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Character Information
Name: William Graham Canon: Hannibal TV Series Age: 37 Gender: Male Canon Point: Post Episode 3x13 Wrath of the Lamb, sailing towards the sea Background Link:Link to a Background Wiki Inventory:
1 - White button down shirt, bloodied and the worse for wear
1 - Pair of dark trousers, also bloodied and worse for wear (but still better off than his shirt)
1 - Pair of glasses
1 - Pair of boots
1 - Pair of socks
1 - 226 Sig Sauer handgun: Literally the only useful thing on his person
Personality: Will is a man defined by his imagination.
The power of his imagination allows him to visualize not only the perspective of others, but practically become that person as he works through minimal scraps of data in order to build a profile. He can see many resolutions from a single joint in a path, and his empathy allows him to be fluid in how he moves, rather than constrained by traditional perspectives. But this fluidity comes at a cost.
In season one we see Will visibly struggling with the overwhelming vivid nature of his imagination, struggling to stay on the morally sound side of a line that has become fluid. However, by season three he's accepted the fact that the lines are hopelessly blurred. He's looked into the abyss one too many times and the abyss has followed him back to reality and where once he struggled with the societal taboos of the associations in his mind, now he embraces the idea of righteous violence.
The idea of delivering justice, rather than following the letter of law.
It's hard to ignore the fact that, while Will's crayon box may contain all 64 colors, most of those little wax sticks are cracked. Throughout the series it's suggested that Will is a complex mixture of many psychological diagnosis, but while his nature is compassionate (see his relationship with his dogs) he's allowed himself to drown in the minds of the darkest predators.
Working for Jack Crawford, Will has allowed the head of the BAU to push him repeatedly into dark places. There is only one time when Will tries to quit but Jack easily overrides this attempt and it can also be argued that Will doesn't fight too hard to make his resignation stick. Part of why he allows this, despite being aware of the fragility of his own mental anchors, is due to Will being arrogant and believing his own assertions that, even 'broken' he's the only one who can do what he does.
Sometimes we see Will question the sanity of his choices, but he never quite manages to escape entirely. Even after everything he goes through with Hannibal, after Hannibal is caught and Will does quit he can't make it stick. He builds himself a ready made family in Molly and Walter, and while he can be seen to care for them, it's hard to say that he cares any more or less for them than he did for his pack of dogs. Molly and Walter serve the same purpose as the dogs; a grasp for normalcy and no one can argue that they are both good influences on Will.
But in the end, when Jack whistles (and Hannibal tempts) Will inevitably allows himself to be drawn back into the nightmares. Because while it's true that Molly shows her support for his decision, even she can't imagine the temptation he faces when placed back into the orbit of the monsters and the monster of them all; Hannibal Lecter.
Because there is no denying that Will and Hannibal are hopelessly conjoined in a devil's partnership. What started out as a curiosity for Lecter and a blind spot for Will, grew into a genuine relationship across season two. Each man is desperate to find someone who truly sees them for themselves and by an ironic twist of fate, it's a mirror effect between the man who feels no compassion for others and a man who feels everything.
It can be argued that Hannibal took advantage of a vulnerable mind, and there is no doubt that he exercised a whole toolbox of morally dubious psychological tricks to sow the already fertile field of Will's damaged mind. But as we see through Season Two and Season Three, Will is no mere victim. He is just as cunning, manipulative and capable of darkness as Hannibal. It's funny but by the end of the series, they've each brought out the other's least personally desired traits; Hannibal's inconvenient compassion for Will, and Will's righteous violence towards those he judges to be guilty.
Will calls himself a 'good fisherman' and means both literally and figuratively. Because despite the appearance of twitchiness, Will is incredibly patient and methodical. He has no problem settling in and running the 'long game' in order to draw his prey in too him. He does not need to be an active hunter, because he understands predators well enough to know just how to lure them into traps of his design; even when they know better than to take the bait.
However, that tenacity, combined with the slippery nature of his own capacity to see righteous beauty in horror, leaves him in a mental place where he often loses a sense of perspective. By Season Two and Season Three Will is in a place where he will run his own psychic driving schemes. His arrogance often allows Will to cast his actions in the light of ‘for the greater good’ -a righteous kill- rather than questioning his the wisdom of his choices. He falls into Hannibal's habit of feeling almost godlike in This usually leads to heavy collateral damage when Will loses perspective on his machinations, and innocents get caught in the middle.
This time his games with Hannibal puts his new found family at risk, but even then Will cannot walk away from the monsters. After the attack on Molly and Walter, something simultaneously breaks and solidifies in Will. A fatalistic streak that has nothing to do with panic, in fact there is a serenity to Will at this point in his life, a calm acceptance of the darkness within.
While compassion is still a strong component of Will's design, he has also fully embraced the beauty he sees through the doorway, from his position at Hannibal's shoulder.
Flavor Abilities: While Will is not 'superhuman' in any context, he has an ability to make strong intuitive leaps based off what other law enforcement officials would call minimal evidence. This stems from what is considered a psychological condition that is termed 'pure empathy' in the series; the ability to take on the perspective of anyone and walk their path through their eyes. Though it's not spelled out in the series, he's focused this lens on human monsters, serial killers, and it makes him a gifted profiler with an astonishing capture rate.
Pure Empathy: While this is a double edged sword it does provide Will with some strengths. The power of his imagination allows him to visualize not only the perspective of others, but to be able to build a profile from minimal scraps of data. He can see many resolutions from a single joint in a path, and his empathy allows him to be fluid in how he moves, rather than constrained by traditional perspectives.
Forensic expert/Profiler: Though he's no Jimmy Price or Beverly Katz, Will is capable of processing forensic evidence and fitting it into the picture of the puzzle he's working on. He says that what often appears to be 'imaginative leaps' are in truth paths supported by the evidence. It is his ability to interpret the evidence, by assuming the thought process/motivation of the killer, that makes his contributions unique. The combination of his natural empathy, combined with the strength of his understanding of forensics, allows him to profile the subtle details that most people miss.
Good fisherman: Literally and figuratively, despite the appearance of twitchiness, Will is incredibly patient and methodical. He has no problem settling in and running the 'long game' in order to draw his prey into him. He does not need to be an active hunter, because he understands predators well enough to know just how to lure them into traps of his design; even when they know better than to take the bait.
Suitability: I've given this some careful thought, particularly in light of the unstable way he approached matters in his TDM threads. Because though Will is a 'broken pony' and his moral compass tends to spin a little wildly these days, he still points towards righteous violence and while he can now see the beauty in horror, he isn't interested in visiting that horror on innocents. He is still, at his core, a man who desires to enforce justice against those who have trespassed against innocents; just not necessarily within the confines of the law anymore.
As such once he settles into understanding that this whole situation is not his mind playing tricks on him -or Hell- he has the mental fortitude to survive under horrific conditions because he can see the purpose and the beauty of existing within such a landscape. He's unlikely to panic in the face of the monstrous being visited upon them and this clarity of emotion could allow him to remain focused and observant in situations where others might have their moral sensibilities overwhelmed by the nightmares.
RP Samples:
Network Starter from TDM: [ This XRAY.EXE was supposed to be a ... good thing?
Hadn't he heard that? Maybe he'd heard that? Had he'd just imagined he'd heard that? Will really wasn't sure and this place was not particularly conducive to assisting his already suspect hold on reality. Which was part of why he'd been sitting in this house for the past few hours, looking from inanimate object to inanimate object and their accompanying organic organs.
He'd eventually ended up on the floor, with his back to a wall. Not because he felt safe there, as opposed to a chair, but because he refused to turn the tablet towards either the floor, or the wall. He didn't want to see veins running along either structure, the pulse of blood moving through the elastic tubes.
After rubbing his eyes for the hundredth time, Will reached and flipped on the audio function of the tablet. ]
I'm still not convinced that I'm not speaking with constructs of my own mind. [ His voice was surprisingly calm, for a man who was admitting to the fact that he believed he was currently insane. ]
But on the off chance my subconscious [ subconscious equaling other trapped citizens ] is willing to be more forthcoming with its abstract imagery, does anyone want to speak to the psychological implications of seeing living organs within inanimate objects?
[ He paused, feeling the words on his tongue and caught on the inappropriate desire to chuckle. ]
Is this some deep seated desire of mine to hug a chair?
[ The goods news was, the ex-profiler was starting to settle into the idea that at least some of this was not a figment of his overactive imagination. Possibly even including the unfortunate individual(s) trapped in the house with him.
The bad news, however, came when he finished investigating a table leg and sat back on his heels to calmly announce. ]
These are real and the construction work on this table is practically art. Whoever made this knew what they were doing with these remains. [ He sounds genuinely appreciative of the craftsmanship.
Straightening up, he glanced around the room and towards the walls, brushing off his hands as he paced the area in a curious circle, before approaching a wall that appeared to be made up of humerus bones. ]
This wall alone would have taken over a hundred bodies. [ And isn't that a comforting thought. Will reached up to tap at the bone, trying to determine how it was secured. ]
Will Graham | Hannibal
Name: Lae
Age: Old enough to know better
Contact Info: PM@
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: William Graham
Canon: Hannibal TV Series
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post Episode 3x13 Wrath of the Lamb, sailing towards the sea
Background Link: Link to a Background Wiki
Inventory:
Personality: Will is a man defined by his imagination.
The power of his imagination allows him to visualize not only the perspective of others, but practically become that person as he works through minimal scraps of data in order to build a profile. He can see many resolutions from a single joint in a path, and his empathy allows him to be fluid in how he moves, rather than constrained by traditional perspectives. But this fluidity comes at a cost.
In season one we see Will visibly struggling with the overwhelming vivid nature of his imagination, struggling to stay on the morally sound side of a line that has become fluid. However, by season three he's accepted the fact that the lines are hopelessly blurred. He's looked into the abyss one too many times and the abyss has followed him back to reality and where once he struggled with the societal taboos of the associations in his mind, now he embraces the idea of righteous violence.
The idea of delivering justice, rather than following the letter of law.
It's hard to ignore the fact that, while Will's crayon box may contain all 64 colors, most of those little wax sticks are cracked. Throughout the series it's suggested that Will is a complex mixture of many psychological diagnosis, but while his nature is compassionate (see his relationship with his dogs) he's allowed himself to drown in the minds of the darkest predators.
Working for Jack Crawford, Will has allowed the head of the BAU to push him repeatedly into dark places. There is only one time when Will tries to quit but Jack easily overrides this attempt and it can also be argued that Will doesn't fight too hard to make his resignation stick. Part of why he allows this, despite being aware of the fragility of his own mental anchors, is due to Will being arrogant and believing his own assertions that, even 'broken' he's the only one who can do what he does.
Sometimes we see Will question the sanity of his choices, but he never quite manages to escape entirely. Even after everything he goes through with Hannibal, after Hannibal is caught and Will does quit he can't make it stick. He builds himself a ready made family in Molly and Walter, and while he can be seen to care for them, it's hard to say that he cares any more or less for them than he did for his pack of dogs. Molly and Walter serve the same purpose as the dogs; a grasp for normalcy and no one can argue that they are both good influences on Will.
But in the end, when Jack whistles (and Hannibal tempts) Will inevitably allows himself to be drawn back into the nightmares. Because while it's true that Molly shows her support for his decision, even she can't imagine the temptation he faces when placed back into the orbit of the monsters and the monster of them all; Hannibal Lecter.
Because there is no denying that Will and Hannibal are hopelessly conjoined in a devil's partnership. What started out as a curiosity for Lecter and a blind spot for Will, grew into a genuine relationship across season two. Each man is desperate to find someone who truly sees them for themselves and by an ironic twist of fate, it's a mirror effect between the man who feels no compassion for others and a man who feels everything.
It can be argued that Hannibal took advantage of a vulnerable mind, and there is no doubt that he exercised a whole toolbox of morally dubious psychological tricks to sow the already fertile field of Will's damaged mind. But as we see through Season Two and Season Three, Will is no mere victim. He is just as cunning, manipulative and capable of darkness as Hannibal. It's funny but by the end of the series, they've each brought out the other's least personally desired traits; Hannibal's inconvenient compassion for Will, and Will's righteous violence towards those he judges to be guilty.
Will calls himself a 'good fisherman' and means both literally and figuratively. Because despite the appearance of twitchiness, Will is incredibly patient and methodical. He has no problem settling in and running the 'long game' in order to draw his prey in too him. He does not need to be an active hunter, because he understands predators well enough to know just how to lure them into traps of his design; even when they know better than to take the bait.
However, that tenacity, combined with the slippery nature of his own capacity to see righteous beauty in horror, leaves him in a mental place where he often loses a sense of perspective. By Season Two and Season Three Will is in a place where he will run his own psychic driving schemes. His arrogance often allows Will to cast his actions in the light of ‘for the greater good’ -a righteous kill- rather than questioning his the wisdom of his choices. He falls into Hannibal's habit of feeling almost godlike in This usually leads to heavy collateral damage when Will loses perspective on his machinations, and innocents get caught in the middle.
This time his games with Hannibal puts his new found family at risk, but even then Will cannot walk away from the monsters. After the attack on Molly and Walter, something simultaneously breaks and solidifies in Will. A fatalistic streak that has nothing to do with panic, in fact there is a serenity to Will at this point in his life, a calm acceptance of the darkness within.
While compassion is still a strong component of Will's design, he has also fully embraced the beauty he sees through the doorway, from his position at Hannibal's shoulder.
Flavor Abilities: While Will is not 'superhuman' in any context, he has an ability to make strong intuitive leaps based off what other law enforcement officials would call minimal evidence. This stems from what is considered a psychological condition that is termed 'pure empathy' in the series; the ability to take on the perspective of anyone and walk their path through their eyes. Though it's not spelled out in the series, he's focused this lens on human monsters, serial killers, and it makes him a gifted profiler with an astonishing capture rate.
Suitability: I've given this some careful thought, particularly in light of the unstable way he approached matters in his TDM threads. Because though Will is a 'broken pony' and his moral compass tends to spin a little wildly these days, he still points towards righteous violence and while he can now see the beauty in horror, he isn't interested in visiting that horror on innocents. He is still, at his core, a man who desires to enforce justice against those who have trespassed against innocents; just not necessarily within the confines of the law anymore.
As such once he settles into understanding that this whole situation is not his mind playing tricks on him -or Hell- he has the mental fortitude to survive under horrific conditions because he can see the purpose and the beauty of existing within such a landscape. He's unlikely to panic in the face of the monstrous being visited upon them and this clarity of emotion could allow him to remain focused and observant in situations where others might have their moral sensibilities overwhelmed by the nightmares.
RP Samples:
[ This XRAY.EXE was supposed to be a ... good thing?
Hadn't he heard that? Maybe he'd heard that? Had he'd just imagined he'd heard that? Will really wasn't sure and this place was not particularly conducive to assisting his already suspect hold on reality. Which was part of why he'd been sitting in this house for the past few hours, looking from inanimate object to inanimate object and their accompanying organic organs.
He'd eventually ended up on the floor, with his back to a wall. Not because he felt safe there, as opposed to a chair, but because he refused to turn the tablet towards either the floor, or the wall. He didn't want to see veins running along either structure, the pulse of blood moving through the elastic tubes.
After rubbing his eyes for the hundredth time, Will reached and flipped on the audio function of the tablet. ]
I'm still not convinced that I'm not speaking with constructs of my own mind. [ His voice was surprisingly calm, for a man who was admitting to the fact that he believed he was currently insane. ]
But on the off chance my subconscious [ subconscious equaling other trapped citizens ] is willing to be more forthcoming with its abstract imagery, does anyone want to speak to the psychological implications of seeing living organs within inanimate objects?
[ He paused, feeling the words on his tongue and caught on the inappropriate desire to chuckle. ]
Is this some deep seated desire of mine to hug a chair?
[ The goods news was, the ex-profiler was starting to settle into the idea that at least some of this was not a figment of his overactive imagination. Possibly even including the unfortunate individual(s) trapped in the house with him.
The bad news, however, came when he finished investigating a table leg and sat back on his heels to calmly announce. ]
These are real and the construction work on this table is practically art. Whoever made this knew what they were doing with these remains. [ He sounds genuinely appreciative of the craftsmanship.
Straightening up, he glanced around the room and towards the walls, brushing off his hands as he paced the area in a curious circle, before approaching a wall that appeared to be made up of humerus bones. ]
This wall alone would have taken over a hundred bodies. [ And isn't that a comforting thought. Will reached up to tap at the bone, trying to determine how it was secured. ]