The Complete Little Nightmares Timeline Explained (Horror Game Theories)

hey guys super horror bro mike here and in this video we take a step back and look at the big picture as we attempt to set a timeline to the entire little nightmares universe there have been three games in total little nightmares and its dlc secrets of the more the mobile spin-off very little nightmares and a full-fledged sequel little nightmares too all of these games are connected but how well sit back relax and get ready for a guide through the events of these games in the order that makes most sense at least to my mind in addition to nailing down a rough timeline this video will aim to contextualize various elements using theories that seem most logical with all of that said let us begin at the very start of this nightmarish tale with the origin story found within very little nightmares [Music] released as a mobile offshoot back in 2019 very little nightmares was a touch screen puzzle game with a very different art style it used hand-drawn visuals to tell the story of a character which at first glance appeared to be our heroine 6. using this familiar character players explored an old mansion built atop a tall cliff face in the middle of the ocean a place known as the nest it is eventually revealed that this character is not six her name is simply the girl in the yellow raincoat a raincoat she eventually loses as she plummets to her death while being chased by a monstrous child known as the pretender we can clearly see from her haircut that this girl is not six however six does feature throughout the game a fellow prisoner who ends up fleeing the nest alongside the girl in the yellow raincoat and escaping on a raft after her companion met a watery grave before the events of little nightmares ii i had assumed six acquired her iconic yellow raincoat after leaving the shore of the nest aboard her raft and scooping it out of the water then being picked up by the mysterious boatman character and taken to the moor or perhaps simply washing up beside it and finding her way inside this speculation is now proven incorrect do we know little nightmares 2 takes place in the weeks and months after the story of very little nightmares well there are several reasons to make this connection if we look at the digital comics which acts as a precursor to the events of the sequel we see six without raincoat and looking as if she just stepped off the raft at the end of a mobile game she is captured by the hunter a haunting sight that her would-be companion mono witnesses and seemingly the reason he sets off to 36 at the beginning of little nightmares 2. when we finally discover six there are several key points of interest found within her prison room first of all the music box an item comforting her during her imprisonment we see a representation of this music box at the end of a game monster 6 holding it with extreme importance in fact the signal tower uses this box to corrupt and bind her to its spell although referenced in the first little nightmare's game this scene in little nightmares 2 seems to be six's first introduction to the item and the reason for its hold over her she connected with it as a coping mechanism during a time of great emotional trauma in her childhood also look to the chalk sketches on the walls presumably the work of six while being held here the tally marks are easy enough to explain they signify a passing of time maybe days weeks or months six has after all been here for a while we also see six has drawn an image of the signal tower this drawing is almost an exact match for those seen sketched by the bullies within the schoolhouse to me this suggests the signal tower has already began calling 2-6 and hypnotizing her with its corrupt transmission much as we see with the other wretched creatures of this world in fact later in the game as the two adventurers pass by the tower six stares up at it as if under a spell this may well be why she was so easily manipulated distorted and corrupted while held prisoner within the tower already held sway over her mental state but most interesting of all the sketches are for people we have seen before people with their faces scratched out as if to suggest they are now dead the sketch on the far right represents a person falling remember back to the final moments of very little nightmares the girl in the yellow raincoat who fell to her death at the hands of the pretender it seems this sketch represents her but then what about the others well for now we must move on but don't worry we'll be back to revisit these sketches at the end of this video you may be asking what about the yellow raincoat why did six not have this key item if this game follows on directly from the events of very little nightmares this is actually fairly easy to speculate on the main point to bear in mind is that while we see six about to leave the shore of the nest aboard the driftwood raft we never see her collect at the floating raincoat it is therefore logical to conclude this raincoat took the same tide as six and washed up ashore near the pale city however unlike six it was not collected up by the hunter but rather a denizen of a city itself eventually its wearer was either taken by the signal tower once again leaving the coat behind or it was simply discarded after all these city streets are full of discarded junk at every turn this is why six finds it far from shore yet looks on it as if it holds some connection to her previously reminding her of the child who helped her escape not too long ago one more thing that really connects six to the events of very little nightmares preceding this game can be seen by her uncomfortable demeanor while riding the floating door across the river mouth here it makes sense when we remember she had recently escaped a traumatic experience within the nest using the exact same means an escape method which led to her capture by the hunter skipping to the end of the adventure six is taken by fin man and imprisoned once again this time within the walls of the signal tower itself here its distorted signal twists and corrupts six in ways all too familiar to anyone who has encountered monsters such as roger the janitor this signals how he uses fin man's power to warp and distort reality which ravages the world and does exactly the same to poor six more importantly it pulls from her memories to create a prison for her while examining the items found within this room many look eerily familiar again we will revisit this concept at the end of this video mono eventually manages to cure six by destroying the music box an item as stated before which binds her to this monstrous form this leads to the signal tower revealing its true form a living mass of flesh made up from the bodies of those it consumes while escaping mono drops behind six and she grabs his hand to prevent him falling but decides in a cruel turn of events to let her friend fall most likely because she senses the darkness calling him from within and has witnessed mono's dangerous powers which she feels threatened by of course six unwittingly dooms the world by doing this mono is imprisoned by the signal tower and his powers used to distort and warp the world throughout space and time this creates a time paradox where mono has always been thin man and so calls out to his past self so he may be freed from this prison within the tower and finally have a chance to break the cycle saving the world and its inhabitants from this terrible fate [Music] six leaves the signal tower but part of her now belongs to it as seen with the glitching remains of a ghost children we find throughout little nightmares too her connection to mono and the tower separates six's soul from her body now incomplete the loss of six's soul leaves a great empty void a void which must be satisfied this is the birth of six's hunger a hunger we contend with throughout the very first little nightmares game confirming little nightmares 2 is indeed the second game in the timeline and a prequel to the events of the original we also note that six's spirit energy looks down at a poster of the moor suggesting the tv six exits for tower through is either aboard for more or she is given the idea to head there in order to gain access to the power she needs to be cured powers she eventually procures from sorceress for lady with this information in hand the first game is pretty self-explanatory it is deferred in the timeline continuing six's story as her hunger begins to destroy her from within the ending of little knight s2 also sheds light on a possible explanation for the shadowy figure of six that watches over her each time she feasts this is for half of her lost after escaping the signal tower this hunger requires soul energy to properly quench its first replacing elements of the soul six herself has lost this explains why in a cruel twist of fate six eats the gnome child and not the sausage it offers up to her it also explains why upon killing the lady and consuming her dark magic six then uses said power to drain the life force from everyone else aboard for more she has become a monster herself a monster with a never ending hunger sucking the life from anything that stands in her way so let's tie up some loose ends and wrap up this video returning to six's chalk drawings in the hunter's house and things suddenly click starting at the signal tower and working backwards reveals our timeline it shows past and future but not yet present to explain look to the far right and we see events as they happen before little nightmares too the death of the girl in the yellow raincoat as she plunged to a watery grave then we see tally marks representing a passage of time these lead to an empty gap but why is this empty well because it marks the current period of time for which the outcome is not yet determined but perhaps this could be filled in with mono like so moving on we see another passing of time and then a drawing of the runaway boy and his gnome this was the character found in the dlc secrets of the moor which ran in sync with the events of six's adventure in the original game another character who died by six's hand as seen earlier in the video finally another shorter passage of time and the death of the lady this brings us bang up to date with the story of little nightmares as we know it and everything ties in to that image at the back of this room the signal tower itself what's interesting about the placement of the signal tower drawing is how it's sketched upon a different wall surface to me this makes sense as the signal tower exists on a separate plane of existence within time and space a dimension where time is fluid and past present and future are as one this explains why we see items from six's past and future within this same room take for example her suitcase from the moor it doesn't exist in her memories as of the story of little nightmares 2 but can still appear in her prison within the tower due to its ability to draw from events still to occur look to these portraits for example and again we see a timeline represented right to left at the far right we see six as a child cowering in her raincoat then in the center an image representing the lady her face scratched away to represent her demise on the left we see a horrifying face but one that seems familiar in a way it looks similar to that of a granny found in the depths of the moor i had theorized previously that this granny is what would eventually become of a lady as her powers ravaged her body over time the pretender from very little nightmares the next in line to take the lady's place after she herself took the place of the previous granny again it's all one big cycle it seems as six consumed the lady's power she may be in for a similar fate to become disfigured and monstrous over time this portrait showing 6 in the future perhaps if little nightmares 3 does happen we will witness this horrifying transformation unless mono finds a way to escape his fin man fate and break the time paradox that is one question remains how is six able to draw from memories of her future memories she shouldn't yet have access to well if we think about the names six and mono and what they represent in literal terms we can jump to some logical conclusions mono means one only or single this makes sense as the origin of this terrifying world falls to mono and his fate as fin man within the signal tower there is only one mono and he is the ground zero event which triggers everything before and after while running toward the door thin man is trapped behind if we pay close attention we can see the number six this suggests that this door is number six and therefore the sixth cycle within this paradox if so then six has her name due to being the catalyst for this particular cycle she triggers the events that doom this world each time when handing over mono to the signal towers control if this theory is correct then six is simply the six of her kind with five prior versions existing in different failed timelines so with this concept in mind we can conclude six may retain faint memories of her five prior incarnations of course this is a stretch but this is the only way the rest of his theory makes sense and why else feature the number 6 on the door here and use such numerical terms for both protagonists either way that head-scratching conundrum brings us to the end of this video looking at the timeline of a little nightmares universe i hope you did enjoy it and if you did remember to leave a like comment down below and of course subscribe for more horror related content thanks for watching and i will see you on the next [Music] video you

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Id: JyxvIEZpPq0

Length: 15min 51sec (951 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 18 2021