Bio
Adric is fifteen. small for his age, wiry and strong. With short straight black hair. His dominating elder brother, Afrus, is the leader of a juvenile street gang on a planet we'll call Yerfillag, and under his tuition Adric has learnt to lie and steal, activities which are the dark side of his natural optimistic brashness and enormous intellectual curiosity.
Adric never fitted into the gang he was pressed into by his brother, partly because of his superior education, and partly because he is a born non-conformist, even among outlaws. When he meets the Doctor, his strong sense of self preservation prompts him to assume an air of subdued innocence and false naiveté. Though a disguise, this impersonation reminds us of Adric's very real vulnerability as a young mortal (as opposed to the Time Lords and their all-capable K-9) - vulnerability that is going to play an important part in future adventures.
At the end of the story that introduces Adric, his brother Afrus has given up his life to save the Doctor and Romana. With the last of his family ties broken, Adric stows away In the TARDIS, where he remains undiscovered until the opening of the next story.
The Doctor subsequently shoulders the responsibility for returning Adric to Yerfillag, but what with one thing and another... Meanwhile, Adric's true character is emerging inquiring, intelligent, but definitely and irritatingly a mendacious magpie. The Doctor's view of his responsibility toward the boy shifts: rather than return him to a planet where he will resume life as a criminal orphan, wouldn't a certain amount of education, reform and expansion of his moral horizon be appropriate...?
BBC Character Outline.
|
