[ SECRET POST #2709 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2709 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hannibal's...feelings for Will? The feelings that he'd look great on a filet knife?

[(Anonymous)]

Less a feeling than a taste, one might say.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh on the show it's... complicated. Sometimes I think Bryan Fuller ships it more than the fans (and this is coming from someone who doesn't ship it at all.)

You can interpret the interaction between these characters in a LOT of different ways. (Personally, I think he sees Will as his "great work", an attempt to recreate him in his own image, and then destroys him when Will doesn't turn out how he wanted.)

[diet_poison]

Ok, I'm curious. I'm not in the fandom and I doubt I'll ever watch/read any of this, so don't worry about spoiling me.

I get the impression that the two have some kind of relationship (friendly? professional? mentor/mentee? idk) so if Hannibal wanted to eat Will why hasn't he done so already? I mean I've gathered that he makes a habit of eating other people.

[(Anonymous)]

It's professional. Hannibal is Will's psychiatrist, they also sometimes work together (usually solving murders that one or the other of them committed, but sometimes things that other people did).

Hannibal is pretty much a cat. He likes to play with his food, and for a while, Will was entertaining him and Hannibal was having a grand old time seeing how much he could make Will dance. Now...eh. We'll see.

[diet_poison]

Thanks anon :)

[(Anonymous)]

I've only seen a few episodes and even I know that, at least the creators of this show, intend their relationship to be deeper than "yum, food." Hannibal's actor even said that his character cares about Will, or something. In a weird sociopath way, granted, but yeah.

[purpleseas]

It's nonsense. Hannibal has been uniquely fixated on Will from the beginning and wants Will as his companion and partner in crime, not his dinner. He eats random people for what are usually hilariously petty revenge-fantasy reasons (I still want to know what the IT guy did, we only saw his business card in a montage) and doesn't bother to spend much time or effort interacting with them as people, much less try to become their mentor and the center of their world, as he's done with Will. There's a popular interpretation of Hannibal as this generic emotionless psychopath that's not supported by canon, TPTB, or the cast. He's so much weirder and more interesting than that. Will understands murder/murderers in a unique empathic way and has a real dark side that Hannibal just loves and sees as great unrealized potential, but he doesn't actually want to be Hannibal's forever murderfriend, so he tried unsuccessfully to get Hannibal caught at the end of this season (which Hannibal reacted to very violently but also very emotionally) and will most likely follow through next season. In which case Hannibal probably would give a little thought to eating him out of anger and revenge. But killing Will would be giving up on him for good, which TPTB have said he'll never do. He's evil, he enjoys what he does and he's generally a happy person, but it's a lonely life. Other killers just aren't good enough to be his friends, as he's told them, lol.

[diet_poison]

ah, I see. So there's more nuance to it than that. Thanks for the clarification.

[(Anonymous)]

I take it you weren't watching the part where he compares the two of them to Achilles and Patroclus? Whether it's sexual or not, Hannibal totally has feelings for Will by the end of Season 2. Denial at this point is kind of hard to reconcile with the text.