application ( eudio )

[profession]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Illya Kuryakin
CANON: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015 film)
AGE: 32 years old
CANON POINT: After recruitment for U.N.C.L.E. but before leaving for Istanbul (as seen in the credits)

BACKGROUND: The Wiki | Illya Nikolaevich Kuryakin was born in Moscow, under the USSR, to a father who was a high-ranking officer within the Communist Party. These two details are crucial to understanding the background from which Illya comes from - the former informs his education of the rest of world (and with it his attitude towards other nationalities), while the latter informs his psych eval.

See, Illya's father was sent to the gulag for stealing from the party - a punishment arguably harsher than death itself due to the humiliation to one's family that it brings. Weighed by the shame of his father's actions and the consequences it brought down on his mother especially, Illya strove to prove himself in the least subtle manner possible - he signed up to serve in the Red Army. He was accelerated to the KGB after exemplary service, and it is through his work with the KGB that he crosses paths Napoleon Solo, beholden to the CIA for 15 years' worth of reasons, and Gaby Teller, an (then unbeknownst) asset of the MI-6.

They meet in 1963, when the Cold War is in full swing, and are all initially set onto their paths in the search for Udo Teller (father to Gaby), who has developed a WMD. These individual missions bring the three together against the Vinciguerras, who have been holding Udo hostage and coercing him to build the bomb. In the resulting (if messy) success of the trio's work in stopping the Vinciguerras from succeeding, they are recruited by a man under dubious purview of the United Nations - to form the entity known as U.N.C.L.E.*

Did I mention Illya's a spy?

*United Nations Command for Law and Enforcement

INCENTIVE/FIT: Illya's decision to cooperate and stay in Eudio is motivated by two things: shame and anonymity. His incentive is the same thing he's been fighting for since his father's arrest - the redemption of his family's honor, especially that of his mother's. His signing up with the army was motivated in a huge way by his perceived inability to protect her, and his resentment for his father's actions for putting her in this mess in the first place. Once the initial doubts have been tackled over the reality of Eudio's promises (his is a pretty big ask, as far as he's concerned), Eudio becomes appealing for one very big reason - he doesn't have to kill or hurt people to succeed.

(That is, he can, but it's also a bad way to do work - can you imagine the cleanup? It's unnecessary. Not very Socialist.)

Given the insinuations present in the film regarding his mother and the way she was treated by Illya's father's "friends", it is a definite that the present of firm and clear consent is a very big concern for Illya when it comes to intimacy. He's also displayed respect for Gaby Teller's individual preferences and personal space, though his execution of it occasionally falls victim to his historical period (attempting to decide Gaby's outfits for her, the spanking comment).
SAMPLES: @test drive | @overflow

ANYTHING ELSE? If he could come in with his sidearm, that would be swell!