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OOC Information
NAME; Alien
AGE; 21
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Jane Shepard, Hibiki Kuze
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Will Graham
AGE; 34
CANON; Hannibal
CANON POINT; After episode 9
FAMILY TYPES; Metal Empire, Dark Area, Deep Savers
APPEARANCE; Over Here!
PERSONALITY;
Will's personality, and lifestyle overall, revolves around a stunning gift for empathy. He is, by examining a crime scene or a body, able to rapidly reconstruct the thinking of the killer, which he experiences as a flash of himself doing their actions. This deep understanding of killers haunts and disturbs Will, both during the event and afterwards. He is prone to terrible nightmares, which are usually a mix of abstract and directly from his crime scene experiences. He seeks to live his life to avoid having to get into other people's heads, an experience that threatens his own sense of self and stability. As a result, he has no friends at the beginning of the series and lives away from other people, preferring dogs to other humans. He relies greatly on his childhood experiences, prior to his work with criminal justice, to provide a sense of stability. He fishes as a hobby, which provides him a connection to his father, who worked on boats throughout his childhood. Fishing is also something he is able to do completely alone, where it is quiet and there are no other people around to bother him. As someone with severe problems interacting comfortably with others, a hobby that provides calm is important for Will.
While the writers have specified that Will does not have asperger's, Will describes himself as being 'closer' to the autism spectrum than other disorders, likely because while he doesn't seem to have an in-canon diagnosis, the jumps of thought he makes when piecing evidence together resemble the abilities that some autistic savants have been documented with. Will, being a profiler with training in psychology, is probably aware of these cases and feels a sense of kinship with them. His abilities are not in any capacity a superpower, as is made obvious by his continuing association with Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serial killer that Will doesn't suspect in the slightest. Will also, when at crime scenes, has everyone leave the area so he can focus, implying that while Will is a genius at piecing together evidence and making major jumps that he can't quite explain, this is not an entirely subconscious process. If interrupted during these crime scene investigations, he is shown to snap out of his mental reconstruction of the event and become visibly flustered and unsettled, indicating that his work requires both deep focus and that any interruption during can entirely throw him off. He also actively attempts to avoid invoking this process when it's not required to catch serial killers, rarely making eye contact, living alone, and enjoying his teaching job because he's not socializing, he's merely talking at his students.
Will has serious problems working with others in any capacity, although he doesn't necessarily hate people. He simply can't deal with them in almost any capacity. His work shows him as a person who will avoid any social contact he doesn't absolutely need, and even further, as someone who naturally flounders when trying to socialize. He often stammers or makes awkward pauses when talking, even when with people he knows well, and hesitates greatly to open up to anyone at all, even psychologists who have been assigned as his therapists. As much as he gets into the heads of criminals, he absolutely loathes having anyone poke around inside his own head. He tenses up and verbally protests having to have anyone examine him mentally at all. This comes more out of a hatred of being examined than it does out of any fear of what they might fear-- it's similar to his inability to work at crime scenes with other people around. Will is so thrown off by other people that it interferes with his thinking entirely, turning a very intelligent man into a stammering awkward mess who can barely do his job.
While Will dislikes socialization and has few friends, he does attach to some people. The most notable incidences of this in canon so are are his relationships with Abigail, the daughter of the first man Will ever had to shoot, and with Alana, a psychologist Will has romantic feelings for.
With Abigail, Will spends most of his free time while she's in a coma sitting in her hospital bed, and is incredibly eager to go see her when she wakes up. However, when told that seeing him first would be bad for Abigail's mental health, Will opts to stay home and wait, concerned with her health first. He also later buys her tools to make fishing lures, as making his own flies and fishing is one of Will's hobbies, before realizing it's too similar to her father teaching her to hunt and bailing on the idea. This hints that Will, who was raised by a single father, was taught to fish by him. Will seems to enjoy not just fishing but being near or reminded of water. He states that the only time he feels safe is when he leaves the lights on his house and walks far away from it, then looks back, which makes him feel like he's watching boats at sea. He also describes working on boats as his 'drop everything and get a less stressful job' idea in one episode when fighting with his boss. Will's development of fatherly feelings for Abigail is, in part, due to the responsibility he feels because he killed her father, but is not limited to it. While Will is deeply uncomfortable with other people, he still cares for them, in part because he has so much uncomfortable insight into how negatively people can treat each other. He's protective of people who he perceives as innocent or otherwise "good" because he understands what ill intentions others might have for them. Apart from his understanding of how others may harm each other, Will has also probably experienced some degree of the persecution that Abigail is going through, having grown up neuroatypical in the public school system.
Alana, on the other hand, has known Will since before he began working with the FBI in the show, and looks out for his interests more than any other character on the show. She's careful not to be in a room with him to avoid giving him the impression that she's psychoanalyzing him, because she would rather be his friend and a support than another therapist poking around in his brain. Will takes to this very quickly, and is also deeply attracted to Alana, referring to her as 'very kissable' when frantically explaining to Hannibal why he abruptly kissed her. When Will is feeling unstable, he reaches out to Alana for stability, which caused the abrupt kiss in the first place. Will, while socially very cut off, does canonically reach for people who have been kind to him for comfort when he needs it, although not in strictly the smartest of ways. The episode after the kiss, Alana admits that while she has feelings for Will, they aren't good for each other right now, and decide to stay friends for the time being. They then have a very heartfelt hug, which seems to comfort Will greatly. While Will is typically unable to interact with people because he becomes too involved or cannot involve himself at all in order to avoid becoming too involved, it's clear that he isn't entirely against the idea of human connections. However, he is, at best, awkward, and at worst completely inept at navigating them. He seeks out contact when he needs a lifeline, but not before. This indicates that human contact is Will's last resort, and that he would prefer to solve his emotional and personal problems on his own before seeking help. His reluctance to enter therapy in spite of the many negatives of his working life also points to this desire to solve his own problems. He will only go to other people when he is actively drowning, and not before.
Apart from Alana and Abigail, Will also shows great compassion for dogs. He takes in any stray that he comes across, spending time with them and bringing them food until they trust him, then bringing them home, washing them, and adopting them as his own. He has taken in at least 6 dogs this way, and takes good care of them, making sure they're fed when he's away for a few days. His hallucinations also manifest to play off this part of his personality-- he keeps hearing animals crying out in distress, and even though he knows he's been hearing things and nobody else can hear them, he still goes to check to make sure every time. He invited Alana over to search the land around his house when he hears a dog in pain, even though with the amount of noise he was hearing, the dog would have very likely been dead anyways. When he later hears something in his chimney, which he assumes is a raccoon of some sort, he rips a hole in the wall, even removing bricks, to try to rescue it. This connection to animals comes from the human need for companionship, which Will is not at all exempt from. He has too many difficulties with other people to successfully socialize with them, which were almost surely much worse when he was younger, and he has thus defaulted to taking care of animals, which do not judge. Will is lonely but reaching out to humans is terrifying and uncomfortable for him every step of the way, and he feels a sense of kinship with abandoned dogs, so he takes in all the ones he can find.
Will has an incredibly negative reaction to stress, although it's hard to tell exactly how negative, due to the fact that it has recently been revealed that he is suffering from encephalitis, which explains many of the symptoms that had previously appeared to be caused by stress. These include hallucinations, loss of time, disorientation, a breakdown of his ability to separate himself from crime scenes he investigates, and sleepwalking. However, Will expresses worry about being a field agent from the beginning because he tends to get so absorbed in the cases he works with that he is bothered by them for ages afterwards. It seems as though his preoccupation with the horrors he's seen, as well as his nightmares, are not related to the encephalitis, but the other symptoms likely are.
He has only killed once, in order to rescue Abigail from her serial killer father, but the event deeply disturbed him, to the point where he is still having nightmares about it. He has developed a paternal affection towards the girl he rescued (to the point of being willing to lie to his coworkers about her involvement with another murder, although this was in self defense), and obsesses with being better prepared if the event ever happens again. He is ashamed of feeling powerful and in the right when he shot Hobbs, but still learned to shoot more accurately anyways, worried that if it took him 10 shots to take him down, that if he ever needs to draw his weapon again, he might not be able to shoot well enough to save lives.
Will takes protecting human life very seriously. His consulting job causes him great stress and he believes it to be destroying his mind, but he refuses to quit even when his psychologist tells him it'd be in his best interest. He knows that there is nobody else who can do his job as well as he can, and that his job is important to catching serial killers, thus saving lives. In the same vein, he hates being a burden on others, and is reluctant to tell anyone what's bothering him when he starts breaking down from a combination of steadily worsening encephalitis and stress.
In spite of being good intentioned overall, Will is not usually an enjoyable person to be around. Apart from being nearly silent until called upon, Will is also brutally honest, at one point telling Hannibal that he doesn't find him an interesting person. Will lacks any respect for social niceties, and has very few social skills. He hates small talk, doesn't make eye contact, and openly avoids learning too much about people or examining them too closely to avoid getting into their heads. This added to his perpetual frown and mental intimacy with horrible serial killers makes most people see him in a very negative light. He also has a tendency towards snarky comments, and is completely unopposed to getting sarcastic with people. He is much gentler with Abigail in particular, but otherwise, is not exactly a kind individual.
HISTORY;
Hannibal episode Summaries
Will's wiki page
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON; Dear Mun Post!
THIRD PERSON;
Will wakes up with a headache pounding hard against his skull. He doesn't have time to dwell on it, or even to grab for the bottle of painkillers he keeps on the nightstand, because somebody is singing. Loudly. In his bedroom. He scrambles to sit up just in time to see his digimon walking out of the room, still singing, but seemingly content that her partner is awake now.
Will rubs his palms into closed eyes and groans softly. Right. Mental state shattered. Talking animals. Where are his painkillers?
Once Will's dry swallowed nearly twice the recommended dose of advil, he gets out of bed, remembering with a heavy sigh that he has roommates. To compensate for the assured human contact, he puts on actual pants, instead of his usual morning routine where he stays in his pajamas until after showering. He has a moment where he thinks of his digimon as a dog, something he can work with, and wonders if she woke him up to be let out. Except that, no, digimon use human toilets.
What is she, in reality? Pure hallucination? Some kind of animal? A human child he's somehow ended up living in an apartment with? It's that last option that leads him to refuse to let her sleep in his bed. In spite of the longevity of this... whatever it's medical classification is, he's trying to find hints of the real world in it, and act accordingly. Anything that talks in a small girl's voice and wants to sleep at the foot of your bed should be given it's own bed immediately.
The fact that he's heading out of his room to bring that maybe-little-girl with him down to the group cafeteria, though, makes him wonder if he's already in a mental institution. Which would indicate that she is pure hallucination.
But he's not taking any chances on that.
NAME; Alien
AGE; 21
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Jane Shepard, Hibiki Kuze
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Will Graham
AGE; 34
CANON; Hannibal
CANON POINT; After episode 9
FAMILY TYPES; Metal Empire, Dark Area, Deep Savers
APPEARANCE; Over Here!
PERSONALITY;
Will's personality, and lifestyle overall, revolves around a stunning gift for empathy. He is, by examining a crime scene or a body, able to rapidly reconstruct the thinking of the killer, which he experiences as a flash of himself doing their actions. This deep understanding of killers haunts and disturbs Will, both during the event and afterwards. He is prone to terrible nightmares, which are usually a mix of abstract and directly from his crime scene experiences. He seeks to live his life to avoid having to get into other people's heads, an experience that threatens his own sense of self and stability. As a result, he has no friends at the beginning of the series and lives away from other people, preferring dogs to other humans. He relies greatly on his childhood experiences, prior to his work with criminal justice, to provide a sense of stability. He fishes as a hobby, which provides him a connection to his father, who worked on boats throughout his childhood. Fishing is also something he is able to do completely alone, where it is quiet and there are no other people around to bother him. As someone with severe problems interacting comfortably with others, a hobby that provides calm is important for Will.
While the writers have specified that Will does not have asperger's, Will describes himself as being 'closer' to the autism spectrum than other disorders, likely because while he doesn't seem to have an in-canon diagnosis, the jumps of thought he makes when piecing evidence together resemble the abilities that some autistic savants have been documented with. Will, being a profiler with training in psychology, is probably aware of these cases and feels a sense of kinship with them. His abilities are not in any capacity a superpower, as is made obvious by his continuing association with Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serial killer that Will doesn't suspect in the slightest. Will also, when at crime scenes, has everyone leave the area so he can focus, implying that while Will is a genius at piecing together evidence and making major jumps that he can't quite explain, this is not an entirely subconscious process. If interrupted during these crime scene investigations, he is shown to snap out of his mental reconstruction of the event and become visibly flustered and unsettled, indicating that his work requires both deep focus and that any interruption during can entirely throw him off. He also actively attempts to avoid invoking this process when it's not required to catch serial killers, rarely making eye contact, living alone, and enjoying his teaching job because he's not socializing, he's merely talking at his students.
Will has serious problems working with others in any capacity, although he doesn't necessarily hate people. He simply can't deal with them in almost any capacity. His work shows him as a person who will avoid any social contact he doesn't absolutely need, and even further, as someone who naturally flounders when trying to socialize. He often stammers or makes awkward pauses when talking, even when with people he knows well, and hesitates greatly to open up to anyone at all, even psychologists who have been assigned as his therapists. As much as he gets into the heads of criminals, he absolutely loathes having anyone poke around inside his own head. He tenses up and verbally protests having to have anyone examine him mentally at all. This comes more out of a hatred of being examined than it does out of any fear of what they might fear-- it's similar to his inability to work at crime scenes with other people around. Will is so thrown off by other people that it interferes with his thinking entirely, turning a very intelligent man into a stammering awkward mess who can barely do his job.
While Will dislikes socialization and has few friends, he does attach to some people. The most notable incidences of this in canon so are are his relationships with Abigail, the daughter of the first man Will ever had to shoot, and with Alana, a psychologist Will has romantic feelings for.
With Abigail, Will spends most of his free time while she's in a coma sitting in her hospital bed, and is incredibly eager to go see her when she wakes up. However, when told that seeing him first would be bad for Abigail's mental health, Will opts to stay home and wait, concerned with her health first. He also later buys her tools to make fishing lures, as making his own flies and fishing is one of Will's hobbies, before realizing it's too similar to her father teaching her to hunt and bailing on the idea. This hints that Will, who was raised by a single father, was taught to fish by him. Will seems to enjoy not just fishing but being near or reminded of water. He states that the only time he feels safe is when he leaves the lights on his house and walks far away from it, then looks back, which makes him feel like he's watching boats at sea. He also describes working on boats as his 'drop everything and get a less stressful job' idea in one episode when fighting with his boss. Will's development of fatherly feelings for Abigail is, in part, due to the responsibility he feels because he killed her father, but is not limited to it. While Will is deeply uncomfortable with other people, he still cares for them, in part because he has so much uncomfortable insight into how negatively people can treat each other. He's protective of people who he perceives as innocent or otherwise "good" because he understands what ill intentions others might have for them. Apart from his understanding of how others may harm each other, Will has also probably experienced some degree of the persecution that Abigail is going through, having grown up neuroatypical in the public school system.
Alana, on the other hand, has known Will since before he began working with the FBI in the show, and looks out for his interests more than any other character on the show. She's careful not to be in a room with him to avoid giving him the impression that she's psychoanalyzing him, because she would rather be his friend and a support than another therapist poking around in his brain. Will takes to this very quickly, and is also deeply attracted to Alana, referring to her as 'very kissable' when frantically explaining to Hannibal why he abruptly kissed her. When Will is feeling unstable, he reaches out to Alana for stability, which caused the abrupt kiss in the first place. Will, while socially very cut off, does canonically reach for people who have been kind to him for comfort when he needs it, although not in strictly the smartest of ways. The episode after the kiss, Alana admits that while she has feelings for Will, they aren't good for each other right now, and decide to stay friends for the time being. They then have a very heartfelt hug, which seems to comfort Will greatly. While Will is typically unable to interact with people because he becomes too involved or cannot involve himself at all in order to avoid becoming too involved, it's clear that he isn't entirely against the idea of human connections. However, he is, at best, awkward, and at worst completely inept at navigating them. He seeks out contact when he needs a lifeline, but not before. This indicates that human contact is Will's last resort, and that he would prefer to solve his emotional and personal problems on his own before seeking help. His reluctance to enter therapy in spite of the many negatives of his working life also points to this desire to solve his own problems. He will only go to other people when he is actively drowning, and not before.
Apart from Alana and Abigail, Will also shows great compassion for dogs. He takes in any stray that he comes across, spending time with them and bringing them food until they trust him, then bringing them home, washing them, and adopting them as his own. He has taken in at least 6 dogs this way, and takes good care of them, making sure they're fed when he's away for a few days. His hallucinations also manifest to play off this part of his personality-- he keeps hearing animals crying out in distress, and even though he knows he's been hearing things and nobody else can hear them, he still goes to check to make sure every time. He invited Alana over to search the land around his house when he hears a dog in pain, even though with the amount of noise he was hearing, the dog would have very likely been dead anyways. When he later hears something in his chimney, which he assumes is a raccoon of some sort, he rips a hole in the wall, even removing bricks, to try to rescue it. This connection to animals comes from the human need for companionship, which Will is not at all exempt from. He has too many difficulties with other people to successfully socialize with them, which were almost surely much worse when he was younger, and he has thus defaulted to taking care of animals, which do not judge. Will is lonely but reaching out to humans is terrifying and uncomfortable for him every step of the way, and he feels a sense of kinship with abandoned dogs, so he takes in all the ones he can find.
Will has an incredibly negative reaction to stress, although it's hard to tell exactly how negative, due to the fact that it has recently been revealed that he is suffering from encephalitis, which explains many of the symptoms that had previously appeared to be caused by stress. These include hallucinations, loss of time, disorientation, a breakdown of his ability to separate himself from crime scenes he investigates, and sleepwalking. However, Will expresses worry about being a field agent from the beginning because he tends to get so absorbed in the cases he works with that he is bothered by them for ages afterwards. It seems as though his preoccupation with the horrors he's seen, as well as his nightmares, are not related to the encephalitis, but the other symptoms likely are.
He has only killed once, in order to rescue Abigail from her serial killer father, but the event deeply disturbed him, to the point where he is still having nightmares about it. He has developed a paternal affection towards the girl he rescued (to the point of being willing to lie to his coworkers about her involvement with another murder, although this was in self defense), and obsesses with being better prepared if the event ever happens again. He is ashamed of feeling powerful and in the right when he shot Hobbs, but still learned to shoot more accurately anyways, worried that if it took him 10 shots to take him down, that if he ever needs to draw his weapon again, he might not be able to shoot well enough to save lives.
Will takes protecting human life very seriously. His consulting job causes him great stress and he believes it to be destroying his mind, but he refuses to quit even when his psychologist tells him it'd be in his best interest. He knows that there is nobody else who can do his job as well as he can, and that his job is important to catching serial killers, thus saving lives. In the same vein, he hates being a burden on others, and is reluctant to tell anyone what's bothering him when he starts breaking down from a combination of steadily worsening encephalitis and stress.
In spite of being good intentioned overall, Will is not usually an enjoyable person to be around. Apart from being nearly silent until called upon, Will is also brutally honest, at one point telling Hannibal that he doesn't find him an interesting person. Will lacks any respect for social niceties, and has very few social skills. He hates small talk, doesn't make eye contact, and openly avoids learning too much about people or examining them too closely to avoid getting into their heads. This added to his perpetual frown and mental intimacy with horrible serial killers makes most people see him in a very negative light. He also has a tendency towards snarky comments, and is completely unopposed to getting sarcastic with people. He is much gentler with Abigail in particular, but otherwise, is not exactly a kind individual.
HISTORY;
Hannibal episode Summaries
Will's wiki page
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON; Dear Mun Post!
THIRD PERSON;
Will wakes up with a headache pounding hard against his skull. He doesn't have time to dwell on it, or even to grab for the bottle of painkillers he keeps on the nightstand, because somebody is singing. Loudly. In his bedroom. He scrambles to sit up just in time to see his digimon walking out of the room, still singing, but seemingly content that her partner is awake now.
Will rubs his palms into closed eyes and groans softly. Right. Mental state shattered. Talking animals. Where are his painkillers?
Once Will's dry swallowed nearly twice the recommended dose of advil, he gets out of bed, remembering with a heavy sigh that he has roommates. To compensate for the assured human contact, he puts on actual pants, instead of his usual morning routine where he stays in his pajamas until after showering. He has a moment where he thinks of his digimon as a dog, something he can work with, and wonders if she woke him up to be let out. Except that, no, digimon use human toilets.
What is she, in reality? Pure hallucination? Some kind of animal? A human child he's somehow ended up living in an apartment with? It's that last option that leads him to refuse to let her sleep in his bed. In spite of the longevity of this... whatever it's medical classification is, he's trying to find hints of the real world in it, and act accordingly. Anything that talks in a small girl's voice and wants to sleep at the foot of your bed should be given it's own bed immediately.
The fact that he's heading out of his room to bring that maybe-little-girl with him down to the group cafeteria, though, makes him wonder if he's already in a mental institution. Which would indicate that she is pure hallucination.
But he's not taking any chances on that.
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