Nehemiah

Origins and Inspirations
At the point in time that Nehemiah was added to McCrea's story, it had basically branched out become a story of its own as opposed to being Sweetsville anymore. It wasn't quite Heretic's Fork yet, but definitely getting there. Nehemiah was made with intentions of giving McCrea more opposition and internal struggle. At the same time, Nehemiah was created to be the "Caiaphas" to McCrea's "Annas", ultimately inspired by the two characters from Jesus Christ Superstar. In other words, they were also meant to be religious partners in crime. The relationship between the two ways always meant to be a deep, complicated one, even if not the one they ended up with.

Another real driving reason behind Nehemiah's existence was to show a comparison between the various races of onions in McCrea's world. While this had been attempted with the creation of Fletcher, he didn't fulfill it well as he was such a minor character. Nehemiah was able to pick up where Fletcher left off.

Backstory
Nehemiah may not have had as hard a life as McCrea, but possibly one as abusive. After his mother died, his strict father, Abram was left to raise Nehemiah alone. It also didn’t help that Nehemiah was struggling with sexual frustration. Abram tried to “fix” his son by pushing religion on him, and driving Nehemiah to become a “holy than thou” kind of person, even becoming a high priest. Of course, it wasn’t long before Nehemiah took all his pent up aggression and began abusing his power. He’s been this way ever since.

Cebolla McCrea
Nehemiah and McCrea's relationship was very complicated. Originally, McCrea sought Nehemiah out to be the father figure he never had, trying his best to live up to Nehemiah's expectations. Nehemiah, however, was developing much different feelings. His feelings began to show themselves when he took great pleasure in harming McCrea. So much pleasure, in fact, that it was on the verge of fetishism. McCrea was blissfully unaware of this, however. Instead, he fought back with subtle one-upmanship, afraid to show any real hatred toward his superior. As the years went by, this only made the relationship between them very tense and aggressive. When Nehemiah finally did admit his feelings to McCrea (in a rather violent and traumatizing way), things only became more tense between the two. The fact that McCrea was obviously becoming attached to Sarina didn't help things either. Nehemiah started taking out his jealousy on McCrea, and eventually began targeting Sarina herself. Eventually Nehemiah pushed McCrea too far, causing McCrea to finally fight back. Nehemiah found a strange pleasure in McCrea's final stand, and refused to fight back. It ended with McCrea killing Nehemiah. He was arrested shortly after. It has been said by B. Roberts that if they were under different circumstances, they probably could have actually been best friends.