Double Drabble: Useful (MFU)

[curuchamion]

Okay, this is an odd bit of MFU dark!fic I wrote a while back. It's sort of a "Schrodinger's ficlet", in that I could waffle back and forth forever on whether it's any good... I hate those, because the only way to collapse the function is to post. o_O

Title: Useful [I am so imaginative, yeah? lol]
Summary: Illya is a supremely useful partner.

Comments

[carabele]

Definitely not my cup of tea. Sorry.

[illyushadarling]

Actually, it's very good, in a dark!fic way. Of course, it necessitates that one buy into the vision of Napoleon as an utter... well, propriety prohibits me from expounding upon that thought, but you know what I mean.

As an Illya girl, I would of course be stricken if you painted the partners the opposite of what you have done (just as a Napoleon girl has already made clear). But I do hope my appreciation for good writing would demand that I praise your skill, while rejecting your premise.

[dbskyler]

Nicely written, but I'm afraid I don't agree with the characterization either.

(Napoleon and Illya are friends! La la la, la la la, fingers in ears, la la la.)

[lolmac]

Ooo. Nicely done. I have to look at it in a mirror-universe way, of course -- and in that mirror universe, it's brilliant.

In fact, it's so well done that it's getting rejected, at a visceral level, by others; it hits too close to the heart. No, that's not really Napoleon. Of course not. But if it were . . . the little voice hisses in the ear, and the head turns away sharply.

[dbskyler]

Oh, nicely said. Yes, you've hit it exactly. My reaction isn't "Wow, how OOC, oh well, nice try"; it's "No no no, this can't be true, don't let it be true!"

The first is bad writing. The second is very, very good writing.