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“How is it?”

It took a moment for Will to focus enough to understand Hannibal’s question, let alone respond to it. He was on his back, thighs spread and pressed against the bed by a warm weight on top of him, inside him—all around him, it seemed. His mind was quiet, for once.

“Good, it’s… it feels good,” Will managed, despite feeling too overwhelmed by sensation to have much interest at all in using words.

“You sound surprised,” Hannibal replied, voice infuriatingly controlled even as he buried himself to the hilt inside Will. “Did you expect pain?”

“Pain is always a possibility, with you,” Will groused, somewhat undercut by a thrust hitting just right and ripping a keening noise from somewhere deep inside himself he hadn’t even known existed. 

“Pain is purposeful, Will, when it is between us.” Hannibal’s thrusts were methodical, slow and deep, a soothing rhythm and aching pleasure. “Pain is not an accident or a byproduct. Did you think I would be careless?”

Will shook his head helplessly, annoyed with himself for being so affected—but god, he just wanted to let himself feel something good for once. Perhaps it had been foolish to think that Hannibal would let anything exist between them that was uncomplicated. “It’s not that. I wasn’t afraid of pain. I just… I didn’t know if I’d like it.”

“This was your idea, if I recall correctly.”

“I know, I know,” Will breathed, eyebrows knit with concentration as he searched his increasingly blank mind for the right words. “I wanted it. I just didn’t know if I would like it.”

Hannibal made a considering noise, but seemed to accept that answer and blessedly let the conversation drop. Will was free to drift once again, lulled by the rhythm of Hannibal’s hips meeting his, the puffs of breath against his collarbone. Sweat and precome pooled on his stomach where his hard cock leaked with each thrust, all but forgotten. Every sensation was overwhelming and new; yet, awash with feelings, Will felt safe.

He was a boat, beholden to the whims of the tide, and Hannibal was the sea.

“Please,” Will whispered. 

Hannibal leaned in, sucking a bruising kiss to his neck, and Will saw stars. 

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Im locked in the confinements of my own mind and i have nowhere to put this information but i stand by it, and will continue doing so until i die.

Look at him and tell me you would survive that and NOT dream about it for years to come...You can't.

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Hannibal 2.01 Kaiseki | 3.10 And the Woman Clothed in Sun

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so this has probably already been talked about in great detail since the end of the show (hannibal) but I just did a rewatch and I can't shut up about it. the incredible level of subtle details in this show is already insane but I noticed it much clearer in my rewatch during season 3 part two how quickly we see Will change.

during *The Great Red Dragon*, Will is back to mostly his pre-Hannibal self. We see him married with a family out in the country with his dogs and more specifically his clothes (I am going to be very specific about what he wears in this because it's these details that are so subtle but make his change so much more crispy). He's wearing very practical, warm weather clothes, looks like an outdoorsman.

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is how he shows up to meet Hannibal again for the first time in years. Glasses, coat, clearly clothes he would not think twice about wearing anywhere, kind of like how he dresses in season one. It's also in his expression and his stature (which bless Hugh Dancy for his portrayal of Will because I don't know who else could have done the subtle changes so eloquently)

now let me take you to the episode directly after (And the Woman Clothed with the Sun) he first sees Hannibal and has to come back to talk to him

i'm sorry??? Immediately with the crisp button down, tucked in, with the top buttons undone, hair slicked back, NO GLASSES and look. Look at how he stands and his expression and how comfortable he is, hands in pockets.

okay further evidence. And honestly arguably the scariest piece

it's the dead-eyed stare for me. We all know what happened to Chilton after this, and it's the fact that he knew what he was doing. God, Will was never more like Hannibal than he was at the end of season three. Clothes are not much different on purpose because he's playing the game now.

Sidebar that in almost all the scenes that he's bitchily talking to Bedelia, he's also very well dressed as if he's taking Hannibal's place in his manipulation of her.

By the time we see him in The Wrath of the Lamb, he has already decided that he wants Hannibal back. Vaguely suggesting to Jack to use Hannibal as bait for the Dragon, as if he didn't very well consider all the outcomes would likely lead to Hannibal escaping. The way they're looking conspiratorially at each other in the back of the van. How Will isn't even remotely surprised he walks out unscathed or how he doesn't question letting him drive them to wherever they're going to meet the dragon.

And once they get to the cliffside house, and they get settled and Will?

His shirt is tight, his expression is the SAME as the one Hannibal had in episode ONE season ONE, as he watches Hannibal BLEED OUT and wonders probably what they will do.

There are plenty of ways everyone that worked on this show displayed how Will was changing but I loved how they used his clothes to do it and how Hugh used his expressions to differentiate pre-Hannibal and post-Hannibal Will.

I could write a dissertation on this show it's insane and I will never shut up about my murderous gay husbands.

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Hannibal 2x08 (Su-zakana)

Hannibal 3x07 (Digestivo)

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"It's beautiful."

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a detail that breaks my heart is Will Graham is sitting exactly in the same place where he was laying in "Mizumono"

and the crack in the wall tells us a story - it is a symbol of what happened to Will, how he feels

so beautiful, so tragical

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Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen - Post Mortem interview (2014)

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Hannibal 1.11, "Rôti"

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I want you to know exactly where I am. And where you can always find me.

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"hannibal HATES wills plaids" "hannibal would never let will wear plaid after the fall" hannibal gently dressed will in his softest plaid shirt and tucked him into bed before turning himself in to the fbi when will awoke and rejected him. i dont think he gives a fuck to be honest

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(source for poem: two-bees-poetry)

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sometimes all you need is to age and a new haircut

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I think that we as a fandom focus too much on Will remembering those words Hannibal said to him:

But sleep on those:

Between Savoureux and Yakimono passed at most two months, and Will was in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at that time, so the fact that he remembers those words seems to me to nothing compared to the second ones.

Hannibal said these words to Will while they were eating ortolans together in Ko no mono. Will repeated them to Dolarhyde in The Wrath of the Lamb, a good four years later - after surviving the bloodbath in Hannibal's kitchen, the journey through Europe, Hannibal's trial, his relationship with Molly, and being a stepdad.

Will remembered them. They were so important that he even had to emphasize that those words were said to him.