Isidora Mehmet

Isidora "Sid" Mehmet is a main character in Friends of a Friend.One of Eden's only close friends, Isidora is an eccentric genius who gained access to 100% of her brainpower after overdosing on back-alley nootropics. Like Eden, she often finds herself subject to ostensions, but only those involving scientific misconceptions, elements of fringe theory, and old wive's tales.

Pre-Series
Isidora likes to keep the details of her past purposefully vague, but several key facts are known:
 * 1) Isidora was born in South Boston to lower-middle class Albanian-American parents. She is 5 years younger than her brother, Sokrat. At some point before she began elementary school, her parents divorced, with her mother, Marsela, claiming custody.
 * 2) Isidora was not an especially gifted student, and lived most of her life in the shadow of her academically-gifted bother, who is currently in medical residency. While the two generally got along, Isidora often felt jealous of his academics.
 * 3) Isidora experienced several ostensions growing up. She was severely injured as a child when a penny landed on her head, and experimented with Jenkem, bananadine and Strawberry Quik in her teens.
 * 4) She also made money on the side as an online quack.
 * 5) After graduating high school, she began working for her father at his pharmacy while she took courses at a nearby community college. It was here that she acquired a bottle of the nootropic Cereblast, the entirety of which she consumed in one sitting, after which she passed out and woke up in an alleyway, apparently able to access 100% of her brainpower.

Personality
On the outside, Sid plays the part of an eccentric genius, frequently concocting new medicines and exploring new scientific theories. She enjoys using long words and making big claims. However, her frequent misuse of scientific jargon and complete disregard for the scientific method make it apparent that this is largely an act.

In stark contrast to Eden, who has reluctantly resigned herself to her FOAF-ness, Sid delights in rumormongering, especially for personal gain. She is shown to be disappointed and at times frustrated by Eden's resistance to deliberately initiating legend cycles, seeing it as a waste of a gift.

Although she can come off as uncaring and selfish in her actions, Sid sincerely cares for her friends and family, barring her estranged father. While she does tend to take advantage of people's gullibility, she doesn't act out of malice, rather, she acts out of an almost childlike fascination with her and Eden's abilities. Nonetheless, this does result in her coming off as cruel and manipulative to those outside her circle.

Trivia

 * Sid is from a Muslim family, but has stated that her upbringing was mostly irreligious. She occasionally claims to come from a long line of Sufi wisemen, but this is doubtful.
 * She is a teetotaler, however whether or not this for religious reasons is unconfirmed.


 * Although she abstains from alcohol, she continues to recreationally use a number of fictitious drugs.


 * Her birthday is August 16, a date she shares with Dudley J. LeBlanc, the inventor of the cure-all medicine Hadacol.
 * She is voiced by Lauren Lapkus in the animated series.