#Mosly because of his high standards but still

[radiance1]

Vlad (Pheonix): Just giving you a heads up, when it becomes known that you are dating me. You will have to fight through my 6 abominable exes, as well as Gary.

Constantine: Why is the 7th one called Gary.

Vlad: Because that is his name...?

Constantine: No, I mean why is he differentiated from the others?

Vlad: Ah. Because Gary is not my ex, he's just Gary.

Constantine: Then why is he-

Vlad: He likes card games, the others are most likely to try and kill you.

Constantine: Noted.

[writing-good-vibes]

Oh I,d definitely read a will and Corey crossover. Cory would probably be rather taken with him

oh by the way. I accidentally unfollowed you earlier. I must have clicked the wrong button sorry about that

i've been thinking on this !! corey is definitely taken with will, while will mosly just feels sympathetic for corey, but doesn't mind his company. maybe he'd see him in a similar way he saw abigail, as a surrogate child to project onto.

i guess it would all depend on where/how they met. i am happy to disregard actual timelines because the first season of hannibal is set in like 2013(?) in virginia, at which point corey would have been 15-ish and presumably eating lunch in his midwestern high school cafeteria.

i went with post-ends corey and pre-hannibal will as my main scenario:

will is still teaching at the fbi academy while corey, who survives ends, is sent to prison. while will has "retired" from field work, corey makes an interesting case study for his classes on profiling and tbh, corey is a fairly low-risk inmate -- unlikely to cause will more stress than necessary in his profiling.

corey is pretty standard in his psychological profile: abuse in his past, traumatic incident in early adulthood, intense stress and a head injury just prior to his spree. the only thing interesting about his corey's journey from being acquitted on a manslaughter charge to being a convicted serial killer copycat -- which was directly influenced by another serial killer.

i think will would find it interesting to figure out if corey believes he was made into a monster or if he was born that way, and i do think corey has an opinion on that. will's profiling of corey is that he has the most classic of serial killer predilections, while also being in a frame of mind that made him actively and consciously copy another killers "work".

idk how much corey would have told his lawyer, for him to use in court, or how much he'd willingly tell will about his life. it's one thing for him to kill joan, another to openly admit what she did to him. however, i think once in prison, corey is amicable enough -- he knows he's stuck there and at least now he can handle himself.

on the other hand, thinking about post-accident corey and pre-hannibal will leads to a lot of the abigail parallels. corey who is struggling with the trauma and stress of what he's done? prime situation for will to over empathise.

and then there is post-ends and post-hannibal will who could never be friends, but understand each other deeply. both have been forever changed (or were they fucked up all along?) and driven to the point of no return by people they might love.