Mina Han

## The Iron Stomach

### Aliases

"Blue Jay" (Thrash), "Hanburger" (Ziggy), "Mina Flan" (Thorn), "Pumpkin" (Instructor Razel)

## Game Related Information

### Voiced By

Erica Mendez

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**Mina Han** is a human chef in *Battle Chef Brigade*. She is the daughter of Wen and Lily Han from Windy village, and her sister is Saskia. Her best friend is Simon, the son of their family restaurant's wheat supplier. A sweet and naive girl who dreams of becoming a Battle Chef, she leaves her village to get to the capital and take part in a tournament.

The game's events follow her, as the central protagonist, and her adventures in running away from her idyllic village life to join the Battle Chef Brigade's yearly tournament. As well as how she makes friends with the other competitors and fights against the blight.

While running the little restaurant in town might be good enough for some, Mina craves more out of life. For her, the pinnacle of success would be to join the Battle Chef Brigade. She practices nightly alongside the coachings of her sister to hone her own abilities. Using recipes she has long made in her family kitchens, she seeks to prove herself, stealing the money meant for ingredients and convincing her best friend and sister to cover for her while she tries her hand at joining the brigade. Mina snaps to light a fire under her cook pots.

## Appearance

Mina is a slightly tanned human girl. She has a bob of short and slightly messy black hair, with black eyes to match. She is almost always seen wearing her form-fitting blue chef's uniform, with a yellow ascot held by a red seal that features an upside down triangle around her neck. After she enters the Brigade, she swaps to wearing the Brigade's white uniform with a blue ascot instead.

## Personality

Mina is an adventurous young woman, who dreams of an exciting life full of cooking and exploration. As such, she chooses to run away from her boring village life, and fulfill her dreams by joining the Battle Chef Brigade.

She's a caring person who loves her family and friends dearly. As can be seen when she defends her good friend Kirin from Shiv's attack, which causes her to get expelled from the tournament. Though, she doesn't seem to express any regret for her actions. Her kindness can lean on the dense side, as seen when she fails to realize that Wart's cookie was a taunt, and instead complimenting him on such a well thought out idea. Mina is consistently kind to all of her competitors, win or lose, and cares about their home lives. To the point that she even expresses sympathy for Rixal's sentence that bars him from cooking forever, even though he had harmed many people over the process of the game.

However, she has a rebellious and stubborn streak, which can often bleed into rashness and irresponsibility too. She is mentioned to have often stayed up late at night to practice her magic and fighting skills more, leading to her oversleeping for work the next day constantly, and getting into trouble as a result. This stubbornness is also what causes her to choose to run away from her home in the first place, which lands her into more hot water with her parents.

Once she is sent back home to the Windy Village, she seems to have largely matured, she isn't working hard just for the thrill of it or anything, and she admits her actions were wrong, and her motivation now is just to help everyone, not only herself. This leads into her strong motivation for helping Ziggy solve the problem of the monster blight, and for bringing Rixal to justice.

## Powers and Abilities

Mina is an incredibly skilled chef, and is regularly recognized by other characters to be incredibly quick in both the kitchen and battlefield. Presumably in-part due to her well-honed wind abilities. Her knife work is also incredibly deft, with her usage of the cutting board being the quickest amongst all playable characters.

She has a wide repitore of Chinese cuisine-inspired dishes under her belt from working at her family's restaurant back home. As well as the speed to match working in fast-paced restaurants as a result, as was complimented by Pontida while she was working at the Crescent Moon during the events of the game.

## In-Game Abilities

* **Daggers**: Mina is highly skilled at utilizing throwing daggers, allowing her to hunt at a distance. Modifiers can be added to her knives to add further elemental damage to them, and the Double Knives upgrade allows her to throw two at once, allowing for double the damage.
* **Dash**: A part of her mobility kit, Mina's dash allows her to speed by monster attacks and move through zones rapidly. With the Dash Strike upgrade purchase, she can do damage to enemies as she passes by them.
* **Stun Dive**: If the ability is purchased from the shop and equipped, Mina can stun enemies when she bounces on them.
* **Feint**: With a quick crouch, Mina can quickly dodge past most direct attacks and dodge behind enemies within the blink of an eye, giving her an opening for attack.
* **Whirlwind**: Using her wind magic, Mina can summon a small, stationary, and controlled tornado to pick up and stun-lock enemies, preventing them from attacking her. This can be upgraded with the Swirling Whirlwind book to allow it to last longer, move around, and do more damage.

## Trivia

* According to a bracket held by the game's publisher, Adult Swim Games, Mina is the most liked character in the game. (https://twitter.com/adultswimgames/status/953049311952228352?s=20)
* Mina can be found in several other games as a cameo character:
	+ **Moon Hunters**. She shows up as a traveling chef.
	+ **Dice Destiny**. A canceled Kickstarter campaign that didn't manage to achieve funding. Mina was going to show up as a playable character.
	+ **The Vagrant**. Mina plays the role of a traveling chef in The Vagrant.

Mina's concept art from the kickstarterMina's idle animation in gameMina's full body concept artMina in Moon HuntersMina in Dice DestinyOld concept art of Mina cooking