History Characters / SaladFingers

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Three finger puppets, named, Hubert Cumberdale (or "Barbara Logan-Price" in Episode 5), Marjory Stewart-Baxter, and Jeremy Fisher, that Salad interacts with, starting in Episode 2.

* ArmlessBiped: Oddly, his skeleton appears to have arm bones, though he isn't shown with any.

* StalkerWithACrush: They're in love with Salad and he doesn't return those feelings, not that it stops him.

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Three finger puppets, named, Hubert Cumberdale (or "Barbara Logan-Price" in Episode 5), Marjory Stewart-Baxter, and Jeremy Fisher that Salad interacts with, starting in Episode 2.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Jeremy, who, from can be guessed, appears to be of African/Non-European heritage.

* PapaWolf: Assuming a baby was in the carriage, this might have been he chased after Salad Fingers.

* FetusTerrible: Tony's appearance is reminiscent of an embryo/foetus.

* AmbigouslyGay: Assuming they're male.

* ClingyJealous: Marjory gives this sort of vibe in Episode 5, when she's shown ominously watching Salad having a picnic with Mable (the little red-haired girl)

* HellIsThatNoise: The weird screeching sound that Hubert made

* TastesLikePurple: Marjory is described to taste "like sunshine dust"

* NoNameGiven: He's not given a name is reffered to as "Varsity Kid" by the audience

* CallBack: As we find out in ''Birthday'', [[spoiler: he's still hanging on that meat hook]]

* PapaWolf: Assuming a baby was in the carriage, this might have been he chased after Salad Fingers

* AmbiguousGender: It's not clear, though it's assumed that they're male
* AmbigouslyGay: Assuming they're male

* StalkerWithACrush: They're in love with Salad and he doesn't return those feelings, not that it stops him

* {{Yandere}}: Captures Salad and proposes

* YouthfulFreckles: They're around her eyes

* AmbiguousGender: Its not known what their gender is
* NoNameGiven: Other than being called "Aunty Bainbridge"
* TheVoiceless: Besides that weird sound in Episode One

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* FreakOut: Salad Fingers has a couple, but the most notable one is in the episode "Picnic", in which he is horrified by the fact that a little girl actually speaks to him. This wouldn't be so strange, except the only people Salad Fingers ever speaks to are himself and the figments of his imagination. The girl's voice is the only other confirmed "real" voice we hear in the series, and it's strongly implied through the imagery we see during his freak out that there's a ''reason'' why she's never heard from again.

* SerialKiller: There's an awful lot of humans dying around Salad Fingers, and the fact that he has items like meat hooks on his walls, a corpse in his backyard, random people's hairs in his house, a spoon-holder sewn from what looks to be human flesh, and a top-hat pieced together from the remains of a dead man he's been storing on one of said meat hooks can certainly lead one to suspect. It doesn't help that he is confirmed to have killed a child in the second episode, whether by accident or not.

* SplitPersonality: One of his most prominent habits is switching from character to character without any seeming fluidity and then forgetting what he did as that person; a classic sign of Dissociative Identity Disorder, or MPD. He even goes so far as to imagine there being more than one of himself and then confusing them with his finger puppets.

* {{Hallucinations}}: Salad Fingers seems to exist in a world almost entirely based on the conjurings of his own fractured psyche. Whether or not the reality we as viewers see is completely in his head is the subject of WMG.

* SerialKiller: There's an awful lot of humans dying around Salad Fingers, and the fact that he has items like meat hooks on his walls, a corpse in his backyard, random people's hairs in his house, a spoon-holder sewn from what looks to be human flesh, and finally a top-hat pieced together from the remains of a dead man he's been storing on one of the meat hooks can certainly lead one to suspect. It doesn't help that he is confirmed to have killed a child in the second episode, whether by accident or not.

* SplitPersonality: One of his most prominent habits is switching from character to character without any seeming fluidity and then forgetting what he did as that person; a classic sign of Dissociative Identity Disorder, or MPD. He goes so far as to imagine there being more than one of himself and then confusing them with his finger puppets.

* TroubledFetalPosition: Does this a couple times in the series, most notably when Roger makes him cry and when the little girl's voice freaks him out.

* CompanionCube: Interacts almost entirely with some form of one of these. The few times he does interact with living people he is implied to be a danger to them, or at least very creepy.

* AmbiguousGender: It's unclear if they're suffering from MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities or if they're possibly female.

* WorldWarOne: Salad Fingers seems to reference this a lot, speaking of "The Great War" and "the trenches" in several episodes. Coupled with his archaic speech patterns, working knowledge of morse code, and antiquated household items (i.e. a wooden wheelchair and rotary phone), this leads some to believe he may have lived through it. WordOfGod says he is "kind of an old character" and "the last links he would have to communication would be a long time ago".

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* AmbigiusDisorder: It's unclear if they're suffering from MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities or if they're possibly female.

* CreepyLongFingers: Has these in spades.

* DissonantSerenity: Salad Fingers' reactions to such things as a man dying by his house or a horse getting its stomach ripped open is to smile and carry on a one-sided conversation with them.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Word of God says that loneliness was the main theme of the series, with Salad Fingers living in almost complete isolation and already well over the madness threshold.

* WorldWarOne: Salad Fingers seems to reference this a lot, speaking of "The Great War" and "the trenches" in several episodes. Coupled with his archaic speech patterns, working knowledge of morse code, and antiquated household items (i.e. a wooden wheelchair and rotary phone), this leads some to believe he may have lived through it. Word of God says he is "kind of an old character" and "the last links he would have to communication would be a long time ago".

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Salad Fingers is creepy mainly because he treats the insane, gory world he lives in with a generally accepting, nonchalant attitude. Find a decaying corpse in your backyard? Call it Kenneth and have tea with it!

* ImaginaryFriend: Going hand-in-hand with Salad Fingers' love of his puppets is his habit of giving personalities and voices to inanimate objects, such as Roger the Radio or Horace Horsecollar (a radio and toy horse, respectively); and speaking of people like his "Old Pal Charlie" who obviously doesn't exist (at least, not anymore).

* ImaginaryFriend: Going hand-in-hand with Salad Fingers' love of his puppets is his habit of giving personalities and voices to inanimate objects, such as Roger the Radio or Horace Horsecollar (a radio and toy horse, respectively); and speaking of people like his "Old Pal Charlie" who may or may not have ever existed, but who are certainly not in his life now.
* ImAHumanitarian: Salad Fingers at least imagines himself (or other versions of himself) regularly consuming human parts, and no one knows what he did with the child he [[spoilers: "accidentally" cooked in his oven]].

* DissonantSerenity: Salad Fingers' reactions to such things as a man dying by his house or a horse getting its stomach ripped open is to smile and try to reassure them as if it's not really that big of a deal.

* {{Hallucinations}}: Salad Fingers seems to exist in a world at least 50% based on the conjurings of his own fractured psyche. Whether or not the reality we see is completely in his head is the subject of WMG.

* CloudCuckoolander: Goes along with his Ambiguous Disorder. Salad Fingers is generally quiet and cheerful, but just try to make sense of ''anything'' he's talking about. In fact, it's heavily implied that everything we're seeing is filtered through the lense of his insanity.

* CloudCuckoolander: Goes along with his Ambiguous Disorder. Salad Fingers is generally quiet and cheerful, but just try to make sense of 'anything' he's talking about. In fact, it's heavily implied that everything we're seeing is filtered through the lense of his insanity.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Salad Fingers is creepy mainly because he treats the insane, gory world he lives in with a generally accepting, nonchalant attitude. Find a decaying corpse in your backyard? Call it Kenneth and have tea with it!
* PsychopathicManchild: Though he presents as an adult male (although his actual gender is also a subject of WMG), Salad Fingers often acts like a child, playing with toys and making up imaginary scenarios to fill his days. Of course, most of these are more psychopathic than childlike.

* AmbiguousDisorder: While Salad Fingers is never confirmed in-series to have a mental illness (mainly because his point of view is our primary perspective), it's pretty clear that there is something ''very'' wrong with him. He appears to have symptoms not only of Dissociative Identity Disorder (i.e. flipping between multiple personalities, sometimes mid-thought) but of severe Schizophrenia-- self-harming, hearing voices, and living in a state of near-constant state of hallucinations.

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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: What may or may not be the entire series.

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