Oznaka: abigail hobbs

murder family scenarios always make me sad as someone who relates to abigail ;_; the whole tone of how people approach her negative tendencies are on the victim blamey premise that having defence mechanisms as a response to being raised by a serial killer = her wanting to cause others harm. when she killed nick boyle she only seemed terrified to me. she jumped the gun on stabbing him but this girl has been groomed to kill. (1/2)

strongwillgraham:

(2/2) this is kinda personal so feel free to ignore if you dont want rl abuse mentioned to you rn but i remember reading some of the early assessments from when i was brought into foster care. that there was more than one note taken of me being “manipulative” as if that were the fault of someone whod been emotionally abused the first 15 years of their life among other things. in a series that makes so much comment on how others perceptions affect and change you, it seems like a cheap oversight

I super hope you don’t mind me publishing this whole thing; I think it’s important and I definitely appreciate you sending me this bc it’s actually something I’ve wanted to talk about but didn’t really have the platform for

As someone who also has severe manipulative tendencies as a direct result of growing up in an abusive household, I feel you completely,  and it bothered me a lot that the show acted as though there were any reason at all to hold Abigail accountable for what she might have done to help her father????????

Like. Abigail’s father was a murderer and a cannibal, who they literally know based on his pathology and kill pattern was murdering girls so that he wouldn’t kill her. You absolutely cannot hold a LITERAL CHILD responsible for actions she took to prevent her father from murdering her???? There should have been no question of her being arrested for having been the bait; that was very obviously done in self defense

And as much as Hannibal manipulated the situation with Nick Boyle for his own gain……. He was absolutely right, based on the actions of the other characters and especially Jack Crawford’s attitude, to suggest that she would not be treated fairly for having killed him in self defense

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raainstorms:


Multifandom Challenge  ||  54/100 Characters  ||  Abigail Hobbs
↳   “I knew what my father was. I knew what he did. I knew. I was the one who met the girls, talked to them, laughed and joked. Found out where they lived, where they were going, when they’d be alone. Girls that looked just like me. They could have been my friends. I couldn’t say no to him. I knew… I knew it was them or me.”

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