Post by vulcan13 on Jul 30, 2008 15:15:42 GMT -8
OK I have written the first part of my story, and have established the rest of the plot, first I think I will give a bunch of background on the characters and stuff because a lot of people probably won't be familiar with it.
My fiction is based on a 1960's Spy show called The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
UNCLE stands for United Nework Command for Law and Enforcement. It is an international organization with agents from all over the world. UNCLE's arch enemy organization is known as THRUSH it apparently stands for Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. They are always trying to find someway to end up ruling the world. they are so dangerous that even countries which hate each other such as the US and the USSR can come together to fight them.
There are UNCLE headquarters all over the world, but the one the series focuses on is in New York City and is accessed through a secret door in a tailor shop, or through a series of very very arcane travels through warehouses and lots of stairs.
UNCLE has lots of cool gadgets including a communicator which is hidden in a cigarette case, tiny trackers, and a variety of little explosives. Also a notable gadget is a pistel which hake be converted into a long range carbine by attaching a longer barrel, a shoulder stock, a telescopic sight and an extended magazine.
Ok I think I am ok on that front, let me do characters now. The main characters are
Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin (pronunciation to be explained later) they are two very resourceful UNCLE enforcement agents, and unlikely partners and friends. their Boss is named Alexander Waverly he is an Englishman who send them out on their verious missions and occasionally undertakes a mission himself.
Napoleon Solo
The main protagonist of the series. He has 2 years seniority over Illya. He is the more dashing and romantic of the two. He might even be called an incurable romantic, with a new love interest in each episode. He is definitely not married.
He is also quite gallant often doing his anything he can to help a woman even when being held at gun point. He often trust women he shouldn't and at least once has given in to THRUSH demands when the innocent young woman is threatened with torture.
He tends to be very instinctive, and his instincts are usually good.
He is tall somewhere around 6 feet and rather slender. He is in exceptionally good physical condition and has martial skills well above average. He is also well versed in Fencing and sharp shooting.
He has black hair and hazel eyes and is known for his heart melting smile which endears him to the many women in the series.
Although not nearly the renaissance man Illya is he can fly a helicopter and ride a motorcycle. He speaks Italian very well and a least a bit of French although apparently with a horrific accent. He also shows some knowledge of the Russian language.
He is a bit of an Idealist even an optimist, but very down to earth and often mistrustful. He is not really macho, it has been demonstrated that he would rather talk than fight.
Napoleon plays chess, has a very bad sense of direction, and, at least according to Illya, illegible handwriting.
Ok I think that sums it up for Solo.
Illya (Nickovetch) Kuryakin
Pronounced for those of you like me who need it explained, Ill-ya Kur-ee-a-kin but fast and squished together.
I don't know where they got this picture but I found it on his myspace page. No joke!
Illya provides some of the comic relief for the show, jumping out af trees because he saw it in a Robin Hood movie, and with an occasional episode long running gag such as getting hit with the door everytime a particular woman opens it. Although much of the comedy is in the banter between Illya and Napoleon. He also, with his extreame rationality, nicely balances Solo's emotionalism.
Grew up in Kiev, Russia. Attended the University of Jordan in Ukraine where he studied among other things Gymnastics. received a PhD in quantum mechanics at Cambridge which accounts for his rather anglicized Russian accent. He was in the Russian Navy, although he is prone to sea sickness.
He seems to come from an aristocratic background and a touch of that breeding comes out at times in his treatment of the elderly, helping old men across the street and even hesitating to hit a THRUSH agent just because he is old. He has even been known to apologize before he hits someone.
His sense of gentlemanly decorum, however, does not always extend to women; he is usually bluntly matter-of-fact with them, sometimes to the point of rudeness.
Women are definitely not one of Illya’s vices. They chase after him constantly, but he usually either evades them with some dry or sarcastic remark or ignores them completely. He doesn’t seem to enjoy their compliments; Once A woman tells him he’s cute and he gives her a sour look and says, very sarcastically, "You’re very kind." Another time a woman purses her lips, expecting Illya to kiss her, and Illya is completely nonplussed; At one point a college student, deciding that a liaison between herself and Illya would be a triumph of eugenics, goes after him, and Illya is so distressed by her pursuit that he tells her insanity runs in his family. When Illya confesses to being with a woman Mr. Waverly is astonished, saying, "This is the sort of thing I’d expect from Mr. Solo."
For all his avoidance of the female sex, Illya is not an innocent; we know that he’s been in a geisha house at least twice. He once made the decidedly un-naive remark: "It’s amazing how quickly a girl can take her clothes off, and how long it takes to put them on again." When a nurse, giving him a massage mentions anemia and asks how his blood is, he replies, "Racing." He also seems to very much enjoy watching a belly dancer perform in the London nightclub in "Odd Man."
When asked if he is married he always manages not to answer. He wears a wedding ring for the first season or so, but not after that perhaps suggesting an unpleasant end to a marriage. Although he once tells someone he has never been married, perhaps the truth or perhaps indicating he would rather forget his marriage? I don't know... Not a shrink.
He has blond hair, long and shaggy, about which he is sometimes a touch vain, and blue eyes. he is about 5'8 and 140 pounds, and about 28 years in age although he looks much younger. He wears reading glasses sometimes tinted. and sometimes dons them as part of an undercover enterprise.
He at one point recalled to Russia and is seen in a Russian uniform indicating that he is not a defector, in fact he seems to be a loyal Russian and communist. He appears to still have ties to the Soviet armed services. Although his political views are never discussed.
he shows a well-honed knowledge of chemistry and physics; he confesses to knowing "a great deal" about radioastronomy. He speaks a large number of languages fluently; He is an expert on gypsy ways, leading to the intriguing speculation that he might be part gypsy, or perhaps might have once lived with gypsies
His skills are many and varied as well. He is a master of disguises, and very athletic—among other things, he is an expert swimmer and gymnast. he is known to be proficient in Physical Arts, Judo, Karate, Fencing, Sharp shooting, archery, and climbing. he’s a touch typist—quite a rarity for a man in the 1960s.
He also has a number of adept mechanical skills. he knows enough about cars to know how to loosen the distributor cap so that the car will run badly He can drive a motorcycle, a bus, and fly a plane and a helicopter He can dismantle a bomb with ease We learn that he’s so adept at demolitions that he stayed at the Survival School a month after he graduated to teach a class about explosives.
Some things Illya doesn’t know, however: he doesn’t know how to bake a soufflé; he’s never flown a dirigible; he doesn’t know what a hot fudge sundae is and he is not too knowledgeable about television: in "Cherry Blossom" he recognizes Dr. Kildare on a TV screen (then one of the most popular TV shows on the air) but doesn’t know his name. He does, however, show an intensive knowledge of the movie "King Kong" He is not adept at social situations, nor is he particularly gifted with "gab"; he usually leaves the talking to Napoleon. He can use his charm when he has to, however.
Napoleon has 2 years seniority over him, although one of the students at the Survival School calls him, sarcastically, "the great Mr. Kuryakin" an indication that he is considered one of U.N.C.L.E.’s "finest."
He has a deep love for music. He had a pile of jazz records under his bed. He speaks quite passionately about how well a Russian pianist plays Bach, showing that he enjoys the classics as well as jazz. He is also musically knowledgeable. He plays the bass viol in a jazz band, the guitar, and an English horn. He has been known to immediately discern the note the bell in the bell tower is ringing. He is also known to have a clear pleasant singing voice, which could be described as quite good, although he doesn’t seem to set much value to it.
Illya doesn’t smoke although cigarettes are sometimes used in his various undercover operations. he does however drink, he has been seen drinking beer with Solo, wine at a restaurant declaring he isn't a connoisseur, but he knows what he likes. once Cognac straight from the bottle, and once splitting a bottle of slivovitz with Napoleon.
He has a nearly in destructible apatite, the only thing they fed him he didn't seem to like is yak liver oil (ick!) When he is shot he says that he want to get back to London so as not to miss lunch. At one point they are visiting a house wife and Napoleon accepts just coffee Illya goes on to eat 2 bowls of soup followed by getting hit in the face with the door as she throws it open followed apparently by another bowl of soup.
Illya is somewhat dour and sardonic, his humor usually imbued with a distinctly cynical bent. he calls himself a pragmatist; sentiment is definitely not a part of his makeup.
He is ambidextrous with allergies and is prone to colds. He claims to have a very high pain tolerance and amazing recuperative abilities neither has been proven true.
ok wow that went on FOREVER!! That's what I get for paraphrasing a "thumbnail sketch" I don't know why they call it that it certainly isn't thumbnail sized. There's is twice as long as mine. sorry about all that, I didn't mean it to be that long, but after typing all that I am not leaving stuff out!
My fiction is based on a 1960's Spy show called The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
UNCLE stands for United Nework Command for Law and Enforcement. It is an international organization with agents from all over the world. UNCLE's arch enemy organization is known as THRUSH it apparently stands for Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity. They are always trying to find someway to end up ruling the world. they are so dangerous that even countries which hate each other such as the US and the USSR can come together to fight them.
There are UNCLE headquarters all over the world, but the one the series focuses on is in New York City and is accessed through a secret door in a tailor shop, or through a series of very very arcane travels through warehouses and lots of stairs.
UNCLE has lots of cool gadgets including a communicator which is hidden in a cigarette case, tiny trackers, and a variety of little explosives. Also a notable gadget is a pistel which hake be converted into a long range carbine by attaching a longer barrel, a shoulder stock, a telescopic sight and an extended magazine.
Ok I think I am ok on that front, let me do characters now. The main characters are
Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin (pronunciation to be explained later) they are two very resourceful UNCLE enforcement agents, and unlikely partners and friends. their Boss is named Alexander Waverly he is an Englishman who send them out on their verious missions and occasionally undertakes a mission himself. Napoleon Solo
The main protagonist of the series. He has 2 years seniority over Illya. He is the more dashing and romantic of the two. He might even be called an incurable romantic, with a new love interest in each episode. He is definitely not married.
He is also quite gallant often doing his anything he can to help a woman even when being held at gun point. He often trust women he shouldn't and at least once has given in to THRUSH demands when the innocent young woman is threatened with torture.
He tends to be very instinctive, and his instincts are usually good.
He is tall somewhere around 6 feet and rather slender. He is in exceptionally good physical condition and has martial skills well above average. He is also well versed in Fencing and sharp shooting.
He has black hair and hazel eyes and is known for his heart melting smile which endears him to the many women in the series.
Although not nearly the renaissance man Illya is he can fly a helicopter and ride a motorcycle. He speaks Italian very well and a least a bit of French although apparently with a horrific accent. He also shows some knowledge of the Russian language.
He is a bit of an Idealist even an optimist, but very down to earth and often mistrustful. He is not really macho, it has been demonstrated that he would rather talk than fight.
Napoleon plays chess, has a very bad sense of direction, and, at least according to Illya, illegible handwriting.
Ok I think that sums it up for Solo.
Illya (Nickovetch) Kuryakin
Pronounced for those of you like me who need it explained, Ill-ya Kur-ee-a-kin but fast and squished together.
I don't know where they got this picture but I found it on his myspace page. No joke! Illya provides some of the comic relief for the show, jumping out af trees because he saw it in a Robin Hood movie, and with an occasional episode long running gag such as getting hit with the door everytime a particular woman opens it. Although much of the comedy is in the banter between Illya and Napoleon. He also, with his extreame rationality, nicely balances Solo's emotionalism.
Grew up in Kiev, Russia. Attended the University of Jordan in Ukraine where he studied among other things Gymnastics. received a PhD in quantum mechanics at Cambridge which accounts for his rather anglicized Russian accent. He was in the Russian Navy, although he is prone to sea sickness.
He seems to come from an aristocratic background and a touch of that breeding comes out at times in his treatment of the elderly, helping old men across the street and even hesitating to hit a THRUSH agent just because he is old. He has even been known to apologize before he hits someone.
His sense of gentlemanly decorum, however, does not always extend to women; he is usually bluntly matter-of-fact with them, sometimes to the point of rudeness.
Women are definitely not one of Illya’s vices. They chase after him constantly, but he usually either evades them with some dry or sarcastic remark or ignores them completely. He doesn’t seem to enjoy their compliments; Once A woman tells him he’s cute and he gives her a sour look and says, very sarcastically, "You’re very kind." Another time a woman purses her lips, expecting Illya to kiss her, and Illya is completely nonplussed; At one point a college student, deciding that a liaison between herself and Illya would be a triumph of eugenics, goes after him, and Illya is so distressed by her pursuit that he tells her insanity runs in his family. When Illya confesses to being with a woman Mr. Waverly is astonished, saying, "This is the sort of thing I’d expect from Mr. Solo."
For all his avoidance of the female sex, Illya is not an innocent; we know that he’s been in a geisha house at least twice. He once made the decidedly un-naive remark: "It’s amazing how quickly a girl can take her clothes off, and how long it takes to put them on again." When a nurse, giving him a massage mentions anemia and asks how his blood is, he replies, "Racing." He also seems to very much enjoy watching a belly dancer perform in the London nightclub in "Odd Man."
When asked if he is married he always manages not to answer. He wears a wedding ring for the first season or so, but not after that perhaps suggesting an unpleasant end to a marriage. Although he once tells someone he has never been married, perhaps the truth or perhaps indicating he would rather forget his marriage? I don't know... Not a shrink.
He has blond hair, long and shaggy, about which he is sometimes a touch vain, and blue eyes. he is about 5'8 and 140 pounds, and about 28 years in age although he looks much younger. He wears reading glasses sometimes tinted. and sometimes dons them as part of an undercover enterprise.
He at one point recalled to Russia and is seen in a Russian uniform indicating that he is not a defector, in fact he seems to be a loyal Russian and communist. He appears to still have ties to the Soviet armed services. Although his political views are never discussed.
he shows a well-honed knowledge of chemistry and physics; he confesses to knowing "a great deal" about radioastronomy. He speaks a large number of languages fluently; He is an expert on gypsy ways, leading to the intriguing speculation that he might be part gypsy, or perhaps might have once lived with gypsies
His skills are many and varied as well. He is a master of disguises, and very athletic—among other things, he is an expert swimmer and gymnast. he is known to be proficient in Physical Arts, Judo, Karate, Fencing, Sharp shooting, archery, and climbing. he’s a touch typist—quite a rarity for a man in the 1960s.
He also has a number of adept mechanical skills. he knows enough about cars to know how to loosen the distributor cap so that the car will run badly He can drive a motorcycle, a bus, and fly a plane and a helicopter He can dismantle a bomb with ease We learn that he’s so adept at demolitions that he stayed at the Survival School a month after he graduated to teach a class about explosives.
Some things Illya doesn’t know, however: he doesn’t know how to bake a soufflé; he’s never flown a dirigible; he doesn’t know what a hot fudge sundae is and he is not too knowledgeable about television: in "Cherry Blossom" he recognizes Dr. Kildare on a TV screen (then one of the most popular TV shows on the air) but doesn’t know his name. He does, however, show an intensive knowledge of the movie "King Kong" He is not adept at social situations, nor is he particularly gifted with "gab"; he usually leaves the talking to Napoleon. He can use his charm when he has to, however.
Napoleon has 2 years seniority over him, although one of the students at the Survival School calls him, sarcastically, "the great Mr. Kuryakin" an indication that he is considered one of U.N.C.L.E.’s "finest."
He has a deep love for music. He had a pile of jazz records under his bed. He speaks quite passionately about how well a Russian pianist plays Bach, showing that he enjoys the classics as well as jazz. He is also musically knowledgeable. He plays the bass viol in a jazz band, the guitar, and an English horn. He has been known to immediately discern the note the bell in the bell tower is ringing. He is also known to have a clear pleasant singing voice, which could be described as quite good, although he doesn’t seem to set much value to it.
Illya doesn’t smoke although cigarettes are sometimes used in his various undercover operations. he does however drink, he has been seen drinking beer with Solo, wine at a restaurant declaring he isn't a connoisseur, but he knows what he likes. once Cognac straight from the bottle, and once splitting a bottle of slivovitz with Napoleon.
He has a nearly in destructible apatite, the only thing they fed him he didn't seem to like is yak liver oil (ick!) When he is shot he says that he want to get back to London so as not to miss lunch. At one point they are visiting a house wife and Napoleon accepts just coffee Illya goes on to eat 2 bowls of soup followed by getting hit in the face with the door as she throws it open followed apparently by another bowl of soup.
Illya is somewhat dour and sardonic, his humor usually imbued with a distinctly cynical bent. he calls himself a pragmatist; sentiment is definitely not a part of his makeup.
He is ambidextrous with allergies and is prone to colds. He claims to have a very high pain tolerance and amazing recuperative abilities neither has been proven true.
ok wow that went on FOREVER!! That's what I get for paraphrasing a "thumbnail sketch" I don't know why they call it that it certainly isn't thumbnail sized. There's is twice as long as mine. sorry about all that, I didn't mean it to be that long, but after typing all that I am not leaving stuff out!
