holistic binch

tyrelliot + hannigram parallels

Like–ok think about it:

Will doesn’t do friendships/ trust/ dependency in the first season. The only people he’s relatively close to are Alana and Jack (and later Beverly), and both of those are because 1. he works for Jack and in a sense is forced to rely on him in a way, and 2. Alana is constantly fighting to keep herself in a position where Will can rely on her–but he doesn’t give her any slack. (Beverly represents a friendship where she doesn’t ask anything of him aside from companionship–she’s the only healthy friendship he has and it’s not a coincidence that she’s the only one that believes he was framed.)

Hannibal comes in and Will immediately rejects him but–it doesn’t last. 

When Will hears something in his chimney Alana is the first to appear but Will goes to Hannibal. Later on when Will’s got Abel Gideon but he sees Garrett Jacob Hobbes he takes him to Hannibal. When he’s beginning to be terrified of his mental state crumbling he tells Hannibal. When he admits he enjoyed killing GJH it’s to Hannibal. 

In this first season Will genuinely trusts Hannibal and allows himself to genuinely rely on him, which makes his betrayal that much more painful. In the beginning of the second season Will believes that his entire relationship with Hannibal was fabricated as part of Hannibal’s plan to ruin Will and that none of it was real, he thinks Hannibal’s plan overall was to prey on Will’s vulnerability and then rub it in his face with the trial where all the people he thought of as friends turn against him and take the responsibility off of him because they assume they broke him–that he is broken. 

And instead of crumbling Will starts plotting revenge, he tries doing the same thing Hannibal did–forging a “genuine” relationship only to dash it against the rocks in Mizumono. Will plotting with Jack wasn’t about actually catching the Chesapeake Ripper–it was about using Hannibal’s tactic against him. Will molds himself into something irresistible to Hannibal and then when he’s got Hannibal trailing along behind him he drops the trapdoor. 

The only problem is that the same thing happened to Will that happened to Hannibal: they actually do like one another. 

Hannibal meant for his relationship with Will to all be fabricated–but it wasn’t. Will meant for his relationship with Hannibal to be fabricated–but it wasn’t. They’re both just too stubborn to quit their plans so they go all the way through with them. They keep forming an actual relationship from false pretenses and then shattering it. In the third season is the only time they’re on equal footing–both tired of lies and fighting. 

When Hannibal got as close as he did for the lie in the first season he discovered Will’s intrigue and saw the potential for a real equal. When Will got close to Hannibal in the second season he saw that’s what Hannibal really–actually–wanted out of him. In the first season Will is so genuine it’s painful and in the second Hannibal is so genuine it’s painful. The finales of seasons 1 and 2 are tragic because they both find they don’t actually want this outcome anymore but they’ve already committed. Will see’s Hannibal’s heartbreak in Mizumono and tells him “See? This is what it felt like–this is what you did to me.”  

“Did you really think you could change me the way I changed you?” 

2x07 || 2x13

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