Hannibal didn’t send Will after Tobias to teach him a lesson. He wasn’t upset with Will. He saw an opportunity and he took it.
Hannibal’s goal, with Will, from the beginning, was to get Will to become him. He wanted Will to be a killer, like him, so that once Will finally figured it out, finally SAW Hannibal, he’d understand him, and be receptive. Hannibal was conditioning Will. He saw the potential for friendship, what with the way Will’s mind worked, and so he was trying to push Will in the right direction, to help create the perfect friend.
(I use the word friend but it’s also so much more than this.)
Hannibal sent Will after Tobias because of how much like him (Hannibal) Tobias was.
Think about Hobbs. Hannibal had set everything up so that Will would have to kill Hobbs. Hobbs was a cannibalistic serial killer. Just like Hannibal. And once having killed Hobbs, Will couldn’t get him out of his head. He’d become One with Hobbs. He’d become One with a cannibal.
Now think of Tobias. Tobias is a lot like Hannibal - much more like Hannibal than Hobbs. They have the same, as Hannibal referred to them, “hobbies”. They are graceful serial killers, with a distaste for the rude/inelegant. They appreciate the finer things in life and generally think similarly.
So Hobbs is the cannibalistic serial killer, but he’s not really elegant and not much like Hannibal in other aspects.
Tobias is the elegant serial killer with a distaste for the rude, but he’s not a cannibal.
Though if you combine the two, we’re getting closer to what makes Hannibal; an elegant cannibal with a distaste for the rude.
Back to Will. When Will came to Hannibal, Hannibal asked him if he was still hearing the killer’s serenade behind his eyes. Will responded, “it’s our song”. This is when Hannibal got the idea to send Will to Tobias.
It had nothing to do with jealousy - it had nothing to do with Will kissing Alana, and it wasn’t because he was jealous of Tobias and wanted to get Will killed.
Hannibal had the utmost faith that Will would kill Tobias… just as Will had killed Hobbs. (I know this because when Tobias comes to Hannibal’s office, and says he killed two policemen, Hannibal momentarily panics. He thought Tobias had killed Will. If Hannibal had sent Will to Tobias, thinking that he might die, he wouldn’t have reacted this way; he would have half-expected it. But his reaction tells us that Hannibal did not at all expect Will to die and was very upset. Hannibal’s version of very upset, of course, is not like ours - he suffers very quietly. A slight change in expression, a slight widening of the eyes, is what we can expect of Hannibal, ESPECIALLY when he’s not alone. And this is what we were given.)
So Hannibal sent Will to Tobias, to kill Tobias. Just like he’d arranged the whole thing with Hobbs, so Will would kill Hobbs. And what happened the last time Will killed someone? What happened when Will had killed Hobbs? He absorbed him, he couldn’t get him out of his head. He started seeing himself in Hobbs, thinking he was Hobbs. Dreaming he was Hobbs, etc.
He saw. He became. He understood.
If Will had killed Tobias, as Hannibal had planned, Tobias would be stuck in Will’s head along with Hobbs. He would have seen, become, and understood Tobias.
And, again, Hobbs and Tobias, together, almost amount to what Hannibal is - an elegant cannibal with a distaste for the rude.
Hannibal saw himself in Tobias, and so sent Will to Tobias, to kill him, and therefore absorb him.
Hannibal was trying to prepare Will for HIM. Not out of the kindness of his heart, but because Hannibal wanted Will to be his friend, his actual friend, and he knew if Will could become him, he would be less likely to reject him. If Will could SEE, if he could BECOME, if he could UNDERSTAND, then he’d accept. He would be a true friend.
Ultimately, Hannibal’s entire plan with Will was revolved around his own loneliness and a desire to be seen. Not only that, but he truly thinks that helping Will to become like him, is saving Will from a life of falsity and mediocrity. He considers what he’s doing for Will to be a service rather than a hindrance. He feels he’s helping Will to evolve.
I’ll stop here otherwise I’ll get off topic, but yeah, that’s why he sent Will after Tobias, if you ask me.To absorb Tobias, to become Tobias, so that he’d understand Hannibal, and then accept him once he finally figured it all out.
Hard not to accept that which you are.
Hannibal: You can’t get him out of your head? I want to be stuck in your head… Let’s see how you do with him in there for the long term.
It’s almost like preparing someone for penetration… Here’s a finger, here’s two fingers, how does that feel? Could you handle me yet?
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