WRITER'S CHOICE- "She who leads the way" by mrua7

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This was a story where I visited the possibility of divine intervention for Illya and Napoleon, just as I did in my recent fic "Blood Moon." Hope you enjoy this one as it briefly addresses Illya's on-going conflict with the subject of his religious beliefs or his professed 'lack of."

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9544990/1/She-Who-Leads-the-Way or

http://section7mfu.livejournal.com/364416.html

                                                 

Comments

[lindafishes8.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this and I enjoyed rereading it. Illya is torn between what he believes and what he experiences. Nice story.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Thought you'd enjoy it. It's sort of what I wanted to convey about him in Blood Moon, though I didn't delve too deeply into it.

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Thank you!!!!

[ndcelt.livejournal.com]

A very moving story, shows the depth of feelings in Illya, from anger, to love and compassion for others, to his willingness to risk his life for others. I see Illya here as a man not disbelieving in God, but fighting his great anger with God. But he's from the Ukraine, and if there are any people more tenacious than the Irish in holding onto their faith under severe persecution, it's the Ukranians. Illya will come around. Peace will be his.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You got it excatly, Illya is fighting his anger with God. That's the struggle I have going on through so many of my stories. Hey, thanks for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it.

[ndcelt.livejournal.com]

Sympatico! From the series I've always thought of Illya as an only child, all the more precious to his family because of that, although the fanfic stories of his loss of syblings takes nothing away from his tragic past that he displays in his interaction with others. Except Napoleon. Napoleon broke through that early in their relationship. Series-wise, I'm talking. Still, Illya must suffer or had suffered from survivor's guilt, and probably wanted to see his family once more just to bawl them out and rail at them for not being there. He must have longed for his parent's approval all through his life, wondering... but he had something that told him what he did was the right thing. I think he had a very well developed moral compass and that made his move to UNCLE a natural for him. And yet... was his father proud of him? That's very important for a man, a father's approval. Some day I think when Illya least expects it, he'll figure it out... that what his parents did for him was the same as how he lived his life - for others, offering his very life so others could live freely. Then his fists will unclench and the world will open more fully for Illya.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

You have just described many of my stories to a tee. Right now I'm working on a fic that addresses Illya's survivor's guilt in detail, though as I said I've touched upon it in other stories, not just in relation to his family but with the deats of innocents. Yes, moral compaas is what describe him in my stories as well, which is part of the reason why I had his GRU superiors select him to give to UNCLE, they knew he had a soft spot for innocents and doing the right thing, those were his weaknesses. He tries to hide them from his Soviet masters, but isn't always successful.

Yes in my fics his father though stern was proud of him and guided his son through the terrble trials of the war until he died, as did the rest of Illya's family one by one. It was the lessons that his parents taught him that kept him from being the killing machine his soviet masters tried to train him to be...though that cold heartedness did affect him.

So so get it my friend!!!!! :D