A reason I love Minthara so much is because I grew up around crazy fierce women and she feels like someone I would have in my life, except that she would never do me wrong. She is your character's number 1 supporter, no matter what you do, and she's always got your back. Your enemies are her enemies. Your allies she'll like or at least tolerate.
I grew up with a really close knit but also codependent and crazy woman majority family, and I learned those good and bad relationship patterns with my friendships/relationships. I had really intense friends/gfs where we would do everything and anything together. Scheming, adventuring, causing chaos. But eventually all these intense relationships ended with a huge bang. Treating me or others cruelly, lying, keeping secrets, etc.
I learned now that's unhealthy and almost impossible to have that kind of explosive relationship with someone. I'm happy with my sane friends now. But some days I miss the insanity, the intense feeling of devotion, doing anything for each other, even if it didn't last. Just years of this hardwired feeling of "love is this intense codependency" learned from my family and friends baked it in me.
And Minthy reminds me of the good times spent with those ex friends. But she's not real, so she can't ever betray me 😅 And in the game she is ride or die until the end, even if she disagrees with your choices (which is not the case with my fam/exes!!). All her scheming and cruelty is aimed at someone who deserves it, not you. Sure she wants to take over the world but she wants to do it TOGETHER and she will NEVER betray you to get the crown for herself. It's such a nice fantasy for me to just imagine having that sort of unhealthy codependent intense lesbian relationship where everything goes well and no one actually gets backstabbed 🥹
