Barry Ill

Barry Ill is the main character of the webcomic "Sparklecare Hospital." He is a former physics student with a poor immune system and deals with paranoia, but loves science.

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

May 15, 1990 (In Real Life)May 15, 5990 (In Sparklecare Time)

## Appearances

### Debut

Sparklecare Hospital - Volume 1: Everything Sucks, and Nobody's Talking about it!

## Biography

### Sparklecare Hospital

#### Before Sparklecare Even Happened

When Barry was a baby, he caught a weird illness that made him lose all of his fur for two years straight. Then, while he was also a baby, he ate a glowstick without his parents supervising him, meaning he no longer has the ability to taste anything at all. Another thing that happened was that he got a rare form of pink-eye known as purple-eye. And he got sick a lot. He was also a physics major at CLCTech University, the school he used to go to.

#### Volume 1 - Everything Sucks, and Nobody's Talking about it!

Barry Ill first appears in Volume 1 of "Sparklecare Hospital." After entering the Wedoncare Hospital, he reads a brochure about the world-famous Sparklecare Hospital and Medical Centers. However, one person who had made it out of Sparklecare Hospital warns Barry to not enter Sparklecare Hospital, and that said hospital does bad things to its patients. Just before Barry can react, he gets a checkup from one of the doctors at Wedoncare, but despite having a temperature of 200.6, a heart rate of 666 bpm, and has green stuff in his blood, the doctor doesn't care and charges Barry $500 just for that checkup despite Barry having red flags in his health. After this, Barry decides he needs better treatment than what Wedoncare gave to him, so he calls the number for Sparklecare Hospital (666-CARE), and one of Sparklecare's ambulances pick him up and take him to Sparklecare Hospital, with Barry unaware of what's in store for him at Sparklecare...

After arriving at Sparklecare Hospital, Barry is met by Nurse Mood, who introduces Barry to Sparklecare Hospital before taking him inside to meet Rem. E. Dies, Sparklecare's Hospital security, who confiscates all of his belongings before letting him go with Nurse Mood to check into the hospital with the help of Nurse Snare. After Nurse Mood asks a couple of questions to Barry, she tells him a doctor will be with him right away. However, she apologizes beforehand, and without warning, Dr. Cuddle, Dr. Puppy, Dr. Funfetti, and Nurse Doom appear, and everything becomes horrible... way... horrible for Barry... something bad... happened to him...

After a while, Caroline Coughs and Uni Cornelius meet up with Barry, who is reluctant to talk to them before Uni finally convinces him to talk. After some conversations, Barry and Uni and Caroline come up with a plan to escape Sparklecare Hospital. They attempt to escape through the vents, but fail and get caught by Nurse Doom, who sends them back to their rooms. But allows Barry to stay roommates with Uni. After criticizing Caroline and Uni, Barry suddenly seems to grow an unaware liking to Uni despite his flaws. And after a while, Barry and company attempt to escape Sparklecare Hospital again, this time by busting out of the building on a scooter driven by Jay Fortune, despite Hemera Philly's warnings. As Barry, Uni, Caroline, Jay, and Hemera attempt to escape the hospital, they are caught by Dr. Cuddles, Nurse Doom, and Nurse Mood, and sent back to their rooms. Then, Barry and friends attempt a third time, by escaping through a window using a blanket ladder. Despite falling to his doom, Barry is saved by Uni after he uses his magic powers (Knowing that Barry doesn't like being touched by people). Soon, Barry, Uni, Caroline, Jay, and Hemera manage to escape from Sparklecare, but are on the run from Dr. Cuddles, Nurse Doom, and Nurse Mood. Barry attempts to tell a police officer about the truth of Sparklecare, but the officer doesn't listen. He and his friends try telling everyone else about it, but nothing works. In a final attempt, Barry and friends go to a concert and Barry attempts to tell the truth, only for everyone to ignore them. They are finally caught, and sent back to Sparklecare, failing to tell the truth. And that's where Barry's stories will continue...

#### Volume 2 - Everything Sucks: This and That Too

Barry seems to be mad at Uni after the events of the last volume, but calms down after Uni takes him to visit Hemera and Jay. As Barry talks to Hemera, they discuss the hybrid plants Hemera made, and then decide to play cards. However, Barry becomes selfish and egotistical after winning at a game of cards, much to everyone's dismay. Later on, while Nurse Doom is cleaning up the hospital, he takes away Jay's blanket and Uni's... thing... and after that, Jay asks Barry for help to get their stuff back. Caroline then pushes Barry down the garbage chute, and Barry, Caroline, Uni, and Jay end up traveling to the Citycountrytown Dump, where Barry has a panic attack over germs, and blames Caroline because he thinks this was all a plan from Caroline to make him scared. Later on, Barry and friends are raided by people living at the dump, and are interrogated. After the interrogation, Barry and everyone else is taken to the sewers, much to Barry's heavy dismay, who mentions he'll take a very long shower after getting out of there. Just then, Barry and friends meet up with three people living in the waters of the sewer. After a couple of minutes, Barry and friends are set off onto trials at the dump. Barry mentions how he can't smell or taste anything due to a glowstick incident that happened when Barry was five. After going through various trials, one of the people living at the dump attempts to sink Barry's raft. Caroline ends up saving Jay at the last moment for telling Barry that he's part of the group now. After Jay convinces the junk people to change for the better, they do and help Barry and friends go find Jay's blanket and Uni's teddy bear. Uni also apologizes to Barry for teasing him, and Barry does the same thing before doing an air brofist. Barry and friends are once again caught by the Sparklecare Hospital again, and are once again sent back, ending Volume 2.

### Volume 3 - Everything Sucks: When Nobody's Looking

Barry does not play much of a role in this volume. However, it is revealed that he did not have horrible medical troubles, rather Sparklecare had tampered with Wedoncare Hospital's equipment in order to convince Barry to go to Sparklecare. He is rounded up into the Sparklecare cafeteria, where he is forced to watch an instructional video, but meets new patients Cyn Dherr and Mel. N. Cholly. When social workers interrogate Dr. Cuddles to see how the patients are doing, Barry ends up sneaking out of the cafeteria and into the main hallways, where he realizes the horrible truth of why Uni does not have eyes. Also, Barry shows the others the escape he made out of the cafeteria. Barry and all the other patients attempt to tell the Social Workers about the truth of Sparklecare, but just like with everyone else in Citycountrytown... The social workers ignore them and think they are lunatics. All hope seems lost since even the social workers do not care for Sparklecare's patients, but there is a small light of hope when Brigh T. Howtlook, a social worker, trusts that Sparklecare's patients are telling the truth and promises to try and help Barry and friends.

### Volume 4 - Everything Sucks: Especially You

The volume begins with Barry Ill having a crazy dream in bed, before being interrupted by the P.A. announcing Sparklecare's Talent Show. Barry complains about how the announcement came "At the good part of his dream" and gets awoken by Uni asking if he's ready to go to the talent show.

### Pikwik Pack

After Dr. Cuddles, the mastermind and owner of Sparklecare orders the destruction of Sparklecare after the truth of the hospital is revealed, Barry attempts to escape the hospital with everyone else, and manages to make it out of the doors just as the whole place collapses. He gets out of the rubble, and immediately panics after being covered in dirt and debris. The survivors of Sparklecare wait for help, and notice a familiar ambulance coming for their rescue. Barry, seeing it's Wedoncare, heads up to the doctor who gave him treatment, punches her in the face, and walks back to the survivors. After waiting there for a while, Barry and everyone else notice the Pikwik Pack (But aren't sure of who they are, only knowing that the Pikwik Pack are gonna help them.) After a long process of crossing over the Canadian border and into Pikwik, Barry begins to feel a sense of hope. He finally feels hope now that he no longer has to suffer in the town of Pikwik.

## Personality

Barry is seen as a cat who's very paranoid about getting sick, and tries to ground himself to reality by using science, meaning he doesn't believe in things such as magic. He is seen to constantly do everything he can to stay clean and healthy since he has a poor immune system.

## Relations

Friends:

1. Uni Cornelius
2. Caroline Coughs
3. Hemera Philly
4. Jay Fortune
5. Suki
6. Axel
7. Hazel
8. Tibor
9. Coco

Enemies

1. Nurse Doom
2. Dr. Cuddles
3. Dr. Prickles

## Name Translations

* Barry Ill (English)
* Muy Infermo (Spanish. Translation: Very Sick)
* Çox Xəstəlik (Azerbaijani. Translation: Very Sick)