Hannigram

Hannigram is the slash ship between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter from the Hannibal fandom.

Season 1
When Will begins working for the FBI on cases, his friend, Dr. Alana Bloom, refers him to the psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lector. Their relationship begins formal, however, Hannibal shows an interest in Will's ability to empathize with anyone — even murderers.

After Will kills Garrett Jacob Hobbs, he frantically tries to stop Abigail Hobbs from dying. In his panic, he fumbles around, but Hannibal takes over for him with a steady hand to staunch her bleeding. She survives, and Will and Hannibal become like new fathers to her.

Later, Will begins hallucinating, sleepwalking, and having gaps in his memory. He tells these concerns to Hannibal, who recognizes the symptoms of encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. However, Hannibal does not tell this to Will, and only later takes him to a doctor. With an MRI scan, Will is positively diagnosed with encephalitis, but Hannibal convinces the doctor to conceal this fact from Will.

Convinced he has a mental disorder, Will gradually descends into madness, all while Hannibal offers a reassuring hand. Guided by Hannibal's hand, Jack begins to believe Will has dissociative identity disorder, and was the copycat killer. Eventually, Will is taken into custody, but he escapes to Hannibal's office. Together they travel to Abigail Hobbs's family home. In the same room where he killed Garrett Jacob Hobbs, Will realizes that Hannibal was behind everything, pinning the murders of five people on him.

Will is about to shoot Hannibal when Jack shoots his arm to stop him. The season ends with Will behind bars. On the other side, Hannibal visits him, a faint smile tugging on his lips.

Fanon
Fans shipped the two as early as the first episode. Although people shipped it, many believed it would never be canon since the TV Series is based on a completed book series, and the two do not end up together. But as the series went on, it became clear that the series, while adapting the novels, would not follow them entirely. This gave shippers hope for their ship.

On AO3 it is the most written ship for both characters and the most written ship in the Hannibal tag.

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Variations

 * Murder Family - the ship between Hannibal and Will with Abigail Hobbs as their daughter