User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 337: The Golden Plains, Review and Commentary/@comment-5840892-20130628190511/@comment-4829046-20130629023432

A debate about Minerva's bitchiness? lol

On that note, I have designed villains who are far more brutal than Minerva, you might like them Tristan. They don't follow a stereotype nor are they retarded. Yes some are retarded but the true villains aren't, the ones that genuinely give everyone a hard time and have a more logical/believable motive/reason are dangerous.

In fact, one of the themes in the story is guilt, guilt of torturing and killing people.