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Dr. Aditya Singh is a main character and deuteragonist of Sweet Tooth. He is a close friend and former colleague of Gladys Bell. Adi's wife, Rani, lives with the Sick, albeit discreetly. Adi is relentless in his quest to find a cure for the virus and save his wife, even if it means working with the Last Men.
Biography[]
History[]
Little is known about Adi's life before the Great Crumble and Rani's infection with the Sick. A scene in S1E5 (when theyre packing their things), a scene shows that Adi earned his Diploma in Medicine from the Rajasthan School of Medicine. He worked as a doctor during the initial outbreak of the virus, presumably alongside Gladys Bell and the two became good friends. Shortly after Rani became sick, Adi gave up practicing medicine to stay at home and care for his wife. Unknowingly, Rani's illness was being suppressed by a booster vaccine that Adi would retrieve from Gladys's on a regular basis.
Taking the helm[]
After years of researching a cure for the H5G9 virus, on one of their regular visits, Gladys revealed to Adi that she was suffering from stage four cancer, therefore would be giving up her research for a cure. Gladys explained that she wanted Adi to take over from her but warned her that she had done some things that she was not proud of in her quest for the cure. Gladys handed him a book wherein she had documented all of her research that had led up to their current situation, including experiments on hybrid children.
Adi was disgusted at the methods Gladys had used during her efforts to find a cure and vowed that he could not take over from her as it went against everything, he believed in.[1] Pressures build for Adi when his neighbor, Nancie, believes something to be amiss in the community. Upon explaining that she wanted to implement weekly virus screenings, both Adi and Rani panicked, believing that Rani was about to be exposed. Shortly after, however, Nancie is accidentally killed when Adi's horse kicks her in the chest, fixing the problem for the two.[2]
Issues[]
Things became complex for Adi, however, when the townspeople begin to question where Nancie was. Adi was forced to lie, remarking that Nancie got sick, and they had to depose of her. Whilst they initially began to believe Adi, things turned for the worst when Rani began to cough, and the others suspected that she had the Sick. Adi and Rani were tied up, and the townspeople set the lab on fire with the intention to kill both Adi and Rani.[3]
Fortunately, the research at the lab was deemed too important by Abbot and the fire was stopped by the Last Men. After retrieving Bell's research, Abbot instructed that the two were to be killed, but Adi was able to convince Abbot that he was close to a cure, and therefore useful.[4]
Research[]
After being saved by the Last Men, Rani was taken hostage and placed in a secure room in an effort to ensure Adi complied with his promises and continued to research a cure for the Sick. Abbot told Adi that he wanted to be the only one with the cure, therefore the one who decided who would live and who would die.
Adi set up his workspace to begin his experiments but found it troubling when Gus was brought before him. Adi told Johnny a story about a deer, therefore found it too superstitious to experiment on Gus. Nonetheless, Adi began his experiments on one of the hybrids taken from the Preserve.
Why did his wife leave him[]
Adi stopped caring about Rani herself, that's why she left. She realized that Aditya cared more about a cure than her, and that he was using her as a test subject. And she, (rightfully) left him because of it. All she wanted was a happy life with him, but he was to involved with his work in finding the cure.