Solo does this a lot throughout the series. He's very good at reading people and picking up clues. Remember the moment in Strigas in which Illya waits patiently as Solo rethinks and reformulates their strategy.
It used to annoy me when fanfic witers made him seem dumb. He is not. It's just that his intelligence is different than Illya's. They compliment one another that way.
Illya is a systematizer but Solo is more intuitive. He is a games player, charming and manipulative, a seducer in all senses of the word, and probably more apt to his profession than Illya. He also seems to enjoy it more.
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Date: 2015-02-22 06:24 pm (UTC)It used to annoy me when fanfic witers made him seem dumb. He is not. It's just that his intelligence is different than Illya's. They compliment one another that way.
Illya is a systematizer but Solo is more intuitive. He is a games player, charming and manipulative, a seducer in all senses of the word, and probably more apt to his profession than Illya. He also seems to enjoy it more.