Hemera Philly

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**Hemera Philly** is a tertiary main character in the *Sparklecare* webcomic.

She was admitted for her case of **Bleeds-A-Lot**. She has a green thumb, and as a part of her Individualized Treatment Program, she works in the hospitals greenhouse.

## Appearance

Hemera is a bright yellow fennec fox, with blue ears and tail-tip, a white muzzle, and orange eye bags. Her ears are tied up like a ponytail with a small green vine. Her sclera are green, and she is always bleeding from her nose and mouth. Her hospital gown is white, with green splotches and blood stained patches. She also sometimes wears orange gardening gloves over her hands, which feature similar green splotches. Her feet and hands are bright green, and appear to be surgically stitched onto her. Her left knee and right elbow are bright red and attached in a similar manner. These limbs do not belong to her, and likely were attached to her by the doctors. Her wristband is white instead of RYB, signifying that she has an Individualized Treatment Program.

## Personality

The overly responsible and careful Hemera Philly will do anything she can to make sure the other patients stay out of trouble. Her avoidance of danger often makes the other patients see her as a bit of a killjoy, but she's only trying to prevent any killing at all. Hemera's over-protectiveness also leads to bossing people around. Sometimes she's willing to go to dangerous lengths in the pursuit of protecting her friends, but maybe her methods aren't the best...

### Green thumb

Hemera loves plants and gardening. Any type of plants–from trees, to flowers, to shrubs, and succulents– she appreciates them all. Part of her ITP *(individualized treatment program)* permits her to help the staff with the green room *(the hospital greenhouse)* alongside growing her own plants in her and Jay’s hospital room. She loves caring and tending to her plants, and doing so helps give her a hopeful sense of life when they’re surrounded by so much death in this place. She has something in common with Barry, as she also really loves the science behind plants and ecology

### Circumspect

Hemera is overly-cautious and takes extremes to avoid danger and harm. She won’t let the other patients act out against the staff, if she can help it at all. She heavily criticizes anyone if they try it. She isn’t willing to take any risks about things that could lead to people getting hurt, and gets frustrated seeing others put themselves in danger by doing so. A lot of the other patients see her as a bit of a killjoy for her tendency to stay out of trouble.

### Tech-savvy

Hemera doesn’t just like plants– she also is really invested in technology and computers. Technology fascinates her in the sense that it’s the creation of artificial “life” out of wires and electricity. She knows a lot about computers, and has a lot to say about them, too. She also is really interested in the blend between technology and biology and how each of them can affect one another. People who have computer or tech issues often go to her for help, and she usually can answer any questions they might have about it.

### Controlling

Despite wanting to keep the other patients safe, Hemera can be really controlling of her friends. She goes out of her way to make sure nobody does anything stupid. She’s a compliant patient, and always goes along with what the staff tells the patients to do– and tries to push the others to do the same. She’s also particularly controlling of Jay, as their caregiver, and others don’t understand why she’s trying to protect them so much when they’re already protected by their luck. Hemera’s controlling behavior causes a lot of problems for her and her friendships.

### Lawful

Hemera is very dedicated to following rules and doing what is "right." She doesn’t like when patients break the set rules of the hospital because of what can happen to them if they do. Her ideas of what the “right” thing to do are don’t seem to always match up with the same ideas of others, but she’s very strong in her beliefs that her way of doing things is the "right" way to do them. If you try to challenge her on her beliefs, she gets upset and mad at you for criticizing her, because she always knows best… according to her.

### Unlucky

A contrast to Jay, Hemera has bad luck and things tend to go wrong for her. It’s not uncommon for her plants to die randomly or for her to fall on her face while walking. Her attempts to do things don’t usually succeed, and even when they do, they often fall apart eventually. It doesn’t seem to be a "magic" thing like it is with Jay, but people still find it interesting that Hemera has such bad luck when Jay has the good luck.

### Likes

Plants, botany, flowers, reading, science (mostly ecology and psychology), following rules, computers, tea

### Dislikes

Seeing others get hurt, breaking rules and going against authority, violence and blood, waking up late

## Relationships

### Jay

Hemera seems to be more protective of Jay, to the point of coddling them, which may be due to their disabilities. She is called out by Caroline for this, who hates this treatment of Jay. It is still unknown if Hemera has another reason than just Jay's disabilities, nor why she's so protective of them when they literally can't get hurt, due to their luck. The two are also roommates.

### Caroline

Caroline and Hemera get into arguments a lot. Caroline is a serial rule-breaker, while Hemera is a serial rule-follower. So, with Caroline constantly coming up with escape plans that put her and their other friends in danger, Hemera often finds issues with the things she does. Hemera also tells Caroline not to drag the "The New Patient" into her 'messes', claiming she'll get them killed. Caroline still doesn't forgive Hemera for her part played in recapturing them in Volume 2, though Hemera doesn't seem to understand why- asking Caroline if they still haven't gotten over it yet, because it's "been a month" already.

### Barry

Barry and Hemera are shown to get along quite well at first, able to bond over their shared interests in science. At one point she briefly considers that she may have a crush on him, as she is attracted to his intelligence, but this is quickly snuffed out by his attitude problems. Following her role in the end of Volume 2, Barry is seemingly angry with her as well. He hasn't spoken to her on-screen since, and looks angry whenever she enters the room, much like the rest of their group.

### Uni

Uni and Hemera have not interacted much in the story so far, but Hemera did attend Uni and Caroline's puppet show, and boo'd it for not keeping up the illusion of being "unrealistic." Additionally, in Volume 4, when Uni's puppet double, **Kneevil**, destroys her plants, she takes her anger out on Uni. The rest of the group becomes even angrier with her for this, but Uni seems to feel genuinely bad for indirectly wrecking her hobby.

## Trivia

* Hemera is 5'2" tall (not including her ears).
* Her favorite color is green.
* Her favorite kind of plant is ferns, particularly the maidenhair fern.
* Her plant juice stains come from her "plant zombification/splicing."
* It is suggested that she has trauma from being unable to protect an unknown individual, which may explain her overall attitude.
* Her original fur color was orange, but when she, Caroline and Jay were being designed, she was changed to yellow and blue with green and red accents. This is because the three of them make up the RYB palette.

## References

1. ↑ https://asksparklecare.tumblr.com/post/178492704299
2. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic/update27/page76/
3. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic/update11/page26/
4. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic3/update9/page25/
5. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update4/page10/
6. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update5/page14/
7. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic/update9/page21/
8. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic4/update34/page108/
9. ↑ https://asksparklecare.tumblr.com/post/178492704299
10. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update45/page133/