#multiple fic rec

We both have been blessed with a fandom populated by talented, cruel writers, whose art can inflict as much pleasure as pain. I’m fascinated by the way the same author can move me to tears in both cases :) so to answer your question, I think I do have what you’re looking for, but before we begin, let me remind you to always. check. the. warnings. They are there for a reason and while I’m confidend you’re strong and ready, you may suffer a lot without even realising what’s happening if you don’t prepare yourself. Please, read responsibly.

A State of Constant Departure by @solitary-sister

Summary: Four years after the fall, Will leaves in hopes of growing into someone who can be with Hannibal.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

This is admittedly more nostalgic than heart-destroying, but I personally think there’s more than one way you can interpret the sounds that lets you presume your heart is in pieces. It can crash, of course, but it can also be slowly suffocated under a pillow, just to be rescued at the last moment, before the bitter end. In this case, I’d say the blissful sufferance is not fatal, but a sweet indulgence for your appetite of sorrow and ache.

Carmen Cygni by @slineq

Summary: Will Graham and Beverly Katz are partners running a Private Investigator bureau. Will Graham’s reputation brings Agent Jack Crawford of the FBI to his door, seeking his professional touch in proving that Dr. Hannibal Lecter is the notorious Chesapeake Ripper. Apparently, that involves Will dating the man. Will is not thrilled, until he is. Then everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Beverly Katz, Jack Crawford, Bedelia Du Maurier, Franklyn Froideveaux, Will Graham’s Dogs

This is not strictly going to tear your heart with a powerful move, like other works in this list will, but instead slowly reap your hopes until you think you and Will Graham both didn’t deserve this. It’s a very efficient revisitation of the first season in an alternate universe where Will is a private investigator and Hannibal is partnered with him in the capture of the Chesapeake Ripper. To be fair, you won’t have to worry about not having a happy ending.

Each man kills the thing he loves by @mazephoenix

Summary: Hannibal Lecter killed Will Graham, everyone knows that. Clarice Starling finds out why.

Mature

Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling, Will Graham

This is a very excruciating story from a very interesting writer, who has the tendency to write short stories that leaves you wonder what they could have done to you if they produced more. Hannibal has to announce Will’s death to the rest of the world and to undergo the most terrible sentence: to once again survive his beloved and to live longer than his dear ones, like Mischa before anyone else. Their tags are not particularly specific, so the research might take a while, but this writer produced other works on the same sad lines, if you’re willing to delve in.

Enlightenment by @luvkurai

Summary: Hannibal Lecter claims Will—and broadcasts it to the FBI.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Brian Zeller, Beverly Katz

This work has a bit of the taste which I imagine the first works in this fandom shared. The thrill of Stockholm syndrome, so difficult to mask when you finish the first season and you want to see Hannibal and Will in a relationship. Fortunately we had the second to answer our necessities, but before we could enjoy that, I envision many writers creating works with this kind of atmosphere, where Hannibal is in control, Jack is powerless and Will is letting himself slowly transition from one man to the other, letting himself be controlled by a different manipulator. It’s a painful but necessary passage, an enlightening take on their twisted personalities.

Here With Me by @halotolerant

Summary: The little candles illuminating the bathroom are there because the power’s out. The scent of expensive perfume is because Hannibal can’t wash properly with the bandages still covering his healing wounds – or that’s what they’re saying, not that he won’t even begin to try - and his body odour has gone high and thick, past musk and into something rougher.

Teen And Up

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham

This is another kind of heart-shaking altogether. It keeps you still, fearful to even move, because you perceive the danger and you know better than to escape. The atmosphere is almost lazy, if not for the evident uneasiness in the air. As a reader, you’ll experience here a deluded heart not from the perspective of the sorrowful one, not experiencing first-hand, but instead witnessing the misery of someone affected by such emotion. It certainly is an experience to behold.

Housekeeping by @metaphorgoneawry

Summary: Marriage is a creature living separate from its components. Yet it requires attention, tolerance and care. Have you seen it? Could you recognize its deep wounds - and which one of you inflicted them? And are they ready to heal? What do you really know about this illusory animal?

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Kade Purnell, Beverly Katz, Jack Crawford, Bella Crawford, Brian Zeller, Jimmy Price, Freddie Lounds, Bedelia Du Maurier, Abel Gideon, Alana Bloom, Matthew Brown; Hannigraham, ChillyWilly

If you want to suffer, you can let this awesome writer tear your mind and soul apart with one of their works. One at random, they’re all valid alternatives. I arbitrarily choose this one because I always concentrate on Hannigraham works and this contains other interesting pairings as well, while still fundamentally remaining Hannigraham. This story treats the theme of conjugal infidelty with elegance and cruelty, in a small reality where marriage is maybe more important on a social status than it is in relationship to two persons loving and respecting each other. A work that makes you reflect on the true value of your everyday life, as you requested. I suggest you don’t seek salvation for your poor soul in other works of this author, once you finish this. I did and I lived to regret it.

if you will come all the way down with me by @coloredink

Summary: “This is important to me,” says Hannibal. “You will have to know how to do this, if we are to be together.”

Mature

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Abigail Hobbs

This author uses the fanciful tag “Nothing is Beautiful and Everything Hurts,” which perfectly fulfills its task. You will cry so hard when you finish reading something tagged as such. But it’s ok, you’re here for this. In this very case, Will undergoes an interesting apprenticeship under Hannibal’s tutelage, which mostly envisions touching moments of intimacy and the experience of transforming something beautiful into something edible. An author I would recommend all-round, one of my favourites.

Je me souviens by @avegetariancannibal

Summary: If it meant keeping someone forever, how far would you go? How long would you live?

Explicit

Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham

I have fat tears and wavering lips while I type, after having finished reading it again, so when I say this is a very sad and realistic story I’m probably being reductive. Hannibal has great faith in his memory palace and this story challenges its limits. You may have recognized this author for their previous works, very crack, very funny, very hot. If you read this, you’ll know they’re capable of all that and so much more.

Kiss Me, Liar… by @phenobarbitalfiction

Summary: Hannibal would never again let Will see him, because ultimately, his ability to forgive was finite and he was, intrinsically, sociopathic.

Explicit

Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford

I started reading this without checking the tags and I certainly didn’t expect such a painfully plausible, vivid scenario, especially considering the other works of this very writer. And their personality. I was so shocked it took me some time to start speaking to them again, I’ll admit. This is short, compared to their normal wordcount, but heart-rendering none the same. Will and Hannibal have finally found their happiness far from Jack’s control, but if Will survived the fall, he didn’t his guilty feelings.

Mouth Guard by @cinnamaldeide​

Summary: There were technical devices to ensure the canine growth wouldn’t remain unnoticed in werecreatures and, specifically, werewolves. When their teeth would cyclical lengthen and sharpen, mouth guards were supposed to restrict them, as to give the nocturnal creature the chance to take precautions; one last glimmer of sanity before irredeemably losing control. Will Graham, at one point, lost his own.

Mature

No Archieve Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom, Will Graham’s Dogs, Abigail Hobbs, Donald Sutcliffe

Because what’s the fun if you can’t sneak a self-rec in your own long multiple rec post? When you asked for painful yet beautiful stories, I admittedly didn’t think about mine, but this one in particular has been considered not entirely far from depressing, so I guess you can try and see if this is something you can enjoy. Will becomes a werewolf and Hannibal seems eager to help him settle in his new exciting life.

Time Has Told Me by @zigzag-wanderer

Summary: This was kind of for Halloween? Kind of a vampire fic? Maybe?

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Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom

It would have been so hard to recover from this story if the ending hadn’t been so merciful, so sweet. An incredibly apt work for Halloween, it certainly gave me the chills. Of course, that didn’t stop me from reading, as it shouldn’t stop you. Hannibal has a mighty hunger, an unending crave, and only the suffering of other people seems to relieve it. Meeting Will is only slightly an improvement of the situation. You’ll love it, as you would the rest of this writer’s production.

Warrior by Becks

Summary: After the Minnesota Shrike, Will Graham needs someone to hold him together. Hannibal Lecter steps up for the job – with a few conditions.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford

This work is part of a two-works serie, which in its ensemble could probably stand as the missing connection between the cruel beast that is Hannibal in the books and the aesthetical creature we learned to love in the show. It’s both and the same, and it doesn’t leave you bleeding on the floor, but with an unrecovering mind and no desire to live the rest of your days, which is arguably worse. If you can manage the first work, you should already be craving for the second in any case, but if you still hunger for angst even after that you should start on their incomplete amnesia fic and receive my compliments if you survive.

We, the Common by @thelongcon23

Summary: Hannibal has several trains of thought regarding Will Graham – launched at different velocity - with alternate destinations in mind, and the longer he knows the man the greater the underground network becomes. He starts to regret the first hasty departure (the set-up) but he can’t bring himself to derail it – he’s curious to see how it will end, where those wheels will take him. Humiliation, friendship, matters of family, self-preservation, deception, knowing, acceptance, they all overtake each other - even the black thunder of sadism - but one carriage is light and airy in its tireless journey, always set to Hannibal’s amusement. Come hunt me, he cajoles, watching Will on the podium. Come find me, if you can.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom

This work is not here because it’s omegaverse. It is here because it utterly destroyed me in the best way, because sex is here not an instrument of pleasure, but a means to torture, to exert your power on a vulnerable creature, to bare yourself in turn and see your efforts wasted, to humiliate and to submit. Hannibal is an indomitable omega, as expected of him, and Will is at his mercy as much as Hannibal should be at Will’s. Fortunately for my mental sanity, and probably your own once you finish the first chapter, there’s a second one waiting for you to get back up on your feet.

After the success of this post for @hannibalficwriters and because there’s never enough fic rec posts, I decided to provide another list of stories I personally recommend, this time around focusing my attention on stories which contains supernatural elements. I know anyone can see my bookmarks whenever they want and I know it’s been a while since the last time I did something like this, but the Fannibal Appreciation Day seemed a perfect occasion to remember everybody how much of a beautiful, creative group of writers we are. This is a day to show our love, to send some good vibes, to share our appreciation to those who make this fandom a better place, who dedicate their time to have a good time and improve my own, along with that of many, many other fannibals like me :) This is my humble offering to your talent and to your presence, you gave me something I wouldn’t find anywhere else in the world.

Altered perceptions » Colourless by @mazephoenix

Summary: Since Hannibal vanished Will has lost his ability to see color.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

This brief post-WoTL story portrays the intense ache Will would experience, were he to lose Hannibal after their experience with the Red Dragon. Will could come back home, to his house, to his dogs, eventually to his work, but the world would never be the same. Not without that unique soul that depicted every else in his life in bright light.

Biological Abnormalities » Nature and Nurture (ongoing serie) by @thenecronon

Summary: In which Will’s empathy is more than a quirk of his biology, and his biology is more than human.

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Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Franklyn Froideveaux, Donald Sutcliffe

I learned to love this writer with this amazing, fucked up story, and here I am, coming back at it full force to recommend anyone with a stomach for oviposition to read it and its sequel. Neither Will nor Hannibal know what happens in Will’s body, which regularly sends Will into heat and produces unidentified substances, they just know they’ll see where their close encounter will lead.

Cursed objects » The Feast is Life by @rubybakeneko

Summary: Following an impulsive purchase, Will begins to dream of a man who makes him feel less alone. In time, he realizes that these aren’t just dreams—they’re interactions with someone (or something) real. Hannibal offers Will the possibility of a life together, but it will come at a price.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom, Abigail Hobbs, Will Graham’s Dogs

Will knows loneliness intimately, it has been with him all his life. Presented with the chance to depart from its vicious grip, Will doesn’t realize his desire for companionship is so strong as to make him a vulnerable target for manipulative individuals like Hannibal. He’ll learn that trusting someone that makes you feel right might eventually make you realise how wicked you’ve been all along. 

Devil » Unveiled by @beatricenius

Summary: Hannibal meets a stranger in a bar who claims to be the devil. He just might believe it.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

This delightful story features two non-human creatures exploring intimacy in their human bodies and feelings. The author pictures with clarity the way they study the way the other handles his drink, their lazy chat around something more than a simple rendezvous in an insignificant bar, their dismissive gesture to show it’s not important if, by the end of the night, there’ll be sex at all.

Dragons » Headwaters by @whreflections

Summary: Years ago, Mischa Lecter fled the Nazis with the rest of her family, leaving behind their home, Castle Lecter, and the lesser god that inhabited it- Hannibal, a dark but immensely loyal creature who had served their family for generations. He adored her, more than all the others, and would have kept her with him forever. Instead, he lost her, and has admitted no one to the house since. After his grandmother's death, though, Will Graham doesn't really have anywhere to call home. With all the stories she told him about growing up in Castle Lecter (and about Hannibal, most of all), he can't pass up the chance that he just might belong somewhere after all.

Teen and Up Audience

Graphic Depictions Of Violence 

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Mischa Lecter

I already promoted this beautiful work, but I’ll repeat myself if necessary. This delicate story portrays Hannibal and his painful ties with the Lecter castle he can’t abandon. His loyalty compels him to remain in its domain, where Will is going to find him, so that he’ll be able to put an end to their solitude. Mischa couldn’t remain with him forever, but maybe he’ll not be lonely anymore.

Faeries » My crown on the head of a creature (ongoing) by Mx_Carter

Summary: The faery that calls itself Hannibal Lecter happens across a homeless Will Graham on a cold evening and offers him a bed for the night. Things... escalate.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

In this beautiful, promissing Universe, supernatural elements and suspance mingle in a captivating combination. Will is wary of accepting Hannibal’s ospitality, despite the cold winder freezing his bones. He just doens’t suspect Hannibal’s true nature, which Will knows intimately. If he learned something from his previous experience with faes, it’s that they cannot be trusted.

Familiars » Dodging the dog by @fhimechan

Summary: AU where Will and Hannibal try to kill each other by proxy, but “proxy” means “deadly animals.”

General Audience

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham’s Dogs, Beverly Katz

This certainly isn’t the classic way to murder, for either of our beloved murderers, but I can grant you it would have been a much funnier show if Will started trying to murder Hannibal through unconventional means, like he does in this story. The animals aren’t actual familiars, but their role is quite similiar. Will’s reckoning has never been furrier.

Ghosts » Let us pray that hell may not separate us by @soyonscruels

Summary: “Pure empathy,” says Hannibal Lecter, and it will be some time before he realises his mistake. “Pure empathy,” lies Will Graham, in careful agreement, and knows that it’s only a matter of time before he’s found out. “That must be quite a burden to bear,” says Hannibal, and Will meets his eyes, sips his tea, and knows, for once in his life, that he is not the only liar in the room.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Freddie Lounds, Beverly Katz, Jack Crawford

This delicate rendition of Will’s surreal existence, made up of lies and isolation, shows his deep, twisted desire to stop hiding himself. He’s always been the way he is, able to see without withdrawing, he just needs to find someone to understand him as clearly. Will’s life has been a ghost story, with himself as protagonist, until Hannibal came around.

Kitsunes » Breath and Blood and Burning by @thesilverqueenlady

Summary: It’s true that originally Hannibal had had no intention of interacting with Will Graham besides toying with him for the small pleasure it would bring him before Hannibal moves on to the next skin, the next name, the next tail. And then Will stomps away shouting about field kabuki, and, really, that was too great an opportunity for Hannibal to pass up. So Hannibal does the reasonable thing and starts the arduous process of turning Will into a fellow kitsune.

Teen and Up Audience

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Will’s becoming has always been matter of great interest. Hannibal has tried to show him his great potential with his means. In this story, Hannibal sees in Will the potential to become a secular creature capable of surviving time and changes, if only Will abandons his human nature. Hannibal is eager to bend it, to gain a worthy companion.

Mutants » Lot 166 by @highermagic

Summary:  Mutant trade is a legal activity. Hannibal has never been inclined to buy one for himself, but then Jack asks him to attend a Verger auction to acquire a special asset for the FBI. What he gets is Will, one of Mason’s “Special Projects.” Whether Will can be useful to the FBI remains to be seen, but now Hannibal legally owns a mutant slave, and things promise to get very... messy.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Jack Crawford, Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Margot Verger, Mason Verger, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Jimmy Price, Brian Zeller, Eva, Bedelia Du Maurier, Anthony Dimmond, Doctor Sutcliffe, Francis Dolarhyde, Dr. Cordell Doemling

Hannibal cannot resist his curiosity, when he’s presented with a mysterious individual with no warnings on his label. Hannibal doesn’t know exactly in what’s he’s getting involved, but unraveling Will’s abilities is not as immediate as it would be with other mutants and Hannibal is nothing if not patient, especially if Will proves himself as interesting as he seems.

Powers » To Welcome in the Year by @coloredink

Summary: Dr. Hannibal Lecter can control time in small, localized ways, but he no longer uses it in surgery; Will Graham can repair small objects, but he works for the FBI. It has been winter for as long as anyone can remember. That's how the story begins.

Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs

In this beautiful retelling of the first two seasons, where the use one has for his own ability is more telling than the ability itself, Hannibal is surprised that Will never considered not to use his gift, wasting what good would be lost. A metaphorical scenario where forgiveness comes with the weight of a physical touch and the cold engulfing them both is not merely a figure of speech.

Serendipity » Astronomical Odds by @xzombiexkittenx

Summary: Based on the joke: Picked up a hitchhiker last night. He said, “Thanks! how do you know I’m not a serial killer though?” I replied, “The chances of two serial killers being in the same car are astronomical.”

Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Considering the little chances of such a meeting ever occurring, I deliberately decided that fate has something to do with this fortunate encounter. How else would Will find Hannibal so interesting so soon? Will has never been a fortunate man in his life, if one watches the serie, but in this story he might have the chance to obtain some happines without compromissing his already dark moral.

Time rewind » At First Meeting by @emungere

Summary: Will relives the day he met Hannibal.

Teen And Up Audiences

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Despite the pain, the suffering and the anger that paved Will and Hannibal’s friendship, which Hannibal embraced and fostered much sooner than Will did, there’s not a different world or reality as fulfilling as that where Will ends up in Hannibal’s arms, bloody and victorious. No matter how many opportunities Will had at his disposal. He couldn’t be satisfied with anything less than his version. 

Transformations » Velvet by @avegetariancannibal

Summary: After the fall, a transformation takes place.

Not Rated

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter

Assisting Hannibal in his time of need, bloody and bedridden, Will realizes their survival is real, as are the changings happening to themy. Some manifest themselves more physically cumbersome than others. Will needs more pillows than he expected in his new existence, but it’s ok. Neither Hannibal nor himself are to experience alone whatever the future holds for the both of them.

Vampires » Mythics - Prelude by @bokuno-jinsei

Summary: Will is a hunter of mythical creatures, employed to bring mythics who fail to adhere to the new laws and order of society in to justice. When a falsified contract leads him to Hannibal’s doorstep, however, things become rather complicated. But honestly, when it’s a world of demons and monsters and magic, when are things not complicated?

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Alana Bloom, Jack Crawford

In a darkish steampunk scenario, where Hannibal is a vampire and Will hunts those of his kind, where mythical creature and humans are still to find their balance in a civil society, chaos seems to engulf everyone in its thick fog of confusion. This writer beautifully captures Will’s attempts at navigating his way between subtle lies and unstable suppositions.

Werewolves » Beasts (ongoing) by @aametis

Summary: Hannibal tells a lie about his sex life and has to live with the consequences. Will doesn’t lie but he doesn’t tell the truth either.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Original Male Character

Trusting Hannibal even outside of his psychiatric office, Will decides to show hims something incredible, something rather personal and disturbing to witness. To his luck, Hannibal hardly shies away from what he doesn’t understand. His ability to observe with interest, without judging Will for his choices, is probably everything Will has ever wanted from another human being.

Wishbabies » With a Crown of Stars by @thehoyden

Summary: When the call connects, Will says, “I know what kind of crazy I am, but I’m not this kind of crazy.” “Will?” Dr. Lecter says. “Yes, hi, sorry,” Will says. “It’s me. There’s a baby on my porch.”

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Jack Crawford, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Freddie Lounds, Abel Gideon

When two people want to make a baby and it's not happening biologically, if they wish very, very hard-- well, Will and Hannibal didn’t know, but apparently they wanted one, so here they are and Hannibal suddenly feel like treating that encephalitis. There are in fact means of influence other than violence, family is a concept the both of them need to explore together.

Witches » A Soft Hoodwink of Shadows (serie) by @zigzag-wanderer

Summary: Something a little creepy...

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Will Graham’s Dogs, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Jack Crawford, Original Female Character(s)

The real magic elements in this work are the wonderful descriptions of this impressive, poetic author, whom conjures entire landscapes of green and grim, of silence and mist, the kind where one gets lost and is never to be found again. Will escapes with his daughter somewhere far away, somewhere where strange is normal, but he discovers something stranger waits for him right next door.

This is kind of personal, I included writers with whom I daily interacted, whose beautiful souls I saw, among those who have been in this fandom from the beginning and never left it. I’m just sorry I mostly read Hannigraham and I don’t have more names to offer.

I cannot thank enough all those rebloggers who allowed my followers to know I existed, like @h4nnibalism or @crisisoninfintefandoms, all those gifted authors who help @fhimechan and me with the Accidental Sex initiative, all those artists and groups that provide new material despite our interrupted situation, all those patient readers who comment and like my own works, as well as those considerate souls that actually rec my stories or calling me out on their Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day, like @hannibalsimago and @littlethingwithfeathers, so that I feel appreciated in turn.

Tagged by the lovely @zigzag-wanderer, who gave the most interesting answers :o I hope mine will be at least not boring!

What is your total word count on Ao3? At the moment, around 53500. Wild, isn’t it? How often do you write? I aim to publish twice a month, drabbles aside, so I’m more or less always writing some thing or another. I wouldn’t say it’s any good to the quality of my production, but I certainly keep myself fit entertained :) Do you have a routine for writing? I open my English dictionary, my online translator, my gdoc, my Ao3 account, I systematically end up staring at Tumblr and my work magically appears. What are your favourite kinks/tropes/pairings? Given that I don’t clearly distinguish between kinks and tropes, I’ll say I like Omegaverse, Kid fics, Role reversal, Gentle Dom/sub, Orgasm control, Greek Deities, Different first meeting, Improbable alternate/alternative universe, Crossdressing, Genderswap, fics where characters are animals or asexual. I’m usually not into vampire AUs, but I do make exceptions. For all I might be confused on tropes and kinks, it’s however safe to say my favourite pairing is still Hannigraham :9 Do you have a favourite fic of yours? Rags and Bones has some sentimental value to me, I ruminated on that idea for years before actually writing it on impulse xD What is the the fic with most kudos? Your delight, my tolerance, with 166 kudos, immediately followed by Dropped bites often go uneaten, to my great joy ♥ Anything you don’t like about your writing? I never get commas right, I never seem to have a plot, I never use the right amount of adjectives, I’m incapable of writing porn or more than 3k words on the same subject-- I can keep going.

Stories about female characters are not my forte; I tend to get distracted with gayer themes, so to say, but this doesn’t mean I’m completely unaware of how well described some of our precious, dangerous princesses. This week all my attention is focussed on them ♀

Abigail: Chapter 34 of Eggs in a Basket by @granpappy-winchester

Summary: “Could you maybe write about Abigail living with Hannibal all this time? What did he say to her, what she did when he had people coming over, or when Alana stayed the night?”

General Audience

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs

In the secluted home destined to welcome them as a family, when Will would accept the new lives Hannibal is planning for the three of the, Abigail asks Hannibal how much invested he is in his indisputable crush.

Alana: Chapter 4 of Quick Slick Fic by @shiphitsthefan

Summary: Being an unmateable and infertile beta is dangerous, and Margot’s current fear is justified. It’s a good thing that betas look out for each other.

Teen And Up Audiences

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Alana Bloom, Margot Verger

Despite the unpleasant, possibly dangerous situation, Alana would never turn her back on someone in need of help; Will in the serie, Margot in this collection. She doesn’t survive Hannibal for three seasons just because she’s pretty.

Bedelia: If you come my way by @mazephoenix

Summary: Hannibal loses his memory, and Will remakes him in his own way.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Bedelia Du Maurier

As in the serie, Bedelia takes here the role of the moraly gray accomplice: she supports Will’s decision, amused with his weakness for Hannibal, always aware of how dangerous the situation is, but excited nonetheless.

Beverly: Wolf and I by @t-pock

Summary: Will encounters a creepy stray and discovers the truth about Hannibal.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Beverly Katz, Alana Bloom, Jack Crawford, Brian Zeller, Jommy Price, Will Graham’s Dogs, The Stag

While the rest of the world tries to prove Will is destined to awkwardness for the rest of his life, Beverly encourages him to slowly discover a more animalistic part of himself, confident he’ll feel better when he’ll find the right partner to do so.   

Chiyoh: Beasts of Prey by @xzombiexkittenx

Summary: Chiyoh never saw herself as a caretaker. She was a gamekeeper. She was the guard that kept poachers away from her rare beast. Rare, if not entirely unique, and because of that he was beautiful in the way that an Amur Leopard or a South China tiger is beautiful. Their scarcity, their endangered status, means they must be protected at all costs. She forgave Hannibal his nature and made her own peace.

Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Chiyoh

In this story, Chiyoh saw the beast Hannibal has always been before anyone else: it was wounded and vulnerable, and she didn’t crush it as Bedelia would in her place.

Freddie: Chapter 3 of Omega Point by @suntosirius, @shawarma-palace  

Summary: Will is an engineer in a world where machines are the norm. He runs a black market part shop, designing his own chips and parts for the assistance robots that are common in the city. He is also the owner of one of the last remaining Hannibal models, no longer in production, which he tests all his new inventions and chips on. Including his latest development, the compassion chip. Freddie visits Will and gives him some... friendly advice.

Explicit

Major Character Death

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Freddie Lounds, Beverly Katz, Jimmy Price, Brian Zeller, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Jack Crawford

While her global role in this beautiful non-omegaverse story is extremely ambiguous, this chapter contains one of the most intense description of cruelty for cruelty’s sake I ever read; as I said, her character is not so easily to simplify.

Georgia: Dionysus Hall by @cinnamaldeide

Summary: Omegas are meant to sooth Alphas, to expose the instinctive eagerness to protect rather than the impulse for violence. Jack deems omegan companionship as an appropriate substitute for the professional support to which the Federal Bureau of Investigation would ordinarily resort.

Mature

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Georgia Madchen

In a world that confuses her, Georgia reachs out for stability; murder connected her with Will in the serie, but in another world they could have something else in common. Sorry for the shameless selfrec, I just have a bit of a crush on her.

Margot: Chapter 14 of Dread and Hunger by @elfnerdherder

Summary: AU in which Will receives a secret admirer with a penchant for writing him poetry and slaughtering the innocent in artistic fashions. No one ever told him that courtship was so bloody or appealing -rather, so bloody appealing? He's a part-time bartender that can't catch a break, but at least he has one loyal customer who doesn't seem to mind bouncing from restaurant to bar to restaurant in order to have his favorite drink made by his favorite person. [...]

Mature

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Alana Bloom, Beverly Katz, Dr. Frederick Chilton, Jack Crawford, Abigail Hobbs, Margot Verger, Brian Zeller

The admittedly tense exchanges between Will and Margot, in this delightful chapter, shows her arrogant, almost uncaring nature. But at the end of the night it is her that ensures he doesn’t sleep on the floor.

Murasaki: Portrait of the artist as a young man by @coloredink

Summary: “What is it?” Hannibal asked. “It’s very beautiful.” She placed the paper flat on her lap, above the covers, careful not to smear the pencil with her fingertips. “It’s not,” said Hannibal. “There’s something missing.” Murasaki sighed. “Beauty is always missing. When you find it, it’s only for a moment. The rest of the time, you search.”

Mature

Graphic Descriptions Of Violence

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Bedelia Du Maurier, Lady Murasaki

As Hannibal struggles to define his own concept of beauty, in each and every aspect of his existence, gentle hands guide his impatient research until he meets someone who shares his same tastes.

Reba: Comfort Me with Apples by @emungere

Summary: Chiyoh comes to visit Reba and doesn't quite get around to leaving again.

Teen And Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Chiyoh, Reba McClane

Her experience with Francis taught Reba that she has the willpower to survive the monsters crossing her path. She doesn’t fear them; more often than not, she attracts them because she’s stronger than them.

I know we’re all here for our precious protagonist and cannibalistic antagonist, but this fandom can offers more than stereotype characters and second-hand scraps of female personalities; we should really take advantage of this.

This is one of the most challenging thing I’ve ever done for this fandom; there are so many Alternative Universe stories, some of them are so different from the canonical Vampire AU which every fandom has to offer. I think I’d want to reward the originality, in this case. I tried to organize my reccs in a sort of “alphabetic” order. I didn’t rec the same author twice: I choose only one work per writer, but this doesn’t mean that the one is their best work, their only Alternative Universe or their only work worth reading; on the contrary! This is supposed to encourage the diffusion of different perspective of the same Universe!

Animal Alternative Universe: The One Where Hannibal is a Cat by @coloredink

Summary: Specifically, he’s Alana’s cat. And Graham is Jack’s dog. They meet. That’s it. That’s the story.

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Alana Bloom, Jack Crawford

Generally Animal AUs tend to antropomorphize the characters involved, partly keeping human traits; in this one that’s not the case. This is an interesting asexual interaction between two animals that don’t need to partake the same specie to fluently interact with one another.

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics: Mise en Place by @thehoyden

Summary: Pre-heat left him short-tempered and irritable, even worse than usual, but Hannibal had lingered in his office doorway and said, “Come along, Will. No reason to grade on an empty stomach.”

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham; Hannigraham

Of all the A/B/O I could think about, this one strikes me because it permeates the biological aspect so typical of this genre; I’m not even sure I can consider A/B/O an Alternative Universe, and I’d have gladly chose at least one Omega/Omega and one Alpha/Alpha if I could, but there’s always @hannigram-a-b-o-library to thoroughtly look into the matter.

Birds Alternative Universe: Black Swan by @genufa (Warning: still ongoing!)

Summary: “Don’t say Hannibal,” said Beverly. “I’m saying Hannibal,” Will said. Beverly slumped back in the passenger seat, throwing up her hands. “Swans defend territory, Will! They don’t travel! We’re not talking Garrett Jacob Hobbs killing girls in five states, here!”

Teen and Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Beverly Katz, Brian Zeller, Jimmy Price, Bedelia Du Maurier, Jack Crawford, Mason Verger, Frederick Chilton, Leonard Brauer, Chiyoh; Hannigraham, Marlana

Despite the status of this story, I deem important to include this in the Alternative Universes that this fandom has to offer: the writer takes inspiration from the story of an aggressive swan to recreate his relationship with his momentary attentive and confused keeper, but the magical component renders this work original and worth waiting for the next chapter every time.

Guardian Angels Alternative Universe: Chapter 44 of Eggs in a Basket by @granpappy-winchester

Summary: Guardian Angel AU, where Hannibal and Will are guardian angels whose paths cross on occasion and who have different approaches when it comes to their charges.

Teen and Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Abigail Hobbs, Garret Jacob Hobbs; Hannigraham

It has been so difficult to decide which one of this serie of one-shots to include in this post, but I ended up choosing the one where Will and Hannibal have a philosophical discussion on the meaning of being seen and understood by your beloved; I suggest to read all of them, but this one was particularly well done in my opinion.

Horror Alternative Universe: Fais Do-Do by @moku-youbi

Summary: Will finds himself in need of staying at a comfortable and suspiciously remote bed and breakfast. He doesn’t know that its manager is reluctant to let him leave. (I took the liberty to provide one)

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Mischa Lecter, Jack Crawford; Hannigraham

This is not a typical romantic setting; it makes the skin crawls during the reading, but stopping is impossible until the story is finished. As the reader, Will has no idea of what’s appening until it’s too late but, as the saying goes, it takes one to catch one.

Mall Alternative Universe: Make the Yule-tide Gay by @destinyawakened and an orphan account

Summary: What if Hannibal Lecter was Santa and Will Graham was a Mall Cop? Would Christmas still blow white?

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham; Hannigraham

This whole serie is completely out of every possible projection of the canon Universe, but let’s start from the beginning. Will and Hannibal share the same working environment and a certain propencity for unorthodox festivity celebrations.

Multiple Personality Alternative Universe: Multiplicy (serie) by Not_You

Summary: The one where Hannibal is multiple, not (very) murderous or cannibalistic, and all five of him love Will Graham.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, but there are a lot of them, Will Graham; Hannigraham

In perfect agreement with this writer’s style, this work has a certain sweetness that permeates Will Graham and his life; Hannibal and his disparate selves show how difficult it can be to room with more than one personality and getting romantically involved at the same time, with every one of them.

Pianist Alternative Universe: Unchained melody by @mazephoenix

Summary: Will is a concert pianist who’s retired after an ordeal. His biggest fan comes to offer some comfort.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham; Hannigraham

As so many of the stories this writer created, this work is synthetic but meaningful; the setting recreates a casual encounter between Will and Hannibal in a bar, which evolves in the beginning of their becoming. This is not the only one story I’d suggest of this author, even if I understand their style is peculiar; I enjoy it very much, anyway.

Pokemon Alternative Universe: Chapter 16 of Tasting Flights: Hannibal Drabbles by @unicornmagic

Summary: By request from soundingonlyatnightasyousleep, who wanted a Pokemon AU.

General Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford; Hannigraham

No matter how short this story is, no matter the fact that this writer is talented and came up with works more elaborated than this one, no matter why they did it, no one made an Alterative Universe just as perfect. I fell in love with it. There’s no way I’m recc’ing something else, not for this post. But you should take a look at the rest, because there’s a whole word of words behind that AO3 account.

Pornstars Alternative Universe: Literally Speaking by @halotolerant (Warning: still ongoing!)

Summary: So someone prompted me with: 'could you write some old-fashioned 'Will getting his prostate stimulated for the first time and going completely out of his mind' porn? Please? And I took that and ran with it and wrote 'Will getting his prostate stimulated IN porn AS as a porn actor'...

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham; Hannigraham

This probably started as the classic story of two pornstars ending up with one another, which is what at the time I wanted to read, but then it completely derailed into this perfeclty fitting Alternative Universe where Will is not only getting the abovementioned prostate stimulation, but also some of his personal tragic events of the first serie; this fic made me realize just how sorrowful the encephalis should have been, more than the show itself did.

Post-Apocalypse Alternative Universe: some say in ice by peppermintquartz

Summary: The end of the world came suddenly.

General Audiences

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Will Graham’s dog; Hannigraham

This is beautiful in the sort of hannibalesque way that could lead the intere evolution of Will Graham in a fanfiction instead of three slow burning series: Will has to face the fact that life can suddenly change and moral could slow down his escalating evolution. It’s a cold story, made of snow and estinguishing fire in the chimney, and the writer uses a cold style, where taking a hand in your own can warm you up more than the sun.

Professional Killer Alternative Universe: Cu Sith by @slqtherin

Summary: Verger hires Will Graham, a professional killer, to murder Doctor Hannibal Lecter. Will gets a date with a serial killer instead.

Explicit

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Will Graham’s dog; Hannigraham

Will is equally frustrated and exasperated by his target, and that’s probably the reason why he wants to shoot in his mouth right after their first banter; fortunately that’s not the case. He hopes to profite from the occasion, but things don’t end the way either he nor Hannibal predicted. But you need to read also the sequel to reach this part.

Role Reversal Alternative Universe: Sleeping in the Knife Drawer by @emungere

Summary: Hannibal’s an FBI agent. Will’s a serial killer. He still has a lot of dogs and dislikes being sociable. Hannibal still wants to wind him up and watch him go.

Teen and Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford

In the remote possibility that Will finds the FBI Agent Lecter interesting, he would take much pleasure in not showing him he’s intrigued. That’s what happens in this story, or at least that’s how I see it, because Will probably wants to push away him, for their own good, playing the aggressive psychiatrist, but ends up fashinated with the darkness that Hannibal doesn’t particularly care to hide.

Single Parent Alternative Universe: Pi’s Lullaby by @t-pock (Warning: still ongoing!)

Summary: Will loses his daughter at the mall. Hannibal returns her to him.

Explicit

No Archive Warnings Apply

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Alana Bloom, Aleksandra Graham (Original Character)

Hannibal falls in love with her, first. Then he sees his father and decides that he’s not a man that settles for less than the whole Graham package; that’s how he decides to start his slow pursue of his beloved little family, instead of Will’s darkest inclinations.

SCP Foundation Alternative Universe: Alive Humanoid Sensory Euclid by @berlynn-wohl

Summary: AU in which Will and Hannibal (and Jack) work for the SCP Foundation. This is also a fill for two prompts on the Hannibal kinkmeme.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Jack Crawford, Freddie Lounds; Hannigraham

To be honest, more than the story itself, the Alternative Universe fashinates me, when I think about this fic: the writer revisits with a certain fidelity what happens in the first serie, so it’s not the originality per se that I would recommend in here, so much as the way the author adapts this sci-fi Universe to our fandom. It has been incredible reading all about the eccentric objects that Will and Hannibal daily get in touch with.

Soulmates Alternative Universe: Chapter 4 of Alana Finds Out by @victorineb

Summary: In which Alana and Hannibal don’t match, but someone else does.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Alana Bloom; Hannigraham, Hannibloom

This entire serie is probably the quintessence of what this challenge is about: every chapter has its Universe, its dynamycs, and this one beautifully represents the fact that Alana might be perfect, lovely for anyone, but Hannibal and Will are just too taken from one another to see anyone else; obviously they need incentive to admit it.

Unpleasant Theme Alternative Universe: Yourself and People Like You by @metaphoregoneawry

Summary: Meet someone like you.

Mature

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Frederick Chilton; Hannigraham

I can’t even begin to describe how this story hurts. All over. But this is not a good reason to not read it: their tragic situation can’t end well, the writer promisses suffering and desperation in a subtle, constant way; this doens’t stop Hannibal from trying to grasp what little happiness he can afford in Will.

Zombies Alternative Universe: Hierarchy of Needs by @xzombiexkittenx

Summary: It’s the end of the world and everyone’s immediate needs have changed. It’s also Hannibal’s chance to have everything he wants.

Explicit

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham, Bedelia Du Maurier, Margot Verger, Mason Verger, Judy; Hannigraham, MargotJudy

Instead of a confused battle for surviving, this story describes every stages that the humanity should go through in order to gain what it has lost. Will knows about Hannibal’s proclivities, but he has to adapt to a new world, where being a cannibalistic serial killer doesn’t make him the worst monster in the planet.

I did the ultimate fanfic trope showdown (open blog in new tab to work). Tagged by @niceven-silace, who will be happy to know a werewolf AU has just been produced, if they’re interested :9

Hot Single Parent(s)

Characters Swap Roles AU (I don't mean in the bedroom)

Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time

Unusually Specific Occupation AU, Like, The Author Clearly Has The Same Job

Hurt/Comfort

Seemingly Unrequited Pining

Fake Dating/Fake Marriage Accidentally Turns Into Feelings

A/B/O

Fairy Tale/Mythology AU

Soulmate Identifying Marks (Tattoo, Red Thread of Fate, etc)