Safiya Bachchan

**Safiya Bachchan** started the series on the first episode of season six on Webster and was a main character in season six and season seven. Safiya may be a proud Muslim but that doesn’t mean that she isn’t afraid to speak her mind and wants to change the sexist norms of her religion. Rebellious and unapologetic, Safiya sometimes finds herself in sticky situations. Safiya is also really athletic and won’t let anything, even her parent stop her from achieving her goals. Her younger brother is Taj Bachchan. She is best friends with Kacey Boswell and close friends with Bobby Mendelsohn, Jaeden Hawke, Evan Gallagher and Orlando Whitby and she dislikes Robin Rzewski.

## Character History

### Season 6

   Safiya transfers to Webster in **#FuckCancer (1)**, as a junior. Safiya runs into classmates Kacey Boswell, Bobby Mendelsohn and Jaeden Hawke and she becomes fast friends with Kacey. Kacey invites Safiya to hang out with them for lunch. However Kacey offends her with a racist comment. Kacey realizes what she has done and apologizes to Safiya and the girls make up. In **#FuckCancer (2)**, Safiya tries out for the Webster Girls' Soccer team. She and Bobby watches new student Orlando warm up for the boys' soccer team tryouts but they both instantly dislike him due to his cocky attitude. Safiya ends up making the team but she tells Bobby that her parents would disapprove of her trying out for the team. In

**#NoChill**, Safiya runs into Brandon Scott and Ricky Hartley at the clean the beach program. Brandon is assigned to do it as community service. Safiya tells Brandon that her parents forced her to do it and she would rather be playing soccer than doing it. Safiya and Brandon start to bond and Ricky leaves them alone to talk. Safiya runs to Brandon again at Starbucks and Brandon tells her that they should hang out again and even gives her one of his famous nicknames, Soccerball. In **#ShotsFired (2)**, Safiya helps Kacey deal when Bobby becomes jealous of

Kacey's new friendship with Orlando. Things become intense when Orlando reveals to the class that someone has a gun in the school and they are on lock down. Everyone, including Safiya are scared. They hear the gun go off and are scared when they hear police sirens. In **#MeToo**, Safiya is annoyed with her parents strict rules due to them being Muslim. She tries to rebel against them by introducing Brandon to them. They are angry with Safiya and forbids her from dating him, as she reveals to them that he's her boyfriend. Brandon is angry with Safiya for putting him in that bad position. Safiya realizes how wrong she was for that and apologizes to Brandon and they share a make up kiss and continue their relationship. In **#SwitchUp**, Safiya is about to

drive her and her younger brother Taj to school when two kids come up to them. They start making comments about Safiya's hijab. One of the kids starts a fight with Safiya. This has a negative affect on Safiya. She starts to wonder if wearing her hijab is worth it since she doesn't like wearing it anyways. She decides to change up her look and she shows it off to Brandon. He is happy that she's being herself but things take a turn when a guys tries flirting with her while she's out with Brandon. It causes drama between Brandon and the guy. Safiya feels like she doesn't want that kind of attention and decides to go back to wearing her hijab. In **#SomeButNotAll**, Safiya

and Taj find about a terrorist attack that has happened. This causes them both to be prime targets when two guys start making racist comments towards them. Taj's classmate Quinn DiMaggio comes to their defense, leaving Taj shocked since Quinn is the freshman mean girl. The guys won't leave them alone and Brandon punches one of them in the face, causing the other one to run off. After this happens Safiya decides to stop wearing her hijab completely. Brandon wonders if it was because of the encounter she had and she assures Brandon that she just doesn't like wearing it and her parents were actually surprisingly okay with it. In **#ItsLit**, Safiya

is invited to the senior beach house trip with Brandon. Brandon's ex-girlfriend and one of his best friend Rosie tells her that she's excited to get to know her. Things seem to be great with the girls at first but Safiya's jealousy gets the best of her and she accuses Rosie of wanting Brandon. This offends Rosie and she leaves the conversation. Safiya finds out that Brandon and Rosie have been hanging out at the party they threw at the beach party. Safiya finds Brandon and confronts him about his feelings for Rosie and she asks him if he still likes her. Brandon apologizes to her and she breaks up with him. In **#GoneTooFar**, Safiya finds out that Kacey likes both Bobby and Orlando and she tells her that she can't lead them on and she needs to make a decision on what to do before she goes to dance camp for the summer.

## Trivia

* She is the first main character to wear a hijab.
* Safiya doesn’t like wearing her hijab.
* Safiya is seen without her hijab for the first time in #SwitchUp (613).
* She stops wearing her hijab after episode #SomeButNotAll (617).
* Safiya and Taj are the first Muslim main characters in the series.
* She is very similar to her best friend Kacey.
* Safiya is one of the few characters to have their middle name revealed.
* She is the first character on the series to be arranged to marry someone.

## Relationships

Main article: Brandon-Safiya Relationship

* Brandon Scott
	+ Start Up: #MeToo (611)
	+ Break Up: #ItsLit (621)
		- Reason: Safiya realized that Brandon still had feelings for Rosie.