#wait... or did i writw four?!

[matriarchcomputer]

Do you have any headcanons of Illya as a father?

yes.

(I’m kinda basing this off of my own grandfather who was born the same year Illya was).

because of his own upbringing, he’s very aware of what kind of parent he wants to be. So he does his very best to make sure his children have a normal life, in a loving household, with very little drama. It doesn’t always work out that way, but he tries his best.

when his children are young he NEVER wants them see him have a bad day; he doesn’t want them to be scared by his hands shaking, or him disassociating. When he feels like that is about to happen he tries to excuse himself. When his young children ask why he’s been in a dark room for so long, all they're told is that “father is developing photographs for you to see later!” As they become older, however, he can’t always shield them from what happens to him, and eventually he sits them down and explains it to them. They learn things about their father they never knew before and love him even more for it. They also learn to be more sensitive and empathic of other people they meet who have challenges in life.

he isn’t the disciplinarian. (Sidenote, story time: When my mother was in trouble, my grandmother would send her to be spanked by her father, and he just couldn’t do it, so he would get a pillow and say, “when I slap the pillow, scream very loud” and my mother would smile and do so. Apparently, my grandmother was never the wiser.) If Illya really needed to discipline them, he would sit them down and have a serious discussion with them—the discussions were far more impactful but also scarier than being disciplined by mother; at least with mother, it was quick, but if father had to deal with you, you were in for a lesson!

he would make sure they’re fluent in Russian, German, and English.

if they brought friends over to the house, he would, (just by nature, he probably doesn’t realize he does it), interrogate their friends to make sure they were good friends.

when they’re very young, or when they’ve had a bad dream, (and because he doesn’t sleep much anyway—he probably has insomnia like Gaby), he doesn’t mind staying up with them to comfort and soothe them. He makes them hot-cocoa which Cowboy says helps with bad dreams; Illya doesn’t know if that’s very accurate, but chocolate never hurts.

he’s a stay-at-home father and he wouldn’t have it any other way. He doesn’t want to miss any moments with them. He wants to see all their milestones.

to channel their rambunctious energy, he teaches them just enough Judo to defend themselves, but not enough for them to get in trouble at school or with their siblings. He has pretty strict rules about fighting.

he doesn’t mind taking them on field trips to their mother’s office where they get to see uncle Solo. He doesn’t tell them everything about what their mother does of course, but he makes sure they think what she does is pretty normal, to the point that when they talk to their friends it’s like, “I thought everyone’s mom was like that?”

he’s a doting camera dad and takes pictures of them all the time. He has pictures of them learning to walk, brushing their teeth, eating breakfast, getting their first dog, playing, any moment he wants to capture. And he has dozens of scrapbooks. It’s ridiculous. They get annoyed with him as they get older, but he doesn’t let up. He loves his kids.

#tmfu #the man from uncle #man from uncle #headcanons #for some reason i also think illya would be a singe parent at some point??? idk i think it would make for some interesting stories #illya kuryakin #papa!illya #gaby teller #napolean solo #asks #ask #anon #ive just realized ive written three fics by request about illya having children and i legit dislike them all except for #cry to me #wait... or did i writw four?! #anyway i wrote them but im still not a huge fan of gallya i mean i like them out of context like in gifsets #but when i think about them in the film i'm not a fan and i wasn't a fan when i left the theater #idk i have a love hate relationship with the pairing primarly because gaby slapped him #and i think there is ever a excuse for a woman to slap a man or a man to flap a woman unless there like unconsious and they NEED to be woke #but if i think about it gaby was playing a character when she did that to him so was it all just part of the mission??? idk im ranting #about this too much this isn't the point of this post #why problem is that he still fell for her after she slapped him which i think says a lot about him and the abusive relationships he had #growing up and how people abused him and he thought it was normal??? getting slapped right after being triggered is not okay idk #i don't hate gaby though idk take her slapping him out of the film and i love gallya without question but idk... i don't think she expected #to fall for him and in the end she was sorry for everything she did to him and how she hurt him - in the end it was a job - but she does #care for him now??? idk mabye her slapping adds a layer of realism to the characters -that they're flawed and broken and are #just trying to do the best they can with what they have in difficult situations #if you read all these tags im sorry! #never got to meet my grandparents would've been cool to ask them what the world was like in the 60s #mcwrites