a very important turning point in his life, somewhere during his marriage with Molly, so on and so forth. It could have started anywhere, but no, Will's story starts with the day he meets Hannibal Lecter.
In the end, everything that is shown, everything we see or that is said, loops back to Hannibal. If it's not about Will, then it's about Hannibal. The series starts with a first meeting (which Hugh AKA our romcom king actually called a ''classic rom com setup'') and ends with the supposed ''end'' of their story. Not the end of the Chesapeake Ripper story, not the end of anything else, but the end of Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter. It began with them, it ended with them.
Again I remind you that this story is told mainly from Will's point of view. Almost every part that includes him is about Hannibal, and almost every part that includes Hannibal is somehow about Will. We never get anything about Will's childhood. We never get to know anything about him as a person except for the five year time frame in which the series takes place. Five years where three are not shown. Why? You'd think that if this story was only about Will, we would have gotten scenes from his marriage, from his attempt at healing, from the new home he built, but no. Will rejects Hannibal, and then all of a sudden three years skip by to the day he is pulled back into the darkness. Pulled back right into Hannibal's arms.
The psychological horror and crime were never the most important thing in the series. It's merely the relationship between the two men. Will's story begins and ends with Hannibal, there is no further meaning in explaining or showing anything else. It's only ever Hannibal for him. That's all there is. It's a love story about two people who meet each other, find out their own and one another's true colours along the way, explore and develop their relationship and eventually end up together (in whatever way that may be). Hannibal is a love story before it's anything else, because all it's focussed on is Will and Hannibal's relationship. All other characters and relationships are a metaphor for the two of them and their little world. It's a story about acceptance, understanding and love before it's one about murder and cannibalism. That's what makes the whole thing so weirdly sweet despite the dark and disturbing nature of the show, which is a reflection of the minds of its main characters.
my thoughts exactly
you know this image?
yeah so imagine this with fem! hannibal and will
if fem!hannibal wore makeup she 100% would make an attempt to put some on fem!will
You ever think Hannibal looked at his wedding ring in Florence and pretended he was married to Will?
Even worse, was the ring he gave Bedelia originally meant for Will, and he had to have it resized?
Or is he still carrying Will's with him?
officer graham, new orleans' finest
Will Graham I miss you