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.

Season 3
Hannibal and Bedelia end up in Florence, pretending to be Mr. and Mrs. Fell. They have a huge apartment, Hannibal gets an awesome job and despite being new in the city, local high society already loves him. However, he is missing Will dearly and his life can't possess the same joy as before they met. A young guy a little similar to Will meets him and likes him, even follows him to Florence, but could Hannibal ever be interested in someone like that again?

Meantime, Will wakes up in a hospital. Abigail visits him and they talk about Hannibal, who totally knew how to cut them so they survived and alternative universes where they ran away together. Will thinks about that dinner he and Hannibal planned to have with Jack. He imagines them really killing Jack, Will starting it all. He thinks about Hannibal a lot...

He starts repairing his boat. And soon Jack appears at his door. He is very curious why did Will warn Hannibal instead of letting Jack surprise him back then. Will is not sure, the only thing he knows is that he simply wanted to call Hannibal and once he heard his voice he couldn't do otherwise. Because Hannibal was his friend. And Will wanted to run away with him.

When the boat is a-ok, Will sails from the US to EU and has all the time to think about Hannibal on his NOLA ship. He ends up in Palermo, where Hannibal's favorite church is. And indeed, it's the right place where to look for him. It's around Valentine's day and a human body shaped into a big anatomical heart was found in the chapel. It's actually the guy who Hannibal met before and who blindly tried to seduce him. Will and Abigail go there to look around and talk about Hannibal's broken heart and Will's desire to be with him. Will somehow knows Hannibal is probably nearer than he seems to be. Actually, he is watching Will but never reveal himself. While thinking about what happened when they met for the last time they met, Will finally fully accepts that Abigail actually is not there with him. She is dead, only he was allowed to survive.

A while later, Will with surprisingly dark attitude walks into catacombs and Hannibal follows, although he never reveals himself. After Will scares away inspector Pazzi, he talks to unseen Hannibal and says he forgives him. When Hannibal returns to Bedelia, they talk about Will and forgiveness a lot. Two times Hannibal says he loves Will. Then, "thanks" to Bedelia he comes to a conclusion that he needs to eat Will to really forgive him...

At the same time, Will arrives in Lithuania, where he observes Hannibal's born place - a castle. Turns out Hannibals old, sister-like friend Chyioh still lives there, keeping an eye on her prisoner who killed Mischa. She calls Will and Hannibal nakama, then Will makes her kill the prisoner and turns the body into a magnificent wine-firefly tableau. Chyioh then agrees to show him, where Hannibal is. However, in the middle of their way she fake-kiss Will and throws out of their train.

But Will is not injured too much and still knows where they were going. So he continues in that direction, soon. He finds Hannibal in Florence - sitting in front of the Primavera painting in the Uffizi gallery. They can't help themselves and exchange some wide smiles as well as long talk about acceptance, blurring, and their same stars. Still, when they are leaving, Will tries to pull out a knife and stab Hannibal. However, that will never happen because Chyioh is on a nearby roof and hoots him in a shoulder. Hannibal quicky picks Will up and carries him to an apartment. After taking care of his injury, changing his clothes and hugging him in between, Hannibal ties Will to a chair. Jack, who followed Will to Florence is eventually tied ti the opposite chair, too. Hannibal decides to open Will's head and eat his brain as he decided a while ago. Fortunately for them both, before he can finish the 1st task, some people paid by Mason Verger burst in and take Hannibal with Will back to the US.

There, everything is fine again. Mason aranges a a dinner for them three, Will bites off a piece of his caretaker's cheek and Hannibal is very proud. Mason is much less happy. He let them know that he wants to have Will's face instead of his destroyed one and eat Hannibal with it. Before that, he wants Hannibal to suffer as one of his pigs. However, Alana (who mainwhile became a girlfriend of Mason's sister Margot) still cares about Will while Margot wants brother's dead. That's why they together help Hannibal to free himself in exchange to him saving Will and helping them with Mason.

IInjured Hannibal carries Will bridal style back to his old home in Wolf Trap in the dark snowy night. When Will wakes up, it's morning outside. He is in his bed in clean clothes, Hannibal just sitting down by his side. But Will is not in a good mood, he tells hannibal to go away and never return - that he won't miss him or look for him. Hannibal leaves the house. Later at night Jack Crawford and others arrive. Will tells them Hannibal is gone. However, soon, Hannibal appears and allows them to take him. He says - looking at Will - that he want him to always know where to find him.

Hannibal is in the prison about 3 years. During that time he writes some letters to Bedelia and Will as well as some articles to numerous magazines. Will, on the other hand, found himself a wife with son and moved away from Wolf Trap and FBI jobs. He has his dogs, too, but somehow lost his interest in fishing...

But then, another big serial killer targetting families appears and Jack decides Will is needed. After they talk, will wakes up in the middle of night just to pull out a letter from Hannibal he had hidden in his underwear drawer. Hannibal knew Jack will come for him and he wrote will not to come back. Will reads it by lighting fireplace, then throws it into the flames.

And of course Will do return to the investigation and of course he needs Hannibal to help. Between the things he tells him Will claims that all the "Hannibal, run away forever" incidend 3 years ago was a plan how to make Hannibal turn himself in. Other things they discuss about their relarionship includes Hannibal's "I gave you a child" and "You are family" toward Will. He also talks with Bedelia about Hannibal. At one point he asks her whether Hannibal is still in love with him. And she said yes.

Eventualy, Will tells Jack he needs to fake Hannibals escape to catch the killer. Jack agrees and besides official plan makes a secret planning with Will - that neither the killer or Hannibal will survive this. Will also makes one more plan with the killer himself - also about killing Hannibal. The fake escape turns out to be a real one when the killer murder everyone but Will and Hannibal. The two of them go to Hannibal's secret house about which the killer somehow knows. When night comes, he shoots Hannibal throug a large window and warns Will that he should not try and run. Will doesn't want to do such a thing, he says he is gonna watch him killing Hannibal. Instead, he pulls out his gun, the killer notices it in time and stabs Will. The great final fight begins. Will gets stabbed one more time before he and Hannibal kill the other man together. Blood is everywhere and Will is overwhelmed. He smuggles into Hannibals arms, embracing him on a cliff edge. Hannibal says it's all he ever wanted for him, for them both. And Will thinks it's beautiful. Then, he pulls himself and Hannibal down the cliff.

Despite everything, we know they both survived - partly because of magnificient dinner with Bedelia's leg main course from a postcredit scene, partly because Bryan Fuller confurmed so.

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. Most fans believe that Hannibal and Will ran away and are situated somewhere in Cuba after the finale. This was due to season 4 episodes originally were going to be named after cuban dishes, in the same way that season 3 named the episodes after Italien one's.

On AO3, Hannigram 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