@@catmcflooffloof4832during the part when Mono transforms into the thin man try and hum The Lady's song from LN1 at the same time and tell me you can't hear the same thing. It's uncanny once you really think about it!
a fun fact about important people in history (e.g. monarchs) is that they would often make painters create portraits showing them to be more beautiful than they actually were. Going by this logic, the lady probably did this with the paintings in her quarters to feel better about herself.
As an artist who tried to work with portraits, I can say that most people, no matter the social class might insist in making them more beautiful than what they really are, at least on their perspective 🙃
You know it’s crazy that you do mention that because the more portraits and paintings I’ve seen of high-powered people or important people in history I can’t help but think humans are always going to be human there is no such thing as a perfect human there is always going to be a darker side of us whether we know it or willing to admit it or not
Since the narrative designer said the children of this world “don’t belong there” and Six’s description on the LN2 website says she’s “awakened in a world she cannot recognize” were obvious hints before the sounds of nightmares confirmed that children or at least most of them aren’t from the Nowhere. Idk if or how procreation works in the Nowhere being that its an entirely different dimension with different rules than the waking world, so I prefer to think that maybe the brother and sister in this theory were instead children from the waking world that gave themselves up to the Nowhere that were found and adopted by the Lady rather than being the biological children of her own.
Apparently in the official podcast all children (at least the kids with powers) have been abused in some way and have been sent to the nowhere from earth. I don’t know why theses kids were sent there, I’m not theorist and I haven’t listened to the podcast in a long time 😅
@@DivorceDuck I think it is any child that are involved in any kind of tormented, traumatic life event(s) that get sent there. It's the darkness in their hearts from their pain that get them invited there by the Ferryman who manipulates them into giving themselves up to the Nowhere to stay forever
I believe the Nowhere’s members of society were once children themselves that were taken by the Ferryman away from their tormented waking lives , and grew up, and chose those ‘careers’ often in response to whatever was the source of their trauma of their past adolescence, even developing powers, and abilities correlating with their said trauma, and desires. I don’t know if the Nowhere even has colleges to get their degrees for the biggest real world career paths, they manifest it with their minds when they choose to fully surrender their youth and innocence, they only become a nightmarish version of the mind of a child’s conception of a teacher, a doctor, or a chef that some had seen or known in their waking world lives that they may have looked up to, and aspired to be when they grow up. My best guess for the Ferryman’s end goal is to give children a place where they can live out the mind of a child’s highest expectations of what adulthood will be like, minus the steps you have to take in the real world to get those careers or whatever life you want, that a twisted version that is.
One thing that has always intrigued me about Six's possible curses and abilities, is how she progresses throughout The Maw. How did she manage to navigate or hide in unfamiliar ducts? Or most importantly, how did Six know the Lady's weakness? The answer is: she didn't. But after eating the rat, she knew exactly how to guide herself and act stealthily. And after devouring the Nome (Runaway kid), she could defeat the Lady. Six apparently can acquire experience, or even consume memories of the things she devour and take advantage of it.
That’s common belief in old mysticism and folk tales of monsters that eat humans and cannibles. You gain the “Strength” or “Knowledge” or both of what you eat as it becomes an unwilling part of you. You are what you eat, as they say.
If I remember correctly, Six lost part of her soul and has to supplement to keep herself from breaking down. So whenever she eats, she doesn't eat to fill her stomach, rather she eats to keep herself from falling apart. And while absorbing the souls she also acquires the memories and knowledge that was part of it.
That also makes sense for the ending as well when walking down the dinner room and she’s killing everyone with psychic like abilities, she probably got it from the lady when she ate her
@@Coco-xq7zhYeah, his name was Alec Holowka, if you want to look it up. He killed himself back in August 2019, at age 35. It's why we never got a NitW Two.
There’s something so beautiful about this game. 7 years later, still looks amazing. The world is so fascinating and tantalizing. There’s so much I want to know about the world and the maw.
I love this theory but I think the Lady killed her son instead of him taking his own life. Afterall, the chair in the room of the hanging man is wayyy too short for him to have used it to hang himself plus the chair is *still standing* which wouldn't be the case if the hanging man kicked it out from under his feet to take his own life.
@@naw1018 Yeah! My thoughts exactly (and something I pointed out years ago). Thinking that he jumped up into the noose (do we even know if there is a noose?) is just ludicrous and if he stepped off the chair, it would still be at foot level or knocked over. I believe like Cluelexander that the Lady killed him (maybe with the help of the Janitor, who definately has long enough arms), that he wasn't a son but a infatuated lover (hence the letters in LN1 and LN2 at the altar are love letters) who was rejected, an annoyance or a guilt ridden partner to the whole thing.
That's what I was thinking as well. Not only that, but consider this- where are the Hanging Man's hands? If he had hung himself, his hands would be by his side. If he was murdered, his hands would have been bound in order to prevent him from escaping the noose. Now consider the framing- since we don't see the man's hands, we must conclude that either his arms are bound, likely behind his back, or he doesn't have any to begin with! The latter seems unlikely, so I would guess it's the former. This is one of those things that's meant to LOOK like a suicide, but when you examine the chair being left upright, the chair being too short, and the likelyhood that his arms were bound, we can, somewhat fairly, call this a homicide and not a suicide.
If Tericho can still make amazing theory videos like this about Little Nightmares I after 7 years, I can wait for whats going to come when Little Nightmares III comes out
People always fixate on The Lady being vain, but when she looks in the mirror, she sees herself as OLD, not ugly. She is obsessed with looking in the mirrors because she knows her time has come and someone is already on her way to replace her - that being Six in this case.
Very intriguing theory. I will keep note of this among others. I have some findings I'd like to share here however: 1: After Six escapes the kitchen and ends up on that long pipe before the guest area, there are fish that slide off of the pipe and fall below. If you are fast enough, you can actually catch a fish and Six will attempt to eat it. I don't know if this has any theory relevance but just an interresting thing I wanted to share. 2: There is a theory that Six already had her powers, and eating the Lady just activated them. I don't know all the evidence, but one thing of note that I do have is when Six eats Runaway Nome, the lantern above them reacts in a mysterious way. Just some things I wanted to share.
The second point is more likely related after her escape from The Signal Tower and having her Shadow Six curse. I believe she had a tiny portion of Mono's power based on how she escaped through the TV on her own but she can't handle it which makes her constantly hungry. I'm still not rlly sure that either Shadow Six is just a part of her soul that's left behind or it's actually just an avatar from The Nowhere monster itself since it seeming told Six to go to the Maw and appears everytime she eats. Maybe Six was always meant to eat The Lady the whole time and the Shadow was purposefully using the power Six gained to make her hungrier than before to make her resort to cannibalism and drain their esscence and everytime she eats a part of her power gained from the signal tower starts to awaken and Lady's essence is just enough to counterbalance the hunger.
I will have to try the fish thing, I have never seen that! In regards to Shadow Six, I have a whooooole new theory on her. I will make it, depending on how people enjoy this theory I might do a few more before LN3!
@@Tericho Some tips to get it done successfully: - When you first land on the pipe, run-jump forward but don't go too far or you may overshoot it. - When you see some weird thing rise up from the pipe, that is the fish. Grab it and Six will try to eat it. - Keep restarting from checkpoint if you fail to grab it in time.
@@Tericho In regards to Shadow Six, I have a question: Is it confirmed, that the glitching remain of Six (or Glitch Six) and Shadow Six are the same entity? Or are you sure about that? I ask because Glitch Six is, well, glitching. You can see that it is static. But Shadow Six looks more like a shadow with no clue of a glitch. Instead it seems to be 3D, while Glitch Six seems more 2D.
@@HalfEye79 I have a theory about why Dark Six has those 2 different forms. In the Pale City, the Thin Man and Signal Tower are the dominant powers. Hence Dark Six taking a glitchy form. On The Maw, the dominant power is the Lady, who has shadow like powers, so Dark Six takes a shadowy form. This may be evidence to suggest that Dark Six is a mainifestation based from the magic power of The Nowhere.
It is a coincidence. Said by one of the devs, every song and every writing in the game is just gibberish. It’s a coincidence, but definitely a fun one at that.
It may just be coincidence, but I wouldn't trust devs at least when it comes to song making. Something like that has to be deliberate to build the atmospheres they want. Someone here on UA-cam called "ItsJustJord" made a few "hidden song theories". They are interesting theories, but yes the words we hear may just be coincidence unfortunately :/ Would be fun if they weren't just coincidences though!
Good theory, but I have a few questions 1. Why would a new ship come just for Six to leave, you said it comes once a year, isn’t it more logical this to be the same ship leaving 2. Mono is in a time loop (it was semi confirmed when a fan drew a picture of the children and when someone commented ,,Too bad their all in a time loop” the devs responded with ,,All of them?” implying Mono, who was in the picture, is), but Six was with him, after she escaped the Pale city and go to the Maw, if she isn’t a time loop, that wouldn’t make sense, cus it will mean that tens of Sixes exist all in the same time 3. If the Lady has a child according to this theory, who is her husband? 4. Which children are turned into nomes and which into shadows? Why are the shadows even created? 5. If the Hanging man was in the Pale city how did he managed to leave, the signal brainwashes and deforms everyone, for him to have decided that he want to leave the city, means that he didn’t succeed whit whatever he once wanted to do there, meaning he was probably depressed and depressed people watch television, the city is like a dead trap, even if had other hobbies he would’ve ended like the Hunter, Teacher etc, so how did he leave?
The Lady doesn’t HAVE to have a husband to have a child, she doesn’t even have to have procured them herself to think of them as her own. Could’ve been magic, could’ve adopted, or maybe she did bang somebody but they aren’t around anymore and/or hardly matter to her.
2. Time loops are weird. They work on paper but put into practice, theoretically there can be a time loop AND another line that continues. So, while everything is stuck in a loop, some things can move on while still in the loop. 4. This could be every child that was turned into a Nome. They've lost their physical bodies (and their souls) as referenced during the furnace scene with the Nome's shadows. As the shadow children appear to be made up of the same substance as the scenes with the Lady when she presumably takes your soul, it can be assumed that these shadow children may be byproducts of her ability. 5. I would assume he boarded the ship that goes to the Maw yearly and got back that way.
I made a reply earlier but I guess it got deleted or something. She doesn’t HAVE to have a husband or to even have given birth to the children to think of them as hers.
@@Akuvistic 2. that doesn’t make sense, Six was part of the time loop so that means she must go somewhere when she gets out of the city right? Otherwise there would be countless Sixes, also there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that time in the Maw also doesn’t work properly (in one of the sections with Roger all the clocks ring in different times, showing different time) like in the Pale city so it’s possible Six is also in a time loop 5. I meant how he escaped being sucked in a TV or turning into a monster And about number 4 and every other, I was asking Tericho, I know a lot of us have a different explanation, but I wanted to ask him
another very good, though often overlooked, indicator of how sinister The Lady truly is; she was very mean to me in my playthrough, even though I am so nice
I really, really like this theory but there’s 2 things that bother me about it. 1. The 2nd picture with the kid’s face scratched out being a boy despite looking just like the other seems like a bit of a reach to me. It’s not a bad idea on your part, but it just seems unlikely when I think about it. 2. The hanging man. Specifically, the chair beneath him. When I first played this game I noticed right off the bat that that chair is far too low for him to hang himself with. He’s suspended too high for his feet to even touch it and it’s not knocked over from him flailing his feet about. To me, it looks more like he was murdered and the chair was set up afterwards to make it look like a suicide. Aside from that, I was real impressed with this theory. Everything else comes together very nicely.
I would say the scene implies that someone found the room and stood the chair back up to sit and read the letter. The chair being too short isn't a factor in the scene's storytelling. It's also possible that he climbed up on the back of the chair, not the seat, it's still not quite tall enough but it serves purpose as a prop.
I really love this theory and it makes the story really click together more wholly. The only part I have a different opinion to is the second child; what if the child who was painted out was actually a girl and the yellow dress she has on is a raincoat. She was painted out of the portrait because she ran away and escaped the Maw, grew old and had a family. She could be the grandmother to the girl with the raincoat from Very Little Nightmares if she is to be about the same age as the Granny, meaning the girl in Very Little Nightmares inherited her raincoat from her grandmother which is the Lady’s child. So the lady’s response to Six is somber and cold because Six reminds her of her lost child, the child that betrayed her. I’m not sure how much sense that makes but to me it seems like a semi-decent theory 😂
Reminder- since it's inevitable that someone will claim the opposite- The primary story dev *confirmed in an interview in 2021 that LN2 is a PREQUEL." (In response to being told about the the controversy on the subject.) "The internet has a tendency to do that, so let me be controversial and actually answer this question. *The story Little Nightmares II does indeed take place before the story of Little Nightmares."* - David Mervik
I noticed in the lady’s bedroom that there is a black outline on the wall that implies that there used to be a picture hung up on the wall and i think that picture was the one with the kids face scratched off. Amazing Video!!!
I love the subversion of the "witch feeds on children to remain young" trope, because witches in such stories always get to see the fruits of their labor in the mirror. But if you never get to see your outward form as others do and are only treated to what you would look like if you had aged naturally makes you wonder if it's even worth it.
Nice theory. I’m going to share one of mine in hopes that you see it. When asked if Mono was the Thin Man seen in game, or if he became a predecessor, the devs said both answers were correct. We know Mono is the Thin Man seen in game, and that there was another before him. I believe this previous Thin Man is the one in the comics. It can’t be Mono, as he remains locked up until his past self opens the door and frees him. Additionally, we see Mono in the last issue of the comics, surrounded by what looks like glitched remains - note how all the children are pitch black, bent in awkward positions. Mono then runs into a broken TV to hide, and a lengthy silhouette stands before him, which is likely the past Thin Man. It’s shown via Six and the Lady that, when a child kills someone with magic, they absorb it for themselves. Mono could’ve killed the previous Thin Man with a glass shard, explaining why he has powers. Finally, this also explains why Mono gains a massive boost in power when he kills his future self. If magic is absorbed via kill, then he’d be stuck in a loop of transferring that power. He kills his future self and gains extra power, becomes the Thin Man, and then uses that magic to fight his past self. Hence why the Thin Man has access to abilities Mono doesn’t, like slowing down time.
That would have to mean he left as a child though. Since, if the little girl is the granny, that would very likely be her dress in the arena. And that dress is still the size of a child.
I loved this theory! The girl on the painting being granny because of the similarities of their dress is very intriguing to think of. Also, if the supposed 'boy' that was scratched out of the painting - the granny's brother - was in actuality an girl by some reason, I was actually thinking that it could have been the raincoat girl from VLN, obviously because of the yellow raincoat. She would have managed to escape the maw and ended up at the Pretender's mansion. Also also, if there's going to be another LN game were we return to play as Six, I wonder if the Lady's powers are still intact inside her and she just eats the souls of other beings from that point onward.
I also think the hanging man could still be the father of the Pretender. He could have started a family in the Pale City and perhaps because of his association with the Lady he had enough power and wealth to place his daughter in a fancy mansion like the Nest. It would make a lot of sense if the Pretender was the granddaughter of the Lady.
TBH: this here UA-cam video you made on the game's lore and secrets was the very first thing I have seen of these games EVER. Just heard the title before but never saw anything, let alone played any. Your video really piqued my interest and curiosity in the series and I have already ordered them. Your lore theories and interpretations of clues and implications in all over the game are really well pondered and are logically coherent (mostly). There are just two or three things that would allow different interpretations, but I really was impressed you actually took philosophical, psychological, cultural and more views into account! You have my deepest respect for this game analysis video! I could easily see it being discussed about as a semester project or even as a dissertation (I don't know the proper english words, but hope you know what I mean) back when I studied psychology, philosophy & anthropology at the university! domo arigato gosaimasu, Tericho-Senpai! And now I'll install the "Little Nightmares" games and see if there's anything I can further comment or add to your work (Really looking forward to contact you and have a discussion, if I may!) Live long and prosper! Kuromaku
Thank you so much! I really hope you enjoy the games as much as I do, these are some of my favourite games of all time! I look forward to your thoughts once you have played them!
Always good when someone else finds out about Little Nightmares, unfortunately the series is dead now since the creators' studio, Tarsier, was acquired by Embracer and Bandai Namco, the owners of the Little Nightmares IP, had to replace Tarsier with a cheap and terrible studio.
i like this theory. i’ve long thought six was the lady’s child coming back to take revenge, but not only was this game not about revenge, but this theory ties the game up much nicer. i do hope the grandma is just the grandma, and that’s maybe what the lady sees, what she’ll look like in the future, cus the granny looks very similar to her in the reflection. i just hope the daughter is someone we haven’t seen yet. i was also thinking that the people in this universe comes in 2 halves, their selves and their shadow selves. maybe the children are split into the self, a nome, and their darker side, which are shadow kids. six does have a shadow self too, who shows up whenever she’s consuming something. i think this represents base desires (cus shadows), and the guests’ desire to eat are sapped away from them by six at the end, so they just roll over, without the desire to do anything. they’ve become true sloths. also the hanged man is a pretty funny representation of an average adult in the real world. they leave their mothers to live alone, realize they’re bound to a 9 to 5 desk job, slowly indulge themselves in entertainment media and lose themselves in it, only to come to realize the importance of family later on.
I miss your Little Nightmares content, Tericho! This was very eye-opening and somehow made the story even more messed up, I love it! I'm still bothered by something about the Hanging Man, though... If he really hanged himself, then why is the tiny chair still standing? Shouldn't it be kicked over? And more importantly, I think it would be rather impossible to hang yourself so high above it. No, I think the Hanging Man was murdered, and the scene was made to LOOK like suicide, though very crudely. We don't even get to read the note, and I think it means ones of two things: either Six can't read, and that's understandable in a place like The Nowhere (but remember, it's possible she went to the School in LN2), OR Six had something to do with the Hanging Man's demise, at least in setting up the room. If she wrote the note, why would she bother picking it up if she already knows what it says? I have no idea why she would kill the man, but considering she was sleeping so close to that room, and the fact we don't really see what went down before she woke up on the suitcase, we don't know if the Man threatened her in any way before his death (not that she wouldn't have many qualms about killing, either, as we discovered in the series). Whether Six had anything to do with the Hanging Man or not, I don't think he did it himself. The way the room is set up would make it impossible. Whoever did it was likely scared of the Lady and didn't want her anger directed at them (understandably). If her son killed himself, though, her rage can't be directed at anyone EXCEPT her son. If it was Six, and her mission was the Lady all along, she'd want to preserve the element of surprise as long as possible, though it may be that a nine-year-old might not think that far ahead. The scene of suicide, though, is quite crude...like a child's vague idea of what a suicide looks like. Idk, maybe I've watched one true crime vid too many. Sorry this was so long.
Not putting down anyone's theories, just love that they tell you nothing but give you so many possibilities that the answer to who people are and their connections to one another are near endless. Though it could be likely they just what we see, there is nothing more. But this is one small thing i worry about with the 3rd game being handled by different people, that they'll try to answer things or retroactively give reason to it all. Over explaining is a terrible pit to fall into. Look at what happened to fnaf. It got over complicated in trying to explain Afton his motives, how he was able to do things, his family, who the kids were and so on. Just keep it simple weird but familiar world, weird but familiar people, terrible but relatable situations, and the story of all of these kids fighting to survive in it.
Is it a different team making 3? I was talking to my bro about being able to essentially ‘fight back’ against some monsters it kind of ruins the gameplay for me because we are suppose to be scared and running and hiding gave this series a different feeling but if I can stand my ground and fight well now it’s a different game to me atleast
@@sckewycoco8793 the first two and the new reanimal game were developed by Tariser studio. The 3rd LN will be by supermassive. Supermassive does have a reputable catalog of games so there's no worries about quality but in terms of the story and world that's been built so far, I'm hoping that they understand what makes the series work and not try to actually explain it or retroactively explain things.
13:44 I think she’s furious that he saw her face without the mask on, and he saw how ugly she actually was. But with six, she had her mask on so she didn’t quite care.
Great theory's! Love your vids! Little Nightmares has always fascinated me from a story/lore perspective. One theory I had back when I originally played the game is that Six is destined to become the next Lady. My evidence was mainly the picture of the current lady with the 4 shadows of Lady's behind her. I believed that symbolized that there were four previous Lady's, making the current Lady number five. Thus the protagonist's name being Six would be fitting because she would be the sixth Lady. Also, in the final boss fight, after the Lady is defeated it seems as though she presents her neck to Six. Almost as if to say, "Here. You won. Take my power." We also see how Six almost seems to possess the same hunger as the lady. Each time she feeds she gets closer and closer to living humans/souls. Also, each time she feeds we see a glimpse of a shadowy version of Six looking on, almost as if some external power was guiding her actions. However, Six does not seem to be interested in continuing the cycle of the Maw, but rather intends to escape. I was never able to come up with solid evidence as to why she would be specifically in line for the position of the Lady, whether she was being groomed for it or was pursuing it.
Have you ever thought that food can make people aggressive? For example, Six used to eat the food and then she went to a mouse and then she went to a gnome who was offering her food. People that are eating those that do not attack were perhaps the last to arrive while those that attack six were the first. the point of knocking down and destroying everything to kill six. Gnomes are the most harmless animals and they don't have mouths and can't eat.
IRL, some foods give the body and (especially) brain inflammation, and sometimes this results in aggression. I am a true example. A little bit of milk is fine, but too much dairy in a short period of time turns me into the Hulk.
Well the thing about the Lady and Six not being related was about them being mither and daughter, which was a theory from back then. The girl in the portrait could still be 6 and just be her growing into the Lady. Kinda like how we see Mono's progression into the Thin Man when a new loop starts. Something that also could lend to this is the Lady position being a title, being thw Lady is a position which doesnt rule out it being Six. Especially if we take the loop into account and how Six and Mono of our playthrough have to grow into whatever they do in order for the next Mono and Six to come around. Six has the Lady's power, an insatiable hunger that sucking the lufeforce out of others satiates and the Maw is rulerless with loads of guests and children to feed on. Seems pretty obvious to me that at the end of the first game just sets up Six takes over the position and get killed by her self, which mirrors Mono beating his prior self and then taking up the position
@@Rhyrhyyyyyylie Yea it was one but the other equally popular one was them being mother and child. But the one about her being the Lady only really got stronger with LN2 with the whole loop thing and Mono into Thin Man
i'm really not sure why people keep thinking the Lady is somehow a geisha... she's just an Asian looking woman wearing a white mask and a kimono... nothing about her screams "geisha" to me. She's just wearing traditional clothing, and the mask, because she doesn't want people seeing her face and can't bear to look at herself, hence the mirrors. her mask is a Noh mask, which represents demons, goblins, or otherworldly creatures, which is what the Lady is, if we consider her supernatural abilities.
Makes perfect sense but the hanging man's child picture just doesn't cut it for me. I think it's the girl from vln and the picture is hidden because she died. Either way you haven't made a ln theory since 2021 I think. So happy for this return 😅
I wonder if the old woman was really sent down when she was just a child, or if she was locked down there when her brother left to keep her from also leaving The Lady. With The Maw being filled with other kids for her to eat, she could have simply had one of those to keep from attacking her own children. But if the boy left her and she thought her daughter might do the same, maybe she locked her somewhere her daughter could never get out of to make sure she wouldn't lose her other child.
4:59 The lady is just extremely insecure. Thats why all the mirrors in her quarters besides that one are broken. For the boss fight, your just forcing her to look at herself until she loses her will to fight.
Perhaps the reflection wasn't the Lady's "true" face, but instead was the Granny's, which informed The Lady of her passing, and perfect timing, just so happened to be when the Kid was sneaking around, which then the Granny Reflection noticed...
This is a really great theory, I always liked your “the picture girl is the granny” theory. You are an incredible LN theorist and I look forward to seeing you play 3! After I’ve played myself.
The girl in the paintings is most likely not the Granny but the Runaway Girl who had just ran away from The Geisha but unfortunately become dinner for a leach in the Depths. The hum that The Lady hums sounds a lot like Six's hum when she gets hungry and the music box which she played in Little Nightmares 2 which means that the ship had already gone too far when Six had left the Maw so she had to stay but because she was power hungry (which at the end of the game led her to kill the monsters who once tried to kill her) so Six could be the Geisha. In the little Nightmares comic book series issue 2 the mirrors show the children who they truly are on the inside which is why the Ladies reflection shows what she should be after all these years of keeping her youth.
Also, I just realized something: if the Hanging Man escaped the Pale City and headed back to the Maw, that would explain how Six got onto the Maw from the Pale City: she snuck into the Hanging Man’s suitcase! I wouldn’t be surprised if Six didn’t even mean to get into the Maw, she just found a suitcase and hid inside it for warmth, but got carried from one hell-hole and into another.
There's a theory that everything is happening in a timeloop. Mono becomes the tall man after Six leaves him. Future Mono then attempts to stop Six and Past Mono to end the time loop and beat the signal tower. Except Six at the end of LN2 steals some of Mono's power which is how she phases through the mirror. Meaning Tall Man is less powerful than Mono which is why Mono defeats him. After Six leaves Mono she eventually ends up on the ship that leads her to the Maw. Six then eventually absorbs the Painted Lady's power. Where she takes over the Maw as the next Paintef Lady. The theory is that every year she invited guests to the Maw, feeds them, then eventually takes their lifeforce. As for the game with the pretender, Six escapes on a boat, sails to the mainland where she is eventually captured by the Hunter. Credits: Superhorrorbro
I suppose alternatively the son could have run away from the Maw to the Pale City, most likely disembarking during one of the Maw’s annual trips to the mainland to pick up victims, and then the Lady locked up the daughter in the Depths to prevent her from trying to do the same. Alternatively my theory about the Nowhere in general is that it’s the locations rather than the bosses that are the true big bads and the characters we see as the bosses are simply characters that have been bound to the locations as familiars to help the locations extract energy from their prey. In this case the Lady could have locked her daughter down into the depths to make her a boss character, since it’s only bosses that get preserved whereas everyone else becomes prey. While it might seem cruel she’s doing it to ensure her daughter gets as long a life as possible in a world where everyone meets a grisly end. By contrast her son escapes to the Pale City, but begins to fall prey to the Signal Tower. Perhaps the Lady gave him a chance to escape back to her protection by sending him information about where the Maw would be docking next, but when he arrived something caused him to self-destruct. Perhaps this was due to the Signal Tower, perhaps like everyone else in the Pale City he had become addicted to the Signal Tower’s broadcasts and when the Lady wouldn’t allow him a TV in his room the loss became too much and he ended it. Or perhaps he found out what had happened to his sister in his absence and was trying to avoid the same fate. Would you rather lose your humanity or your life? Perhaps the twins each answered this question differently. When you consider the Nowhere seems to run on that question the Lady becomes one of the kindest characters in Little Nightmares since she forces the kids she catches to lose their humanity, not killing them but ensuring they have a long life as Nomes.
Also side note every time six feels hungry a shadow version of her appers randomly always nearby note that the credit for the information goes to my son dusty
I never counted how many shadow children the runaway kid killed. But I think those 4 geisha figures in the portrait are children. Just a forced perspective. They have geisha masks, but I could be proved wrong after this video. All this tericho, vikangaming, it'sjustjord, and superhorrorbro is making my mind go wild.
this video provides a question which has plagued my curiosity for a while. who is/was the lady's husband. your theory about the hanging man is quite convincing but i feel there could be another alternative, although this theory i roughly put together could probably be easily debunked, what if the hanging man is the lady's husband. who then saw what she had become and written her a note and then have taken his own life. ofc this theory is quite vague but, if you could delve a little more into it that'd be pretty cool. have a good one dude
I have another theory. The hangman could be the pale lady's husband/significant other. We don't see his face but the old man is thin and long. The small portrait could be her other child who she killed due to an accident which she caused. That's why in the big portrait, (he/she) is not present in the ladies big portrait (the painting could've been painted after the 2nd child's death). The old man may have witnessed the death of the 2nd child, and ended himself.
Possible counter theory? What if the the scratched out child is the Granny and the standing child is the Ferryman. I made a few weird observations between the Lady, the Granny, and the Ferryman. First is that all three are the only ones with powers in the Maw, the Janitor, the Chefs, probably even the Shoe Monster, they all attack, move, do anything physically, but the Lady has her magic, the Granny can breathe underwater, and the Ferryman can shapeshift. Second is that oddly enough, both the Ferryman and the Granny are uniquely suited to capture and deliver children to the Maw, the Ferryman can lure away children to his boat with his shapeshifting abilities, while the Granny could've possibly captured and swam the children to the Maw even while it was underwater. Thirdly is an odd coincidence of when we can find easter eggs for the Ferryman, in the base game there is a picture of him in the Lady's quarters, in the DLC we can find what is believed to be his boat deep in the Maw near the Granny, possibly hinting at a connection between the three. That just leaves the two children of the Lady, one hung and the other scratched, one embraced and the other forgotten. Think of it narratively then, the Lady having two children who would grow to serve both the Lady and the Maw, their purpose being to capture and deliver children to the Maw. The paths of the two children differed though, one grew into the Granny which the Lady saw as a disgrace, erasing the Granny from the family and locking her deep away in the Maw, the other grew into the Ferryman which the Lady saw as the perfect child and servant, sending him into the Nowhere to collect the children.
I genuinely thought I knew all to know about Little Nightmares. You are SMART man, can you please do more of these unsolved Little Nightmares mysteries? This was fun to watch.
One of the coolest things I realized from Little Nightmares 2 is that either everyone in the world is attracted heavily to TV’s or the janitor is a Viewer. My headcannon for the series is it takes place in our world. But, an eldritch being of some kind invaded our world (the thing with eyes in the tower), and warped the minds of everyone in the world through media and TV’s. It’s why everything is so warped and weird, but it’s also why we see elements of normal civilization. It probably happened some time in the late forties or early fifties based on the clothes of the people and the technology.
I love how you used the same music at the start of the video The Gaming Beaver used to use for his theory videos on Little Nightmares. Probably wasn't a reference but nostalgic nonetheless.
Wait he did? I picked that track specifically because it was called "shattered mirror" and I thought it was ironic, as well as the fact that it fit so well. I wonder if he did too!
Now that you bring up the picture of the second child with the eyes scratched out, made me wonder about the jar of ashes in the secret room in The Residence.. Just thinking maybe there could be a connection, though it was just something that popped in my head while watching this, so it is nothing i have looked into. Probably nothing. But thanks for the video! I missed it when it came out. I appreciate the time you put into these :)
Always great to see more Little Nightmares theory content, I've watched all your Little Nightmare videos twice (Yes I'm that starved for Little Nightmares content), theyre well put together and your by far my favourite Little Nightmares theorizer, great work mate
Oh man, I was one who theorized the Hanged Man was the Thin Man, as well xD My guess was THIS Thin Man was one who managed to leave the Tower solely to hunt down Six, ending up in the Maw. However, his powers had weakened. Realizing that his only option was to return to the Tower, he couldn't do it. Seeing one of the many nooses that hung around, he made a decision: using the last bit of his power, he glitched into it. (This would explain why he was suspended waaay to high above a tiny chair). Had he waited a minute longer, though, Six-- the one who doomed him to the Tower-- would have been in his clutches... ...but I LOVE the idea of The Lady having twin children, and now I want to include your theory into my fanfics! It's so brilliant, and makes all the sense!
Its cool to see that little nightmares has a theme to reflect on real life issues Little nightmare first game reflects how the elders feed on the young for their own gain. That even families arent safe from each other. Second little nightmares reflects the reality of growing up. Both Mono and Six fight to keep their childhood but mono folds into adulthood hence why he would try to do the same for Six by destroying her music box. But she refuses to grow up leaving Mono to fall into the life he wants. And seeing how Six grows for hunger as is on the maw this might indicate her growth and selfishness is catching up to her.
I'd go even further with the first game to say that it's a metaphor for greed in all forms. The guests eating far more than they need whereas the children are starving could be a metaphor for developed countries vs third world etc. I really hope the third game has a similar theme to tie it together!
there’s also the achievement “i’m losing you, i’ll be out of reach for a while” after you collect all 5 bottles in the lady’s quarters in the dlc. so it might mean that her child has left/ escaped the maw
I have so many questions and I’d love to hear some ppl’s answers and theories! If they are her children, they’re most likely adopted since it’s implied that the majority of the children in the nowhere “do not belong here”. So since they’re not likely her biological children, why would The Lady go out of her way to adopt them? I don’t think she would do it out of the kindness of her heart because she seems to have none, I feel like she would have an ulterior motive but what would that motive be? Also about the boy twin, his portrait actually looks like he’s a girl with a yellow coat on instead of a boy’s dressing gown so I think the twin could either be a girl or it’s the same child with different clothes on. If it was the same child though why would her portrait with her wearing a yellow raincoat on get ruined? And if she is the identical twin of the granny, who is she and how did she get her hands on the iconic yellow raincoat? Could she be The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat or a child who had the coat before her or after her and before Six? I feel like The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat would be debunked quickly since it’s implied the original owner of the yellow raincoat is Cici (Otto’s sister in the sound of nightmares) and I feel like it’s been implied that The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat is the original owner of the yellow raincoat. Does somebody have any answers please? I love this game’s lore sm!🥰🙏
The “dress” on the floor is a jumper with straps that tie over the shoulders. Regardless of that, this makes a lot of sense. I like this better than the idea of Six growing up to become the Lady.
That is very solid theory, good job, thank you for hard work ^^ In the shrine room there is a painting of women in red, based on this theory I assume she is a young granny, ladies son s sister 🤔which makes son of the lady quite obsessive boy, if you think about it, that is why there is some mirrors with hidden rooms, he had unhealthy obsession🤔 No wonder he ended himself when his deities became an old cannibal hag and a witch🤔
What if the Lady locked up her daughter because she was jealous of her growing into a more beautiful woman than her? She wanted her down there to remind her of how she got old and ugly and the Lady being more beautiful. That's why the son ran away, as he didn't want the same faith of being locked away and the woman got angry.
TBH, I don't think the little girl portrait is the Lady's daughter, I think that IS the lady. The geisha in the portrait is her mother hence why there's a mitamaya dedicated to her, a shrine for 'deceased' relatives; that's not uncommon in asian cultures such as Japan. Also if you look at the dolls under her portrait, one sits under her right hand just like in the painting, but the doll on the left has been broken and used for a candle holder, hinting that yes the second child in the portrait was painted out. So that means the other child isn't her brother, it's her twin sister and that's The Granny, since her face looks similar in age to the unmasked Lady. I think the narrative is saying she toppled her twin sister to be head after the mother passed and now feeds off the essence of children to preserve her youth.
The girl in the painting had concept art if you have the book full of unused concepts and in little nightmares 2 she has a 3D model in unused files like the kids in the virtual comic books
Based on your theory we can connect it to the final boss fight in LN2. Six is now the lady and mono is her child. He calls her and at first she follow him but later get angry bc of the guilty. Each time he hit the music box she feel the pain. Then six get back to normal having no idea whats going on except being betrayed by mono. He fall down and feel depressed and grow up to be a tall thin man who use the tv to get into the ship to write an apology letter to his mom and end up his life. Basically mono and six relive the story of the lady and her son.
Amazing video, great writing, great research and incredibly compelling. I was sad when this video ended. I love this game series and I can’t thank you enough for breathing new life into it for me and many others. Fastest like and subscribe of my life
This is brilliant. Initially I had different theories and thought these weren’t as good, but now considering them properly they make way more sense. Yes we would like more unraveled theories (particularly for 2) before 3 and defo many after 3 is out!
All I can say is bravo. My mind was literally blown after watching this and I'm wondering how it took this long to solve this. Also, for so long, it has annoyed me so much that gnome was always spelt as "nome" in this franchise. I was so happy to hear an explanation for that!
Thank you! They do this cheeky naming convention a lot. The main character in the audio series being called noone (pronounced noon) is another example.
YEEEEEEAH, A Little Nightmares theory!! I remember your series of theories being the first set of theories I saw about this game. It sparked my interest in writing again when I was in a slump, and now that I’m in another slump, it’s nice to see to another Little Nightmares theory from you.
If Little Nightmares I and II anime series adaptations are made, I prefer having the people listed below as voice actors/actresses and staff. What do you all think of this? 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 • Six: Rina Satō • The Runaway Kid: Atsushi Abe • Mono: Kengo Kawanishi • The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat: Konomi Kohara • Shadow Six: Nozomi Sasaki • Nomes: Yuka Iguchi • The Flashlight Girl: Satomi Arai • Shadow Kids: Maaya Uchida • The Bread Giving Boy: Daisuke Kishio • The Janitor (Roger): Nobuhiko Okamoto • The Twin Chefs: Kenji Nojima • The Lady: Hitomi Nabatame • The Teacher: Yuka Saitō • The Hunter: Hōchū Ōtsuka • The Thin Man: Toshiyuki Morikawa • The Doctor: Binbin Takaoka • The Craftsman: Satoshi Hino • The Butler: Nobunaga Shimazaki • The Pretender: Azumi Asakura • The Kid in a Red Scarf: Miyu Tomita • The Bullies: Chinatsu Akasaki • The Patients: Masaya Matsukaze • The Viewers: Junji Majima • Monster Six: Ai Kakuma 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗙𝗙 • Original Work: Tarsier Studios • Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai Dennis Talajic • Series Composition: Shogo Yasukawa • Animation Character Design: Yūichi Tanaka • Art Director: Kentaro Izumi Per Bergman • Color Design: Tomomi Andō • Director of Photography: Shingo Fukuyo • Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama (REAL-T) • Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa Tobias Lilja • Music: Maiko Iuchi Tobias Lilja Christian Vasselbring • Producer: Henrik Larsson Oscar Wemmert Ernst Ten Bosch Emma Mellander Magnus Isaksson Kazuma Miki (Straight Edge) Kentarō Hattori Kozue Kananiwa Michihisa Abe Noritomo Isogai Seihiro Asada Takehiro Nakakura Yūichirō Shiji • OP Song Performance: fripSide • ED Song Performance: Kishida Kyōdan & THE Akeboshi Rockets • Animation Production: J.C.STAFF
For the longest time i believed that The Lady ugly face came from the mirror and is linked to the mirror monster we saw in the now non-canon comics (but returns in) Little Nightmares 3 so once again a canon monster in the universe but your theory that she maintains her good look and that the mirror shows her true face is really good and I never thought of it before, you bring some very strong theories to the table with this video good job can't really agree on the twin brother theory tho the second picture clearly shows the raincoat not a nightgown
I like where you went with the Lady's son and leaving her. Maybe the Lady didn't lock the daughter in there to keep her safe but so she wouldn't leave like the son did
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There's this one thing I've not seen anyone bring up the song the lady is humming when in her quarter's is the same when mono becomes the thin man
Wdym? I don't hear any similarities
Could you point out when in each theme?
Omg it's the same key and everything and the same tempo I really think you're on to something!
@@catmcflooffloof4832during the part when Mono transforms into the thin man try and hum The Lady's song from LN1 at the same time and tell me you can't hear the same thing. It's uncanny once you really think about it!
But..Little Nightmares 1 was before Little Nightmares 2???
@@bealea1127 in terms of release yes, but little nightmares 2 is a prequel.
a fun fact about important people in history (e.g. monarchs) is that they would often make painters create portraits showing them to be more beautiful than they actually were. Going by this logic, the lady probably did this with the paintings in her quarters to feel better about herself.
Or maybe she truly is beautiful but sees herself as ugly because her face just doesn’t seem to match up with the mirror
As an artist who tried to work with portraits, I can say that most people, no matter the social class might insist in making them more beautiful than what they really are, at least on their perspective 🙃
You know it’s crazy that you do mention that because the more portraits and paintings I’ve seen of high-powered people or important people in history I can’t help but think humans are always going to be human there is no such thing as a perfect human there is always going to be a darker side of us whether we know it or willing to admit it or not
@@hyperball3288 or maybe yall are thinking too deep about it and they only made it that way because its part of the script
I'm sorry but you didn't really answer the question, who is the hanging man
Since the narrative designer said the children of this world “don’t belong there” and Six’s description on the LN2 website says she’s “awakened in a world she cannot recognize” were obvious hints before the sounds of nightmares confirmed that children or at least most of them aren’t from the Nowhere. Idk if or how procreation works in the Nowhere being that its an entirely different dimension with different rules than the waking world, so I prefer to think that maybe the brother and sister in this theory were instead children from the waking world that gave themselves up to the Nowhere that were found and adopted by the Lady rather than being the biological children of her own.
Apparently in the official podcast all children (at least the kids with powers) have been abused in some way and have been sent to the nowhere from earth. I don’t know why theses kids were sent there, I’m not theorist and I haven’t listened to the podcast in a long time 😅
@@DivorceDuck I think it is any child that are involved in any kind of tormented, traumatic life event(s) that get sent there. It's the darkness in their hearts from their pain that get them invited there by the Ferryman who manipulates them into giving themselves up to the Nowhere to stay forever
@@plasmatic3223 I’ve heard another theory about how the ferry man actually tries to help the kids in some kind of way but I’m not sure how
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I believe the Nowhere’s members of society were once children themselves that were taken by the Ferryman away from their tormented waking lives , and grew up, and chose those ‘careers’ often in response to whatever was the source of their trauma of their past adolescence, even developing powers, and abilities correlating with their said trauma, and desires. I don’t know if the Nowhere even has colleges to get their degrees for the biggest real world career paths, they manifest it with their minds when they choose to fully surrender their youth and innocence, they only become a nightmarish version of the mind of a child’s conception of a teacher, a doctor, or a chef that some had seen or known in their waking world lives that they may have looked up to, and aspired to be when they grow up. My best guess for the Ferryman’s end goal is to give children a place where they can live out the mind of a child’s highest expectations of what adulthood will be like, minus the steps you have to take in the real world to get those careers or whatever life you want, that a twisted version that is.
One thing that has always intrigued me about Six's possible curses and abilities, is how she progresses throughout The Maw. How did she manage to navigate or hide in unfamiliar ducts? Or most importantly, how did Six know the Lady's weakness? The answer is: she didn't. But after eating the rat, she knew exactly how to guide herself and act stealthily. And after devouring the Nome (Runaway kid), she could defeat the Lady. Six apparently can acquire experience, or even consume memories of the things she devour and take advantage of it.
That’s common belief in old mysticism and folk tales of monsters that eat humans and cannibles. You gain the “Strength” or “Knowledge” or both of what you eat as it becomes an unwilling part of you.
You are what you eat, as they say.
That actualy makes sence!
How did mono know?
If I remember correctly, Six lost part of her soul and has to supplement to keep herself from breaking down. So whenever she eats, she doesn't eat to fill her stomach, rather she eats to keep herself from falling apart. And while absorbing the souls she also acquires the memories and knowledge that was part of it.
That also makes sense for the ending as well when walking down the dinner room and she’s killing everyone with psychic like abilities, she probably got it from the lady when she ate her
"They feared death so they ate the young"
- Night in the Woods
God, I love that quote so much.
Still sad the creator killed himself in spiral of depression.
@@MrSpartan993wait what???
@@Coco-xq7zhYeah, his name was Alec Holowka, if you want to look it up. He killed himself back in August 2019, at age 35. It's why we never got a NitW Two.
@@icequeensamwich9309 oh :((( thats so sad, so young...
There’s something so beautiful about this game. 7 years later, still looks amazing. The world is so fascinating and tantalizing. There’s so much I want to know about the world and the maw.
I love this theory but I think the Lady killed her son instead of him taking his own life. Afterall, the chair in the room of the hanging man is wayyy too short for him to have used it to hang himself plus the chair is *still standing* which wouldn't be the case if the hanging man kicked it out from under his feet to take his own life.
He could have stepped off it or jumped. Explain why it’s behind him. But idk
@@naw1018 Yeah! My thoughts exactly (and something I pointed out years ago). Thinking that he jumped up into the noose (do we even know if there is a noose?) is just ludicrous and if he stepped off the chair, it would still be at foot level or knocked over. I believe like Cluelexander that the Lady killed him (maybe with the help of the Janitor, who definately has long enough arms), that he wasn't a son but a infatuated lover (hence the letters in LN1 and LN2 at the altar are love letters) who was rejected, an annoyance or a guilt ridden partner to the whole thing.
I think she couldn't resist the tempation of her son but felt extremely guilty so she locked her daughter away
That's what I was thinking as well. Not only that, but consider this- where are the Hanging Man's hands? If he had hung himself, his hands would be by his side. If he was murdered, his hands would have been bound in order to prevent him from escaping the noose.
Now consider the framing- since we don't see the man's hands, we must conclude that either his arms are bound, likely behind his back, or he doesn't have any to begin with! The latter seems unlikely, so I would guess it's the former. This is one of those things that's meant to LOOK like a suicide, but when you examine the chair being left upright, the chair being too short, and the likelyhood that his arms were bound, we can, somewhat fairly, call this a homicide and not a suicide.
@@robertcain6591 "do we even know if there is a noose?"
Gee what does it look like?
If Tericho can still make amazing theory videos like this about Little Nightmares I after 7 years, I can wait for whats going to come when Little Nightmares III comes out
or reanimal....
I have done 0 research on the plot of the game but I hope Mono appears in it. Best character imo.
People always fixate on The Lady being vain, but when she looks in the mirror, she sees herself as OLD, not ugly. She is obsessed with looking in the mirrors because she knows her time has come and someone is already on her way to replace her - that being Six in this case.
Yeah, I think the time loop theory is the only canon theory
Can six actually replace her if six is a dreaming child though? As we learn from the podcast that is how the children get there.
@@geunyooknyuhif it's a theory, then it's not canon....do you understand what theories are?
@@aduckofsomesort podcast?
Very intriguing theory. I will keep note of this among others. I have some findings I'd like to share here however:
1: After Six escapes the kitchen and ends up on that long pipe before the guest area, there are fish that slide off of the pipe and fall below. If you are fast enough, you can actually catch a fish and Six will attempt to eat it. I don't know if this has any theory relevance but just an interresting thing I wanted to share.
2: There is a theory that Six already had her powers, and eating the Lady just activated them. I don't know all the evidence, but one thing of note that I do have is when Six eats Runaway Nome, the lantern above them reacts in a mysterious way.
Just some things I wanted to share.
The second point is more likely related after her escape from The Signal Tower and having her Shadow Six curse. I believe she had a tiny portion of Mono's power based on how she escaped through the TV on her own but she can't handle it which makes her constantly hungry. I'm still not rlly sure that either Shadow Six is just a part of her soul that's left behind or it's actually just an avatar from The Nowhere monster itself since it seeming told Six to go to the Maw and appears everytime she eats.
Maybe Six was always meant to eat The Lady the whole time and the Shadow was purposefully using the power Six gained to make her hungrier than before to make her resort to cannibalism and drain their esscence and everytime she eats a part of her power gained from the signal tower starts to awaken and Lady's essence is just enough to counterbalance the hunger.
I will have to try the fish thing, I have never seen that!
In regards to Shadow Six, I have a whooooole new theory on her. I will make it, depending on how people enjoy this theory I might do a few more before LN3!
@@Tericho Some tips to get it done successfully:
- When you first land on the pipe, run-jump forward but don't go too far or you may overshoot it.
- When you see some weird thing rise up from the pipe, that is the fish. Grab it and Six will try to eat it.
- Keep restarting from checkpoint if you fail to grab it in time.
@@Tericho
In regards to Shadow Six, I have a question:
Is it confirmed, that the glitching remain of Six (or Glitch Six) and Shadow Six are the same entity? Or are you sure about that?
I ask because Glitch Six is, well, glitching. You can see that it is static. But Shadow Six looks more like a shadow with no clue of a glitch. Instead it seems to be 3D, while Glitch Six seems more 2D.
@@HalfEye79 I have a theory about why Dark Six has those 2 different forms. In the Pale City, the Thin Man and Signal Tower are the dominant powers. Hence Dark Six taking a glitchy form. On The Maw, the dominant power is the Lady, who has shadow like powers, so Dark Six takes a shadowy form. This may be evidence to suggest that Dark Six is a mainifestation based from the magic power of The Nowhere.
Holy fuck that ominous "Chop... Me... Uuuuup" I feel like it's probably a total coincidence but I can still hear it
I think its a coincidence.
It is a coincidence. Said by one of the devs, every song and every writing in the game is just gibberish. It’s a coincidence, but definitely a fun one at that.
Yes!!
Debunked by the chefs chopping meat up in the kitchen too if we put the puzzles together
I don't understand. What are you referring to?
It may just be coincidence, but I wouldn't trust devs at least when it comes to song making. Something like that has to be deliberate to build the atmospheres they want. Someone here on UA-cam called "ItsJustJord" made a few "hidden song theories". They are interesting theories, but yes the words we hear may just be coincidence unfortunately :/
Would be fun if they weren't just coincidences though!
14:31 it looks like yellow raincoat more than it looks like a nightgown, so maybe the girl in the yellow raincoat is the Lady’s other child
or six is the lady lol
Dev said they're unrelated, so theory is bust as said in video
@@AeyakS no they said the lady is not six mother
@@AeyakS oh sorry I thought you replay to my
@@EEE-Likes-UA-cam the yellow raincoat is 9 or 10 year old .the girl in the yellow raincoat is older
Good theory, but I have a few questions
1. Why would a new ship come just for Six to leave, you said it comes once a year, isn’t it more logical this to be the same ship leaving
2. Mono is in a time loop (it was semi confirmed when a fan drew a picture of the children and when someone commented ,,Too bad their all in a time loop” the devs responded with ,,All of them?” implying Mono, who was in the picture, is), but Six was with him, after she escaped the Pale city and go to the Maw, if she isn’t a time loop, that wouldn’t make sense, cus it will mean that tens of Sixes exist all in the same time
3. If the Lady has a child according to this theory, who is her husband?
4. Which children are turned into nomes and which into shadows? Why are the shadows even created?
5. If the Hanging man was in the Pale city how did he managed to leave, the signal brainwashes and deforms everyone, for him to have decided that he want to leave the city, means that he didn’t succeed whit whatever he once wanted to do there, meaning he was probably depressed and depressed people watch television, the city is like a dead trap, even if had other hobbies he would’ve ended like the Hunter, Teacher etc, so how did he leave?
The Lady doesn’t HAVE to have a husband to have a child, she doesn’t even have to have procured them herself to think of them as her own. Could’ve been magic, could’ve adopted, or maybe she did bang somebody but they aren’t around anymore and/or hardly matter to her.
2. Time loops are weird. They work on paper but put into practice, theoretically there can be a time loop AND another line that continues. So, while everything is stuck in a loop, some things can move on while still in the loop.
4. This could be every child that was turned into a Nome. They've lost their physical bodies (and their souls) as referenced during the furnace scene with the Nome's shadows. As the shadow children appear to be made up of the same substance as the scenes with the Lady when she presumably takes your soul, it can be assumed that these shadow children may be byproducts of her ability.
5. I would assume he boarded the ship that goes to the Maw yearly and got back that way.
I don't think there needs to be a father, as it's common for fiction to ignore or omit one or both parents when creating characters
I made a reply earlier but I guess it got deleted or something. She doesn’t HAVE to have a husband or to even have given birth to the children to think of them as hers.
@@Akuvistic 2. that doesn’t make sense, Six was part of the time loop so that means she must go somewhere when she gets out of the city right? Otherwise there would be countless Sixes, also there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that time in the Maw also doesn’t work properly (in one of the sections with Roger all the clocks ring in different times, showing different time) like in the Pale city so it’s possible Six is also in a time loop
5. I meant how he escaped being sucked in a TV or turning into a monster
And about number 4 and every other, I was asking Tericho, I know a lot of us have a different explanation, but I wanted to ask him
another very good, though often overlooked, indicator of how sinister The Lady truly is; she was very mean to me in my playthrough, even though I am so nice
I really, really like this theory but there’s 2 things that bother me about it.
1. The 2nd picture with the kid’s face scratched out being a boy despite looking just like the other seems like a bit of a reach to me. It’s not a bad idea on your part, but it just seems unlikely when I think about it.
2. The hanging man. Specifically, the chair beneath him. When I first played this game I noticed right off the bat that that chair is far too low for him to hang himself with. He’s suspended too high for his feet to even touch it and it’s not knocked over from him flailing his feet about. To me, it looks more like he was murdered and the chair was set up afterwards to make it look like a suicide.
Aside from that, I was real impressed with this theory. Everything else comes together very nicely.
You read my mind there
I would say the scene implies that someone found the room and stood the chair back up to sit and read the letter. The chair being too short isn't a factor in the scene's storytelling. It's also possible that he climbed up on the back of the chair, not the seat, it's still not quite tall enough but it serves purpose as a prop.
Yes, but you gotta remember that the game itself should still be playable. If the chair was made taller then how did six open the door?
This guy is 200% reaching with most of the points he made.
@@jettsett9354 That's what most of these videos are, but this one was a nice throwback to LN and I enjoyed it
I really love this theory and it makes the story really click together more wholly.
The only part I have a different opinion to is the second child; what if the child who was painted out was actually a girl and the yellow dress she has on is a raincoat. She was painted out of the portrait because she ran away and escaped the Maw, grew old and had a family. She could be the grandmother to the girl with the raincoat from Very Little Nightmares if she is to be about the same age as the Granny, meaning the girl in Very Little Nightmares inherited her raincoat from her grandmother which is the Lady’s child.
So the lady’s response to Six is somber and cold because Six reminds her of her lost child, the child that betrayed her.
I’m not sure how much sense that makes but to me it seems like a semi-decent theory 😂
THAT IS SOOOO GOOODDDD, that's an amazing theory but ppl r asking who the father is, i don't have any ideas
@@Unknown30039 maybe the hanging guy in the start of LN1 besides him I cant think of anyone else
Reminder- since it's inevitable that someone will claim the opposite-
The primary story dev *confirmed in an interview in 2021 that LN2 is a PREQUEL."
(In response to being told about the the controversy on the subject.)
"The internet has a tendency to do that, so let me be controversial and actually answer this question. *The story Little Nightmares II does indeed take place before the story of Little Nightmares."* - David Mervik
I noticed in the lady’s bedroom that there is a black outline on the wall that implies that there used to be a picture hung up on the wall and i think that picture was the one with the kids face scratched off.
Amazing Video!!!
A little Nightmares Theory in 2024 was unexpected, but very welcome.
I love the subversion of the "witch feeds on children to remain young" trope, because witches in such stories always get to see the fruits of their labor in the mirror. But if you never get to see your outward form as others do and are only treated to what you would look like if you had aged naturally makes you wonder if it's even worth it.
Nice theory. I’m going to share one of mine in hopes that you see it.
When asked if Mono was the Thin Man seen in game, or if he became a predecessor, the devs said both answers were correct. We know Mono is the Thin Man seen in game, and that there was another before him. I believe this previous Thin Man is the one in the comics. It can’t be Mono, as he remains locked up until his past self opens the door and frees him.
Additionally, we see Mono in the last issue of the comics, surrounded by what looks like glitched remains - note how all the children are pitch black, bent in awkward positions. Mono then runs into a broken TV to hide, and a lengthy silhouette stands before him, which is likely the past Thin Man. It’s shown via Six and the Lady that, when a child kills someone with magic, they absorb it for themselves. Mono could’ve killed the previous Thin Man with a glass shard, explaining why he has powers.
Finally, this also explains why Mono gains a massive boost in power when he kills his future self. If magic is absorbed via kill, then he’d be stuck in a loop of transferring that power. He kills his future self and gains extra power, becomes the Thin Man, and then uses that magic to fight his past self. Hence why the Thin Man has access to abilities Mono doesn’t, like slowing down time.
Probably the hanged man leaving the maw was what made the Lady trap Granny in the basement. So she couldn't leave, like her brother.
That would have to mean he left as a child though. Since, if the little girl is the granny, that would very likely be her dress in the arena. And that dress is still the size of a child.
I loved this theory! The girl on the painting being granny because of the similarities of their dress is very intriguing to think of.
Also, if the supposed 'boy' that was scratched out of the painting - the granny's brother - was in actuality an girl by some reason, I was actually thinking that it could have been the raincoat girl from VLN, obviously because of the yellow raincoat. She would have managed to escape the maw and ended up at the Pretender's mansion.
Also also, if there's going to be another LN game were we return to play as Six, I wonder if the Lady's powers are still intact inside her and she just eats the souls of other beings from that point onward.
I also think the hanging man could still be the father of the Pretender. He could have started a family in the Pale City and perhaps because of his association with the Lady he had enough power and wealth to place his daughter in a fancy mansion like the Nest. It would make a lot of sense if the Pretender was the granddaughter of the Lady.
TBH: this here UA-cam video you made on the game's lore and secrets was the very first thing I have seen of these games EVER. Just heard the title before but never saw anything, let alone played any.
Your video really piqued my interest and curiosity in the series and I have already ordered them.
Your lore theories and interpretations of clues and implications in all over the game are really well pondered and are logically coherent (mostly). There are just two or three things that would allow different interpretations, but I really was impressed you actually took philosophical, psychological, cultural and more views into account!
You have my deepest respect for this game analysis video! I could easily see it being discussed about as a semester project or even as a dissertation (I don't know the proper english words, but hope you know what I mean) back when I studied psychology, philosophy & anthropology at the university!
domo arigato gosaimasu, Tericho-Senpai!
And now I'll install the "Little Nightmares" games and see if there's anything I can further comment or add to your work (Really looking forward to contact you and have a discussion, if I may!)
Live long and prosper!
Kuromaku
Thank you so much! I really hope you enjoy the games as much as I do, these are some of my favourite games of all time! I look forward to your thoughts once you have played them!
Did you play it yet? :D
There is no way u made this video right after I started getting interested in Little Nightmares
"Life writes the best storys"
Play 1 and 2. ... Look up also tarsier upcoming horror game..
SAME
I mean.. The third game is on the horizon, and marketing is ramping up. Its hardly the biggest coincidence.
Always good when someone else finds out about Little Nightmares, unfortunately the series is dead now since the creators' studio, Tarsier, was acquired by Embracer and Bandai Namco, the owners of the Little Nightmares IP, had to replace Tarsier with a cheap and terrible studio.
i like this theory. i’ve long thought six was the lady’s child coming back to take revenge, but not only was this game not about revenge, but this theory ties the game up much nicer. i do hope the grandma is just the grandma, and that’s maybe what the lady sees, what she’ll look like in the future, cus the granny looks very similar to her in the reflection. i just hope the daughter is someone we haven’t seen yet.
i was also thinking that the people in this universe comes in 2 halves, their selves and their shadow selves. maybe the children are split into the self, a nome, and their darker side, which are shadow kids. six does have a shadow self too, who shows up whenever she’s consuming something. i think this represents base desires (cus shadows), and the guests’ desire to eat are sapped away from them by six at the end, so they just roll over, without the desire to do anything. they’ve become true sloths.
also the hanged man is a pretty funny representation of an average adult in the real world. they leave their mothers to live alone, realize they’re bound to a 9 to 5 desk job, slowly indulge themselves in entertainment media and lose themselves in it, only to come to realize the importance of family later on.
I miss your Little Nightmares content, Tericho! This was very eye-opening and somehow made the story even more messed up, I love it! I'm still bothered by something about the Hanging Man, though...
If he really hanged himself, then why is the tiny chair still standing? Shouldn't it be kicked over? And more importantly, I think it would be rather impossible to hang yourself so high above it. No, I think the Hanging Man was murdered, and the scene was made to LOOK like suicide, though very crudely. We don't even get to read the note, and I think it means ones of two things: either Six can't read, and that's understandable in a place like The Nowhere (but remember, it's possible she went to the School in LN2), OR Six had something to do with the Hanging Man's demise, at least in setting up the room. If she wrote the note, why would she bother picking it up if she already knows what it says? I have no idea why she would kill the man, but considering she was sleeping so close to that room, and the fact we don't really see what went down before she woke up on the suitcase, we don't know if the Man threatened her in any way before his death (not that she wouldn't have many qualms about killing, either, as we discovered in the series).
Whether Six had anything to do with the Hanging Man or not, I don't think he did it himself. The way the room is set up would make it impossible. Whoever did it was likely scared of the Lady and didn't want her anger directed at them (understandably). If her son killed himself, though, her rage can't be directed at anyone EXCEPT her son. If it was Six, and her mission was the Lady all along, she'd want to preserve the element of surprise as long as possible, though it may be that a nine-year-old might not think that far ahead. The scene of suicide, though, is quite crude...like a child's vague idea of what a suicide looks like. Idk, maybe I've watched one true crime vid too many. Sorry this was so long.
4:30 As you said "Ah, the circle of life or-" My phone lost connection and I got the loading circle lol 😂 🔄
Not putting down anyone's theories, just love that they tell you nothing but give you so many possibilities that the answer to who people are and their connections to one another are near endless.
Though it could be likely they just what we see, there is nothing more.
But this is one small thing i worry about with the 3rd game being handled by different people, that they'll try to answer things or retroactively give reason to it all. Over explaining is a terrible pit to fall into. Look at what happened to fnaf. It got over complicated in trying to explain Afton his motives, how he was able to do things, his family, who the kids were and so on.
Just keep it simple weird but familiar world, weird but familiar people, terrible but relatable situations, and the story of all of these kids fighting to survive in it.
Is it a different team making 3? I was talking to my bro about being able to essentially ‘fight back’ against some monsters it kind of ruins the gameplay for me because we are suppose to be scared and running and hiding gave this series a different feeling but if I can stand my ground and fight well now it’s a different game to me atleast
@@sckewycoco8793 the first two and the new reanimal game were developed by Tariser studio. The 3rd LN will be by supermassive. Supermassive does have a reputable catalog of games so there's no worries about quality but in terms of the story and world that's been built so far, I'm hoping that they understand what makes the series work and not try to actually explain it or retroactively explain things.
13:44 I think she’s furious that he saw her face without the mask on, and he saw how ugly she actually was. But with six, she had her mask on so she didn’t quite care.
Great theory's! Love your vids! Little Nightmares has always fascinated me from a story/lore perspective. One theory I had back when I originally played the game is that Six is destined to become the next Lady. My evidence was mainly the picture of the current lady with the 4 shadows of Lady's behind her. I believed that symbolized that there were four previous Lady's, making the current Lady number five. Thus the protagonist's name being Six would be fitting because she would be the sixth Lady. Also, in the final boss fight, after the Lady is defeated it seems as though she presents her neck to Six. Almost as if to say, "Here. You won. Take my power." We also see how Six almost seems to possess the same hunger as the lady. Each time she feeds she gets closer and closer to living humans/souls. Also, each time she feeds we see a glimpse of a shadowy version of Six looking on, almost as if some external power was guiding her actions. However, Six does not seem to be interested in continuing the cycle of the Maw, but rather intends to escape. I was never able to come up with solid evidence as to why she would be specifically in line for the position of the Lady, whether she was being groomed for it or was pursuing it.
Have you ever thought that food can make people aggressive? For example, Six used to eat the food and then she went to a mouse and then she went to a gnome who was offering her food. People that are eating those that do not attack were perhaps the last to arrive while those that attack six were the first. the point of knocking down and destroying everything to kill six. Gnomes are the most harmless animals and they don't have mouths and can't eat.
IRL, some foods give the body and (especially) brain inflammation, and sometimes this results in aggression. I am a true example. A little bit of milk is fine, but too much dairy in a short period of time turns me into the Hulk.
Well the thing about the Lady and Six not being related was about them being mither and daughter, which was a theory from back then. The girl in the portrait could still be 6 and just be her growing into the Lady. Kinda like how we see Mono's progression into the Thin Man when a new loop starts. Something that also could lend to this is the Lady position being a title, being thw Lady is a position which doesnt rule out it being Six. Especially if we take the loop into account and how Six and Mono of our playthrough have to grow into whatever they do in order for the next Mono and Six to come around. Six has the Lady's power, an insatiable hunger that sucking the lufeforce out of others satiates and the Maw is rulerless with loads of guests and children to feed on. Seems pretty obvious to me that at the end of the first game just sets up Six takes over the position and get killed by her self, which mirrors Mono beating his prior self and then taking up the position
Wasn't that a popular theory back then? I remember watching little nightmares comics and they all mostly reference to six becoming the lady?
@@Rhyrhyyyyyylie Yea it was one but the other equally popular one was them being mother and child. But the one about her being the Lady only really got stronger with LN2 with the whole loop thing and Mono into Thin Man
i'm really not sure why people keep thinking the Lady is somehow a geisha... she's just an Asian looking woman wearing a white mask and a kimono... nothing about her screams "geisha" to me. She's just wearing traditional clothing, and the mask, because she doesn't want people seeing her face and can't bear to look at herself, hence the mirrors. her mask is a Noh mask, which represents demons, goblins, or otherworldly creatures, which is what the Lady is, if we consider her supernatural abilities.
I love these so much. Also because the world of LM is so intriguing. I'll be there for all the theories to come for sure!
1:16 her name is shoes
Another eddie fan
@@psycic7679 YURRRRR
Its six
@@Gordostgo nuh uh shoes
Shoes
Makes perfect sense but the hanging man's child picture just doesn't cut it for me. I think it's the girl from vln and the picture is hidden because she died. Either way you haven't made a ln theory since 2021 I think. So happy for this return 😅
I wonder if the old woman was really sent down when she was just a child, or if she was locked down there when her brother left to keep her from also leaving The Lady. With The Maw being filled with other kids for her to eat, she could have simply had one of those to keep from attacking her own children. But if the boy left her and she thought her daughter might do the same, maybe she locked her somewhere her daughter could never get out of to make sure she wouldn't lose her other child.
4:59 The lady is just extremely insecure. Thats why all the mirrors in her quarters besides that one are broken. For the boss fight, your just forcing her to look at herself until she loses her will to fight.
Perhaps the reflection wasn't the Lady's "true" face, but instead was the Granny's, which informed The Lady of her passing, and perfect timing, just so happened to be when the Kid was sneaking around, which then the Granny Reflection noticed...
So excited to see more of your Little Nightmares Theories! I’ve been here since the beginning of your channel. ❤
This is a really great theory, I always liked your “the picture girl is the granny” theory. You are an incredible LN theorist and I look forward to seeing you play 3! After I’ve played myself.
The girl in the paintings is most likely not the Granny but the Runaway Girl who had just ran away from The Geisha but unfortunately become dinner for a leach in the Depths.
The hum that The Lady hums sounds a lot like Six's hum when she gets hungry and the music box which she played in Little Nightmares 2 which means that the ship had already gone too far when Six had left the Maw so she had to stay but because she was power hungry (which at the end of the game led her to kill the monsters who once tried to kill her) so Six could be the Geisha.
In the little Nightmares comic book series issue 2 the mirrors show the children who they truly are on the inside which is why the Ladies reflection shows what she should be after all these years of keeping her youth.
the Lady isn't a geisha, she's just a woman wearing a kimono and a Noh mask
Also, I just realized something: if the Hanging Man escaped the Pale City and headed back to the Maw, that would explain how Six got onto the Maw from the Pale City: she snuck into the Hanging Man’s suitcase! I wouldn’t be surprised if Six didn’t even mean to get into the Maw, she just found a suitcase and hid inside it for warmth, but got carried from one hell-hole and into another.
Plausible!
“It was perfect down to the last mynewton detail”
-Homelander
16:01 in the left you can see the small kinda picture of the lady but on top there is a panting of a girl wearing a red dress! Who could it be
There's a theory that everything is happening in a timeloop. Mono becomes the tall man after Six leaves him. Future Mono then attempts to stop Six and Past Mono to end the time loop and beat the signal tower.
Except Six at the end of LN2 steals some of Mono's power which is how she phases through the mirror. Meaning Tall Man is less powerful than Mono which is why Mono defeats him.
After Six leaves Mono she eventually ends up on the ship that leads her to the Maw. Six then eventually absorbs the Painted Lady's power. Where she takes over the Maw as the next Paintef Lady. The theory is that every year she invited guests to the Maw, feeds them, then eventually takes their lifeforce.
As for the game with the pretender, Six escapes on a boat, sails to the mainland where she is eventually captured by the Hunter.
Credits: Superhorrorbro
I suppose alternatively the son could have run away from the Maw to the Pale City, most likely disembarking during one of the Maw’s annual trips to the mainland to pick up victims, and then the Lady locked up the daughter in the Depths to prevent her from trying to do the same.
Alternatively my theory about the Nowhere in general is that it’s the locations rather than the bosses that are the true big bads and the characters we see as the bosses are simply characters that have been bound to the locations as familiars to help the locations extract energy from their prey. In this case the Lady could have locked her daughter down into the depths to make her a boss character, since it’s only bosses that get preserved whereas everyone else becomes prey. While it might seem cruel she’s doing it to ensure her daughter gets as long a life as possible in a world where everyone meets a grisly end. By contrast her son escapes to the Pale City, but begins to fall prey to the Signal Tower. Perhaps the Lady gave him a chance to escape back to her protection by sending him information about where the Maw would be docking next, but when he arrived something caused him to self-destruct. Perhaps this was due to the Signal Tower, perhaps like everyone else in the Pale City he had become addicted to the Signal Tower’s broadcasts and when the Lady wouldn’t allow him a TV in his room the loss became too much and he ended it. Or perhaps he found out what had happened to his sister in his absence and was trying to avoid the same fate. Would you rather lose your humanity or your life? Perhaps the twins each answered this question differently. When you consider the Nowhere seems to run on that question the Lady becomes one of the kindest characters in Little Nightmares since she forces the kids she catches to lose their humanity, not killing them but ensuring they have a long life as Nomes.
i've been following you since your theory videos of LN, I've recently been watching them again and seeing you upload a new theory is amazing !!
Also side note every time six feels hungry a shadow version of her appers randomly always nearby note that the credit for the information goes to my son dusty
I never counted how many shadow children the runaway kid killed. But I think those 4 geisha figures in the portrait are children. Just a forced perspective. They have geisha masks, but I could be proved wrong after this video. All this tericho, vikangaming, it'sjustjord, and superhorrorbro is making my mind go wild.
they're not geisha masks
this video provides a question which has plagued my curiosity for a while. who is/was the lady's husband. your theory about the hanging man is quite convincing but i feel there could be another alternative, although this theory i roughly put together could probably be easily debunked, what if the hanging man is the lady's husband. who then saw what she had become and written her a note and then have taken his own life.
ofc this theory is quite vague but, if you could delve a little more into it that'd be pretty cool. have a good one dude
I have another theory.
The hangman could be the pale lady's husband/significant other. We don't see his face but the old man is thin and long. The small portrait could be her other child who she killed due to an accident which she caused. That's why in the big portrait, (he/she) is not present in the ladies big portrait (the painting could've been painted after the 2nd child's death). The old man may have witnessed the death of the 2nd child, and ended himself.
03:42 - Awww man yes. I will never forget that... 😟🥺
It's been 7 years and I still can't get enough of LN, I can't wait for LN3 😭😭
11:36 wait that’s why it was mispelled ? I took so long to figure this out and it wasn’t even me who figured it out
Possible counter theory? What if the the scratched out child is the Granny and the standing child is the Ferryman. I made a few weird observations between the Lady, the Granny, and the Ferryman.
First is that all three are the only ones with powers in the Maw, the Janitor, the Chefs, probably even the Shoe Monster, they all attack, move, do anything physically, but the Lady has her magic, the Granny can breathe underwater, and the Ferryman can shapeshift.
Second is that oddly enough, both the Ferryman and the Granny are uniquely suited to capture and deliver children to the Maw, the Ferryman can lure away children to his boat with his shapeshifting abilities, while the Granny could've possibly captured and swam the children to the Maw even while it was underwater.
Thirdly is an odd coincidence of when we can find easter eggs for the Ferryman, in the base game there is a picture of him in the Lady's quarters, in the DLC we can find what is believed to be his boat deep in the Maw near the Granny, possibly hinting at a connection between the three.
That just leaves the two children of the Lady, one hung and the other scratched, one embraced and the other forgotten. Think of it narratively then, the Lady having two children who would grow to serve both the Lady and the Maw, their purpose being to capture and deliver children to the Maw. The paths of the two children differed though, one grew into the Granny which the Lady saw as a disgrace, erasing the Granny from the family and locking her deep away in the Maw, the other grew into the Ferryman which the Lady saw as the perfect child and servant, sending him into the Nowhere to collect the children.
Please please please make more theories about this series I loved this one soo much
2:47 the fact that they are enormous individuals means they are also touching each other while doing that
I genuinely thought I knew all to know about Little Nightmares. You are SMART man, can you please do more of these unsolved Little Nightmares mysteries? This was fun to watch.
I think you absolutely nailed this one. Great video. Can’t wait to see what you do with Little Nightmares 2!
Imagine Uncle Roger and Gordan Ramsey was in little nightmare l?
They will going to scream, "IS RAW! STOP GIVING ME SHIT!"💀
"I guess they really like menu option no. 6" top tier pun my good sir
This theory was EXCELLENT! Great job Tericho
One of the coolest things I realized from Little Nightmares 2 is that either everyone in the world is attracted heavily to TV’s or the janitor is a Viewer. My headcannon for the series is it takes place in our world. But, an eldritch being of some kind invaded our world (the thing with eyes in the tower), and warped the minds of everyone in the world through media and TV’s. It’s why everything is so warped and weird, but it’s also why we see elements of normal civilization. It probably happened some time in the late forties or early fifties based on the clothes of the people and the technology.
I love how you used the same music at the start of the video The Gaming Beaver used to use for his theory videos on Little Nightmares. Probably wasn't a reference but nostalgic nonetheless.
Wait he did? I picked that track specifically because it was called "shattered mirror" and I thought it was ironic, as well as the fact that it fit so well. I wonder if he did too!
Now that you bring up the picture of the second child with the eyes scratched out, made me wonder about the jar of ashes in the secret room in The Residence.. Just thinking maybe there could be a connection, though it was just something that popped in my head while watching this, so it is nothing i have looked into. Probably nothing. But thanks for the video! I missed it when it came out. I appreciate the time you put into these :)
Always great to see more Little Nightmares theory content, I've watched all your Little Nightmare videos twice (Yes I'm that starved for Little Nightmares content), theyre well put together and your by far my favourite Little Nightmares theorizer, great work mate
This actually makes Sense, could you make more I really want to see more deep stuff in this game 🙏❤️
OMG tericho finally made a LN theory again please make a video about sounds of nightmares
Oh man, I was one who theorized the Hanged Man was the Thin Man, as well xD
My guess was THIS Thin Man was one who managed to leave the Tower solely to hunt down Six, ending up in the Maw.
However, his powers had weakened. Realizing that his only option was to return to the Tower, he couldn't do it.
Seeing one of the many nooses that hung around, he made a decision: using the last bit of his power, he glitched into it.
(This would explain why he was suspended waaay to high above a tiny chair).
Had he waited a minute longer, though, Six-- the one who doomed him to the Tower-- would have been in his clutches...
...but I LOVE the idea of The Lady having twin children, and now I want to include your theory into my fanfics! It's so brilliant, and makes all the sense!
Devs are taking notes at this point 😂
Its cool to see that little nightmares has a theme to reflect on real life issues
Little nightmare first game reflects how the elders feed on the young for their own gain. That even families arent safe from each other.
Second little nightmares reflects the reality of growing up. Both Mono and Six fight to keep their childhood but mono folds into adulthood hence why he would try to do the same for Six by destroying her music box. But she refuses to grow up leaving Mono to fall into the life he wants.
And seeing how Six grows for hunger as is on the maw this might indicate her growth and selfishness is catching up to her.
I'd go even further with the first game to say that it's a metaphor for greed in all forms. The guests eating far more than they need whereas the children are starving could be a metaphor for developed countries vs third world etc.
I really hope the third game has a similar theme to tie it together!
Ive loved this game ever since it came out and seeing people still theorize on the first game is so special to me 🤩
Same!
mouche...
@@justlily6275 ?
there’s also the achievement “i’m losing you, i’ll be out of reach for a while” after you collect all 5 bottles in the lady’s quarters in the dlc. so it might mean that her child has left/ escaped the maw
Holy crap!!! People still care about these games? Hell yeah!!!
I have so many questions and I’d love to hear some ppl’s answers and theories!
If they are her children, they’re most likely adopted since it’s implied that the majority of the children in the nowhere “do not belong here”. So since they’re not likely her biological children, why would The Lady go out of her way to adopt them?
I don’t think she would do it out of the kindness of her heart because she seems to have none, I feel like she would have an ulterior motive but what would that motive be?
Also about the boy twin, his portrait actually looks like he’s a girl with a yellow coat on instead of a boy’s dressing gown so I think the twin could either be a girl or it’s the same child with different clothes on. If it was the same child though why would her portrait with her wearing a yellow raincoat on get ruined? And if she is the identical twin of the granny, who is she and how did she get her hands on the iconic yellow raincoat?
Could she be The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat or a child who had the coat before her or after her and before Six?
I feel like The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat would be debunked quickly since it’s implied the original owner of the yellow raincoat is Cici (Otto’s sister in the sound of nightmares) and I feel like it’s been implied that The Girl in The Yellow Raincoat is the original owner of the yellow raincoat.
Does somebody have any answers please? I love this game’s lore sm!🥰🙏
Feels like 2021 all over again, glad to have ya back
The “dress” on the floor is a jumper with straps that tie over the shoulders. Regardless of that, this makes a lot of sense. I like this better than the idea of Six growing up to become the Lady.
That is very solid theory, good job, thank you for hard work ^^
In the shrine room there is a painting of women in red, based on this theory I assume she is a young granny, ladies son s sister 🤔which makes son of the lady quite obsessive boy, if you think about it, that is why there is some mirrors with hidden rooms, he had unhealthy obsession🤔
No wonder he ended himself when his deities became an old cannibal hag and a witch🤔
Maybe, like Roger, we should call the Hanging Man "Norman", instead, lol
What if the Lady locked up her daughter because she was jealous of her growing into a more beautiful woman than her? She wanted her down there to remind her of how she got old and ugly and the Lady being more beautiful. That's why the son ran away, as he didn't want the same faith of being locked away and the woman got angry.
0:51 you mean extheorience?
TBH, I don't think the little girl portrait is the Lady's daughter, I think that IS the lady. The geisha in the portrait is her mother hence why there's a mitamaya dedicated to her, a shrine for 'deceased' relatives; that's not uncommon in asian cultures such as Japan. Also if you look at the dolls under her portrait, one sits under her right hand just like in the painting, but the doll on the left has been broken and used for a candle holder, hinting that yes the second child in the portrait was painted out. So that means the other child isn't her brother, it's her twin sister and that's The Granny, since her face looks similar in age to the unmasked Lady. I think the narrative is saying she toppled her twin sister to be head after the mother passed and now feeds off the essence of children to preserve her youth.
The girl in the painting had concept art if you have the book full of unused concepts and in little nightmares 2 she has a 3D model in unused files like the kids in the virtual comic books
your theories were really good and made a lot of sense
Based on your theory we can connect it to the final boss fight in LN2.
Six is now the lady and mono is her child. He calls her and at first she follow him but later get angry bc of the guilty. Each time he hit the music box she feel the pain.
Then six get back to normal having no idea whats going on except being betrayed by mono. He fall down and feel depressed and grow up to be a tall thin man who use the tv to get into the ship to write an apology letter to his mom and end up his life.
Basically mono and six relive the story of the lady and her son.
Amazing video, great writing, great research and incredibly compelling. I was sad when this video ended. I love this game series and I can’t thank you enough for breathing new life into it for me and many others. Fastest like and subscribe of my life
1:27 how do we know that the place is called “The Nowhere”?
From the audio series "The Sounds of Nightmares".
@@Tericho I see
14:20 There's not enough room in that painting for there to be two children, there's only one daughter.
There quite clearly is. I even showed on screen how they would fit. Why is there a huge gap on our right?
Wow I had never thought about the game this way it makes so much sense. And it’s even more heartbreaking.
This is brilliant. Initially I had different theories and thought these weren’t as good, but now considering them properly they make way more sense. Yes we would like more unraveled theories (particularly for 2) before 3 and defo many after 3 is out!
Did you just post a little nightmares video I just coughed out my drink literally just coughed out my drink
Please continue to make little nightmare theories! I wish people would theorize more about this series, it's such an interesting franchise!
All I can say is bravo. My mind was literally blown after watching this and I'm wondering how it took this long to solve this. Also, for so long, it has annoyed me so much that gnome was always spelt as "nome" in this franchise. I was so happy to hear an explanation for that!
Thank you! They do this cheeky naming convention a lot. The main character in the audio series being called noone (pronounced noon) is another example.
YEEEEEEAH, A Little Nightmares theory!! I remember your series of theories being the first set of theories I saw about this game. It sparked my interest in writing again when I was in a slump, and now that I’m in another slump, it’s nice to see to another Little Nightmares theory from you.
If Little Nightmares I and II anime series adaptations are made, I prefer having the people listed below as voice actors/actresses and staff. What do you all think of this?
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• Six:
Rina Satō
• The Runaway Kid:
Atsushi Abe
• Mono:
Kengo Kawanishi
• The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat:
Konomi Kohara
• Shadow Six:
Nozomi Sasaki
• Nomes:
Yuka Iguchi
• The Flashlight Girl:
Satomi Arai
• Shadow Kids:
Maaya Uchida
• The Bread Giving Boy:
Daisuke Kishio
• The Janitor (Roger):
Nobuhiko Okamoto
• The Twin Chefs:
Kenji Nojima
• The Lady:
Hitomi Nabatame
• The Teacher:
Yuka Saitō
• The Hunter:
Hōchū Ōtsuka
• The Thin Man:
Toshiyuki Morikawa
• The Doctor:
Binbin Takaoka
• The Craftsman:
Satoshi Hino
• The Butler:
Nobunaga Shimazaki
• The Pretender:
Azumi Asakura
• The Kid in a Red Scarf:
Miyu Tomita
• The Bullies:
Chinatsu Akasaki
• The Patients:
Masaya Matsukaze
• The Viewers:
Junji Majima
• Monster Six:
Ai Kakuma
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• Original Work:
Tarsier Studios
• Director:
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Dennis Talajic
• Series Composition:
Shogo Yasukawa
• Animation Character Design:
Yūichi Tanaka
• Art Director:
Kentaro Izumi
Per Bergman
• Color Design:
Tomomi Andō
• Director of Photography:
Shingo Fukuyo
• Editing:
Shigeru Nishiyama (REAL-T)
• Sound Director:
Jin Aketagawa
Tobias Lilja
• Music:
Maiko Iuchi
Tobias Lilja
Christian Vasselbring
• Producer:
Henrik Larsson
Oscar Wemmert
Ernst Ten Bosch
Emma Mellander
Magnus Isaksson
Kazuma Miki (Straight Edge)
Kentarō Hattori
Kozue Kananiwa
Michihisa Abe
Noritomo Isogai
Seihiro Asada
Takehiro Nakakura
Yūichirō Shiji
• OP Song Performance:
fripSide
• ED Song Performance:
Kishida Kyōdan & THE Akeboshi Rockets
• Animation Production:
J.C.STAFF
Idk who those people are,
But I prefer actors like Kevin hart, Dwayne Johnson, scarlet Johnhasson, Keanu reeves rdj, tom Holland
I absolutely ADORE the setting of this game
For the longest time i believed that The Lady ugly face came from the mirror and is linked to the mirror monster we saw in the now non-canon comics (but returns in) Little Nightmares 3 so once again a canon monster in the universe
but your theory that she maintains her good look and that the mirror shows her true face is really good and I never thought of it before, you bring some very strong theories to the table with this video good job
can't really agree on the twin brother theory tho the second picture clearly shows the raincoat not a nightgown
I like where you went with the Lady's son and leaving her. Maybe the Lady didn't lock the daughter in there to keep her safe but so she wouldn't leave like the son did