That Scene From GOT Where Daenerys Eats The Horse Heart But Its Hannibal And Will Or Something

If you think Bedelia told Will that Hannibal was in love with him, you're wrong.

When Will asks her plainly, “Is Hannibal in love with me?”, Bedelia does not offer the comfort or constraint of a simple “yes.” Instead, she replies: “He daily feels a stab of hunger and finds nourishment at the very sight of you.”

This is no evasion, but precision. Bedelia is the consummate observer, the only one perhaps capable of reading Hannibal accurately not through empathy but through pure intellect, refrains deliberately from naming the feeling as love. Because she knows better.

To say Hannibal is “in love” would be to reduce him to the category of the ordinary. It would be to align his experience of desire with that of humans, those who love and pine, who miss and regret, who fall and suffer. But Hannibal does not fall. He devours. He consumes. His longing is not sentimental but carnivorous. He is not wounded by love but sharpened by appetite.

Hannibal and Will both occupy a liminal space beyond the structures that define conventional emotion. They are not simply men, but something Other. Beasts, Fallen Angels, mirrors of each other’s darkness. For Bedelia to claim that Hannibal loved Will would not only be false, it would betray her own intelligence, and her understanding of what Hannibal is. Hannibal does not love in human terms. He feels hunger, fascination, aesthetic rapture, a sublime compulsion that transcends the human vocabulary of affection.

And that is precisely why Bedelia’s choice of words matters. He finds nourishment at the very sight of you. That is not love. That is need on a mythic scale. So, no, Bedelia did not tell Will that Hannibal was in love with him. She told him something much worse.

i was holding 2 knives when putting dishes away and i went to go put them in the knife uhh holder thing and i felt kinda like

I will write smut and think it's the pinnacle of all my works, forget about it, remember I wrote it, then cringe and put it in a hidden folder on ao3 where it will never again see the light of day

I think hannibal’s dick gave will graham brain damage bc it took him entirely too long to figure out who framed him for murder, mf is like… who could have done this to me.. who has intimate knowledge about my psyche, my schedule, and unpublished crime scene evidence which I share with my therapist in excruciating detail…  what’s not clicking william?

peeing after robot sex so i dont get an hdmi

Thinking of Hannibal being the only provider for Will after the fall.

He couldn't provide for Mischa. Couldn't keep Mischa's replacement to provide for, either. Now that he has Will, there won't be anything Will wants that he can't get. Anything at all.

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

Hannibal 1.03 Potage

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