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Warning: spoilers obviously.
Anyway, I was just lying in bed trying to sleep, when I began thinking about Hannibal and Willâs intimate interactions. Mostly, their little hugs. You may have noticed that Hannibal does a thing where he puts his hand on the back of Willâs neck and/or his upper back. Exhibit a:
One thing to note is that a majority of the time, Hannibal doesnât initiate this sort of thing. He did this time though, in one way or another. The way it started was him putting his hand on Willâs cheek. This distracted Will enough that Hannibal could stab him. Once he stabbed Will, Will fell into him and dropped his gun, Hannibal then embraced him in a hug. Hannibal shows how much he cares in actions much more than words. He could never outright say he loves Will to his face, save for elaborate metaphors (canât think of an example lol but I know I had one in mind when I originally wrote this), comparisons (where he compared his and Willâs story to that of Achilles and ďżźďżźPatroclus) and public declarations of love (like the heart in Florence or the judge after the trial). He says he loves him by the way he touches him, and I feel that in this way he canât control himself.
I believe Hannibal has never felt any real connection to a sexual/romantic partner, friend, family member etc. This makes it very easy to tell when heâs doing something romantic, comforting or loving, because he simply canât help it or if heâs using it as a weapon.
Hereâs an example of him using tender touches to Will as a weapon:
Here he puts his hand on Will to establish trust. I trust you with the information that Abigail killed Nicholas Boyle and I trust you to keep it a secret that I helped her dispose of his body.
He also weaponises his charm in the form of manipulation as he does this. He tells Will that they are her fathers now and they must do better than Garrett Jacob Hobbs, and that means protecting her from doing jail time which was made impossibly worse by the fact that they hid the body and told no one what they did. If Will took more than a second to think about why he would hide this before falling into Hannibalâs beautiful lies, heâd realise that fatherly instinct be damned, any normal person would have told the feds (assuming Hannibal was telling the truth that Nick attacked them-he isnât though) that it was self defence and his (Nickâs) intention was to kill them. Instead he manages to convince both Will and Abigail that no one would believe her (even with Hannibal as a whiteness) that it was self defence and she would be put away. I believe he tells Will that heâd be âmurdering Abigailâs future,â if he turned this in, which is a very manipulative way of driving home his point. But âruining Abigailâs futureâ was too chill for him I guess.
Next we have when Will was shot:
The way Hannibal touches him was so unnecessary. Hannibal doesnât initiate romantic contact, but when it happens with Will, he canât help himself but to lean into it, to embrace it and enjoy the moment. Hannibal doesnât like touching people enough to initiate physical contact, but the second itâs happening, he leans into it completely and loses himself to the feeling for a short amount of time. He likes how it feels.
Hannibal has two modes when it comes to caring contact, 1. Manipulation, 2. Desperation.
When Hannibal leans into these feelings with Will that he usually neglects and buries, itâs always pure, raw and honest. And he canât help the honesty.
I honestly believe that Hannibal has never felt any real love or compassion for any other human being in his life, so now that he has Will and he feels these feelings for Will that heâs never had the opportunity to feel before, he canât let Will go. Any touch he gets he savours, and he does so without thinking and he does so without control.
Imagine never feeling like youâve ever loved anyone or cared for anyone before, and suddenly someone makes you feel not only that, but makes you feel comfortable. Suddenly you have somebody that makes you feel like you want to be close to them. Hannibal finally found something in Will that made him feel compassion for somebody, ANYBODY. Will is special, and so is Hannibal, because Will canât give Hannibal up and Hannibal canât give Will up.
Thereâs also a moment where I believe that Hannibal is so overcome by joy and celebration at the way Will is turning out that he couldnât help but touch him.
Will had just went to pull the trigger when Hannibal stopped him.
The point was that Will had every intention to kill the man and he really wanted to, he tried but the man was spared by Hannibal. Hannibal canât contain his pride, and then he tells Will that âwith all my knowledge and intrusion, I could never entirely predict you. I can feed the caterpillar, and I can whisper into the chrysalis, but what hatches follows itâs own nature and is beyond me.â Basically saying that Will is growing into something beautiful. And to compare him to a butterfly is actually pretty sweet. Butterflyâs are majestic, beautiful, heâs saying that he adores Will basically lol.
Also the completely over the top, romantic way he checked Willâs temperature.
In conclusion, Hannibal doesnât say âI love youâ when he says I love you. He just doesnât touch anyone else like this. Sure, Alana, but you canât tell me you watched that and thought âthis looks like a genuine, loving relationship. Heâs not just using her to get at everyone, manipulate the situation and make Will jealous. (And of course the reason the entire relationship was created, just for the sex scene when it kinda looks like they all, and more specifically Will and Hannibal, were fucking.)â
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