Salad Fingers

**Salad Fingers** is a guest character in The Asylum that acts as a visual hallucination and imaginary friend of Samuel Attias who he occasionally visits and speaks to, although it is almost never appreciated by Samuel.

He originated from another internet web series that goes by the same name 'Salad Fingers', it was created by British animator David Firth who creates disturbing and comedic cartoons. The original Salad Fingers cartoon series is not canon to The Asylum and vice-versa, this character seems to have been randomly picked or brought into the series by DeadSkullable after becoming inspired by the original cartoon.

## History

In the original cartoon, Salad Fingers was a lone man(?) that lived in a small house in the middle of a desolate wasteland, wanting to collect rusty spoons because he likes the texture of them against his long fingers. He also had three finger puppets that he would occasionally speak to and treat as if they were real people. Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxtor and Jeremy Fisher are the names of the puppets, they sometimes seem to have a life of their own and conflict is sometimes created between Salad Fingers and his own puppets.

He speaks of a Great War that happened which may have been the cause of the wasteland that he now resides in and the mutation of his body, however, it is most likely that the original series had no specific lore and the creator, David Firth, simply made a highly ambiguous storyline so that the focus could be on the odd character of Salad Fingers himself.

## The Asylum

### Episode 3: Voodoo Luck

#### Part 1

When Samuel sits on his bed in his room, his eyebrow drips blood and Salad Fingers appears next to him. He attempts to comfort(?) Samuel by acting as friendly as he can but Samuel doesn't want to even look at him, telling him to 'fuck off'. Salad Fingers seems displeased with Samuel's dialect and Samuel tells him that he does not want to interact with him, however Salad Fingers keeps talking and tries to pretend that Samuel is his friend, saying that he is his new playmate. Salad Fingers finishes speaking by saying he'll run a nice hot bath for Samuel, and he touches Samuel's arm with his long fingers which generates a violent response. Samuel tosses a hatchet in Salad Fingers direction, but he is already gone, and he instead cuts of Zhang Weis fingers.

### Episode 4: Condemned for Sinners

Salad Fingers appears after Samuel has drunk mouldy soup from a bowl in the kitchen, he attempts to be friendly to Samuel in his own way but is met with an unfriendly response from Samuel who throws the bowl into his face which breaks over his head, he doesn't flinch as it happens and proceeds to call Samuel rude, but he is told to shut up.

Samuel then leaves Salad Fingers when he hears a noise outside of the kitchen. Salad Fingers proceeds to talk to himself through his finger puppet Hubert Cumberdale who he believes seems to find the whole ordeal amusing. When he receives no response from Hubert, he either refers to the audience or Hubert when saying that they 'wouldn't understand' before he then disappears.

### Episode 5: Solemn Hours

#### Part 1

Salad Fingers appears when Samuel is staring out of the window at the rain. He makes casual conversation with Samuel and talks about the rain, saying that he liked when water droplets drip down his fingers as it feels nice. He then says that maybe Samuel will feel some kind of liquid dripping down him don such as water, blood or 'the unpleasant' which refers to a badger that urinates on Samuel's leg before Salad Fingers disappears.

## Trivia

* The original Salad Fingers character was created when David Firth and a friend were attempting to play the drums and one of them said they had 'salad fingers' because they kept fumbling with the drumsticks. David and this friend then began riffing off of each other on what a salad fingers cartoon would be about.