okayophelia:#literally like the underworld where the walls are built from bones and you walk across
okayophelia:#literally like the underworld where the walls are built from bones and you walk across the backs of the dead #where the entire fabric of the kingdom is built on the souls of the dead; and the court of the king draws sustenance from his subjects #everything is people #the fourth goddamn wall is people #welcome to hell #hannibal And I mean I and a million people have said before: when you eat the food of the underworld, it becomes a part of you and you a part of it; you can never escape.I’ve seen people asking why Hannibal is so dead set on feeding people to all these unsuspecting, um, people, and it’s always seemed clear to me that this is why. When they eat his forbidden food, all unknowing, they belong to him. Someday they’ll find out what they’ve eaten, that it was fairy food, that that pomegranate reduction held greater significance than they knew, and the knowledge of what they consumed, the subtle violation of their bodies and souls, will never leave them. And so, by extension, they’ll never truly leave Hannibal behind. To slip over into fairy metaphors again (since the “don’t eat the food” rule applies to both): Abigail is Hannibal’s changeling human child, raised among the fairies/cannibals (DID I REALLY JUST TYPE THAT OH MAN), and Will is his Tam Lin–the surpassingly beautiful human knight caught in his thrall, destined to be tithed to Hell. (Unfortunately, I don’t think a Janet Carter is coming for Will–though I suppose if one were, it would be Alana. Hopefully Will doesn’t have to knock her up.) -- source link
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