Hannibal x His Dark Materials

My secret santa gift for rav3nsta9 on tumblr as part of the hannigram holiday exchange
They wanted an AU with Hannibal and Will in the setting of His Dark Materials!

This is an alternate version of Hannibal’s office somewhere in New Denmark in Lyra’s world probably? I imagine Hannibal would be interested in Dust so I put some weirdass instruments there. Also, that is one of Gustave Doré’s illustrations of Lucifer for Paradise Lost in the background.

There were so many possibilities in choosing the daemons but I’m quite satisfied with what I settled on :

• Hannibal has a tufted grey langur. When thinking about his character and what kind of daemon he would end up with I realised he’s actually very similar to Mrs Coulter so monkey daemon it was! I opted for grey langurs because they’re stylish, their faces look like tiny wendigos’ and they have a certain relationship with deers (yes, seriously, they’ll drop fruits for them and each will warn the other if they spot a predator). And now I realise that I basically gave him a silver monkey to Mrs Coulter’s golden one, oh well…
• Will has an Amazon kingfisher. Early on I knew I wanted a fisher bird for Will and preferably a small one so that Hannibal’s daemon could “play” with her. Not only is this kingfisher one of the 6 species native to the Americas, but while I was browsing wikipedia pages I stumbled upon this gem: “The rarely heard song, given from a tree top, is a whistled see see see see” …I mean…I had to choose it XD. Additionally, I really love the idea that Will’s special abilities manifest as a partially settled daemon who could change form at times to help him get into the minds of murderers.
  

Other potential ideas were: ravenstag (for both), osprey (Will), snake and mongoose obviously and I almost went with a ravenmonkey for Hannibal.


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_{Hannibal (c) Bryan Fuller}