pairing: will graham x gn!reader
genre: comfort
notes: nobody can stop me from making will being pet, also, winner of another poll (I like polls okay...)
will is your bf/partner and he's... not really a morning person, little head canon imagine guys you know the drill by now... :3
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Mornings with Will are slow and messy.
He always shuffles around the kitchen half-awake, hair sticking up in every direction, glasses crooked, reheating the coffee for about the third time now...
You, on the other hand, are fully awake, and maybe even a bit mischievous.
Sometimes that means smacking his ass when he least expects it.
This morning, you hit a little harder than usual.
Will lets out a startled yelp, "Y/N–!"
You just hum innocently, handing him the single sugar cube for his coffee
"Hm?" you innocently hum
He groans, rubbing his backside as he sips his coffee, glaring at you through half-lidded eyes.
"... Did you have to hit me that hard?"
You laugh, stepping closer and brushing stray curls out of his face before pressing soft kisses to his cheek and nose.
"I plead innocence, Agent Graham..."
He mumbles something about your innocence being highly questionable, but he melts immediately when you keep kissing him.
One of his dogs whines at your feet, tail wagging impatiently.
Will bends down automatically, scratching behind their ears.
"Looks like someone else wants attention...."
You scoff dramatically at being momentarily ignored… then reach down and start petting Will's head too, fingers scratching gently through his curls.
He freezes momentarily and then looks up at you slowly...
"…Are you seriously petting me?"
You only smile and keep going.
Will's protests die quickly. His eyes flutter shut as he leans into your hand, a soft, embarrassed sound slipping from his throat.
You tease him quietly, calling him your little puppy, fingers massaging his scalp just the way he likes.
"Don't... don't tell Jack you call me that."
You tug him closer instead, letting his head rest against your chest while you press soft kisses into his hair.
"You know I'd never."
Will sighs, deep and content, arm sliding around your waist.
The dog eventually wanders off, clearly defeated by the competition and rests on the floor.
You smile, petting the shorter hair at the back of his head, pressing another kiss to the top of his head. "Someone's still sleepy, huh… pup?"
He grumbles weakly, "I'm not a puppy..."
You ask if he wants to go back to bed or get ready for work.
Will sighs, torn, eyes half-lidded as he peers up at you.
"…Jack would kill me if I skipped. There's a briefing at nine."
He pauses, tightening his grip around you. "…But I can be five minutes late."
You laugh softly as he leans almost his full weight against you.
"Alri– Will, you're heavy."
"M'not heavy…"
You suggest five minutes on the couch instead.
He agrees instantly.
Five minutes turns into Will sprawled across you like an oversized puppy
OKAY I am a little sick of people thinking of Will Graham as uneducated or unintelligent.
This man owned a huge amount of well-loved books, he was familiar with the works of Dante Alighieri, he outsmarted the FBI, and he could keep up intellectually with Hannibal fucking Lecter. On top of that, he manipulated Hannibal, a master manipulator, and even fooled him. He outsmarted the smartest man he knew.
As far as his education goes, Will had a degree in forensic science (a notoriously difficult field of study, at least in the U.S.) from George Washington University and was implied to have more than one, or at least multiple areas of education, due to his ACADEMICALLY PUBLISHED WORKS in entomology.
I'm not sure where this idea that Will is not as intelligent or educated as Hannibal (or other characters for that matter!) came from, but it seriously grates on my nerves. I am begging some of y'all to give him more credit. He's canonically incredibly intelligent, and that's not just from his empathy disorder.
(And before anyone comments, yeah, I know it's probably from the poor kid who grew up at the boatyards in NOLA fanon, but still.)
My niche Hannibal headcanon is that the laundry detergent Will uses causes him to have slight allergic reactions, resulting in small breakouts on his skin. He doesn't think much of it, chalking it up to the constant stress he's under. However, Hannibal notices these breakouts, his gaze often lingering on the small amounts of skin that Will chooses to expose. His interest of course isn’t purely sexual; rather, it's driven by a desire to mentally dissect him, will graham is extremely interesting to Hannibal.
Over the span of a few months, Hannibal begins to slowly change Will’s environment. He offers things like soaps, tediously speaking about how they’re “remarkably nourishing for the skin.” Will thinks nothing of these gifts; after all, Hannibal is a bit strange. He starts using the items, out of convenience. Every time he goes to find an old product he would use, it has mysteriously disappeared.
Eventually, through a process of trial and error, Hannibal gives Will a new laundry detergent—the same expensive brand he uses. After about a week, Hannibal notices that the rashes on Will’s skin have begun to fade. Moreover, he can now smell the faint scent of his detergent lingering on his clothes.
From that day forward he decided he would do whatever it took to keep his scent on him
[ general disclosure ... this post is about my personal opinions and headcanons for Will as a dom! as always, trigger warning for my posts. if you wish to still look at my posts but don't want to see anything heavy, block the tag "#...hidden room!". i am open to hearing about other ideas and headcanons from others but please be respectful! all ideas on this post and my blog are open to being written about, but please @ me so I can see it <3 ]
« his preferences »
— blood ; any inclusion of blood during sex. he prefers to make Hannibal bleed, but he isn't against bleeding himself or having sex when covered in another person's blood.
— pain ; he likes to push Hannibal's limits by hurting him during sex. yet, if Hannibal asks for pain, he will stop and make the absence another form of pain. if Hannibal is good enough, he'll give him what he wants and hurt him in the way Hannibal asks.
— begging ; he likes making Hannibal break his resolve and drop his "person suit" per se and have him so desperate that he begins to beg. if it sounds half assed to him, he'll have Hannibal continue until it sounds good enough, then he will "indulge" Hannibal.
— names ; while he does enjoy being called "sir" and "professor" on occasion, he likes it best when all Hannibal can say is his name. he tends to call Hannibal "darling" when he's mocking him, yet when he gets into it, he calls Hannibal "baby" without realizing it. he denies it when Hannibal points it out later.
— marking ; he likes to leave marks on Hannibal, both temporary and permanent. he likes having proof of his ownership of Hannibal and the way that only he can see the man as he is.
— degradation / praise ; he goes back and forth between degrading Hannibal and calling him a good boy and praising him for being so obedient and letting Will rough him up.
— primal / fear ; one of his biggest likes is being able to use Hannibal after a hunt (while he is still riding the high of the hunt). he likes knowing that he can use such a feared man however he wants and could potentially kill him should he choose to.
« fic ideas »
— idea one ; instead of Will walking away from the kitchen in s02e07, he decides to fuck Hannibal. definitely dubcon. he points his gun at Hannibal as he makes him submit and Will realizes that having this power over Hannibal and his life turns him on way too much. Will makes Hannibal suck him off while holding the gun to his head, simultaneously degrading Hannibal for letting him do this. it can go many ways from there.
— idea two ; starts after the end of s02e08 where Will fails to kill the social worker (yes, i know the social worker's name. no, i won't use it.). after they do their weird sexually charged eye contact thing, Will snaps and points the gun at Hannibal. they fuck. i don't have a lot of ideas for this one to be honest, so this will be expanded upon on a different post.
— idea three ; immediately after s02e09, after bringing Randall's body to Hannibal, they have a similar conversation as in canon, except, Hannibal asks if Will wants to compare the feeling of beating Randall to death with the real thing (beating him up). Will thinks about the euphoria that killing Randall brought him and instead of responding verbally punches Hannibal in the face. he proceeds to beat him up, straddling him like he did Randall. except, this time, Will finds that he's aroused and was subconsciously grinding against Hannibal while beating him.
tagging @grahamsmutt , @anothergayghoul , @will-grahams-larynx
(please let me know if you don't want to be tagged! i'm tagging the last two because y'all seemed interested in this when i posted about it on my main)
i will try to expand on these fic ideas at some point. i can't guarantee that they will be written, let alone a time frame. if you couldn't tell, i quite enjoy late season 2.
as always, my asks are open! please read my rules before sending an ask <3
Sub Hannibal counterpart here: link
What is your hottest and most luke warm Will Graham take?
My hottest take on Will Graham is that during mizumono, he thought that no matter which side he took (Jack or Hannibal), the act of simply making a choice would be selfish. That’s why he let Jack and Hannibal physically fight, so whoever made it out alive could be who ends he’s up choosing morally and then he could pretend that whatever the outcome is was his desire all along. However, the second that he saw Hannibal, he IMMEDIATELY wished that he himself had just gone to beat the shit out of Hannibal, and while he was doing so, he could have decided.
My most luke warm Will Graham take is while he was in early elementary school, he would piss on his favorite places in the playground to “mark his territory”. He also had no friends.
random will graham headcanons (childhood, teen years, college, etc.)
rating: t
warnings:
mentions of murder (canon typical), homicidal ideation, child abuse, alcoholism.
a/n:
title says it all. just some headcanons based off of the show, bits of red dragon and my own personal intuition because I'm THAT good. /s
He doesn’t know why his mom left because his dad refuses to tell him and would get furious anytime he brought it up as a child.
He experienced corporal punishment from his dad but if asked, wouldn’t consider it to be abuse—no matter how emotionally traumatic it was for him.
His dad George was a survey technician in the US Army Corps of Engineers. His mother Adaline had worked as a pharmacist before Will was born.
He was never allowed pets growing up, hence why he now owns so many dogs.
With his undiagnosed ASD and constant moving around for his dad’s job, Will struggled to form any long-lasting, meaningful relationships in his youth.
His dad would occasionally write letters to Will and send him various gifts (Bourbon, aftershave, new lures) around the time of his birthday or the holidays. He stopped after Will was imprisoned and hasn’t written to him since.
Will tried to approach girls he had crushes on when he was a teen but they were always dismissive of him or thought he was weird.
He lost his virginity in a clumsy drunken one-night stand in his sophomore year of college. She was his roommate’s ex and there was some drama over it.
Will has experienced lots of frustration with the women in his romantic life who in his mind toyed with his feelings and strung him along. He was always so willing to commit himself to the right girl and even imagined himself as the kind to settle down and get married young but the opportunity never arose.
Throughout his teenage years, he imagined often how he would kill his dad and was convinced he could get away with it.
Will dated a Law student in his junior and senior year of college and they had been going steady until after they’d slept with each other one night and Will had a hyperrealistic dream in which he strangled her in her sleep, dismembered her, and scattered her all around campus. This dream disturbed Will so deeply that he broke things off with the girl right after, providing little explanation as to why.
Will’s want to become a father and to protect and nurture his “strays” (Abigail Hobbs, Georgia Madchen, Peter Bernadone, his actual fucking dogs) is very much ego-driven. It’s not as genuine or wholesome as he might want you to think or how he even perceives it to be.
Will was pretty widely disliked at the police department he was a detective for as well as the FBI Academy.
His alcoholism developed as a way to numb his overstimulated senses and to cancel out the intrusive thoughts he has. As time has gone on, his reliance on liquor has only grown; a habit he picked up from his father.
Will is a notoriously harsh grader and is quick to shut down any dissenting opinions about his “style of teaching”.
He’s definitely had inappropriate thoughts/fantasies about a few of his students, ranging from shallow sexual attraction to full-blown abduction.
He doesn’t own a television or a computer and begrudgingly owns a smartphone for his job.
The majority of his interests and likes/dislikes are ones he got from his dad. His dad loved to fish. His dad’s favorite singer was Johnny Cash. His dad liked the color green. Will probably feels as if these are what he should like and if you actually asked him how he felt about ____ or if he really liked XYZ; he wouldn’t know how to answer.
A huge part of the reason he loves dogs is that they do not know they are ‘kept’. As opposed to a human being who could recognize if they were taken from everything they know or forced to live the life of another; dogs don’t think that way and above all, they are undyingly loyal.
^^ And yes, this is my way of saying I subscribe to the popular headcanon that Will has stolen some of his dogs.
