Very Little Nightmares - The Story Explained

[@thatkingdomheartsguy9615]

I just realized that the doll that the pretender was yelling at looks a lot like the girl you free earlier in the game

[@kennyrogers9362]

i looked through the coments just to see if someone said that so i didnt have to

[@goldenhydra9350]

Yep it is

[@cheezywunder9376]

Looks exactly like it with the scarf and all

[@anugrahanidwiastri4133]

Look at the time 9:12 it is sooooo dead

[@bridgerjacobs5298]

I believe she got caught after you see her escape and was transformed into a doll at the end of the game.

[@kraymerman]

You know, whenever anyone talks about Six's backstory, they always forget to mention the comics, because they give some Six backstory as well. It shows how the Ferryman finds Six walking down the street in the middle of a city and then takes her to The Maw. So what I think is more likely what happened was that Six took the raincoat and the board and sailed to the mainland, where she found a city and was either found by the Ferryman immediately or she lived in the city for a while before she was picked up.

[@poealgumnomeaqui8028]

maybe little nightmares 2 takes place in the meantime hmm

[@asmodeusvicarius2771]

@@poealgumnomeaqui8028 its a sequel i think

[@asmodeusvicarius2771]

@@poealgumnomeaqui8028 because its name is little nightmares 2

[@asmodeusvicarius2771]

@@poealgumnomeaqui8028 when you make a prequel or a current you dont give it the "two". Like "VERY" little nightmares

[@poealgumnomeaqui8028]

@@asmodeusvicarius2771 have you ever seen FNAF?

[@skepticmantis]

The Craftsman reminds me of the guy that worked in the boiler room in Spirited Away.

[@undeadladybug7723]

I thought I was the only one who saw that. The Lady also looks like one of the moon goddesses from Kubo and the Two Strings, plain white mask and everything.

[@cookiesandcream4346]

Same

[@boney6253]

yeah XD just needs extra arms

[@bluecheese6724]

Yeesssssss

[@bawco624]

Kamaji was his name. I can see that

[@LozzySullivan]

Just to support your theory, the term ‘pretender’ is often used for a member of a royal household - not directly in-line to the throne - who still has a legitimate claim on it. The most famous in the U.K. was Bonny Prince Charlie, son of James II, House of Stuart. ‘The Pretender’ shares the same power as The Lady but has a different lineage. A right to rule, but not the support for her to do so; so perhaps she’s as much a prisoner as the Butler and Craftsman? Kept there against her will by The Lady who fears her throne might be usurped if she were released?

[@ikhwanmahasan2598]

might be right... and the lady use her power to be younger, so she can claim her position forever, but now she is dead and her power taken by six.. i wonder what would happen next.

[@doragon214]

​@@ikhwanmahasan2598 I imagine that the Maw would just fall into disarray. Back on the official Little Nightmares website before it got closed down the description for the Lady says a lot of stuff about the Maw; "The Lady casts a hypnotic spell that keeps the engine running. Amidst the chaos of the world outside, the Maw is the only place that makes sense, and now the rumour of an escaped child threatens everything. Nothing can be allowed to interfere. The Guests must eat. The Maw must Survive" So from reading that it sounds like the Maw's survival relies heavily on the Lady and vise versa. So I imagine that if either one was removed from the equation then the other simply wouldn't last very long.

[@Ripple007]

@@doragon214 why did the website close

[@doragon214]

@@Ripple007 I have no idea, it seems like it was just merged with Bandai's site

[@MmntoMoriMakoto]

Welp, I don't think the pretender is going to be claiming anything soon, bc she ded

[@Babbleplay]

Gonna be brutally honest, of all the things I wondered about Six, how she got her coat was never on the list of top 100 questions. Great game, but, such an odd thing to reveal.

[@Matt-rm5ir]

More than likely, this was just a fun little way to show life outside the maw. Like a little twist to reveal the main character wasn't actually the main character, but the side character all along. I'm sure they loved that idea for a story but couldn't implement it into LN2. We'll see more of this lore expanded in Little Nightmares 2 hopefully (if it ever comes out at this point). Hasn't specified if it would be a sequel or another prequel.

[@Babbleplay]

@@Matt-rm5ir Okay, when you put it that way, I see it.

[@user-Jay178]

@@Matt-rm5ir cool explanation

[@jokezm5982]

I kinda understand why they did it. They wanted to make a lore-canon mobile game, so they couldn't use Six. So they got someone that looks like six because the game depends on brand recognition.

[@jonathangiese5727]

Epic Pupil of Malthus - That’s a pretty convincing explanation.

[@slippyperson653]

The scariest thing about The Craftsman is that he doesn't have his mask over his nose

[@razu0034]

Corona

[@Chloroplastics]

Carona

[@mouse_beam-hk6vm]

That's what I thought

[@bananadog1354]

Ok you got me there xd

[@netherillager5959]

The Craftsman? MORE LIKR THE KAREN

[@umbraanimo7767]

I actually have a theory on what exactly happened when Raincoat girl hit the water. The pretender managed to kill her. This theory is mostly based around the fact the two were close when they hit the water and raincoat girl had her back to the water. That would make it a lot harder for the said coat to float back up when she died but if her body vanished then it makes sense

[@lastchance1829]

not to mention there is no sign of her wearing it after it floats up

[@acepaulo6431]

pretty sure that what happened

[@lillyuwu4054]

The Pretender disintegrates you when she touches you. Which why the raincoat floated back up.

[@o0Scarrow0o]

What happened to the pretender I wonder

[@yapyapthedestroyer2562]

Madison gunn she may have either drowned, as she never comes back up, or she survived, and came up after six left. Or third she still survived but the butler found her and saved her, who the hell knows

[@ShadowTheDemonWolf77]

LN2 is a prequel of LN1, VLN must come before LN2 which contradicts your assumption about six finding the coat in the sea and then hopping aboard the maw. In LN2, six is found without the yellow jacket locked inside a cabin. The main character, Mono, saves her and the 2 set out. Later, Six finds the yellow jacket in a pile of garbage in an alley. And at the end of the game (if you’ve collected all the secret shadow children), Six escapes the tower and a shadow version of herself appears in front of her, pointing at an ad for the Maw. She heads to the Maw (but if you read the comics), she was taken there by boat by a giant fat guy in a trench coat. There is speculation that The Lady is actually adult Six and the entire series is a paradox.

[@FelicityUwU]

Would that mean that Six lost her rain coat at some point after VLN then found it again in LN2? Or was the child from VLN that found the rain coat not Six?

[@yourlocalsucroselover2921]

I think the timeline beetween the games is VLN-LN2-LN1 DLC- LN1

[@toffee_todd]

@@FelicityUwU probably she mightve lost it whole the hunter was hunting her she mightve taken it off cause its too bright and easy to catch her

[@jesskim8596]

@@FelicityUwU maybe she just never took it? I mean if I just witnessed 2 deaths while trying to escape someplace my first thought wouldnt be to go out of my way to get a raincoat from some girl I probably dont know

[@A_Random54710]

@@FelicityUwU the girl I’m the raincoat is not six if you see at the end when she falls down only her raincoat remains and it is floating in sea the little girl you freed is really six I believe

[@ogcrackmama160]

maybe she's called the pretender because she's actually an adult with dwarfism pretending to be a child? she's bigger than the other children after all. just a thought

[@WobblesandBean]

Or maybe she's a teenager? OR, maybe her job is to attract more children, a bit like a Judas cow.

[@frootsnacc6790]

Maybe she’s called that because she’s pretending to live the old life she had before turning all the children into nomes

[@lb.a157]

What I suspected, when I saw her it seemed like an adult with a small body rather than a child, at least, she doesn't look like the children I've seen in the games, specially with that face. Maybe a woman with dwarfinism who might also have a mental disability, I suspect this because of her irrational tantrums and childlike behavior, yet has the strength to survive the rock that hits her at the end in a way child wouldn't. Maybe that's why she is so spoiled, her parents might pity her for her disability, but also fear her at the same time.

[@cj_abaddon7475]

@@lb.a157 Specific but you're theory might be correct!

[@medusathedecepticon]

I doubt it a little but it is a very good theory, reminds me of Baby Doll in a way

[@ErrorNumber404]

I speculate that the system here is like a triangular trade in real life, the three locations being the Mainland, the Maw, and the Nest. I can’t be sure about all the details but here’s what I’ve got so far. The Mainland (least known about location) uses the Hunter and Teacher to capture children and sends them to the Nest, also using the Signal Tower/Thinman to hypnotize the citizens, perhaps making them want to travel to the Maw. Side note: the children in the Teacher’s class are porcelain, the Hunter seems to create trophies of his kills. The Nest imprisons children and grooms the Pretender for the Lady’s job, using some children for the Pretender’s dolls but most going to the Maw for slaughter. The Maw cooks Guests and children to feed to more Guests, for maybe allowing the Lady to become more beautiful, but a real purpose is still unknown. Well, that’s my theory. Comment any additions.

[@shadow_shine3578]

That's actually super smart!

[@renthesquid]

I would love to like your comment but it has 69 likes so I'm just gonna comment to tell you I like this theory, good job my friend 😌👍

[@davidortiz3094]

What about the North Wind?

[@Mfmaf42]

what about the gnome transformation?

[@ErrorNumber404]

@@davidortiz3094 not sure if he’s canon to the games

[@opalmari6147]

I would be surprised if it was anything but taxidermy. The kid you released is the one you push over at the dining table. Probably makes that white haired girl think she has real friends Edit: the lady was actually lonely as well because in her room you see her singing to a bunch of fake dolls

[@boney6253]

stop making theorys! were stealing SHB's job XD

[@lillyuwu4054]

Kinda sad

[@sebastiankit4249]

That is kinda sad

[@HowardHank]

So we found out in the dlc that the lady knows how to transform kids into gnomes so fo so that the soul gets into a gnomes body and probably ship their actual body to the pretender which makes me question about the loop theory

[@hunteraitor2107]

Instead of calling the girl in the yellow raincoat the girl in the yellow raincoat can we call her zero? In the little nightmares 2 digital comics we have 6 protagonists in each story. Mono (meaning one) Two/Duo (the boy with a blindfold and feather.) Three/Tribus (the girl with a bloody nose who tunneled with a spoon in the hospital) Four/Quattour (the chubby boy with the lolipop) Five/Quinque (the boy/girl who is wearing a ghost costume.) I'll edit this comment when I find out the latin words for the numbers. Edit: edited

[@Eymori]

And Six is the sixth person in the picture but why Zero ?

[@Wingman-69]

could be.........999999999

[@Girl-Supersonicboy]

I personally don't think the lady has any ties to the Mansion in Very Little Nightmares. I think there is a deeper lore within this game. I think that people have sold their soul, or something to gained immense power which drives them to insanity: the eyes being a representation of the one who gave them the power. When the eyes turn people to stone, it represents how easy the power can be taken while also acting as security for it's followers. The Lady wanted to be powerful, but her beauty was the price. The pretender wanted to stay a child forever, but at the cost of sucking the life force out of anyone she touches. That's the reason the Craftsman makes her dolls, to keep her company. As for the Butler, his powers were either a side affect of the Pretender's getting her own, or he is so loyal to the family that he wanted powers to keep serving his mistress.

[@Girl-Supersonicboy]

I also think the more people who seek to gain power affects those around them; turning the world into this horrible and negative place. In Little Nightmares 2 we can see all the people huddled around a tv. Perhaps this higher being giving out powers has gained enough power themselves that they can affect the people around them who haven't sold their soul or whatever is needed

[@redhood5894]

I'm part of the group of people believing that the lady is Six's mum.

[@smileymoe9866]

@@redhood5894 Didn't they officially state that was false? Genuinely asking

[@redhood5894]

@@smileymoe9866 don't actually know but they probably wanna hide lore

[@smileymoe9866]

@@redhood5894 hm, that's possible

[@rainygalredsus2492]

Theory:if the pretender Disintegrates you when you die then maybe when you fell in the ocean she did get you but the bubbles are there because the pretender dies and that’s why only the rain coat comes up only

[@M3G4T3RR4]

Well, the raincoat buttons were undone when the coat floats back up. I find it more likely that the coat came off in a struggle due to this fact. I don’t know why the raincoat girl wouldn’t have been disintegrated though.

[@Wingman-69]

@@M3G4T3RR4 i completley agree

[@Tulipia5]

Apparently, there is dark magic in the LN Universe that requires some specific things like Children's ashes. There is a secret room with ashes in a jar in the original LN. The Lady is not the only one who can have these dark powers. That is maybe why there are gnomes in the Nest. If you Six's face (using mod, analysing the trailer of LN2 and searching in the gamefiles) you can see that she has white cloaths and dark short hair. In the LN Comics, we see that the child that gave Six a piece of bread is a boy. In the Maw there are drawing and pictures of a little girl with dark hair and a raincoat. Some people thought that Six was the Lady's daughter, but the developers said no. Maybe the little raincoat girl was the daughter, but she was a deception for the Lady and she had to escape (or maybe she was more beautiful than the Lady). Then they thought that Six was her and that is why she was in the Maw, even if she didn't belong there. I think that the Nest theory could be acurrated. But who knows? Maybe there is not a corelation between the Maw and Nest...

[@cj_abaddon7475]

Or what if there is?...

[@Tulipia5]

@@cj_abaddon7475 There is what?

[@thevioletskull8158]

Interesting

[@bridgerjacobs5298]

Yeah! Because they both have the raincoat

[@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337]

@@Tulipia5 They meant "what if there's a connection between the Maw and Nest" which i agree with Mostly because of the Nomes, the all seeing eyes along with the ones that turn you to stone, and right before you do the chase scene with the Butler in VLN, you can see a picture of the Hanging Man near the stairs

[@nikolettperedi560]

Now that the second game is out, everything makes a lot more sense. So what happened in my opinion was that Six sailed to the forest in the beginning of LN2, where she was captured by the Hunter (as you can see in LN2 comics) then she was saved by Mono, and everything in LN2 happened. After she left the Signal Tower, in the extra ending we can see that she ended up back in the Pale City and found a poster of the Maw. We also know from the LN comics that the Ferryman found her in the city and took her to the Maw. So the order of the games are VLN-LN2-LN/DLC

[@dragonz4220]

I’m confused… can you help? So six didn’t get the raincoat from in this game, but when the second game happened, mono found the coat for six which somehow got into I think it was a shed?

[@nikolettperedi560]

@@dragonz4220 So Six got the raincoat in the second game (I don't know of you've seen or played it) and she didn't get it in VLN, but it's likely that the raincoat got washed up in the pale city (the city where the second game takes place) and someone took it and left it where mono and six found it. Sorry if my comment was hard to understand, hope it's clear now :)

[@dragonz4220]

Thanks! And yes I’ve watched videos on first game second game and this video.

[@MusicMiller]

And I sure hope that Little Nightmares 3 is a sequel with Six as an antagonist

[@huntervelez9848]

Heres a thought, what if the pretender's is related to the lady? Not a daughter but a niece instead? What if the lady wants the pretender to be her heir but the girls father, the hanged man, didnt alow it and so he was killed leaving her alone with a mother whose always away?

[@g5girl]

Yeah, that’s a good theory! No, a great theory! Six’s family might be controlling the world or something. Pretense tried to kill her cousin, omg!

[@lillyuwu4054]

Why is the hanging man everyones dad? It could just be some random dude who was the dad, not the hanging man.

[@MaesReverie]

What if the pretender IS the lady?!

[@reina_harhar7815]

ꪀꪮ᥇ꪮᦔꪗ oof

[@R7548-g9c]

@@MaesReverie But the pretender killed hereself trying to kill the girl in very little nightmares

[@justshinji6982]

Damn Everytime six makes a new friend they die

[@Wingman-69]

naw man, gnomes forever

[@xDonciix]

​@@Wingman-69she ate a gnome

[@Wingman-69]

@@xDonciix *G A S P*

[@midyebulans]

​@@xDonciix rip runaway kid..

[@bumbabees]

well tbf mono didnt die, he just got sent to shadow realm. but yeah, the girl aint got good luck, thats for sure lol

[@sariaswoods]

7:58 I just realized the doll that we knock down and The Pretender later gets upset over looks a lot like the kid we freed earlier in the game. Maybe they didn’t escape, after all...

[@varik4363]

@ARandomGuy nah they defo died

[@brandonwithnell612]

@Micro definitely dead by the end at least, you see her head detached from her body when the pretender starts chasing you

[@bunbun-qt4qq]

yea, when you were pushed by the red scarf kid, the kid immediately ran into the next room. After you followed the kid to the room, you'll see a hat in front of a door and a red scarf hanging at the edge of a hole. Then you'll reach the washing room part, you'll see two little shirts along with a small pants fell down from above and landed on a pile of clothes. And there's a part where you use a red scarf to pass the game. All these clothing belong to the kid, and implied the process of his death.

[@thaipankatima658]

I don't think the Pretender is a villain. She's just a girl who wants to have friends. But when she manifested her powers, anyone she touches dies. That's why she has dolls, pretending to be friends who she can actually touch.

[@MasterIsabelle]

That’s actually sad, she’s just a regular girl who has a temper, but her powers turned her into a monster

[@Wingman-69]

then why is she COMMANDING to get people STUFFET and why does she CHASE gurl in gorgy costume?¿??????¿!?!??????

[@cheyannegiles9772]

@@Wingman-69 I dunno, she's a spoiled child with too much power? Also spell check your comment before typing

[@Desty1937]

She's probably still a little evil as the 2 people living eith her has signs that she might be forcing them to work for her. The Butler(the floating guy) has his hands in a shackle behind his back, and The Craftsman has his foot twisted and he seems to be styck on his wheelchair. She probably threatened to make them vanish if they don't work for her.

[@Desty1937]

Or she probably went insane from the loneliness

[@oh-no-not-me]

We have come a long way from six-being-the-lady's-child theory

[@nivian8329]

It was confirmed to not be true by a dev

[@chasethemaster3440]

Yep

[@o0Scarrow0o]

At this point does the DEV even know what the story is?

[@bigbambi718]

@@o0Scarrow0o 🤣🤣

[@Sienna.Jen2971]

@@o0Scarrow0o right🤣 feels like they're just screwing with us at this point.

[@soulblightx9847]

9:30 her face has me thinking "It puts its name upon the the test, or else its sent to the nest........"

[@dontfindmeguilty]

What if the reason the hanged man hung himself is because the lady told him his daughter would be the heir to the maw and he couldn't take it? Maybe the note next to him was giving to him by the lady saying this. He knew he couldn't tell the lady no, he would be killed, so he just thought it was better to kill him self. Maybe she is called the pretender too because right now she is pretending to be a little girl when she is so much more. Just a thought. Love the video by the way.

[@robertrevelez1931]

Good news the gnomes exist outside the maw🙂😎

[@haydenthompson4115]

I agree

[@annoyingkittycat6449]

Cool idea :D

[@thesensur6214]

The hanging man likely didn’t kill himself, the chair is too small and is not kicked over, it may have been a covered up murder.

[@lillyuwu4054]

Or the hanging man was a unimportant character who they decided to kill off so people would speculate things.

[@nathaniel9526]

After the second game, it seems that six did not get the raincoat from here, because you see she gets it in the second game with mono

[@killerkat2112]

7:57 isn't that the same person that we freed in the cage?

[@princeramblerose]

we see their clothes later on in the game, and their scarf hanging on a laundry machine, but we never see what happens to them for absolute sure

[@jobisTheWorst]

ya girl lila so that means there’s a chance they became the newest puppet

[@robertrevelez1931]

I think this chick turns kids into dolls😱

[@jobisTheWorst]

Robert Revelez OH SHIT YEAH YOUR RIGHT It might not be vaporizing more of being teleported into a doll room and then being a doll

[@killerkat2112]

@@jobisTheWorst that is horrifying now that you think about it. That poor little soul

[@dma98]

The way the clothes of Six just remain on the ground after encountering The Pretender, really reminds me of how the people disappeared from Little Nightmares 2 with their clothes just sitting on chairs, etc.

[@i_step_on_lego1791]

The craftsman is stuck in the chair because of his deformed feet.

[@kennyrogers9362]

tru

[@richietozier7091]

SelfSword 504 what if the pretender broke his legs somehow?

[@i_step_on_lego1791]

@@richietozier7091 That would be interesting but from the looks of it, it appears to be a birth defect.

[@richietozier7091]

SelfSword 504 yeah, but maybe she wanted him to build something, but he couldn’t or wouldn’t, so she broke his legs

[@wolfiegamerhowls4]

Richie Tozier I WAS LITERALLY THINKING ABOUT IT, RICHIE AND EDDIE. HOW

[@MiyuSawai]

At the end of Very Little Nightmares, Six travels from The Nest to The Pale City, NOT The Maw. It's only AFTER escaping The Pale City that Six gets to The Maw.

[@codycogs]

this is incorrect, she travels to the moor. this is because this game is still a prequel and everything stated is correct. little nightmares 1 and 2 is a time loop of mono and six turning into the thin man and lady and this game explains how the loop begins. this is how she collects the rain coat in both this game and also in little nightmares two

[@tammienewbold6030]

The girl You released in the cage is the same one that the Pretender yells at

[@rubixdude1067]

Yeah and then when you encounter her at the bench, the kid is dismembered in front of her. Jeez the pretender is spoiled

[@sebastiankit4249]

@@rubixdude1067 well i agree but.. She is kinda lonely

[@evelynrangel3820]

Now that I think about it, remember the red scarf from the hanger room? Don't you think that scarf is from that same child as well?

[@lazlow8788]

Now that you mention it, the girl in the raincoat does look similar to the ponytailed girl we encountered several times through the first game and the DLC. So, I think its definitely her and she's been guiding Six and the run away boy throughout the Maw.

[@yassinefarah2423]

I remember in the game that there is a box collectable that depicts a dark version of Six, my theory is that the girl became the shadow that we see whenever Six was hungry.

[@KittySparkles.]

**gasp** *THROWS VASE AT HER * 4:48

[@frankmiranda09]

There are many game over screens in little nightmares but this was too brutal

[@cluster4583]

@@frankmiranda09 bro this isn't even the worst way to get killed by the butler and the guest literally eat you alive

[@g-harmony]

What if The Pretender has similar powers to the lady but instead of turning them into gnomes she turns them into dolls hence why there are so many dolls

[@eternalpower2042]

wrong theres is no presense of the dark magic present on her

[@cj_abaddon7475]

Actually the craftsman is responsible for the dolls mostly but for the pretender...... ...well, we all see those children's photos, don't we? Does anyone ever wonder what happened to them.....?

[@TheDragonfriday]

Nope you literally see the material of making the dolls... He literally said it in this video the skin part as he suggested it's may be made from childrens.

[@boney6253]

nah, she touches children and makes then Dissapear

[@g-harmony]

@@boney6253 riigghhttt

[@tiffaxo]

LITTLE NIGHTMARES 2 SPOILERS : After playing LN2, hear me out, just a theory: VLN takes place before LN2. She gets captured and as they are taking her to the hunter’s cabin for who knows what, what if she lost her coat in the process? What if, when Mono saves Six, six was actually just using him to escape because she knew she couldn’t do it alone. She seemed to kind of know the way, and needed help along it. Just a thought. Maybe Mono and Six kind of retracted the steps back to when Six was captured, hence retrieving her coat back. I mean, it was just laying there in the middle of the path. No body, no child. That’s why when everything happened in Little Nightmares 2, she ends up betraying Mono and allowing him to be trapped so she could get away. MAYBE she was pissed at him for her getting caught while he sat there. When they were both running from Thin Man in the house, she hid under a small table, and Mono hid under the bed. When Six got caught, she reached out for Mono, but Mono covered his head instead of reaching out to her. What if that's why she let go? That was her revenge for all of that stuff he put her through. Maybe she thought he was too dangerous for her. Her shadow version that we see in both Little Nightmares 1 & 2, points at the picture of the Maw, and then Six begins getting hungry. Which sets up for the beginning of Little Nightmares 1. Six seemed to kind of be weary of Mono the more the tv incidents happen. You could tell she became frustrated with him. Maybe that’s why she left him, maybe she felt he would slow her down, and she was on a mission. She did hesitate, so you know she felt bad or really considered it, but in the end, she made her choice. I definitely don’t think the Teacher is the Pretender’s mother. I’m pretty sure all the monsters in LN2 are puppets. It clearly shows them being put together. All of the humans are dead or hypnotized. There’s so way, no matter how hypnotized you are, that you could make someone neck’s stretch through pipes and such. Or maybe... just maybe... like how the kids are being stuffed and killed to be little play puppets, what if the humans are being hypnotized to be controlled, also killed, where their hair, skin, and body parts are taken to create life like puppets to do the evil-doers intentions. Maybe the teacher is her mother? Or perhaps... wearing the skin of her mother? We already know the Chefs, and the Janitor are puppets wearing people’s skin. In the second game, you actually see the Janitor’s skin-face up on the wall before you meet the Doctor. Who is literally stitching together puppets and bringing them to life. Also another thing, I feel this deep meaning from both games about things that are killing us today, in the real world. I mean, LN1 was about gluttony, and maybe envy? or perhaps just Gluttony. What if all of this is about the 7 Deadly Sins? I'm probably hella reaching. But six? (6) Mono? (1) What if Six is Pride, and Mono is Wrath? Mono DID grow up to be the thin man, and most theorize he's stuck in a time loop trying to take revenge on Six for her betrayal. He becomes the enemy, the one thing he was fighting against, and proceeded to take it out on us. It could definitely not even be anything like that. But everything in this game feels like a massive finger towards the problems we face today. 1. Everyone is basically hypnotized to technology nowadays. All about what's on the tv, and it makes such a huge impact on people because of the crap we fill our minds with. The people in authority pick and choose what we see on social media, at least they try. That's why so much negative/false information is on the internet, twisting peoples' minds, pissing people off. When there is so much light just not being shown because it's not as "effective" or some say. 2. Too obsessed with our looks. Too worried of what others could think. Tearing down others to feel better about ourselves. The people in this game who are still alive act like rabid sheep, one easily influenced or led. Doesn't that kind of sound like people today? Like I said, I could be very much wrong, but it's still neat to think about.

[@deemondh7326]

So in other words, the LN series is one that goes backwards. VLN is first LN2 is second and LN1 is third. Ok that makes sense when one thinks about it.

[@tiffaxo]

@@deemondh7326 I think the reason they did that was because the first game was made with no real story or purpose, and when it blew up and people wanted answers, that’s when they started building off of it. Maybe the second game was to help start a story for us to begin understanding and so on

[@deemondh7326]

@@tiffaxo Could very well be. I think your thoughts and theories are very noteworthy in establishing great food for thought. Thanks for that explanation, you are the best! :)

[@apich2937]

@@tiffaxo There were foreshadowing for LN2 in both VLN (very little) and LN1 (most significant) too.

[@pandora4263]

I love this comment and i can prove it

[@absolite6]

The Pretender's a little lady ya know. Hey, you should play Little Misfortune sometime. Good spooky game!👍🏻

[@abns5929]

Yes!

[@zeevea2565]

Yikes forever!

[@nazogirl1127]

Just hope Mike can take the Little Misfortune's "none stop talking" haha! Remember Death diving to the sea?

[@absolite6]

@@nazogirl1127 Chatty little tyke wasn't she. Poor girl.....

[@jokezm5982]

spooky? yeah. good? not really.

[@mrreyes5004]

2:39 Damn, homie was prepped for COVID.

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

This is very cool theory. I likes it. Btw, my theory about shoe monster or garbage monster is a creature like spider. We Can see his webs before and after the garbage room that wrap a children in it. And there is a drawing in the Maw about Big Spider. And irl, there is a spider named Brazilian wandering spider that live under a shoes, cloth, etc.

[@Mr_Malandrix]

hello there!

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

@@Mr_Malandrix hi! Let me subscribe you....

[@Mr_Malandrix]

ok!

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

@@Mr_Malandrix have a nice day!

[@Mr_Malandrix]

@@Kawaiisikkusu It was great meeting you on Twitter! Sorry for my level of English, I'm Spanish :p

[@69.-.420]

2:39 man's just trying to stay safe from the virus

[@acedeception9078]

Does anyone think that the butler is a interesting character i have questions Why is hand locks? Why he help the pretender? How he got is powers? I hope suloerhorrorbro found this and make a video about it

[@Annicken_00]

I also think he's interesting. My theories are that actually his hands are locked down, because he's kinda a slave for the pretender, and he needed to sill doing laundry and home stuff for her, while her mother is away. That could be an explanation for his telekinetic powers. Also, I notice that he shares a lot of characteristics with the broadcaster of the LN 2. Did you notice that the thing that keep his hands locked needs a key to get opened and also Mono has a key with him?... I don't know I might be overthinking, but kinda match up...

[@Wingman-69]

@@Annicken_00 you are overthinking cause now that the game is out, i can tell ya, that part you are talking about is showing that you can put away keys now

[@johnnyjoesecco3446]

I was thinking that the girl was Dark Six, though the braid-girl theory would definitely make sense as well.

[@penquinn6942]

I thought The Lady and The Hanged Man were married and had The Pretender, which would explain the powers that The Pretender has. Perhaps this takes place before The Moore and The Lady looked different before she began to work for the Moore, leaving the child alone with the Butler and Craftsman. That was my theory.

[@destroythefanboyism2761]

The teacher and the hanging man?

[@laubra5227]

After new information I don’t think the lady created the nomes, they already existed in this world She just turns children into nomes Think of it as a witch turning someone into a frog, the witch didn’t create frogs

[@MC_.]

I think this is a pre-prequel because in the little nightmares II trailer we see six getting the raincoat and stranding on a beach. i think six took the raft and tried getting the raincoat back, but there was a storm and she got tipped over letting her strand on the beach and the rest fallows up with the little nightmares II trailer.

[@lazlow8788]

I'm going to be disappointed if LN2 turns out to be a prequel and not a sequel. I want to see what happens to SIX AFTER she escapes.

[@MC_.]

@@lazlow8788 me too but if you watched the trailer its kinda obvious its a prequel.

[@MC_.]

@@lazlow8788 well it depends the way you look at it. For theorists its really good and there are even more adventures we can see as we play six. Plus i really wanna see who that new mono character is.

[@jokezm5982]

that seems a bit convoluted. Even though I really wish LN 2 was a prequel

[@g5girl]

Yeah! Totally!

[@itzv01d49]

in very little nightmare the girl with the raincote was named five

[@mathewhollett8587]

is it just me or did anyone else notices at the end when the pretender threw the doll on the ground and had a tantrum, it had the same scarf as the girl who was freed from the cage?

[@antisocialbread183]

I believe that the pretender was extremely lonely unloved by everyone feeling lonely she started to make dolls until her powers started to form making every child into her toys. This could be why she always wants more always needed more.

[@hugoc.m.7727]

there's a ln comic with only 2 issues ya know... there's even a scrapped character known as the bellman who only appears in gamescon 2016

[@davidovotrok7777]

She found the raincoat in 2 (I know it wasn't released) so that means she didn't took that raincoat here but when she was on raft she went on island and hunter found her and when mono saved her and they went to the city than in like middle of the little nightmares 2 she found that raincoat and remembered that this girl had it and decided to wear this raincoat. That's my theory if you like it I would apprecitate if you like my comment.

[@crimsonspyder2388]

This is exactly what I was thinking

[@davidortiz3094]

That is what happened but still. Can't forgive Six for her betrayal

[@alexistavia6041]

What about the wrapped up bundles? They reminded me of when a spider wrapped up its prey to eat. the Other Child held onto one when they fell down, and they landed in a pile of them. We never see any spiders in the house, but the Pretender is able to crawl oddly down the cliff side, like a spider on the wall. Or it wasn't important to the theory. Idk.

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

Nice cacth! I already made a theory 'bout that. The spider i believe, was a monster that live under the garbage and shoes. In the Maw, there was a drawing about big Spider and irl there is also spider that lives under the shoes, clothes, etc. Called Brazilian wandering spider. Before and after we go to garbage room, there are the wrapped up bundles with children in it. This indicate the things that lives under it was a spider.

[@alexistavia6041]

@@Kawaiisikkusu So there may be a chance of the same enemy (spider) in garbage-focused areas then? And thats only those two areas. Imagine the planet having these kinds of issues. Being a garbage person would be a living hell.

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

@@alexistavia6041 i likes the last sentence. Wkwkwkw

[@alexistavia6041]

@@Kawaiisikkusu Yes

[@anamariecortez2223]

The craftsman was ready for corona all along.

[@ryanthelion6190]

Isn’t the hanging man known as the bellman because in the game if you listen to the tv song it says in the song this “mr bellman mr bellman will you hang around me bellman”you can look at it on KZbin but the song I think clarity’s that the hanging man was the bellman if you want to hear the song and know what I mean go to “the bellman with (itjustjord)”

[@TheIceFlowe]

The bellman is a character that did not physically appear in the game.

[@Zee972015]

If you watched the end credits I think when six left she didn't grab the raincoat yet. It instead happened to wash up where she did in the city, so when she and mono passed by in ln2 she recognized it and grabbed it out of nostalgia probably missing the other kid who died. Edit: I say this because when the kids run away they usually ignore anything that doesn't pertain directly to survival. The wood board was blocked by some rocks so it wouldn't have floated away but the coat wasn't and she was climbing a long way down. By the time she got down there and got the board situated it was probably gone. Or imagine she chased it trying to get it as it floated away and ended up with the hunter.😢

[@j.o.463]

I theory that I have is that the girl you play as in very little nightmares is ment to be Mono in little nightmares 2, that's why the two become quick friends

[@Kawaiisikkusu]

Nice theory there. But how Mono got his Trench Coat then?

[@g5girl]

Mono’s a girl???

[@retanizer8263]

I don't thinks so... I mean, the kid in the raincoat in this game died, as we saw right after she fell to the water along with the white-haired (I forgot what she's suppose to called)

[@dandansoy6589]

2:08 He really looks like that dude in Spirited Away. XD

[@Art-zp1qg]

Imagine if Six was actually the Pretender the whole time.

[@mikecherry7548]

That would be dumb

[@kennyrogers9362]

@@mikecherry7548 yeah

[@g5girl]

Wow

[@quanishagoodwin5727]

Or the mysterious girl

[@opprrer3328]

Hmm....i mean....she might takes the girlsˋs raincoat...might be..but itˋs unlikely

[@phineaslikesart]

I think most people already know but the Craftsman's feet are twisted

[@Koolv0ne]

Me sees superhorror bro uploads Me: *I am SpEeD*

[@bradmerilic6848]

I'm just incredibly confused why they showed 6 not simply receive her raincoat in VLN's, but again in LN's 2? I don't see the point of her finding it twice?!

[@tsutomuanana2755]

I think LN's 2 is the real prequel for LN. And the one hanging himself is the old mono.

[@vanzwho854]

VLN is a prequel to LN1, and LN2 is a prequel to VLN, either the six in LN2 isn't the real six from LN1 or the girl in the raincoat who falls in the water during VLN survives and goes to the maw which is the theory that im going with since she has the same hunger in LN1 as she did in the true ending of LN2, also the reason i think the raincoat girl from VLN is the same as six from LN2 is because she has the same trust issues as the LN2 six: she pushes mono away when he frees her from the hunter's basement, she drops him at the end of LN2 and she also locks the other girl out from the shack in VLN. And again, at the end of LN2 she seems to be really hungry which means she is the same girl as the one in LN1

[@darkzerokirby1.00]

Perhaps The Lady is the aunt of The Pretender?

[@LoganGoneDigital]

Is anyone going to mention the fact that the child you save from the cage later appears as a doll? You know. The doll you have to drag off the chair to get onto the table? The one the Pretender yells at?

[@leode1487]

i just noticed that the little doll and girl with blue hair and a pink scarf is the same person so the conclusion is right they're turned into dolls.

[@absolutelyyousless7605]

She may have seen the children, but was unable to reach them... therefore dressing the dolls as the children she was unable to catch

[@leode1487]

@@absolutelyyousless7605 maybe.... the theories continue lol

[@MelonLuminus2845]

The rain coat floats to the pale city, six uses the raft to the forest in LN2 =>very little>2>1

[@johanstenfelt1206]

0:53 What the hell? What kind of cliff is that? How does it keep standing? Doesn’t look very balanced.

[@Agaric_Bickies]

I wonder how the climbing segment near the end of the game works cause at some point you’d have to climb down the parts where it slopes inwards, yet it seemed to be perfectly 90 degrees in the gameplay

[@vanzwho854]

man's out here with the real questions

[@VoidedFilms]

Never played Very Little Nightmares, thinking I should now. Amazing vid, I agreed with most of your theories, this really explains a lot, and ties a many of the games missing story elements together! Hope the game keeps getting more attention as we finally get Little Nightmares 2

[@InktheImpassive]

I feel like this "child" who you play as In this game is Mono from Little nightmares 2 Well, in the end of the game where the pretender and "child" fell in the ocean leaving the raincoat floating in the process You see in the trailer of Little nightmares 2 Mono wakes up in some kind of shore(I assumed that Mono was the "child" you play as in VLN because the "child" fell down in the ocean and losing the raincoat floating, Six wearing the raincoat(maybe it's where she found the raincoat after she went after it), and it has something to do with dolls and TV's(theres a section in VLN where there are many dolls sitting and staring at a TV)just like in very little nightmares Do you see what I'm getting at? Maybe the timeline would be Very little nightmares Little nightmares 2(in the trailer Six doesn't seem to have the Lady's powers so maybe 2 is a prequel to 1) Little nightmares

[@meaganadams3133]

@guy mcface how do we know if a boy or a girl

[@mira-mun2076]

Anyone else notice how in Little Nightmares 2 there are mysterious sets of clothes draped around the background? They're laid out as if someone had been wearing them at one point. Seeing the Pretender's power to drain one's life force, that gives a bit of context as to why the clothes might be there.

[@HidanKitten32]

One thing you didn’t mention is how the one doll looks A LOT like the child the raincoat girl freed from that cage

[@grandmagertrude7676]

She gets fuckin rocked by the butler at 4:50 That shit had me dying. It was so funny

[@shimapanseu]

anyone realize the doll at 12:47 is the same doll/prisoner that was freed from the cage in the beginning in 1:17

[@Glitchmouse2]

The raincoat has a confusing story, since we can see it being taken by six in little nightmares 2.

[@codycogs]

this game is still a prequel and everything stated is correct. little nightmares 1 and 2 is a time loop of mono and six turning into the thin man and lady and this game explains how the loop begins

[@pootispencerguy]

What if very little nightmares takes place in Six's dreams when she's sleeping in the suitcase at the start of little nightmares??? Boom, big reveal *BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY, A GAME THEORY*

[@DuneTheKaiju]

It's obviously just a Little Nightmare 🙃

[@taxevasiongaming]

Lol maby

[@tibiafibia9207]

I feel like this game is literally about child trafficking

[@drewbarczewski5961]

Did anybody notice how the Craftsman’s feet are actually hands?

[@angelofdarkness6181]

So the story timeline is as such: First verry little nightmares where the first kid looses their raincoat and it eventualy washes up in the city, next six exapes on the raft to eventualy get captured by the hunter and get rescued by Mono in little nightmares 2. She then finds the lost raincoat and betrays Mono, exaping to the maw. Finaly six has her adventure in the maw eating the gnome and defeating the lady in little nightmares 1.

[@some6150]

Who is nemo

[@thechoaticgamer4734]

@@some6150 the character you play as in LN2 also it’s mono

[@hail-yeet5665]

Poor nome He only wanted to escape and then was turn into a nome and then eaten

[@angelofdarkness6181]

@@thechoaticgamer4734 thanks for the proper name. I couldn't remember exactly what is was at the time.

[@jeanremi8384]

slight question : how did it wash up to the MIDDLE OF A CITY ? The only water that could reach it is the pouring rain.

[@lowtidemoon]

something i’ve been wondering... if the picture in the nest shows the man already hanging, wouldn’t that mean VLN comes after LN??

[@NovelistOfSins.]

That pretender model design is the most Normal One out of the other I've ever seen

[@bestprawn444]

So did your theory change after playing the second game.

[@TheLifeOfRoss]

He is right. VLN is the original chick who died The kid at the end grabbed the jacket, used the boat to flee the island and was eventually caught....THIS IS 6. LN is the continuation of playing as 6 trying to escape the maw.... LN2 is mono and 6 venturing deeper into this creepy world while trying to escape....only to find out they are trapped in a world and situation much bigger than originally anticipated.......the maw was TRULY just the beginning.....wow GREAT WRITING. GREAT STORY

[@jonathanX01]

10:57 - Or, for the new theory, she ends up at the farm where the farmer finds her and imprison her. Makes no sense still.

[@roccohassan2128]

I still do not understand how six got two raincoats from different places, as she finds one far into the pale city but also gets one from the girl in the yellow raincoat.

[@sageofsixpaths9205]

The Craftsman has a mask because he is responsible and doesn’t want the virus

[@destroythefanboyism2761]

What do you mean big bird?

[@bachledong7874]

Six didn't grab that raincoat right away in the end. She somehow being captured in the Hunter's House. She found that yellow coat later on through the Little Nightmares II.

[@immortalzorn]

11:10 "Indirectly tells the story of where Six came from..." LN2: uhhhhh Edit: I feel dumb, looking at other theories about it. I do concur that Six's origins are tied to this game

[@doroteabole3667]

IT JUST CLICKED FOR ME!! So, there's a theory that the school in ln2 was once a normal school with normal children, so I'd say it was normal before The Teacher (or the pretenders mother) came to the school, she transferred all the real, human children to The Nest and replaced them with the porcelain children we meet there, which would also explain the child tied to a chess figurine in the room we go through in the ln2, he was the one who tried to escape The Teacher, but got caught and so got tied to a chess piece. Even though he might look as another one of the porcelain children, I don't think he is because he has his eyes closed, unlike the porcelain children. This is also part of the same theory but it does make more sense now when we can connect the Teacher to The Nest. THIS WOULD ALSO CONFIRM SIX ATTENDED THAT SCHOOL BEFORE VERY LITTLE NIGHTMARES BECAUSE SHE WAS ALSO SENT TO THE NEST BY THE TEACHER, BUT MANAGED TO ESCAPE AND SO GET TO THE MAW BY THE BOAT MAN!!???! Jesus my brain is exploding right now, I will definitely edit this comment more later on.

[@Xboxshutdown1864]

The first Six didn't die in the end. In Little nightmare's 2, I thing that the first Six in mono! :D

[@g5girl]

Gasp! OMG!

[@cowby2207]

So this might not be a good theory but I think the pretender died when she hit the water because she fell from pretty high up so when she died her father (hanging man) went to the maw to drown out his sadness by eating, but it didn’t work and he was so overwhelmed by grief he hung himself in the maw. And after the her child and husband died the teacher who in my mind is the mom moved to the island in Little Nightmares 2 were she will teach.

[@medicgaming101]

Let me just say this. THE NOMES ARE the dead children of the maw, when you point your light towards them you can see the shadows of the children in the dark.

[@ryeborn015]

they are not dead though, they are just turned that way by the lady.

[@jesussauceda3596]

The gamingbeaver stated that you can only see the nomes child shadow when they are throwing the coal in the furnace

[@Phabrication]

Mike:the craftsman has an interest in taxidermy. Me.hmmm,where have I heard that before?(the hunter)

[@ElFireFox]

I don't understand how six finds her raincoat in little Nightmares 2 aswell

[@callistaglover3844]

There are some theories that Six lost her coat in between VLN and LN 2, believing the sequence to be VLN, LN2 and LN1. If she lost her coat between the first two games, maybe she found one again. Another theory I heard was that even tho we saw the raincoat in VLN and Six getting on a raft, we never actually saw her take that raincoat so it’s possible that she didn’t. Maybe she took the one in LN2 because it reminded her of her dead friend.

[@KalinTheZola]

So some people have been confused on why Six would get the coat in Very Little Nightmares, but then also get it in Little Nightmares 2. What I think happened was that Six got the coat at the end of VLN. In Little Nightmares 2, before Mono finds Six at the Hunter's cabin, Six initially traveled from right to left and went through the school and escaped on that broken door to the land where the the Hunter captured her. At some point when traveling through the school, she lost her coat. I think maybe one of the porcelain children managed to steal it from her and left it discarded where she found it again later while traveling with Mono. That's why I think the bedsheets tied up that you used to get into the school came from Six leaving that directing.

[@piercemcdowell4565]

So mono was the pretender’s father? Oh my god... And the teacher may be the wife! But mono tried to escape the teacher... There is still a lot of story to uncover

[@kik6478]

The teacher tried to eat her husband lol

[@vanzwho854]

I don't believe that mono is the hanging man, he's stuck in a time loop after all and what would he be doing on the maw.

[@piercemcdowell4565]

@@vanzwho854 oh yeah

[@stopthebiglick1366]

If they release a little nightmares 3 I think it should be about six traveling back to the maw and becomes the lady

[@lifeof_a568]

This story is just as complicated as the Five Night’s At Freddys story🤦🏽‍♀️

[@jokezm5982]

LN makes far too much sense to be compared with FNaF, which at this point is just a scramble as to which is canon and which is not.

[@MaesReverie]

They are both super complicated which is why I love them

[@asht1261]

And we wouldn’t have it any other way ❤️

[@TheIceFlowe]

@@jokezm5982 hmmm, not really. We do know all of the games are canon(except FNAF World), and the books are another universe. FNAF is just WAY harder to understand because we dont have enough info.

[@samqwu5246]

I love your voice. It's perfect for horror vids. Nice👍

[@March706]

doesent little nightmares 2 basically contradict this cause six got the raincoat from the floor in that game??

[@beetroot7156]

Yes it does

[@boptodatop]

@@beetroot7156 it most likely got picked up in the wind blew up to the roof then washed down into the room by the rain

[@ozzy9606]

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[@TheAaron3149]

this theory needs to be redone becauee of little nightmares 2 being before little nightmares

[@lukebrunker264]

No

[@_marshP]

I feel like the girls in the game,and Six, are different people, with the coat going from the first girl, to the child you free, with them losing it one way or another, and it ending up outside the school in Little Nightmares II

[@K1N6_]

So we can say that the chronology is: Very little nightmare, little nightmare 2, then 1?

[@Djcjx91]

Im confused lol how is this before Little Nightmares 2? We see Six pickup her raincoat in L2 and in Very Little Nightmares she already has it? There seems to be a bit of inconsistency unless im missing something..

[@projectpitchfork860]

@@Djcjx91 Yes, but she would have to loose it and gain another one. She sailed to the main land at the end of Very Little Nightmares, propably lost her raincoat in pail city escaped and got caught. Or maybe Very Little Nightmares isn't canon.

[@K1N6_]

@@projectpitchfork860 actually Six never had the raincoat in very little nightmares, someone else was using it and we see six not on her rain coat. She traveled to the mainland and later meets with mono after meeting mono they later find the raincoat, LN2 events play, then Six travels to the Maw and the game is played out.

[@scribblemeeps]

I have a theory there might be three girls who play as six

[@tears3194]

DjCj but in the LN2 comics it shows six running on the hunter without a yellow raincoat before she got caught, maybe she just went through the raft and didn't get the raincoat cause there's no scene on VLN where she really retrieved it.

[@greenchairguy]

9:55 is that a Very Little Nightmares TV Show clip? Does one exist? Also, the character we played as in Very Little Nightmares might be the "Shadow Six" we see through out the original Little Nightmares