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A Lovely Daughter by T. Gabrielle (G)
Fandom: THE MAN FROM UNCLE
Pairing: gen
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tgabrielle
Why this must be read:
Be honest: which (teenage) Illya fan didn't want to trade places with Miki Matsu from Her Master's Voice? Miki is the closest to a canonical Mary Sue as we get from any of the innocents in the series (and by Mary Sue, I mean female audience wish fulfillment).tgabrielle wrote a brilliant post-ep for HMV, letting us tag along as the two venture off to the Sayonara-A-Go-Go. I love the charmingly awkward interactions between Miki and Illya; I found myself relating very much to her naïve eagerness to connect with the ever professional Illya at a deeper level, to be more than an innocent. tgabrielle interweaves all of these achingly appropriate songs snippets that evoke the very 60's feel of the series as well as the lyrical idealism of the "Flower Power" generation coming of age. It's a wonderfully nostalgic story about all the dreamy expectations we have about growing up, the bittersweetness of memory, how good intentions all too often end up being no more than that - intentions. There are two endings to this story, which I both highly recommend.
A Lovely Daughter
Pairing: gen
Author on LJ:
tgabrielleWhy this must be read:
Be honest: which (teenage) Illya fan didn't want to trade places with Miki Matsu from Her Master's Voice? Miki is the closest to a canonical Mary Sue as we get from any of the innocents in the series (and by Mary Sue, I mean female audience wish fulfillment).
tgabrielle wrote a brilliant post-ep for HMV, letting us tag along as the two venture off to the Sayonara-A-Go-Go. I love the charmingly awkward interactions between Miki and Illya; I found myself relating very much to her naïve eagerness to connect with the ever professional Illya at a deeper level, to be more than an innocent. tgabrielle interweaves all of these achingly appropriate songs snippets that evoke the very 60's feel of the series as well as the lyrical idealism of the "Flower Power" generation coming of age. It's a wonderfully nostalgic story about all the dreamy expectations we have about growing up, the bittersweetness of memory, how good intentions all too often end up being no more than that - intentions. There are two endings to this story, which I both highly recommend.A Lovely Daughter