Or maybe we'll go hard the other direction and Minsc goes around wearing a necklace with a tiny hamster skull on it that he talks to. You'd even get a little 'Boo takes up a quickslot' from the old games.
I'm personally not as afraid of them Flanderizing Minsc and Boo.
The remarks earlier about two companions being written by one person is clearly Wyll and Mizora, right?