YAYA IS BEING FORCED TO BE SERIOUS ? 🧐

this is true for every single character not just minnie but i think it is impossible to discern an online twitter user’s understanding of the depth of a character through a single or even a handful of tweets, especially joke tweets. i also think that npcs can fundamentally change through their interactions with people’s own ocs, so therefore i’m pretty relaxed with what people do with minthara, she isn’t real and i advocate for characters to be used as tools for stories.

that said, if i do get frustrated with someone’s depiction of minthara (and again, any character) it’s usually if they’re using her as a masturbatory tool over a character 😭 by this i mean that if i can replace ur depiction of minthara with a faceless dommy muscle mommy, a hyper traditional sadist boring dialogue OR conversely shes a shy scared helpless soft sapphic tearful bottom type who just needs to be loved into seeing how beautiful the world is (i have seen both of these, i think it comes from over correction from not wanting to be in the “opposite” camp) im probably gonna wrinkle my nose, again im never going to be mean about someone about her esp as i dont know their intentions, their own history w abuse (since every bg3 character has this), their age or skill level (im not gonna be mean to anyone who is experimenting or learning or trying to grow).

for my own understanding & my (OWN PERSONAL) interpretation of minthara, it’s really important for me to depict that she absolutely 10000% knows who she is and is completely solid in her selfhood and accepts everything that happened to her without ever flinching and she never hides from her feelings. if you tell her you think shes broken, she will tell you that broken minds heal just as well as broken bones, but doesn’t disagree. she makes it her oath to take vengeance on orin but after you confront her she will tell you that she isnt sure she could have done it without you and laments over orin, who she despises. she’s extremely intelligent, reflective, and even straight up empathetic and those are her core traits. TO ME, to hoori’s interpretation of her.