#NO #STOP #STOP TOUCHING HIM #YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED NEAR HIM #WILL GET A RESTRAINING ORDER #SOMEONE PLEASE HELP WILL GRAHAM
#THIS UPSET ME SO MUCH #will needs grounding #he needs it like breathing and hannibal /knows/ that #and he knows that touching will will ground him #and he knows that if he is the one to ground will when will most needs grounding #then will will associate him with being grounded #simple conditioning used to tangled will further in Hannibal’s web #the more hannibal touches will in the moments when will is most unstable #the more hannibal reiterates the idea that he is will’s ‘paddle’ that will can come to him for support and guidance #the more will will come to rely on hannibal #and therefore the more power hannibal will hold over will #this is such awful manipulation but you can /see/ it working (via)