#slowburn hannigram

[amarriageoftrueminds]

AU Idea I had last night:

Late-Teen Will either discovering that there's been a trust fund for him all along, left by his mother on the condition that it's used for fees at a fancy boarding school, or getting into fancy boarding school for graduation year because of merit / earning a scholarship and previously-unknown legacy-association with his estranged mother's family. Getting shipped off to said prestigious boarding school but being miserable there / struggling. He's the new boy, out-performing his peers, the poorest student there by a mile and constantly bullied for that and his innate weirdness and because girls like him.

Enter: temp-professor Hannibal (27; maybe he is on sabbatical from surgeon-ing for a year, before retraining as a psychiatrist.).

He notices Will's brilliance, takes a shine to him, and becomes a sort of mentor to him. He transforms Will's nightmarish experience of school almost overnight: eating lunch with him (giving him safe place to go, or ensuring he's safe wherever he is), tutoring him, seeing off his bullies, 'discovering' grants Will can use to pay for expenses since he's a scholarship student, etc etc.

(What does Hannibal teach? Art? Anatomy? Biology, dissecting things? Temps for the Phys.Ed. teacher and kicks ass / humiliates Will's bullies in an impromptu kendo lesson??)

Essentially, he makes Will feel he has room to breathe, and might actually have a chance to make the most of this golden opportunity. Also makes him feel cool by association because Hannibal has Chosen him and all the teenage boys basically want to be Hannibal. (Also, maybe it's a co-ed school and all the cheerleaders are mooning over dreamy Hannibal.)

Canon-style totally platonic but wildly homoerotic relationship because oblivious!Will still thinks he's straight and oblivious!Hannibal thinks he's only gawping at Will's beauty because he's an aesthete. 🤦‍♀️

Meanwhile, nasty 'accidents' keep befalling the worst of Will's bullies, the cruelest/most predatory teachers, etc. and Hannibal encourages Will to listen to his 'instincts.'

Ends with Will graduating and getting into prestigious ivy league school and Hannibal promptly quitting his teaching position to go and live with Will and be his sugar-daddy through college while Hannibal re-trains in psychiatry. (Or maybe Hannibal offers to fund a gap-year so he and Will can do a Grand Tour of Europe together.)

visual inspo under the cut:

90s Mads

Oxbridge Hugh

[lilly-devil-666]

A litte PWP OS - a good start in a new year <3 

After some time of dating, Will starts to find it a bit boring to spend evenings with his psychiatrist in fancy restaurants or at his house. As a result, he suggests something different, and the two enjoy a date night at the cinema together.

Since Will doesn't exactly share his companion's taste in movies, he uses the time for something that makes their dating experience significantly more exciting.

[thelaurenshippen]

ao3 wrapped simulator

you read for 67,680 minutes. that's 47 days straight.

you read 812 fics total, but you read 76 of them more than 4 times.

for a total of 35 million words.

you showed the love by leaving 704 comments on 297 fics. your most common comment was "AKLDDASKFJLKSDFJHAJSHFIUELNAKDCNAGKDH!!!!!!"

you love to revisit. you hit the "kudos" button not realizing you'd already left kudos there 1,304 times

your top tags were:

pining

slowburn

hate sex

fluff

major character death

you're a night owl. your reading peaked between 11pm and 4am

you were an explorer! this year you read 4 tags for the first time: A/B/O, gen fic, praise kink, crush at first sight

there was one ship you loved most of all: for the ninth year in a row, your top ship was hannigram

but you're not monogamous. you also read a lot of stucky, scully/mulder, and animorphs

and you were in the top .01% of readers in The Expanse (TV) tag

and you were in the top .001% of writers for a ship our automated system can't even find because it doesn't have enough tagged fics

you wrote 17 fics this year, for a total of 1.4 million words. 16 of those fics were explicit.

wow! you're passionate! you created 85 bookmarks with the book mark tag "i wanna die"

your fic town is nome, alaska. no, we're not going to explain this.

thank you for spending another year on ao3 <3

[pastelwell]

Hiiiii 💜 long time no see! Missed you guys x

Just popping in to say I have written a slowburn hannigram fic 🫢 with plot and everything! Rest assured there will still be pastelwell-typical levels of ust and yearning :)

Here’s a little summary ✨

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Hinterland

Rating: E

He remembers the blood, inky black on Hannibal’s face, and his eyes ferocious with hunger. He remembers the chill of the night biting at his fingers as the plasma dries and becomes tacky. He remembers pressing his face into Hannibal’s chest and waiting for death, falling through the darkness towards an ocean that roars, the waves a welcoming maw to eternal nothingness.

When they crash into the water he believes it’s over. He followed his final impulse to do the right thing by his friends, his family, the world. The last flutters of morality within him had guided him, even as he looked into the eyes of a murderer who had somehow compelled his fall from grace. Here, in the frigid deep waters, their chapter is closed and their story is concluded. Except it isn’t. This is just the beginning.

His next conscious thought is the recognition that he’s dizzy and in pain, his body burning furiously despite the cold that surrounds him. There’s seawater in his mouth and he’s lost in a seemingly endless abyss of nothingness when strong arms heave him through the gloom towards the surface. The first thing he sees is the stars, glittering above him in a carpet of spilled ink. Hannibal’s hands feel hot even through his clothes, palms against his chest before they curl into fists and hold on tightly.

Will’s awareness slowly comes back to him, as if waking from a dream. He feels sluggish and heavy in the water, rocked by the waves but anchored by Hannibal, eyes still ferocious in a way that Will finds indulgently captivating. It takes a few long moments for Will to realise that they survived. That this is real and unending.

Continue reading…

[acid-onthefloor]

do you think Bedelia lies in her bed at night and reads 500k Hannigram slowburn fanfics when she can't sleep yes no

[ruumirmir]

Sobbing at the thougth 💕😭 He really do be floating around in our heads. No name. Only vibes. My dude has such jobs on his resume: Be gay, help boss do crimes, Become sad wet little mop after nearly dying twice, and serve cunt while doing so. Imstealing this immediately for a headcannon rn. Modern AU pants absolutely has his name as "Loverboy" in his contacts. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH LOVE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH LOVERBOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WHATCHU DOING TONIGHT (the loverboy in question: trying not to disintegrate everyone within a 5 mile radius bc Bossman gave him very maths paperwork) putting Killer Queen and Old Fashioned Loverboy coded ppl right next to each other? ohmygod you're gonna explode me. KQ being from husbando's pov, looking at the epitome of evil capitalism and lowkey being 😐😏 And now that i mention it,, surely there's gotta be like a. certain marination period for the snezhnayan people recruited into the fatui to go from regular normal people to different variations of evil bastards. Theres no way good ppl don't undergo several degrees of microwave spinning in the Human Morales department after joining the fatui. Dont mind me the just sprinkling in some hannigram (from hannibal NBC) dynamic into this 😋✨🤏🔥💥 50k enemies to lovers slowburn pining where the regrator looks at loverboy pre- bastardization arc and sees a fun lil boytoy,, and then looking at him post- ✨character development✨and is immediately seduced to see husband material right there.

Idk how interesting this information would be to anyone else but in my notes all of my reader characters have names so I can keep track of which one the notes belong to. There's only one exception and it's Pantalone's husband— he's just Loverboy 😭

[elfnerdherder]

Opus Dei: Chapter 9

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One of these days I’ll be able to just sit down and post all of these here with the right formatting...but that day is not today. Chapter 9 of Opus Dei is up on Ao3! Happy Sunday, Fannibals. <3

[morganofthefairies]

Me, when I’m reading a slowburn fanfiction and the characters get together in chapter 12 of 30: oh no. I am AFRAID

[diankn]

Slow burns are good but it's also like being slowly tortured

[incorrecthanniballecterquotes]

Will: I hate you!

Hannibal(in his head): Enemies to lovers, slowburn, angst with happy ending, 300k+ words.

[rogue-jill]

[hannigramficrecs]

Specific Tropes

(aka a list of really specific asks people have sent me lol) 

Bottom Hannibal

Breakup with happy ending

Confident Will

Courting

Cuddling

Dark and possessive Hannibal

Different First Meeting

Dinner Party

Hannibal dresses Will up and shows him off

Hannibal is smitten

Hannibal is smitten and Will is oblivious

Hannigram together before show started

Hate sex

Jealous Murder Husbands

Kid Fics

Missing Scenes

Opera

PG fanfics

Praise Kink

Relationship is revealed

Serial Killer Courting

Serial killers love Will

Slowburn Canon

Stockholm Syndrome

Teacher/Student

Wedding

Wedding Proposal

Will confesses his betrayal to Hannibal

Will finds out

Will helps himself

Will is Hannibal’s alibi

Will is obsessed with the Ripper

Will leaves after release from BSHCI 

Will knew the whole time

Will wears Hannibal’s clothes

Will realizes his feelings 

Will’s students

[phantomrose96]

No joke, my name is John Watson and I just realized the amount of crime I can probably do because of Superwholock encrypting my identity

(this post)

cant BELIEVE you walked into my inbox with a direct translation for the Hannigram joke.

You're safe forever because if any FBI agent tries to google "John Watson crime" all they're gonna get is "Johnlock crime AU. Criminal!John. Power Bottom!Sherlock. Sherlock is facing his toughest case yet, and when he's narrowed down the suspect list to only one possibility, he's faced with a terrible dilemma. #slowburn #enemiestolovers #lightbondage #PWP"

[majorbitchwillgraham]

"They��re so connected on a mental and a spiritual level that even when it’s ugly and destructive and someone is bleeding out all over the floor it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful because it’s so rare for two humans to connect in that way. It’s beautiful because it’s raw and real and vulnerable and so earth shattering that nothing, not an ocean or years spent locked away behind glass in an asylum or a new family, can keep them from coming back to each other."

That was my favorite part.

i've had many great otps in my shipper life but especially since the end of s3, i've been thinking: "how could i possibly love another otp as much as i love or m o r e????" anything can happen right but i dunno how it could cause honestly those two have ruined be very deeply. their love for each other's been shown to us in such a unique and subtle way. no need for a kiss/sex scene/ily. i can't fucking cope with them!!!!! so yeah good luck for another show for making me enjoy a pairing that much.

I’ve actually been thinking a lot lately about why it is that I ship Hannigram, especially since I very much did not ship them for the first two years the show was on air, and I’ve been asking myself why this sudden change, and how I could go from “but hANNIBAL IS SO BAD FOR MY PRECIOUS MUFFIN” to “they’re soulmates destined to be together in this life and in all other lives to come and nothing, not even death, can ever untangle them from each other” once season 3 rolled around…

And I’m not sure if I just started seeing things from a different point-of-view, or if I finally understood that Will was just as in love with Hannibal as Hannibal was in love with him, or something else entirely, but I know that this pairing that I very much closed myself off from for the longest time has torn my heart and my soul wide open and has made me feel things over these past 5-6 months that I oftentimes have no words at all for.

But I’ve really tried to pick the dynamic apart in my head, what is it about these two men that’s so profoundly special that I find myself sobbing into my whisky at 3am having a borderline existential crisis over firefly metaphors? I think the simplest explanation of it all is what Bryan himself has said of them, and it’s that they truly SEE one another right down to the core. They’re so connected on a mental and a spiritual level that even when it’s ugly and destructive and someone is bleeding out all over the floor it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful because it’s so rare for two humans to connect in that way. It’s beautiful because it’s raw and real and vulnerable and so earth shattering that nothing, not an ocean or years spent locked away behind glass in an asylum or a new family, can keep them from coming back to each other. 

It’s not just as simple as falling in love, people do that all the time, it’s a connection so deep it reaches right down to the fabric of who they both are as individuals. These are two men who were very lonely before they were pulled into each others orbit and filled the empty spaces they were always meant to occupy, and discovered themselves within that connection. They didn’t change one another, instead they brought out things in each other and in themselves that had always been there, they were just waiting for their other half to drag it up from the deep.

I could ramble on about them all day, I could try to find words that properly express the profound and tragic beauty of their love, I could try to explain this all to the people who shame us for shipping them but it would be a waste of time. Words will always be too banal and too simplistic when it comes to them. They truly are one soul occupying two bodies

two halves of the same whole

and I definitely think it’s safe to say that they and this show in general have ruined me for most other shows and most other pairings at this point…

[sourweather-fics]

Preview, College AU Hannigram, Pining, Slowburn, Cigarettes (Part 3/9)

The front door opens. Immediately, Will shoots out of his chair. He tosses his notebook and pen onto the counter, tugs at his flannel, pushes the loose curls out of his face.

Hannibal smiles at him when he walks through the door. For the first time, he bypasses his usual table, heading straight for the counter instead. "Hello, Will," he says, and Will's face breaks into a lopsided grin.

"Hi."

He looks Will up and down, and Will straightens his posture self-consciously. "You're looking much less dour than the last time I saw you," he notes. "Feeling better?"

Will laughs, once again fussing with his hair. "Uh, yeah, actually. Much. I managed to get some sleep before my shift, so that always helps." He places his hands on the counter, leaning his weight on his palms. "How about you, is your night going alright?"

Hannibal sighs, allowing his shoulders to sag slightly. "I'm a bit behind on my assignments, I'm afraid. I'll likely be spending quite a few hours here tonight."

"Oh, that sucks," Will says, trying hard to disguise how pleased he is to hear that Hannibal is going to be sticking around. "Well I'll let you get to it, then." It's the exact opposite of what he actually wants to do, but he can hardly say that.

The other man just nods, casting Will another dizzying smile before heading for his usual table. Will takes a deep breath, seizing control of his rabbiting pulse.

The feeling of eyes on him makes him flush. "What is it now?" he hisses, turning to find Beverly staring at him with a horribly amused smirk on her face. The expression is enough to make him groan. "Actually, fuck you, I don't wanna hear it."

Bev just laughs, and Will's ears start burning. She brings a hand to her mouth, covering her snickering while shaking her head at Will.

Will rolls his eyes. "Don't you have work to be doing? Christ alive, mind your own business."

"Sorry," she manages, though she doesn't sound the least bit apologetic. The laughter has subsided but she's still wearing that shit-eating grin. "You're right, sorry, it's not my business." She passes by him, Manila folder in hand, and as she brushes his shoulder she whispers. "He's hot, though."

[asublimehimbo]

@chibitabathasloves posting this in honor of getting caught up on your amazing fic :) everyone who hasn't read Let Us Waltz From the Dead go read it, it's lovely gothic hannigram slowburn