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byjove-cannibalcove · 6 years

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((leans in close)

what if hannibal is a hufflepuff and will is a slytherin

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I'm about to go back to bed but I'm listening

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well!

hannibal is no stranger to hardwork, he likes it, he really throws himself into everything he does and he definitely is a very social beast that likes to make friends (even if he might see Friends differently than other people) and, in his own way, is very loyal to the people he cares about and protective of them

(goes ot make sure i remember hufflepuff traits properly)

additionally Patient (hes INCREDIBLY patient) and diligent (SO DILIGENT)

he is also very very very friendly and polite, hes never mean to anyone, even people he hates, and doesnt undermine them really unless it directly is related to keeping his own self safe

so i think i could see hufflepuff fitting him ENOUGH that if he specifically requested it as a child he would get it, and as a kid he probably seemed a lot like a lonely boy that needed friends, so i can see the hate being like 'sending him there might stave off whats glimmering at the edges of him)

plus at the age of 11 he wouldve still been full of love for a few people (sister teacher aunt, wherever that places him in the timeline)

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as for Will, im not trying to be like 'cuz hes evil' because i disagree with that whole thing

A big thing with Slythering is cunning, and i know cunning just sort of sounds like 'evil smart', i think its more like 'active smarts'. Its not knowing everything about a subject, tis takign what you know and utilizing it

will, who really had no reason to do so, put to use 'what the bugs are up to' to find out how long a body has been dead, even though there are otehr ways, it seems like he almost did that because he couldnt help but notice it when he was a cop, not to mention just generally he used his empathy to become someone that teaches other people to understand killers, specifically to help them keep going out and catching people with his methods, hes not like IDLY intelligent, you know what im saying? he also sort of could have done anything at all but when the FBI turned him down hes like 'fuckit im gonna catch serial killers by proxy and land a job in your organization where you have to pay me very well and im in control of the room and no one is allowed to talk to me or meet my eye for 2 hours and get paid for it'

i dont know, i know it doesnt sound like much but that sounds pretty ambitious to me

plus he has very much always felt that HE is goign to catch the ripper, even if he might say otherwise, to him the ripper is Mine and Only I Understand Him and i dont know i feel like probably as a kid he wouldve been very intense about how no one understood things like he did and that no one could stop him from doing things he wanted to do (not ANYTHING but like 'yeah i know im a hick but fuck you im going to be a cop and have control' and when being a cop didnt work out her didnt like give up, he aimed to be fbi, which is basically Ultra Cop)

and like, to me, an unambitious person wouldve tried to take somethign eaiser and not something that fought against him every step of the way

also "Those cunning folk use any means,

To achieve their ends"

he fucking got hannibal assassinated WHILE HE WAS IN BSHC

not even like 'shot', he got him fuckign CRUCIFIED

additionally when he gets out hes not like 'man he beat me i should back off' NOPE hes like 'IM GONNA SEDUCE HIM, I KNOW HE PLAYED ME BEFORE BUT IM TOTALLY CONFIDENT I CAN PLAY HIM BACK'

(and yeah its just aesthetic but i mean he decides hes going to beat hannibal by any means necessary and he starts dressing fancy and gets a haircut and i know a lot of that is just 'hes confident now' but you cant tell me that him sliding on in there in his 2k winter coat when the last time hannibal saw him he was in a prison jumpsuit isnt some CLASSIC slytherin stuff)

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plus in all probability will would have an easier time makign friends in lsytherin than the other houses, if only because slytherins would be able to appreciate his abilities and see how useful they are, whereas other groups might find him creepy, and i just outright dont think he belongs in ravenclaw, he would be FINE there but it wouldnt suit him and i dont think itd give him room to grow)

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plus the general fun-ness of them being older and hannibal being 'Hannibal the Harmless Hufflepuff in his flower print suits, wouldnt hurt a fly, so warm so kind' and will the really intense slytherin that everyone suspects of wrong doing just because hes nearby to bad things and seems to know more than he should

plus, badgers are really cute but will rip your fucking face off, whereas not all snakes are poisonous

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oh, also, when HANNIBAL was thrown in to the BSHCI he does literally nothing to escape, he just patiently waits and diligently sends christmas cards to people and everyone there hisses and spits at him and he didnt manage to manipulate a single damn one of them in the slightest

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whereas when WILL is thrown into the BSHCI Will manages to get Bev to investigate hannibal for him, gets chilton wrapped around his fingers, recovers all his old memories, is willing ot play the part of the ripper in order to get matthew to kill hannibal for him, and honestly if he'd been there more than one month he probably wouldve fucked up EVERYONES life from behind bars.

Hannibal had YEARS and he changed nothing from inside, will had a MONTH and fucked with literally everyone out there

not to mention will in BSHCI is literally th efirst time weve ever met a healthy will who is operating on all cylinders and, other than the stress, is totally functional, so if anything we are kinda seeing the real will there, and the real will is cunning as FUCK

#long as fuck #hannibal #hogwarts headcanon #hufflepuff hannibal #slytherin will #hannibal the harmless hufflepuff

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