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I’ve been thinking lately about the exact time hannigram feels love for each other for the first time.

It’s very obvious when it comes to Hannibal because we all saw his heart-eyes when they first met.

Like dude you don’t even try to hide it! You’re so fond of him and fascinated by this rude-but-beautiful man. (Also the “READY FOR LOVE in 5 days” describes him in 100% at this moment. Good work, marketing team!). But I don’t think this is exact time when he became aware of his feelings.

This scene is my favourite in the whole show and I think in this moment Hannibal truly knows how deeply he’s in love. He thought Will was dead and then he finally sees him he was like - 🥺. I’m sure if Will was really dead Hannibal would sob in Bedelia’s place and then kill everyone in FBI (because they couldn’t save Will) and then himself.

It’s far more complicated with it comes to Will. Partly because Will denies his feelings and tries to concentrate on Chesapeake’s Ripper’s murders. Even when he found out that Hannibal is a murderer and generate all this plan with Freddie he tried to warn Hannibal (And wanted to run away with him as we know) in Mizumono. And partly because Will just hide this feelings better than Hannibal (which is very funny because Hannibal had a complete control of his emotions but when Will was around Hannibal was like 😍🥰🥺☺️).

Also we can’t exclude that Will is from south which is quite homophobic part of the country. I think it was more hard to him to accept the fact that he’s attracted to man than it was to Hannibal. So it’s obvious that Will would deny his feelings even if he wouldn’t fall in love with the cannibal but just a man.

Did Will feel sort of love in this scene? Well, I don’t think this was exactly love but I’m sure he felt a huge gratitude that he’s not alone in this situation. He didn’t know Hannibal much by this time but he thought that this man deserves to be in his life. He felt interest maybe (soon after the “I don’t find you that interesting” scene lol).

In this scene Will said “I have to deal with you and my feelings about you”. (Some people might say that he meant hate in this scene but I think he meant love/hate) So by this time we know that he’s aware of his feelings about Hannibal. I’m 100% sure that Will fully accepts his feelings only in Mizumono. (A giant black deer as a metaphor of his feelings for Hannibal is literally bleeding when Hannibal runs away).

Soooo I think that he feels so sort of butterflies in this scene. Some of you can argue with me saying “well he compares Hannibal with Chesapeake’s Ripper here” and maybe you’re right but it’s only 1x07! It’s too early for him to realise that! Will is a man of labour and he always sees Hannibal as pedant and clean person and right now he’s saving man’s life without minding. Will sees Hannibal as strong and professional as he is. And I think in this moment he felt something.

Sorry for my grammar. English is not my native language. I also would like to see your opinions and thoughts about this topic.