Mini McGuinness

Mini McGuinness
Skins character
Freya Mavor as Mini McGuinness
First appearance	"Franky" (episode 5.01)
Last appearance	"Finale" (episode 6.10)
Created by	Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain
Portrayed by	Freya Mavor
Seasons	5-6
Centric episodes	"Mini" (series 5) (episode 5.03) "Mini" (series 6) (episode 6.05) "Mini and Franky" (episode 6.09)
Information
Occupation	Student
Family	Shelley McGuinness (mother) Gregory South (father)
Significant other(s)	Nick Levan (ex-boyfriend) Alo Creevey (boyfriend)
Children	Grace (daughter with Alo)

Minerva "Mini" McGuinness is a fictional character from the third generation of the British teen drama Skins, played by Freya Mavor. She appears in the fifth and sixth series of the show.

Mini is a Scottish girl, and is considered to be the queen bee at Roundview college. She describes herself as "the sweetest girl you will ever meet", but the sweetness is shown to be a façade; Mini will stop at nothing to gain and keep social power, even to the detriment of others. Mini claims that her four favorite things are: "Shopping. Footwear. Sushi. Sex. (And yes, always in that order)." Despite her confident exterior, she is insecure and self-conscious about her weight, to the point where she is seen carefully weighing her food before eating, suggesting that she has an eating disorder.

According to Mavor, "Mini is quite a feisty figure; she's the top dog of the school... or at least she likes to think she is. She's witty and she definitely likes people to hear her opinion. She likes to stir things up, test people and manipulate things around her to see what would happen, but I don't think she means to do bad. She doesn't really think about the consequences of her actions a lot of the time though."

Much of the fifth series deals with Mini slowly losing her power, as Franky Fitzgerald's arrival threatens her relationship with her best friends Grace Blood and Liv Malone. She also deals with the dissolution of her relationship with her boyfriend Nick Levan, as he slowly begins to gain feelings for Liv. As the series progresses, she develops a closer friendship with Franky, eventually starting to become a mother figure to her.

Prior to the start of the sixth series, Dakota Blue Richards (Franky) hinted about the possibility of a Franky and Mini romance. In the latter part of the sixth series, Mavor pointed out that Franky's possessiveness of Mini was due to her becoming a nurturing and motherly figure to her.

In the sixth series, Mini has become an integral part of the group, fixing her relationships with Nick, Liv, and Grace, and becoming a mother-figure to Franky. She also begins a secret sexual relationship with Alo Creevey (whom she affectionately nicknames "Farmboy"),