[ SECRET POST #3161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3161 ⌋

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

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Re: major spoilers for basically everything

[elaminator]

I meant canon in that they love each other, but not as in "these two are in a traditional relationship and are canonically romantic." There are many ways you can love someone! Now, I think the show does express some (mostly unspoken, though not entirely) romantic feelings with the two, but I'm also aware a lot of it is a matter of interpretation. (Though there are quite a lot of hints.)

And I mentioned that interview in my comment! I feel like Brian is pretty adamant about their relationship being a love story though, even though he seems to have trouble sticking to other details. (Maybe he can't make up his mind, idk.) Like, he says the song written for the episode is a love story, and that he specifically asked the artist to write a love song, then in another interview he says that Hannibal and Will definitely love each but he of course doesn't say it's a romantic kind of love.

Though here he says "It felt like we had to s–t or get off the pot, ultimately, because there had been so much going on between these two men that when Will asks, “Is Hannibal Lecter in love with me?” it is very much about death and the romance between these two men. There is a quality to connections that go above and beyond sexuality. You can have this intimate connection with somebody that then causes you to wonder where the lines of your own sexuality are. And we didn’t quite broach the sexuality. It was certainly suggested, but the love is absolutely on the table. There is love between these two men, and confusion between these two men. We had to articulate it, and the idea for a [potential] Season 4 was an interesting continuation of that, as well as a subversion of it at the same time. So it’s strange to look at [this week’s episode] as a finale, because part of me believes that the most interesting chapter of Will Graham’s story is yet to be told."

Now this doesn't guarantee that he would explore such a thing, but sometimes people do realize they are romantically interested in or attracted to someone they previously wouldn't have considered.