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Season 3 was one big metaphor for a wedding - Meta
Or my original title: Season 3 tried to warn us for the world's most fucked-up failmarriage. Hear me out on this.
Through small details it becomes clear that s3 is an allegory for Will and Hannibal undergoing every step of marriage, except for the ceremony itself. At its core, a wedding is a moment where two people are tied together for a lifetime, where devotion is put entirely on one person, and where one is supposed to give their soul to their partner. A wedding is merely making all of that official and putting it on paper, so that being unfaithful/unloyal to that promise/the vows made can have consequences.
Hereโs some s3 clues, small and big, that I have found that allude to Hannibal and Will undergoing every aspect of a wedding except for literally doing it:
In all of Willโs hallucinations of Hannibal in s3, Hannibal wears white suits. Which is kind of special, because Hannibal, the real Hannibal, never wears white. The lightest suit colour weโve seen him wear is baby blue with a white tie in s1, but never a white three piece of itself. In Willโs fantasies of Hannibal in s1 and s2, H always wears a suit that he really owns, that Will has copied from reality and pasted into his dreams. That all changes in s3.ย
Will has two types of hallucinations about H in s3. One if moments in which heโs inspecting crime scenes/searching for clues (in Lithuania for example), and imagines Hannibal talking to him/giving council and advice, leading him to finding the right answers. The second is are a more personal, intimate kind of fantasies, where Hannibal is not a mentor/a voice in his head, but something entirely else. There are scenes, much like the kinky murder fantasies in s2, where Will fantasises about them, their relationship, the life they could have had and scenes/moments that happened. The killing Jack/best possible world fantasy in s3a, Will imagining Hannibal making dinner for him when he drugs him in Dolce, their meeting when Hannibal is in prison and the post-credit scene GIF above. In these fantasies, Hannibal ALWAYS wears white/cream/ivory suits. Will is always dressed in darker colours. Itโs kind of literally starting to look like Willโs version of wedding attireโฆ
Also! In WOTL, in real time where they arrive at the cliff together, Hannibal is dressed in his white prison jumpsuit and Will is wearing a white button down with a black jacket on top, his collar peaking out. Itโs kind of a fucked up version of traditional bride/groom colours if you think about it. Put their figurines on top of a cake and nobody would notice.
Then thereโs the way other characters refer to them through marital terms. Used by Will himself, as well. Thereโs Freddie Lounds and her famous โโMurder Husbandsโโ things, literally calling them out on a honeymoon to Italy. And Will and Bedelia! Will is SO stuck up about Bedelia getting to pretend to be Hโs wife in his stead, he literally bitchfights her for it in Florence, and then later in s3b, even though heโs married and has a WHOLE ASS WIFE, he cannot let go of his spite. What does Bedelia do? She backfires by calling Will Hannibalโs wife and bride. โโYouโre the bride of Frankenstein.โโ Will says. โโWeโve both been his bride.โโ Bedelia answers, knowing that she was pretending, but perhaps Will never was. Later, when Will calls her โโBluebeardโs wifeโโ she replies โโIf I am to be Bluebeardโs wife, I would have preferred to be the last.โโ In normal words, sheโs calling Will Hannibalโs last wife/spouse.
Then thereโs Will literally walking down the aisle MULTIPLE times. Hannibal is always standing there with his back towards Will, as Will walks up to him. THREE times this happens in a literal chapel (Both in the Norman chapel and in Hannibal and Willโs interpretation of it in the shared room of the mind palace). Will finds Hannibalโs heart at the altar in 3x02. In 3x08 and 3x13, their first and last meeting in prison, Will finds Hannibal himself at the altar, waiting for him. This same setup is also used in Dolce (3x06), where Hannibal is sitting in front of the Primavera at the Uffizi, his back facing Will, and Will coming in framed by the long hall behind him, sitting down next to H in front of the painting as if itโs actually an altar.ย
Speaking of that scene, their dialogue, to me, seems suspiciously much like wedding vows. Their own extravagant, metaphoric take on it, but definitely romantic enough.
โโWeโve conjoined, Iโm curious if either of us could survive separation.โโ โโYou and I have begun to blur.โโ โโMine? Before you and after you.โโ And obviously: โโIf I saw you everyday forever, Will, I would remember this time.โโ Like WHO are you kidding? And lets not forget this famous scrapped piece of art:
Thereโs their conversations in 3B, too, where theyโre almost bickering like a couple who just went through the worldโs most terrific divorce. The whole deal about family and children. โโIs there a child in your life, Will? I gave you a child, if you recall.โโ Alright? Then H also says โโYou are family, Will.โโ And, well, one usually becomes family after taking a surname and marrying, soโฆย
Also Will referencing Romeo and Juliet when he says โโIโm not fortuneโs fool, Iโm yours.โโ He references Romeoโs line โO, I am fortuneโs fool!โ (act 3, if I remember correctly? been I while since I last read Shakespeare, correct me if I'm wrong). Oooooh, Will, you knew what you were doing. The shortest explanation I can give is that Romeo shouts that after he kills Julietโs cousin after having married her in secret. His rage at Tybalt (the cousin) for killing Mercutio (Romeoโs best friend) was so great that he had no choice but to avenge his friend and kill Tybalt, but it dooms his love for Juliet, because he finally found happiness with her, but then fate made him into a murderer and made sure they could never, politically and personally, be together. AKA, a marriage doomed by the narrative, blablabla. You get what I mean. Either way, Will turns the quote into โโIโm not fortuneโs fool, Iโm yours.โโ Indicating that it was not fate, but Hannibal himself and his own actions, who turned him into a murderer/criminal and doomed their love/marriage.
Iโd advice looking it up on google, kind of complicated to explain Romeo and Juliet here HAHAH.
Anyway, Will sails the Atlantic to find Hannibal. What does that remind us of? Sailor husbands/marines who spend weeks or months on a boat waiting to be reunited with their wives.
Then in 3x07, Hannibal carries Will through the snow bridal style. Which is literally a romance TV trope, though Will looks like a wooden plank (my guy was STIFF in those core muscles, they told hugh to tense up to make it less heavy for Mads I think either way this has me dead every time).
And how about Willโs belly scar? What if, besides a C-section/abortion metaphor, itโs also an allegory for a wedding ring? Hannibal marked Will that way for a reason. Like this, Will is forever tied to Hannibal. Itโs in his skin. He made Will his property with that scar, so that Will and everyone who will ever love him/see him naked, Will see who he really belongs to. Much like a wedding ring. You wear it to show off who you belong to, and Will does just that when he meets Chiyoh and lifts his shirt to show her. Bedelia points it out later, as well, that Hannibal takes delight in having marked Will that way.
Bella and Jack also mirror Hannibal and Will. In 3x04 we see Bellaโs funeral and a flashback of her walking down the aisle to Jack, then Jack walking towards her coffin. With Will and H itโs the other way around. In 3x02 we see Will walking down the aisle towards Hannibalโs โโbrokenโโ (dead) heart. When he touches it, it comes alive. Itโs Jackโs flashback in reverse order. I also made this post: about that scene.
And, though this may be far fetched, I think itโs worth mentioning that Will and Hannibal seem like two men who have never considered themselves (the right people) for marriage in s1 en s2, SUDDENLY after their โโbreakupโโ in Mizumono, they each get themselves โโmarriedโโ. In S3A itโs H with that ring on his finger, though heโs playing pretend, heโs doing it with the only woman who could be a substitute for Will. She was filling Willโs place, since Will was supposed to run away with Hannibal after Mizumono. During his โโmarriageโโ to Bedelia, H was also havingโฆ fun with Anthony Dimmond, AKA Mr. European second-hand Will Graham supreme. When Hannibal โโtakes the ring of his fingerโโ halfway through season 3 and they have their second breakup/divorce, Will is married in the next episode. To, mind you, a woman whose personality could not be further from Hannibal, but who does look like him/resemble him in appearance. Anyway, what Iโm trying to say is that together, Hannibal and Will have worn wedding rings throughout the entirety of s3, just not literally to each other, but metaphoricallyโฆ
And I know that this is crack, but donโt tell me the cliff scene in WOTL isnโt a very brutal wedding night. It literally reminds me of this fucked up scene from Twilight every time AHAHAHA
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Apollo breaking the fourth wall to address his readers is one of my favorite little mannerisms of his and it's something I LOVE to replicate in my fanfics.
It's so cute, but also feels very accurate to the type of literature he would've been involved with in Ancient Greece. The tragedies often begun with the chorus explaining what was going on directly to the audience. Comedies had a "parabasis", or a moment where the chorus would turn to the audience and directly comment on whatever political matter the comedy was satirizing. Just a full on political rant. In Frogs, a comedy by Aristophanes, there's a silly moment where the actor playing Dionysus pleads with the priest of Dionysus- an actual priest to Dionysus, not an actor, who would've traditionally been in the front row because these plays were performed in a festival to Dionysus- to save him.
I can't say whether Rick was actually intending to call back to that sort of thing or if this was just the nature of a first person book (the original series opens up with Percy warning the audience to stop reading if they suspect they might be a demigod, after all), but I really love to think that Apollo was influenced to write this way by the types of epics and poems that he and the Muses were so involved with back in Ancient Greece.
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I'm sorry. All of the people who sleep on Black Friday... what are you doing??
"You think Wiggly can fix this hole, but he can't! It's a trick! That's how he works. He promises to fix all of the holes but he doesn't, and that's why it works on adults. Because you guys have more holes. You need more things and you need it harder."
Are you telling me tell you sat and listened to the same speech I did and the words didn't worm their way into your soul? It didn't change the way you look around at the people in your life and wonder what holes they're trying to fill? That you don't stop and think about how that speech ends?
Wiggly is a fucking lie, and I think you know it, but I think you're scared, because if he's not the answer, then what is?
Are you telling me you don't take a step back and think about the holes you're trying to fill? The lie you might be believing is because you're scared of the truth beneath?
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thats actually so beautiful im in love with the shapes off trees and how clear of a picture i have of this place existing in nature

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i think we as a fandom need to talk more about paulโs floppy hair in npmd
it makes sense that emma was basically giggling and kicking her feet in this scene
choosing to believe there's a timeline where this is a canon boys night
Fucking obsessed with this picture. Its so haunting and yet so beautiful. Paul looks scared and confused but almost accepting of his fate. The piercing blue eyes we always joke about pure black. He looks so alive because of the imperfections but also not real because of the lighting. He is staring right at us like its our fault. Or maybe its us that he's scared of. This is art.
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For anyone still interested in these, this is an update.
Lineart and values have been done but, no joke, I have NO IDEA where to go from here. Color has broken me. Iโve been stumped for so long, leaving them and coming back.
Iโm still extremely proud of where theyโre at. I just donโt know how I want to color or render these. (Feel free to make suggestions.) I just wanted to share them with yโall :)
girl Iโve just finished the final episode of realm I was on the edge of my seat the whole damn hour!!!!!!!!! god I canโt wait for the next series