Hold the Devil Well

not quite only a Hannibal blog | header by cedarxwing

[hold-the-devil-well]

Just a li'l intro post

Welcome to my Hannibal blog! It wasn't always this way, but it is now and oh man is it gonna stay that way. (@devils-musings is my personal chaos sideblog, if anyone's curious...)

And who am I? Just some guy (he/they, 30s) who writes things, engages in gender fuckery, and has my horse hitched to a post on the spectrum.

Say hi, if you'd like. :)

update: header gif by cedarxwing

[suspiciouscrispybacon]

First Swim Post-Fall

[madagascarskin]

my man

[newworldfoool]

[isabellaofparma]

this is literally peak romance. to me.

[basilosu]

i forgive you

[sirenja-and-stag]

Hannigram: red flags ignored because they’re too busy having a full conversation with their eyes~

[thedeathofthelamb]

actually, Will is just as (if not more) obsessed and possessive about Hannibal but you guys portray him as the 'weewee pls save me from hannibal's insane love' but honestly Hannibal should be saved from Will cause damn my man be psycho

[patchouii]

It’s strongly implied that Will infostalked Hannibal and the people he heard about from him, he snapped at Hannibal so jealously when he asked if he was drinking with a patient. Hannibal told him it was his own psychiatrist and nothing more, but he somehow recognized Bedelia’s name, face and the fact she was that psychiatrist when they first met. He openly admitted that he figured out who Margot was too by looking through Hannibal’s private notes. Margot and Bedelia were both beautiful, intelligent high-class women who had weaknesses Hannibal could’ve exploited and Will could’ve seen them as potential rivals, which is honestly pretty chilling, not to mention how intimidating he was towards Alana when he hinted at knowing she avoided being alone with him and in deleted scenes where he told her he could plausibly kill her and nobody would stop him in time. His intentional visualizations featuring Hannibal always involved him brutally defeating or restraining him and physically harming or even killing him while they both visibly enjoyed it.

The first thing he did after getting out of jail was break into Hannibal’s house—implying he somehow knows how to break and enter well, and it was only Hannibal’s enhanced sense of smell that betrayed him— and hold him at gunpoint again while mocking him and grinning when he mimed cowering, even though Hannibal could’ve definitely used that to fully crush his career after all or land him right back there by telling Jack. He snaps at Zeller during the organ harvester case about the corpse in the bathtub being too crude to be the Chesapeake Ripper’s work, calling the Ripper an “artist” and often complimenting him before quickly pairing that with more negative sentiments. He worked the Ripper case pre-canon and the way he describes his mind when asked isn’t even just the Ripper— it’s a description of Hannibal’s, down to those rooms in the basement of his mind palace he keeps boarded up. The staggering depth of that insight makes me think that his excuse of “having a date with the Chesapeake Ripper” may have had more than awkward humor behind it after all, he’s clearly put a ton of dedication and effort into diving into the Ripper’s case and mindset before. He tells Bedelia her fate is sealed because he’ll free Hannibal and knows that he’ll do whatever he tells him to, kill whoever he tells him to even if it’s someone he previously saw mental and physical appeal in who was his second choice for an escape partner.

Bedelia doubts this, calling him reckless and egotistical and saying he’ll get killed alongside the rest, but there’s clearly a niggling worry that he’s right despite her knowledge of Hannibal and his fixation on supreme control that only Will supersedes. Will enjoys hurting Hannibal and is aroused by ideas of it, possessing him, being important to him, being the only one he will show mercy to, the only one he’s challenged by, the only one who throws the intense control he has over his life into disarray, bucks it and steps in to replace it. In the end it really only comes down to the question of which person is the one anyone would say seems crazier: a murderous cannibal, or someone who knew everything about the murder and cannibalism and threw their life away to own theirs not despite that, but because of it? The answer seems clear to me, at least.

Will Graham is the man who gets off on the fact that he has the Devil wound around his little finger and can crush him under his thumb whenever he so pleases.

[honeygrahambitch]

Will probably realized he was getting hard from being covered in blood and staring at Hannibal also covered in blood so he panicked and threw them both off the cliff before Hannibal would notice

[suspiciouscrispybacon]

Will's design

[sirenja-and-stag]

May I come in?

Hannigram text messages [16/?]

[wills-right-shoulder]

Will Graham - Season 2

Some of my favorite Will scenes.

[irreparableteacup]

[honeygrahambitch]

lowkey him

"sobbing with your head in your hands/

ain't that the way shit always ends?"

[wills-right-shoulder]

Will Graham - 3.11

Twitchy little man

[suspiciouscrispybacon]

Dinner party announcement

[stixy]

Bury me