#demon logic

You would think that as the Devil, Hannibal would think and act like one. Devils and demons aren’t bound by human logic. They’re bound by their own rules of logic that is incomprehensible to humans. Although Hannibal is entirely capable of thinking in this way and he does, he couldn’t act this way. He had to hide in society to do what he did and maintained the status quo for decades.

The one thing that is remarkable about Will’s influence on Hannibal is he peeled away the layers of his person suit, plucked the celestial feathers from his wings, and exposed him to a line of thinking and acting that is ironically and actually more towards his nature. While he was more literal in the things he did as the Chesapeake Ripper, as the Devil, he became much more abstract.

Take for example his promise with Alana. He promised to kill her. If he was the Chesapeake Ripper, he would’ve done just that. Find her, kill her, and then probably eat her and then make her into a tableau.

It’s predictable for those who know his profile as a killer. This is his modus operandi and his design. It’s what’s supposed to happen. It’s what’s expected.

By the time Alana is about to lose her control over Hannibal, she’s fully prepared to go to war with him coming to kill her. It’s what she’s prepped herself for. And it’s what he implies to do to her.

But he drops a bomb shell on her that her line of thinking is incorrect. What was once predictable is now not so predictable. Because Hannibal has now realized something quite dangerous.

He doesn’t really need to kill Alana. She already died in his kitchen long ago. She’s a walking corpse on borrowed time. And that means everything she has now that glitters gold has always belonged to him.

Bedelia’s case is similar in that she knows Hannibal wants to kill and eat her as that’s what he’s been threatening with recipe filled greeting cards for the last three years. It’s a silent promise and also an inevitability. Yet it doesn’t truly scare her, because she knows it’s coming. And she welcomed it in this particular way.

Yet when she realizes what Will is planning to do with Hannibal, she’s shivering in her boots. She knows Hannibal is coming for her, yet when the reality hits her, the anticipation of the unpredictable and the pathological scares her to no end. She rather have it over and done with than have that fear stalk her slowly to her demise.

The more Will creeps into Hannibal’s mind and shows him what he’s capable of, the more he’s inclined to think differently and outside of the box. If he’s the Devil, he should act as such. Ditch the old restrictive way of thinking and do whatever his mind finds to be feasible and possible.

That kind of thinking leaves a lot of ambiguity as to what can happen next to his targets. And that is much more terrifying than them knowing exactly what he’s coming to do. There is no manual or instructions on how to deal with this. It is a new development altogether.

When confronted with the fear and panic of their lives being taken over by a supernatural entity, mortals will attempt to rid themselves of the terror by trying to destroy whatever it is that binds that entity to the mortal realm. It could be a lock of hair, a journal, an amulet, etc.

In Hereditary, the mother Annie attempts to throw her deceased daughter’s sketchbook into the fire when she sees disturbing images in it. She immediately catches fire and recognizes that the book is linked to her and believes her daughter’s spirit is angry with her.

As the plot thickens, she begs her husband, a psychiatrist, to burn the book as she feels that it is the only way to get rid of the demon Paimon that is taking over their lives even at the cost of her own life. But as the book burns, her husband is the one that catches on fire.

No matter how logical a mortal attempts to deal with and fight a demonic supernatural entity, their human logic will always be illogical in the presence of an entity that operates by their own type of logic.

That is that whatever the situation, their choices are not for them to make. And whatever logic they attempt to use to remedy the situation will always be in vain and futile.