(This will bounce from the UY list, because they hate my ISP)

The scene is Volume 12, Part 10, page 151.  The fake Oyuki and Benten are
holding each other tightly and going: beta beta beta. (The sound of
rattling, perhaps from Benten's chains).  Ataru knows they're fakes but
Lum doesn't.

Ataru: Ano ne kimi tachi... (Excuse me you two.)

Ataru: So-yu- koto shite ruto hentai to machigawa remasu yo. (That kind
of thing is perverted and wrong.)

Lum: DOSUKOI! (Sound of giant mallet striking Ataru's head.)  Hentai wa
Da-rin da t'cha!!  (Darling is the pervert, t'cha!!)  (Most of Lum's
sentences end in t'cha.  I wish more fanfic authors would use this.)

Lum: Onna no ko o tsukuru to wa omo t'te ta ke do, konna shumi no warui
tsukuri kata suru nante yurusenai t'cha!  (To think such a thing about
girls is unforgivable, t'cha!)

The behaviour of the fakes is straight out of Ataru's perverted brain and
he hasn't known the originals that long, but Lum has.  Lum is fairly angry
here and Ataru isn't even touching anybody.  The problem is what Darling
is thinking.

Personally, I read the intro of each of these major space babes this way:

She's one of Lum's closest friends.  She shows up and openly flirts with
Lum's Darling, right in front of Lum and Lum is only mildly annoyed with
her.

Now, either Lum is fully aware that these girls are totally involved with
each other, or just this once, the girls take much bigger chances with
Lum's reactions than they ever do again.

Logically the Titianians must be generally bisexual.  They are an
all-female race that do not live with human men, but require them in order
to propagate their sub-species.  (If they are the snow-fairies of japanese
legend.)  I think that Oyuki is merely being curious during her intro.

But I think that Benten is fully lesbian.  She flirts less with Ataru and
complains more forcibly when he touches her during her intro.

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb
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