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[hannibal]

Name: Ink
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E-Mail: commandgold@gmail.com
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Other Characters: James T. Kirk(emboldened)

Character Name: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Series: Hannibal(NBC)
Timeline: Post-Savoreaux (end of Season 1)
Canon Resource Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter
http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series)
http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter_(TV)

Character History: In this television adaptation of the Hannibal Lecter character's role in the Thomas Harris books, little is known about his backstory and where Lecter comes from. He's portrayed with an accent that suggests he may still played with Lithuanian heritage, but nothing is known for certain of where he hails from. We do know, however, that he lost his parents when he was very young, and was raised by his uncle Robertus until he turned sixteen, something which he shares with Will Graham to show their closeness and commonalities with Abigail Hobbs. Upon first being introduced to his character, we see that he is a talented artist with pencil and charcoal, and utilizes a scalpel to sharpen his tips. He went to boarding school in Paris as a boy, and was awarded a scholarship for his artistic talents - attending John Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

It's at this school that he mentors a future FBI profiler, Dr. Alana Bloom, a woman that we find is important to him. They have a conversation in which Alana reveals that everyone thought the two of them were having an affair in their school days, and Hannibal exposes that he does somewhat care for her - thoughtful enough to brew her her own special reserve of beer rather than wine. At Alana's recommendation, Hannibal Lecter is recommended to Jack to assist Will Graham in determining whether or not the man is sane enough to be considered for active duty as a special agent. Dr. Lecter accompanies Will on the journey to find Garrett Jacob Hobbs, the man who's killed several women of a similar stature, hair color, weight, and age.

The two men manage to locate an address of a suspect, and before they set out, Hannibal contacts Garrett Jacob Hobbs to give him a warning: "They know." When they arrive, they just barely see a woman being shoved out of her door, bled out over the front porch, a distraction. Will rushes in, just in time to see the man slit Abigail Hobbs' throat - he puts a stop to him before he does any further damage, shooting him a number of ten times before the man falls in a slump to the floor.

Will, covered in blood drops to his knees to try to save Abigail, holding his hand over her throat, frightened and afraid - Hannibal rushes in, places his hand over the girl's neck, and assists him in keeping her alive until emergency services arrive at the scene. A moment is shared, Will's blood covered face shuddering, nerve-wracked and on the verge of a panic attack, while Hannibal stares at him, as if he were studying him like a rare artifact. This is the start of his fascination, his complete and utter curiosity with Will Graham. The shared, somewhat tragic event they've witnessed together brings them closer, and Hannibal develops into somewhat of an unofficial psychiatrist for Will. He feels obligated to maintain a relationship with Abigail, considering the death of her parents and her unfortunate situation, and convinces Will to accompany her with him to Minnesota, where they visit the crime scene and are met with a victim's brother, who attacks Abigail late at night. She stabs him in self-defense, and Hannibal witnesses the event, going so far as to push Alana Bloom's head against the wall to knock her out in order to keep another person from seeing.

He manages to convinces her that it's a terrible thing she's done, and that the media will turn this against her, maintaining the idea that she's exactly like her father. They share their secrets, and it's revealed that she knows that Hannibal was on the phone on the day her parents died. He assists her in disposing of the body, and grows close to her in a fatherly way, checking her out from the hospital, and not reporting any instances in which she's snuck out to see him. Upon one of these visits, he gives her a drugged tea in order to assist with the nightmares, reenacting the last meal with her father in order to spare her the thought of Garrett Hobbs without feeling pain. It can be said, from this that he has strange methods of psychological help that may not necessarily be within medical norms, and also that he seems somewhat fond of her, caring about her in a sense. Will Graham comes to him often, generally for case information and assistance, but also to speak with him about his thoughts, his feelings, his emotions. Will is becoming more and more troubled with things as the season goes on, going so far as to sleep walk and start forgetting time. Throughout this, Hannibal is by his side, assisting him in order to try to get a handle on himself and his own grips with reality. Will is sensitive to know when there are copycat killers, he has an ability to figure out motive and emotion, his empathy becoming more fascinating to Hannibal as time stretches on. Hannibal is nothing if not a person of social graces, and in several episodes, you see the culinarian cook for his guests. His dinner parties are well-received, and he is also clear that he prefers his own food. In several times throughout the show, it's inferred that Hannibal is actually the Chesapeake Ripper, a murderer on the loose, known well for taking organs as trophies -- and using them, at that, to cook with. He is also the "copy-cat" killer, that Will insists is replicating the works of serial killers, in several instances.

Hannibal grows closer to Will, even referring to him outside of their talks to his own psychiatrist, Dr. Bedelia du Maurier. He confides in her that he believes that he is growing fond of Will, attached to him, feeling as though he is his friend. Dr. du Maurier brings to us an entire new light of Hannibal - one in which he has been vulnerable with her in the past, and even gone so far as to save her from a rogue patient of his that he'd recommended to her. She brings to light his trust issues, that he so very rarely trusts himself with another human being, and also shows that he appears to show regret and sadness for the things he has done to those in his life. Franklin is one of Hannibal's patients that has attempted to push the barriers between psychiatrist and friend, and has managed to cause some concern in Hannibal's life when he reveals the identity of another serial killer, Tobias Budge, telling him that he's managed to check off that he's a psychopath. Perhaps by his own curiosity, Hannibal decides to investigate him alone, coming to his shop and noting the strings, all made of gut. He converses with Tobias, the two of them sharing a laugh over the terrible thing that's happened to the trombonist of the symphony(cut open, vocal cords exposed, cello neck pushed down his throat) and posing the question whether or not the symphony is better for it.

The next time we see Tobias he is sharing a meal with Dr. Lecter, their conversation ultimately turning to the dead trombonist. Tobias Budge admits his guilt in the murder, but not without letting Hannibal know that he's witnessed Hannibal's work - drove after him one night, and watched him do what he does well. We learn that Tobias Budge had intended to kill Hannibal, and Hannibal had intended to kill Tobias, a tension that comes to a terrifying point until it's interrupted by none other than Will Graham at Hannibal's door. Tobias flees the scene, and Hannibal is left discussing the matter with Will, discussing the kiss he's just shared with Alana Bloom. He gives Will the information that Franklin had provided in their session, in what we can surmise is an attempt to have Tobias Budge locked away before the man can reveal any of his secrets.

When Will visits him, the questioning doesn't exactly go as planned, leaving two policemen dead and a struggling Will Graham in Tobias' grasp. He manages to fire, leaving the both of them reeling from the gunshot going off next to their ear, and Tobias runs, Will shooting after him. The very next scene cuts to Franklin and Hannibal discussing Hannibal referring him to another psychiatrist, and Franklin is upset - nine times he's been referred, and Hannibal assures him it's because he gets too attached. Franklin attempts to salvage it, asking if the reason he's being dropped is because he didn't report Tobias Budge's murder to anyone, only to be interrupted by Tobias himself. Franklin immediately gets up to try to calm Tobias down, to assure him that he's not alone, and that he promises to help him through rehabilitation - a distraction for a moment, before Hannibal finally crosses over to him and breaks his neck with a simple twist of his hands.

This leads to a fight between Tobias and Hannibal that leaves Tobias Budge dead in his office, and Hannibal sore, exhausted, and bleeding. When police come to question, he tells mostly the truth, accepting the death of Tobias Budge on his hands. He attempts to empathize with both Will and Bedelia in this way, sharing with Will he now knows exactly how it must feel to protect yourself against someone, and sharing with Dr. Bedelia du Maurier that he can understand why she would step away from therapy, considering her own set of circumstances. She makes it clear to him that he should not accept responsibility for someone else's death - that she does not take responsibility for the death of the patient that attacked her, to which Hannibal replies that she shouldn't. We come to find out later that he protected her when she was attacked, and she has never told anyone exactly how the patient that attacked her died that day.

Throughout this entire process, we see several different shades of Hannibal. He assists Will in his FBI investigations, and talks with him in a therapy setting, despite the fact that he is not his official psychiatrist - that they're "just talking". We see him with Abigail in another scene, where the death of her father has caused her nightmares and Hannibal seeks to ease that ache by giving her a tea made with mushrooms that cause hallucinations. We see Hannibal on several occasions with his own psychiatrist, talking about his feelings, his care for these people, that he is beginning to become friends with Will Graham and that he even believes that Abigail is something of a
daughter figure to him. We see that he and Alana have history, that Alana believes him whole-heartedly when he says that Abigail didn't murder Nicholas Boyle. Dr. du Maurier says it best when she implies that Hannibal wears a very convincing Person-Suit - he is able to blend effortlessly in to social situations, and displays all proper emotions when necessary to cause people to trust him. Nonetheless, his actions and behaviors point to sociopathy, that he really doesn't feel these deep emotions that he's able to reflect.

This makes him a very dangerous man indeed when things speed to a climax. Will Graham is seen getting a brain scan, and shows up afflicted with encephalitis. Hannibal decides not to tell him, and warns the technician against telling him as well. The night he goes back for more tests, Will is shocked to discover the murder of the technician, and a girl named Georgia Lass, suffering from affliction that makes her not able to see faces, sees the very image of Hannibal after he's done such a deed. This made her his next target, and we see her in an oxygen tank, engrossed in flame from a comb that she used to brush her hair. All of this speeds to a finish where Abigail Hobbs disappears with Will Graham to Minnesota, and Hannibal follows after, only to console a worried Abigail Hobbs who's witnessed Will losing time. He confides in her, tells her that he's killed many people more than her father, and apologizes to her when she asks if he's going to kill her. He strokes her cheek, and things fade to black - we can only assume what's happened. The very next episode, Will Graham wakes up to find his feet are muddy from walking, and he goes to retch in the sink.

They find a human ear, with evidence matching that of Abigail Hobbs.

The evidence that he has killed several victims stacks up higher and higher against Will - the blood found underneath his fingernails, the fact that Will cannot remember where he was. He is arrested, and thrown into jail - only to break free from a transport vehicle and find his way back to Hannibal. Hannibal discusses with him what has happened, tells him the possibilities in which he might have killed those who are pinned on him. Will is adamant about knowing who he is, scared, and begs Hannibal to go with him to the scene of the crime. They go back to Minnesota, in the house that Abigail Hobbs was murdered, blood all over the floor, and Will finally realizes what's been done to him. He points a gun at Hannibal, asking him why, hands trembling as he realizes what's happened. What Hannibal has done to people, and where those murders resulted from. Jack Crawford manages to step in, and fires a shot at Will Graham's shoulder, rendering him immobile. Will is arrested, and in a hospital where his encephalitis is treated, and Jack Crawford and Hannibal talk. Jack asks if Hannibal would have gone with him even if he hadn't had a gun pointed against him, and Hannibal says he would have, that he's always wanted to save him, to help him.

He brings a meal to his psychiatrist then, something consisting of veal, and from this conversation we can ascertain that Abigail Hobbs was most definitely murdered by Dr. Lecter. His conversation with Bedelia is enough to suspect that she may too, know more about his proclivities, she may know what it is he's done all of these years. The conversation consists of him telling her he's going to see WIll tomorrow, as a sort of...good-bye. True to his word, he is ushered into the belly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and greeted with a Will that has no trouble looking him dead in the eyes.

Abilities/Special Powers: Nothing special, though he's talented at maintaining a guise.
Third-Person Sample: He observes. He doesn't interrupt, Will has this certain manner about him when he's losing time. Not quite disassociated, but simply blank, this wooden way of responding, walking, moving. He notes it down - not on a legal pad, not on any written surface with a pencil carved with a scalpel, no, but on the file in his mind. Little notes about Will Graham, and his untimely unraveling. Hannibal knows when Will looks this way he's succumbing to the nightmares in his head. He watches him, walking like a ghost, stepping down from the ladder to curl around himself on the floor. Hannibal finds himself wondering if he dreams - if this is sleep-walking, his subconscious taking over, telling him to be protected. Telling him to find shelter, some place safe.

Safe, for Will Graham, is in Hannibal Lecter's office. Surrounded by books, surrounded by the air of a man he trusts. He is sitting at his desk, merely allowing the man to cower there, in the foetal position with his arms wrapped around himself, staring, unblinking at the floor. There's a shuddering breath, a cough, and it's like a man waking from being possessed, suddenly Will is breathing, fast, hard, quickly, and his entire body is shaking. There's not much information he can give him, nothing more than the usual analysis, and Hannibal silently closes the moleskine on his desk and hands it with a pen to the man.

"I believe you were coming from visiting with Jack." He offers out his hand to Will in order to direct him, lead him to a chair, attempting to maintain his own outward serene, calm appearance. It's very easy to seem so composed when Will is so fragile; he is so terribly close to being broken. What remains of his sanity is resilient, however, something to be admired, something to be proud of. "You came in, we spoke for a moment. You don't remember." A question, nearly, much closer to a statement, the man pausing at his chair, "Please, sit." Only after Will is seated does he follow suit, his fingertips carding together, folding over his lap.

"You are in my office. It is…" A glance to a watch over his wrist. "Four thirty-two in the afternoon." An offering of stability, a grounding method for Will. My name is Will Graham, it is four thirty-two in the afternoon, and I'm in Baltimore, Maryland. "We can assume that you've come to tell me about this morning, and what it was Jack Crawford exposed to you, that caused your mind to lose consciousness of your surroundings." He knows Will is stronger than he looks, has witnessed this first hand on many occasions, but Hannibal's distaste for Jack Crawford bringing the talented and mentally unarmed into a murder scene has never quite been a secret. He is, however, perfectly fine with the opportunity to observe, to see the effects of the gruesome on Will's sanity, infecting him each time he bears witness to another man's design. It seems fitting, then, for Will to be his design, his concept that is slowly, slowly breaking. "Do you remember what you recall last?"

And building.

First-Person Sample: I do believe the French have coined a phrase for it. Folie à plusieurs, madness, shared by many. It seems entirely improbable considering the circumstances where several of you have found their way to this establishment. [ He's glancing behind him, towards a towering window in a hallway he's found. ] As unlikely as it seems that so many of us share a delusion in which we've been abducted from a familiar place and set here, perhaps it's best to accept such a fact. The alternative... [ Being that they are here, that this is actually something that's happening. ] Is more so.

I would like to ask a question of those who have found their way to this mansion. Did you recall what happened when you lost sight of your own existence? Was there an event that triggered the occurrence? Perhaps a particular food that you've never tried before. [ He's determined to understand this, to analyze their surroundings and what they mean. Certainly there's a symbolism, a common ground that's caused them to find themselves here. ]

And speaking of food, is there a kitchen available? According to this leaflet I've found in my assigned room, there's not a possible way out. I figure I would make the most of my time in a productive manner.