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Doctor's Medicine || Chapter 11

Hannibal Lecter x Original Character

Word Count: ~2k

CW/TW: NSFW 18+, graphic, disturbing content, dissociation, canon-typical violence.

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They were barely through the second glass when Hannibal tried to change the topic from favourite wine flavours and European countrysides. He lowered the wine from his lips, holding it how a trained hand would. “We’ve yet to touch upon the subject of your parents,” he said abruptly.

“Or yours,” returned Emma with the clashing of her nails against her wine glass resounding loud against the vastness that was Hannibal’s living room and its gothic decadence. The whole place was decadent, an oasis in concrete, filth-filled Baltimore - there was no sensible way that being a psychiatrist paid for this all on its own. It was made clear then that she didn’t know him well at all. Just bits of him.

He took his time drinking, body turned to face her as he sat upright and perfectly poised on the other end of the sofa. The whole time, he sipped while she gulped. Not once had he broken form like a careful man being a gentleman with nothing to give away. “You don’t like opening up, do you?” assumed Emma.

Then it broke briefly. Hannibal looked away from her. She could barely see the look in his eye, but it was clear enough by how he chose to focus on the skulls of dead prey, their lives having been taken away from man to be used as decoration, that he was questioning something. Maybe letting her inside this room while he had still been awake. It wasn’t clear what exactly. It was never always clear with him. Hannibal Lecter, the man who chooses horse hooves for chair feet. The man who designed his living room to be a forest; his hunting grounds. A place meant for calmness or to take home a meal. But she knew she said something he wasn’t expecting.

“Then in that, we share,” came to utter Hannibal unexpectedly.

“I suppose,” responded her. “However, I just simply don’t like getting close to people.” She lingered on him as the open fire painted the contours of his face like it were some greco-roman sculpture. If his head wasn’t so attached to his body she’d donate it to sit amongst the greats at a museum. “… Not anymore.”

“Am I not ‘people’?” asked Hannibal in his usual manner, in his usual way that had you giving more of yourself up to him than he ever would; charming. Hannibal’s words were a bait she openly ate from.

“That’s what I’m trying to figure out.”

His head slanted, ever curious. “And what is your assumption so far?”

The details of his sculpted lines turned less blurred. “A hunter,” she answered, her hand grabbing the back of the sofa between them as her body shifted closer. “You wait. You watch with care. You stand in a world of prey and take the ones you need in search of something, maybe you enjoy it, maybe it brings you calm. Either way, you’re alone.”

“I am?”

“It’s hard to find someone willing to hunt alongside.”

The firewood crackled in the silence where they were at a stand still. Embers broke and sparks flittered, seen reflected in the only clear thing of that man she called a hunter, his eyes. Deep, dark forces of nature. Flecks of red. So much red in them. So… familiar.

A bathtub, marbled by blood spilling, pouring over under my knees. I sit in it. I stare. There’s the body, then me. Fingers dip like toes in water, testing the climate. Eyes float to the surface. Iris of blue turned a glaring red. I bend closer, and it almost bleeds into my own.

A hunger.

That’s what it was. She had seen it before back in that house she was supposed to call home. Years passed where she might have almost forgotten. But, how could she when he was right there in front of her to remind her. Hannibal had that same look in his eyes, she was sure, and not a reflection like Will. Just, similar. Which meant he was one of the only people that understood her and what she felt. He had to. He just—

With a grip larger than her own, Hannibal coerced the half-empty glass from her teetering grasp before she could taint the expensive upholstery or the remnants of his stripped-down suit – in which the shirt (a couple buttons undone) and trousers remained – and there she remained without moving an inch. Any closer and their knees would be touching. Then, a buzzing, tingling. A warmth filled her cheeks. She couldn’t help herself, but what was she doing? She barely knew this man she labelled as a friend mere hours ago.

Embarrassment swallowed whatever feeling she had while reality came rearing its head in. “But, what do I know? Maybe I am just projecting,” Emma stammered and lurched herself back, resting her tiring body over what was her side of the furniture. “Or deflecting the original question. After all, there's a lot of revealing oneself in discussing parentage, no hiding from the truth where the pieces come together. Even when buried, it never dies.” Though she wished it did. Then none of this would ever have happened. No pain. No tragedy. No dead Alex.

The alcohol made light work with her, festering in all the nooks and crannies of her body, and the unrest fashioned lead from her frame as she slumped with a heave, spine curving against the armrest. Emma never believed in spirits, but as her heart felt cold while the tips of her fingers and the fireplace burnt, she might have sworn it was Alex. But she would never be so cruel to leave Emma at odds and staring at where heaven laid between the clouds that was Hannibal's ceiling for an answer. It had been this way not too long ago in the spare bedroom Hannibal had provided. Wide-eyed and brain ticking, she had stared at that ceiling. Unable to sleep, Emma was the one to search for the bottom of a bottle and Hannibal the one who indulged her thirst by uncorking a vintage when he probably shouldn’t have.

“Why are we still awake?” questioned Emma. Why am I alive?

Hannibal’s voice waded through the confused silence like an echo. “I think only you can answer that one.” Followed by the pour of more wine. Drop after drop.

It wasn’t a difficult answer when there was pause and alcohol in the air and the warmth of another who was in reach. She knew, like she had never known before. “… Company,” admitted her with newfound lucidity being consciously aware could never give her. “The world sounds different when I’m with you.”

“What does it sound like?”

“Like… Like a symphony.”

The sofa sighed under the shifting of his weight as she swore he moved closer. “Harmony. When the right notes mix with the right instruments under the direction of the conductor, it is a cacophony of delight that is profound to the senses,” assuaged Hannibal.

Makes a part of you from deep inside feel as if you could finally breathe , added Emma mid-thought.

“Everything in sync. Everything right.”

“See, you understand.” Too drunk with enlightenment under her breath to care, Emma threw herself upright to the rhythm of a bounce and eureka. “You’re the only one who sees me. Is it so bad to want to understand why? To be curious as to what you have buried when you’ve already begun digging up mine? Tell me anything of your parents, then I shall tell you mine. Is that so hard?” pressed Emma as she leaned forward, hunching slightly like a blind beggar to assuage and bend his gaze from above as predators pretending to be as innocent as prey ought to often do. This was the time. She was sure. He’d finally give a little; a test to their bond. To their friendship. Or whatever it was that they had and pretending was friendship. Survival.

He looked at her.

She looked back.

And there was that look again. That hunger . When was the last time either of them had consumed? Too long, but Emma’s hunger was stronger, enough to beat Hannibal by a mile. He sighed through seething teeth. Just this once. That’s all she needed. That’s all she’ll get. “It was snowing the last time I saw them. Our home was covered in thick layers of its pure colour that you could barely see the horizon at dawn. A guise of innocent ongoings, one might say, or the blessing of god,” divulged Hannibbal, straining, like he was slicing off a part of him and serving it up to her raw on a platter. The act softened her. It was the closest she had gotten to understanding him, and sure, he could have been lying to get her to divulge something deeply personal. But only God would do that and he wasn’t God. He was far better than Him.

Emma swallowed the hardened lump of salt in her throat. “There was a storm when my mother was murdered. It flooded our moors like an ocean. No one could leave,” she confessed.

“Did you think it a blessing?” he asked.

“Did you?”

They stared amidst a revealing quiet, their eyes piercing through reflections.

“Death is no blessing. It is just death,” spoke Emma through dry lips, suddenly more thirsty than she’d ever been.

Hannibal slid her lipstick-stained glass across the table. “I find that it is an end and a beginning.”

“That’s one way to think about it, certainly.” Nodded along Emma half-heartedly and took glass to mouth; rapid and fast. Anything to completely satiate herself to completion. It wasn’t often she had told someone about her mother and she did not like this strange feeling that came to occupy her because of it. This bitter bile stuck within her like a rot, like a shame. Her fist clenched the wine glass stem with ferociousness. “I prefer to just let death be death.”

“My, you really are a persistent force in the face of a battle, Emma Darcy,” commented Hannibal, with his sliver of admiration seeming all too genuine.

Suddenly smiling and all too proud, Emma said, “I get that a lot. People are often surprised to find how unwilling I am to lie down and play dead.” She raised her glass almost triumphantly as she pushed down the rising rot.

“And nor should you be forced to be something you are not.” Peering past the lip of the glass, she could see the beginnings of a smug smile like he knew something she didn’t. But, no sooner than downing the wine glass’s remains did the red liquid wash away the sight and her vision blur around the corners with a swallow. Light-headed and weightless. Unaware and buzzing. She didn’t seek to stop. The alcohol numbed the pain of her chrysalis – the pain that followed her existence, the pain she had come to stop. The change that was the end of her. Though it was less of a change or evolution and more of a breaking free from an ill-fitted cage.

“Emma, are you still there?” came the sound of Hannibal’s dulcet voice, distant and far off, ringing and echoing, come to pull her back to the surface.

“Yes.” She tried to follow it. Dragging, squeezing. Rising, and rising, and, then, free. Blinking away an old layer of a blurred world and struggling to centre her body upright, she repeats herself with a newfound conviction. “Yes, I always have been.”

With reality rearing back in, she could feel the palm of his hand on her forehead, the other on the small of her back, as the warmth of his body melding with the closeness of hers. The beginning of early daylight cracked into rays behind Hannibal’s head and seeped into the smile that flitted across his lips. This version of herself, the one that had been begging to be let out – the one that found an easy way through the cracks of drunkenness – owed its life to him, and she matched his delight with awe and thankfulness at her saviour.

#hannibal #fanfiction #fanfic #hannibal nbc #hannibal lecter #hannibal fanfic #hannibal fanfiction #hannibal lecter fanfiction #nbc hannibal #hannibal x oc #hannibal x original character

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machiavellli · 4 months

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Emma !! :3

Emma moodboard🍷

Emma is a feminine name derived from the Germanic word “ermen” or “irmen” meaning “whole” or “universal.” In Greek, Emma meaning “blood” is a variant of Emmanuel. In Hebrew, the name stands for “all containing” or “my God has answered.” Emma can also be linked with Emanuel in the Bible, which means “God with us.” It is a diminutive of Amelia or Emmeline.

@moonschocolate this is for you teso.

Mi sono fatta prendere dal significato greco: sangue. Poi ho pensato anche a come significasse anche “intero” e “universale” e non è forse il sangue ad accomunarci tutti? A renderci interi? Riempirci le vene di vita?

That to love is to destroy. Sì. Arrivare appunto al sangue di quella persona, consumarla fino all’osso per poterla comprendere davvero, per poterla assimilare, diventare un intero. Un tutt’uno. L’amore è sangue, l’icona di un cuore non è difatti la sua rappresentazione più universale? Lasciati assorbire, lascia che il tuo sangue tocchi il suo, to love is to destroy, to destroy is to be known to the bone.

(Lo so che ti piace anche a te la metafora di amore come cannibalismo hihi, inoltre ho aggiunto il melograno come simbolo cause why not?)

#tap for better quality!#cosa ho scritto🧍‍♀️💀#blog celebration game #moodboard #emma #red aesthetic

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pwhl-mybeloved · 8 months

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MINNESOTA

Forwards (13) Bryant, Brooke (Aug 22 LEO) Butorac, Claire (Sept 24 LIBRA) Cava, Michela (March 26 ARIES) Coyne Schofield, Kendall (May 25 GEMINI) DeGeorge, Clair (June 7 GEMINI) Fleming, Brittyn (May 24 GEMINI) Heise, Taylor (March 17 PISCES) Křížová, Denisa (November 3, SCORPIO) Kunin, Sophia (April 3 ARIES) Pannek, Kelly (December 29 CAPRICORN) Schepers, Liz (February 13 AQUARIUS) Tapani, Susanna (March 2 PISCES)

Zumwinkle, Grace (April 23 TAURUS)

Defenders (7) Buchbinder, Natalie (January 22 AQUARIUS) Channell, Mellissa (December 16 SAGITTARIUS) Cook, Abby (May 12 TAURUS) Flaherty, Maggie (June 2 GEMINI) Greco, Emma (March 6 PISCES) Kremer, Dominique (June 9 GEMINI) Stecklein, Lee (April 23 TAURUS)

Goaltenders (3) Hensley, Nicole (June 23 CANCER) Leveille, Amanda (June 10 GEMINI) Rooney, Maddie (July 7 CANCER)

(This has been very hastily done on my phone so please correct if you see issues on the roster/dates/etc. Roster sourced from this site which is a lil older so may not be current, I haven’t double checked!!)

#pwhl #pwhl lb #pwhl minnesota #gay nonsense gay news

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grandhotelabyss · 5 months

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most unique character you’ve read?

Thanks, it's an interesting question—and strangely difficult to answer. "Unique" in my personal opinion? Or relative to some historical baseline of common characters? Uniqueness in characters is also hard to get right: too unique and they become unintelligible, or else merely zany. It's a quality gently discouraged by systematizing critics: Marxists who prefer characters to be socially typical, for example, or psychoanalysts or structuralists who'd rather they be mythical or archetypal. But even the pure aesthete has concerns here: a character unique enough to get up and walk out of the book—my own ambition with some of my characters, like Alice Nicchio-Strand of Portraits and Ashes or Ash del Greco of Major Arcana—may violate a book's hard-won sense of accomplished style. So some great prose stylists didn't create terribly unique characters, likely in consequence of their style's very integrity: e.g., Hemingway, Woolf, DeLillo. Melville has a metafictional reflection on the creation of original characters in The Confidence-Man:

As for original characters in fiction, a grateful reader will, on meeting with one, keep the anniversary of that day. True, we sometimes hear of an author who, at one creation, produces some two or three score such characters; it may be possible. But they can hardly be original in the sense that Hamlet is, or Don Quixote, or Milton’s Satan. That is to say, they are not, in a thorough sense, original at all. They are novel, or singular, or striking, or captivating, or all four at once.

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Furthermore, if we consider, what is popularly held to entitle characters in fiction to being deemed original, is but something personal—confined to itself. The character sheds not its characteristic on its surroundings, whereas, the original character, essentially such, is like a revolving Drummond light, raying away from itself all round it—everything is lit by it, everything starts up to it (mark how it is with Hamlet), so that, in certain minds, there follows upon the adequate conception of such a character, an effect, in its way, akin to that which in Genesis attends upon the beginning of things.

Melville created at least two unique characters, though none in The Confidence-Man: Ahab, however derived from the Shakespearean tragic hero, and the much more unprecedented Bartleby, whose baffling quasi-protest spawns the whole universe of Kafka and Beckett. Likewise Dostoevsky's titular idiot Prince Myshkin. Speaking of Shakespearean tragic heroes, Hamlet as tormented and antic intellectual was pretty unique for his time, with only a handful of precedents in Boccaccio or Marlowe. Don Quixote, as Melville mentions, one source of Dostoevsky's idiot. But also for Austen's Emma, who beats Flaubert's Emma by a few decades to become our first inward, domestic Quixote, and the grandmother of all those Henry James and other errant modernist heroines. Speaking of such heroines: Lawrence's Ursula Brangwen, another kind of Austenian granddaughter, on an adventure across classes and continents to discover or disclose the reality of her soul. Conrad's Kurtz, a new type of nightmare: the modern rational utopian gone to the dark side. Leopold Bloom in his cyclopedic modernity, his perverse appetites, his bittersweet kindnesses. And his own descendant, and descendant of the Wildean dandy, too, Djuna Barnes's Dr. Matthew-mighty-grain-of-salt-Dante-O'Connor. If I can switch genres, the speakerly personae of the poems of Whitman and Dickinson, unanticipated variations on the Romantic temperament inaugurated by the aforementioned Hamlet: the poet as democratic man, the poet as modern anchoress. Coming down to our own time, character in literature attenuates, as James Wood once complained, swamped in style and mere knowingness. Morrison's anarch Sula comes to mind, though, and McCarthy's Judge Holden, who is, as someone or other said, less Ahab than the whale. I'm sure I'm missing someone obvious, but that's who I've got right now.

#literary criticism #literature #characters

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nobleriver · 2 years

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tag 9 people you wanna get to know better!

tagged by: @spacewives-in-spacetime in this post (who already knows I'm wordy as crap so all of this is your fault)

three ships: OTP: Doctorriver (from Doctor Who, all incarnations), BatCat (Batman/Catwoman), SasuSaku (Sasuke/Sakura from Naruto/Boruto)

I am a huge romantic. Romance, to some capacity, is required in almost every story I read or watch. As a result, I have a lot of couples I like. But shipping is another level of interest. So I decided to go with these three because I spent the most money on them lol. I've bought comics, audio dramas, books, and boxsets. And for those wondering why I didn't put Klaus/Caroline from TVD...they broke my heart that's why. :(

last song: Over the Love by Florence and the Machine

last movie: Avatar 2

currently reading: *takes a deep breath*

Ariadne: The Novel. Literally just finished this morning, so my frustration is still fresh. I absolutely adore the story of Ariadne and Bacchus. I almost wrote a novel based on them when I was 19 but I decided not to continue. But because I am so familiar and fascinated by them, I should not have bought this book. The book itself is fine. It was just a mismatch of expectations.

Yes, in the Greco-Roman myths, there is a running theme that some individuals are heroes to men but dogs to women. And there are few variations to Ariadne's story, so one never knows which direction the author will go. But there is more to Ariadne than being a perpetual victim to all the men in her life. At least, to me, there is. This is why, if I have doubts, I usually check the middle of a book before I buy it. I checked this time too, and I thought I was safe, but it was actually the last pages that ruined it for me.

I wanted to read the liberation and empowerment of Ariadne, her conversion from the naive, discarded princess to the triumphant Libera, the ascendant goddess whose name literally means free; the woman who latched hold of a once in a lifetime opportunity and carved a place for herself in the halls of Olympia after her lover, Theseus, abandoned her to starve to death on the shores of Naxos; the Libera who watched, enthroned, as her would-be killer suffered a series of mishaps and fell from grace in the eyes of gods and man.

And were all those mishaps accidents? Or curses? And if so, by whom? Her? Bacchus? Another deity? Is Ariadne foolish or cunning, haughty or generous, vengeful or forgiving? There are so many routes her story can go. However, this book does not take the route of the empowered Libera. It has a negative character arc, which - again - is fine, just not for me. Unless it's about the protagonist turning into the villain in which case it's 100% for me.

Other books I'm currently reading because I do not read one book at a time: Francine Rivers's The Lady's Mine; Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None; Tom Baker's Scratchman; James Patterson and Emily Raymond's The Girl in the Castle; and Jacqueline Rayner's Legends of Camelot.

And don't get me started on the endless list of ongoing manga/manhua I read monthly.

currently watching: Nothing really. I've been meaning to watch the latest season of You. And I've rewatched a couple Doctor Who eps for research (fanfic) purposes. But I don't really watch tv anymore, at least I don't regularly follow any tv shows like I used to.

currently consuming: electrolyte water as prescribed

currently craving: Food. I'm hungry but I don't want to cook. But guess who promised to cook today? Me.

@iceinherheart-kissonherlips @livingdeadblondequeen @expelliarmus @wibblyowzah @whogirl42 @benoitblanc @nostalgia-tblr @watson-emma @clarabosswald

#thanks for tagging <3 #text #personal #long post #and i do know bacchus is the roman name for dionysus but bacchus and ariadne just has a nicer ring to it #most people just name their ships and books and move on; one day i too will learn the skill of brevity #but today is clearly not that day

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