watching fromage and everyone loves to laugh at the scene where will talks about how the killer made the victim into an instrument and the lab team looks at him like he’s a freak but no one ever mentions the scene immediately after in which will and hannibal are having a completely open and easy conversation about human bones making good instruments like wow find a man that vibes at your fucked up frequency
I want to bring my own fucked up dish to the potluck and say that Will knows he said something unconventional and understands the distaste of others directed towards him due to this but since he perceives himself as differently intelligent and not crazy, he also perceives Hannibal as being the same and red alarms don’t go off in his head when they should. Like, they never have these conversations in public, if they had, perhaps someone would have pointed out that hey, that Dr Lecter guy is kinda off the rails.
They are both aware of how others “other” them and while Hannibal weaponises it, Will just tries to push people away, hence making him more vulnerable to manipulations.