The point of well-written Hannigram fluff, for me, is that two people who have so much wrong with them and their relationship can still find small pockets of happiness. All of the really good fluff that I've read doesn't ignore their personalities or the fundamental antagonism and unease between them: it takes those things, and allows them to be happy even though those things are present.
To me, that's more comforting than fluff about fluffy canons, because... that's how life is. Nothing is ever fully, 100% great. When we, as people find happiness, its always in spite of something. Usually something less monstrous than what Will and Hannibal live "in spite" of, but that just makes it better. If these people, who deserve misery and death, can be happy even just for a little while, then surely there's a chance for the rest of us.
(I don't actually seek out fluff for fluffy canons, because... why would I need it expanded upon via fanfiction that it's possible for fundamentally good people with fundamentally good lives to be happy? I already know that.)
And for me, according to me reading of the show-- which maybe the secret poster would think is "wrong," but I don't really care-- I don't find it unbelievable that pockets of happiness (at least long enough to describe in 5k words or so) could happen and be IC. I'm rewatching the show right now, actually, and something I notice way more the second time is how much, despite everything, these two people just genuinely enjoy each others' company. They spend time with each other when they have no "conniving" reason to do so, they make each other smile even when they're being horrible to each other. In the context of the show, those pockets of joy and friendship only last a few seconds, because that's the pace with which a fast-paced TV episode needs to move. But there's no reason, in the context of fanfic, that we can't zoom in on the friendship and love and joy between them and spend more time on it while still having it happen in the context of a relationship defined, in a general sense, by struggle and antagonism.
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The point of well-written Hannigram fluff, for me, is that two people who have so much wrong with them and their relationship can still find small pockets of happiness. All of the really good fluff that I've read doesn't ignore their personalities or the fundamental antagonism and unease between them: it takes those things, and allows them to be happy even though those things are present.
To me, that's more comforting than fluff about fluffy canons, because... that's how life is. Nothing is ever fully, 100% great. When we, as people find happiness, its always in spite of something. Usually something less monstrous than what Will and Hannibal live "in spite" of, but that just makes it better. If these people, who deserve misery and death, can be happy even just for a little while, then surely there's a chance for the rest of us.
(I don't actually seek out fluff for fluffy canons, because... why would I need it expanded upon via fanfiction that it's possible for fundamentally good people with fundamentally good lives to be happy? I already know that.)
And for me, according to me reading of the show-- which maybe the secret poster would think is "wrong," but I don't really care-- I don't find it unbelievable that pockets of happiness (at least long enough to describe in 5k words or so) could happen and be IC. I'm rewatching the show right now, actually, and something I notice way more the second time is how much, despite everything, these two people just genuinely enjoy each others' company. They spend time with each other when they have no "conniving" reason to do so, they make each other smile even when they're being horrible to each other. In the context of the show, those pockets of joy and friendship only last a few seconds, because that's the pace with which a fast-paced TV episode needs to move. But there's no reason, in the context of fanfic, that we can't zoom in on the friendship and love and joy between them and spend more time on it while still having it happen in the context of a relationship defined, in a general sense, by struggle and antagonism.