I think Junior is doing this in order to prove to Minnie he isn’t afraid to hold back anymore and to prevent her to do anything in her spiritual form. However this choice might bite him in the bony arse later since rereading from the beginning, two things come to mind: The red goo of pure evil and Minnie’s left eye that when given will mate with the one given if accepted. The latter may have been forgotten but for the former, I feel like this turn of events for Minnie will lead her to be consumed by that since her body and self is left vulnerable now that she’s a spirit. I wonder that if the red goo does take her doll body or her spirit form, it will give her a new demonic body (and implant the left eye if taken the spirit form).

Then it makes me wonder if it was part of HIM’s plan to make Minnie his Her since he doesn’t mind discarding Mimi at all. I mean he only needed Minnie and not Junior in order to control the Nergal symbiote, and it sounds like Minnie is capable of taking it back even if Junior and the thing bonded. So by not only having Aku on his side but also kidnapping Minnie once again (with the highly disturbing possibility that he may take her left eye) and under the influence of the red goo, he can regain power with the nergal symbiote that will defeat Mandy during the great war.

I don’t know if HIM is capable of planning that deeply ahead but HIM did watch over the Grim children since they were born apparently, so may have figured that Minnie would get jealous enough to start a fight with the boy to the point she would be left defenseless to the red goo that Mandy would’ve hurt the hell off of Mimi yet allow to live at Jr.’s stubborn request? Doesn’t seem likely but like everyone else, the writing is jumping around, especially with that god awful bar scene.

I’m still interested to read more, though hoping in the future that Minnie does get over her feelings, return back to her old self and be accepted in heaven in the end game since redemption is still a thing. I mean that angel guy is called the Redeemer after all and the Afterbirth comic isn’t canon anymore I think. Though she did bring this bitchiness upon herself, I still love Minnie as a character and it’d be honestly better if she separated from Junior.