Not disagreeing with the first part, one still can be the target and victim of something/someone while not being entirely an innocent little lamb whatsoever, but I think framing all Will is as "intrusive thoughts" as if that was moral OCD he was struggling with, erases the purpose of the show and his own purpose.
I've said it before I know, but this is the mistake the others make too, in the show. They treat Hannibal and Will like ordinary people in an ordinary world (while there is also this debate that those characters also don't belong to this world we live in). That's their fatal mistake and it always costs them highly. It blinds them to what they are capable of, and what they truly think and what they have at core. They are not ordinary, and they are not extraordinary in my opinion in the way a highly intelligent person is. They both are, of course, but that's not the point. They are something out of our understanding. That's a part of why they cannot exist without each other. We all have eyes but Will is the only one with the eyes capable of truly seeing Hannibal and vice versa. They don't see each other in a "oh, I see and get you because I'm very smart and I have an empathy disorder" way. They see each other as in "I see you because I see myself."
That's why Jack suggests Will should cut that part of himself branded by Hannibal out. Why Alana warns him not to let Hannibal in. They try their best to understand but they always fail, not because they are stupid but because the world Hannibal and Will exist in, is entirely different. A bubble existing within this world where their rules, their sight and their understanding applies only. Bedelia was probably the only person who could get slightly closer.
I personally think Will would not last 30 more years suppressing that, swallowing down all he has been and what he craves. It somehow, somewhere leaks eventually. In whatever form that might have been. He wasn't doing well even before Hannibal. Will reshapes those around him in order to get the perfect image of a normal life. I'm not saying he is doing this either out of pure malice or entirely consciously, but one glance at Molly and Walter and you see how different they are when Will is not watching them. Even the marriage he chooses for the sake of living normally after Hannibal is a broken one in some ways. But who knows, he might have been able to manage a somewhat normal life, no matter how miserable and hollow. That's all my thoughts on this.
But the point is that in such stories, with people you can't entirely treat as normal humans who'd feel and be the same way we do (even if we relate to them a lot), their truth and nature will find its way out somehow because they are and always have been more than a simple byproduct of someone's influence or even help. They will eventually find it all beautiful. Even if you try your best at normalcy, even if you want to stay, normalcy will chew you and spit you out. You never belonged to that side of the story to begin with.
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