Jay Fortune

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**Jay Fortune** is a tertiary main character in the *Sparklecare* webcomic.

Jay voluntarily admitted themself to the Sparklecare Hospital due to being sick of other hospital's ableism and mistreatment. They suffer from **Superverymegaitchyism**, **Super-Duper-Short**, and many other unspecified afflictions.

## Appearance

Jay is a fluffy red cat, with a green tuft of fur on their head, along with a green tail. Their snout is yellow, as well as their chest, which is also very fluffy. They wear large green square glasses. The insides of their ears are also green, and they have two small yellow horns. Instead of a hospital gown, they wear a white shirt. Around their waist, they wear a string with paperclips attached. They have stitches running down the front of their legs from an unspecified past surgery, as well as five fingers on each hand rather than four. Their wristband is white instead of RYB, indicating they have an Individualized Treatment Program. They also wear a solid blue band, indicating that they are a fall risk and may need assistance.

## Personality

With no need to heed from danger due to their incredible luck, Jay always is eager to help the others plot ways to escape, taking action that Hemera doesn't want them taking—but Jay helps the others get closer and closer to success more than everyone else does. They have big ideas and a strong will to get things done, and their luck can be a help for that, at least when it's working on others...

### Lucky

Jay possesses an incredible magic charm on them which grants them extreme luck powers. Their luck protects them from being physically harmed by the doctors– even if they were to try to harm Jay, things would go wrong (such as weapons flying out of the way from some invisible magic force) and they would be unable. Because of this luck, Jay has an ITP that makes it so they do not receive hospital “treatments” like the other patients. However, Jay didn’t always have these luck powers– after all, why would a lucky person end up trapped here in the first place? Not everyone knows… maybe you’ll find out?

### Creative

Jay is very creative. They love to draw and come up with new ideas and stories! They spend a lot of time drawing things in their sketchbooks (they have more than one! Very many!) and love to share their art with their friends, especially Uni who’s also an artist. Drawing like this is comforting to them and gives them something else to think about instead of the hospital and the bad stuff that happens there. Their creativity manifests in many forms, even beyond just drawing.

### Determined

When Jay sets their mind to something, they’ll always figure out a way to achieve it, trying different things and different methods to solve problems. They think outside the box and continue on when their friends are stuck. Whether it be helping Carrie or the others with planning escapes or other situations the patients end up in, Jay is good at figuring a way out of the problem at hand. They sometimes are a little stubborn about things and their attempts to figure things out, and usually try to not seek others’ help on these things.

### Scatterbrained

Jay is a quick thinker jumping from one idea to the next, and not a long in-between. They struggle with staying focused on one thing at a time and their mind gets pretty scattered, hence being “scatterbrained”. They try to organize their thoughts, but can’t quite get the hang of it– at least not easily. It’s a little difficult for them to deal with sometimes when they just want to concentrate on something.

### Conflicted

Jay is able to understand how people feel pretty well and relate to others… …and they understand everyone’s differing perspectives, but they struggle with choosing or taking sides and tend to just follow whoever they’re with. They feel very divided between their friends, particularly the others and Hemera and her attempts at trying to protect them and everyone else. Though Jay likes taking risks, they aren’t totally sure of their choices to do so sometimes.

### Helpful

They’re really good with words and giving advice, and always very supportive to their friends or even strangers (that they trust). They’re good at being helpful during conflict and mediating things, especially when their friends or other people in general are arguing about something. Jay is skilled at helping people calm down when they’re stressed out or upset, but struggle to do the same for themselves sometimes. They try hard to do the right thing in most situations, regardless of what people like Hemera might say.

### Likes

Drawing, ferries, video games, cartoons, reading, trying new things, being helpful, staying up late, their friends

### Dislikes

Inability to control situations or their luck, waking up early, being pushed around, being bored

## Relationships

### Hemera

Hemera and Jay have a bit of a complicated relationship. While Jay seems to care about/like Hemera enough to do things like draw art of her or them together, Hemera, being their caregiver, is really controlling of Jay. When they first attempt to escape in Volume 1, Hemera pushes back on not wanting Jay (or the others) to get hurt by the doctors acting out. At the end of Volume 2, when Hemera helps Funfetti and Puppy capture four of the five main patients at the dump, Hemera remarks to Jay after catching them in a net "I need to keep you safe."  Volume 3 onwards, despite continuing to stay around Hemera (being she's their caregiver) Jay often seems sad or disgruntled.

### Uni

Uni and Jay seem to get along fairly well. They haven't interacted a lot on screen, but in the moments they have it's generally positive - for example, in the obstacle course scene of Volume 2, Uni helps Jay through it, and Jay is seen blushing at Uni's help, suggesting they have some kind of affections for him.

### Caroline

Jay and Caroline seem pretty close, and are apparently in a relationship despite this not being explicitly seen yet. They're not shown to interact much directly, but Carrie has been shown to be defensive over Jay from Hemera's controlling treatment over them.

### Barry

Barry and Jay don't formally meet each other until volume 2 despite interacting in volume 1. They seem upset and offended by Barry not wanting to shake their hand, not knowing about his germaphobia related to things like touching hands. They are also offput by Barry's arrogant and egotistical mannerisms. However, near the end of volume 2, when Barry starts to soften up a bit and says he thinks they're smart, they seem flattered and surprised.

## Trivia

* They are 4'2" tall.
* Their favorite food is pizza.
* Jay likes to draw, and is specifically seen drawing a picture of themself and Hemera, as well as a cog. They later clarify that they enjoy drawing their friends, as well as ferries.
* Jay went to college and volunteered with ferry rescue organizations prior to being admitted.
* Jay's reference specifies that Jay "HAS WHISKERS", and this is due to the crew consistently forgetting to draw their whiskers.
* Jay has a comfort item, a cyan blanket with a pink patch on it.
* Their original colors were going to be brown fur with rainbow hair, but when they, Caroline and Hemera were being designed, they were changed to red and green. This is because the three of them make up the RYB palette.
* Jay is a self-insert of the former Sparklecrew member Jay's fursona.

## References

1. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update2/page6/
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://asksparklecare.tumblr.com/post/623838488427659264
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic/update27/page76/
4. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update60/page181/
5. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic3/update8/page24/
6. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update38/page113/
7. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update37/page111/
8. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update38/page112/
9. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/faq/
10. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update3/page7/
11. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update5/page13/
12. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update5/page14/
13. ↑ https://sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update47/page140/
14. ↑ https://asksparklecare.tumblr.com/post/680469973410414592
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 https://asksparklecare.tumblr.com/post/187131311409
16. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update2/page6/