Easily amused

[mayamaia]

Naming a few MFU fic tropes that have been making me smile or laugh:

This Author is an English Learner
Waverly Uses Encouraging Subtext
Waverly is Frustrated by Dense Agents
Manipulation Via Mandatory Vacation
Adorable Baby Illya
Time Travel Therefore Doctor
Nick(ovetch)names
Solo Family Swingers
Kuryakin Family Killers
Waverly Nieces
My Agent Will See You Safely Home (and into bed)
Physics Interruptus

Comments

[animate-mush.livejournal.com]

Adorable Baby Illya! Is he more or less adorable than Bouncing Baby Benton?

Time Travel Therefore Doctor suddenly makes me want to write MFU / Time Tunnel crossover fic. (Doug and Tony!) I need to get back to watching The Time Tunnel.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

He varies a bit fic to fic. Sometimes he's adorable because horrible things just haven't happened yet, sometimes in spite of horrible things. There was one in which he was swapped with adult Illya, so he couldn't speak English and the Russian translators had all gone home so they could only communicate with him using German. He was partly adorable *because* he was unwashed and terrified. And because he slowly grew to trust the UNCLE people.

The funny thing is, what made me smile about Time Travel Therefore Doctor yesterday was that it was subverted (different doctor) in the fic I just mentioned and averted in another Adorable Baby Illya story. The averted one was amazing... Fate based time travel, so Illya could share a room with himself, and groan in horror when Adorable Baby Illya climbed into Napoleon's lap to give him a big sloppy kid kiss. It was awesome.

[animate-mush.livejournal.com]

Hah! That does sound adorable :)

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Oh man, and there was Identification By Appetite in that story too. And Napoleon making a very thin and pitiful borscht for Adorable Baby Illya who absolutely loved it anyway.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

"Manipulation Via Mandatory Vacation" is my favorite MFU trope possibly of all time. I love people having sex in exotic locations.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

I just love the idea that Illya always has to be ordered to relax, to have fun, and to just kiss the guy, err girl, well whatever.