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Writers note:
I've been a fan of Hannibal since a child and I have been writing since I was 9. I'm 29 and have experience playing as Hannibal in multiple verses. Expect realism, I will not break character unless it fits the plot or scene. My portrayal of Hannibal Lecter is very by the book (and television/movies).

Name: Hannibal Lecter

Occupation: Psychiatrist, Serial Killer

Age: 44
Birthday: January 20th

Alias(es):
The Chesapeake Ripper
The Copycat Killer
Il Mostro di Firenze
Roman Fell (False Identity)

Occupation(s):
Curator
Psychiatrist (former)
Surgeon (former)

Nationality:
Lithuanian - American

Status
Alive

Romantic-relationship: Heartbroken

Relatives:
Mischa Lecter (Sister)
Lady Murasaki (Aunt)
Robertus (Uncle)

Other-Relationships:
Abigail Hobbs (Patient/Surrogate, Deceased)
Will Graham (Former Patient, Best Friend, Lover)
Alana Bloom (Student, Ex-Lover, Enemy)
Jack Crawford (Enemy)
Frederick Chilton (Enemy/Victim)
Bedelia Du Maurier (Former Psychiatrist/Victim)
Mason Verger (Enemy, patient)
Margot Verger (Former Patient)
Freddie Lounds (Enemy)

Background:
- Highly intelligent and cultured individual
- Former psychiatrist and respected member of society
- Notorious for his cannibalistic tendencies
- Incarcerated for multiple counts of murder and other gruesome crimes

Character Traits:
- Charismatic and charming demeanor
- Possesses a keen intellect and deep understanding of human psychology
- Exhibits a penchant for manipulation and psychological torture
- Maintains a refined taste in art, literature, and cuisine
- Shows a complete lack of empathy or remorse for his actions


HISTORY

Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania to Count Lecter, a Lithuanian aristocrat and Simonetta Sforza-Lecter, an Italian mother. Orphaned at a young age, Hannibal became something of a father figure to his younger sister Mischa, after their parents died. Mischa was one of the few people in his life that Hannibal would ever truly love, caring about her so much that he denied his early homicidal tendencies for her. Under unknown circumstances, Mischa was killed and Hannibal ate her remains as a way of forgiving her for making him deny his true self. At the age of 16, he was adopted by his uncle Robertus and his aunt, Lady Murasaki.

Hannibal became very close to Murasaki’s handmaiden Chiyoh and they began to think of each other as family. Hannibal eventually found the man that was believed to have killed Mischa and wanted to kill him, Chiyoh however, managed to dissuade Hannibal from doing this and so he decided to leave the man’s life in Chiyoh’s hands. Chiyoh decided to keep the man a prisoner under Castle Lecter as punishment. Sometime after leaving Castle Lecter, Hannibal journeyed to (and lived within) Florence, which is where he first began his career as a serial killer. He crafted his victims into images that were described as “haunting”, Hannibal‘s work eventually caused him to be given the name “Il Mostro di Firenze" translated as “the Monster of Florence”.

Hannibal was considered a suspect in the crime by inspector Rinaldo Pazzi but despite a search of his home, no evidence could be found that connected Hannibal to these crimes. Eventually, another man was convicted of being Ill Mostro, simply because of his character and Hannibal soon after left Florence. He came to America after receiving an Internship at John’s Hopkins medical school because of his drawings. Hannibal studied to become an M.D but eventually chose to leave the field of medicine in favor of becoming a psychiatrist. Hannibal used his position of power to persuade some of his more susceptible patients into committing murders, mostly because he was curious to see what would happen.

He despises banality and has an acute love of fine arts, food, literature, and music. He is depicted as a man of taste and details, and a nearly-obsessive perfectionist. He takes an instant dislike to "rude" people, such as Fredricka Lounds. Hannibal also continued killing people, preferring to kill those he deemed as ”rude” because they were no better than “pigs” to him. Hannibal became known as the Chesapeake Ripper, a serial killer that would mutilate his victims while they were alive and surgically remove their organs so he could cook them, preferably when he was hosting a dinner party. He is very particular about what he eats, most of his meals are self-prepared.

He claimed once that he does not believe in cruelty to animals and only purchases meat from ethical butchers, although this may have just been an abstruse joke about his true appetite. While talking with Abel Gideon, Hannibal noted that he did not consider himself a 'cannibal' as that implied eating one's equals, reflecting his usual standards of only eating those he considers inferior in some regard while leaving those he respects relatively alone. He has a very good sense of smell, evident in how he often identifies Will by his aftershave before he even enters the room. He claims that when he was younger, he was aware of his teacher's stomach cancer, even before he was.

-- FURTHER --

Hannibal Lecter does not understand normal human morality.

Morality, granted, is arbitrary (at least from an an atheist point of view - and as far as I can tell, Hannibal is working from an atheist point of view). Without a higher power to pull the strings, without the final moral judgment of heaven and hell, there is no real advantage to morality. The Western world runs on capitalism, on appearances and shallow charisma, on money and privilege. Sociopathy is, in our society, an advantage.

But the appearance of sociopathy is not.

Humans, scientifically speaking, are social creatures. We evolved to survive in packs. From a mercilessly scientific point of view, humans are only programmed to love because it gives us the greatest advantage over our environment, over our prey, and over those animals who might have been our predators. It’s scientifically proven: Take a human away from human society, and he goes insane.

Hannibal Lecter, then, is what happens when the pure, cold, amoral logic of survival collides with the ingrained need for companionship. Hannibal has three main traits, three main sides to his character, all of which conflict with one another to create an engine for both charisma and self-destruction.

One: Hannibal cares deeply for his own well-being.

Two: Hannibal is resourceful in the extreme.

Three: Hannibal, like almost all humans, is a social creature.

These traits sound useful, even moral, on the surface. We’d all like to be socially capable, resourceful and clever; we’d all like to love ourselves. But Hannibal’s specific problem is that his traits are extreme. Hannibal’s self-love is greater than his love for anyone else, so great that he (like Narcissus, like Lucifer) cannot see past it or even consider compromising. Hannibal’s resourcefulness equates to complete ruthlessness - nothing gets between Hannibal and what he wants, especially not pesky human morals. Hannibal’s social nature manifests as extreme curiosity about others.

But traits one and three are necessarily incompatible. Hannibal loves himself completely, but cannot truly love anyone else. He is so devoted to his own interests, his own way of life, that he cannot sacrifice even minor details of his own aesthetic for anyone else. He would rather give up other people’s lives, even the lives of those he wants to consider “friends,” to continue being himself. He considers being himself, being true to himself, to be of the utmost importance.

But here’s the kicker: He does consider certain people his friends.

He does consider himself to be a moral being.

Hannibal Lecter is human, and like all humans, he wants to believe that he is in the right.

“Eat the rude” isn’t Hannibal’s badass catchphrase; it isn’t his supreme dark lord tagline. “Eat the rude” is, to Hannibal, what passes for a moral code.

See, Hannibal may not be moral in a typical sense, but he grew up in a society with other humans. He knows that people have these things called morals, he knows what most people consider to be moral actions - rudeness is immoral, politeness is moral, more on that later - and he knows that as a human, he’s expected to live by a set of rules himself. But there’s a gap or two in his understanding of this phenomenon called morality. Namely, he’s shallow, as sociopaths tend to be. He sees the surface of things, but not what’s underneath.

He sees what other people find moral, what other people look for in a friend or an employee or a lover, but he doesn’t see why. Most of us will agree with the statement that “what you do - within reason - isn’t as important as why you do it.” (Killing a guy for money is wrong, but killing him to keep him from burning down an orphanage is right.) Hannibal doesn’t understand this at all - to him, what you do on the surface is more important than the underlying reasons.

Rudeness - an aesthetic grotesquery, a social blemish - is therefore a terrible sin in Hannibal’s book. It doesn’t matter that Marissa Shore was being rude because she was emotional and her mother was in the wrong; it matters that she was being rude. It doesn’t matter that Freddie isn’t all bad, that she saved Chilton’s life and warned Jack about the condition of Bev’s body; it matters that she takes rude photographs.

Hannibal is incapable of seeing beyond the surface; he’s incapable of maintaining more than a superficial relationship with another person, or of adhering to anything more than the pretty facsimile of a moral code. Hold Hannibal Lecter’s soul up to the light, and you’ll find that it’s paper-thin, translucent, insubstantial. Hannibal Lecter has no substance. He has only his polite smile.

But, being a social creature, he wants more.

He wants to understand why others do the things they do. He wants to be the kind of person Will Graham would truly consider a friend. He wants to have a soul, to be a part of society, to be truly human. This is why he pokes around in Will’s psychology - not because he’s a sadist, not because he’s bored, but because he wants to understand. Will Graham is not only an intellectual experiment to Hannibal Lecter, but an experiment in moral substance. Will Graham is Hannibal Lecter’s ultimate question mark: How does Man’s mind work?

(In the end, of course, this curiosity will ruin him. Hannibal is the proverbial cat whom curiosity kills. His commitment to his own curiosity, to his own aesthetic, to his own need for understanding, is what will put him away. This is his tragedy: He loves his own mind too much.)

"It's indignity you can't stand. Hannibal, you're like a cat that way." - Thomas Harris

All his life, Hannibal has been on the outside looking in. This is not to say that he deserves sympathy, that he should be pitied, that there is anything good in him. There is not. But he has been able to blend in, and become a sympathetic character. Even others could empathize. There are few shreds of humanity inside Hannibal Lecter, and those shreds are tentative and only half formed. Like the Adversary of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Hannibal is a combination of the desire to understand and the absolute inability to understand.

And this is how Hannibal Lecter reconciles himself with himself.

He eats the rude.