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It is somewhat of a question still whether Will was on Hannibal or Jack’s side at the beginning of Mizumono or if he was simply undecided. We actually get the answer to the question right at the very beginning of the episode. Two facts show us definitively that Will was on Hannibal’s side from the start.
1. Will tells Jack that Hannibal is planning to kill Jack in the kitchen.
Will: He’ll try to kill you in the kitchen. For convenience. Make it easier to prepare the tartar.
We know this is a lie because when Will thinks about what would have happened at the dinner in Aperitivo, they kill him in the dining room, not the kitchen. The only reason Will would lie about this to Jack at this point is because he is planning to kill him with Hannibal and he wants to catch Jack off guard.
Will: Jack won’t be easy to kill. He’ll be armed. He’s strong. Well trained. We can’t hesitate.
Jack: I’m wearing a wire. I have sharp shooters on the roofs of neighboring houses with lines of site to all the windows.
They slit his throat to prevent him from making him a sound and they kill him in the dining room because the only window is covered. This is what Will was planning and he lies to Jack about it. In this same scene, he doesn’t lie to Hannibal. He’s chosen Hannibal.
2. The scene directly after Jack and Hannibal are both talking to Will about their plans and whose side he is on is Will “shooting” the Ravenstag. But he did not shoot the Ravenstag.
We know at the end of the episode, this was a misdirect. It’s to make us think he’s chosen Jack because he supposedly shot the Ravenstag. But he didn’t. He left it alive and it’s only “dying” at the end when Hannibal guts Will. He’s chosen to keep his connection to Hannibal alive. He’s chosen Hannibal.
We have to watch the rest of the episode with this fact in mind. He chose Hannibal at the beginning. So, why does Will make sure that their dinner plans were still on? Was it to capture Hannibal? No. It was to kill Jack with Hannibal.
The reason that Will was so intent on killing Jack was to prove himself after he couldn’t back out of his lie about Freddie. He needed some way to prove to Hannibal he was his man and show Jack what he is, beyond a shadow of a doubt. That’s why he was so insistent about killing Jack even when Hannibal didn’t want to. If Will wanted Hannibal simply to escape by himself, he could have told Hannibal much earlier to get away before Hannibal was close to being put into danger. Furthermore, if his goal was to capture Hannibal, he could have arrested him when he mutilated Mason. He told Jack that’s what he would do and he didn’t do it. Neither capturing Hannibal nor simply telling him to run away without him was on Will’s agenda.
This is further confirmed in Season 3 when Will tells Jack, “I wanted to run away with him” and when he thinks of his perfect world he thinks of his missed opportunity of killing Jack with Hannibal at the dinner. When he talks to “Abigail” who is really himself, he tells himself, “Yes, I still want to go with him,” he says, “We were supposed to go with him.” It was clearly his plan.
The real tragedy of Mizumono is that Will was planning to run away with Hannibal. But since he didn’t get the chance to prove himself, and he kept lying and relying on the act of killing Jack to cement his and Hannibal’s relationship, Hannibal gave up on him and gutted him thinking that Will really was going to turn him over to the FBI. It was a miscommunication pure and simple.
There are only a couple of things that I can think of that would undermine this reading of the episode.
1. Will tells Jack that he “wasn’t decided” when he called Hannibal and only decided to tell him to run when he heard his voice.
It’s possible that Will is simply lying to Jack, as he’s done before, because he didn’t want Jack to know he was going to kill him with Hannibal. It’s also possible that Will was indeed undecided at that particular moment because his plan had fallen through. The dinner wasn’t going to happen and there was a warrant out for him and cops at his door. He had to decide what to do when his plan had entirely changed. Should he call Hannibal to warn him even if that meant he couldn’t go with him? Should he protect himself from any further involvement with Hannibal since he might be caught? He had to decide and he decided when he heard his voice that he would warn him to get away even if he couldn’t go with him. Either way, it’s not a problem to this reading of the episode.
2. When Will talks to himself as Abigail in S3
Aperitivo
Ghost!Abigail: Why did you lie to him?
Will: The wrong thing being the right thing to do was too ugly a thought.
The first thing we think of is that Will is saying here that he lied about working with Jack. But that’s not what he’s saying. What did he lie to Hannibal about? Killing Freddie. That was his initial lie. We know he’s talking about the initial lie because he follows that up with “you just kept lying”. So, what he’s saying here is that he lied about killing Freddie because even though he thought killing her (the wrong thing) was actually the “right thing” it was too ugly a thought. So he didn’t kill her and he lied about it. Will had described killing as “ugly” before multiple times so I think we can safely say that killing Freddie is what he’s talking about here. He’s not talking about warning Hannibal to get away or failing to do so at the last supper and he’s not talking about lying about working with Jack.
Aperitivo
Will: He gave you a chance to take it all back and you just kept lying. No one had to die.
So what does “No one had to die” mean, then? It doesn’t make sense in context unless you realize what emphasis we should understand. If Will had stopped lying to Hannibal at the last supper, that doesn’t mean no one would have died. Hannibal and Will would have run away together. Does that mean no one else would die? Of course not. If they’d run away together, or if Hannibal had run away on his own, Hannibal would still keep killing people. No, what he is saying to himself is that he didn’t need to kill Jack like he thought he did.
It isn’t “no one had to die”. It’s “no one had to die”. What you emphasize and pay attention to in that sentence is key.
Mizumono
Hannibal: Is it ideal that Jack die?
Will: It’s necessary. What happens to Jack has been preordained.
Hannibal: I don’t need a sacrifice. Do you?
Will: I need him to know. He wants to see you, see who you are. See what I’ve become.
Will thought that Jack’s death was necessary, that it HAD TO happen. When he’s talking to himself in the hospital, he is saying that was wrong. Jack didn’t have to die. They could have run away together and left him alive. Just like Hannibal said.
Hannibal didn’t want to kill Jack, but Will insisted. Why would Will insist so much on that night that they had to kill Jack supposedly to catch Hannibal and then turn completely around the next day and tell Hannibal to run away? Nothing had changed between them in that time. Nothing at all. In fact, he never spoke to Hannibal in that time. The next time he spoke to him was to tell him to run away. The only thing that had changed was that their plans to go to dinner with Jack were ruined. Will’s plan to kill Jack with Hannibal was ruined. That’s why he insisted they kill Jack one night and then told Hannibal to run away the next night.
And one last thing. What about when they show him as “two” in Mizumono? Does that mean he was still undecided or of two minds in the beginning of Mizumono? No. We have to remember the other time he is shown as “two” and what happened.
Mizumono
Hannibal describes it in S3 as not being of two minds, or undecided, but as an “active and deliberate” splitting of his personality.
Aperitivo
In each of these cases when Will is shown as “two” it means he is actively and deliberately splitting his personality. It means he’s ready to kill Jack. There’s no question about it since the first time it’s shown, he’s on Hannibal’s side and is planning to kill Jack. That’s confirmed when the 2nd time it is shown he immediately does help Hannibal kill Jack in his fantasy.
In summary, what happened in Mizumono was that Will was planning to kill Jack with Hannibal in order to prove himself. He had lied about killing Freddie and he needed a way to “undo” that. Once the FBI interfered and the dinner was ruined, Will’s plans were also ruined. He had to decide what to do after that. He decided to help Hannibal even if it meant they would be separated (which Will did not want). But Will didn’t know that Hannibal had smelled Freddie and thought that Will had betrayed him. He goes to Hannibal’s house, he gets gutted and does nothing to stop it. He never wavers from his decision to be on Hannibal’s side and help him escape. When Hannibal says he didn’t want his “gift” Will counters that he did. Their misunderstanding was the tragedy.
Holy shit
This is one of the most brilliant bits of meta that I have ever seen.
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I’ve been planning to write something about this for ages, so it’s such a wonderful surprise to see it already written – and in such beautiful, insightful way! I totally missed the fact that Will pretended to kill the Ravenstag and didn’t actually do it. Wow.
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Thank you honey! LOVED WRITING THIS. Strangely enough I didn’t look very closely that you wanted Hannibal to say it and ended up writing him saying it anyway?
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Hannibal had given up completely on getting what he wanted. He’d hinted, pointed out, and occasionally modeled for Will but still nothing.
He would never get Will into a truly bespoke and well fitted suit.
He was happy that Will was dressing better now, fitted shirts and slacks that showed off his assets well though he longed for him to leave the bedroom one morning wearing the Armani he’d seen at the store the other day, the clean blue lines making him look perfectly beautiful just as Hannibal knew he was already.
When the day of Hannibal’s birth came he did not tell Will, the day of no significance to Hannibal whatsoever. He woke up to find Will gone, his side of the bed quite cold.
Frowning he entered the kitchen and stopped, losing his breath and nearly his balance.
Will was cooking and Hannibal had tears in his eyes when he smelled what it was.
“You’re cooking me blynai.”
Will turned, his cheeks pink as he said, “You weren’t supposed to wake up yet.”
Hannibal came towards him and froze, noticing that the apron he wore was covering the suit he wore.
It was the Armani Hannibal had wished to see on him, and he rushed to Will’s side grabbing him roughly making Will laugh as he tore the apron off to see him fully.
Will was still laughing, the pink of his cheeks making Hannibal reach out to touch his face as he said with a smile, “Someone is eager to see his birthday present.”
Hannibal drank him in, his eyes memorizing every perfect line as they traveled up and down his form.
“How did you know it was my…?”
Will took Hannibal’s hands and brought them to his lips. “Freddie Lounds had an in depth article about us last week and it was there in black and white,” he glared at Hannibal, “You should have told me.”
Hannibal squeezed his hands and said breathlessly, “I have never been fond of celebrating my birth. I cannot…you did all of this for me?”
Will blushed, letting go of his hands.
“Of course, it’s the first time we can celebrate it together, I wanted,” his eyes were teary when he looked at Hannibal again, “I wanted to give you a traditional Lithuanian breakfast and…shit!”
He pushed Hannibal away and went to salvage the pancakes, breathing a sigh of relief when he turned off the burner and glared at him.
“I almost burnt them!”
Hannibal laughed, a full blown belly laugh that had Will staring at him oddly.
“What’s so funny?”
Hannibal wiped tears from his eyes.
“I hate blynai, with a horrible passion. My mother used to make them for Mischa’s birthday when I was…”
His smile faded and Will came to him, touching Hannibal’s cheek.
“I have another surprise. I think you will like these ones. There’s a secret ingredient in the batter.”
Hannibal smiled.
“That woman who ran over that dog last week?”
Will grinned, his cheek up against Hannibal’s when he leaned in and whispered, “Happy birthday, Mylimasis.”
Hannibal looked up from his sketchpad, surprised by the
question.
“Yes.”
Will swallowed, standing in the doorway but not moving.
Hannibal smiled. “You actually have to be in my vicinity to
kiss me, Will, unless there is another way I am unaware of.”
Will sighed, “I know, it’s just…we’ve never talked about
this before.”
Hannibal stood and walked towards him, nearly laughing when
Will took several steps back into the hallway. He stopped when they were close
but not touching, reaching out to touch Will’s cheek.
“I would never force you into an aspect of our relationship
you did not want. I am perfectly happy being with you with nothing more than
our current physical relationship. I adore the trust I have built with you,
that alone keeps me nourished.”
Will smiled. “I still want to kiss you.”
Hannibal did not move, “You can.”
Will reached up to the opposite cheek that Hannibal was
touching on him, pressing their lips together so lightly that Hannibal barely
felt a thing though he licked his lips at their parting. Will smiled, his
breath a whoosh against his lips. “Thank you, Will. That was lovely.”
Will touched his lips, “No one would ever think you’d be so
gentle.”
“Only with you, Will,” Hannibal said, kissing his cheek and
waiting for Will’s next move.
Will kissed him again, this one lingering slightly longer
but he waited for Hannibal to pull away, his tongue barely touching Hannibal’s
own before Hannibal pulled back, pressing their foreheads together. “You set me
aflame, Will, it is hard to pull away from you.”
Will said, “But I trust that you will if I tell you to
stop.”
Will kissed him again, moaning as he pulled Hannibal closer
and pulling back, his mouth against Hannibal’s cheek as he panted, catching his
breath.
“Would you, Will? Tell me to stop?”
Will pulled back, smiling. “Kissing me or killing me?”
Hannibal kissed his forehead, “Both.”
“No, Hannibal, I wouldn’t. If you were killing me or kissing
me, I know it would be because I asked you to.”
Hannibal smiled against his skin.
“Beautiful Will, you please me so.”
Will laughed. “Not yet, but we’ll get there.”
Hannibal pulled back, looking into his eyes and confessing,
“No, Will, you please me now. Every day after today you will just please me
more.”
Will whispered, “I love you.”
Hannibal closed his eyes, taking Will’s hand and bringing it
to his lips.
“Thank you, Will,” he whispered, “I love you too.”
They shared a smile, Will pulling him back into the study.
“How about you start on that drawing you’ve been promising me?”
The thing about this photoset is that Evans is a passive subject for the camera.
Most photos of a beefy blonde male have him staring aggressively. You know the type I mean – stance wide and shoulders spread, eyes lit with challenge, as if he’s about to punch or fuck the camera man. This set is the exact opposite. Evans glances away from the camera like a Victoria’s Secret model, or else peeks from behind a shirt like he’s asking for approval. The photos where he’s on his knees have his spine curved to show off his slender waist, elbows in to show submission. Heck, in one picture the curve of his torso mirrors the curve of the lady on the poster in the background.
Some photographer, when deciding to work with Evans, decided to shoot him in a way that women are often portrayed, instead of the traditional machismo alpha male bullshit. Thank you, photographer. Tumblr is grateful.
Oh wow someone added smart meta to this photoshoot. That means I can constantly reblog it without shame.
also forgot to post this from a while back! the assignment was to draw the inside of a character, so obviously i drew hannibal with a stag skeleton wrapped with primrose and california poppy meaning “i can’t live without you” and “do not refuse me” respectively 🌼🌻
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