#molly foster

[mismatchsocks]

[neitherofusideal]

The wife, was in fact, not aware enough.

[tethered-heartstrings]

will graham likes his women how he likes his boats. easy to abandon and as a vessel to get to hannibal

[batsbratsandbarbedwire]

Will Graham would have never married Molly if he hadn't known Hannibal. You can't convince me

[cora-writes-things]

Sapphic September 2020 – Day 28: Pumpkin

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: McFoster (Reba/Molly)

Thoughts: This moodboard was meant to include a full fic with it, but I'm no longer inspired to write it. However, I figured that it's never too late to share the moodboard that I created for the fic idea. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write the fic so I don't have to!

My favorite Hannibal rarepair is Molly and Reba (known as McFoster), and my favorite headcanon for them is that they meet for the first time after Will’s and Hannibal’s disappearance post-s03. They bond over having fallen in love with murderous men without their knowledge (Will and Francis Dolarhyde), and also being some of the only people in the world who understand what the other experienced. They fall in love slowly over time, helping each other heal and to learn how to live semi-normally again. They take their relationship very slow, and Reba doesn’t push Wally in any way to accept her as a parental figure or important person in his life. This ironically helps Wally accept her presence in his mom’s life faster, and he ends up liking her a lot more than he did Will and also really appreciating how much she’s helped his mom heal. Molly and Reba also take care of the dogs together. Whether Molly keeps and continues to take care of all of Will’s dogs; keeps only some of them; or rehomes all or most of them because they remind her of Will and the trauma she experienced during her relationship with him (and because of him) is up to the writer. Any of these combinations work, but I imagine Molly having some dogs regardless of how many of Will’s dogs specifically she keeps. (You can see some examples of how I’ve written Molly and Reba’s dynamic and relationship together in Sweet Ophelia, Snapshot, and Abstract Angels.)

This specific fic idea is super simple: it's a huge helping of domestic fluff. Molly and Reba assist Wally with pumpkin carving and then toast pumpkin seeds and bake pumpkin muffins with the leftover pumpkin together. In the late afternoon, they get into Halloween costumes (bonus points if they're wearing family and/or couple's costumes — I picture Reba in a vampire costume as a nod to her actor Rutina Wesley's role in True Blood, and Molly as a werewolf, because who doesn't love a good "forbidden romance" between a vampire and a werewolf?) and go trick-or-treating (bonus points if the dogs also have their own Halloween costumes!) That's all there is to it: just some tooth-rotting fluff!

But tbh, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard; it doesn’t have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. (It's free real estate, babeyyy.) All I ask is 1) don’t repost my moodboard anywhere, and 2) please include a link to my moodboard with your creation!

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[underwater0firework]

the women in hannibal are all very beautiful to me

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

MOLLY FOSTER from Hannibal

Yes, I know them.

I've only heard of them.

No, I don't know them at all.

Voting ended onDec 16, 2023

[agiftgivenbygod]

I actually want to discuss in-depth the Molly kills Hannibal idea cuz it has some really fun potential for a series ending. It makes sense okay. She kills the Dragon in the books, why can’t she kill Hannibal Lector? I don’t think it would be easy and she would have to be driven to it. She would have to also become a monster and that is kinda beautiful.

(ALSO- please this is just an idea I had months ago and have been sitting with for awhile. Idgaf if this “ruins” Hannigram for you, stay mad) (if you have ACTUAL constructive criticism please share, I’m willing to be wrong)

When she kills Francis in the book it is to persevere her and her son’s lives. She has to protect them and nobody else can. He chases them into their house and she shoots him four times in the face, she didn’t go easy on him and that’s pretty bad ass. This aspect of her character shouldn’t just disappear in the show.

Her character in the show also doesn’t just go away. Her and Will are STILL MARRIED. Their relationship is significant even if Will chooses Hannibal over her in the end. She would probably be a tether to Will’s humanity post-fall which is dangerous for Hannibal. There would be a great benefit in Molly dying. Will would have to either destroy Hannibal and himself or Molly to relieve himself of the love and pain that her existence would bring him. The comfort and love she brought him still exists. Even though she gets shot by the dragon and is changed, that love and warmth hasn’t changed. Now Will is unable to have that and it would be something to rectify. He would have to eat her.

I imagine post-fall Will and Hannibal would be slowly eating their way through the cast starting obviously with Bedelia. The whole point of Hannibal wanting to eat Will was to satiate his love for him so for Will to eat Molly would be to codify his love for her and have the ability to move on with Hannibal. If they went after her I don’t think she’d play into their game and she could potentially be the only character that could actually kill them from her own sheer power to stay alive + not caring for either of their bullshit. Molly hasn’t even met Hannibal so she wouldn’t be blind to his hospitality and charm. She would see right through this polite demeanour.

If they took her or something she would have to decide whether or not to keep Will alive. Post-fall Will would be operating completely under Hannibal’s influence through manipulation. If there was even a spark of humanity left in Will, I think Molly would want to save him. The real question is can she save him? He would be incredibly dangerous and the choice to save him might not be possible. If Will lives and Hannibal dies the cycle that Hannibal created would still exist. (Hannibal Lector still has agency in the world if Will Graham is alive!) If she does kill Will it would be in her best interest to survive even if it would be painful. She never stops loving him after he leaves her. She would see who he is completely and maybe that would be comforting to know that he has become a monster, that the man she loved doesn’t exist anymore. The only thing left for him is death and she would be able to bring that to him, her last act of love. She could finally free him from Hannibal.

I think it’s fun to have Molly kill Hannibal as an ending. It’s a characteristic they would finally have in common. I’ve seen people compare Molly and Hannibal mostly on their physical appearance but I think they both serve a similar purpose to Will. They both love him unconditionally and are willing to do a lot for him. If Hannigram went after Molly she would have no choice but to fight and she’d probably enjoy getting to kill Hannibal. He took away a lot from her and sent the dragon after her family, that’s not something you just get over. HE STOLE HER HUSBAND. I think it’s the type of revenge that Hannibal would revel in and not that I think he’d be happy to die but I think he’d be amused to die at Molly’s hand. Also pissed. Obviously.

I just think Molly deserve a righteous ending. Even if this doesn’t make sense within the narrative of the show or whatever was supposed to happen post-fall but I think thematically it’s a fun idea.