Sal Fisher [PSBU6Y]

Likes, generalities: Playing the guitar, investigating paranormal things, being with friends.

Sal Fisher, also known as "Sally Face". The son of Henry and Diane Fisher, a tragic accident during his childhood led to the death of his mother and left his face severely scarred, forcing him to wear a facial prosthetic. Years after this incident, Sal and his father moved to the town of Nockfell to start over and resided in room 402 of the Addison Apartments. Sal's most prominent feature is his prosthetic face mask, which is primarily white with a light pink patch over his right eye. He has blue eyes, the right one being a prosthetic eye. From what has been seen of his face: he has a large scar that runs diagonally across the right side of his mouth, splitting his lips and exposing his teeth; a scar on his left cheek, as well as several other smaller scars scattered across the rest of his face; a dent on the right side of his lower jaw; and the cartilage on his nose is completely missing. He has shoulder-length bright blue hair that he usually keeps tied in pigtails and two piercings in each ear. He is noticeably short, being the second shortest among his group of friends. Sal was an adventurous teenager. He seemed to be resourceful and had the ability to remain calm during stressful situations, as seen through his interactions with ghosts. He was shown to be friendly and polite regardless of any rude or skittish responses he might receive from people who reacted to his prosthetic limbs and was openly affectionate towards his friends. Unknown circumstances took the two remaining members of the Fisher family out of New Jersey and led them to the mysterious abode of Room 402 of the Addison Apartments. Halfway through unpacking, Sal decided to take a break and, after sharing his feelings about moving with his father, went to explore the apartment complex.

Sal was an adventurous teenager. He seemed to be resourceful and had the ability to remain calm during stressful situations, as seen through his interactions with ghosts. He was shown to be friendly and polite regardless of any rude or skittish responses he might receive from people reacting to his prosthetic limbs and was openly affectionate towards his friends. Sal frequently heard or said kind words to others, even those who had been hostile towards him, as evidenced in "The Bologna Incident", when he comforted a crying Travis in the boys' bathroom. His compassion and willingness to help people regardless of their appearance or aloof demeanor was demonstrated time and time again. Although a kind person, Sal was capable of snapping back at those who tried to hurt him through the use of sarcasm. In "The Bologna Incident", his quick wit was demonstrated in response to Travis' bullying. However, he did not report the punch to the face he received as a result and did not correct comments made to him out of ignorance rather than malice (such as when Ms. Rosenberg misgendered him), suggesting that he did not like confrontation. He also did not seem to approve of violence, as he protested when his friends even jokingly threatened to kill Travis for bullying Sal.

Although Sal is a man, he doesn't seem to care how people perceive him or traditional gender roles, as evidenced by his traditionally feminine hairstyle and the fact that he didn't bother to correct Miss Rosenberg when she referred to Sal as a girl upon meeting him. Also, upon meeting Megan for the first time, she tells him, "Pigtails are for girls, silly!", to which he replies that no one said only girls could wear their hair in pigtails and that he likes that style too. As an adult, Sal seemed to be much more jaded and less trusting of others and opened up to them with great hesitation.

Childhood and why he uses a facial prosthesis.

On August 16, 1984, the Fisher family went on a picnic to a picturesque, sunny spot, where a young Sal finds a dog and is eager to pet it. After some prodding, his mother allows Sal to visit the animal. However, it is revealed that the "dog" was, in fact, a man wearing a dog mask (presumably Kenneth Phelps) and wielding a shotgun. His intent was to end the boy's life due to the prophecy that foretold that a child would thwart the God-Eaters' plans. The boy survived the encounter, but at the cost of his mother's life. For years to come, Sal would maintain that his mother was killed by a man, not a wild animal, even if his psychiatrist and father did not believe him. After a fateful visit to the hospital, Sal had to adjust to a new life with her prosthetic face and internalized the nickname that bullies would later give her: Sally Face.

Moving to Addison Apartments

Unknown circumstances led the two remaining members of the Fisher family out of New Jersey and to the mysterious abode of Room 402 of the Addison Apartments. Halfway through unpacking, Sal decided to take a break, and after sharing his feelings about the move with his father, he went off to explore the complex. After meeting the lovely Lisa Johnson, Sal meets Larry Johnson, Lisa's heavy metal-loving son, who quickly befriends the newcomer. After Larry confesses to Sal the details of Mrs. Sanderson's murder at the hands of Charley Mansfield, the lad is quick to offer his help. After coming up with a plan of action and receiving a walkie-talkie from Larry, Sal returns to his room to await his friend's signal. After the officers are sidelined by a false report of a robbery, Sal enters Room 403 and witnesses the carnage committed by Mansfield, the silhouette of Sanderson's body, and an empty space between two glowing ponies. Returning to Larry, they decided they had to retrieve Charley's stolen Shiny Pony and hand it over to the authorities. A quick visit to Charley's room made it clear to Sal that the collector wouldn't let him near his toys, so he had to find another way. Visiting the fifth floor, Sal finds old laxatives in the bathroom of room 504 and the ghost of young Megan Holmes, but the supernatural being is too scared to talk to Sal for long. Despite everything, Sal continued with his plan. After adding the laxatives to a cup of Addison's tea, Sal has gotten Charley to abandon his surveillance of his beloved collection to attend to more pressing matters in the bathroom. Sal takes the toy and delivers it to the detective on the first floor. Mansfield is arrested and taken away.

A few months into Sal's stay at the Addison Apartments, he began to suffer from nightmares. In one particular dream, Sal was at the picnic where his mother was murdered and then put himself in Larry's shoes when he was fixing the toilet for Sandy Sanderson on the day of her death. After being devoured by the toilet, Sal encounters the Shiny Pony he used to frame Charley, begging for water. When the plumbing is restored, the Shiny Pony swells up, serving as a bridge for Sal to return to the "surface" to witness Mansfield's murder of Sanderson. A trail of bloody footprints leads to a seated Charley Mansfield, admonishing him for his actions. Sal is startled awake when Charley's skin peels away to reveal a coal-black demon with red eyes. Sal confides the details of his most recent vision to Larry, who is skeptical of the whole affair. Despite this, Larry takes Sal to his treehouse to tell him the story of his past. Sal immediately recognizes the Red-Eyed Demon from Larry's story (he had seen it in the apartment's kitchen on his first day) and offers to help lift its "curse." After retrieving an enigmatic Puzzle Box from a trunk containing the possessions of Larry's father, Jim Johnson, the two head back inside. After a failed attempt to summon Megan Holmes from the bathroom in Room 504, Larry recommends that Sal speak to Todd Morrison, the resident brainiac and believer in the unknown. Sal, eager to prove to Larry that spirits do exist, doesn't hesitate to pay Todd a visit. Entering Room 202 of Todd's apartment, Sal encounters Ashley Campbell. Todd agrees to help Sal ​​by modifying his Gear Boy to better detect supernatural activity.

After cannibalizing the radio antennas and Larry's Walkie Talkie, the device was ready to be tested in Todd's bathroom. It was there that they brought out the crying ghost of Greg Montague, who is promptly scared off by the Red-Eyed Demon. Todd recovers from the initial shock of the supernatural occurrences and advises Sal to run more tests as he digs further into the history of the murders at the Addison Apartments. Sal's tests lead to the discovery of several levels of a mysterious game throughout the apartment complex and the ghost of Jim Johnson. Sal does not share any of his discoveries with his friends. When Megan remained hidden, even with the enhanced tracking device, Sal returned to Todd and learned that the officers who arrested Charley were not registered in the police database and that the Charley Mansfield who was arrested looked nothing like the one they knew. Also, old reports about Megan's corpse found at Wendigo Lake show photographs of the girl when she was still alive. Sal recovers Megan's necklace from the same missing item that contained the Super Gear Boy cartridge, takes Larry back to Room 504, and uses the Super Gear Boy and the cross necklace to successfully break out Megan Holmes. After another brief interaction that revealed a friendship between Jim Johnson and Megan's father, Luke Holmes, the demon scares her away and leaves a stunned Larry and Sal behind. They both agreed that the room in the apartment merited further investigation. Larry left Sal to retrieve a crowbar from David, a former drug addict, while he returned to care for his ailing mother.

The Bologna incident.

Most of the events following the Red-Eyed Demon's disappearance turned out to be normal for Sal (save for the disappearance of several students), who had become good friends with Todd, Ashley, Chug, and Maple. Events turned paranormal again the day Sal had a math test. Sal, who had finished his math test well ahead of the rest of his class, became distracted by doodling before falling asleep. He is abruptly woken up by Mrs. Packerton and assured him that he did well on his test, earning him the wrath of the bully: Travis Phelps. As class comes to an end, Travis confronts Sal and Ashley in the hallways and punches the former in the face, drawing blood in the process. Sal rejects all of his classmates' offers to get back at Travis, insisting that it would only make matters worse with him. The next day at lunch, Sal notices that the bologna he is served tastes weirder than usual, causing his friends to begin speculating about the meat's origins. Rather than leave the matter a mystery, Sal opted to investigate, and his group (excluding Chug and Maple) agreed to help. After being harshly turned down by the lunch lady, Kim Yazzie, Sal resorts to alternative solutions. Suspecting that Kim was responsible for the state of the bologna, Sal teamed up with Larry and took a photograph from the woman's archive. Since Kim Yazzie was a former amateur nature photographer, Sal took a photograph of a bird and presented it to Kim, who was then willing to give the boy a sample of the bologna and the identity of the school's supplier: Mrs. Packerton. Back at the labs to analyze the bologna samples, Sal finds Travis, who is crying, in the bathroom. Although Travis threatens Sal, the boy stays and comforts him, assuring him that he could be his friend.

After examining the bologna, Sal's group concluded that they needed more information on where Packerton had gotten the bologna. Before the lunch period ended, Sal and Larry broke into Packerton's classroom and opened his desk drawer to find many cult items, including an item similar to Jim Johnson's puzzle box. Not long after, Sal suffers another vision of The Phantom who delivers an indecipherable message before fading away. Investigating room 201 That night, while Packerton was out, Sal and Larry broke into his apartment and found a goat's severed head in the refrigerator and two locked doors. Behind one of the doors was Mr. Packerton, hooked up to a life support machine and trapped in a vegetative state. Sal uses the Super Gear Boy to summon Mr. Packerton as a ghost. The spirit denies knowing the origin of the bologna and instead begs to be put down. Sal complies and pulls the plug. After being forced into hiding by Ashley, who had been mistaken for Packerton, Larry found a key to the room next door: a blood-stained butcher block decorated with newspaper clippings of missing children and a refrigerator decorated with a pentagram. Sal opens the freezer and finds the boneless flesh of his missing classmates.