i’m always gonna be bitter about it & the way dashner wrote them as enemies because of probably the stupidest reason, a boy. they could have been one of the most dynamic female pairs in young adult literature & in my opinion would have gotten along tremendously well. when you think about it they have similar personalities, albeit brenda has a little more fire & spark whereas teresa has been described as more mellow but what’s a good friendship if they aren’t a little different? but instead, they were pitted against each other because of a boy, who was definitely not worth any of it ( sorry bro ). instead of having two badass female characters working together for the good of humanity he wrote them as enemies & i myself refuse to write it that way. in my own personal opinion, they should have been friends instead of enemies & they also should have had more interactions to explore that.