I’m still leaning towards the idea that Six has been cursed (assuming that little nightmares 2 takes place before little nightmares 1). After all, Six gets hungry just moments after leaving the signal tower.
The origins of six's hunger clearly lie in either the birth of shadow six or in the time she spend in the tower. The tower itself is likely a metaphor for consumption/hunger since its presumably is a hive mind which grows by absorbing people through the tv's. It could be that the tower's hunger somehow rubbed on to her. Points supporting this are how prior to her getting snatched by thin man there are no signs of her crazy hunger, how shadow six can always be spotted during the hunger scenes, that shadow six was the one that looked at the maw poster first and during the hunger scenes we can hear humming that closely resembles the melody of the music box the tower used to mind control six. Now I know most of us fellt pretty betrayed by six at the end of LN2, but I believe that she fucked HERSELF over REAL BAD with that decision: When she went to the maw, i dont think she had completely evil intentions. She had this weird hunger and the Maw was a restraunt after all. I also belive her interactions with the gnomes tell us a lot about her character at this point: She saved 1 or 2 of them and even hugged them as collectables. The gnomes serve as a way to humanise her, to show that she is still capeable of showing compassion. For me this proves that even after she betrayed mono, she still wasnt an irredeemable monster; she was just a child trying to do what she can to survive. She made horrible decisions but she is the product of an envoirment and events that were beyond horrible. She is still young and could have changed if given the right input. However over the course of the game her hunger leads her to do terrible things, to lose more of her humanity and in the end she she even betrays the once loved gnomes. After she eats the lady, she does become very powerful but contrast the scene of her using her powers with the scene of mono using his; not only is the tone in both scenes completely different but gameplay wise we the players had to use the right analog stick (on console) to use his power, meaning we had to chose to use his powers, Meaning he had to chose to use his powers, MEANING he can control his powers. In six's scene however no matter what we do, whenever one of the guest comes to close to her they are dead, which is awesome in this scene because we are killing the guests but ask yourself this: can she turn that off? What happens if she finds someone who she doesn't wanna kill and that person gets to close? Did she really got rid of hunger issue or did she just gain some new powers? Even if we take the most optimistic answers, her not clearing the maw of all the adults so the other children could escape more easily (+her previous evil decision) show me that she has become just another monster in this world. A sociopath may say "that's still great for HER; she ensured her own survival and that's all that counts!" But look at what it means to be a monster in the LN-unvierse: THEY ARE ALL PATHETIC! (To be clear: I don't mean the developer did a bad job in designing them) They are all miserable creatures who look and often sound like the mere act of existing is painful to them. Many of them clearly have lost their mind too. I mean the most powerful creature we met so far is a tower that is (likely) made up of the people it enslaved. They all may seem intimidating but none of us would ever wanna be them. But six is now one of them and while she may look powerful now, one of the biggest themes in LN is rot, decay, the fact that this world must have looked somewhat livable once but now it's a shithole; who knows what kind of physical or mental toll six's powers will take on her after a while. So where does mono's betrayl fit into all of this? I believe that if she didn't had betrayed him, he could have prevented the events of the first game; To understand why you need to read the promo comics for little nightmares 2. At the end of the 6th one we can see mono hiding in a broken TV as rainwater poured in. What I believed happened next is that the TV shortcuircated, teleporting him into the forest, starting the loop and more importantly: giving him his powers (kinda like Danny got his powers in nickelodeon's "Danny Phantom"). In game we can see mono absorbing glitches, teleporting through tv's and bending reality itself. The last two abilities he isn't able to do from start, add to this how thin man had more powers than mono despite being ultimately weaker than him and it becomes easy to imagine that mono could have unlocked all kinds of crazy powers if he had been able to experiment freely. So let me ask you this if the tower cursed six with her hunger and mono got his powers from the tower, wouldn't he have maybe been able to cure six and prevent her from becoming a monster?.....
@@kingmanjohn1243 My comment seems to have been deleted twice now so that's obnoxious. I guess I'll give the short version and leave out the link to the interview because maybe that's what youtube doesn't like 1. Devs can and do lie to preserve twists in their games for at least a little bit after release 2. In an interview with one of the writers March 2021, it was confirmed that LN2 was indeed a prequel. 3. Little Nightmares seems to be a time loop making distinctions of sequel and prequel kinda meaningless
Spoilers She gets the curse from dropping mono that's her breaking point the last bit of her good will perhaps maybe but when thin man takes her obviously that's where it starts
Lol ikr? I'm always like “...You skipped a step? Bread → RAW meat that's also clearly a trap → trapped live rat → nome instead of sausage → Lady.” I wonder why that is... It was kind of an important and upsetting sign of what direction this was going... 🤔
@@mikaelahobart8237 Maybe whatever caused the hunger slowly needs something closer and closer to one of the bosses in terms of power as the lady may be one of the weaker bosses wait what if she eats the entire broadcast tower
Gives me spirited away vibes. Like... don't take a coin from the piles of gold, don't eat the free food no matter how inviting it is or how hungry you get. Might turn you into one of them. Fight back against berserk hordes and you'll be dragged into the bloodlust, that sort of thing.
I just wanted to add something to this theory... The leeches also appear to be as hungry as the people on board. I think mostly out of instinct since they immediately chase after Six all over the place. There's even scenes where they fall off the cliff trying to reach for Six with no self awarness. Clearly being desperate. There is even a death scene with Mono falling into a hole and, I'm assuming, get eaten by rats or leeches. If they are leeches, then this would also connect with them being hungry in the first game.
Probably wrong on this, but what if the thin man gave six her hunger. He at that point hates her more than anything in the world. Plus we know that LN2 is set before LN1 and six isn’t hungry throughout LN2 but at the end she gets hungry right after dropping mono and escaping the signal tower and then is plagued by it throughout LN1. And shadow six may be a monster created bu the thin man to induce the hunger from six. What better way to get revenge than destroying someone’s humanity and giving them agonising hunger pains
I also think she needs more food or like the video said substance each time this happens and the Thin man is prevented somehow from killing Six which is what he wants to do as he’d rather break the never ending cycle of the broadcast tower then revenge. Since he is not able to do this he made the leaches which make people extremely hungry. This is not fatal which is why the guests are always so hungry although he altered the ones he’s given to Six to where she’ll need more and more food and soon she may end up eating the guests until there is no food left. She soon will die from lack of food but not before the tower causes the repeat as the Thin man decided if he had to be trapped she would have to be trapped too
I used to think that it was thin man taking six that gave her, her hunger because this was also the moment shadow six was created and she is heavily tied to the hunger (appearing during the hunger phases and beingthefirstone to look at Maw-poster). But the more I think about it, I actually believe it was her time in the tower that we can blame for the hunger. The tower itself is a representation of hunger since its a hive mind made up of people it consumed. Ontop of that we can clearly see that six was twisted pretty bad during her stay in the tower, so longterm effects are not hard to imagine. What many also overlook is the humming that you can hear during six's hunger phases; it closely resembles the melody of the music box the tower used to mind control six. The hunger is a manifestation of the tower's corruption. Shadow six appearing during the hunger phases is not root of the hunger but rather a side effect due to her being created by thin man using the "magic" of the tower. Now I know most of us fellt pretty betrayed by six at the end of LN2, but I believe that she fucked HERSELF over REAL BAD with that decision: When she went to the maw, i dont think she had completely evil intentions. She had this weird hunger and the Maw was a restraunt after all. I also belive her interactions with the gnomes tell us a lot about her character at this point: She saved 1 or 2 of them and even hugged them as collectables. The gnomes serve as a way to humanise her, to show that she is still capeable of showing compassion. For me this proves that even after she betrayed mono, she still wasnt an irredeemable monster; she was just a child trying to do whatever she can to survive. She made horrible decisions but she is the product of an envoirment and events that were beyond horrible. Six is still young and could have changed if given the right input. However over the course of the game her hunger leads her to do terrible things, to lose more and more of her humanity and in the end she even betrays the gnomes. After she eats the lady, she does become very powerful but contrast the scene of her using her powers with the scene of mono using his; not only is the tone in both scenes completely different but gameplay wise we the players had to use the right analog stick (on console) to use mono's power, meaning we had to chose to use his powers, Meaning he had to chose to use his powers, MEANING he can control his powers. In six's scene however, no matter what we do, whenever one of the guest comes to close to her, they are dead, which is awesome in this scene because we are killing the guests but ask yourself this: can she turn that off? What happens if she finds someone who she doesn't wanna kill and that person gets to close? Did she really got rid of hunger issue or did she just gain some new powers? Even if we take the most optimistic answers, her not clearing the maw of all the adults so the other children could escape more easily (and her previous evil decisions) show me that she has become just another monster in this world. A sociopath may say "that's still great for HER! she ensured her own survival and that's all that counts!" But look at what it means to be a monster in the LN-unvierse: THEY ARE ALL PATHETIC! (To be clear: I don't mean the developer did a bad job in designing them) They are all miserable creatures who look and often sound like the mere act of existing is painful to them. Many of them clearly have lost their mind too. I mean the most powerful creature we met so far is a tower that is (likely) made up of the people it enslaved. They all may seem intimidating but none of us would ever wanna be them. But six is now one of them and while she may look powerful now, keep in mind that one of the biggest themes in LN is rot, decay, the fact that this world must have looked somewhat livable once but now it's a shithole. Who knows what kind of physical or mental toll six's powers will take on her after a while. So where does mono's betrayl fit into all of this? I believe that if she didn't betrayed him, he could have prevented the events of the first game: To understand why, you need to read the promo comics for little nightmares 2. At the end of the 6th one we can see mono hiding in a broken TV as rainwater poured in. What I believed happened next is that the TV shortcuircated, teleporting him into the forest, starting the loop and more importantly: giving him his powers (kinda like Danny got his powers in nickelodeon's "Danny Phantom"). In game we can see mono absorbing glitches, teleporting through tv's and bending reality itself. The last two abilities he wasnt able to do from the start, add to this how thin man had more powers than mono despite being ultimately weaker than him and it becomes easy to imagine that mono could have unlocked all kinds of crazy powers if he had been able to experiment freely. So let me ask you this: If the tower cursed six with her hunger and mono got his powers from the tower, wouldn't he maybe been able to cure six's hunger and prevent her from becoming a monster?.....
I feel as if the hunger actually represents greed. People in the world we live in, "eat eachother" to muscle for rank, as seen by the guests they eat other humans including Six. Same wih Six her hunger(or greed with my theory) increases when progressing through the game as in real life people get greedier and greedier as time goes on.
The hunger and shadow six only appear after having been in the tower, i think when Mono broke Six's music box he did something to separate Six's soul, making her occasionally hungry for life, which explains why she starts with bread, then meat, then a rat, then a gnome. She must consume life in order to survive
I've often thought about how the hunger always occur right before she finds normal food. As if, this ever present force would lose its grip over her if it doesn't strike at the right moment. Otherwise she could never fulfill the purpose of replacing the Lady.
Maybe he starved for years to controll it, because it seems like big mono doesn't have a need for consumption wich probally means he doesnt have the hunger, he jusy chases mono and six because he maybe wants to save himself in some way or get revenge idk.@@tntmage5303
New board game idea: Hungry Hungry Nightmares. Just like hungry hungry hippos but the board is the maw, hippos are the guests who eat there, and the “pebbles” they eat is just all the food they eat while they are there. Congratulations, I just gave you a new business so patent it before someone else steals it but I want 5% of the profit of each one sold XD Btw, love the theories and videos, keep em up 💙
Well sticking with your theory perhaps it's that Six is hungry for survival? Makes a bit of sense in the sense that Six is in constant danger and when she's out of danger even briefly it's kind of like coming down off an adrenaline rush and she gets hungry because she knows that if she let's her guard down she might die. Idk, just my own small theory.
LN1 and LN2 spoilers! I always saw it as Little Nightmares representing Greed, while Little Nightmares 2 represented addiction. I also thought that Six' hunger was a consequence of betraying Mono and stealing some of his power at the end of LN2, which manifested into 'Dark Six' whose guilt and greed keeps eating away at her. Notice in the second game, how Six starts getting more aggressive after the 'kids' kidnap her? Imagine all those negative feelings being brought to live, so when Six betrays Mono (out of fear/distrust) and gets a taste of power, those negative emotions manifest as Dark Six. This causes her to become painfully hungry as both a consequence of her actions, as well as a desire for more. There's a theory that they're all in a time loop and that the Lady is future Six, which explains why she exposes her neck to Six after you fight her.
I don't thats the case I see no reason in that thing man has a theorizable motive why would the lady knowing six is her still become the lady for the maw and feed the people thats not like her at all also thin man knows all of monos moves because he made them the lady is never a step ahead of six the mirror thing isn't like six either only thing I see similar is apperance
im not hungry for power. I'm not hungry for food. I'm not hungry for money, fame or food. I'm only hungry for theories from this channel about little nightmares.
I don’t know if this could fuel any bigger theories, but I became interested on how The Maw got its name and if it was related to The Nest from Very Little Nightmares. From what I could find, “maw” was an older term to refer to a stomach, usually of humans rather than animals. What really stuck out to me was how the description pointed out that it was especially used to refer to “comical greed”. A sentence that it used as an example was “he was stuffing cupcakes down his maw as fast as he could”. This is pretty much exactly how the guests on the ship ate. Greed is also a huge thing we see throughout the game.
Maw actually means mouth. Which is probably why the entrance of the maw looks like a mouth, which the guests ironically enter and never return. Almost like they are entering the jaws of a giant beast. They think they go their to eat, but they end up eaten.
Your videos are like you, absolutely cool! Unscripted or scripted doesn't really make a difference for me, but you unscripted videos are as good as your scripted ones!
Theory: remember the true ending in little nightmares 2? Let's just for a second assume that six was in some way effected by gaining mono's power to pass through TV screens. Since we don't see her hungry in little nightmares 2 at all, I guess she only developed that hunger by gaining this power, which she needed to escape the signal tower (this is assuming little nightmares 2 is in fact a prequel to the first game, which would actually make much more sense if you think about it)
I love this, because it doesn't stretch things too far with hammering things in, but it also does address as much as it can. Magnificent work Tericho, you get a like and subscribe for this! That, and I might bookmark this video in particular...
Game designer #1: "Hey, I'm realizing that 'the hunger' is wildly inconsistent and confusing..." Game designer #2: "Don't worry, the internet will figure out an explanation for us."
Rewatching all the Tericho theories in anticipation for 3 is excellent, and I am remembering so much. Listen from the beginning of the playlist to see the evolution of theory crafting and experience the inventive genius and power of observation of the Tericho theories!!
So you mentioned a spell having been cast upon the guests which seems about right but what if it's also by the signal and not only the lady? What if Thin Man altered the signal to "put a bounty on Six's head"? We see the bullies are satisfied when capturing Six and don't hunt Mono, they only attack him if they happen to find him
It's interesting how the Guests' and Six's hungers have opposite symptoms in a way that remind me of a type of constant hunger that leads to obesity vs. anorexic fasting and binges. I don't know how prevalent it is for the themes but it's something I noticed.
Another metaphor is that the guests PREFER to eat the living player, even when surrounded with every option to choose from- assuming even others like her already prepared to eat.
@@Tericho Heyo thanks for the thoughtful content about a truly intriguing story! I’ve left a few minor theories and thoughts of my own on several of your videos today pertaining to the specific details of things that I wasn’t able to determine wether or not they were touched on by someone else. I have several more, still, but, since you’re a responsive theory-crafter, I shall deliberate them a bit further before posting/check comments for repeat theories.
notice when 6 eats there's a glitching version of her somewhere on the screen, like there's a part of her that's controlling her in that instance and making her hungry
I’d also like to point out that the ship itself is consuming people in a way. Besides being called “The Maw”, a synonym for a mouth, we know that none of it’s customers come back, implied to be chopped up ands served to the next guests. So I think that it’s “consuming” it’s customers to prolong it’s business, whatever that business is, I’m not sure what’s in it for the lady.
I don't remember when but I'm a fanfic writer for ln and I remember looking up symptoms of starvation and coughing was one of them. Idk if it is actually but that explained her coughing for me.
In the game lore I figured shadow six was the reason, like part of her soul was gone and she had this hollow feeling inside that acts up. Walking corpse type shit ig
I've noticed more sins in the first. Consuming blood tends to be symbolic of the sin of lust. The Janitor fits more with greed for me as he has a room of collected dolls and toys that he hordes and plays with on his downtime. The chefs could represent pride as they clearly take great pride in their work making all that food, even going out of their mind chasing Six when they see her and adding her (as a possible delicacy) to the food. The guests are obviously gluttony. The other children could be sloth, as they don't try to escape or fight back when the Janitor has them wrapped in a tarp and sent to the kitchens. (The nomes could also be sloth as they rarely do anything, but we do see them work the furnace in the DLC). The Lady is envy as she is obsessed with her looks--staring into the mirrors constantly and likely jealous of the children for their youth, so she has no qualms about having them killed to sate the guests and keep the Maw going. And finally, Six best fits the sin of wrath. Being hunted constantly by monsters, unable to fight back, anyone would get frustrated. And once Six has gained the Lady's powers, the first thing she does is kill the guests that tried to eat her. She even has a sort of aggressive stance as she stands over the Lady's corpse amidst the swirling dark magic. The anger in her is unmistakable.
In LN2, the shadow-Monos look like tv static and seem to imply remnants of Mono left in places since it’s confirmed the story takes place within a time loop. Shadow-Six first appears after she escapes the broadcast tower, but we keep seeing shadow-Six every time she gets hungry. I think that whole ordeal she went through in LN2, with being taken through the tv screens multiple times, being contorted into that beastly form, all that made her soul fragment, and the remnant of that soul manifests as shadow-Six. The loss of her soul infects her with a desperate hunger, which is why she progresses from eating normal food to taking lives.
I have a theory of why the lady has so many statues of herself. I think it’s because she she’s herself how she is inside (when looking at a mirror) when she’s looking at her statue it’s her, it’s her image but not a reflection so she doesn’t view herself as she does currently but she sees her self as how she saw her image before being so evil (then she doesn’t view herself as disgusting, how she is inside). I phrased this badly but you probably get what I’m saying.
Hunger would have been the most generic horror game title ever, little nightmares is such an iconic game title and so perfect for this series. I believe it helped the game’s success adamantly
fun fact the guests, while constantly in their glutonous rampage, never even swallow their food, unable to, it simply goes in their mouths and then falls back out, for them to notice it again and for the cycle to repeat
Sounds like the spell is in the food served to the guests. Six knows this so she avoids the food she finds until she is so hungry that killing and eating something is her only choice.
Aside from power, the Lady has a very evident need to "feed" her own ego. She keeps mannequins of herself by the dozens, leaves bits of her dark magic scattered all over the Maw in figurines that look like her, and refrains from throwing out broken mirrors because she can't resist gazing into them in private, despite knowing their presence and condition is a dead giveaway that *intact* reflections pose a danger to her.
I've interpreted little nightmares taking place in a brothel. The patrons eating the kids is a metaphor for molesting them. 6's hunger is a need for affection but given the horrors she endures it morphs into something darker.
I think ur projecting cuz there's no hint of anything like that not even metaphorically unless thats a perception bc of ur own reality....sending love and positivity ur way.
not sure if you remember, but LN2 shows the first time six gets hungry. it happens after she escapes the signal tower and her shadow/soul points to a poster of the maw. this might imply that six no longer has a soul in her, which would be why she needs to eat living things.
Perhaps the guests were before normal people, coming to the maw for the allure of a low-cost buffet, and the lady’s spell puts them under the effects of the hunger.
I think you're right with the need for consumption, it's infinite hunger without satiation and satisfaction. Think about it: The guest are eating seemingly infinite amounts and they come to the Maw with the sheer desire to eat. I think they are in a similar condition as the Viewers in Little Nightmares 2. They are mere shells, hunger without satiaition or escapism without escape. It's like a deasease and as such an overarching theme for Little Nightmares. The guest will get eaten, too. The Maw itself is the circular system of hunger and consumption. It needs more of everything, like a curse or a disease from which there is no escape. Six is like a foreign body or parasite that brings a new dimension or kind of hunger into the existing system the Maw.
I definitely agree that the main theme of Little Nightmares I is hunger in general. Hunger for food, hunger for power, hunger for anything. Little Nightmares II I feel is more of a message about escapism and the possible dangerous rabbit hole that one can go down in and get lost should they delve into their escapism too deep. A common theme in LN 2 is having something that is meant to copy something else, but not quite hitting the mark. Take for example the Hunter and his taxidermy. We know he likes to stuff the things that he hunts and we can find several alive-n’t beings that are the same. As well as this, his hunting is also probably his escape from a cold harsh reality, a bag for a head that has one tiny hole to look through to ignore everything else except whatever he is hunting. The Teacher also follows this pattern as she is teaching a school full of fake students made of porcelain. They are quite literally hollow and fake inside. They are also children that will probably never grow up and will probably never learn. It’s another ESCAPE from reality. The Doctor I feel has some of the most evidence for this as he creates mannequins that are supposed to replicate human life. It’s unclear if he’s fully aware of what he’s doing, but he’s definitely trying to occupy himself too. The patients themselves are quoted as going to the Doctor to “escape their boredom” or something like that, once again hammering that idea home about escaping from reality. Of course, there are the people in the city that find their escape through the broadcasts in the TV’s, that one is obvious. That is very obvious escapism. There is also twisted Six in the tower where her escape from a cold reality is the music box. That is her escape from her reality. She also lashes out when her escape is broken. That’s another thing. All of the enemies tend to lash out when their escapism is broken. The Hunter is violent by nature, of course, but enemies like the Teacher actively want to UN-ALIVE Mono and Six because they take them out of their escapism. Mono and Six are real children, not the dolls that the Teacher uses. Mono and Six interfere with the Doctor’s work on his patience and he lashes out in return. The viewers lash out at the children when they get to close or when they are not occupied by a TV to escape to. And, of course, Six lashes out when Mono breaks her only escape from a cruel world. The Thin Man himself is a metaphor for escapism. A never ending cycle. Living in a harsh world and finding an escape. The time that passes by will turn you into something without you even noticing it. Then, when you escape, it’s like you can’t tell what’s the real reality and what’s your own. The Thin Man clearly walks this line between real and not real as he never seems fully present within the world and therefore does not need to follow its rules, but is present enough to interact with it. What Mono fails to do… is escape his escapism. Make sense? XD
six' hunger can be explained by little nightmares 2. After being captured by the tall man and staying in the TV for a long time, she actually left a piece of her soul into it. Therefore she isn't really hungry for food, rather than for a missing piece of herself. That also explains why she chose to eat the little guy who offered her food
I love your insight into these games so far! What I'm wondering is where the Granny factors into the hunger theme. It's difficult to see what she does with Runaway once she catches him, but I did see part of the death animation where she seems to "embrace" him underwater. Perhaps she hungers for company? After all, she was abandoned. Perhaps blinded by the insanity that comes from prolonged isolation, her greatest desire was company...even if that company was drowned. Also, having seen your videos on the Thin Man's Time Paradox theory, there is something I'd like to draw your attention to. I played the segment again where Mono finally opens the Thin Man's door, and while it's very faint, you can see a number 6 on the door before it slowly opens. I don't think Six's name is a coincidence. What if in this looping cycle, Mono was trapped in the Signal Tower 5 times before. What if Six gets her name because she is the sixth catalyst of the renewed cycle, hence why the number 6 is on the door? It could be like what you were saying about there being previous versions of the Hunter, Teacher, Doctor, and especially the Thin Man. This, of course, begs the question...will there be a Seven? Will the cycle ever be broken? Six has shown herself to be above the Hunger Cycle in the Maw, having killed the Lady. Could the Thin Man's cycle be broken, too? It would mean that Seven would have to not drop Mono.
Okay I just wanna say something I've been thinking about for a while, the Signal Tower in LN2, the exit kinda looks like the TV's Mono can go through near the end of the game after he defeats the Thin Man. After Six drops Mono she walks toward the exit to the place, so I'm thinking she somehow took some of Mono's power (world bending, teleporting through tv's etc.) so she could leave, but maybe she took too much of it and it was too much for her body to handle and it split into 2, Shadow Six and her hunger, I'm not quite sure but it's been on my mind for a while. Apologies if I spelled anything wrong or offended you with my theory, thank you for reading.
@@_ghostboyfriend_3460 no, shadow six was created when thin man abducted six for the first time. She is a glitch like those we find althrouout the game as collectables. I can copy paste you my theory about the origins of the hunger and the bigger underlying tragedy of six's betrayl if you want to
@@helmutstein1178 but the order of the games is Very little Nightmares, Little Nightmares 2, and then little nightmares 1. Because yes, I knew that's how Six got shadow her, I just wanted to know your thought process, I will spoil the games without hesitation I'm just saying that, because of what happens with the Pretender, The girl in the yellow raincoat, and Six in Very little nightmares and Six didn't have a raincoat in that game nor little nightmares 2 until after you finish the school.
@@_ghostboyfriend_3460 I know. But do we see shadow six in very little nightmares? If not then her origins clearly lie in LN2 when thin man abducted six
I’m still leaning towards the idea that Six has been cursed (assuming that little nightmares 2 takes place before little nightmares 1). After all, Six gets hungry just moments after leaving the signal tower.
Tarsier studios has confirmed that LN2 takes place before LN1
The origins of six's hunger clearly lie in either the birth of shadow six or in the time she spend in the tower. The tower itself is likely a metaphor for consumption/hunger since its presumably is a hive mind which grows by absorbing people through the tv's. It could be that the tower's hunger somehow rubbed on to her.
Points supporting this are how prior to her getting snatched by thin man there are no signs of her crazy hunger, how shadow six can always be spotted during the hunger scenes, that shadow six was the one that looked at the maw poster first and during the hunger scenes we can hear humming that closely resembles the melody of the music box the tower used to mind control six.
Now I know most of us fellt pretty betrayed by six at the end of LN2, but I believe that she fucked HERSELF over REAL BAD with that decision:
When she went to the maw, i dont think she had completely evil intentions. She had this weird hunger and the Maw was a restraunt after all. I also belive her interactions with the gnomes tell us a lot about her character at this point: She saved 1 or 2 of them and even hugged them as collectables. The gnomes serve as a way to humanise her, to show that she is still capeable of showing compassion. For me this proves that even after she betrayed mono, she still wasnt an irredeemable monster; she was just a child trying to do what she can to survive. She made horrible decisions but she is the product of an envoirment and events that were beyond horrible. She is still young and could have changed if given the right input. However over the course of the game her hunger leads her to do terrible things, to lose more of her humanity and in the end she she even betrays the once loved gnomes. After she eats the lady, she does become very powerful but contrast the scene of her using her powers with the scene of mono using his; not only is the tone in both scenes completely different but gameplay wise we the players had to use the right analog stick (on console) to use his power, meaning we had to chose to use his powers, Meaning he had to chose to use his powers, MEANING he can control his powers. In six's scene however no matter what we do, whenever one of the guest comes to close to her they are dead, which is awesome in this scene because we are killing the guests but ask yourself this: can she turn that off? What happens if she finds someone who she doesn't wanna kill and that person gets to close? Did she really got rid of hunger issue or did she just gain some new powers? Even if we take the most optimistic answers, her not clearing the maw of all the adults so the other children could escape more easily (+her previous evil decision) show me that she has become just another monster in this world. A sociopath may say "that's still great for HER; she ensured her own survival and that's all that counts!" But look at what it means to be a monster in the LN-unvierse: THEY ARE ALL PATHETIC! (To be clear: I don't mean the developer did a bad job in designing them)
They are all miserable creatures who look and often sound like the mere act of existing is painful to them. Many of them clearly have lost their mind too. I mean the most powerful creature we met so far is a tower that is (likely) made up of the people it enslaved. They all may seem intimidating but none of us would ever wanna be them. But six is now one of them and while she may look powerful now, one of the biggest themes in LN is rot, decay, the fact that this world must have looked somewhat livable once but now it's a shithole; who knows what kind of physical or mental toll six's powers will take on her after a while.
So where does mono's betrayl fit into all of this? I believe that if she didn't had betrayed him, he could have prevented the events of the first game;
To understand why you need to read the promo comics for little nightmares 2. At the end of the 6th one we can see mono hiding in a broken TV as rainwater poured in. What I believed happened next is that the TV shortcuircated, teleporting him into the forest, starting the loop and more importantly: giving him his powers (kinda like Danny got his powers in nickelodeon's "Danny Phantom"). In game we can see mono absorbing glitches, teleporting through tv's and bending reality itself. The last two abilities he isn't able to do from start, add to this how thin man had more powers than mono despite being ultimately weaker than him and it becomes easy to imagine that mono could have unlocked all kinds of crazy powers if he had been able to experiment freely. So let me ask you this if the tower cursed six with her hunger and mono got his powers from the tower, wouldn't he have maybe been able to cure six and prevent her from becoming a monster?.....
@@kingmanjohn1243 My comment seems to have been deleted twice now so that's obnoxious. I guess I'll give the short version and leave out the link to the interview because maybe that's what youtube doesn't like
1. Devs can and do lie to preserve twists in their games for at least a little bit after release
2. In an interview with one of the writers March 2021, it was confirmed that LN2 was indeed a prequel.
3. Little Nightmares seems to be a time loop making distinctions of sequel and prequel kinda meaningless
@James Ratcliffe The Lady then, is a paradox steming from another paradox.
Thats some Terminator sh*t right there.
Spoilers
She gets the curse from dropping mono that's her breaking point the last bit of her good will perhaps maybe but when thin man takes her obviously that's where it starts
I love how everyone forgets about the hunger where six gets captured in the cage
Oh yeah
Lol ikr? I'm always like “...You skipped a step? Bread → RAW meat that's also clearly a trap → trapped live rat → nome instead of sausage → Lady.” I wonder why that is... It was kind of an important and upsetting sign of what direction this was going... 🤔
Kinda wierd like Six eats and then she just get captured, like what?
@@mikaelahobart8237 Maybe whatever caused the hunger slowly needs something closer and closer to one of the bosses in terms of power as the lady may be one of the weaker bosses wait what if she eats the entire broadcast tower
@@joycekelly5935 thats what I was thinking was that the lady was filling the people up to eat them herself
Gives me spirited away vibes. Like... don't take a coin from the piles of gold, don't eat the free food no matter how inviting it is or how hungry you get. Might turn you into one of them. Fight back against berserk hordes and you'll be dragged into the bloodlust, that sort of thing.
Give me a job
Could be wrong but I remember reading that one of the big inspirations for the game was studio ghibli movies like spirited away, which makes sense
I just wanted to add something to this theory... The leeches also appear to be as hungry as the people on board. I think mostly out of instinct since they immediately chase after Six all over the place. There's even scenes where they fall off the cliff trying to reach for Six with no self awarness. Clearly being desperate.
There is even a death scene with Mono falling into a hole and, I'm assuming, get eaten by rats or leeches. If they are leeches, then this would also connect with them being hungry in the first game.
Yes! I was hungry for Little Nightmares lore!
Lol , i love the pun
uh oh, you fine???
ARE YOU COUGHING???
Aaaaa shi-
well, we're all fucked
Probably wrong on this, but what if the thin man gave six her hunger. He at that point hates her more than anything in the world. Plus we know that LN2 is set before LN1 and six isn’t hungry throughout LN2 but at the end she gets hungry right after dropping mono and escaping the signal tower and then is plagued by it throughout LN1. And shadow six may be a monster created bu the thin man to induce the hunger from six. What better way to get revenge than destroying someone’s humanity and giving them agonising hunger pains
I’m pretty sure the true ending supports this
wait holy shit that actually makes so much sense
I also think she needs more food or like the video said substance each time this happens and the Thin man is prevented somehow from killing Six which is what he wants to do as he’d rather break the never ending cycle of the broadcast tower then revenge. Since he is not able to do this he made the leaches which make people extremely hungry. This is not fatal which is why the guests are always so hungry although he altered the ones he’s given to Six to where she’ll need more and more food and soon she may end up eating the guests until there is no food left. She soon will die from lack of food but not before the tower causes the repeat as the Thin man decided if he had to be trapped she would have to be trapped too
I used to think that it was thin man taking six that gave her, her hunger because this was also the moment shadow six was created and she is heavily tied to the hunger (appearing during the hunger phases and beingthefirstone to look at Maw-poster). But the more I think about it, I actually believe it was her time in the tower that we can blame for the hunger. The tower itself is a representation of hunger since its a hive mind made up of people it consumed. Ontop of that we can clearly see that six was twisted pretty bad during her stay in the tower, so longterm effects are not hard to imagine. What many also overlook is the humming that you can hear during six's hunger phases; it closely resembles the melody of the music box the tower used to mind control six. The hunger is a manifestation of the tower's corruption. Shadow six appearing during the hunger phases is not root of the hunger but rather a side effect due to her being created by thin man using the "magic" of the tower.
Now I know most of us fellt pretty betrayed by six at the end of LN2, but I believe that she fucked HERSELF over REAL BAD with that decision:
When she went to the maw, i dont think she had completely evil intentions. She had this weird hunger and the Maw was a restraunt after all. I also belive her interactions with the gnomes tell us a lot about her character at this point: She saved 1 or 2 of them and even hugged them as collectables. The gnomes serve as a way to humanise her, to show that she is still capeable of showing compassion. For me this proves that even after she betrayed mono, she still wasnt an irredeemable monster; she was just a child trying to do whatever she can to survive. She made horrible decisions but she is the product of an envoirment and events that were beyond horrible. Six is still young and could have changed if given the right input. However over the course of the game her hunger leads her to do terrible things, to lose more and more of her humanity and in the end she even betrays the gnomes. After she eats the lady, she does become very powerful but contrast the scene of her using her powers with the scene of mono using his; not only is the tone in both scenes completely different but gameplay wise we the players had to use the right analog stick (on console) to use mono's power, meaning we had to chose to use his powers, Meaning he had to chose to use his powers, MEANING he can control his powers. In six's scene however, no matter what we do, whenever one of the guest comes to close to her, they are dead, which is awesome in this scene because we are killing the guests but ask yourself this: can she turn that off? What happens if she finds someone who she doesn't wanna kill and that person gets to close? Did she really got rid of hunger issue or did she just gain some new powers? Even if we take the most optimistic answers, her not clearing the maw of all the adults so the other children could escape more easily (and her previous evil decisions) show me that she has become just another monster in this world. A sociopath may say "that's still great for HER! she ensured her own survival and that's all that counts!" But look at what it means to be a monster in the LN-unvierse: THEY ARE ALL PATHETIC! (To be clear: I don't mean the developer did a bad job in designing them)
They are all miserable creatures who look and often sound like the mere act of existing is painful to them. Many of them clearly have lost their mind too. I mean the most powerful creature we met so far is a tower that is (likely) made up of the people it enslaved. They all may seem intimidating but none of us would ever wanna be them. But six is now one of them and while she may look powerful now, keep in mind that one of the biggest themes in LN is rot, decay, the fact that this world must have looked somewhat livable once but now it's a shithole.
Who knows what kind of physical or mental toll six's powers will take on her after a while.
So where does mono's betrayl fit into all of this? I believe that if she didn't betrayed him, he could have prevented the events of the first game:
To understand why, you need to read the promo comics for little nightmares 2. At the end of the 6th one we can see mono hiding in a broken TV as rainwater poured in. What I believed happened next is that the TV shortcuircated, teleporting him into the forest, starting the loop and more importantly: giving him his powers (kinda like Danny got his powers in nickelodeon's "Danny Phantom"). In game we can see mono absorbing glitches, teleporting through tv's and bending reality itself. The last two abilities he wasnt able to do from the start, add to this how thin man had more powers than mono despite being ultimately weaker than him and it becomes easy to imagine that mono could have unlocked all kinds of crazy powers if he had been able to experiment freely. So let me ask you this: If the tower cursed six with her hunger and mono got his powers from the tower, wouldn't he maybe been able to cure six's hunger and prevent her from becoming a monster?.....
@@helmutstein1178 I'm really sorry, but I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying because of your grammar and spelling. :/
Fun fact: every Tericho's video feels like 5 minutes
Thats true
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@Aing Anak Atong Pesaguan123 oop you ruined the thing everyone was doing.
I feel as if the hunger actually represents greed. People in the world we live in, "eat eachother" to muscle for rank, as seen by the guests they eat other humans including Six. Same wih Six her hunger(or greed with my theory) increases when progressing through the game as in real life people get greedier and greedier as time goes on.
The hunger and shadow six only appear after having been in the tower, i think when Mono broke Six's music box he did something to separate Six's soul, making her occasionally hungry for life, which explains why she starts with bread, then meat, then a rat, then a gnome.
She must consume life in order to survive
That's one theory
I've often thought about how the hunger always occur right before she finds normal food.
As if, this ever present force would lose its grip over her if it doesn't strike at the right moment. Otherwise she could never fulfill the purpose of replacing the Lady.
Agree
Take a shot whenever Tericho says "hunger."
I am drunk and facing severe blood loss
i'm dead
Aaaand there goes my liver.
“The Kids Do Need To Eat.” *Mono In The Tower Not Eating For Years*
I think that maybe either one of two things happened to mono. Option 1 time shenanigans or. Option 2 the tower fed mono.
I think that maybe either one of two things happened to mono. Option 1 time shenanigans or. Option 2 the tower fed mono.
@@tntmage5303 Yeah That’s A Good Idea.
Maybe he starved for years to controll it, because it seems like big mono doesn't have a need for consumption wich probally means he doesnt have the hunger, he jusy chases mono and six because he maybe wants to save himself in some way or get revenge idk.@@tntmage5303
New board game idea: Hungry Hungry Nightmares. Just like hungry hungry hippos but the board is the maw, hippos are the guests who eat there, and the “pebbles” they eat is just all the food they eat while they are there. Congratulations, I just gave you a new business so patent it before someone else steals it but I want 5% of the profit of each one sold XD
Btw, love the theories and videos, keep em up 💙
Okay, but can this please be a thing? What if the marbles are children curled up because they’re scared?
@@arcticfox5379 even better idea!!
Oh a put bonus point marbles in the form of the main characters.
@@arcticfox5379
That's what I was thinking! Like little nomes and kids trying to escape the guests' clutches!
Love your content Tericho especially the livestreams
tries not to get demonitized: EaTiNG PeOplE!
youtube: we'll allow it!
It’s just a little snack I promise.
@@Tericho XD ur content is great btw!
Well sticking with your theory perhaps it's that Six is hungry for survival? Makes a bit of sense in the sense that Six is in constant danger and when she's out of danger even briefly it's kind of like coming down off an adrenaline rush and she gets hungry because she knows that if she let's her guard down she might die. Idk, just my own small theory.
LN1 and LN2 spoilers!
I always saw it as Little Nightmares representing Greed, while Little Nightmares 2 represented addiction. I also thought that Six' hunger was a consequence of betraying Mono and stealing some of his power at the end of LN2, which manifested into 'Dark Six' whose guilt and greed keeps eating away at her. Notice in the second game, how Six starts getting more aggressive after the 'kids' kidnap her?
Imagine all those negative feelings being brought to live, so when Six betrays Mono (out of fear/distrust) and gets a taste of power, those negative emotions manifest as Dark Six. This causes her to become painfully hungry as both a consequence of her actions, as well as a desire for more. There's a theory that they're all in a time loop and that the Lady is future Six, which explains why she exposes her neck to Six after you fight her.
So, we can add another child fear to the list: becoming an adult.
@@Karak-_- don't worry i'm already scared of aging
I don't thats the case I see no reason in that thing man has a theorizable motive why would the lady knowing six is her still become the lady for the maw and feed the people thats not like her at all also thin man knows all of monos moves because he made them the lady is never a step ahead of six the mirror thing isn't like six either only thing I see similar is apperance
I have not been active with the livestream but have still been watching the videos keep up the good work🙏🏾
im not hungry for power. I'm not hungry for food. I'm not hungry for money, fame or food. I'm only hungry for theories from this channel about little nightmares.
I'm so happy little nightmares isn't completely dead yet
Great vid btw
I don’t know if this could fuel any bigger theories, but I became interested on how The Maw got its name and if it was related to The Nest from Very Little Nightmares. From what I could find, “maw” was an older term to refer to a stomach, usually of humans rather than animals.
What really stuck out to me was how the description pointed out that it was especially used to refer to “comical greed”. A sentence that it used as an example was “he was stuffing cupcakes down his maw as fast as he could”. This is pretty much exactly how the guests on the ship ate. Greed is also a huge thing we see throughout the game.
Maw actually means mouth. Which is probably why the entrance of the maw looks like a mouth, which the guests ironically enter and never return.
Almost like they are entering the jaws of a giant beast. They think they go their to eat, but they end up eaten.
Six: *enters the same room where the guests are*
Guests: Ifood
Also guests: How do you taste like?
Player: Nooooo! Leave me alone!
Six: Run.
@@lukascisar6740 *_[Music]_*
You know, the way you explained The Hunger, for the guests, is similar to the Slither parasite. Where they constantly eat and eat until they burst.
Your videos are like you, absolutely cool! Unscripted or scripted doesn't really make a difference for me, but you unscripted videos are as good as your scripted ones!
Theory: remember the true ending in little nightmares 2? Let's just for a second assume that six was in some way effected by gaining mono's power to pass through TV screens. Since we don't see her hungry in little nightmares 2 at all, I guess she only developed that hunger by gaining this power, which she needed to escape the signal tower (this is assuming little nightmares 2 is in fact a prequel to the first game, which would actually make much more sense if you think about it)
Just noticed how like spirited away this is in the general theme
i know im a total little nightmares fiend like a lot of your subs but every time i see youve posted a new LN video i get so excited
I love this, because it doesn't stretch things too far with hammering things in, but it also does address as much as it can. Magnificent work Tericho, you get a like and subscribe for this! That, and I might bookmark this video in particular...
Little nightmares will be a classic to play :)
You don't know how happy I am watching your videos! Hope your channel really gets more recognition.
Game designer #1: "Hey, I'm realizing that 'the hunger' is wildly inconsistent and confusing..." Game designer #2: "Don't worry, the internet will figure out an explanation for us."
That poor gnome… he was so ready to share his sausage with 6 and instead she ate him…
Right when I was going to listen to music and clean my room
Rewatching all the Tericho theories in anticipation for 3 is excellent, and I am remembering so much. Listen from the beginning of the playlist to see the evolution of theory crafting and experience the inventive genius and power of observation of the Tericho theories!!
So you mentioned a spell having been cast upon the guests which seems about right but what if it's also by the signal and not only the lady? What if Thin Man altered the signal to "put a bounty on Six's head"? We see the bullies are satisfied when capturing Six and don't hunt Mono, they only attack him if they happen to find him
Love the video so much. Always love your little nightmares content, videos, theories about the game. 🥰
It's interesting how the Guests' and Six's hungers have opposite symptoms in a way that remind me of a type of constant hunger that leads to obesity vs. anorexic fasting and binges. I don't know how prevalent it is for the themes but it's something I noticed.
Another metaphor is that the guests PREFER to eat the living player, even when surrounded with every option to choose from- assuming even others like her already prepared to eat.
We might have an explanation for this after the audio series!
@@Tericho Heyo thanks for the thoughtful content about a truly intriguing story! I’ve left a few minor theories and thoughts of my own on several of your videos today pertaining to the specific details of things that I wasn’t able to determine wether or not they were touched on by someone else. I have several more, still, but, since you’re a responsive theory-crafter, I shall deliberate them a bit further before posting/check comments for repeat theories.
notice when 6 eats there's a glitching version of her somewhere on the screen, like there's a part of her that's controlling her in that instance and making her hungry
Only Tericho can talk about video game characters being hungry for 10 minutes
Maybe they try to eat Six because the hood of her raincoat makes her look like a Dorito
I’d also like to point out that the ship itself is consuming people in a way. Besides being called “The Maw”, a synonym for a mouth, we know that none of it’s customers come back, implied to be chopped up ands served to the next guests. So I think that it’s “consuming” it’s customers to prolong it’s business, whatever that business is, I’m not sure what’s in it for the lady.
Great theroy, i didnt think about the diferent hunger thing that much so thats cool
I love these theory videos, but I was wondering if you'll make more fran bow content on the future
I would honestly love to but the algorithm buried my Fran Bow videos.
@@Tericho that's horrible, I really liked them
lovve all the theories, hope you keep little nightmares series up!!!
Yo Tericho started watching back in 2020 I love your videos man
I think the series does a "sins of excess" for different games like gluttony
I don't remember when but I'm a fanfic writer for ln and I remember looking up symptoms of starvation and coughing was one of them. Idk if it is actually but that explained her coughing for me.
Ig we call it hunger bc of the og title but Six isn't just a little peckish, she's downright starving like she hasn't eaten in months.
In the game lore I figured shadow six was the reason, like part of her soul was gone and she had this hollow feeling inside that acts up. Walking corpse type shit ig
@@angelicgacha
That's very interesting
The bonus scene in little nightmares 2 makes it seem like she got cursed
everyone : *making theories of horror games *
the game creator that just wanted to make a scary game : i shall allow this
damn always love your ln vids! you’re a wonderful narrator and very good at piling up many good theories into one spot! excited for more!! :D
I love your little nightmares videos please do more, although I understand the lack of content and benefits of making videos on other series.
I've always wanted to see a video like this!
Thank you RUclips for recommending it!
Like my hunger for more Little Nightmares content hehehe... I'll be in the Pale City waiting for more of this stuff.
The gas the guests remind me of the sin of greed.
And the people in the city remind me of the sin of like sloth or something.
I've noticed more sins in the first. Consuming blood tends to be symbolic of the sin of lust. The Janitor fits more with greed for me as he has a room of collected dolls and toys that he hordes and plays with on his downtime. The chefs could represent pride as they clearly take great pride in their work making all that food, even going out of their mind chasing Six when they see her and adding her (as a possible delicacy) to the food. The guests are obviously gluttony. The other children could be sloth, as they don't try to escape or fight back when the Janitor has them wrapped in a tarp and sent to the kitchens. (The nomes could also be sloth as they rarely do anything, but we do see them work the furnace in the DLC). The Lady is envy as she is obsessed with her looks--staring into the mirrors constantly and likely jealous of the children for their youth, so she has no qualms about having them killed to sate the guests and keep the Maw going. And finally, Six best fits the sin of wrath. Being hunted constantly by monsters, unable to fight back, anyone would get frustrated. And once Six has gained the Lady's powers, the first thing she does is kill the guests that tried to eat her. She even has a sort of aggressive stance as she stands over the Lady's corpse amidst the swirling dark magic. The anger in her is unmistakable.
i barely know shit about this series, but i guess there's some deep intricate lore I missed.
These videos never fail to make my day. Incredible work yet again :)
The hunger that the guest has can be considered more of an addiction.
In LN2, the shadow-Monos look like tv static and seem to imply remnants of Mono left in places since it’s confirmed the story takes place within a time loop. Shadow-Six first appears after she escapes the broadcast tower, but we keep seeing shadow-Six every time she gets hungry. I think that whole ordeal she went through in LN2, with being taken through the tv screens multiple times, being contorted into that beastly form, all that made her soul fragment, and the remnant of that soul manifests as shadow-Six. The loss of her soul infects her with a desperate hunger, which is why she progresses from eating normal food to taking lives.
I have a theory of why the lady has so many statues of herself. I think it’s because she she’s herself how she is inside (when looking at a mirror) when she’s looking at her statue it’s her, it’s her image but not a reflection so she doesn’t view herself as she does currently but she sees her self as how she saw her image before being so evil (then she doesn’t view herself as disgusting, how she is inside). I phrased this badly but you probably get what I’m saying.
2:30 this part...i remember i died so many time bro...
1:24 you and me, buddy, you and me
RUclips has done me dirty and not put you in my recommend for ages! Good to see I'm back in time for my little nightmares content !
I'll be having words with RUclips!
@@Tericho haha! Glad to have you back on my algorithm! 😂
@@HannahCharlesworth98 Glad to have *you* back! Hope you enjoy the content you missed!
I love that I'm watching this while nervously eating
I love these so much
Hunger would have been the most generic horror game title ever, little nightmares is such an iconic game title and so perfect for this series. I believe it helped the game’s success adamantly
Fun fact - clumber is a word, but it means a type of spaniel - dog.
It's 1am but I'm still gonna watch this
love your vids keep up the great work
Whenever I forget to eat a meal and go without food for too long I tend to cough quite a bit to try to alleviate pain.
fun fact
the guests, while constantly in their glutonous rampage, never even swallow their food, unable to, it simply goes in their mouths and then falls back out, for them to notice it again and for the cycle to repeat
Just played through the game. Literally had never seen Dark Six. Had to look her up on the wiki to make sure you werne't lying lmao.
Five minutes in and Hunger doesn’t sound like a real work anymore
I could watch you talk about LN forever.
I read it as not literal hunger, but a feeling of emptiness and everyone's just trying to fill the emptiness with something
Your unscripted videos are just as entertaining as your scripted ones. Good cadence and delivery. And yes, clamber is a word, you smart cookie. ;)
Thank you! Too kind as always. I must have read the word somewhere before.
Sounds like the spell is in the food served to the guests. Six knows this so she avoids the food she finds until she is so hungry that killing and eating something is her only choice.
Aside from power, the Lady has a very evident need to "feed" her own ego. She keeps mannequins of herself by the dozens, leaves bits of her dark magic scattered all over the Maw in figurines that look like her, and refrains from throwing out broken mirrors because she can't resist gazing into them in private, despite knowing their presence and condition is a dead giveaway that *intact* reflections pose a danger to her.
I've interpreted little nightmares taking place in a brothel. The patrons eating the kids is a metaphor for molesting them. 6's hunger is a need for affection but given the horrors she endures it morphs into something darker.
I think ur projecting cuz there's no hint of anything like that not even metaphorically unless thats a perception bc of ur own reality....sending love and positivity ur way.
Really great video!! I loved your explanation of it and it adds a ton to the story of the games.
Nice video to start this morning :D
I think they know they are being fed children so that's why they get excited when they see six to consume her
not sure if you remember, but LN2 shows the first time six gets hungry. it happens after she escapes the signal tower and her shadow/soul points to a poster of the maw. this might imply that six no longer has a soul in her, which would be why she needs to eat living things.
The video was actually very good!
Ahhhh another great vid
Perhaps the guests were before normal people, coming to the maw for the allure of a low-cost buffet, and the lady’s spell puts them under the effects of the hunger.
I think you're right with the need for consumption, it's infinite hunger without satiation and satisfaction. Think about it: The guest are eating seemingly infinite amounts and they come to the Maw with the sheer desire to eat. I think they are in a similar condition as the Viewers in Little Nightmares 2. They are mere shells, hunger without satiaition or escapism without escape. It's like a deasease and as such an overarching theme for Little Nightmares. The guest will get eaten, too. The Maw itself is the circular system of hunger and consumption. It needs more of everything, like a curse or a disease from which there is no escape. Six is like a foreign body or parasite that brings a new dimension or kind of hunger into the existing system the Maw.
I definitely agree that the main theme of Little Nightmares I is hunger in general. Hunger for food, hunger for power, hunger for anything.
Little Nightmares II I feel is more of a message about escapism and the possible dangerous rabbit hole that one can go down in and get lost should they delve into their escapism too deep.
A common theme in LN 2 is having something that is meant to copy something else, but not quite hitting the mark. Take for example the Hunter and his taxidermy. We know he likes to stuff the things that he hunts and we can find several alive-n’t beings that are the same. As well as this, his hunting is also probably his escape from a cold harsh reality, a bag for a head that has one tiny hole to look through to ignore everything else except whatever he is hunting.
The Teacher also follows this pattern as she is teaching a school full of fake students made of porcelain. They are quite literally hollow and fake inside. They are also children that will probably never grow up and will probably never learn. It’s another ESCAPE from reality.
The Doctor I feel has some of the most evidence for this as he creates mannequins that are supposed to replicate human life. It’s unclear if he’s fully aware of what he’s doing, but he’s definitely trying to occupy himself too. The patients themselves are quoted as going to the Doctor to “escape their boredom” or something like that, once again hammering that idea home about escaping from reality.
Of course, there are the people in the city that find their escape through the broadcasts in the TV’s, that one is obvious. That is very obvious escapism.
There is also twisted Six in the tower where her escape from a cold reality is the music box. That is her escape from her reality. She also lashes out when her escape is broken.
That’s another thing. All of the enemies tend to lash out when their escapism is broken. The Hunter is violent by nature, of course, but enemies like the Teacher actively want to UN-ALIVE Mono and Six because they take them out of their escapism. Mono and Six are real children, not the dolls that the Teacher uses. Mono and Six interfere with the Doctor’s work on his patience and he lashes out in return. The viewers lash out at the children when they get to close or when they are not occupied by a TV to escape to. And, of course, Six lashes out when Mono breaks her only escape from a cruel world.
The Thin Man himself is a metaphor for escapism. A never ending cycle. Living in a harsh world and finding an escape. The time that passes by will turn you into something without you even noticing it. Then, when you escape, it’s like you can’t tell what’s the real reality and what’s your own. The Thin Man clearly walks this line between real and not real as he never seems fully present within the world and therefore does not need to follow its rules, but is present enough to interact with it. What Mono fails to do… is escape his escapism.
Make sense? XD
Clambered was the perfect word to use there
Great video
Loved the video awesome
six' hunger can be explained by little nightmares 2. After being captured by the tall man and staying in the TV for a long time, she actually left a piece of her soul into it. Therefore she isn't really hungry for food, rather than for a missing piece of herself. That also explains why she chose to eat the little guy who offered her food
I love your insight into these games so far! What I'm wondering is where the Granny factors into the hunger theme. It's difficult to see what she does with Runaway once she catches him, but I did see part of the death animation where she seems to "embrace" him underwater. Perhaps she hungers for company? After all, she was abandoned. Perhaps blinded by the insanity that comes from prolonged isolation, her greatest desire was company...even if that company was drowned.
Also, having seen your videos on the Thin Man's Time Paradox theory, there is something I'd like to draw your attention to. I played the segment again where Mono finally opens the Thin Man's door, and while it's very faint, you can see a number 6 on the door before it slowly opens. I don't think Six's name is a coincidence. What if in this looping cycle, Mono was trapped in the Signal Tower 5 times before. What if Six gets her name because she is the sixth catalyst of the renewed cycle, hence why the number 6 is on the door? It could be like what you were saying about there being previous versions of the Hunter, Teacher, Doctor, and especially the Thin Man. This, of course, begs the question...will there be a Seven? Will the cycle ever be broken? Six has shown herself to be above the Hunger Cycle in the Maw, having killed the Lady. Could the Thin Man's cycle be broken, too? It would mean that Seven would have to not drop Mono.
Could say that six progressively needing more is a metaphor for how someone slowly becomes a horrible person.
When i was on the guest level i actually was hungry when i saw all that food ❤❤❤
a theoryy!
loved this video!!
I was in class when he released the video
R.I.P at least I can watch now
That cough before the hunger is probably acid reflux 🤷🏼♀️
Okay I just wanna say something I've been thinking about for a while, the Signal Tower in LN2, the exit kinda looks like the TV's Mono can go through near the end of the game after he defeats the Thin Man. After Six drops Mono she walks toward the exit to the place, so I'm thinking she somehow took some of Mono's power (world bending, teleporting through tv's etc.) so she could leave, but maybe she took too much of it and it was too much for her body to handle and it split into 2, Shadow Six and her hunger, I'm not quite sure but it's been on my mind for a while. Apologies if I spelled anything wrong or offended you with my theory, thank you for reading.
But shadow six already existed before she betrayed mono
It's just a theory, and I didn't know-
*Wait shadow Six existed in Very little nightmares-*
@@_ghostboyfriend_3460 no, shadow six was created when thin man abducted six for the first time. She is a glitch like those we find althrouout the game as collectables. I can copy paste you my theory about the origins of the hunger and the bigger underlying tragedy of six's betrayl if you want to
@@helmutstein1178 but the order of the games is Very little Nightmares, Little Nightmares 2, and then little nightmares 1. Because yes, I knew that's how Six got shadow her, I just wanted to know your thought process, I will spoil the games without hesitation I'm just saying that, because of what happens with the Pretender, The girl in the yellow raincoat, and Six in Very little nightmares and Six didn't have a raincoat in that game nor little nightmares 2 until after you finish the school.
@@_ghostboyfriend_3460 I know. But do we see shadow six in very little nightmares? If not then her origins clearly lie in LN2 when thin man abducted six