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Season 1
Protagonists
Mariam
Played by: Andria Tayeh
- Abusive Parents: Downplayed, as she has an easygoing father and a firm-yet-caring mother. However, when Layan accuses her of being a pervert, her mother believes the testimony of several other girls rather than Mariam herself.
- Cassandra Truth: Mariam tells her mother that she truly didn’t sexually harass Layan in the locker room, but Layan manipulates the other girls into falsely claiming that she did and Noaf refuses to testify in her defense, resulting in her mother not believing her, yelling at her and rummaging through her things, ruining their relationship.
- Create Your Own Hero: Layan's vicious bullying of Mariam is what incites Mariam to get revenge on her and the other bullies. Had they not been bullying her so much, the entire plot of Season 1 wouldn't have happened.
- The Chessmaster: Even after Noaf and Dina back out of helping Mariam with her revenge, Mariam still proves to be more than cunning enough to enact the last steps of her plan. She orchestrates the downfall of Ruka and Layan by using their insecurities against them - Ruka's hijab, Layan's psychotic family - and constructs fake social media accounts and elaborate traps to do so.
- The Dog Bites Back: The entire plot of the first season is Mariam finally having had enough of Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya bullying her, and follows her revenge. She bites back hard, hard enough to permanently annihilate Ruqayya's social life, and indirectly ending Layan's life.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Layan's nickname for her is "nerd".
- He Who Fights Monsters: In the season one finale, her pinned hair, makeup, Psychotic Smirk and students flinching from her are all very reminiscent of Layan.
- Hypocrite: Dina and Noaf point out that while she hates bullies, many of the things she does are no different from what they've done especially when it comes to the topic of Slut-Shaming. For example, she's angry that Reina and Layan put red nail polish on Dina's skirt, making it look like she menstruated. But she also exposed Ruka's hijab-less photos to everyone at the school and her family, and also ratted out Layan having a boyfriend to her fundamentalist, purity-obsessed family.
- I Regret Nothing: The very last scene of the series shows that Mariam feels no remorse for pursuing her revenge to the bitter end.
- Jerkass Has a Point: In their attempt to talk Mariam down of getting revenge on Layan, when they mention about "doing the right thing", Mariam shuts both Dina and Noaf up with an argument that they cannot argue with, given that they neglected to speak up in Mariam's defense in the past.Mariam: "The right thing"? The right thing would've been to not turn your back on your friend when she needed you. The right thing would've been to stop them when they were beating me up. The right thing would've been to tell everyone what you saw. I'm sick of hearing about the right thing when you obviously don't know what that is. If you want to be hypocrites, that's your choice. But at least have the guts to admit it.
- Manipulative Bitch: To expose Layan's Girl Posse, she pulls a fire alarm, and while everyone is outside she takes Layan's phone and publicizes a voice note of the three mocking Miss Abeer. Then, she makes a fake Facebook account and steals photos off the internet to seduce Ruka into taking off her hijab, so she can send the photo everywhere. And then, she discreetly drops the location of Layan's boyfriend to her ax-crazy brother...
- Mistaken for Gay: Layan accuses her of groping her, and she's sent to a therapist later. After two weeks, she's allowed to return to school.
- Protagonist Journey to Villain: Mariam starts out as a very sympathetic protagonist, but by the end she is willing to go to drastic lengths for revenge and her friends turn against her. By the end, she ends up being no different from her bullies, with the only difference being that Mariam, while undoubtedly vengeful and ruthless, also wants to make sure that no one else would ever go through what she had suffered.
- Revenge is Sweet: Mariam is more than happy that her revenge scheme went off without a hitch, destroying one bully's life, ending another, and traumatizing the sole member of Layan's clique who made it out relatively intact.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mariam goes to some dark places to get payback on the bullies, and boy do they have some severe consequences. Ruqayya's life is destroyed because of her hijab-free picture spreading everywhere, Layan ends up murdered by her brother in a twisted honor killing, and then there's the threat of the entire school being taken down by Layan's father.
- Psychotic Smirk: Shots of her smile at the misfortune of the Girl Posse grow longer and more intense as the series progresses, culminating in a protracted and eerie one in the season finale after orchestrating Layan's murder at the hands of her brother.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: After she's completed her goals, she does this as everyone stares in horror at her, showing that she has no regrets. See here
. - Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She was initially a normal, passive girl who genuinely cared about her friends Dina and Noaf, until Layan's bullying got to her.
- Villain Protagonist: Starts off as the sweet, bubbly and kind sympathetic protagonist but then becomes apathetic and uncaring about the consequences of her revenge plot against Ruqayyah, Rania and Layan.
- Who's Laughing Now?: A non-verbal version happens in the final scene of the series where Mariam — satisfied with her revenge — coldly looks at Rania, who is weeping in misery.
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Noaf
Played by: Rakeen Saad
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has dark hair and is generally dismissive of everyone around her except for Mariam and Dina.
- Big Sister Instinct: To her Delicate and Sickly younger sister, who has asthma.
- Deadpan Snarker:Presenter: Now, let's say you don't like Layan.Noaf: That's easy.
- Dude Magnet: And hates it, because men like Rania's boyfriend and the old man at the pool constantly harass her. She did react a bit warmer to Dina's brother having a crush on her, though.
- Goth: On the first day of school she wows everyone with her all-black clothing (in contrast to the pink school uniforms), eyeliner, quietness and lack of interest in school activities.
- Held Back in School: Should have graduated the previous year, but was expelled for distributing exam answers and struggled to find another.
- High-School Hustler: Downplayed. She was expelled from her last school for hacking and distrubuting exam answers, but did it for the academically struggling students, not money. She uses her skills to forward The Plan and stops further distribution of Mariam's diary, but backs out when she believes it has gone too far.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Mariam’s plans go too far for her, she and Dina tell Mariam that they’ve had enough and they won’t help her anymore. Mariam calls them out and says Nouf cowardly stayed silent when Mariam was assaulted and falsely accused, and even now is looking for a way out when Mariam wants revenge.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She refuses to tell the principal that Mariam got assaulted physically by the trio to near death or that Mariam didn’t touch Layan at all in the locker room, because she’s afraid that if she does, everyone will think badly of her. Because of her silence, Mariam’s mental health deteriorates and she starts thinking of ways to get revenge on Layan, Ruqqayah and Rania.
Dina
Played by: Yara Mustafa
- Be Careful What You Wish For: When Mariam announces she's going to give up her quest for revenge against Layan's group, Noaf and Dina urge her not to, saying that she's needed to bring restorative justice to the school. Later, they find themselves begging her not to go through with it.
- Big Fun: She's fat and a nice, sweet girl, having empathy for even the people that bullied her.
- Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: Dina is a fan of the K-pop group BTS and on the school field trip, she films herself dancing to their song Fake Love
- Foreign Culture Fetish: In her room, we see a lot posters in the Japanese and Korean languages. In addition, her cookie stand features an animesque character and her hairstyle is possibly a reference to the most popular shojo anime of all time.
- Odango Hair: She has two big buns amongst her long tresses of hair.
- Spoiled Sweet: Is from a wealthy family with a large house and maid, but is one of the nicer characters of the series.
- You Are Fat: Layan and Rania mock her for eating on the bus and Rania also mocks her during sports hour.
Layan's Girl Posse
In General
- Disproportionate Retribution: Severely beat Mariam for telling on Layan's school absence, and induce an asthma attack in Noaf's little sister simply because they suspected Noaf had messed with them.
- Freudian Excuse: It's strongly implied that the reason why Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya became bullies is because of the repression and/or abuse they face at home at the hands of their families. That being said, it doesn't excuse any of their abhorrent behavior towards Mariam or anyone else.
- Girl Posse: Layan, Rania, and Ruqayya form one.
- Hate Sink: Oh boy... Layan is a barbaric bully whose actions can make anyone's blood boil, and Rania and Ruqayyah follow her lead. Subverted later though, as she does have redeeming qualities.
- Hypocrite: Ruqayya, Layan, and Rania all implied to be suffering some major abuse at the hands of their families, especially for being women, and they're all clearly fed up with it at this point in their lives. They take out this anger on Mariam and others at their school, and then Rania then has the audacity to try and paint Mariam, who at one point they nearly killed, as the more evil one when she finally decides that she's had enough and is getting back at them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They ruin Mariam's reputation with a sexual scandal they manufactured, severely beat her up, nearly kill her, and destroy her reputation. By the time Mariam's revenge concludes with the first season, Ruqayyah has been taken out of school via a manufactured sexual scandal, Rania has been severely beaten by her father, and Layan has possibly been killed, with their reputations all ruined to boot.
- Would Hurt a Child: Frighten Noaf's little sister and steal her inhaler, causing her to have an asthma attack.
Layan
Played by: Noor Taher
- Alpha Bitch: The quintissetial archetype; she's pretty, the most popular girl in school and has a Girl Posse. She's also a total bitch to Dina and Maryam, as when she met them for the first time she called the latter a "nerd" and spilled tea on the former.
- Ambiguously Brown: She has darker skin than all the other named characters.
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Miss Abeer shames Ruqayah for taking a photo of herself without a hijab (which a boy proceeded to distribute to the school) and states "she has forgotten her values!", this is Layan's response.Layan: "What about the guy who did this to her? Is no one concerned about his values?"
- Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim: Repeatedly (falsely) accuses Maryam of assaulting her, even in a public assembly at the school.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Shows shades of this after rescuing Noaf from a Dirty Old Man and calling out Miss Abeer's victim-blaming.
- Everyone Has Standards: Layan falsely accuses Mariam of sexually harassing her, but upon seeing Noaf being harassed and nearly assaulted by a much older man, Layan immediately jumps to defend her.
- Face Death with Dignity: When she realizes that pleading for her life isn't going to save her, Layan simply stands there, closes her eyes and waits.
- Karmic Death: Of sorts. She accused Mariam of being sexually inappropriate to her, leading her to be pulled from the school and shunned by her parents. She dies in a honour killing after her brother mistakes her for having sexual relations with Laith.
- Kick the Dog: Layan’s actions after nearly killing Mariam at the beginning can be seen as this - at the assembly after the incident, the Principal tells everyone that Mariam can’t remember who attacked her, meaning there is no culprit or suspect, and asks if anyone wants to admit something about it. Layan proceeds to lie and say that Mariam sexually harassed and threatened her, and then gets all the girls in the school to agree with her, completely ruining Mariam’s social life and making her an outcast even to her own mother. This was unnecessary since Mariam hadn’t and wasn’t even planning to tell anyone that it was Layan and her friends that had attacked her until she did this (in fact, Mariam only tried to explain what really happened right after Layan made her false accusation), and rather than permanently breaking Mariam and making her stay out of Layan’s way, this ends up further convincing Mariam to get revenge on them due to how much pain they needlessly caused her.
- Pet the Dog: Layan gets one when she leaps in to defend Noaf from the lecherous man in the pool, and when she helps Noaf out of the pool, she's much gentler than the viewer has ever seen her.
- Rich Bitch: Most apparent when intimidating Sumayyah, the school caretaker.Layan: I'd hate to get you fired, since, as you said, you have a family to feed and everything.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Gets away with everything from truancy to hospitalising Mariam, due to being from a politically powerful father and dating the principal's son. Deconstructed when her brother Hakem shoots her in an attempt to protect the reputation of the family.
- Villainous Friendship: Despite being the Alpha Bitch of the school, Layan does seem to genuinely care for her friends, defending and comforting Ruqayyah after a photo of her without her hijab is leaked. She also visits Ruqayyah's house after she is pulled out of school.
Rania
Played by: Joanna Arida
- Abusive Parents: Has a volatile and physically abusive alcoholic father. He even gives her a black eye at one point, and Layan comforts her the next day at school and tries to apply makeup to hide it.
- Anti-Villain: Doesn't actually take direct part in beating up Mariam, pranking Dina, or harassing Noaf's little sister. Then again, she doesn't call it out, she helps cover it up and/or sometimes does laugh at it.
- Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Inverted, she's more than ready to be the fall guy for Layan and her friends.
- Beauty Is Bad: Very pretty, and the most aggressive and haughty of Layan's clique.
- Beta Bitch: To Layan. They may have their differences but they're still best friends, and Rania takes the fall for her when they're at the club.
- Cassandra Truth: Rania tries to convince Layan not to skip school to meet Laith, as so many bad things have happened to them lately that it could be too dangerous. Unfortunately, Layan brushes Rania's concerns aside and goes to meet Laith anyway, with tragic consequences.
- Fiery Redhead: Rania has red hair and is the most outspoken of Layan's clique.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She tells the teachers she was alone at the club ( when Layan and Noaf were with her) and gets punched in the face by her dad as a result.
- Not Helping Your Case: When Rania attempts to convince Mariam to not take revenge on Layan, she just ends up pissing off Mariam even more since she's not able to comprehend just how much her and her friend's actions ruined Mariam's life.Rania: Okay, yeah, we might have hurt you a bit, but—Mariam: You guys hurt me "a bit"? You have literally no idea what you've done to me, do you?[...]Rania: But what you're about to do is a lot worse, Mariam.Mariam: "A lot worse"? You still don't get it, do you? You have destroyed me. You have ruined my life. Yet you're lecturing me, saying that what I'm doing is worse?
- Sole Survivor: Rania is the only girl from the trio remaining at the school after Mariam takes her revenge, as Ruqayya is forbidden from going back to school, and Layan ends up dead at her brother's hands.
Ruqayyah
Played by: Salsabiela
- Abusive Parents: When your mom frequently calls you ugly, compares you to your sisters, tells you that you're responsible for defacing their family's honour (for not wearing a hijab) and forbids you to see your friends, your only source of support throughout this....is it any wonder she has self esteem issues?
- Break the Haughty: When a photo of her without her hijab is leaked.Ruqayyah's mother: Nobody wants damaged goods, do they? A girl's reputation is all she has. It's just like a glass vase. If you break it, it can't be fixed, and even if you do fix it, it will never be the same. And now, Ruqayyah, you're just a broken vase.
- Arch-Enemy: Noaf considers her one. Ruqayyah mercilessly beat her little sister, and on the day of the charity event, Noaf is the one to execute the final step in destroying her - leaking her hijabless photo to everyone around her.
- Girly Bruiser: Modestly dressed and the least athletic of the trio, her role in the Girl Posse's bullying is nonetheless a very physical one, landing the most hits on Mariam through repeated kicking and shaking down Noaf's little sister.
- Kick the Dog: Literally kicks and punches on Joad, Noaf's little sister, and also takes her inhaler while teasing Noaf with it.
- I Am Not Pretty: She thinks her sisters are more attractive than her, and she must "make up" for it.
- Informed Flaw: Her mother calls her ugly. However she has beautiful eyes, clear skin and a pretty face. She's also very pretty in the photo where she takes off her hijab.
- Possible
Fridge Brilliance: She believes she's ugly because of her Abusive Mom.
- Possible
- Morality Pet: Layan and Rania were jerks to her before, but they're hurt when Mariam causes her to be expelled, comfort her, and try to argue with her mom to let her visit them. Though her mother forbids it, Ruka witnesses them from her window, and breaks down in tears from their gesture.
- Parental Favoritism: The glimpse into her home life shows this. It certainly becomes less surprising that "Tareq" (actually Mariam, Noaf and Dina) was able to manipulate her into removing her hijab for a photo by calling her beautiful and making her feel special.
- Put on a Bus: Given that Ruqayya is forbidden from attending school by her mother, she no longer shows up after Episode 4.
- Stepford Smiler: She tries to act happy with Layan and Rania, but they make her feel lesser (like forbidding her from tjoining the football tryouts, since they want the positions and they also desert her while they're partying with their boyfriends). That being said after she's expelled, the two show their caring side by trying ti visit her home.
- Token Religious Teammate: Implied because she wears a hijab, but it's later revealed that she comes from a very conservative family that pressure her to be perfect.
School Faculty
Principal Faten Qadi
Played by: Nadera Emran
- Accomplice by Inaction: Mariam identifies her as the source of the problems in school for this reason.
- Adults Are Useless: Does nothing about the Girl Posse bullying the school due to Layan's father.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: Principal Faten’s way of dealing with things at Al-Rawabi, big-time - just ignore it and pretend nothing’s wrong. This bites her hard in episode 6, when Layan’s father is alerted that his daughter has been skipping school by Ms. Abeer, which results in him humiliating Faten in front of the school board and planning to shut the school down (right after she’s won an award no less). And on top of that, she may have lost her son as a result of her own lack of action as well, as he was with Layan, and even if Hazem didn’t shoot Laith too, there will definitely be some sort of scandal over the whole thing.
- Kick the Dog: When Layan falsely accuses Mariam of harassing her, Mariam tries to tell everyone what really happened, only for the Principal to shush and dismiss her as Layan's father is very influential and she doesn't want anything that could get on his bad side. This also leads to consequences for her later on, ironically from the man himself.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Villain: Her refusal to crack down on Layan's bullying and skipping school due to her powerful family ends up placing both the school and her own son in existential danger from Layan's family.
Miss Abeer
Played by: Reem Saadeh
- Arch-Enemy: A one sided example to Layan, after a humiliating voice note of her and her friends making fun of her was leaked.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Placing the call to Layan's family that she skipped school starts the chain of events that lead to her death.
Ms Jumana
- Cool Teacher: She's the sports team teacher and the only one to put down Layan for being a bully, to Mariam's surprise.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Is the only teacher to confront Layan about her behaviour immediately upon witnessing it, directly and honestly to her face without any schemes.
Layan's family
Hakeem
- Big Brother Instinct: Sort of. He views his actions towards Layan as justified to preserve the family image.
- Control Freak: He doesn't treat Layan like she's her own person and implies that she's a slut, because she dared to talk on the phone with someone he wasn't familiar with. Layan goes out of her way to hide her boyfriend because she knows he'll blow the gasket.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: A platonic (or is it?) example. When he hears that Layan talking on the phone to someome, he asks if she's "hiding something", and when Layan tells him she's entitled to privacy. His response is to get more aggressive.Hakeem: "Privacy? Privacy? What does a 17 year old need "privacy" for, anyway?"
- Defiled Forever: He mistakes Layan's clothes being at Khalil's house as a sign she's been sleeping with him, when she actually hung them up to dry. He then calls her impure, breaks down the door and shoots her to preserve the family's honour.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Hazem is protective of Layan. Overly so, that she never gets a sense of privacy at home. This trope is taken to the extreme when he shoots her in the finale in a horribly misguided attempt to preserve their family's honor.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Is it Hakeem or Hakem?
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: He thinks that Layan must preserve her purity for marriage, and when he misunderstands a situation as her having premarital sex, his psychotic side shows.
- Would Hit a Girl: He does much worse than "hit" Layan. He kills her.
Mr. Murad
- Abusive Parents: He's enraged when his daughter skips school (justified) but is implied to be on board with Hakeem killing her.
- Greater-Scope Villain: More or less, since Qadi refused to punish Layan because she wanted to appease him. It's also implied that he may take down the school in the S1 finale.
Season 2
Main cast
Sarah
Played by: Tara Abboud
- Break the Cutie: When an adult man exploits her for nudes and spreads them, the other Al-Rawabi girls call her a slut and chase her to the bathroom stalls to jeer at her. Luckily, an angry Miss Abeer scolds them and sends them back to their classes, and then Sarah comes out of the stall to hug her.
- The Cutie: She's cute and adorable, and her looks play a part in her fame.
- I Just Want to Be Special: She hates that she feels invisible at Al-Rawabi compared to the prettier, more "popular" girls and tries to become famous to avert that.
- Nice Girl: She's very nice, polite and timid, and an innocent girl who just wants to be loved and famous.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: All of the characters (excluding Shams) but Sarah definitely embodies this trope the most, going on her phone constantly throughout class, and even when talking to people.
Tasneem
Played by: Sarah Yousef
- Abusive Parents: She has an eating disorder because her mother keeps policing what she eats and pressuring her to take ballet classes (where a specific physical body type is needed), amongst other things.
- Alpha Bitch: She's pretty, rich, and a great singer, and adored by all the other girls at Al-Rawabi. They all try to get her approval or join her clique, and follow her like a group of ducks.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Tasneem, who is all smiles when in front of everyone, but is cruel and conniving underneath.
- Evil Is Bigger: She's one of the taller girls of her class, in contrast to Layan who was shorter than her peers.
- Stepford Smiler: She acts calm and serene on the outside, but on the inside, she hates that she has to hide who she is and contain her struggles, on top of having an abusive mom. When her mother keeps nagging at her to go to piano class even after she cancelled it, Tasneem finally snaps.Tasneem: I'll never be perfect!
- Weight Woe: Tasneem suffers from bulimia, though she tries to keep it a secret from her peers. And then Shams reveals it anyway.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Nadeen, until she got tired of her Soapbox Sadie attitude and left her for others.
Nadeen
Played by: Tara Atalla
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Nadeen believes that she, and only she, can save Sarah from Tasneem's influence and expose Tasneem as a self centred Alpha Bitch. This causes friction to develop between her and Shams, who is creating a documentary about Sarah and doesn't really care about what happens to her along the way.
- Hypocrite: She says that Tasneem is a bad friend to Sarah, but Sarah retorts that whenever they hang out together they always do what she wants and she never considers her.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Nadine or Nadeen?
- Soapbox Sadie: Sarah views her as this because she is bossy and tries to stop her from befriending Tasneem. Nadeen points out that Tasneem is only interested in her as a friend because she's famous now, but Sarah doesn't care.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She was angry at Sarah for joining Tasneem's clique, so she told Shams all her embarassing information. Shams uses this to compile a documentary about Sarah's downfall.
- We Used to Be Friends: Sarah finds out that Nadeen and Tasneem used to be friends after going through an old photo album, but when she asks about it, Nadeen refuses to tell her what happened.
Hiba
Played by: Kira Yaghnam
- All Women Are Lustful: She tries to come on to Coach Taher by sending him nudes (he is disgusted), and also to another football player from the boy's school.
- Beta Bitch: To Tasneem. Though while Tasneem acts sweet on the outside, Hiba is outwardly cruel, especially to Farah and Sarah.
- The Bully: She constantly critisizes the other girls for not being "pretty" or "perfect" enough, mocks Sarah when Tasneem welcomes her into the Girl Posse, and frequently humiliates Farah. Eventually even Tasneem calls her out for it.
- Death Wail: Hiba's reaction upon seeing that Farah has killed herself is to let out a horror and grief-stricken scream.
- Goth: Essentially a jerkassier Noaf - she wears black eyeliner and dresses in black and silver, while being very aloof.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- While she's an unpleasant person, she's right to be angry at Shams when she finds out that she's been secretly filming the other girls without their consent (even in the bathrooms), especially since some of the girls are underage.
- She's also not wrong when she tells Farah needs to take the hint and learn that Tasneem doesn't like her, especially as Farah always follows them around and is confused when they don't invite her to things. Tasneem can only look at her apologetically at best after Hiba goes off.
Shams
Played by: Thalia Elansari
- Ambiguous Situation: Are her glasses just for show? Sometimes she wears them, sometimes she doesn't.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's no better than Hiba and Tasneem as she befriends other girls, only to learn their most humiliating secrets and puts them into her film.
- Creepy Child: She doesn't speak and only watches the girls from afar with her camera. She also has Sumayyah put cameras all around Al-Rawabi so she can film them. And in her film, she includes Sarah undressing - even though Sarah's underage
- The Friend Nobody Likes: According to Omar, Shams is this to everyone she's ever met because she's so petty and vindictive that she can't stand them being successful and ruins everything.
Farah
Played by: Raneem Haitham
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Farah is Tasneem's cousin and is generally ignored and thought of as a loud, annoying gossip girl who only has friends because she's related to Tasneem. This is Played for Laughs. Until it isn't, when she's humiliated by the film and commits suicide.
- Attention Whore: Farah. Her go-to is bragging that the most popular girl in school is her cousin.
- Broken Pedestal: Farah idolises Tasneem, until episode 5 where Farah chews her out for not even caring about her underneath and never wanting to take Farah along to any exciting social events. Episode 6 makes it even worse when Tasneem unceremoniously kicks her out of her end of year performance to do lights and sound. This leads to Farah taking her own life.
- Despair Event Horizon: Farah goes through a big one in the final episode, from being cruelly denied her one opportunity to perform on stage, to being told that whatever talent she possesses won't matter when she doesn't have the looks to back it up, to being (inadvertently) humiliated in Shams' documentary... all of which culminates in her suicide.
- Driven to Suicide: Farah's fate in the finale.
- Dying Dream: The season's closing scene makes use of this trope by showing Farah's Imagine Spot of her finally getting her chance to shine in stage and receiving an impassioned applause once she's finished her number.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Implied many times.Shams: If it wasn't for the fact that you're Tasneem's cousin, no one would want anything to do with you.
- I Am Not Pretty: She has body image issues because she's fat. When Hiba tells her she's ugly, Farah is broken and left in tears.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Sarah and Farah, who both want to be influencers. However, only Sarah gets to fulfill that wish (which goes horrifically wrong), whilst Farah never gets to, culminating in her suicide when she is denied every opportunity to, and is also humiliated infront of everyone.
