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Wait, WHAT!?

I had absolutely given up hope that Clea was placing. Whew. I was pretty much in the saltiest mood for the past while after that as well considering Clea has been involved in like... half of Minerva's RP since her introduction. Whether with other PCs or NPCs she's in such a bind because of the moral conundrum there is in her existence.

For the Cody/Maniac duo, we've had two sessions in Minerva's homeland of Tritonis, a city-state of Atlantis. The first one was introducing us to the city and the drop of news that Minerva's birth mother is dead by a few years and Iqula remarried not too long after. Minerva, using a mask that hides her hair as well, went into the city quite disguised and got the shellshocked news. There was a guard at the castle as well that she poked into the head of and he could hear Queen S'Ona's voice slightly through Minerva. We left soon after a meeting with the king that included Clea partially introducing herself, stating she wanted the group of PCs to look into her homeland, and waving her hand that kept Iqula even more obedient than he had been prior. Plus the other things Scar mentioned already.

Between sessions, Minerva went to talk to Scandal Savage who is like a Vizier to Minerva, helping her figure out some goals as a princess and future queen though also ever so slightly attempting to manipulate Minerva. Her advice were to try and find people that didn't really... like the queen. So their second trip involved moving about the city and talking to some residents. The military is completely under Clea, as she probably has that same mind control on the city's general, the public is in support of her, so the next step would be someone with likely undying loyalty to her Aquaman... Nope, also in support of Clea... While also trying to protect the city from equated fish that stem from Clea's homeworld. Besides Minerva's other smaller storylines, she is pretty much in a freak out mode about a single goal of taking the Tritonian throne once she has handed the Atlantean throne back to Aquaman... But Clea is a powerful woman who frankly is playing two sides of a moral compass.

On one hand, she's arming Tritonis for war against all other city-states and may be getting their soldiers killed outside of the gates. While also possibly letting equated merpeople into Tritonis to kill its citizens. And also has thrown the best ally Minerva could have in the city in jail in Lagoon Boy.
On the other hand, she's mind controlling Iqula and is potentially a very powerful mage in her own right so would be a very powerful ally if she's not to blame for her equated peoples and the deaths of soldiers outside city walls.