A short, dark Urusei Yatsura story. Who is Lum, and what does she really want with Ataru? This offers some very unusual answers to these questions.

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I wrote this pretty quickly and it came out way too heavy-handed. There's a valid subtext here — real people are flawed and mundane but relationships with them are worth developing rather than believing in the idea of an idealized fantasy partner — but I don't think the way it's delivered here is very effective.