Caroline Coughs

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**Caroline Coughs** is a deuteragonist in the *Sparklecare* webcomic.

Caroline was admitted to the hospital for an illness known as **Coughs-a-lot**. She makes frequent attempts to escape the hospital, and writes her plans in various places on her body using colorful symbols.

## Appearance

Caroline is quite tall and slender, with very thin and lengthy features. They have blue fur with slightly darker stripes along her arms, legs, and tail, the insides of their pointed ears are yellow, and their tail is long and fluffy. She has a very wide face with similarly wide features. She has bright red eyes with lime-colored sclera and a small, black, round nose. Her outfit consists of a plain white open-back gown and a white face mask with a yellow smiley face on the front, which can also change facial expressions to match Caroline's somehow. Her gown has a large bloodstain on the chest, with stitching down the center. Their wristband is RYB, signifying that they receive the universal treatments every patient is given. They also have a yellow wristband, which means that Caroline is a threat to themself or others.

## Personality

The notorious escape artist patient, a master in cryptography and stealing things that aren't hers. Caroline lurks around the hospital deceiving staff and plotting escapes from this prison- sure, none of her attempts to escape have worked, but she keeps trying! Caroline is known for their bad habits and their many... partners.

### Hoarder

Caroline has a hoarding problem, and doesn't like throwing anything away. Because of this, her hospital room is covered with trash and useless random junk that the nurses have to clean up often, much to her protest. The hoarding habits she has are largely her feeling like she will eventually have a use for something later, and it just sort of snowballs into a lot more junk. It's not a very healthy way to live, but she'll get mad at you if you try and tell her this and say she's fine.

She uses her paperclips to break in and out of rooms multiple times in the comic, including after she, Barry, and Uni are taken back to their rooms in the middle of Volume 1.

### Mastermind

Caroline is a mischievous planner and is always coming up with plots to escape the hospital. She is always breaking out of her room by picking the lock and loiters around the hospital a lot. She collects and draws out chaotic maps detailing her plans, and writes everything down in a secret code that only she and her sibling can read. Her chaotic nature often gets her in huge trouble with the staff, but she never gives up on her ideas.

### Tasteful

Caroline is constantly chewing on and eating things she shouldn't. Whether it be plastic things, utensils, or pens, Caroline is constantly putting random things in her mouth. She has to get surgery to have things she swallows taken out a lot. Coughs-a-lot might actually just be her coughing on the non-food things she eats... She's capable of eating normal food, but she doesn't really like it.

### Jealous

Caroline gets jealous very, very easily. She's a bit possessive of people she cares about, and doesn't like it when they spend time with people besides her. She's particularly needy of her best friend Uni's attention, and when Uni's attention isn't on her it makes her upset and sad. She has trouble being considerate of anyone's feelings besides her own, and gets more upset if you call her out on it.

### Sleazy

Caroline… gets around a lot. Not only does she have the same immature, inappropriate sense of humor as Uni, but she frequently breaks patient contact rules. She's always wandering from room-to-room of all the girl patients, even ones that she doesn't even know well. Her many partners and habits give Caroline a bit of a reputation in the hospital, but she wears it with pride.

### Volatile

Caroline is quick to cause problems and start arguments with other patients. She can be very mean and insulting, and doesn't really care how it makes you feel. However, she takes other's words very personally, and if you make her mad you will never hear the end of it. She's even prone to getting into physical fights with people she has issues with, so it's best to try and not get on her bad side.

### Likes

Being sneaky, mischief, breaking rules, sex, drugs, Uni, punk music, girls, loud noises, eating edibles, eating non-edibles

### Dislikes

Being ignored or replaced, silence, being bossed around/authority, the staff (especially Doom), capitalism, being unable to help.

## Relationships

### Uni

Caroline and Uni are publicly best friends, but secretly lovers. They masquerade as friends to avoid getting in trouble, as patients dating is against the hospital rules. They were originally roommates, however Doom caught them being *intimate* together and told on them, resulting in their separation. Caroline was the first person Uni told about his crush on Barry. Caroline is also aware of Uni's gender identity, but actually liked him before she knew- it all clicked into place once she was told. Caroline is very protective of Uni, as there's implications people have hurt Uni in the past, and she wants to prevent it happening again.

### Doom

Doom and Caroline don't get along well. Caroline constantly bullies and belittles him, insults him for being a virgin, flirts with them as a joke, and even shoves his head in a bucket of puke. Despite Caroline's consistently horrible treatment of Doom, there are hints that they are interested in her- he frequently blushes in response to her teasing flirting, and even becomes flustered when she pushes him over. It's unknown if Caroline is aware of these feelings, or if she returns them.

### Hemera

Hemera and Caroline constantly get into fights with one another. Caroline describes Hemera as a buzzkill, and generally doesn't respect her opinions or desires to keep everyone safe. This only gets worse after the end of Volume 2, when Hemera assists the Doctors in capturing the patients from the dump. Following this event, Caroline either completely ignores Hemera, or takes any chance they can get to insult her. They claim they'll never forgive Hemera for what she did.

### Barry

Caroline really doesn't like Barry at first. She calls him mean names, demeans his phobia of germs several times, and calls him crazy. She is also shown to be jealous of the attention he receives from Uni. She makes amends with him for her previous behavior towards the end of Volume 2, but he quickly falls back out of her favor when he continues to hurt Uni's feelings, intentionally or not.

### Jay

Jay and Caroline seem to be good friends, and Caroline doesn't appreciate the way Hemera coddles them. They have yet to interact much on screen, though.

## Trivia

* She is 6'1" tall.
* Their favorite color is red.
* Her favorite season is Fall.
* Their favorite beverage is El Bepsi.
* Her original fur color was going to be a shade of brownish pink, but when she, Jay and Hemera were being designed, they were changed to blue. This is because the three of them make up the RYB palette.
* Though she is not explicitly confirmed to have it, Carrie is noted to demonstrate behaviors commonly associated with Borderline Personality Disorder.

## References

1. ↑ Sansom, Trip. (August 9. 2017) "whats caroline's gender n sexuality?? if you havent said yet", Sparklecare official Tumblr. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
2. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic/update34/page97/
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8. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic3/update9/page25/
9. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic2/update18/page52/
10. ↑ https://www.sparklecarehospital.com/comic4/update25/page80/
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