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I love the idea that Todd isn't supposed to be there because Dirk wanted a friend.
Because parallels, babyyyyy
Who's the Todd counterpart character in s2?
Oh, right, Suzie Boreton.
Her introduction is literally beat by beat Todd's introduction, she gets thrust into the strangeness and then Bart finds her.
And her story is supposed to end there with Bart killing her.
But Bart wants to be a nicer person and wants to make Suzie happy so she lets her live.
And the narrative and the universes plan gets all fucked around.
So Todd being a narrative parallel to Suzie, Todd wasn't supposed to tag along, he wasn't supposed to continue to be in the story, but he did.
And maybe it's the power of friendship. Maybe Amanda was supposed to just leave with the Rowdies and not talk Todd into going to talk to Dirk. Maybe Todd was supposed to die somewhere in there. Maybe a lot of things were supposed to be different.
Maybe it was Francis, maybe Francis sent the rabbit out to the world to lead Todd and Farah to the car and had Wakti send Dirk to that car because he heard Dirk talk about his friends and he couldn't be there for Dirk and knew he needed help to finish this case and get him out.
But whatever it was, the story shifted and morphed around the Dirk and Todd and Farah of it all and they ended up together in that field because something worked out right for once.
And Todd didn't try to take advantage of that, of Dirk, of the holistic whatever. He cared about the people and not the power, Dirk, Farah, Amanda. And that's why Suzie failed where Todd succeeded. Suzie was bad and Todd was bad, but Todd accepted that and moved forward to be good and Suzie gripped onto that the second she had power and threw fuckin dynamite on that part of herself and became Evil Witch Queen of the imaginary universe.
Todd just wanted his friends and Dirk needed him, and maybe this once something eased up enough to let that stay.
