#she's insane she's hyper competent she's this close to falling apart at any given moment she will kill a man she has a tenuous relationship

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Thinking about how Farah is kind of removed from the weird universe shit in a way. Not all the weird shit, mind you, just the truly, incomprehensibly bizarre stuff. She doesn't time travel in s1, she doesn't get to go to Wendimoor in s2, etc. She's back in reality shooting cultists and mages.

I mean she literally saves the world in s2. The other two saved the Wendimoor dimension, yeah, but Farah saved the ACTUAL WORLD.

A lot of ppl have been theorizing lately about how Todd has holistic 'powers'/a universal purpose that's a cosmic compliment to Dirk's powers-- inadvertently boiling down all the crazy into the right questions, subconsciously picking up on the blind spots that Dirk misses, etc. As an extension of that, I think Farah's function is to be the grounding element of the trio and that she has 'powers' that reflect that-- they're just powers that she's dedicated her whole life to cultivating the hard way. Her universe-assigned role is to handle all of the elements of cases that get overlooked in order to make way for the weird shit.

The universe saw the other two chasing rabbits and falling into pocket dimensions and said "hm, someone needs to balance the scales."

I'm a big fan of @teacupsandcyanide's "My commiserations, Todd Brotzman, but the Universe assigned you Watson at birth" quote (hi, sorry, I hope you don't mind me tagging you, but credit where credit is due: it's a great quote). I think that the corresponding thing for Farah is that the Universe assigned her Anxiety/General Neurodivergence at birth because SOMEONE has to worry about the not-so-little details that everyone else forgets about when shit gets weird.

Anyways, Farah is essential and the other two simply would not be able to function without her <3 much love