fleshpoesis

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i will never understand people who are put off by the age gap in hannigram mostly because of the obvious reasons (they are both Grown Ass Men & there are so many other things way more fucked up about them) but also because i personally would like it to be worse. i think the well established & respected doctor lecter should be hunting 20 something angel-faced will graham down

youll allow me to return to this concept for a moment. young hugh dancy voted prettiest boy & prettiest girl in oxford playing a will graham that looks entirely out of place in the halls of quantico. people look at him, nervous & hesitant & wide-eyed & see a spring lamb being led to slaughter. they catch a glimpse of him & think he will break the moment hes confronted with the real horror that comes with standing face to face with the worst of humanity. sure, rumour says he is brilliant & he can put pieces together that no one would even consider belong to the same picture, but he will surely not last. except that if anyone bothered to Look they would be able to catch a glimpse of something deep & dark shifting beneath his skin, something thats clawing & aching to be let out. & when hannibal is called to consult on the first real case will is involved in he does what he does best & he Looks, & he is immediately enamoured with what he sees, & he thinks this boy is just begging to be molded & sculptured into something terrible & beautiful. so like the artist he is he takes a chisel & begins to carve. only what comes out of the marble is something he could never have predicted. it is terrible, yes, & it is indisputably beautiful, but for the first time in his life he feels what began as another little project to satiate his curiosity slip entirely out of his control. & he is incredibly pleased

The hints of darker characteristics that we see in Will throughout the show are always so interesting. Baggy clothes hide a muscular physique and the notion of strength. His character lends itself to the acquaintance with something quietly unsettling in their gaze, the stranger’s car idling on the side of a dark road. He openly admits that he looked through Hannibal’s patient notes to read about Margot. “Drinking with a patient?” has the snap of interrogatory jealousy that seems to cool when Hannibal mentions his own therapist, but then he addresses Bedelia by her name and that very title, never mentioned. Alana tells Jack she avoids being alone with Will. “I don’t think we’ve ever been in a room alone together.” She then says she’s never noticed— a lie. Will slowly circles around her in the empty lecture hall. “The Chesapeake Ripper wants to perform. Every brutal choice has elegance, grace.” He gets unusually upset by the notion that the butchery in the hotel bathtub is the Ripper’s work. He spins sentiments over corpses, blasé. “Death makes angels of us all… and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven’s claws.” He casts a long shadow, never erased, even when he lets the glare of conventional society’s light bleach him to the bone…… ideas like Will having a sort of dark parasocial fixation with the Ripper or having been just as invasively obsessed with Hannibal as Hannibal was with him are very tantalizing ones as a result, in my mind

if anybody in the medical malpractice field wants to practice their autopsies i am available and i only charge.twenty bucks

but if you actually think about it, Will was fucking insane in season 3b, like yes I know we know but no you don't get it, he was losing it, my man took one look at that ocean and decided "that's it, today's the day, farewell" like. do you understand how over the goddamn edge he was? he was holding up so well in front of everyone else with his cunty little self but my man was DONE and DONE. do you have any idea of the implications of this on those three years they were apart? the level of depression he experienced? bbg was borderline psychotic by the end of it

also, the way he's just "this felt soso good and I knew it would, I've always known and this is why I have to do this, because I can't never go back or stop, this is why I can't kiss you because if I do then I'm not gonna wanna die and I have to die, but you're coming with me because the world isn't ready for us"

Do you think Will was disappointed they didn’t die? I feel like he’d be grumpy about it and then Hannibal would say something witty and they would be right back in the swing of things (murder)

I think he'd be like "well, I tried, but god didn't want us to die so 🤷 " I think he'd be less apologetic about it cause he did try and if they survived then it's fuck all

Yeah I think Will was very much putting his and Hannibal's existence into the hands of fate. I think if he lived he would finally cast off the part of himself that recoils from the darker part of himself, so he could truly be with Hannibal