#adric

[mcweasel]

“the fifth doctor is so boring” the fifth doctor is an old man who woke up as a young man. a man who remembers what it’s like to be old and aspires to reach that level of maturity again to be taken seriously in his new body, but who can’t because he has an almost pubescent temperament. he tries and fails to be the doctor because he is simply ill-equipped on a mechanical basis and his entire character arc is built on the tragedy of losing a child who was in his care. this permeates his development to the point that he sacrifices himself for the life of one girl he barely knew.

THE FIFTH DOCTOR IS NOT BORING! he is a tragic hero.

also sometimes he shoots guns and says funny things. goaaaaat

[thecityintheseas]

I love finding old art I made

[notyoujamie]

And we didn't stop for a second to say, "What the hell?"

[mystycor]

Im so glad Earthshock ended with him alive and well!!! Wow!!!

[vitamin-k-tablets]

as some people requested, i drew an adric

[penny-anna]

insp

[enver-whoretash]

I’ve had a bad first week of 2026 and wanted to go back to something that brought me happiness at one point, while practicing the sketchy style I wanted to do more of this year.

Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough, and Adric

[kosmicpowers]

You ever think about how Adric was so obviously suicidal and just wanted a parental figure in the Doctor to help him out of it but the Doctor was so afraid of loving a child as their own after failing Susan which lead Adric to kill himself as a sacrifical lamb believing he'd never be loved, which irreversibly fucked up the Doctor more than if they'd just overcome their fear and reached out to this suffering child?