diff --git a/contributors/emails/seraphine@Seraphines-Mac-Studio.local b/contributors/emails/seraphine@Seraphines-Mac-Studio.local
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..55d62986543e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contributors/emails/seraphine@Seraphines-Mac-Studio.local
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Bartok9
+# Seraphine Mac Studio local email on Bartok9 PR tips (per-PR attribution; Teknium/Daniel 2026-08-01)
diff --git a/hermes_constants.py b/hermes_constants.py
index ac93c8da351a..12319740822d 100644
--- a/hermes_constants.py
+++ b/hermes_constants.py
@@ -672,7 +672,12 @@ def display_hermes_home() -> str:
     """
     home = get_hermes_home()
     try:
-        return "~/" + str(home.relative_to(Path.home()))
+        # ``as_posix()`` keeps the separator style consistent with the ``~/``
+        # prefix. On Windows ``str(WindowsPath(...))`` uses backslashes, which
+        # would render a mixed path like ``~/AppData\Local\hermes`` (POSIX
+        # ``~/`` joined to a Windows tail). ``as_posix()`` yields
+        # ``~/AppData/Local/hermes`` so the whole display string is uniform.
+        return "~/" + home.relative_to(Path.home()).as_posix()
     except ValueError:
         return str(home)