H/C Bingo.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

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]

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.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

(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.