It's definitely leaning towards character assassination. Some people have theorized it's a bug as she doesn't really break up with Durge despite reacting so harshly to it, though we can't be sure if that specific part is a bug or if this entire exchange triggering is the bug. It makes absolutely no sense.
The kiss option is still there afterwards, and people have reported we can still get her epilogue even after triggering this. Truly disheartening to see no improvements have been made in terms of how they're treating her. It's been 7 months, we are not in EA anymore.
Yup, 1000% character assassination.
I truly do not understand why they even made that scene to begin with because Minthara is neither a power hungry lunatic nor a genocidal maniac that only sees the Dark Urge as a weapon to be unleashed upon the world.
When Minthara talks to Dark Urge about their urges in ACT II, she extremely disapproves any potential notion of harming her... yet when Bhaal is about to kill the Dark Urge they made her disapprove when we refuse Bhaal due to not wanting to be a danger to her since she's our FAMILY that fights with us?! Do they even play their own game?!
Not to mention she fell head-over-heels in love with Dark Urge due to being fascinated by their love, care and devotion to her, not because they're a Slayer. The core of her romance is getting to truly know her heart and who she is, so this stupid scene entirely changes the motive behind her affection from honesty and admiration to just pure vile power objectifying hungriness. She literally ends up being worse than Bhaal now.
There are SO MANY contradictions it is insane... the only scenario I see this scene existing is if Minthara as a companion had two different paths for her character; one being her community-loved cool neutral pragmatic path and the other being this power hungry angry lunatic bitch they made her in this scene. This scene would only make sense if in such a path the Dark Urge player was constantly pushing the idea forward of wanting to reunite with their father, similarly to how Shadowheart or Astarion have their evil paths as a Dark Justiciar and Ascended Vampire.
This scene simply has no place in the game and needs to be removed. As proven with the video above it entirely contradicts Minthara as a character, her principles and her attitude throughout her whole journey, but here is even further proof @ 08:55 why it needs to get the hell out of the game because it also completely clashes against the aftermath of ACT III too;
Also yup I noticed we still technically are in a relationship and can kiss immediately after, but unfortunately it killed her as a character for me. As I mentioned in the PM, I no longer want to have her around me at all because Larian's mistreatment and butchering of the character is physically torturing me.
At this point I am close to just uninstalling the game and leaving for good, as there is nothing for me here but misery with each damn patch. Bugs, issues, inconsistencies I can handle all day long, but butchering a character like this through awful writing? Never.
So to quote Minthara directly from this horseshit scene to express how I feel about it; "Killing me would've been a mercy! At least it would've spared me of hearing this drivel!"
Originally Posted by Bloodshed
I remembered one more bug with Minthara which you need to add to your list. It's about interaction in Cazador's palace. Minthara comments about influence of this place on Astarion even she never saw him. In my playthrough I killed him when he tried to bite my tav. (almost beginning of the game)
I'd like to add it, but unfortunately I don't have it in me to play through the entire game just to collect an inconsistent idle comment, especially now after Larian ruined the game for me.
