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miss raven!! i've noticed many people hcing minajael as someone who's very teasing/flirty and i'm so curious what's your take on this! what do you think his style would be like?

I think a big part of Mina’s appeal is that we barely know anything about him. A pretty face and some basic background + vaguely princessy and Jasmine inspiration is enough for fans to project whatever romanticism they want onto him to fill in for knowledge gaps. And yeah, it helps that Mina also has a very strong face card

I believe that fans like to headcanon Minajael as flirty/teasing because of their own thirst/j of how Jasmine, his inspiration, behaves in the film. Since Jasmine has a romance with Aladdin (and, uh, arguably also a charged “moment” with Jafar 🤢), we can reference that and extrapolate for Mina and how he'd act when it comes to pursuing love for himself or just how he acts in general. I've also noticed that many people like the idea of the RSA boys having Disney prince/hero traits, so those tend to get combined with the princess/heroine traits. For Mina, that means he may have some Aladdin elements as well (though for simplicity's sake, I'll be pulling only from Jasmine for this post).

Firstly, Jasmine is fierce and firmly believes in marrying for love, not for status or royal obligation. "I am not a prize to be won!" really sticks out in my own memories of her film. This is something we already see reflected in Mina, who pretty quickly rejects the idea of having his spouse decided for him in his introductory scene. It's therefore not far-fetched to look to Jasmine for other examples of what could be transferrable to Minajael. For example, he could have a strong sense of justice and a desire to help others since Jasmine does (thinking Jafar's sentences are too harsh, wanting to feed a hungry child, etc.).

Jasmine is consistently shown to be flirty (sometimes in subtle ways, other times more aggressively or overtly). Her "I'm a fast learner" line could be seen as being coy, especially when paired with her expression and in the context of having fallen into Aladdin's chest a little earlier. And who could forget the infamous scene where Jasmine lays it on thick to distract Jafar? In fact, Jasmine demonstrates several times that she knows how to "turn on the charm", not just to distract Jafar, but also with Aladdin, whom she expresses both hostility + hesitation towards and genuine interest in. For example, she strides up to Aladdin, places her hands on him, and speaks in a sweet voice in their balcony scene. Jasmine also acts playful with the feather on Aladdin's turban, proactively puts her head on his shoulder, and refers to him as "my handsome prince" after their date in the sky.

Considering all of that, here's my own interpretations of the "Minajael is teasing/flirty" headcanon(s), along with related headcanons of my own:

My immediate impression of Mina is that he speaks casually, but is serious when it comes to achieving his goals. However, this doesn’t mean that he can’t also be a romantic or have a teasing streak.

As I mentioned earlier, he is canonically very opinionated when it comes to matters of love and is against the idea of having others choose his partner for him.

I see the RSA boys as kinda… bleeding hearts and/or those with savior complexes. For Mina specifically, I think he’d share Jasmine’s fierceness and self-righteousness, so he’d be the type to intervene if he senses a NRC guy is giving someone else trouble. Swoop in and play hero, y’know 😭

I fully believe in Mina’s capacity to whip out the charm if he has to or wants to. Now, I don’t think he’s a playboy even if he kinda looks like trouble. He’d be looking for The One to pledge his devotion to, someone who would love him for him, and not money, status, or titles. An old-fashioned romantic at heart!

Mina daydreams about having a serendipitous encounter in some farmer’s market (while he’s in his commoner cosplay). Like he reaches for the same blemished apple as a rando and then their hands touch, their eyes meet, sparks fly—

Mina does strike me as someone who easily teases, thanks to being inspired by Jasmine. He’s not unaware of the effect he has on people, bro knows what’s up.

He’s very selective with how he wields his charm, because he doesn’t like the idea of giving false hope. If he’s such an advocate for true love, then the last thing he wants to do is lead someone on. And if the person he’s interested in is into someone else, Mina will immediately back off and encourage them to follow their heart. HE’S A SUCKER FOR HAPPY ENDINGS (even if they do not involve him).

I think a good way to incorporate Jasmine’s (initial) hesitancy and skepticism (of Aladdin as his Prince Ali persona) is… maybe Mina teases others as a sort of “test” to see how they react. Kinda like putting his feelers out there, so he can determine what kind of person they are, if he can trust them or not, etc.

To add that element of insincerity (Jasmine faking it with Jafar) to Mina, I think he has a… complicated relationship with flirting? Like, it’s a useful tool to determine friends and foes, but it isn’t “true”—it has a detached quality to it. Maybe he feels a real connection with someone, but then the thought occurs to him that they may not like him for his “real” self, since he’s kinda putting on an act or pretending to be someone else in the moment (perhaps someone more romantically aggressive).

He doesn’t like being pursued; he’s more into being the pursuer. I think this thought of mine stems from Jasmine’s “I am not a prize to be won” line and how she constantly had suitors knocking at her door. It’d feel suffocating for Mina and like people are fighting for his affections. He wants that freedom to choose who he loves and pursues.

I think he'd be really popular on Magicam and every time he posts, he gets a flood of thirst tweets and people hitting on him. Mina laughs it off, but it'd make him feel kind of uncomfortable and think about how people like him only for his riches or looks and not really for HIM, the "real" him.

Mina seems so easy to talk to… so casual. Flirting comes to him naturally, and sometimes even the non-flirting sounds like it because of how effortlessly it rolls off his tongue. My female friend and I have this dumb in-joke where we’ll greet each other with “hey, girl” to parody playboys, but in Mina’s case, that “hey” greeting would actually be innocent and chill but so, SO effective, even if he does not mean for it to be that way.

You know how sometimes guys use their dogs in dating app photos to make themselves seem more likable??? MINA WiTH HIS PET TIGER AS HIS WINGMAN…

I don’t think he’d be perfect in matters of love. At the end of the day, Mina is still extremely privileged (despite his own reservations about his status), and that will blindside him to certain things that the common man experiences that he never has. He might make some accidentally insensitive comments, but quickly recovers from them and is cordial + mature with the apologies unlike most of the NRC boys. Y’know, cuz Jasmine can get pretty feisty but isn’t afraid to change her mind when she has realized she was wrong.

He once thought about confiding in his thoughts on love with Neige, Rielle, etc. but they got way too squeaky and excited about it, so Mina changed his mind and shut the convo down 💀

I may or may not have more thoughts on this later, we’ll see… I could yap about this for a good long while :v

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