User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 390: The Story of a Boy, Predictions./@comment-98.26.119.147-20140620074745/@comment-4449950-20140620075848

I had a long think about the Minerva thing tbh because I was all over the place about it - usually I either like or hate how characters are written, so it irked me that I couldn't come to a conclusion about Minerva. Then I read around a bit and thought some more and I realised that though it wasn't handled well, it wasn't handled badly.

I say this because Minerva obviously was psychotic for most of her parts in FT - torturing people both physically (Mils) and mentally (Sting) and all that crap with dark guilds. She also had that obsession with Erza that I never understood and actually hated until she asked Erza to kill her, because then I saw it: Minerva the whole time probably understood that she was mentally gone and wanted someone to take her down in a blaze of glory. I guess she decided that someone would be Erza, and, being nuts as she was, became obsessed even unconsciously with this idea.

But of course Erza isn't going to go for this. We know for a fact that she would never let anyone die, because we've seen this before with someone really important: Jellal. Same case pretty much: Jellal wants to die but Erza tells him no and now she has this psycho bitch running after her who could almost be a shadow of what Jellal was, so the two are both immovable walls: Minerva WANTS to die and Erza WON'T let her.

So where does this go? Well, one has to snap. Minerva has to do something SO BAD that Erza cracks it and kills her or Minerva gives up. We all know Erza would never do that, so Minerva breaking down and giving up is the only option left. In most cases she would have gone nuts at being unable to get what she wants, but Erza's kind heart and Sting and Rogue are obviously countering this.

So, after I thought of this, I guess I really wasn't all that disappointed. Yes, it could have been handled MUCH better, but all in all (with this interpretation) I can't say that what happened to Minerva's character was bad.

Wow... rant .-. Lols, just ignore me XD