Hannibal’s kind of living forever in a moment, isn’t he?  Will goes on to name Mischa, Abigail, Chiyoh…

I know it’s a thing with trauma that we’re often driven to repeat it, trying to find answers, trying to find our way out of the trap.  And I suppose losing MIscha was a trauma for Hannibal–maybe the only real one he’s ever faced.

But I wonder whether this is really a trauma thing for him.  Because the same thing can be said of predators.  They live in the moment.  Planning for the future is a luxury.  What matters is whether they’re hungry right now, whether they’re tired, the things they desire and the threats to them.

He truly isn’t human, is he?  I mean he literally doesn’t have a psychology we’d recognize as human if it didn’t happen to be in a human body.  (Whether he’s something…else…is a flight of fancy the show occasionally teases us with.  But they say that faeries don’t move through time the way humans do.  I’m just saying.)

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