User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Unpopularity Contest: Round 1/@comment-4449950-20120730061934

Interesting... but I voted for Minerva...

Reason: Though both women are wicked in many aspects, if we look at their pasts and the people they are around we will see that Flare is in an evil environment where she was being physically abused by Iwan (or are we calling him Ivan now??) and also tormented by her team. However, when we look at Minerva, she is a strong member of a fantastic guild who is very popular and powerful, yet she still finds the need to display that through wicked acts of awfulness.

Hence, character-wise, I hate Minerva more... Flare has my pity...

(I'm not trying to pass off Flare's actions as okay due to her situation. She is still mean and nasty and cruel, but compared to Minerva... man... what is that chick's problem...??)