The Yellow Child is a yellow bug-eyed creature who owns many rusty objects (which Salad Fingers strokes) and a small house. While Salad Fingers calls him “Aunty Bainbridge” in the ninth episode, he also calls him a "young child" in the first, showing that he doesn't, in fact, know him at all. This is further evidenced when it backs away from Salad Fingers when he tries to hug him in the ninth episode.
Biography
Like everything else, Yellow Child is most likely a mutant who has been severely affected by the Great War (much like Salad Fingers). He shows absolutely no behavioral characteristics and simply watches Salad Fingers. He is presumably only able to communicate through screeches. Salad Fingers doesn't show any form of fear in response to the screeches.
In episode 9, Yellow Child casually strolls away while Salad Fingers is eating a sandwich.
Appearance
The Yellow Child is a short, yellow creature with a wrinkly, yellow face and two big, beady eyes. He wears a green shirt and has a black, stitched-looking mouth. His head is able to detach itself from its body.
Episode Appearances
- Spoons (Debut)
- Letter
- Salad Fingers 20th Anniversary Special (Latest Appearance)
Trivia
- The Yellow Child lives close enough to Salad Fingers for the latter to reach him in a wheelchair.
- It's possible that the painting/photo of the man in Yellow Child's house was itself before the Great War happened.
- The Yellow Child seems to not mind or care about Salad Fingers, though it acknowledges his existence.
- After “cleaning” the Yellow Child's window with Yvonne, Salad Fingers received a sandwich. It's unknown where this sandwich came from. Presumably, the Yellow Child could have made it for him.
- One theory suggests that the sandwich might be Yvonne without the black goop.
- Another possibility is that Yvonne might actually be the Varsity Jacket-Wearing Child, who was cooked in an oven and likely made into a fish sandwich.
- The yellow child might not be a child, because in Salad Fingers's version of how he remembers the episode Spoons, the Yellow Child says "I'm not a child, I'm an old man!"
- One theory suggests that the sandwich might be Yvonne without the black goop.
