me when i remember the show's overall arc was about will graham's becoming but also, in tandem, hannibal's undoing ......... the untouchable, austere, inhuman person suit slowly becoming more & more undone & mortal all because of something so human as LOVE!!!! will resists his own becoming the whole way through and although hannibal's comparatively much more willing to indulge himself, we still see that he tries and tries to retreat behind his own fortresses whenever he's startled by his own compassion for will, when he tries and tries to find ways to not let this inconvenient bone-deep feeling for will rooted in his chest be so all-consuming, be so reducing ... until eventually, he gives up and accepts his fall.
the great hannibal lecter!!! finds himself at his knees in the dirty snow just for the chance that will might come to him again. the monster whittled down to only a man, after all .... i'm gnawing at my own hands wtf they make me fucking sick!!!!! will, a man who knows he's a monster and slowly accepts that ... and hannibal, a monster who discovers that he's a man .....
