I like my tigers with claws and teeth intact...
Okay, may seem like an odd subject, but it's just something that strikes me sometimes when reading various MFU stories.
Another LJ'r mentioned in one of the LJ discussion communities recently that she didn't like fanfiction where the guys became "domesticated". That remark hit a corresponding chord with me immediately.
I like the guys to be idealistic men performing a difficult job. I like them moral but dangerous. I like them residing on the edge of society in many ways.
I don't like them finding hearth and home suddenly more important to their internal psyches than U.N.C.L.E. That, to me, pulls their teeth and declaws them. They lose a lot of what make them interesting when this happens. They lose that intriguing edge.
So how do others respond to our two favorites agents turning from full-fledged tigers into little more than domesticated cats?
Another LJ'r mentioned in one of the LJ discussion communities recently that she didn't like fanfiction where the guys became "domesticated". That remark hit a corresponding chord with me immediately.
I like the guys to be idealistic men performing a difficult job. I like them moral but dangerous. I like them residing on the edge of society in many ways.
I don't like them finding hearth and home suddenly more important to their internal psyches than U.N.C.L.E. That, to me, pulls their teeth and declaws them. They lose a lot of what make them interesting when this happens. They lose that intriguing edge.
So how do others respond to our two favorites agents turning from full-fledged tigers into little more than domesticated cats?