H/C Bingo.

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Signed up for an hc_bingo card, because it's not like I have enough writing on my plate already. Anyway, apologies for the terrible things I'm going to do to Will Graham and probably also some other characters in the relatively immediate future.

old injuries acting up	prostitution	phobias	bodyguards	forced to face fear
kidnapping	presumed dead	undeserved reputation	sensory deprivation	corporal punishment
tentacles	CPR / rescue breathing	WILD CARD	abuse	restrained
unrequited pining	unconsciousness	healers	assault	confession in desperate situation
isolation	purgatory	trapped together	drugged	alien abduction

Comments

[kore]

That second line across practically writes itself for Will!

[thrillingdetectivetales]

LOL that was my thought exactly, tbh. Now to decide whether it’s Hannibal doing the kidnapping or another nefarious party...

[kore]

I love scenarios where Hannibal rescues Will, like "Fucker, this is MY toy." //swat "How dare anyone try to warp your beautiful existence! That is for ME."

(I probably reread Blackbird one time too many, LOL)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Listen I am *heartily* on board for exactly that scenario, lol. It features in way less Hannigram fic than it should, imo. The kidnapping alone could be its own fic. Maybe a series... lol

(Listen, Blackbird is excellent, so I can totally understand why~ Speaking of...I should read it again...)

[kore]

A SERIES! All the nice terrible hurt for Will, and then all the horrible comfort from Hannibal. "See what happens to you away from me?" or something equally awful. (You KNOW he did that to Abigail and Miriam. You KNOW.) (I still want Abigail and Miriam to escape tho. Either that, or for the Abigail and Her Two Dads ending where Abigail is on that plane instead of Bedelia. //is a sap)

LOL this was me:
MOI: I don't like Murder Husbands fic with happy endings.
MOI: //reads Blackbird because it was recced as beautiful writing
MOI: //rereads Blackbird
MOI: //downloads Blackbird onto Kindle for easier rereading

(Also IIRC it had Alana/Beverley, which was adorable.)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

*slamming fists on table* ABIGAIL! AND! HER! TWO! DADS!

I'm totally with you there. Aaaaand now you've got me thinking of "Abigail busting Miriam out from under Hannibal's thumb" AUs. *lies under sofa* SO MANY IDEAS SO LITTLE TIME!

emungere's Murder Husbands fic overall is just super good. I really enjoy their writing. And Alana/Beverley should be a more popular pairing!!

(Speaking of Beverley Katz, there's another character whose ~tragic end~ I usually prefer to conveniently ignore, lol.)

[kore]

WHY COULDN'T YOU LET US HAVE NICE THINGS, BRYAN FULLER ....well okay, the show wasn't into that BUT STILL

OMG yes, also Abigail busting Miriam out! Freddie wanting Miriam's memoir! Miriam and Abigail could have SUCH exquisite fucked up dynamics about loving/hating/being fucked up by Hannibal. (Miriam could have a spinoff as one of those profilers who was kidnapped by a nutjob, so she has special insight into the nutjobs, a la The Inside.)

....I gotta confess, I didn't want to be RUDE (LOL) but I quit the show in rage and sadness (altho I was only watching about 1/3 of the eps) when Beverley got killed. I Did Not Care about all the justifications ("he respected her!"), I was so bummed. So hell yes, BEVERLEY LIVES, and is not made into some knockoff Damien Hirst thing.

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(Miriam could have a spinoff as one of those profilers who was kidnapped by a nutjob, so she has special insight into the nutjobs, a la The Inside.)

I would read this book series so hard, I can't even explain it in words.

....I gotta confess, I didn't want to be RUDE (LOL) but I quit the show in rage and sadness (altho I was only watching about 1/3 of the eps) when Beverley got killed. I Did Not Care about all the justifications ("he respected her!"), I was so bummed. So hell yes, BEVERLEY LIVES, and is not made into some knockoff Damien Hirst thing.

I KNOW I WAS SO DEVASTATED. When it happened it was literally like, an instantaneous reaction in my brain where I went, "BEVERLEYYYYY!!!! NOOOOO!!! Okay we'll just be ignoring that and rewriting canon, let's move on" over the course of half a second, lol. I wish they hadn't made the decision to kill her off, although I appreciated the discussion of it from the bts stuff where Bryan Fuller explained that they wanted to really earn her death, which I think is, in general, a better way to approach character death than a lot of thriller TV shows take.

Like, definitely don't love that a WoC died to further a cis white male character's manpain but at least it was supposed to be an impactful moment happening to a character the audience was supposed to love and enjoy.

Anyway, BEV LIVES for sure.

[kore]

I guess they didn't use Miriam more because of the Clarice rights (she was kind of like an odd combination of Will from Red Dragon, finding the Wounded Man and getting stabbed, and Clarice the FBI intern who tracks Hannibal from SoTL) but it was also such a shame because SHE AND ABIGAIL COULD HAVE BEEN TRAUMA BUDDIES. (I guess also she's a little bit of the daughter who's kidnapped in SOTL?)

I KNOW I WAS SO DEVASTATED. When it happened it was literally like, an instantaneous reaction in my brain where I went, "BEVERLEYYYYY!!!! NOOOOO!!! Okay we'll just be ignoring that and rewriting canon, let's move on" over the course of half a second, lol. I wish they hadn't made the decision to kill her off, although I appreciated the discussion of it

Aww, I hadn't seen the BTS stuff (because I was SO UPSET) but yeah, it didn't seem like it came from a place of just killing off a WOC because she pissed off the showrunners or they didn't know what to do with her (Carter on PoI, for one....). But yeah, it's still an instantaneous NOPE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN FIC SORRY BEV IS TOO AWESOME TO DIE. From what I remember the Sassy Science Bros were really upset.

[kore]

Just imagine the PTA meetings:

PARENT: I never thought I would say muffins were exquisite, but these are! You make us all look so bad! //laughter

HANNIBAL: Thank you I think! //laughter

WILL: what did you put in the muffins

HANNIBAL: Just the usual ingredients. -- And you must be Abigail's music teacher?

TEACHER: Why yes how did you know?

HANNIBAL, taking her hand: What else could you be, with these fingers? Oh, that reminds me of another dessert I could bring! //laughter

PARENT: Will, your husband is so closed-mouth about his recipes -- do you think you could tease the recipe out of him for us? It's obvious he'll do anything for you!

WILL: //stomps off, eating a muffin

PARENT, sotto voce: Hannibal is such a sweetheart, but that partner of his -- ! He's a little rude, don't you think?

[kore]

(sorry for writing PTA crack in your comments, it got away from me! /o\)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

ADOFJASDFJDSF PLEASE DON'T APOLOGIZE THIS IS FANTASTIC! xDDD

Will knowing that Hannibal put something weird in the muffins and being mad about it and then EATING ONE ANYWAY is like. The most on-brand Will Graham characterization of my life, truly.

It never fails to make me laugh how the reality of the situation is probably such that Hannibal is like, this elegant, suave, star of the room with the most cantankerous partner of all time on his arm and nobody can see what he gets out of it except that Will can be hot when he's not covered in dog hair or drenched in a gallon of blood and fear sweat and they make the assumption he must be like, dynamite in the sack or have blackmail material on Hannibal or something.

Fic from the POV of all Abigail's new friends that she meets in college in Italy or wherever who are like, "Please don't take this the wrong way but what the actual fuck is going on with your dads?"

[kore]

AAAAHAHHA I COULDN'T RESIST

Hannibal probably put something like a very mild hallucinogen or top of the line pot in the goddamn muffins to make everyone nice and pliable and unsuspecting. Hannibal would torment Will by bringing in actual vegan dishes that are so good everyone would abandon the sad cold ham sandwiches and taco casseroles. (He probably grew the veggies himself in a special window box with his very own compost. "Oh, what's in it?!" "That's a secret.")

It never fails to make me laugh how the reality of the situation is probably such that Hannibal is like, this elegant, suave, star of the room with the most cantankerous partner of all time on his arm and nobody can see what he gets out of it except that Will can be hot when he's not covered in dog hair or drenched in a gallon of blood and fear sweat and they make the assumption he must be like, dynamite in the sack or have blackmail material on Hannibal or something.

LOLOLOL YES and then anyone who even hints that Hannibal could maybe do better or tries to figure out What Is Up With Will Anyway has their dog disappear or something. And then Hannibal brings over a consoling hot dish. One of the things I loved about Blackbird was Hannibal telling Will how he was lovely and valuable and offering him silk pajamas and so on. (Hannibal probably dresses Will up for the PTA events. Slowly. Calculatedly. Will still has dog hairs all over his pants.)

Fic from the POV of all Abigail's new friends that she meets in college in Italy or wherever who are like, "Please don't take this the wrong way but what the actual fuck is going on with your dads?"

//DIES

YES

"Will's great! He's just....shy." "And rude." "He's not really rude. He's just shy. You know. He's not a....people person, he likes dogs." "Your other dad is such a 'people person,' though!" "Uh, yes! Yes he is."

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YOUR OTHER DAD IS SUCH A PEOPLE PERSON.

/ D E A D

Abigail just sweating nervously, "HA HA HA HA YEP. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF A PEOPLE PERSON."

"....okay. So, we did dinner at Maddie's last week. Do we finally get to come around to your place for - "

"NOPE."

(I'm realizing now that I need to get on making icons for S3 because I really need some good ones of Abigail that aren't just her lying in a hospital bed, fully intubated...)

ETA: Will still has dog hairs all over his pants.

He fucking would. Hannibal, in his youth, probably: "I don't believe in soulmates and while the concept of love at first sight is seductive, I have yet to meet the individual capable of tempting me to it."

Hannibal, decades later, in Jack Crawford's office with a badly-dressed asshole who reeks of sweat and wet dog and cheap cologne who he wants more than anything he's ever wanted in his life: "What god have I offended, to be so cursed."

[kore]

Abigail just sweating nervously, "HA HA HA HA YEP. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF A PEOPLE PERSON."
"....okay. So, we did dinner at Maddie's last week. Do we finally get to come around to your place for - "
"NOPE."

YES

WILL: "We can take her friends OUT to dinner."
HANNIBAL: "They'll think we can't cook!"
WILL: "GOOD."

Also you know for potlucks/group dinners Hannibal is the only one who remembers everyone's food preferences/allergies.

(I'm realizing now that I need to get on making icons for S3 because I really need some good ones of Abigail that aren't just her lying in a hospital bed, fully intubated...)

OMG YES, I didn't want to push, but I love her! And your icons!

Hannibal, in his youth, probably: "I don't believe in soulmates and while the concept of love at first sight is seductive, I have yet to meet the individual capable of tempting me to it."
Hannibal, decades later, in Jack Crawford's office with a badly-dressed asshole who reeks of sweat and wet dog and cheap cologne who he wants more than anything he's ever wanted in his life: "What god have I offended, to be so cursed."

//cackles

Abigail's friends probably think he's so romantic and sweet (JUST IMAGINE what he does for anniversaries). "Your dads love each other so much!"