Message-ID: <35CE39BB.C290F8E@bellsouth.net> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 20:07:24 -0400 From: Christopher Jefferson To: megami@ML.usagi.org CC: Carole Halper , Marty Fugate Subject: Re: megami ML matome okuri Reply-To: megami@ML.usagi.org ami@ML.usagi.org wrote: > > > I was giving this some more thought after I replied to that earlier post, > and I ended up reinforcing my argument. Anyway, here's the case: > > Ch. 28 (The Scales of Love in DH): > Keiichi tells Belldandy and Urd that Mara said she was Bell-chan's fiance. > Now, there are two aspects to this: > > 1. A Goddess-Demon relationship. > 2. A Girl-Girl relationship. > > So which half of the equation does Urd find ludicrous? The girl-girl half! > She literally collapses in laughter! In Urd's eyes, compared to the > absurdity of a girl marrying a girl, a goddess marrying a demon doesn't even > deserve comment. Apparently, the gay rights movement hasn't reached the Heavens yet. Urd has always struck me as rip-roaringly heterosexual (the fanciful hijinks contained in the IF series notwithstanding). > > > > > Ch. 54 (Miss Keiichi 1 in DH) > Urd collapses again when she sees the half-girl Keiichi in a dress. No > inuendo about she-males, no nothing except laughter. Apparently, even the > thought of a guy (especially K1!) cross-dressing is ludicrous to Urd. Can't comment on how important this is, only that Urd's laughter simply reflects her opinion of the whole situation that K1 finds himself in. > > > Ch. 70 (Not in DH yet) > Peorth wonders if Keiichi and Tamiya are in a relationship together. She > says something like (please correct me if I'm wrong, here!) "Is that what > the people here call 'gay'?" This is another instance in which we folks who have to depend on Dark Horse must wait for the grand six part Peorth story arc next year. And what a long wait it will be. Mia disgusto. But seriously, this passage may be Fujishima trying to use the old "fish out of water" plot device to further the story and flesh out Peorth's strong heterosexual character. > So, until Fujishima-san shows us otherwise, heaven and all of its > inhabitants are by choice strictly heterosexual. Of course, this doesn't > mean that people can't write bi-sexual fanfics, it just puts any such > fanfics on the same level of credibility as the IF series. Well, IF was always designed to fulfill the market niche occupied by the more prurient minded AMS otaku. The people who put it together have very little concern for its credibility, but do recognize that there are plenty of otaku out there with Urd fantasies. But of course, none of this lies within the actual AMS timeline, nor within the classicly romantic relationship between Bell and K1, so we can chalk up both IF and any bisexuality as simple bollocks. > > > Brian Welch > > Be Seeing You, Chris