Like a shadow that's suspended...

@ondust has so beautifully captured the moment young Hannibal sees Will for the first time. Their connection has, at last, germinated from the seeds planted during Hannibal's illness.

Of course, Hannibal being Hannibal, he had to perfectly coordinate their first face-to-face meeting and plan their first meal.

This is his design!

Chapter 9 will be up shortly!

Did you love Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein? Big fan of the original book? Adore @ondust? Come check out ONLY MONSTERS PLAY GOD.

I'm obsessed with weird old Victorian literature and pulling from the primary sources, mixing Hannigram and my own writing as seamlessly as possible with authors like Shelley and Stoker. I wrote a half-million-word version of Hannigram Dracula, also pulling in references from the Coppola film.

When @ondust approached me about doing a collaborative Frankenstein fic, I was elated. I've never worked exclusively with an artist before and the work they've done is so gorgeous. I'd like to see more traffic and comments about the art, because of all the hard work they've done.

It's not an instant gratification story where Hannigram is going to rail eachother every chapter. If that's your jam, check out my kinktober series LOL. This work is more about worldbuilding and character arcs so that recasting Will and Hannibal as Victor and The Creature makes sense instead of just jamming them into the roles.

I write this way because it gives me a goal with my own reading and research, which brings me a lot of joy. I have a hard time carving out time to read and it's so much easier at the end of a busy day with your kids hanging all over you to just zone out on your phone. But having a collaborator and a readership made me prioritize re-reading Shelley's original novel and then some of the referenced literature in the book and in Shelley's life, like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." It's like I'm in a literature class of one person where I am both the teacher and the student!

Anyway, I hope you'll stop by and catch up on the story. Right now, Will is trapped on the ship stuck in the ice, telling his story to Freddie Lounds. In his recollection, he and Hannibal are 12 and 14, forming an unbreakable bond as children that will be both deepened and sorely tested in the coming story arc.

Come for the literature, stay for the smut!

Chapter 7:  And Listens Like a Three Years’ Child

Hannibal Lecter: Where does the difference between the past and the future come from?

Will Graham: Mine? Before you and after you.

Will backtracks in his origin story, at last recounting the summer his life truly changed. At age 11, he travels to Castle Lecter with his father to restore the great painting of Hannibal the Grim. But the first Lecter he meets is a mischievous little creature named Mischa.