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[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015) blooper reel

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Honestly, I regularly forget Hannibal is not a vampire.

My headcannon is that sometimes, he forgets too.

I headcannon him as having had a guilty pleasure of watching late-night re-runs of the 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows during his 10-14 years of med school and surgical residency.

(Fair warning, this is about to get…

There are a lot of parallels between the Hannibal we meet in Aperitif, and the character of Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows’ tortured anti-hero).

Both are chronically odd (Barnabas because he’s been asleep for 200 years, Hannibal because he’s from Eastern Europe); both are fastidiously polite despite committing acts of extreme cruelty; and both have a terrible secret they must hide from the people around them.

Barnabas also had characteristics to which I imagine a younger Hannibal would have aspired - social status, wealth, and, perhaps most notably, the power to control other people’s minds, and to compel them to do this bidding.

What Barnabas achieves through vampiric power, Hannibal eventually learns to accomplish through manipulation, narcotics, hypnosis, and gross violations of professional trust; Miriam Lass is as thoroughly in Hannibal’s thrall as any of the characters on Dark Shadows are to Barnabas.

The character’s appeal would have been even stronger given Hannibal’s experience of being a young (and very likely closeted) queer man studying medicine in the midst of the AIDS crisis.

The nature of Barnabas’ plight an excellent metaphor for the closet, and the actor who played him (Jonathan Frid) was himself gay, and (by his own account) drew on that perspective to inform his performance of the canonically-straight Barnabas. Hannibal certainly would not have been the first queer man to see himself reflected in the character.

Dark Shadows has 1000+ episodes, and I picture Hannibal having it as his habitual comfort watch; something a local TV station would have licensed for cheap, to fill time at 11pm; get to the end of the episodes, and just start again from the beginning (the way my local CBS affiliate used to do with Two and a Half Men, and the way A&E used to do with CSI; two shows I used to habitually watch each night before bed.)

Hannibal would have been in his 20s / early 30s, and under a great deal of pressure (surgical residency is gruelling).

I think this would likely have been the point in Hannibal’s life where some of the more grandiose / florid delusions - ones that we later see him evidence in his conversations with Will and Jack - would have probably started to manifest (e.g. Nietzschean fish; comparing himself to god; trying to will time to reverse, and the broken teacup to reassemble.)

In this context, I can easily imagine Barnabas Collins having taken up residence in Hannibal’s mind palace, making himself at home there until the line between them began to blur.

And I think that by the time he meets Will, Hannibal has dismissed this private obsession as mortifyingly childish; I imagine that he probably served Barnabas Collins his own leg in the memory palace’s great dining room.

But as much as he wouldn’t admit it, Hannibal never truly got rid of Barnabas.

✨Incorrect Hannibal quotes✨

[aubrey-plazaa]

HANNIBAL (2013-2015)

1.01 - Ap��ritif

[bloodydancy]

"I spend a lot of my time wallowing in blood, which I would say I enjoy most of the time." — Hugh Dancy

Hannibal 1.01 Apéritif | 2.13 Mizumono | 3.07 Digestivo | 3.09 And the Woman Clothed with the Sun | 3.13 The Wrath of the Lamb

[mcgregor]

WILL GRAHAM and his doggos Hannibal • 2013-2015

[flock-of-cassowaries]

As a person who once came close to dying from an eating disorder, this is a very good post.

…but also, as an idiot, and a person reblogging this from @abigailhobbsmissingear , I would like to add just one (1) additional entry to the “Bad” Foods column…

(cw gore, cw emesis / vomit.)

There is no "good" and "bad" foods, especially in recovery. "Clean eating" is bullshit.

[pesky--dust]

Canon "valentines" from Hannibal to Will: Apéritif, Sakizuke, Primavera

[cedarxwing]

This killer wrote you a poem, Will. Are you going to let his love go to waste?

for @t3acupz 🖤

[afacelesschampion]

Trouble's always gonna find you baby

Western Nights - Ethel Cain

[warningsine]

Passion is particularly used in the context of romance or sexual desire, though it generally implies a deeper or more encompassing emotion than that implied by the term lust, often incorporating ideas of ecstasy and/or suffering.

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x01 || 3x13

[atlasscrumpit]

Hannibal's daughter x Will (platonic)

You sat with your friends in a circle, watching as they each shared a cigarette one of your friends had stolen from their father.

They handed it to you and you stared down at it as it burnt, thinking about what your father would do if he found out.

You sighed and smoked some of it, coughing wildly as the smoke hit the back of your throat.

Your friends laughed along with you as you tried to catch your breath.

Your thoughts swarmed with ideas of what your father would do it he ever found out.

He was out of town for the weekend and you were staying with Will.

And Will definitely wasn't nearly as observant as your father.

--

You arrived home the next morning after staying at your friends house.

You opened the door and walked inside, looking around for Will.

"Will! I'm home!" You called our as he rounded the corner.

"Y/N, did you have fun last night?" He asked, there was a slight edge to his voice and you were scared he had found out.

"Uh... Yeah, it was fun."

"You do know your father would have your head if he found out what you did." He declared at you looked at him in shock.

"How the..."

He cut you off, holding his phone up of a video your friends had taken last night.

"I created a fake account and followed all of your friends accounts." He said as you rolled your eyes.

"That's a breach of my privacy! Also... Please don't tell father!" You begged, walking closer to him as he sighed.

"I won't... I did the same around your age, and I'm going to do exactly what my father did." He said as he grabbed his car keys.

"In the car, now." He demanded as you rolled your eyes again and followed behind him.

"It was just one try of a cigarette! Everyone else was going in and I didn't want them to make fun of me." You explained, getting into the passenger seat of Will's car.

"I know that, and I'm very aware you're not the kind of kid to do that stuff unless...pressured. But, that doesn't change the fact that you did it, and I can't keep this from your father unless you learn something from it. Got it?" He said as he started the car.

You stared forward and nodded.

Maybe Will could sense your nervousness, or maybe you just weren't that great at hiding it.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Y/N. I would never do that, neither would your father." He reassured as you breathed a sigh of relief.

Will knew you past before Hannibal, he knew what your biological parents would have done if they caught you smoking.

You drove for a while until Will turned into a hospice.

You sighed and looked at him.

"I get it okay? Smoking kills, I just did it to blend in, okay?" You whined as Will looked at you.

"But, did you friends do it to blend in? Or were they the ones making you do it. I want you to speak to someone, after that you can make the decision if you still want these friends in your life. Now, come on." He said before getting out of the car, you followed him into the hospice, staying close to him as you noticed everyone nodding or waving at him.

You made it to a room and entered with Will.

You saw an old man laying in bed staring out the window.

He glanced over and looked at Will.

"Bloody hell, I thought I'd be dead before I had to see your ugly mug again." He grumbled in a British accent making you laugh softly.

"Who's the kid?" He muttered as Will chuckled and walked in further.

"This is Y/N, I caught her smoking last night. Thought bringing you here would be a good lesson for her." Will said as he sat beside the bed and gestured for you to do the same.

The man chuckled and looked at you.

"Smoking, huh? That's why I'm in here, dying in this damn room." He said as you gulped a little.

"So, I'm guessing you'll tell me to never do it again..." You muttered as he laughed dryly.

"Fuck no! I loved smoking, I don't give a shit if it killed me, all that matters is I had some fucking fun." He said as you laughed softly, turning to Will who was smiling.

"Don't know why this idiot over here thought my advice would do any good." He said gesturing to Will.

"Well... The lesson wasn't to scare her into never doing it," Will turns to you, "it was to teach you that you have choices in life choices that are yours to make but you need to understand the consequences as well. So, if you want to be with those friends who drink and smoke, that's okay if that's you. But, I really don't think it is."

You looked at Will, a shocked expression on your face.

"No... It's not who I am." You muttered making Will smile softly.

"Why'd you bring this nerd in to see me, Will?" The old man said making you laugh and shake your head.

You sat and chatted for a while longer and Will eventually explained how he had come to know the old man.

You weren't too shocked to find out Will met him when he was arrested for indecent assault.

You walked out with Will and got back into the car.

"Thank you..." You muttered, not looking at Will.

"I won't tell your father. He will be angry at you for smoking...I was angry because I knew these people weren't your friends, you just needed to see it." He said as you smiled a little and looked at him.

"Saved me an hour lecture from father about how deadly cigarettes are... But, I understand. And thank you, instead of punishing me you...taught me. Guess I'm not used to that." You muttered making Will smile.

He knew Hannibal was a great father, but he also knew he could be quite harsh with his punishments, he was never physical but his lectures could probably kill someone eventually.

[aubrey-plazaa]

HANNIBAL (2013-2015)

3.06 - Dolce

[bloodydancy]

Hannibal 3.10 And the Woman Clothed in Sun

[logray]

THE SHINING (1980) HANNIBAL (2013-15) THE SUBSTANCE (2024)