Seb (short story)

Seb was the 39th The Blogs of Doom short story and the first to be published in 2021 in Doctor Who Magazine 560. Like other features in the series, it narrated events in the life of a minor Doctor Who TV character before and after their involvement in the Doctor's life.

In this case, the subject of writer Jonathan Morris's attention was Seb from Dark Water and Death in Heaven. However, it also featured Adric when his mind was uploaded to the Nethersphere after his death seen in Earthshock.

Summary
Seb welcomes Adric to the Nethersphere after he's vaporised in the freighter explosion. He explains about his recent death and how the boss is keen to meet him again, and that his friends missed him, albeit seemingly briefly. But since Adric was always into sums and logic anyway, they can offer him a way to delete emotions, and his next job could be in cyber...

Characters

 * Seb
 * Adric

Worldbuilding

 * Adric has never been one for primitive superstitions such as an afterlife.
 * Seb compares the Nethersphere to the Hotel California, but for dead people.
 * Seb works in the After Dead Department, welcoming the recently deceased.
 * Missy is harsh when it comes to filling out paperwork.
 * Missy wants to catch up with Adric.
 * Adric is in Seb's "top 10" of companions.
 * If Adric had succeeded in preventing the freighter from crashing, it would've prevented the extinction of the dinosaurs and evolution of the human race, disrupting the Web of Time.

Continuity

 * Seb notes that some people call the Nethersphere "the Promised Land," but he prefers the former name. (TV: The Caretaker)
 * Saving Varsh was out of the Nethersphere's range, (TV: Full Circle) but it has everyone who died on Traken and Logopolis. (TV: Logopolis)
 * The Nethersphere had not received many of the Doctor's companions, except for "a couple of girls from way back" (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan) and recently, the Brigadier. (TV: The Wedding of River Song, Death in Heaven)
 * Adric was vaporised painlessly when the freighter collided with prehistoric Earth. Seb informs him that "he was right." (TV: Earthshock)
 * had met Adric in . (TV: The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis, Castrovalva)
 * Tegan and Nyssa were distressed when Kalid brought back Adric as a mental projection, only a matter of hours after his death. (TV: Time-Flight)
 * Seb comments that Adric has left the "flesh time." (TV: Four to Doomsday)