i think Clarice and Bedelia work as a fem Hannigram pairing because you don’t even have to rewrite them into female versions of Will and Hannibal for the dynamic to make sense
Clarice already has a lot of Will like qualities, and Bedelia already has a lot of Hannibal like qualities, even if you only looked at Jodie Foster’s Clarice as a “fem Will” and Gillian Anderson’s Bedelia as a “fem Hannibal,” the same kind of relationship dynamic is still there; the empathy, fascination, manipulation, and psychological mirroring that make Hannigram so interesting
obviously, there are still many differences that distinguish Clarice and Bedelia from Will and Hannibal, but the underlying idea and emotional tension are still very similar…