Female yarnaby

Yarnaby

Full name

Yarnaby (toy)

Quinn Navidson (human)

Aliases

Experiment 1166

1166 (by Harley Sawyer)

Funny Little Creature (by Harley Sawyer)

Yarnabee (game files)

Affiliation

Playtime Co. (formerly)

Bigger Bodies Initiative

Harley Sawyer † (direct superior)

The Prototype (ultimate superior)[1]

Biographical Information

Status

Deceased

Place of birth

Playtime Co.

Creation date

1970s (Toy)[2]

August 1990 (Bigger Body)[1]

Date of death

2005

Place of death

No Man's Land

Physical Information

Species

Bigger Body

Toy (yarn-maned lion)

Human (formerly)

Gender

Male

Height

6.9ft/2.05 m (quadruped)

13.7 ft/4.2 m (biped)

Appearances

Role

Secondary antagonist (Chapter 4: "Safe Haven")

Voiced by

Ben Rooker

Appears in

Chapter 4 Icepick ARG

Chapter 4 Trailer: Yarnaby

Chapter 4 Cinematic Trailer: The Doctor

Chapter 4 Gameplay Trailer: Doey the Doughman

Chapter 4: "Safe Haven"

Chapter 4 Accolades Trailer

Debut

Chapter 4 Icepick ARG (mentioned)

Chapter 4 Trailer: Yarnaby (reveal)

Chapter 4: "Safe Haven" (in-game)

The name's Yarnaby! Would you.. Warn-a-be my friend?

Yarnaby's cutout

Yarnaby was a children's toy produced by Playtime Co. and a secondary antagonist in Chapter 4: "Safe Haven".

In Chapter 4: "Safe Haven", Yarnaby is introduced by Harley Sawyer, a.k.a. The Doctor, as one of his loyal experiments following The Player's escape from the Prison Cell Blocks. As Yarnaby traverses the Containment Zone, Doey the Doughman assists The Player by distracting Yarnaby and guiding them away from him. The Player has one final encounter with Yarnaby in No Man's Land, where he attempts to leap toward them in their final chase, resulting in him getting hooked onto a chain and falling into a vat of molten metal.

Experiment 1166, his Bigger Bodies Initiative experiment title, is inhabited by Quinn Navidson. He was described in his Prisoner Profile to be noticeably docile and impressionable, not violently attacking any of the scientists. He was noted to exhibit obedient and loyal behavior toward certain scientists, including Harley Sawyer, who took advantage of this to befriend and make Yarnaby psychologically dependent on him. Following Sawyer's disappearance, Yarnaby fell into a state of grief and desperation for his owner up until The Hour of Joy, when the two were reunited and Yarnaby became one of many followers of Sawyer.

Appearance

Yarnaby is a lion-like creature, with his mane and most of fur composed entirely of multicolored yarn. Unlike real lions, his tail is absent. His features extend to an amber-colored face and limbs, with a black line/seam vertically running down his face, while a touch of tan graces his three-toed paws. His spherical head contains two large, cartoon-y white eyes with black, dilated irises and small white pupils. On his face rests a big grin with three triangular fangs poking out asymmetrically from his lower lip, giving him a goofy appearance.

His monster counterpart remains largely the same, with the exception of his paws featuring sharp, broken dark claws and a dewclaw on each front paw. His legs also have bloody scratches, scars, and small wounds. In this form, his face splits in half to reveal a large open mouth hollowed out inside his head, giving him a deranged and disturbing physique. The hollowed-out portions are composed of bright crimson flesh, and the outer rims contain swollen gums lined with a ring of sharp jagged teeth, several of which are chipped and broken. Blood can be seen dripping from his gums, indicating that rather than his teeth sitting flush together, they stab into his gums when the mouth is closed. Closer observation of Yarnaby's true mouth reveals a much smaller maw jus