A couple of quick notes: first, I'm well aware of the popular theory that the Runaway Kid was "Seven" 🙃 Second, I neglected to mention a very significant detail: during the guest chase sequence, a portrait can be seen on the wall depicting the Lady AND the girl in the yellow dress. This would seem to debunk the idea that they could be the same person, and it very well might, but I think there’s an argument to be made that the portrait is showing her past and present self. In Six’s “safe room” in the Signal Tower, portraits on the back wall appear to show her present and future selves, and in the middle spot is the same girl with her eyes scratched out - if this was actually the Lady as a child, then the portrait could easily be foreshadowing Six’s consumption of her at the end of Little Nightmares. This is extremely speculative, not confirmed by any means, but is nonetheless a way for the theory presented here to still work.
i like to think kids like six and mono are like the four horsemen of the appocolypse for the nowhere. They are there to make the nowhere collapse. Mono is a word for single or one, coincidence, no. Mono also means doll I thought that was nice.
So, I believe their numeral names do not mean their *own* names, it may actually be the name of the title of the position they have over the world. Mono (One) Two Three Four Five Six And Seven Seemingly fits better as a given title, rather than a name. A general or a commander is an example of a title, like what I just described. TLDR, their names are not truly their names, it's just their given title by the inhabitants of this world.
You might want to check out “itsjustjord”, “itstimetotheorize” and “Superhorrorbro”, all three of them are followed by the people who make the game and two of them were even recruited to help with the sounds of nightmares podcast. They have a good track record in theorizing, a lot of their stuff was even added to the wiki and their even followed by the people who make the games.
In the little nightmares fandom, only three pro theorists have made efforts to sort through the lore, “itsjustjord”, “itstimetotheorize” and “Superhorrorbro”, they have a really good track record in confirmed theories, I really recommend them, a lot of their stuff was even added to the wiki. According to them, Six broke the cycle of successors for the title of Lady of the Maw by making the decision to leave the Maw. The Thin man of little nightmares 2 was Mono, but the former resident of the black signal tower that Mono defeated, was the tall dark figure in Chp.6 of the little nightmares digital comics. The portrait of the girl in the Maw, was the girl in the yellow raincoat from very little nightmares, who was the adopted daughter of the Lady but was treated more so as a possession, another doll in the Lady’s collection and a reflection of who she used to be before becoming the Lady of the Maw. They theorized Six’s never ending hunger was the result of losing part of herself in the Pale City, Dark six, who may actually be a piece of Six’s soul. They also theorized Six has no memory of Mono or anything else from before, even after Mono saved her, but Dark six does and had been guiding Six through the Maw to help her obtain and use the Lady’s powers to reabsorb her, apparently after six bit the lady and gained her powers, dark six was standing next to her.
Surprised you didn't include Tericho in that list. But I agree, their theories are awesome! I've been watching them for years now and am quite familiar with the summary you've given here. However, Little Nightmares is an evolving franchise, and with The Sounds of Nightmares re-contextualizing everything we know about this world, I think there's room to revisit and rethink established theories.
@@indiexplorergames that’s what a lot of them are doing. In regards to Tericho, everyone knows about him, but a lot of us have noticed that he hasn’t really been making any theories lately on little nightmares over the years like he used to. He likes the game, we like what he’s added in theories, but he’s not as dedicated to it as the others, his focus has been mainly towards poppy playtime now. Superhorrorbro has also stopped as of lately because of personal issues he’s trying to sort through and because he’s trying to release his own game. Itsjustjord and itstimetotheorize have been the most active now.
I loved your interpretation! However it fell unbalanced as you stated to claim that the girl in the paintings is The Lady's daughter (rather much rcg) There is no source of proof of that matter If The Lady had a daughter, wouldn't you assume for there to be a children's room somewhere in her residence? Even some toys representing that?
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 it’s not my interpretation, this is what those professional theorists I listed had to say. They theorized the Lady treated the girl like another one of her dolls, all the dolls were sectioned off in a doll room, so the girl lived a horrible life with the Lady and chose to escape. They found details in very little nightmares showing the Maw and the Nest were connected, including packages with the Maw’s symbol being prepared for shipping, a book about the Maw in the kids room and a tapestry showing the blimp floating above the Ferryman’s boat. They theorized the Lady gets a lot of her dolls from the Nest and was the only place the raincoat girl could take the blimp to .
@penguin32700 Those "professional theorists" don't have enough resources to back up their bold claims, that is what makes them interpretations on their behalf
Dude, are you the only person that has stated these theories? I have watched channels that center themselves around this franchise and nobody has said what you’ve said…but what you’ve said is mind blowing and makes all the sense in the world. I have never seen and heard about the picture of 5 surrounded by 4 shadows or the clear 6 stages of the Thin Man growing up. This was amazing. Hell, there are 6 stages in each of those slides of generational trauma. I actually think you’ve got it. I’ve heard so many theories that are stupid and make no sense, but yours is perfect. Is there something that links Granny to being 4?
A very good question! The Granny remains something of an enigma to me. I like the idea that the previous Lady gets cast into the depths to be forgotten, and there is some evidence for that - like the 3 pictures in Six's music box room in the Signal Tower - but I'm not totally convinced yet. It's hard to get around the fact that we see Five get consumed (killed?) by Six, meaning she wouldn't become the next Granny. This is a pretty notable omission from the theory that I'm still mulling over.
It's just a message on our society...Once you fight, and defeat the thing that was your enemy, you become the enemy you sought so hard to fight, so on, so forth. Of course the cycle can be broken, however a change within the consciousness itself must be affected, meaning that old consciousness must die before there is a *real* change.
I personally believe that the entire series is just one long-term scheme by the Signal Tower/Nowhere itself to eliminate and/or neutralize any and all possible threats to its power. Mono: He has some sort of supernatural powers that appear to border on reality-warping, and is eventually enslaved by the Tower. The Lady: Could possibly be a rebel of sorts, wanting nothing to do with the system of Nowhere (it's stated that the Maw is her attempt to escape the outside world) and seeking only her own self-benefit; she is killed by Six, who the Signal Tower took advantage of after the Thin Man captured her. Six: She's just a tool used to put Mono in a position where he can be effectively brainwashed into serving the Nowhere and dispose of The Lady; She has no idea of what the bigger picture is, so she's not a threat, even after acquiring The Lady's powers. The Nest Monsters: All of them either are already subservient to Nowhere, so they can bereft alone; The Pretender is killed off because she could potentially result in souls being destroyed entirely without any benefit to Nowhere; one theory suggests that the Nest's monsters were the result of the Lady experimenting and trying to come up with more ways to acquire power on her own.
YESS!!! Im so glad somebody else also see's the generational trauma. This video makes me feel very understood!! Thank you! Your work is very appreciated.
I'm glad theorists have latched on to the prospect of the maw being alive, much like the signal tower. They both seem to be dependant on some sort of vice, be it greed, gluttony, narcissism or vanity. Offering something thats convenient but corrupts and destroys people's sense of self. I think thats arguably part of the reason Six betrays Mono in LN2. The thin man put them in an isolated space with their music box, giving Six the safety they wanted but turning them into a monster as a result.
Even though she was a victim like the other children, she is still a backstabber for what she did to Mono. In a way, she caused her own torturous fate as well as trapped Mono in a time loop he may never escape from.
If this is true, it makes me wonder what happened to the nest, as it seemed to be pretty similar to the maw. I mean, I mean, if the pretender was the keeper and she died in the ocean with the rain coat girl, who would take her place? But then again the pretender is much smaller than the adults, so she could be a kid, but she’s also bigger than the kids. I don’t know if she’s meant to be growing into some sort of keeper, maybe she’s an adult who kept childhood practices like the lady. A curious thing to note is that she has a picture of herself and her parents
Maybe her parents try to really keep her alive so she would grow to be a Keeper of the Maw, there are Maw books in the nursery and the boxes where the dolls come have the same eye, perhaps they thought that keeping her lock in the Mansion until she grew would help her turn into a keeper and it seem to kinda work? She has some powers like high pitch scream and when touches someone they clothes are the only things left kinda when The Lady turns a kid into a nome, there are a bunch of nomes in the nest so maybe she's really growing to replace the lady
I'm sure someone from Bandai namco answered some questions about LN2. And there was a question: "How can time loop stop if everyone is affected by it?" And Bandai namco responded with "not everyone is affected." I'm sure there is a video abt it.
That's the thing, Six DID break the generational cycle. Six is not like The Lady, but they stray on parallel lines. That is what makes their conflict so unique to me. Someone who you used to be and the threat of the person you could have become. They are direct metaphors for each other. That in itself makes my chest hurt.
Based on everything I’ve come to understand about Little Nightmares’s world it’s not too unlikely to assume the radio tower / maw / the Pale City, it’s all one giant or multiple different living organisms. From what I understand the entire planet could be one giant eyeball connected in matter.
@@indiexplorergamesand are you saying that 6 cruel fate will be a time Loop as well as mono who quickly changed into the Thin Man like while the time Loop wasn't really a Time Loop well it was but not for sex it was just like a Time Loop for mono or all eternity time Loop for mono but 6 is a hero that early doesn't need to be in a Time Loop you know considering if it was a time Loops the first game would have never happened
@@indiexplorergamesand like in 0:17 I'm not a disagreeing with you or anything like that but are you really sure those are ashes that comes down from the floor after the doctor crawls on the ceiling are you sure that's not dandruff you know from his hair you know monsters can I work pretty differently like how the teacher writes on the chalkboard but like if you go into free camera it's actually just a bunch of scribbles
Good theory but I don’t think Little Nightmares should just be thought as a giant loop. The same way I don’t think the lady was a previous version of Six or Six is destined to take The Lady’s place. I think the loop theory is only for LN2 and it’s a closed off loop not effecting the whole world. I don’t think LN3 will end with a loop either proving not everything is a loop. But we will see so excited for LN3 :)
I kind of agree with you, for Little Nightmares 1 at least - I don't think Six fully took the place of the Lady, because I don't think she stuck around to run the Maw, which she would have to do in order to grow up to be the Lady someday. The cycle of the Maw, at least, is broken if Six leaves... though Six isn't necessarily spared from the greater child-to-monster cycle overall, since she seems set to go on a dark path (which, to be clear, i love that for her, i think monstrous protagonists are neat) given what she's had to do to survive and break the Maw cycle to begin with.
OMG Finally! Nice to see someone else talking about the validity of this theory, although me personally, I don't subscribe to the theory of Mono being in a time loop with the Thin Man, it just wouldn't make sense when we consider the comics. Here's what I posted a couple weeks back on RDC's last video of their Little Nightmares 2 playthrough. I made this comment under a reply giving them context of the story. Sorry if it's a little wordy: _"Fyi this is all theory stuff. Me personally I don't think it's a time loop since we see the Thin Man operate outside of the loop which we see in the comics. It's more likely that Mono just simply took the Thin Man's place, same as it's implied Six took the Lady's place. It's like a cycle of abuse that is thematically tackled through the lens of children, growing up in a harsh world filled with adults who seem threatening to them, only for the kids to grow up exactly the same as the monsters they're trying to survive against. They develop powers after surviving long enough in the Nowhere, this being symbolic of a child growing up to learn how to better adapt to an adult's world, turning that into something that can signify change, or something that continues the cycle like we see here. It's also implied too that Six might also dislike Mono due to the music box being destroyed, as before Mono tried to destroy it, Six was friendly towards Mono. They even trusted him enough to share the music box with him. It was when Mono finally destroyed it that Six decided to betray him then and there. The music box was Six's only means of escapism, with escapism acting as the main theme of the second game. The viewers get violent when the TVs get turned off, with the Signal Tower using the desires others have to escape the cruel world in order to try and feed off of them. It drains away their life using media as an outlet, something easily digestible. Thematically speaking that's similar to how some people operate in real life, the ones trying to hide away in their homes under constant fear of the outside world. If they're only sitting in front of a screen all day wasting time that could be spent making memories and going to see the good the world has to offer, then they're really just wasting the already short lifespan they have as a human. They'd rather remain hermits and trade said time in order to stay confined in their own little bubble where they control what the consume._ _Anyways, sorry for the yapping. I tend to do that for things I like a lot. Again, this is just my personal theory and I don't want to act like anyone else's theory is wrong. I just took away something different and that's okay. These games are made to be seen through more than one perspective."_
Thank you for sharing! I used to subscribe wholeheartedly to the Time Loop theory myself, but after The Sounds of Nightmares, I've been reconsidering the possibility that the Thin Man is being replaced by a new child like the Lady is. That's why for this theory I left both options open, I think it works either way, and each side has compelling evidence imo.
@@indiexplorergames Mhm, no problem! I like the Cycle of Abuse/Torment theory because it also lines up narratively. Maybe it's because of that lack of narrative structure that the time loop theory has, but the Cycle of Abuse/Torment theory stuck out to me when considering the narrative implications. Maybe that's why I'm more drawn to it. LOL
The way you talk about the thin man and the lady being keepers, makes me think of Davey Jones from pirates of the Caribbean where the Dutchman has to have a captain in a similar manner. The question I’d ask is why these entities need to have a human figurehead? Are they needed to anchor them to reality? Are there there to provide the entities a way to understand humans enough to tempt them with things they would want? Or are they there to act as distractions to any who try to stop them by giving them a sock puppet target without revealing their true selves so any resistance won’t realise they are aiming the wrong way until they are caught?
Just gotta say this is some really great content sir....super smart and really insightful.... I've never played the game but while I enjoy watching the game play...the lore......the story...is just brilliant to me... So your discussion on it is brilliant to me also... Major credit and props to you and the channel!
in little nightmares 2 i believe that it's not a cycle but just the thin man coming back in time to stop himself from six,way less metaphorical. there is no proof to what happened to six after the end of little nightmares 1,she didn't not become THE lady,but she might became the next lady and if this is a loop,the events of the 1st game would not happen as six would be stuck in the cycle of little nightmares 2 (LN2 is a prequel to LN1 btw) This is just my theory and i can be proven wrong
Maybe in LN3 we can see the Fall of the Nowhere Cuz Low and Alone tries to Escape Nowhere But the only possible way to escape is to break the Cycle Meaning freeing Vital Characters like Thin Man (Signal Tower influence are spread around the Nowhere, In Sounds of Nightmares the door Noone Entered has an Eye which is Connected to Signal Tower but who knows maybe there's more Adults of Nowhere, That's incharge of the Nowhere, which currently are Ferryman and Thin Man, I think The Lady isn't part of it since her influence isn't as wide as this Two) But Ferryman would not let it We could see him in Action
The doctor shedding what might be soot? Isn't that just loose dust getting knocked loose from this absolutely hulking freak of a man crawling around on the ceiling? You see it all the time with large characters.
At the end of the first game we can hear a ship coming to the maw, so I don't think six was just standing there to "rule" the sound of ship and how six walks out more likely suggests that she was going to leave that place
I think the thing with thr thinman is that he wanted to Stop Mono from becoming the thinman taking Six corrupting her trying to protect Mono from beein betrayed again. The 6 on the door could be a warning for Mono that six will betray him
The Maw remind me of the biblical Leviathan - he emitt sweet fumes to lure lost souls to his maw, similiar to the food that lure the guests, and coils around the material plane, to stop soul to reach enlightment, by swallow them back to the cycle of rebirth in gnostic lore. Also, hes similiar ti the island-sized monsters, the ray-like yokai Akaei, norse hafgufa and lyngbakr, the base for the Kraken's legend.
I have to tell you all my LN huge theory. Mono’s real power is not travelling in tvs… his real power is that he skipped death. Let me explain. In the comics, Mono is getting chased by a mysterious figure that IS NOT THE THINMAN. Then, he hides in a tv and gets killed (we can hear him getting killed) but he survives as a glitch. He kills his opponent and runs away. Before, he hide is face whit the paper bag (probably bc he was getting called ugly and bullied) but now he has to hide his Eyes because they are all pitch black bc he is now a glitch. Then, he meets Six/Noone and fights the THINMAN… BUT ! We never really see the THINMAN getting killed we only see him desepering… In the signal tower, if Mono/the player goes next to a door (not in it) we can see his true self… a glitch. That’s why when he fights the THINMAN his power his stronger than ever. He is tired of hiding is glitch side. Then he finds six/noone as a monster. When he calls her, he is literally destroying his desquise to rescue her. Then he gets betrayed. (In the room with the chair, if he screams,we will no longer see him as a glitch) So I don’t think that Mono is the THINMAN I think in the cutscene we only see THINMAN’s origins and we see how he once was a little boy like mono getting transformed. Also in the end of LN 1 dlc we can see him in the tv…
It's a really bold claim with no source or proof to back it up Chapter 6 of the mobile comics is probably my most hated chapter because I don't know what they were trying to achieve with and what it means? I gave up on it and just assumed that the Mono in chapter 6 is a previous Mono via cycle and not the current one we play as in game
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 I do have some proofs in my theory. Second of all, u say that u think that ch6 of the comics is just an another sicle. Were r ur proofs ? From what I know, a sicle cannot be changed if it’s a time sicle.
i have a theory that the nowhere is a realm of either dreams or nightmares that some entity (or entities) are corrupting it causing the loops and the ferryman/candleman is trying to bring kids in with hopes that they could restore the spiral
@@indiexplorergamesI’m pretty sure it got confirmed that the 6 on the thin man’s door isn’t actually there. Like someone found the texture to that specific door and there isn’t any sign of a number on it. I think maybe the lighting made it look like there was a 6 on the door? I’m not fully sure, but still an interesting theory nonetheless!
Idk man - 'why doesnt she get rid of the mirror or come after you when you break the vase?' because those are the game mechanics, you need to defeat the woman somehow and if you don't see the mirror you can't make the connection. The soot stuff falling from the fat doctor is because he's heavy on the ceiling, not because it's foreshadowing. It's a cool idea behind all this but I think a lot of the game is deliberaltely abstract, literally like a nightmare.
Hard to say for certain, and others might have a different take on this, but personally I think so. That's the great tragedy of LN2 - Six COULD have saved Mono from his terrible fate, but CHOOSES not to, and in doing so perpetuates the cycle of suffering. Had she chosen to pull him up instead, I don't think that necessarily would have ended the loop entirely, but Mono - at least, this specific "Mono" - would have been saved from it.
Do children have to be biologically related to their abusers when it comes generational trauma? Bojack Horseman tackled this and how Bojack pretty much traumatized and ultimately indirectly killed Sarah Lynn.
Trauma by itself is not genetic, the actions of the adults transfer the trauma to the through their experiences together, for example if the adult is alcoholic and drinks daily then the kid watching all of this will end up being alcoholic
The lady couldn't be 5 or any numbers under 6 there are already children with those titles. I believe that low and alone will find a way to tether with the cycle and we will see the two favorite protagonist freed from being turned into adults and maybe they will reflect on each other hence lows power of mirrors or reflections. Or maybe he will only save six from becoming the lady with mirrors possibly
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 true but its left up to interpretation because on the sheet it showed the kids in a number patern 1 aka mono to 6 aka six so I think it's ok to assume those other kids are labeled by numbers too
Maybe the parents of The Pretender try to really keep her alive so she would grow to be a Keeper of the Maw, there are Maw books in the nursery and the boxes where the dolls come have the same eye, perhaps they thought that keeping her lock in the Mansion until she grew would help her turn into a keeper and it seem to kinda work? She has some powers like high pitch scream and when touches someone they clothes are the only things left kinda when The Lady turns a kid into a nome, there are a bunch of nomes in the nest so maybe she's really growing to replace the lady, The nest doesn't seem really to be alive like the other big places maybe she wishes to have one as well so her parents build a extremely big Mansion where she can pretend to be Keeper her dolls would the souls and body's she uses to keep her place running, they're placed as if they were eating in a beautiful dinning hall or watching TVs she even drinks Tea with them but maybe she doesn't want to be a keeper after she breaks the red scarf doll she crys in q bench since maybe she thought the doll was really alive since the ponytail kinda pulled her and made a mess in the dinning hall, maybe wanted to punish her but didn't meant to break her thats why she cries beside the broken doll on the floor
@@user-kapcanych it was just another theoretical question. That's all little Nightmares is, it's just us theorizing because we don't have any true answers. No need to get snappy 💀 if you don't want to partake in their question just ignore it next time.
@@Audacity74-h The Cycle With Six Is Less Literal, Six And The Lady Aren't The Same Entity Like How Mono Is To The Thin Man, Six Just Becomes Morally Like The Lady At The End Of The First Game, Effectively Usurping Her Position As Villain, Taking It For Herself.
@@FormerlyIvorMinecraftStoryMode if you’re saying that Six becomes the new Lady. That’s a different story, I thought they meant it like Six was the Lady we went against.
I would happen if all the children just decided not to follow the steps and not become the new adult social alerts of little nightmare one and two that what because the old ones are dead because they can age and what happens. He had absorb powers that the host already dead to absorb the powers.
Your theory about the woman being five is incorrect because spoiler alert for anyone that has played very little nightmares but in the ending you see that the person you were playing as falls to her death. Plus your theory with seven could be correct if not for the fact that seven was truned into a geom than eaten by Six.
This might be a bit longwinded, but here’s my theory for it lol: The LN comics (which may or may not be canon) showcase six risking being around the janitor to obtain a music box. In LN2, she is discovered by mono entranced by the music box, and some say she betrays mono at the end because he destroys the music box. The music box could be symbolic of escapism; or youth. The lady keeps children aboard the maw and doesn’t kill them but instead turns them to nomes - she doesn’t have the heart to kill them. The reason she keeps them on the maw is because she uses magic to steal their youth and keep young. These powers are enabled by the mask she hides behind, which may have some kind of repelling effect when a mirror is in front of it, as we know from the DLCs a mirror doesn’t hurt the lady unmasked. Both six and the lady have an obsession or want to be as young as possible - six stays within her imagination around the music box, and the lady obviously has her youth-stealing powers.
A couple of quick notes: first, I'm well aware of the popular theory that the Runaway Kid was "Seven" 🙃
Second, I neglected to mention a very significant detail: during the guest chase sequence, a portrait can be seen on the wall depicting the Lady AND the girl in the yellow dress. This would seem to debunk the idea that they could be the same person, and it very well might, but I think there’s an argument to be made that the portrait is showing her past and present self. In Six’s “safe room” in the Signal Tower, portraits on the back wall appear to show her present and future selves, and in the middle spot is the same girl with her eyes scratched out - if this was actually the Lady as a child, then the portrait could easily be foreshadowing Six’s consumption of her at the end of Little Nightmares. This is extremely speculative, not confirmed by any means, but is nonetheless a way for the theory presented here to still work.
i like to think kids like six and mono are like the four horsemen of the appocolypse for the nowhere. They are there to make the nowhere collapse. Mono is a word for single or one, coincidence, no. Mono also means doll I thought that was nice.
So, in your mind, the plot (& time loop) of LN2 is the Signal Tower's attempt to stop its own destruction?
Also there's two more main characters for little nightmares 3 which makes four
@@gamingdudedonal3312Plus the girl in yellow raincoat and the runaway kid so 6.
So, I believe their numeral names do not mean their *own* names, it may actually be the name of the title of the position they have over the world.
Mono (One)
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
And Seven
Seemingly fits better as a given title, rather than a name.
A general or a commander is an example of a title, like what I just described.
TLDR, their names are not truly their names, it's just their given title by the inhabitants of this world.
@@sudokuacrobatics Or they might be the names they adopted for themselves after coming to Nowhere and losing (almost) all memory of their past lives.
I think the "soot" is meant to be small piles of debris shedding off of the ceiling, the effect just so happens to clip through his character model
You're the first person I've seen discussing the series in such depth, I'm impressed and confused how I'm only just finding you
You might want to check out “itsjustjord”, “itstimetotheorize” and “Superhorrorbro”, all three of them are followed by the people who make the game and two of them were even recruited to help with the sounds of nightmares podcast. They have a good track record in theorizing, a lot of their stuff was even added to the wiki and their even followed by the people who make the games.
In the little nightmares fandom, only three pro theorists have made efforts to sort through the lore, “itsjustjord”, “itstimetotheorize” and “Superhorrorbro”, they have a really good track record in confirmed theories, I really recommend them, a lot of their stuff was even added to the wiki. According to them, Six broke the cycle of successors for the title of Lady of the Maw by making the decision to leave the Maw. The Thin man of little nightmares 2 was Mono, but the former resident of the black signal tower that Mono defeated, was the tall dark figure in Chp.6 of the little nightmares digital comics. The portrait of the girl in the Maw, was the girl in the yellow raincoat from very little nightmares, who was the adopted daughter of the Lady but was treated more so as a possession, another doll in the Lady’s collection and a reflection of who she used to be before becoming the Lady of the Maw. They theorized Six’s never ending hunger was the result of losing part of herself in the Pale City, Dark six, who may actually be a piece of Six’s soul. They also theorized Six has no memory of Mono or anything else from before, even after Mono saved her, but Dark six does and had been guiding Six through the Maw to help her obtain and use the Lady’s powers to reabsorb her, apparently after six bit the lady and gained her powers, dark six was standing next to her.
Surprised you didn't include Tericho in that list. But I agree, their theories are awesome! I've been watching them for years now and am quite familiar with the summary you've given here. However, Little Nightmares is an evolving franchise, and with The Sounds of Nightmares re-contextualizing everything we know about this world, I think there's room to revisit and rethink established theories.
@@indiexplorergames that’s what a lot of them are doing. In regards to Tericho, everyone knows about him, but a lot of us have noticed that he hasn’t really been making any theories lately on little nightmares over the years like he used to. He likes the game, we like what he’s added in theories, but he’s not as dedicated to it as the others, his focus has been mainly towards poppy playtime now. Superhorrorbro has also stopped as of lately because of personal issues he’s trying to sort through and because he’s trying to release his own game. Itsjustjord and itstimetotheorize have been the most active now.
I loved your interpretation! However it fell unbalanced as you stated to claim that the girl in the paintings is The Lady's daughter (rather much rcg)
There is no source of proof of that matter
If The Lady had a daughter, wouldn't you assume for there to be a children's room somewhere in her residence? Even some toys representing that?
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 it’s not my interpretation, this is what those professional theorists I listed had to say. They theorized the Lady treated the girl like another one of her dolls, all the dolls were sectioned off in a doll room, so the girl lived a horrible life with the Lady and chose to escape. They found details in very little nightmares showing the Maw and the Nest were connected, including packages with the Maw’s symbol being prepared for shipping, a book about the Maw in the kids room and a tapestry showing the blimp floating above the Ferryman’s boat. They theorized the Lady gets a lot of her dolls from the Nest and was the only place the raincoat girl could take the blimp to .
@penguin32700 Those "professional theorists" don't have enough resources to back up their bold claims, that is what makes them interpretations on their behalf
Dude, are you the only person that has stated these theories? I have watched channels that center themselves around this franchise and nobody has said what you’ve said…but what you’ve said is mind blowing and makes all the sense in the world. I have never seen and heard about the picture of 5 surrounded by 4 shadows or the clear 6 stages of the Thin Man growing up. This was amazing. Hell, there are 6 stages in each of those slides of generational trauma. I actually think you’ve got it. I’ve heard so many theories that are stupid and make no sense, but yours is perfect. Is there something that links Granny to being 4?
A very good question! The Granny remains something of an enigma to me. I like the idea that the previous Lady gets cast into the depths to be forgotten, and there is some evidence for that - like the 3 pictures in Six's music box room in the Signal Tower - but I'm not totally convinced yet. It's hard to get around the fact that we see Five get consumed (killed?) by Six, meaning she wouldn't become the next Granny.
This is a pretty notable omission from the theory that I'm still mulling over.
It's just a message on our society...Once you fight, and defeat the thing that was your enemy, you become the enemy you sought so hard to fight, so on, so forth.
Of course the cycle can be broken, however a change within the consciousness itself must be affected, meaning that old consciousness must die before there is a *real* change.
I personally believe that the entire series is just one long-term scheme by the Signal Tower/Nowhere itself to eliminate and/or neutralize any and all possible threats to its power.
Mono: He has some sort of supernatural powers that appear to border on reality-warping, and is eventually enslaved by the Tower.
The Lady: Could possibly be a rebel of sorts, wanting nothing to do with the system of Nowhere (it's stated that the Maw is her attempt to escape the outside world) and seeking only her own self-benefit; she is killed by Six, who the Signal Tower took advantage of after the Thin Man captured her.
Six: She's just a tool used to put Mono in a position where he can be effectively brainwashed into serving the Nowhere and dispose of The Lady; She has no idea of what the bigger picture is, so she's not a threat, even after acquiring The Lady's powers.
The Nest Monsters: All of them either are already subservient to Nowhere, so they can bereft alone; The Pretender is killed off because she could potentially result in souls being destroyed entirely without any benefit to Nowhere; one theory suggests that the Nest's monsters were the result of the Lady experimenting and trying to come up with more ways to acquire power on her own.
YESS!!! Im so glad somebody else also see's the generational trauma. This video makes me feel very understood!! Thank you! Your work is very appreciated.
Great analysis as always! Also, loving how much youre getting better at editing, it's such a treat to watch your vids!
I'm glad theorists have latched on to the prospect of the maw being alive, much like the signal tower. They both seem to be dependant on some sort of vice, be it greed, gluttony, narcissism or vanity. Offering something thats convenient but corrupts and destroys people's sense of self. I think thats arguably part of the reason Six betrays Mono in LN2. The thin man put them in an isolated space with their music box, giving Six the safety they wanted but turning them into a monster as a result.
Even though she was a victim like the other children, she is still a backstabber for what she did to Mono. In a way, she caused her own torturous fate as well as trapped Mono in a time loop he may never escape from.
If this is true, it makes me wonder what happened to the nest, as it seemed to be pretty similar to the maw. I mean, I mean, if the pretender was the keeper and she died in the ocean with the rain coat girl, who would take her place? But then again the pretender is much smaller than the adults, so she could be a kid, but she’s also bigger than the kids. I don’t know if she’s meant to be growing into some sort of keeper, maybe she’s an adult who kept childhood practices like the lady. A curious thing to note is that she has a picture of herself and her parents
Maybe her parents try to really keep her alive so she would grow to be a Keeper of the Maw, there are Maw books in the nursery and the boxes where the dolls come have the same eye, perhaps they thought that keeping her lock in the Mansion until she grew would help her turn into a keeper and it seem to kinda work? She has some powers like high pitch scream and when touches someone they clothes are the only things left kinda when The Lady turns a kid into a nome, there are a bunch of nomes in the nest so maybe she's really growing to replace the lady
Thanks for this.
I personally don't agree with some of those assumptions you make, but an interesting theory.
This makes so much sense- also it makes me wanna listen to the podcast lol
Great job! I have subscribed.
Another amazing theory!
Keep up the great work ^^
This is really interesting! Makes me wonder if the cycle can ever be broken, not now but in the future?
I'm sure someone from Bandai namco answered some questions about LN2. And there was a question: "How can time loop stop if everyone is affected by it?" And Bandai namco responded with "not everyone is affected." I'm sure there is a video abt it.
That's the thing, Six DID break the generational cycle. Six is not like The Lady, but they stray on parallel lines. That is what makes their conflict so unique to me. Someone who you used to be and the threat of the person you could have become. They are direct metaphors for each other. That in itself makes my chest hurt.
Based on everything I’ve come to understand about Little Nightmares’s world it’s not too unlikely to assume the radio tower / maw / the Pale City, it’s all one giant or multiple different living organisms. From what I understand the entire planet could be one giant eyeball connected in matter.
The odd "eyeball globe" in the Lady's Residence would definitely support that theory!
@@indiexplorergamesthank you for making this video even though that I'm 6 days or 7 days or a month late thank you for making it
@@indiexplorergamesand are you saying that 6 cruel fate will be a time Loop as well as mono who quickly changed into the Thin Man like while the time Loop wasn't really a Time Loop well it was but not for sex it was just like a Time Loop for mono or all eternity time Loop for mono but 6 is a hero that early doesn't need to be in a Time Loop you know considering if it was a time Loops the first game would have never happened
@@indiexplorergamesand like in 0:17 I'm not a disagreeing with you or anything like that but are you really sure those are ashes that comes down from the floor after the doctor crawls on the ceiling are you sure that's not dandruff you know from his hair you know monsters can I work pretty differently like how the teacher writes on the chalkboard but like if you go into free camera it's actually just a bunch of scribbles
Good theory but I don’t think Little Nightmares should just be thought as a giant loop. The same way I don’t think the lady was a previous version of Six or Six is destined to take The Lady’s place. I think the loop theory is only for LN2 and it’s a closed off loop not effecting the whole world. I don’t think LN3 will end with a loop either proving not everything is a loop. But we will see so excited for LN3 :)
I kind of agree with you, for Little Nightmares 1 at least - I don't think Six fully took the place of the Lady, because I don't think she stuck around to run the Maw, which she would have to do in order to grow up to be the Lady someday. The cycle of the Maw, at least, is broken if Six leaves... though Six isn't necessarily spared from the greater child-to-monster cycle overall, since she seems set to go on a dark path (which, to be clear, i love that for her, i think monstrous protagonists are neat) given what she's had to do to survive and break the Maw cycle to begin with.
I agree
In one of the comics they kinda hint she is and tell why mirrors are the ladies weakness
YAY SOMEONE ALSO HAD THE SAME THOUGHTS
OMG Finally! Nice to see someone else talking about the validity of this theory, although me personally, I don't subscribe to the theory of Mono being in a time loop with the Thin Man, it just wouldn't make sense when we consider the comics. Here's what I posted a couple weeks back on RDC's last video of their Little Nightmares 2 playthrough. I made this comment under a reply giving them context of the story. Sorry if it's a little wordy:
_"Fyi this is all theory stuff. Me personally I don't think it's a time loop since we see the Thin Man operate outside of the loop which we see in the comics. It's more likely that Mono just simply took the Thin Man's place, same as it's implied Six took the Lady's place. It's like a cycle of abuse that is thematically tackled through the lens of children, growing up in a harsh world filled with adults who seem threatening to them, only for the kids to grow up exactly the same as the monsters they're trying to survive against. They develop powers after surviving long enough in the Nowhere, this being symbolic of a child growing up to learn how to better adapt to an adult's world, turning that into something that can signify change, or something that continues the cycle like we see here. It's also implied too that Six might also dislike Mono due to the music box being destroyed, as before Mono tried to destroy it, Six was friendly towards Mono. They even trusted him enough to share the music box with him. It was when Mono finally destroyed it that Six decided to betray him then and there. The music box was Six's only means of escapism, with escapism acting as the main theme of the second game. The viewers get violent when the TVs get turned off, with the Signal Tower using the desires others have to escape the cruel world in order to try and feed off of them. It drains away their life using media as an outlet, something easily digestible. Thematically speaking that's similar to how some people operate in real life, the ones trying to hide away in their homes under constant fear of the outside world. If they're only sitting in front of a screen all day wasting time that could be spent making memories and going to see the good the world has to offer, then they're really just wasting the already short lifespan they have as a human. They'd rather remain hermits and trade said time in order to stay confined in their own little bubble where they control what the consume._
_Anyways, sorry for the yapping. I tend to do that for things I like a lot. Again, this is just my personal theory and I don't want to act like anyone else's theory is wrong. I just took away something different and that's okay. These games are made to be seen through more than one perspective."_
Thank you for sharing! I used to subscribe wholeheartedly to the Time Loop theory myself, but after The Sounds of Nightmares, I've been reconsidering the possibility that the Thin Man is being replaced by a new child like the Lady is. That's why for this theory I left both options open, I think it works either way, and each side has compelling evidence imo.
@@indiexplorergames Mhm, no problem! I like the Cycle of Abuse/Torment theory because it also lines up narratively. Maybe it's because of that lack of narrative structure that the time loop theory has, but the Cycle of Abuse/Torment theory stuck out to me when considering the narrative implications. Maybe that's why I'm more drawn to it. LOL
Ain readin allat 🙏
@@West_is_Jelqing Okay, then uh... then don't? You ain't gotta announce that. 😭
The way you talk about the thin man and the lady being keepers, makes me think of Davey Jones from pirates of the Caribbean where the Dutchman has to have a captain in a similar manner.
The question I’d ask is why these entities need to have a human figurehead? Are they needed to anchor them to reality? Are there there to provide the entities a way to understand humans enough to tempt them with things they would want? Or are they there to act as distractions to any who try to stop them by giving them a sock puppet target without revealing their true selves so any resistance won’t realise they are aiming the wrong way until they are caught?
This makes so much senesce I’ve been trying for figure it out for years I was so close but just not there, it’s so relieving to finally get it.
This series lore is just gets better in time I do wonder what directions the series will take in the future.
with you, therico and superhorrorbro among so many
i cant wait to hear all the theories when the 3rd game show up
its my thing now
Just gotta say this is some really great content sir....super smart and really insightful.... I've never played the game but while I enjoy watching the game play...the lore......the story...is just brilliant to me...
So your discussion on it is brilliant to me also...
Major credit and props to you and the channel!
in little nightmares 2
i believe that it's not a cycle but just the thin man coming back in time to stop himself from six,way less metaphorical.
there is no proof to what happened to six after the end of little nightmares 1,she didn't not become THE lady,but she might became the next lady
and if this is a loop,the events of the 1st game would not happen as six would be stuck in the cycle of little nightmares 2 (LN2 is a prequel to LN1 btw)
This is just my theory and i can be proven wrong
This is by far my most favorite theory of the nowhere!!!
Maybe in LN3 we can see the Fall of the Nowhere
Cuz Low and Alone tries to Escape Nowhere
But the only possible way to escape is to break the Cycle
Meaning freeing Vital Characters like Thin Man (Signal Tower influence are spread around the Nowhere, In Sounds of Nightmares the door Noone Entered has an Eye which is Connected to Signal Tower but who knows maybe there's more Adults of Nowhere, That's incharge of the Nowhere, which currently are Ferryman and Thin Man, I think The Lady isn't part of it since her influence isn't as wide as this Two)
But Ferryman would not let it
We could see him in Action
the "soot" shedding from the doctor is not actually soot but debris from him walking on the ceiling
The doctor shedding what might be soot? Isn't that just loose dust getting knocked loose from this absolutely hulking freak of a man crawling around on the ceiling? You see it all the time with large characters.
Six deserved what she got. She coulda saved mono and potentially ended it all.
At the end of the first game we can hear a ship coming to the maw, so I don't think six was just standing there to "rule" the sound of ship and how six walks out more likely suggests that she was going to leave that place
Low: Hey guys!
Alone: Love this video!
Wow, nice analysis! Finally, get why Six is being called ‘six’ because she’s the sixth lady!
My theory about six is that she doesn’t get eaten by seven but she is patiently waiting for a boat to arrive for her to jump on to escape the maw
I think the thing with thr thinman is that he wanted to Stop Mono from becoming the thinman taking Six corrupting her trying to protect Mono from beein betrayed again. The 6 on the door could be a warning for Mono that six will betray him
The Maw remind me of the biblical Leviathan - he emitt sweet fumes to lure lost souls to his maw, similiar to the food that lure the guests, and coils around the material plane, to stop soul to reach enlightment, by swallow them back to the cycle of rebirth in gnostic lore. Also, hes similiar ti the island-sized monsters, the ray-like yokai Akaei, norse hafgufa and lyngbakr, the base for the Kraken's legend.
I have to tell you all my LN huge theory. Mono’s real power is not travelling in tvs… his real power is that he skipped death. Let me explain. In the comics, Mono is getting chased by a mysterious figure that IS NOT THE THINMAN. Then, he hides in a tv and gets killed (we can hear him getting killed) but he survives as a glitch. He kills his opponent and runs away. Before, he hide is face whit the paper bag (probably bc he was getting called ugly and bullied) but now he has to hide his Eyes because they are all pitch black bc he is now a glitch. Then, he meets Six/Noone and fights the THINMAN… BUT ! We never really see the THINMAN getting killed we only see him desepering… In the signal tower, if Mono/the player goes next to a door (not in it) we can see his true self… a glitch. That’s why when he fights the THINMAN his power his stronger than ever. He is tired of hiding is glitch side. Then he finds six/noone as a monster. When he calls her, he is literally destroying his desquise to rescue her. Then he gets betrayed. (In the room with the chair, if he screams,we will no longer see him as a glitch) So I don’t think that Mono is the THINMAN I think in the cutscene we only see THINMAN’s origins and we see how he once was a little boy like mono getting transformed. Also in the end of LN 1 dlc we can see him in the tv…
It's a really bold claim with no source or proof to back it up
Chapter 6 of the mobile comics is probably my most hated chapter because I don't know what they were trying to achieve with and what it means?
I gave up on it and just assumed that the Mono in chapter 6 is a previous Mono via cycle and not the current one we play as in game
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 I do have some proofs in my theory. Second of all, u say that u think that ch6 of the comics is just an another sicle. Were r ur proofs ? From what I know, a sicle cannot be changed if it’s a time sicle.
@Aconit_Bleu69 bc I raged bc I hate chapter 6 so damn much 😭🙏
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 soooo, does that mean I have more proofs then u ?😏😈
@@Someone-b9i5w hell yeah 🙏🔥🔥
15:14 or maybe would just require breaking the very first cycle? Idk but interesting theory :)
Ooh maybe!
YOIU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM THAT A TH-camR IS SO CLOSE TO FINDING IT OUT AND IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK
i have a theory that the nowhere is a realm of either dreams or nightmares that some entity (or entities) are corrupting it causing the loops and the ferryman/candleman is trying to bring kids in with hopes that they could restore the spiral
2:57 I can't find any number on the door even if I lighten my screen.
Yeah the video compression makes it pretty hard to see - just above and to the right of the latch, centered between the door frame.
@@indiexplorergamesI’m pretty sure it got confirmed that the 6 on the thin man’s door isn’t actually there. Like someone found the texture to that specific door and there isn’t any sign of a number on it. I think maybe the lighting made it look like there was a 6 on the door? I’m not fully sure, but still an interesting theory nonetheless!
Idk man - 'why doesnt she get rid of the mirror or come after you when you break the vase?' because those are the game mechanics, you need to defeat the woman somehow and if you don't see the mirror you can't make the connection. The soot stuff falling from the fat doctor is because he's heavy on the ceiling, not because it's foreshadowing.
It's a cool idea behind all this but I think a lot of the game is deliberaltely abstract, literally like a nightmare.
Great video ❤
What if the different locations are different organ systems?
Theory : I don’t think the lady or the thin man are self aware of the cycle.
so if its all of these is super-cycle then we can expect another betrayed scene coming on LN3. oh boy.
i have a question, since im a little new to little nightmares: could six had saved mono from the time loop if she had just pulled him up?
Hard to say for certain, and others might have a different take on this, but personally I think so. That's the great tragedy of LN2 - Six COULD have saved Mono from his terrible fate, but CHOOSES not to, and in doing so perpetuates the cycle of suffering. Had she chosen to pull him up instead, I don't think that necessarily would have ended the loop entirely, but Mono - at least, this specific "Mono" - would have been saved from it.
Do children have to be biologically related to their abusers when it comes generational trauma? Bojack Horseman tackled this and how Bojack pretty much traumatized and ultimately indirectly killed Sarah Lynn.
Trauma by itself is not genetic, the actions of the adults transfer the trauma to the through their experiences together, for example if the adult is alcoholic and drinks daily then the kid watching all of this will end up being alcoholic
3:00 Where is the number here?
Just up and to the right of the door handle - it's pretty subtle, so you have to look closely to see it.
The lady couldn't be 5 or any numbers under 6 there are already children with those titles. I believe that low and alone will find a way to tether with the cycle and we will see the two favorite protagonist freed from being turned into adults and maybe they will reflect on each other hence lows power of mirrors or reflections. Or maybe he will only save six from becoming the lady with mirrors possibly
No children has confirmed titles represented of numbers other than Six
@@sonicstruckcardinal7 true but its left up to interpretation because on the sheet it showed the kids in a number patern 1 aka mono to 6 aka six so I think it's ok to assume those other kids are labeled by numbers too
@@zeromistakes.. YEP YEP YEP YEP YOURE ON THE RIGHT TRACK JSHAJJA 🙏 Very Little Nightmares and The Reisidence is a lore mine
Insanity is defined as repeating the exact same processes over, and over, and over again. The nowhere is insanity.
That's not what insanity actually means, it's just a slang definition
@@andrejv.2834 I was being spoopy and cool 😔
I wish your videos got more views I love little nightmares content
Maybe the parents of The Pretender try to really keep her alive so she would grow to be a Keeper of the Maw, there are Maw books in the nursery and the boxes where the dolls come have the same eye, perhaps they thought that keeping her lock in the Mansion until she grew would help her turn into a keeper and it seem to kinda work? She has some powers like high pitch scream and when touches someone they clothes are the only things left kinda when The Lady turns a kid into a nome, there are a bunch of nomes in the nest so maybe she's really growing to replace the lady, The nest doesn't seem really to be alive like the other big places maybe she wishes to have one as well so her parents build a extremely big Mansion where she can pretend to be Keeper her dolls would the souls and body's she uses to keep her place running, they're placed as if they were eating in a beautiful dinning hall or watching TVs she even drinks Tea with them but maybe she doesn't want to be a keeper after she breaks the red scarf doll she crys in q bench since maybe she thought the doll was really alive since the ponytail kinda pulled her and made a mess in the dinning hall, maybe wanted to punish her but didn't meant to break her thats why she cries beside the broken doll on the floor
What if The Lady is The Pretender from Very Little Nightmare hence, the dolls?
Being as tho these places are fueled by the imagination of these kids would this essentially make them god like the longer they stay?
I made a game called LITTLE BUT LOST (LBL). its a game about S who is trapped in the warper. You must help her to find the escaoe. This is a fangame.
So given that each protagonist we play ends up in a cycle that turns into the antagonist. What does this say about LN3 with low and Alone?
Six doesn’t end up in a cycle and turn into the Lady tho (if that’s what you’re referring to)? They are not related.
The theory of the presence of a time cycle has never been confirmed by the developers. Stop passing off theory as fact.
@@user-kapcanych it was just another theoretical question. That's all little Nightmares is, it's just us theorizing because we don't have any true answers. No need to get snappy 💀 if you don't want to partake in their question just ignore it next time.
@@Audacity74-h The Cycle With Six Is Less Literal, Six And The Lady Aren't The Same Entity Like How Mono Is To The Thin Man, Six Just Becomes Morally Like The Lady At The End Of The First Game, Effectively Usurping Her Position As Villain, Taking It For Herself.
@@FormerlyIvorMinecraftStoryMode if you’re saying that Six becomes the new Lady. That’s a different story, I thought they meant it like Six was the Lady we went against.
The only way to break the cycle is by one that doesn't suppose to exist in that timeline so he won't turn into his enemy
Sounds like a DND campaign “The Cycle of Torment”
Didn’t six leave the maw when that ship came?
Maybe! But also, maybe not. We know nothing of Six's journey after that final ship horn, so what happened next is anyone's guess.
So are the other adult monsters kids?
I would happen if all the children just decided not to follow the steps and not become the new adult social alerts of little nightmare one and two that what because the old ones are dead because they can age and what happens. He had absorb powers that the host already dead to absorb the powers.
2:16 bro doesn't know that the real seven is dead😂
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THATS A GOOD THEORY!
Your theory about the woman being five is incorrect because spoiler alert for anyone that has played very little nightmares but in the ending you see that the person you were playing as falls to her death. Plus your theory with seven could be correct if not for the fact that seven was truned into a geom than eaten by Six.
Its just like the world we live in
We bite our own tail
Here's a ship I approve of:
Mono x Six ❌ Rk ❌ RCG❌ Chair ✔
six does not claim the maw im pretty sure shes soulless
You kinda neglected the fact that you beat the lady by showing her face through the mirror. Making me think the lady and 6 are in fact not the same
This might be a bit longwinded, but here’s my theory for it lol:
The LN comics (which may or may not be canon) showcase six risking being around the janitor to obtain a music box. In LN2, she is discovered by mono entranced by the music box, and some say she betrays mono at the end because he destroys the music box. The music box could be symbolic of escapism; or youth. The lady keeps children aboard the maw and doesn’t kill them but instead turns them to nomes - she doesn’t have the heart to kill them. The reason she keeps them on the maw is because she uses magic to steal their youth and keep young. These powers are enabled by the mask she hides behind, which may have some kind of repelling effect when a mirror is in front of it, as we know from the DLCs a mirror doesn’t hurt the lady unmasked. Both six and the lady have an obsession or want to be as young as possible - six stays within her imagination around the music box, and the lady obviously has her youth-stealing powers.
Seven will replcae her? Seven already is dead
The runaway kid isn't canonically called seven
I wish this guy would use some kind of voice changer or filter cause the video is so good and his voice is so annoying jesus
LMFAO
I think 7 got turned into a gnome
That's just his fan name, not an official name
@@andrejv.2834 your right
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oh this is genius