User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 315 - In Which My Hatred Knows No Bounds (Rosemary)/@comment-3030647-20130119000744/@comment-3001427-20130119051755

Griffith... man I havent heard that bastards name dropped in a while. And yeah Berserk is... well it was pretty much THE seinen series to read years ago. Still is, until recent chapters. Its bloody, its violent, and it showcases a level of sheer brutality that is not for the faint of heart.

Ash, Minerva is not a complete monster. Opportunistic? Sure. Monster? Not even close. The cat-girl that was their friend? Had she been a complete monster, she would have told them that if neither killed the other, their friend died. And if she was defeated, their friend dies still. Why do this? Cause she can. No more, no less. Thats what complete monsters do, they go out of their way to crush the thing heroes call "hope" just to see them wallow in despair.

Minerva strikes me as the kind of woman who is ruthless in her ambition, and take whatever steps is necessary to achieve, no more, no less. She isnt going to go out of her way to crush the hope of her adversarys. Not unless its going to benefit her future plans in some fashion. Keep in mind, monsters do it for the lulz.