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What Women Want by Viviana (PG-14)
Fandom: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viviana7
Author website: None, but this story can be found on The Chrome and Gunmetal Madhouse.
Why this must be read:
I have a fondness for stories in which one of the agents discusses the other. It not only expands our knowledge of the character in question from a more personal point of view, but also tells us something about the narrator as well.
In this short piece, Illya’s observations about Napoleon and what makes the Chief of Enforcement so attractive to the many women in his life are particularly insightful. For example:
They know who, if not what, he is. They can smell it on him. Adventure, but not for the sake of adventuring. Danger, not courted, but willingly endured. Passion, not for token conquest, but for its own sake. Duty, above them, above everything, including his own life.
He isn't respectable. He isn't nice. He isn't take-home material. In short, he is not A Good Prospect.
And not so incidentally, Illya's perspective is empathetic. Which only offers support for a pet theory of mine that it doesn’t really matter if the genre is gen, het, or slash: Solo is always recognizably Solo.
What Women Want
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya
Author on LJ:
viviana7Author website: None, but this story can be found on The Chrome and Gunmetal Madhouse.
Why this must be read:
I have a fondness for stories in which one of the agents discusses the other. It not only expands our knowledge of the character in question from a more personal point of view, but also tells us something about the narrator as well.
In this short piece, Illya’s observations about Napoleon and what makes the Chief of Enforcement so attractive to the many women in his life are particularly insightful. For example:
They know who, if not what, he is. They can smell it on him. Adventure, but not for the sake of adventuring. Danger, not courted, but willingly endured. Passion, not for token conquest, but for its own sake. Duty, above them, above everything, including his own life.
He isn't respectable. He isn't nice. He isn't take-home material. In short, he is not A Good Prospect.
And not so incidentally, Illya's perspective is empathetic. Which only offers support for a pet theory of mine that it doesn’t really matter if the genre is gen, het, or slash: Solo is always recognizably Solo.
What Women Want
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Thanks for catching it!
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A nice rec. Thanks for doing the month.
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I might be willing to do another month in the future ---perhaps January.
FB on Review of What Women Want by Viviana
Great review and story! I love to write these kind, as well.