Two things I noticed 1. Throughout the second game, Six is always faster than Mono. This is important because if Mono were faster or they ran at the same speed, the ending wouldn’t play out the same. 2. The chair grows with Mono. Some higher power is keeping Mono in the Tower. Maybe Mono isn’t the manipulator, but instead the puppet.
I thought it was obvious he was a puppet, we can see him covering his ears when he is surounded by the eyes because they were bothering him. And the eyes have always been everywere so i thought they were in control.
3:45 Six's theme from the first game is a lot more vocal heavy, like someone is humming the tune, and then from LN2, the theme is extremely music box heavy with less vocals, which would make a LOT of sense, cause Six actually has the music box playing the tune in LN2, whereas in the first game, she's literally having to hum the tune herself because the music box is no longer in her possession (we see it kinda destroyed in the end of LN2, so, uh, yea, that box ain't working anymore). I love that subtle storytelling. It's so good.
@SVQ1-V1M ?? Sorry, I don't think I quite understand?? I wasn't referring to any song names, I'm referring to the tune you hear in both games? It's the same song in different styles, and since Six has the music box that is playing said tune in LN2, the song has been often referred to as Six's theme since it only plays during important moments with Six in both games. I was just pointing out the difference between em and how, if LN2 is a prequel, the tune eludes to the loss of the music box but not the song itself in the first Little Nightmares
What always gets me is that breaking mono’s loop would be impossible. The thin man goes after six and warps her out of revenge, something he was only able to do because mono let him out. Six had tried to stop him but neither of them could reasonably guess what the consequences were and so she lets it go and then lets him go when she sees his face and recognizes it. That action leading mono to go after her in the first place
i feel 3rd party characters could somehow break it or who knows maybe it wold get broke somehow or maybe mono will always just be remembered as just getting betrayed
I also noticed that after the intense train chase sequence with the thin man and the train crashes, mono can be seen holding his hand on his torso in pain, the thin man does this exact same movement when he appears after mono climbs up the ladder and confronts him!
10:29 DUDE THIS DETAIL BLEW MY MIND. I was actually not expecting more foreshadowing of Mono being Thin Man. Thin Man standing behind Mono on the the front cover AND even his head perfectly being symmetrical with the top of the signal tower representing Monos bad was already good enough. But this little detail actually added the finishing touches, I never ever even noticed that. Once again just like last video I was not expecting to learn new stuff 3 whole years later. This is bringing me back to when I knew nothing and was just learning about Little Nightmares’s world. Bringing new questions and details like this to light is very fun. Thank you Tericho.
Honestly, I just hope that the Thin Man returns in some way shape or form. He's just way too COOL of a character to only have 5 minutes screen time in a single level in a single game.
Due to the nature of his time loop it's probably impossible or would have to really be forced.. But I do too, because I am actually rooting for him and would love to see Six get caught up to lol. Maybe they could face off as adults (though I wouldn't bet on him in a confrontation vs Six) Time/space manipulation is no joke, but she seems to have the powers of death. Anything she touches, anything around her. Everything. A void that can't be filled.
@@larrymunn5279 I feel as if it would make sense if Six was to just save him rather than betray him? I don't see a reason why that couldn't just break the loop
@@tachi5408 Like after countless repetitions she just finally doesn't drop him like something icky? lol Hey, you never know I guess. Laws of probability and all that if it goes on long enough even the extremely unlikely should happen eventually.
I think that the clothes dont just represent them being sucked into the tvs but moreso them being consumed by the city itself. The theory about the nowhere is really interesting. It makes sense that only children are allowed because usually its children that have Nightmares and they belive them. As for why the people want to eat the children, maybe its like an Aot thing where you have to eat the children to get back to the real world.
I dont think the eating thing makes much sense. It could be just because children are afraid of being eaten. I think being eaten in order to go back to the counties dosnt make sense from a story standpoint.
i'll be honest here, it looks more like the guests are mindless about eating six instead of purposeful. their pursuit felt very zombie-like to me. maybe the eye is compelling them to eat children as part of it's own desire to consume them. or children have an effect similar to a drug complete with the addictive qualities.
are we sure the people want to eat children? like, the Guests, yeah, but what about the people in the Pale City? the doctor? the teacher at the school? what about the hunter? and the people in the comics? the hunter hasn't been shown to actually eat whoever he hunts. in fact, it looks more like he's hunting people to keep them off of his land. he's left rotting bodies in cages and stuffed fresher ones - almost like a warning for others. i think the teacher was only trying to grab us, but since her only option most of the time to do so was using her mouth, she ended up having to make do. she probably thought of us as misbehaving children that were escaping - since it's obvious SOMEONE has escaped before and the consequences she dished out were brutal. like, she's TERRIFYING to the doll children. and she knows it. she *relishes* in being the worst thing to the doll children. the doctor wasn't trying to eat us, either. he was trying to make us an experiment. and the T.V. people were probably trying to catch us because the Thin Man wanted Mono, and they were entranced by his signal. they were obviously just following his wishes. i think they only start chasing after Mono once the Thin Man is released. don't quote me on that if it turns out to be wrong, i don't have the best memory. it's also been pointed out that the others in the comics don't exactly do anything other than freak out at the sight of Six. literally, they just stood there and silently panicked until the Ferryman came and took her away. it's really only the Guests who want to eat her, since the others in the Maw only try to capture her. (minus the Chefs. they tried to feed her TO the Guests, but they feed the Guests other guests, so..) maybe the other "natives" of the Nowhere are gunning for the children because whatever and whoever this Eye is wants them, and they're nothing but puppets to the Eye? like the T.V. people following the Thin Man's orders.
We know in the Sounds of Nightmare audios that adults are not allowed in the Nowhere unless they "dig themselves deeper". In my understanding, the Nowhere is probably for children as an escape from reality. But, adults want in too, like The Counselor (Otto), he wants to find Cece (his sister). So I think, adults in this world has a purpose of why they came here but then got corrupted.
If I had a nickel for every time a child got dropped of a cliff in the Little Nightmares franchise- I'd have two Nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
At least we found out why Six is always hungry. Her shadow or soul is missing so she eats others to fill the void. So she already had powers similar to the lady already but her's were more barbaric or unharnessed n she had to physically eat/absorb others but, after absorbing the lady, she no longer has to physically absorb others she just has to have the intent and she can absorb the weaker souls. She was definitely on her Cell n Majin Boo tip at first. It makes me think that she was probably hidden away because she had the potential to be like the lady all along. All we're seeing is that this alternative world is our own with no "hero's" or "villains".
@@theetaurus1832 Hmm, idk because we do see Mono become the Thin man himself but we dont see Six sit in the lady's chair take her hood off and start brushing her hair... Yet, possibly, she walks out of the ship to a light or the tower i think, idk if she is her "counterpart" the lady but someone completely different. Her objective maaybe completely different seeing as she did walk to the light outside of the ship towards the end of little nightmares. Let me bring up something else for thought, six has been in multiple realities and i don't think she has the ladies problem of aging so keep that in mind. If her goal with absorbing souls isn't youth like the ladies was, then what is it? What is Six's goal with obtaining all these souls and going "outside" because honestly it looks like she's going to meet up with the other two protagonist of little nightmares 2, soon.
@@theetaurus1832kinda, but not as directly, six takes her place and bekomes the next lady in a way, but not thesame lady while thethin man has always been mono in a loop
Theres a problem with the thin man with the thin man being trapped in the signal tower: there are glitched children everywhere, implying that he was kidnapping children from the start. I think that having mono open the door was only a way to find where mono was
Well no, this has happened many times before, hence, loop. That plus the time here being broken means that the Thin Man took all those children in the times when he was free. Again, might have only been free for a small time for us, but for him it might have been a lot longer.
@@Tericho idk man this time loop stuff is making my head spin 😭. The ln games are games where whats actually happening isnt clear, but the theme and meaning if whats happening always is. Therefore, we can all have our theories about mono and the thin man, but the truth stays that this is a story about generational trauma
Ayo whta if Mono has powers over TVs because the death of his parents or a hunter who killed them was lied about and twisted in the news and he wished he could have influence to make them stop or change the story of what happened? In a way, many horror aspects of nightmares stem down to a fear of not having control or agency. I wouldn't be suprised if this affected the series in Mono getting a superpower (having agency beyond realistic grasp) over something that somehow spins itself onto its head to become an extra source of agony in the nightmare. There is an element of torment in a nightmare to get the illusion of agency in it but that illusion or element somehow making your situation worse. For example, if I am having a nightmare and acknowledge that it is a nightmare and not real, any characters that are trying to hurt me only get more upset at me for it. What if that is what is happening with Mono's nightmare in a way where his nightmare punishes him harder for trying to have agency?
As someone who can lucid dream; this. ALL of this. If in a nightmare, I notice it's a nightmare, and I try to scream, nothing comes out. But whatever is trying to harm me, notices. No one else does. So yeah. This makes total sense.
If mono doesn’t want to be alone could that be why people are pulled through the tv in a desperate attempt to have someone there and not be alone perhaps thats why six had her own room in the tower when it seemed no one else was there mono was abandoned by six yet later in his life he was still so desperate to get her back and seemingly tried to make her comfortable by giving her the music box in a cruel twist of fate he still cares for his friend
idr exactly where i heard this from but it was probably superhorrorbro who said in one of his videos that the ferryman had a dialogue that said something along the lines that if Otto continues doing what he's doing then he might soon be able to enter the nightmare world as one of the adults. So I don't really think that all the adults in the series are fake or a figment of the kids' nightmares
Something that confuses me, and a theory: - If areas are based off of nightmares of kids, do all children in those areas have part in the creation? Cuz there’s a lot of kids in the pale city. Also, who dreamt up the maw? It’s all really weird - What if Six’s goal is to find that eye creature and kill it? Literally killing God. Maybe she knows what’s going on after her time in the signal tower, and she wants to end it.
I imagine the Maw would be the Lady's "nightmare", before she went through something similar to what Mono went through and the eyes turned her into an adult. Same way Mono had some control over the Pale City, the Lady had some control over the Maw, the place she gained power but lost her child form. Maybe LN3 will actually be Six's original nightmare that we never saw, or maybe not all children have powerful enough imaginations to influence this nightmare world for a whole area of their own. I also don't think all of the children are "real" as in brought in from another world--some may only be shadows while they are still in the real world only dreaming occasionally, and if they're lucky enough to have the dreams stop, only echoes of them remain in the nightmare.
Oh no, its really simple to see. See some creepy house that is haunted, or a dark woods that makes people uncomfy? Yup there you go~ you now have the world. And if you think its as simple to fix as say… just eat candy and think happy thoughts… sure, but think of tape. 1 string of tape around you is no issue… but 5, 10, 50, 55, 100… yeah nothing is gonna change.😊
Here’s a theory I had: When asked if Mono was the Thin Man seen in game, or simply a predecessor to a previous Thin Man, the devs said both options were correct. This confirms that there was a Thin Man existing before Mono grew up to be the one we see in game. We see them in the comics, about to crawl out of a screen and kidnap a child. This can’t be Mono, as he remained locked up, until his past self opened the door and freed him (I’ll touch on this later). So what happened to this past Thin Man? Well, I believe they tried attacking Mono, only to get killed in the process. Look at the last issue of the comics, and view it from the lense of the monster being a Thin Man. Mono is surrounded in a burning building by unmoving, glitched remains. Not only are the “children” pitch black, but they are stuck and forced into awkward positions, like the ones we see in the game. Mono runs from the Thin Man and hides away within a broken television, as the last panel reveals the monster’s silhouette. They don’t show his face because we’d recognize it, and there would be no mystery. We know this for a fact because if you break the page and peer up, you can see the Thin Man’s body model - they traced it verbatim due to budget constraints. From there, I believe Mono gets lucky and somehow kills it, absorbing its powers. This aligns with how Six absorbs the Lady’s powers after killing them, and explains why Mono gets a sudden power upgrade after killing his future self in game. As for why I think the comics TM isn’t Mono’s future self time traveling, the timeline simply doesn’t add up. There are multiple types of time loops. Mono’s is a “stable time loop,” or in other words, one that cannot be broken. This loop doesn’t technically repeat, not even twice. It only happens once and is forever set in stone afterwards. The Little Nightmares twitter has confirmed as such. A future Mono would have no reason nor no motive to go as far back as seen in the comics. The one in the comics has to be different.
Otto isn't a completely evil character. His obsession with rescuing his sister is a noble one, but he lost sight of the fact that he's doing harm to other children to pursue that goal, and is thus failing his duty as a doctor to help his patients...it's too bad he hasn't realized that he's turning into a villain in time to stop.
I have 2 hypotheses: 1) Mono is still alive and will return at some point in the future...for Six 2) Six is looking for powers to take on The Eye. That's why Shadow Six points her to The Maw. The Twist is that Shadow Six is being controlled by Mono, looking for a way to escape the Loop.
I like to think of Six's journey a little different: She starts off weak and powerless on her journey but when she leaves Mono, and so the Thin Man behind, you see shadow six for the first time, a kind of phantom of power she gains after she realized she can escape the threat which is also being strengthened by her returning from her Monster form: She realizes she has power for the first time and basically got cleansed of her innocence by the Signal. She has changed from that point on and when she's in the Maw, she's a completely different child now with a mission: that mission is power. Think about it: she gained the ability to absorb knowledge and abilities by eating and now has a dark phantom that kind of drives her on and throughout the game she escapes and kills different threats, ending her streak with the lady. She then escapes the Maw with new powers she gained and goes out into the rest of the Nightmare world but now with the ability to neutralize these threats. She is now on an eternal quest for power after having avoided the Thin Man and killed the lady. That's why I think we aren't getting a continuation of Six's story It would be a completely different game where you go around shamelessly taking the lives of the most powerful threats in the nowhere. You'd be playing as Six but with control over the nightmare. She is now getting revenge on everything, driven by her dark phantom and built up anger from the real world. She's getting revenge on everything wrong with her normal life by taking control of her nightmare. Leaving this little theory here so this can possibly be expanded upon.
I think that may be close. We see six is vindictive in ln2, taking on the bully directly, breaking the prosthetics while waiting for mono, warming her hands by the heat of the burning doctor. People that 'wrong' her end up in very bad situations. Add to that hunger. Even if she wanted to stop, she can't. The hunger drives her, always needing more to be satisfied. Not just food but the soul that makes it up. Given her constant need for more to satisfy the hunger, she's going to come to a point where nothing can satisfy her. That's why I think she'd be less moved by more power and more by the nawwing hunger and thirst to hurt those that threatened her.
Just wanted to point out 2 things. The first is that Noone is actually No-one. No one keeps going no where. The second is a detail that I hadn't really noticed and then started digging through old videos to confirm and found it kinda baffling which is this. In both Little Nightmares 1 & 2 there are no eyes other than The Eye. Every creature has hollow sockets or folds hiding their eyes or closed eyelids. Every main character has a mask or a hood or something that hides their face and there eyes so we never actually see them. Every enemy, even the Geisha at the end of the first game doesn't have any eyes to see just black voids in her mask where they should be. The only times we ever see anything eye shaped in the entire franchise is when it is referencing the Eye and when the amalgamation of the viewers is chasing mono. Otherwise no-eyes.
What about "Low" then? You're probably on to something, but I'd also wanna know how they came up with "Six" too for more context and to get a bead on it all.
@@larrymunn5279 I personally think that her name could be a reference to the sixth deadly sin, which is gluttony, although I couldn't say that for sure. Something I just thought of while typing this is: Her name could also be relevant to the painting in the first game which shows five Ladies, four of them blacked out. If Six goes on to become the Lady, she could be the sixth version of herself to go through the loop and become the Lady. Complete speculation, although both of these theories make some amount of sense.
It's a bit like Coraline. The other mother lured the unfortunate children into her world, creating a semblance of reality based on the lives of children, but could never make it real enough.
With the help of ladys dark magic or they have puted sleeping poison in their food and while they were sleeping they being chopped of and it's a never ending loop for the guests
3:47 Six's theme sounds like a few young girls (like, 8-12) are humming it to soothe themselves after witnessing something scary while the main theme feels like the ambiance (the first meaning) of the Maw come to sound. almost like it's an alive thing luring you into a false sense of security while you're in the belly of the beast..
I find it kinda weird, that Little Nightmares 3 apparently has nothin to do with Six. The "Sounds of Nightmares" do not either and can be preparing. But the comics, for a part, had nothing to do with Six, too, but Little Nightmares 2 was still about her. So, we can't be completely sure, there is no hint of Six in Little Nightmares 3. Perhaps we see here, how Six was captured to go into the Nest. There was a overall theme in Little Nightmares 1 (Hunger) and Little Nightmares 2 (Escapism). But what overall theme will there be in Little Nightmares 3? Perhaps Death? The Necropolis hints to that. But the carnival doesn't. So, I don't know. Speaking of the carnival from the teaser. There is a weird shot of th people there, which is kinda upside down. How does that come to be?
Maybe the theme for little nightmares 3 could be childhood? The necropolis has monster baby, who looks like a giant old doll and is seemingly turning everyone into stone, kinda like toy figurines. The place is also a desert and monster baby is destroying everything like children sometimes do to sandcastles. The other two locations we know of are the carnival, a place where children would go to have fun, and a factory of sweets, a thing children are known for liking.
@@alexroman5385 I was thinking selfishness. under this theory the necropolis represents using or taking the lives of others to fulfil your own interests, the carnival is capitalist greed (a lot of carnivals had/have rigged games and abuse animals and workers for gain), the factory represents greed and possibly waste with the dump area as the related trait of throwing out your excess so others do not gain from your work. it fits with the theme of co-op, since you would essentially playing the antithesis of selfishness trying to survive a world that is actively opposed to you.
the sounds of nightmares uses six's theme at a few points when talking about otto's sister. and his sister apparently had a yellow raincoat. either six is meant to be otto's sister, or the story is about the raincoat instead of six.
@@raptorsuedemondrake4143 That Otto's sister apparently had a yellow raincoat means more that the protagonist of "Very Little Nightmares" is Otto's sister, because she had the yellow raincoat before Six.
One thing I mever hear mentioned in these kind of videos is that there is a clear system in The Nowhere. One photo in the Lady's quarters is a giant warlus hunted in an artic ambience, and in the first series of comics, the one with the Northwind, we see a village of fully grown adults but not monstrous. One of the kids even said that he and his sister were from there and had a culture of amulets for the childrens. Maybe they were kids that "escape" the Tower influence and they just grow up, having fear of the Nowhere.
“Six is fading from this world and her only hope is to guide Mono to the signal tower” I always took this game description as Six was always using Mono as a sacrifice to save herself. She just needed the right moment. I think Six needs to absorb ppls powers and/or life force as substance. 1st Mono and then Lady on the Maw. Maybe she only realizes when her shadow self appears after her kidnapping. So she absorbs his powers and let him fall. or she’s know all along she needs the power of the signal tower and others to not fade away.
Another possible theory after hearing about Noone is that the audio is a prequel to everything. Because of the doctor or some other inciting incident, the nowhere seeps out into the real world, twisting and deforming it.
One thing I would like to point out is the bits of irony in LN3 protagonists names. Low has a mask that resembles a plague doctor's, but also a birds head. Birds, known for flight. Additionally, he has a bow, a long ranged weapon we see him use to interact with objects higher than he can reach. Meanwhile alone is shown reaching up to help low in multiple trailers, so she isn't seeking out solitude, and most definitely isn't alone, since she travels with him.
@kikor4954 That is what I am hoping for. Imagine six redeeming itself by breaking the loop through pulling mono up instead of making him fall down in the LN2 ending.
@@Libyan_anti_genocidele i hope something likes this happens but maybe alone will use his powers to get to the maw and think about it mirrors was a good part of LN1 and alones power is going thru mirrors maybe they will go back to the pale city and mono will be saved
I think Six wanted revenge on the thin man and left Mono behind, because she realized that he IS the thin man, not realizing that her leaving him there, is what made him the thin man. 21:50
So she realised that her greatest ally was all along her greatest enemy and when she betrayed mono she thought he would die but the opposite happened to the next loop
i hate this theory its so over used I don't think its true my theory is when we meet six again in the room is she mad at us no is she sad nope shes happy when we call for her she scootches over to us and brings her music box to us one of the things six loved most she trusted us enough to share it with us but then we break her trust by breaking her music box then she gets angry even attempts to kill us then after we save her from the monster six form she looks at us with anger but before they can who knows maybe talk about it or give it time for six to let it go we got to run from the flesh lets not forget six is only 9 so getting upset at something like this is normal so when we jump she grabs her hand like shes going to pull us up but then she remembers how we betrayed her trust so she wanted to betray us and I know mono did it for her own good but she is still 9 or a theory I find some what believe able is that she just was using mono till the moment was right she even absorb his powers but I don't know about this one since after mono saves six from the school it looks likes she actually sees him as a friend and trusted him
@@jeremystarling9885 Don’t forget that she sees Mono’s face, for the first time, just before the ledge moment. She has her “thin man was Mono the whole time” moment just before, so suddenly, the person that chased and tormented her, is in her control.
i have a weird theory, so hear me out- if LN2 is prequel of LN1, then whyy do we see thin man in tv at the end of LN? and if u would notice, the backdrop is quite different, like a white fuzzy sort of. so, what if mono/thin man found a way to end the loop or perhaps someone other than mono opened the door?! i think it's either low and alone or its otto from SOLN! well, if we consider events of SOLN taking place parallel to LN2, it's quite possible. so, what if otto was transported to nowhere and he found a way to free mono. or its someone we don't know yet. what u all think?
I enjoy the title "Little Nightmares" but I also could see why the series could be called "Hunger" in this game as well.. The main theme so far has been overindulgence in some way, and technically, if Six is on some kind of mission, it shows how she has overindulged this world to reach her goal.. Love it. Thanks for the vid!
I think Six didn't betray Mono. I think the time paradox cannot be broken, and Mono happened to almost break it. Six realized this - so she deliberately grabs Mono's hand even if Mono could have made the jump, and dropped him. Kinda like in Avenger's endgame, how timeline cannot be altered by modifying the past, Mono is always trapped in that eternal time paradox. Mono escaping that signal tower would mean destruction of space-time or something. So I think in all iterations of the time loop, Mono is bound to be caught by the fleshy tower. But this time, he happens to almost escape. Six prevents that to keep balance in space-time, and (hopefully) will come back stronger to save mono from his ill fate. Six must've seen this in her "monster" form. PS: maybe time didn't pass and Mono didn't age. Organic matter and people tend to "stretch out". Mono got stretched out the same way as Six did, just not so grotesquely.
I still think Six is a hero. She's trying to bring the Nowhere down after what was done to her. She understands aspects of it that no one else caught up in it does. However much it has marked or corrupted her, she wants to end all of it. After her experience discovering what was to become of her friend and letting him go, she sets her sights not on the regular citizens of the Pale City, but on the fat and opulence of the Maw. She's a dark hero.
Why nobody talking about the fact that none of the children ever feel hunger; because it's a dream, besides six as soon as she killed or thought she killed Mono. Maybe there's a contract with the eye monster where feeding children to it gets u closer to reality, and escaping the dream? It's my first theory ever so it's probably a stupid idea.
I could have listened to this forever because your theory is so intriguing and aligned. It was nice to see so many details that I missed while caught up in playing the games. The concept art is the best touch of all! Thank you, I've been waiting for a video like this.
I think other theorists said Six is not necessarily the main character, but her raincoat was meant to symbolize the start of something, but is now also the end of it, whatever it is.
19:45 maybe the reason why the eye wants to keep these children in, is to keep the eye alive? Like without those kids then the world wouldn’t exist, right? Idk
If something WARFRAME has taught us with The Drifter is that sometimes in order to escape a Time Loop, you just gonna have to wait for a Outside Force to come and rescue you finally breaking said loop. Hopefully something out two new protagonists are gonna do in Little Nightmares: 3. 😉
I love Little Nightmares, a little theory I have, but I can't seem to recall the actual term for it. The All-seeing eye that appears to be watching all our main characters, it's a cosmic being, a eldritch monstrosity we can't comprehend. In order for it to grow or do whatever, it _Needs to be witnessed, heard and believed in to became a reality._ I forgot the name of the theory for it... But the All-seeing Eye needs impressionable and innocent minds like Six: Runaway kid, Mono and Noone's to feed off of and gain more power over the real waking world. That's it. I wonder if it's possible for Mono to break his Time Paradox in Little Nightmares 3 dlc?
@Tericho A Tulpa? Close, but not quite. I was refering the All-seeing 👁 as an entity that needs Believers, like a god. Or demon. A Tulpa could only effect one person, couldn't it?
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 a god and _God_ are completely different things. For a god (primarily lower case, there is a difference) they need belivers, otherwise _what's the point of having cool party tricks if no one's there to enjoy them with?_
Mono is also one of two ways how audio signal can be mixed. Mono is one channel only and it gives the impression that the sound is coming from one direction only. While stereo has two channels, one left and one right, giving the impression of coming from two different directions.
So far, this is my favorite theory that tries to explain the eye motif- it’s such a strong visual and a huge part of the series, but I never see anyone talk about it! The eye being “the minds eye” is such an interesting concept
Man Tericho, I could listen to you talk about little nightmares etc for hours I swear, it's your analytical thinking and drawing conclusions based on the actual available evidence that draws me in. I'm not sure if it's been asked or if you've already answered this question but I'd love to see you do a lets play or stream of little nightmares 3 and reanimal when they release, atp you're my go to theory/horror game channel and it would be fun to experience these games with your line of reasoning.
I will 100% be doing playthroughs for both, I just have to decide whether on here or the second channel. Most likely the second channel tbh, I think keeping this one for theories makes the most sense.
Yay!!! Finally getting things about the pod cast! It makes so much sense! I hope you go into discussion about the places she seen and which ones we already saw and places we haven't scene yet that gonna be in the next game!
a thought occured about this what if mono's loop restarts every time he wakes up from nowhere. that would explain why he is able to beat his "older self" because the thin man is just him the last time he entered nowhere. it would also explain why he is stronger than the thin man the thin man is just a reflection of his last trip to nowhere of course it would be weaker than mono who is an actual person instead of memory of the last time mono came to nowhere.
Did you know that the music box is not only in LN2 and that it can be found in LN1? Just a fun fact i found as i was watching my daughter play rhe first game.
I know some of the hype for Little Nightmares 3 was kinda dying, or people were feeling iffy, after they heard that Tarsier aren’t the ones working on it, or the different vibe the game may give, but everything we’ve learned from The Sounds of Nightmares brings back the hype for me. There’s always been hints of it being an alternate reality with an all-powerful entity watching over everything, and The Sounds of Nightmares and Little Nightmares 3 are basically just confirming what the previous games have been hinting at. So even with the studio swap, it seems like the series of Little Nightmares will stay true to itself with the release of the third game. I’ve always been intrigued by the story of Little Nightmares since I played the first game, and I’m very intrigued with how the story is expanding with the audio fiction and 3rd game.
I’ve been waiting for you to make a new theory. I’ve been re obsessed with little nightmares since the release of the sound of nightmares and the trailers for ln3 and reanimal. I don’t think I’ve ever been this early to RUclips video 😅😭
When I played Little Nightmares 1 and I was in the Twin Chefs' bedroom, where one of them was sleeping, I saw the exact same music box that Six had in the beginning and at the end of Little Nightmares 2.
The king has arrived! I just have to say you make the absolutely BEST Little Nightmares videos! Like Tericho man keep this up, I missed these videos so much the last 2 years and I am so happy you do LN theories again. You ARE the king ❤️❤
I hope that Tericho also makes a new video discussing only the Little Nightmare Podcast. With the updated theories and the upcoming game, who knows what important informations we missed?🤔
i think six wants the ladys power to gain some control over the terrifying world around her. or maybe shes somehow been made aware of the little nightmare shes trapped in and is trying to become so powerful that she can escape it
I personally think Six's betrayal of Mono was a paradoxical self-fulfilling abandonment prophecy all on its own. I think she dropped him because she saw how he cowered and didn't help when The Thin Man took her, and she realized she couldn't trust him when she needed him most. She slowly turned into a monster over what could have been a very long time and had resentment towards him for abandoning her (and maybe even learned who The Thin Man really is), and although he came back for her it was too little too late as far as she was concerned, so she abandoned him to save herself in the end, which left Mono trapped to grow into The Thin Man, and his abandonment there is the reason why he went after Six in the first place, leading Mono to fail to save her to begin with, and it just goes round and round.
Isn't the thin man aka future mono the one responsible for the corruption of the pale city? If that's true then six didn't drop mono in the first timeline because she knew that he is the thin man, but because that she didn't even have innocence in the first place. If the thin man the one responsible for the corruption of the city then this means that the city wasn't corrupted in the first, people weren't so addicted to watch the TV (Travelling between TVs is Mono's power so maybe the thin man is related to their addiction to watching TV) and the thin man didn't even exist so my theory is that in the first timeline, they were going to escape with no difficulty but six wanted to achieve a goal as you said and that's why she somehow betrayed mono in the first timeline to get all her goal to herself (power). "How would she go to this world if she didn't have innocence in the first place?" I think that she made a deal with the darkness figure, the darkness figure already seems to enjoy chaos, so maybe the deal between them is six going in this world and getting powers and for exchange she will cause chaos in the real world, possibly making it similar to the nightmares. "Why was it six specifically" maybe the darkness figure was amazed by her because she didn't have neither innocence nor nightmares and that's why in little nightmares 2 + your theory, we only seen mono's nightmare not six's. And that explains why Six dropped Mono and that's because she was a monster in the first place and even when mono dies while we are playing, she runs without him as she wanted to achieve something from the beginning. And since Six always come back in the time loop with mono, doesn't that mean that she will die in the future or something related to the time loop will happen to her causing her to get back with mono in the time loop? Which means she will fail her goal in the future but WHAT could possibly stop her from achieving her goal after getting her powers? I think it's the darkness figure, i think he will betray her causing her to get back in the time loop with mono because as he said in the sound of nightmares that he only feeds on children's innocence, not adult's and real world has adults and that's what six failed to understand so her deal with the darkness figure already lead to her chaos. Basically she was going to get betrayed by the darkness figure whatsoever.
Did you notice that 6's theme song is 3 blind mice. Further proof she is the lady. and fits the whole game honestly Three blind mice, three blind mice See how they run, see how they run They all ran after the farmer's wife She cut off their tails with a carving knife Did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice? Three blind mice, three blind mice See how they run, see how they run They all ran after the farmer's wife (three blind mice) She cut off their tails with a carving knife (three blind mice) Did you ever see such a sight in your life (three blind mice) as three blind mice? (three blind mice) Three blind mice, three blind mice See how they run, see how they run They all ran after the farmer's wife She cut off their tails with a carving knife Did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice?
All I want to know is why children are captured and have all sorts of werid things happening, like they’re the only normal ones except for the “adults” like who created these children just for hunters, chefs, and all sorts of things after them
All of a sudden, the Janitor, with his long grabbing arms... Ugh... I love this theory and it makes so much sense, but the more I think of the first game...
Mono's nightmare is being alone but Six's nightmare is hunger. It creeps me thinking about a child being starved. If the infinite loop theory is true and six is actually the lady and that's a geisha. And what it's presents is just horrific
Don't forget that Six is freed by Mono at the start of the game. If Mono isn't sent back to that point by the Thin Man, then Six cannot escape her imprisonment. Mono must become the Thin Man to save Six from the Hunter. This is why the Thin Man imprisons Six with a music box. This is how he first found her, and he will return her to that state as though he never saved her in the first place. Why doesn't the Thin Man simply kill Six? Because as much as he hates her, he loves her. The happiest he'd ever been in his whole life was running through the forest and the pale city with her. It was a grand adventure where they supported and saved one another. Mono loves Six. This is why he's stronger than the Thin Man. The Thin Man is divided against himself. He hates her and he loves her. Mono only loves. As for breaking the loop, by the end of LN1, Six has gained a power that will allow to her gain *even more* power. What is her potential? What can she achieve? A paradox is nothing before a god.
I think Noone from Sounds of Nightmares can be Alone in LN3..Bcoz the places mentioned in Sounds of Nightmares are present in LN3..The Stone Giant,The Carnival,The Factory...Second season to the Sounds of Nightmares might reveal more things..Hope we would get it during Halloween..It would be Great
There's one thing I'm still wondering about LNM 2 - WHY is the Teacher the only one that doesn't end up dead in any way. "We" shoot the Hunter & roast the Doctor... but the Teacher stays. And - for some reason I remember that as being something said by the composer of the music - the theme she plays on the piano "reveals more about her"/ who she is/was. It still bugs my brain to this day. But her theme is my most favorite piece of music from the series along with "March of the Guests" & a few of the tv-tunes we hear in 2.
Never knew about the lore from the audiobooks (because who listens to audiobooks, let’s be real), but now that I do, I’m now way more interested in seeing how this series will play out when LN3 releases next year.
I don’t know if someone has mentioned this already or if you don’t know but Otto offering chocolate is extremely particular because I believe it’s proven that chocolate causes nightmares. The caffeine and sugar make sleeping difficult and the source of disturbing dreams.
Two things I noticed
1. Throughout the second game, Six is always faster than Mono. This is important because if Mono were faster or they ran at the same speed, the ending wouldn’t play out the same.
2. The chair grows with Mono. Some higher power is keeping Mono in the Tower. Maybe Mono isn’t the manipulator, but instead the puppet.
I thought it was obvious he was a puppet, we can see him covering his ears when he is surounded by the eyes because they were bothering him. And the eyes have always been everywere so i thought they were in control.
@@janesabdelmalak7978 that makes a lot of sense. I guess I just refused to see the signs because he’s one of my favorite characters 🥲
3:45 Six's theme from the first game is a lot more vocal heavy, like someone is humming the tune, and then from LN2, the theme is extremely music box heavy with less vocals, which would make a LOT of sense, cause Six actually has the music box playing the tune in LN2, whereas in the first game, she's literally having to hum the tune herself because the music box is no longer in her possession (we see it kinda destroyed in the end of LN2, so, uh, yea, that box ain't working anymore). I love that subtle storytelling. It's so good.
Why is the music named "lost in transitions" when the theme is about six hut this clearly is refering to mono
@SVQ1-V1M ?? Sorry, I don't think I quite understand?? I wasn't referring to any song names, I'm referring to the tune you hear in both games? It's the same song in different styles, and since Six has the music box that is playing said tune in LN2, the song has been often referred to as Six's theme since it only plays during important moments with Six in both games. I was just pointing out the difference between em and how, if LN2 is a prequel, the tune eludes to the loss of the music box but not the song itself in the first Little Nightmares
When I was playing LN1 I saw exactly the same music box in the bedroom where one of the Twin Chefs was sleeping.
@@niekgoorman9624 you can actually play that music box if I'm not wrong
What always gets me is that breaking mono’s loop would be impossible. The thin man goes after six and warps her out of revenge, something he was only able to do because mono let him out. Six had tried to stop him but neither of them could reasonably guess what the consequences were and so she lets it go and then lets him go when she sees his face and recognizes it. That action leading mono to go after her in the first place
i feel 3rd party characters could somehow break it or who knows maybe it wold get broke somehow or maybe mono will always just be remembered as just getting betrayed
I’m pretty sure if the thin man did nothing then mono would be alive coz the box would still be fine
Did the thin man ever do anything to Six?
@@donthefreeman yeah, it’s like the entire final boss battle
@@MonstrumRebornremember the guy who hung himself in the first game?
I also noticed that after the intense train chase sequence with the thin man and the train crashes, mono can be seen holding his hand on his torso in pain, the thin man does this exact same movement when he appears after mono climbs up the ladder and confronts him!
10:29 DUDE THIS DETAIL BLEW MY MIND. I was actually not expecting more foreshadowing of Mono being Thin Man. Thin Man standing behind Mono on the the front cover AND even his head perfectly being symmetrical with the top of the signal tower representing Monos bad was already good enough. But this little detail actually added the finishing touches, I never ever even noticed that. Once again just like last video I was not expecting to learn new stuff 3 whole years later. This is bringing me back to when I knew nothing and was just learning about Little Nightmares’s world. Bringing new questions and details like this to light is very fun. Thank you Tericho.
Honestly, I just hope that the Thin Man returns in some way shape or form. He's just way too COOL of a character to only have 5 minutes screen time in a single level in a single game.
Due to the nature of his time loop it's probably impossible or would have to really be forced.. But I do too, because I am actually rooting for him and would love to see Six get caught up to lol. Maybe they could face off as adults (though I wouldn't bet on him in a confrontation vs Six) Time/space manipulation is no joke, but she seems to have the powers of death. Anything she touches, anything around her. Everything. A void that can't be filled.
@@larrymunn5279 I feel as if it would make sense if Six was to just save him rather than betray him? I don't see a reason why that couldn't just break the loop
@@tachi5408 Like after countless repetitions she just finally doesn't drop him like something icky? lol
Hey, you never know I guess. Laws of probability and all that if it goes on long enough even the extremely unlikely should happen eventually.
@@tachi5408 Six created the time loop.
@@donthefreeman but that doesn't mean she cant make amends
Little nightmares is like a studio Ghibli movie if you turn off the lights and add a few monsters in every corner
So princess mononoke
Considering Actual studio Ghibli, this is accurate.
I think that the clothes dont just represent them being sucked into the tvs but moreso them being consumed by the city itself. The theory about the nowhere is really interesting. It makes sense that only children are allowed because usually its children that have Nightmares and they belive them. As for why the people want to eat the children, maybe its like an Aot thing where you have to eat the children to get back to the real world.
I dont think the eating thing makes much sense. It could be just because children are afraid of being eaten. I think being eaten in order to go back to the counties dosnt make sense from a story standpoint.
i'll be honest here, it looks more like the guests are mindless about eating six instead of purposeful. their pursuit felt very zombie-like to me.
maybe the eye is compelling them to eat children as part of it's own desire to consume them. or children have an effect similar to a drug complete with the addictive qualities.
are we sure the people want to eat children? like, the Guests, yeah, but what about the people in the Pale City? the doctor? the teacher at the school? what about the hunter? and the people in the comics?
the hunter hasn't been shown to actually eat whoever he hunts. in fact, it looks more like he's hunting people to keep them off of his land. he's left rotting bodies in cages and stuffed fresher ones - almost like a warning for others.
i think the teacher was only trying to grab us, but since her only option most of the time to do so was using her mouth, she ended up having to make do. she probably thought of us as misbehaving children that were escaping - since it's obvious SOMEONE has escaped before and the consequences she dished out were brutal. like, she's TERRIFYING to the doll children. and she knows it. she *relishes* in being the worst thing to the doll children.
the doctor wasn't trying to eat us, either. he was trying to make us an experiment.
and the T.V. people were probably trying to catch us because the Thin Man wanted Mono, and they were entranced by his signal. they were obviously just following his wishes. i think they only start chasing after Mono once the Thin Man is released. don't quote me on that if it turns out to be wrong, i don't have the best memory.
it's also been pointed out that the others in the comics don't exactly do anything other than freak out at the sight of Six. literally, they just stood there and silently panicked until the Ferryman came and took her away. it's really only the Guests who want to eat her, since the others in the Maw only try to capture her. (minus the Chefs. they tried to feed her TO the Guests, but they feed the Guests other guests, so..)
maybe the other "natives" of the Nowhere are gunning for the children because whatever and whoever this Eye is wants them, and they're nothing but puppets to the Eye? like the T.V. people following the Thin Man's orders.
We know in the Sounds of Nightmare audios that adults are not allowed in the Nowhere unless they "dig themselves deeper". In my understanding, the Nowhere is probably for children as an escape from reality. But, adults want in too, like The Counselor (Otto), he wants to find Cece (his sister). So I think, adults in this world has a purpose of why they came here but then got corrupted.
If I had a nickel for every time a child got dropped of a cliff in the Little Nightmares franchise- I'd have two Nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
Phineas and Ferb reference!
I understood that reference
Let me fix it … but it’s incredibly sad it happened twice😢
I love how Mono's character twist was right there in his name: Mono. As in, mono television.
At least we found out why Six is always hungry. Her shadow or soul is missing so she eats others to fill the void. So she already had powers similar to the lady already but her's were more barbaric or unharnessed n she had to physically eat/absorb others but, after absorbing the lady, she no longer has to physically absorb others she just has to have the intent and she can absorb the weaker souls. She was definitely on her Cell n Majin Boo tip at first. It makes me think that she was probably hidden away because she had the potential to be like the lady all along. All we're seeing is that this alternative world is our own with no "hero's" or "villains".
i feel like the lady is six’s counterpart similar to mono and the thin man. I mean it’s kinda obvious but.
@@theetaurus1832 Hmm, idk because we do see Mono become the Thin man himself but we dont see Six sit in the lady's chair take her hood off and start brushing her hair... Yet, possibly, she walks out of the ship to a light or the tower i think, idk if she is her "counterpart" the lady but someone completely different. Her objective maaybe completely different seeing as she did walk to the light outside of the ship towards the end of little nightmares. Let me bring up something else for thought, six has been in multiple realities and i don't think she has the ladies problem of aging so keep that in mind. If her goal with absorbing souls isn't youth like the ladies was, then what is it? What is Six's goal with obtaining all these souls and going "outside" because honestly it looks like she's going to meet up with the other two protagonist of little nightmares 2, soon.
@@theetaurus1832kinda, but not as directly, six takes her place and bekomes the next lady in a way, but not thesame lady while thethin man has always been mono in a loop
Or the Hunter was trying to use her for her power.
The feedback between thin man and mono was a very clever detail. I was aware of the noise but didn’t register it as being feedback
Theres a problem with the thin man with the thin man being trapped in the signal tower: there are glitched children everywhere, implying that he was kidnapping children from the start. I think that having mono open the door was only a way to find where mono was
Well no, this has happened many times before, hence, loop. That plus the time here being broken means that the Thin Man took all those children in the times when he was free. Again, might have only been free for a small time for us, but for him it might have been a lot longer.
@@Tericho idk man this time loop stuff is making my head spin 😭. The ln games are games where whats actually happening isnt clear, but the theme and meaning if whats happening always is. Therefore, we can all have our theories about mono and the thin man, but the truth stays that this is a story about generational trauma
Ayo whta if Mono has powers over TVs because the death of his parents or a hunter who killed them was lied about and twisted in the news and he wished he could have influence to make them stop or change the story of what happened? In a way, many horror aspects of nightmares stem down to a fear of not having control or agency. I wouldn't be suprised if this affected the series in Mono getting a superpower (having agency beyond realistic grasp) over something that somehow spins itself onto its head to become an extra source of agony in the nightmare. There is an element of torment in a nightmare to get the illusion of agency in it but that illusion or element somehow making your situation worse. For example, if I am having a nightmare and acknowledge that it is a nightmare and not real, any characters that are trying to hurt me only get more upset at me for it. What if that is what is happening with Mono's nightmare in a way where his nightmare punishes him harder for trying to have agency?
Stand proud, you cooked
Yea this probably isnt it, its unrealistic and stretched
As someone who can lucid dream; this. ALL of this. If in a nightmare, I notice it's a nightmare, and I try to scream, nothing comes out. But whatever is trying to harm me, notices. No one else does. So yeah. This makes total sense.
If mono doesn’t want to be alone could that be why people are pulled through the tv in a desperate attempt to have someone there and not be alone perhaps thats why six had her own room in the tower when it seemed no one else was there mono was abandoned by six yet later in his life he was still so desperate to get her back and seemingly tried to make her comfortable by giving her the music box in a cruel twist of fate he still cares for his friend
thats what i always kinda thought he could've just killed her and saved his younger self but he gives her one of the things she loves most
idr exactly where i heard this from but it was probably superhorrorbro who said in one of his videos that the ferryman had a dialogue that said something along the lines that if Otto continues doing what he's doing then he might soon be able to enter the nightmare world as one of the adults. So I don't really think that all the adults in the series are fake or a figment of the kids' nightmares
Yeah the impression I got was the kids aren't born evil, so they may enter, and there, find their place. But the adults need to belong there.
Thats correct, its in the audio series.
Something that confuses me, and a theory:
- If areas are based off of nightmares of kids, do all children in those areas have part in the creation? Cuz there’s a lot of kids in the pale city. Also, who dreamt up the maw? It’s all really weird
- What if Six’s goal is to find that eye creature and kill it? Literally killing God. Maybe she knows what’s going on after her time in the signal tower, and she wants to end it.
I imagine the Maw would be the Lady's "nightmare", before she went through something similar to what Mono went through and the eyes turned her into an adult. Same way Mono had some control over the Pale City, the Lady had some control over the Maw, the place she gained power but lost her child form. Maybe LN3 will actually be Six's original nightmare that we never saw, or maybe not all children have powerful enough imaginations to influence this nightmare world for a whole area of their own. I also don't think all of the children are "real" as in brought in from another world--some may only be shadows while they are still in the real world only dreaming occasionally, and if they're lucky enough to have the dreams stop, only echoes of them remain in the nightmare.
Oh no, its really simple to see.
See some creepy house that is haunted, or a dark woods that makes people uncomfy?
Yup there you go~ you now have the world.
And if you think its as simple to fix as say… just eat candy and think happy thoughts… sure, but think of tape. 1 string of tape around you is no issue… but 5, 10, 50, 55, 100… yeah nothing is gonna change.😊
Here’s a theory I had:
When asked if Mono was the Thin Man seen in game, or simply a predecessor to a previous Thin Man, the devs said both options were correct. This confirms that there was a Thin Man existing before Mono grew up to be the one we see in game. We see them in the comics, about to crawl out of a screen and kidnap a child. This can’t be Mono, as he remained locked up, until his past self opened the door and freed him (I’ll touch on this later).
So what happened to this past Thin Man? Well, I believe they tried attacking Mono, only to get killed in the process. Look at the last issue of the comics, and view it from the lense of the monster being a Thin Man. Mono is surrounded in a burning building by unmoving, glitched remains. Not only are the “children” pitch black, but they are stuck and forced into awkward positions, like the ones we see in the game.
Mono runs from the Thin Man and hides away within a broken television, as the last panel reveals the monster’s silhouette. They don’t show his face because we’d recognize it, and there would be no mystery. We know this for a fact because if you break the page and peer up, you can see the Thin Man’s body model - they traced it verbatim due to budget constraints. From there, I believe Mono gets lucky and somehow kills it, absorbing its powers. This aligns with how Six absorbs the Lady’s powers after killing them, and explains why Mono gets a sudden power upgrade after killing his future self in game.
As for why I think the comics TM isn’t Mono’s future self time traveling, the timeline simply doesn’t add up. There are multiple types of time loops. Mono’s is a “stable time loop,” or in other words, one that cannot be broken. This loop doesn’t technically repeat, not even twice. It only happens once and is forever set in stone afterwards. The Little Nightmares twitter has confirmed as such. A future Mono would have no reason nor no motive to go as far back as seen in the comics. The one in the comics has to be different.
1:15 i dont known why but that 3rd hand scared the crap out of me
ah yes finally, a Little Nightmares Theory!, I've been missing this series and rewatching everything🎉
There’s been a lot more theories of little nightmares recently, I saw a video like 2 days ago about another theory
Otto isn't a completely evil character. His obsession with rescuing his sister is a noble one, but he lost sight of the fact that he's doing harm to other children to pursue that goal, and is thus failing his duty as a doctor to help his patients...it's too bad he hasn't realized that he's turning into a villain in time to stop.
I have 2 hypotheses:
1) Mono is still alive and will return at some point in the future...for Six
2) Six is looking for powers to take on The Eye. That's why Shadow Six points her to The Maw. The Twist is that Shadow Six is being controlled by Mono, looking for a way to escape the Loop.
I like to think of Six's journey a little different: She starts off weak and powerless on her journey but when she leaves Mono, and so the Thin Man behind, you see shadow six for the first time, a kind of phantom of power she gains after she realized she can escape the threat which is also being strengthened by her returning from her Monster form: She realizes she has power for the first time and basically got cleansed of her innocence by the Signal.
She has changed from that point on and when she's in the Maw, she's a completely different child now with a mission: that mission is power.
Think about it: she gained the ability to absorb knowledge and abilities by eating and now has a dark phantom that kind of drives her on and throughout the game she escapes and kills different threats, ending her streak with the lady. She then escapes the Maw with new powers she gained and goes out into the rest of the Nightmare world but now with the ability to neutralize these threats.
She is now on an eternal quest for power after having avoided the Thin Man and killed the lady.
That's why I think we aren't getting a continuation of Six's story
It would be a completely different game where you go around shamelessly taking the lives of the most powerful threats in the nowhere. You'd be playing as Six but with control over the nightmare. She is now getting revenge on everything, driven by her dark phantom and built up anger from the real world. She's getting revenge on everything wrong with her normal life by taking control of her nightmare.
Leaving this little theory here so this can possibly be expanded upon.
I think that may be close. We see six is vindictive in ln2, taking on the bully directly, breaking the prosthetics while waiting for mono, warming her hands by the heat of the burning doctor. People that 'wrong' her end up in very bad situations. Add to that hunger. Even if she wanted to stop, she can't. The hunger drives her, always needing more to be satisfied. Not just food but the soul that makes it up. Given her constant need for more to satisfy the hunger, she's going to come to a point where nothing can satisfy her. That's why I think she'd be less moved by more power and more by the nawwing hunger and thirst to hurt those that threatened her.
Just wanted to point out 2 things. The first is that Noone is actually No-one. No one keeps going no where.
The second is a detail that I hadn't really noticed and then started digging through old videos to confirm and found it kinda baffling which is this. In both Little Nightmares 1 & 2 there are no eyes other than The Eye. Every creature has hollow sockets or folds hiding their eyes or closed eyelids. Every main character has a mask or a hood or something that hides their face and there eyes so we never actually see them. Every enemy, even the Geisha at the end of the first game doesn't have any eyes to see just black voids in her mask where they should be. The only times we ever see anything eye shaped in the entire franchise is when it is referencing the Eye and when the amalgamation of the viewers is chasing mono. Otherwise no-eyes.
What about the teacher’s eyes?
The teacher has eyes, the chefs have eyes, and the butler and pretty sure the pretender have eyes as well
Wait...
Mono means 'singular/alone'...
One of the kids in LN3 is called "Alone"...
I'm sensing a connection!
wait... i think you are on something
What about "Low" then? You're probably on to something, but I'd also wanna know how they came up with "Six" too for more context and to get a bead on it all.
@@larrymunn5279 I personally think that her name could be a reference to the sixth deadly sin, which is gluttony, although I couldn't say that for sure.
Something I just thought of while typing this is: Her name could also be relevant to the painting in the first game which shows five Ladies, four of them blacked out. If Six goes on to become the Lady, she could be the sixth version of herself to go through the loop and become the Lady. Complete speculation, although both of these theories make some amount of sense.
It's a bit like Coraline. The other mother lured the unfortunate children into her world, creating a semblance of reality based on the lives of children, but could never make it real enough.
0:28 OMG that’s what he’s chopping up? I wonder do they let the guests gorge themselves into a food coma, and chop them up while they’re sleeping?
With the help of ladys dark magic or they have puted sleeping poison in their food and while they were sleeping they being chopped of and it's a never ending loop for the guests
3:47 Six's theme sounds like a few young girls (like, 8-12) are humming it to soothe themselves after witnessing something scary while the main theme feels like the ambiance (the first meaning) of the Maw come to sound. almost like it's an alive thing luring you into a false sense of security while you're in the belly of the beast..
I find it kinda weird, that Little Nightmares 3 apparently has nothin to do with Six. The "Sounds of Nightmares" do not either and can be preparing. But the comics, for a part, had nothing to do with Six, too, but Little Nightmares 2 was still about her. So, we can't be completely sure, there is no hint of Six in Little Nightmares 3. Perhaps we see here, how Six was captured to go into the Nest.
There was a overall theme in Little Nightmares 1 (Hunger) and Little Nightmares 2 (Escapism). But what overall theme will there be in Little Nightmares 3? Perhaps Death? The Necropolis hints to that. But the carnival doesn't. So, I don't know.
Speaking of the carnival from the teaser. There is a weird shot of th people there, which is kinda upside down. How does that come to be?
Maybe the theme for little nightmares 3 could be childhood? The necropolis has monster baby, who looks like a giant old doll and is seemingly turning everyone into stone, kinda like toy figurines. The place is also a desert and monster baby is destroying everything like children sometimes do to sandcastles. The other two locations we know of are the carnival, a place where children would go to have fun, and a factory of sweets, a thing children are known for liking.
Id argue that the theme of the third game will be friendship
@@alexroman5385 I was thinking selfishness. under this theory the necropolis represents using or taking the lives of others to fulfil your own interests, the carnival is capitalist greed (a lot of carnivals had/have rigged games and abuse animals and workers for gain), the factory represents greed and possibly waste with the dump area as the related trait of throwing out your excess so others do not gain from your work. it fits with the theme of co-op, since you would essentially playing the antithesis of selfishness trying to survive a world that is actively opposed to you.
the sounds of nightmares uses six's theme at a few points when talking about otto's sister. and his sister apparently had a yellow raincoat. either six is meant to be otto's sister, or the story is about the raincoat instead of six.
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That Otto's sister apparently had a yellow raincoat means more that the protagonist of "Very Little Nightmares" is Otto's sister, because she had the yellow raincoat before Six.
One thing I mever hear mentioned in these kind of videos is that there is a clear system in The Nowhere. One photo in the Lady's quarters is a giant warlus hunted in an artic ambience, and in the first series of comics, the one with the Northwind, we see a village of fully grown adults but not monstrous. One of the kids even said that he and his sister were from there and had a culture of amulets for the childrens. Maybe they were kids that "escape" the Tower influence and they just grow up, having fear of the Nowhere.
“Six is fading from this world and her only hope is to guide Mono to the signal tower” I always took this game description as Six was always using Mono as a sacrifice to save herself. She just needed the right moment.
I think Six needs to absorb ppls powers and/or life force as substance. 1st Mono and then Lady on the Maw. Maybe she only realizes when her shadow self appears after her kidnapping. So she absorbs his powers and let him fall. or she’s know all along she needs the power of the signal tower and others to not fade away.
Another possible theory after hearing about Noone is that the audio is a prequel to everything. Because of the doctor or some other inciting incident, the nowhere seeps out into the real world, twisting and deforming it.
One thing I would like to point out is the bits of irony in LN3 protagonists names. Low has a mask that resembles a plague doctor's, but also a birds head. Birds, known for flight. Additionally, he has a bow, a long ranged weapon we see him use to interact with objects higher than he can reach. Meanwhile alone is shown reaching up to help low in multiple trailers, so she isn't seeking out solitude, and most definitely isn't alone, since she travels with him.
What I want from LN3 is for mono to get his revenge or six to redeem itself.
Mono’s fate is already sealed
I just want them to be friends again 😢
@@thexplodenator3007the loop can be broken
@kikor4954 That is what I am hoping for. Imagine six redeeming itself by breaking the loop through pulling mono up instead of making him fall down in the LN2 ending.
@@Libyan_anti_genocidele i hope something likes this happens but maybe alone will use his powers to get to the maw and think about it mirrors was a good part of LN1 and alones power is going thru mirrors maybe they will go back to the pale city and mono will be saved
I think Six wanted revenge on the thin man and left Mono behind, because she realized that he IS the thin man, not realizing that her leaving him there, is what made him the thin man. 21:50
So she realised that her greatest ally was all along her greatest enemy and when she betrayed mono she thought he would die but the opposite happened to the next loop
i hate this theory its so over used I don't think its true my theory is when we meet six again in the room is she mad at us no is she sad nope shes happy when we call for her she scootches over to us and brings her music box to us one of the things six loved most she trusted us enough to share it with us but then we break her trust by breaking her music box then she gets angry even attempts to kill us then after we save her from the monster six form she looks at us with anger but before they can who knows maybe talk about it or give it time for six to let it go we got to run from the flesh lets not forget six is only 9 so getting upset at something like this is normal so when we jump she grabs her hand like shes going to pull us up but then she remembers how we betrayed her trust so she wanted to betray us and I know mono did it for her own good but she is still 9
or a theory I find some what believe able is that she just was using mono till the moment was right she even absorb his powers but I don't know about this one since after mono saves six from the school it looks likes she actually sees him as a friend and trusted him
You sure Six didn't just have a hunger pain at that moment and couldn't hold on?
@@bradleymoore2797 Very
@@jeremystarling9885 Don’t forget that she sees Mono’s face, for the first time, just before the ledge moment. She has her “thin man was Mono the whole time” moment just before, so suddenly, the person that chased and tormented her, is in her control.
I think Shadow Six might B the real Villian slowly corrupting Six over time
Yeah makes sense. Her hood even looks like and eye if you pay attention.
i have a weird theory, so hear me out- if LN2 is prequel of LN1, then whyy do we see thin man in tv at the end of LN? and if u would notice, the backdrop is quite different, like a white fuzzy sort of. so, what if mono/thin man found a way to end the loop or perhaps someone other than mono opened the door?! i think it's either low and alone or its otto from SOLN! well, if we consider events of SOLN taking place parallel to LN2, it's quite possible. so, what if otto was transported to nowhere and he found a way to free mono. or its someone we don't know yet. what u all think?
If it’s a prequel, that mean LN is AFTER the events of LN2. That means that we’re gonna see The Thin Man because the events already happened.
I enjoy the title "Little Nightmares" but I also could see why the series could be called "Hunger" in this game as well.. The main theme so far has been overindulgence in some way, and technically, if Six is on some kind of mission, it shows how she has overindulged this world to reach her goal.. Love it. Thanks for the vid!
I think Six didn't betray Mono. I think the time paradox cannot be broken, and Mono happened to almost break it.
Six realized this - so she deliberately grabs Mono's hand even if Mono could have made the jump, and dropped him.
Kinda like in Avenger's endgame, how timeline cannot be altered by modifying the past, Mono is always trapped in that eternal time paradox.
Mono escaping that signal tower would mean destruction of space-time or something. So I think in all iterations of the time loop, Mono is bound to be caught by the fleshy tower.
But this time, he happens to almost escape. Six prevents that to keep balance in space-time, and (hopefully) will come back stronger to save mono from his ill fate.
Six must've seen this in her "monster" form.
PS: maybe time didn't pass and Mono didn't age. Organic matter and people tend to "stretch out". Mono got stretched out the same way as Six did, just not so grotesquely.
15:33 I am always the mono having fun in monopoly
I still think Six is a hero. She's trying to bring the Nowhere down after what was done to her. She understands aspects of it that no one else caught up in it does. However much it has marked or corrupted her, she wants to end all of it. After her experience discovering what was to become of her friend and letting him go, she sets her sights not on the regular citizens of the Pale City, but on the fat and opulence of the Maw. She's a dark hero.
when i first saw this game thought it was about a scary farmer killing kids
Why nobody talking about the fact that none of the children ever feel hunger; because it's a dream, besides six as soon as she killed or thought she killed Mono. Maybe there's a contract with the eye monster where feeding children to it gets u closer to reality, and escaping the dream? It's my first theory ever so it's probably a stupid idea.
thats acutally really good!
7:16 talk about one hell of a pun😂
Love all your theory’s since day one!
I could have listened to this forever because your theory is so intriguing and aligned. It was nice to see so many details that I missed while caught up in playing the games. The concept art is the best touch of all! Thank you, I've been waiting for a video like this.
Clicked as soon as i saw, i love LN so much it's so mysterious
I think other theorists said Six is not necessarily the main character, but her raincoat was meant to symbolize the start of something, but is now also the end of it, whatever it is.
19:45 maybe the reason why the eye wants to keep these children in, is to keep the eye alive? Like without those kids then the world wouldn’t exist, right? Idk
If something WARFRAME has taught us with The Drifter is that sometimes in order to escape a Time Loop, you just gonna have to wait for a Outside Force to come and rescue you finally breaking said loop. Hopefully something out two new protagonists are gonna do in Little Nightmares: 3. 😉
I love Little Nightmares, a little theory I have, but I can't seem to recall the actual term for it. The All-seeing eye that appears to be watching all our main characters, it's a cosmic being, a eldritch monstrosity we can't comprehend. In order for it to grow or do whatever, it _Needs to be witnessed, heard and believed in to became a reality._ I forgot the name of the theory for it... But the All-seeing Eye needs impressionable and innocent minds like Six: Runaway kid, Mono and Noone's to feed off of and gain more power over the real waking world. That's it.
I wonder if it's possible for Mono to break his Time Paradox in Little Nightmares 3 dlc?
Are you thinking of a tulpa?
@Tericho A Tulpa? Close, but not quite. I was refering the All-seeing 👁 as an entity that needs Believers, like a god. Or demon. A Tulpa could only effect one person, couldn't it?
@@yphoenix5957 excuse you, a god doesn’t need believers! Ik for you it’s prolly nothing, but it’s quite a sensitive topic for others.
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 a god and _God_ are completely different things. For a god (primarily lower case, there is a difference) they need belivers, otherwise _what's the point of having cool party tricks if no one's there to enjoy them with?_
@@yphoenix5957 oh, sorry for the misunderstanding
Another amazing video from you Tericho, i love your Little Nightmares theory videos. I could watch them for days.
Mono is also one of two ways how audio signal can be mixed. Mono is one channel only and it gives the impression that the sound is coming from one direction only. While stereo has two channels, one left and one right, giving the impression of coming from two different directions.
So far, this is my favorite theory that tries to explain the eye motif- it’s such a strong visual and a huge part of the series, but I never see anyone talk about it! The eye being “the minds eye” is such an interesting concept
Thank you! This went way deeper than I thought. Love the game and the theories :3
Man Tericho, I could listen to you talk about little nightmares etc for hours I swear, it's your analytical thinking and drawing conclusions based on the actual available evidence that draws me in. I'm not sure if it's been asked or if you've already answered this question but I'd love to see you do a lets play or stream of little nightmares 3 and reanimal when they release, atp you're my go to theory/horror game channel and it would be fun to experience these games with your line of reasoning.
I will 100% be doing playthroughs for both, I just have to decide whether on here or the second channel. Most likely the second channel tbh, I think keeping this one for theories makes the most sense.
@@Tericho Thanks Tericho, I'm definitely looking forward to it 👍
Yay!!! Finally getting things about the pod cast! It makes so much sense! I hope you go into discussion about the places she seen and which ones we already saw and places we haven't scene yet that gonna be in the next game!
a thought occured about this what if mono's loop restarts every time he wakes up from nowhere. that would explain why he is able to beat his "older self" because the thin man is just him the last time he entered nowhere. it would also explain why he is stronger than the thin man the thin man is just a reflection of his last trip to nowhere of course it would be weaker than mono who is an actual person instead of memory of the last time mono came to nowhere.
What if six is Otto's sister and she is trying to get back to him🤔
Did you know that the music box is not only in LN2 and that it can be found in LN1? Just a fun fact i found as i was watching my daughter play rhe first game.
I know some of the hype for Little Nightmares 3 was kinda dying, or people were feeling iffy, after they heard that Tarsier aren’t the ones working on it, or the different vibe the game may give, but everything we’ve learned from The Sounds of Nightmares brings back the hype for me.
There’s always been hints of it being an alternate reality with an all-powerful entity watching over everything, and The Sounds of Nightmares and Little Nightmares 3 are basically just confirming what the previous games have been hinting at.
So even with the studio swap, it seems like the series of Little Nightmares will stay true to itself with the release of the third game.
I’ve always been intrigued by the story of Little Nightmares since I played the first game, and I’m very intrigued with how the story is expanding with the audio fiction and 3rd game.
I’ve been waiting for you to make a new theory. I’ve been re obsessed with little nightmares since the release of the sound of nightmares and the trailers for ln3 and reanimal. I don’t think I’ve ever been this early to RUclips video 😅😭
7:45
“Your actually running from yourself” bruh why did this make me thi ink of the silly Billy mod?
When I played Little Nightmares 1 and I was in the Twin Chefs' bedroom, where one of them was sleeping, I saw the exact same music box that Six had in the beginning and at the end of Little Nightmares 2.
The king has arrived! I just have to say you make the absolutely BEST Little Nightmares videos! Like Tericho man keep this up, I missed these videos so much the last 2 years and I am so happy you do LN theories again. You ARE the king ❤️❤
Playing through the series again, this time in in-game chronological order: Very LN, LN2, LN DLCs, LN
16:48 we know this is true for certain because in the Sounds of Nightmares Noone is specifically and explicitly tempted by the shopping mall monster.
A little boy sitting in a chair next to a hospital bed? Now I feel like MatPat XD "EVERYTHING CONNECTS TO FNAF LMAO!!!"
I hope that Tericho also makes a new video discussing only the Little Nightmare Podcast. With the updated theories and the upcoming game, who knows what important informations we missed?🤔
1:44 actually Six had as well, they just weren’t as obvious as Mono’s. What if he wanted a friend, and was afraid of loosing them?
Crazy theory, just throwing it out there.. what if 6 is otto's lost sister?
i think six wants the ladys power to gain some control over the terrifying world around her. or maybe shes somehow been made aware of the little nightmare shes trapped in and is trying to become so powerful that she can escape it
I personally think Six's betrayal of Mono was a paradoxical self-fulfilling abandonment prophecy all on its own. I think she dropped him because she saw how he cowered and didn't help when The Thin Man took her, and she realized she couldn't trust him when she needed him most. She slowly turned into a monster over what could have been a very long time and had resentment towards him for abandoning her (and maybe even learned who The Thin Man really is), and although he came back for her it was too little too late as far as she was concerned, so she abandoned him to save herself in the end, which left Mono trapped to grow into The Thin Man, and his abandonment there is the reason why he went after Six in the first place, leading Mono to fail to save her to begin with, and it just goes round and round.
Nothing will scare me more than the dark hospital room with the mannequins
Isn't the thin man aka future mono the one responsible for the corruption of the pale city?
If that's true then six didn't drop mono in the first timeline because she knew that he is the thin man, but because that she didn't even have innocence in the first place.
If the thin man the one responsible for the corruption of the city then this means that the city wasn't corrupted in the first, people weren't so addicted to watch the TV (Travelling between TVs is Mono's power so maybe the thin man is related to their addiction to watching TV) and the thin man didn't even exist so my theory is that in the first timeline, they were going to escape with no difficulty but six wanted to achieve a goal as you said and that's why she somehow betrayed mono in the first timeline to get all her goal to herself (power).
"How would she go to this world if she didn't have innocence in the first place?"
I think that she made a deal with the darkness figure, the darkness figure already seems to enjoy chaos, so maybe the deal between them is six going in this world and getting powers and for exchange she will cause chaos in the real world, possibly making it similar to the nightmares.
"Why was it six specifically" maybe the darkness figure was amazed by her because she didn't have neither innocence nor nightmares and that's why in little nightmares 2 + your theory, we only seen mono's nightmare not six's. And that explains why Six dropped Mono and that's because she was a monster in the first place and even when mono dies while we are playing, she runs without him as she wanted to achieve something from the beginning.
And since Six always come back in the time loop with mono, doesn't that mean that she will die in the future or something related to the time loop will happen to her causing her to get back with mono in the time loop? Which means she will fail her goal in the future but WHAT could possibly stop her from achieving her goal after getting her powers? I think it's the darkness figure, i think he will betray her causing her to get back in the time loop with mono because as he said in the sound of nightmares that he only feeds on children's innocence, not adult's and real world has adults and that's what six failed to understand so her deal with the darkness figure already lead to her chaos.
Basically she was going to get betrayed by the darkness figure whatsoever.
Did you notice that 6's theme song is 3 blind mice. Further proof she is the lady.
and fits the whole game honestly
Three blind mice, three blind mice
See how they run, see how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice?
Three blind mice, three blind mice
See how they run, see how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife (three blind mice)
She cut off their tails with a carving knife (three blind mice)
Did you ever see such a sight in your life (three blind mice) as three blind mice? (three blind mice)
Three blind mice, three blind mice
See how they run, see how they run
They all ran after the farmer's wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice?
How?
@user-vb6xd8bm5g The song kind of describes the maw and it is her theme. Think of the mice as the people being eaten and the wife is the lady.
I'm not getting it. It doesn't sound like 3 Blind Mice at all.
And Tericho already made a theory on how Six could not be the Lady. They are just way too different
Developers of Little Nightmares has outright confirmed Six is not the Lady
the thin man aka mono breaks the loop as we see him suicide in the first game
All I want to know is why children are captured and have all sorts of werid things happening, like they’re the only normal ones except for the “adults” like who created these children just for hunters, chefs, and all sorts of things after them
This franchise really does go deep
All of a sudden, the Janitor, with his long grabbing arms...
Ugh...
I love this theory and it makes so much sense, but the more I think of the first game...
Mono's nightmare is being alone but Six's nightmare is hunger. It creeps me thinking about a child being starved. If the infinite loop theory is true and six is actually the lady and that's a geisha. And what it's presents is just horrific
That picture you brought up from LN2, there's more to that picture that shows a messed up face to the right and a kid in the bed to the left
True. At 14:48 i saw a video about all the pictures and in the video it was merged with another one. I thought he would show it.
I was just thinking about how excited I am for the next Little Nightmares! Perfect timing!
Six stopped a villian just to become a villian
The teacher is one of my favorite enemies in ln2
Omg all this time and I never even noticed the thin man on the cover
The feedback loop hint is an incredible detail
I can't wait for little nightmares 3 to fit where it would go in the timeline as we know little nightmares 1 is the latest game within the timeline.
i hope we will see more of mono and six in LN3 since I feel like there storys ain't done
Don't forget that Six is freed by Mono at the start of the game. If Mono isn't sent back to that point by the Thin Man, then Six cannot escape her imprisonment. Mono must become the Thin Man to save Six from the Hunter.
This is why the Thin Man imprisons Six with a music box. This is how he first found her, and he will return her to that state as though he never saved her in the first place.
Why doesn't the Thin Man simply kill Six? Because as much as he hates her, he loves her. The happiest he'd ever been in his whole life was running through the forest and the pale city with her. It was a grand adventure where they supported and saved one another.
Mono loves Six. This is why he's stronger than the Thin Man. The Thin Man is divided against himself. He hates her and he loves her. Mono only loves.
As for breaking the loop, by the end of LN1, Six has gained a power that will allow to her gain *even more* power. What is her potential? What can she achieve? A paradox is nothing before a god.
But hey, that's just a theory, a Game Theory!
We will miss u Mat.
I think Noone from Sounds of Nightmares can be Alone in LN3..Bcoz the places mentioned in Sounds of Nightmares are present in LN3..The Stone Giant,The Carnival,The Factory...Second season to the Sounds of Nightmares might reveal more things..Hope we would get it during Halloween..It would be Great
Agreed. Monopoly is a game where only one person has fun. That person being the CEO of Hasbro, who conned you into buying the damn game.
I think Otto's daughter is 6 as it hints it in the sounds of nightmares.
He’s looking for his sister; not daughter.
Otto's sister is the Raincoat Girl, as she actually entered Nowhere with the yellow raincoat, unlike Six who only got it later on.
maybe mono has a television addiction and six has an eating disorder, and the nightmare world reflects that.
There's one thing I'm still wondering about LNM 2 - WHY is the Teacher the only one that doesn't end up dead in any way. "We" shoot the Hunter & roast the Doctor... but the Teacher stays. And - for some reason I remember that as being something said by the composer of the music - the theme she plays on the piano "reveals more about her"/ who she is/was.
It still bugs my brain to this day.
But her theme is my most favorite piece of music from the series along with "March of the Guests" & a few of the tv-tunes we hear in 2.
I wonder if seeing Mono at the end of the DLC for number 1, is maybe showing that he's still out there since 1 comes after 2?
Never knew about the lore from the audiobooks (because who listens to audiobooks, let’s be real), but now that I do, I’m now way more interested in seeing how this series will play out when LN3 releases next year.
The feedback loop reveal is so freaking cool!!!
Hope the last LN game features us playing as Noone and helping Six destroy the Nowhere. That'll be awesome
I don’t know if someone has mentioned this already or if you don’t know but Otto offering chocolate is extremely particular because I believe it’s proven that chocolate causes nightmares. The caffeine and sugar make sleeping difficult and the source of disturbing dreams.