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Minajael starring as the Princess in a play

Mina reminds Tim that he performed in a musical play that the club held during the “Cultural Festival” (idk if they’re legit talking about the VDC or another unspecified culture festival), to which Tim replies that he saw it bc one of his colleagues was acting it in. Mina was playing the princess in a red dress. 

While we can’t say he was exactly using Jasmine’s red clothes or that his scene was that movie scene, it’s likely that the “red dress” is a reference to the sequence.

You don’t need to be from Magift to play in the “main team”

That… we already knew. But with the way Jack immediately jumped when recognizing Minajael, we got the impression that he was really from the Magift club, since he was in that game. 

And to top it off, the Savanaclaw NPCs were fuming at the mouth bc Mina was not a mere theater kid thrown into the lion’s den. He knew what he was doing and won that game for RSA with a three-pointer shot after stealing the disc [post coming soon].

Why the Drama club for Minajael?

In this post, user @/donanimee pointed out that the decision for such a club for Mina is because of Jasmine fooling Jafar through acting and I wanted to expand on that point!

Jasmine doesn’t only “put on an act” for Jafar, there are several other instances in the movie where she needs to be creative with her words to get out or take something out of a situation. 

The first was getting along with Aladdin’s trick so they could escape from the vendor’s wrath and she locked in instantly pretending that Abu was the sultan and that a camel was her doctor. It shows how versatile and ready to solve problems she is, even if it means playing the fool for a hot minute which is not something easy to pull off or expect that anyone (especially arrogant or conceited) could do).

The second time was flirting purposefully seductively with Prince Ali (who she thinks is convinced as hell that he could just waltz into her balcony and be charming), luring him into a false sense of security and waiting for him to say just the wrong thing so she could send him packing. What actually saves Aladdin’s skin in that scene is that, even when fumbling, he lets his honest side show and it clues Jasmine into his potential true identity. And the rest is history.

The third time is to distract Jafar from seeing Aladdin and inventing a bunch of compliments on the spot for him. She mentions how he’s tall, dark, handsome, well dressed, he has angular eyebrows, cute gaps between his teeth and the iconic “your beard is so… twisted~”. Talk about an improv queen! 

Tbh I was taken by surprise when thinking that they would put Minajael in the Magift club (just by proxy) bc I didn’t think it made sense for him and was surprised a second time about the Drama club mention but it all clicked!

They’re making use of that small detail in how Jasmine acts for Mina and it works so perfectly! I can't wait to see him in action~