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I decided to make my main oc's as the main protagonists of Little Nightmares. I thought it would be cute and adorable for them since I ship six and Mono together along with Alek and Jamie. @prometheus2007

Alek - Mono

Jamie - Six

Kimi - Low

Sukie - Alone

Kyle - Seven/Runaway Kid

I saw this post: https://www.tumblr.com/bellerocks4/746751504251322368/the-boy-and-his-hats-look-at-them-all-d-this

And I decided “what’s stopping me from doing the same? Only in MY stupid art style!”

So lo and behold, I drew Mono in all the hats! Only, um, I didn’t rate them. Mainly because I didn’t wanna start any discourse))) ignore the Russian writing underneath

The quality is probably less than good, but I tried)))

Long time has been since I posted my art, so have this doodle of Mono/Thin Man! I sent it to my mutual first (Jack, it’s you) and he approved, so have at ye

Little Nightmares... but flowers?

Okay so there's this thing in OMORI where each main character has a flower that correlates to their personality. Kel being a cactus because he's resilient, Hero being a rose because he's universally loved, etc.

Now what if we were to assign flowers to each Nightmare Kid?

Like Noone, Low, Mono, Six, Cici, Raincoat, etc.

I've left a whole essay on this topic below, so you can look at that if you really want to--

NONETHELESS! I really wanna hear yall's thoughts on this- Feel free to reply your own ideas!

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Ideas/flowers I assigned are listed below:

I think Mono would be a crocus or a forget-me-not. They're both colours I think he'd like, and I've always imagined Mono to be a winter-birthday kid. Crocus are flowers that bloom in late winter, and I suppose that also represents resilience in a way??? Not many flowers bloom in the winter because of the cold. As for forget-me-nots... I think it's easy to explain? Forget-me-nots usually symbolize faithfulness and remembrance, and Mono just... radiates that stuff.

Six would either be a poppy, dandelion, or a bleeding hearts flower. Poppy because they actually have two meanings! In western culture, it represents death, because of its blood-red colour, while in eastern culture, they represent success or passion, if I remember correctly. Dandelion is... self-explanatory? It's yellow, like Six's raincoat, and it's a weed- just like Six- (/hj /hj) Bleeding hearts is also self-explanatory. It's literally a flower that looks like a bleeding heart. Plus they're cool, and I think Six would think so as well. I rest my case.

Noone is probably the easiest? I mean... she did have a flower in the podcast so my homework's already done for me. I think Noone would be a chrysanthemum or a poppy. Poppy for the same reason as Six, it means death and success Chrysanthemum because it's the flower that her parents left her before she was taken under Otto's "care"

Raincoat would probably be a hibiscus or a carnation. Raincoat was a pretty short-lived character, just like how hibiscus have a short life-span. They also mean "gentle" or something of the sort. Since Raincoat radiates gentle older-sister-energy, I'm giving this to her. Red carnations are a symbol of love (both romantic and platonic), protection, and passion. Raincoat feels like a very loving character, and a passionate one at that. She feels like she'd do anything in her power to protect anyone she loves. She just... feels like a carnation.

I don't have much to say about Runaway, but he feels like a periwinkle person. Reason 1, it means hope (apparently), and Runaway seems to have a lot of ties to "hope"? I'm not sure where or how we got there, but... nonetheless it's still there. Reason 2, it's blue. That's it. It's blue, just like Runaway. I would say the typical "water lily" or "lotus", because Runaway has a lot of connections to water... but... That's basic. Plus, lotus and lilies mean like... "purity" and "calmness" and all that jazz, and the Runaway in my head is the pure and utter opposite to "calm" and "virtuous". The only lily-flower I'd refer him to would be pink or yellow water lilies. Pink because they apparently mean friendship and joy, yellow because they mean energy and new beginnings.

Low and Alone are their own can of worms that I can't even open. We know next to nothing about these two, so how am I supposed to assign a flower based on their characteristics if I have no characteristics to work with? The only thing I can offer atm is Alone being a tiger lily and Low being a Birds of Paradise flower. Tiger lily because they remind me of Alone's silly goofy hair. And Birds of Paradise because... um... bird-boy.

I'm back with another AU idea let's go

Okay so. This new idea is like... not a crossover, I'm so sorry.

I don't have a story idea or anything, all I have is ideas for each character.

Mono and Low would both be Avians from the Sky Kingdom. Mono is a Prince who can't fly, while Low is a kid who wants to be a hero/royal knight. Six could be a fire-creature from the Fire Kingdom. I had an idea where the Fire Kingdom is not doing to hot and there's mass amounts of conflict, famine, and all that jazz, which is why Six ran away from that place. Runaway is going to be a fish person because I have to entertain my headcanon in some way shape or form. I have no bloody clue what his role may be. He could be a merchant? Like, he collects random stuff from the shore and sells it under water Eda-Style (The Owl House). Raincoat might be a forest-fae of some sort, who's a Healer-in-Training. Alone on the other hand is an engineer from the Mountains.

Here's a silly lil doodle of Mono and Low!

It's MS Paint again, I'm sorry.

I was toying around with the idea of The King of the Sky (Mono's dad) being Otto, and Noone being Mono's little sister (adopted maybe? Idk) But I'm not too sure about that?

Okay that's all I have to share, good night.

Interests

This is a MS Paint redraw of a traditional doodle I made in class. I kinda just like to think that Mono and Low would get along pretty well because they like to talk a lot. And I feel like they'd both be really interested in what each other likes. Mono and Low can both be bird-nerds and Low can listen to Mono's rambles about music and how cool it is :D

Also, no way in hell are either of them neurotypical. There is simply no way. I refuse to believe.

I don't quite remember where the colour palette used was from. I got it from a collection of multiple colour palettes so--

Alright, that's all I have to share, hope ya'll have a nice day/night!

Reblogs appreciated :D

I'd just like to say that- Six and Mono? Definitely neurodivergent

SERIOUSLY-- There is literally NO WAY IN HELL OR THE NOWHERE that these two kids are neurotypical.

I personally see Six as autistic. She probably looks over every single social cue ever. Mono makes a joke? It flies straight over her head. Best case scenario? It takes her a solid 5 seconds to absorb the joke and snicker at it. She probably hyperfixiates on ducks or turtles. (ALSO SIX IS COMMONLY HEADCANONED TO BE A BITER THAT IS JUST-- THAT. I. HOW IS THAT NOT NEURODIVERGENT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND)

Mono? Like... come on, guys. It's Mono. He is the literal definition of neurodivergence. He wears a mask, he probably walks on his tippy toes simply because, he also probably has a fixation on hats (I personally imagine him to adore music but argarhagrgagrhh). Mono also probably does the flappy-hand thing every time he sees a silly goofy animal or hears a song he really likes (COUGH COUGH Crane Wives COUGH COUGH). Mono also, probably, totally, definitely, goes on rambles about funky things. Six listens because... hey. Sometimes hearing Mono ramble about the meaning behind the lyrics of a goofy song is pretty cool. *(Note: I also feel like Mono would just hold just as much obscure knowledge as Six. Mono would just know about the acidity of llama spit while Six just knows that hydrogen peroxide can get rid of blood stains. Six also probably knows the ingredients to poison or something.) ALSO I can definitely see Mono or Six going non-verbal. The two also, no doubt, screech random noises at each other. Just imagine that. That one part of the game where Mono has to make a box go up so Six can catch him on the other side. They just screech at each other.

Mono: peers over the edge Six: looks up at him and screeches Mono: makes that lil squeaky "AAAH" noise Six: responds with a "MAH!" Mono: screeches

I am sorry but- the two are just simply neurodivergent. I do not know what else to say.

Little Nightmares Headcanons!!

(May change over time n stuff)

listed from youngest to eldest

RUNAWAY 9y/o

No clue, he/him

Really good at swimming (main reason why I draw him as a fish-person)

Loud, confident idiot (stares at Tommy-Innit)

Hates broccoli.

Lactose intolerant

Hates being wrong/failing

Very much a "act-before-think person"

Break dances epically

Competitive. Very competitive. (especially with Six)

Hates Six's guts

Has a collection of ships in bottles

Either Runaway or Mono are trans... I just want like... supportive brother arc please--

Plays with sticks

Knows one word in French. And it's piscine. He was the one who told Mono about the piscine joke.

Athletic

SIX - 9y/o

Aro/ace, she/it

loves ducks

Will bite (you and your belongings)

Won't scratch (she bites her nails)

Knows how to swim on the surface

Pupils are slightly slitted

Sharp canines

Growls and hisses when she’s really mad, or extremely not in the mood for anything

Had a duck and mouse plush at some point

Will tear Runaway into pieces if she could

There was a head-canon idea where Six has some form of DID, OSDD, UDD, etc. I don't really use this headcanon a lot because I myself don't have DID, so :/

Dark humor

NOONE - 10y/o

She/her

Animal lover <3

Clutches/fiddles with the ends of her clothing when nervous

Looks confused/concerned and scared 24/7

Likes drawing (probably has some animal doodles in her school books)

Listens to Mono's late night singing.

Allergic to nuts (once, at school, a group of students with pbj sandwiches "offered" Noone the sandwiches despite her declining. She was sent to the ER shortly after and was excused from school for the rest of the day and the day afterwards.)

Probably will get along with Six

Ticklish

Reads a lot

Laughs at Six's jokes.

Around the same height as Mono (taller than Raincoat)

Smartest (academically) in the group

LOW - 10-11 y/o

Bird nerd

Always liked reading comic books (especially the super-hero ones)

Percussion my beloved <3

Listens to your problems and gives you decent advice

Took up archery in school

Makes friendship bracelets

*insert epic secret handshake*

Ticklish

Probably makes music with Mono and Raincoat

Apple Juice lover

Plays with sticks

Very strategic

Probably plays chess or smth

Gamer /pos

Athletic

ALONE - 10-11 y/o

She/he

Listens to your problems and gives you… advice. Not good, not bad. Just advice.

Engineering <3 (probably would be really into those lego-machines)

Hits harder than a truck. Be careful, you might've shatter a bone.

Probably was a batter in baseball

Probably will win in a arm-wrestle against Mono.

Hits you lightly when laughing

Allergic to nuts

Apple juice lover

Doesn't talk much

G R E E N

Knows how to handle and discharge a gun properly. Do not ask her how or why she knows this. He simply does.

Person with the most amount of obscure knowledge (more people drown in freshwater than they do in saltwater. fear that creek in the forest behind your house. fear it. It will take your life one day)

Fascinated by wires and Mono's powers

Probably needs glasses

Reads a lot

MONO - 10-11y/o

Bi, He/him

Is British

Plays the violin (but it’s more like a guitar bc it’s big for him and he lost the bow)

Despite being taller than average, he walks around on his tippy toes

Barely knows how to swim (just fails around and barely stay afloat)

Dino-arms

Knows very limited amounts of Japanese and German (knows a couple of words in French, but only really remembers bonjour and piscine)

Punches hit like a truck, but it hurts Mono's hand a lot

Asthma

Very ticklish

stands awkwardly in the corner

Probably makes music with Raincoat and Low

Plays with sticks (uses them to direct magic)

Broken humor

Has negative associations with trains (doesn't like them)

RAINCOAT - 11-12 y/o

No Clue, She/her

Is Sisi

LOVES horses

Wanted to be an actress because MAKE UP, COSTUMES!! ACTING!! SINGING!! AAAAA!!

Good at cooking and baking (stares at my Bakes-Cookies-for-Otto headcanon)

Has some experience with piano and choir, but nothing else really

Bestest big sister ever

Will totally paint your nails while you ramble about something

Really likes playing with hair (another career dream she had was a hair stylist)

Will tease you (/lh)

Really pretty voice <3

Typically the one breaking conflict up

Probably makes music with Mono and Low

Reads bedtime stories to others

Around the same height as Mono (shorter than Noone)

Also, secret funky art post on youtube

HI

Here to add some things to the list--

Noone is a bug-enjoyer. During school break, she goes outside to eat her food and just watches bugs crawl around. She also sometimes gives ants crumbs of bread and just watch them crawl around it. I also just want her to love isopods. THEY'RE SO SILLY &lt;3

Low has percussion skills ✨ (Drum-boy)

There was a idea I had where Noone's school tried implementing some extra "culture courses" (spoiler alert, these lessons happened once or twice and then never came back). The most notable lessons was a languages class teaching German and French, as well as a choir-lesson. (choir was a mess and way too loud. Noone hated it)

Mono probably has a lot of trouble sleeping. (Wakes up frequently in the middle of the night, has trouble falling asleep, etc) Late at night, when things are just too much, he'd go somewhere quiet and play guitar.

Low probably broke his arm at one point... I wouldn't really put that past him ngl--(also forgor to add this, but he/them user)

Runaway has a raspy voice

At the old apartment, Noone would hide under her blankets and read books with a flashlight her grandma gave her. She lost the flashlight during the move to the fancy house

Noone is a plant-enjoyer as well Doesn't like carnivorous plants because they eat bugs, and she likes bugs so >:(

Noone was near the top of her class before the water sickness. She doesn't care too much about her grades regardless.

Little Nightmares Headcanons!!

(May change over time n stuff)

listed from youngest to eldest

RUNAWAY 9y/o

No clue, he/him

Really good at swimming (main reason why I draw him as a fish-person)

Loud, confident idiot (stares at Tommy-Innit)

Hates broccoli.

Lactose intolerant

Hates being wrong/failing

Very much a "act-before-think person"

Break dances epically

Competitive. Very competitive. (especially with Six)

Hates Six's guts

Has a collection of ships in bottles

Either Runaway or Mono are trans... I just want like... supportive brother arc please--

Plays with sticks

Knows one word in French. And it's piscine. He was the one who told Mono about the piscine joke.

Athletic

SIX - 9y/o

Aro/ace, she/it

loves ducks

Will bite (you and your belongings)

Won't scratch (she bites her nails)

Aro/ace

Knows how to swim on the surface

Pupils are slightly slitted

Sharp canines

Growls and hisses when she’s really mad, or extremely not in the mood for anything

Had a duck and mouse plush at some point

Will tear Runaway into pieces if she could

There was a head-canon idea where Six has some form of DID, OSDD, UDD, etc. I don't really use this headcanon a lot because I myself don't have DID, so :/

Dark humor

NOONE - 10y/o

She/her

Animal lover <3

Clutches/fiddles with the ends of her clothing when nervous

Looks confused/concerned and scared 24/7

Likes drawing (probably has some animal doodles in her school books)

Listens to Mono's late night singing.

Allergic to nuts (once, at school, a group of students with pbj sandwiches "offered" Noone the sandwiches despite her declining. She was sent to the ER shortly after and was excused from school for the rest of the day and the day afterwards.)

Probably will get along with Six

Ticklish

Reads a lot

Laughs at Six's jokes.

Around the same height as Mono (taller than Raincoat)

Smartest (academically) in the group

LOW - 10-11 y/o

Bird nerd

Always liked reading comic books (especially the super-hero ones)

Percussion my beloved <3

Listens to your problems and gives you decent advice

Took up archery in school

Makes friendship bracelets

*insert epic secret handshake*

Ticklish

Probably makes music with Mono and Raincoat

Apple Juice lover

Plays with sticks

Very strategic

Probably plays chess or smth

Gamer /pos

Athletic

ALONE - 10-11 y/o

She/he

Listens to your problems and gives you… advice. Not good, not bad. Just advice.

Engineering <3 (probably would be really into those lego-machines)

Hits harder than a truck. Be careful, you might've shatter a bone.

Probably was a batter in baseball

Probably will win in a arm-wrestle against Mono.

Hits you lightly when laughing

Allergic to nuts

Apple juice lover

Doesn't talk much

G R E E N

Knows how to handle and discharge a gun properly. Do not ask her how or why she knows this. He simply does.

Person with the most amount of obscure knowledge (more people drown in freshwater than they do in saltwater. fear that creek in the forest behind your house. fear it. It will take your life one day)

Fascinated by wires and Mono's powers

Probably needs glasses

Reads a lot

MONO - 10-11y/o

Bi, He/him

Is British

Plays the violin (but it’s more like a guitar bc it’s big for him and he lost the bow)

Despite being taller than average, he walks around on his tippy toes

Barely knows how to swim (just fails around and barely stay afloat)

Dino-arms

Knows very limited amounts of Japanese and German (knows a couple of words in French, but only really remembers bonjour and piscine)

Punches hit like a truck, but it hurts Mono's hand a lot

Asthma

Very ticklish

stands awkwardly in the corner

Probably makes music with Raincoat and Low

Plays with sticks (uses them to direct magic)

Broken humor

Has negative associations with trains (doesn't like them)

RAINCOAT - 11-12 y/o

No Clue, She/her

Is Sisi

LOVES horses

Wanted to be an actress because MAKE UP, COSTUMES!! ACTING!! SINGING!! AAAAA!!

Good at cooking and baking (stares at my Bakes-Cookies-for-Otto headcanon)

Has some experience with piano and choir, but nothing else really

Bestest big sister ever

Will totally paint your nails while you ramble about something

Really likes playing with hair (another career dream she had was a hair stylist)

Will tease you (/lh)

Really pretty voice <3

Typically the one breaking conflict up

Probably makes music with Mono and Low

Reads bedtime stories to others

Around the same height as Mono (shorter than Noone)

Also, secret funky art post on youtube

Try and spot the difference (CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE!!!1!!!11!!!)

My friend just showed me the stock(?) image (left), and just told me that it was literally Mono.

So here we are now.

Tbf, they are literally the same ass image-- One is just holding the wrong flag /j

Explodes 30000 times explosions forever

A Little Nightmare I had...

This is a recall of a dream I had last summer (2022) I believe? There are gaps in my memory, practically because of the one-year gap, but also because I do not recall the section of the dream at all. I'll tell you about it regardless.

The dream starts off with the nightmare kids (Six, Mono, Runaway, Raincoat) who are trying to escape a dark, lightless city filled with shadow monsters. There was also this... grandma(?), similar to The Lady/Geisha, who kept chasing us, trying to capture us. While we were being chased, we came across a dock and got into one of the boats. Runaway and Raincoat started the boat up while me and Mono kept look out. We escape into the waters, but the grandma follows us into the water. While we fled, a monster, what I recall being a giant baby/doll with an animal face, emerges from the water and tries to eat us, before getting injured or something, and crashing onto The Grandma. The two get into a fight and we escape deeper into the black water.

Then there was a big gap in my memory

After the gap was another section of the dream. It took place in a forest-area, similar to the beginning of the second LN game. There was this event going on where the townspeople of the woods would gather about in a clearing to... hang clothing??? This was just done out in the middle of nowhere and some people had guns for some reason. For whatever reason, we tried to cross the field. We had to sneak under each bit of clothing while it was up on the clotheslines- we were just not allowed to pass if the clothing was in front of our face. While in the process, one of us stepped on the clothing by accident, and a gunshot sounded. Shortly afterwards, the gunmen started to shoot at us.

While dodging the bullets and pushing past the clothing, we got to the end of the field where there's just this... dirt-mound piled up to look like a anthill, but with children-sized holes, perfect for us to slip through and possibly fall underground. We quickly enter the little holes slid into a new section. I remember it being really weird because the tunnel rounded back to the start I think, and there were these huge, ugly hands that kept trying to grab us. I remember Mono (or Runaway), who went in first, literally stop his sliding to prevent us from sliding straight into the hands of the gunmen.

We did eventually get caught and then we were knocked out. Later, I remember waking up in a cell. Looking out from the bars I could see the rest of the room. The room we were in was like an office, but underground. Clearly underground. Half the walls were stone and the rest were smooth, ugly-stained marble walls. On said marble walls were framed pictures of pinned insects like dragonflies and butterflies. On the wall to my right was this large steel door, and beside that door was a desk that was parallel to our cell. I remember there being a black-"leather" sofa-chair behind the desk. I don't know why I remember that but whatever I guess. On the desk sat piles of papers on it and a big birdcage, a bird cage that contained Mono, if I remember correctly. He didn't have his mask on which was strange because (in the context of the dream) he had a really big issue with his face, he just hated it and absolutely could not stand just having his face out and about.

Apparently, our captors, who were-- I kid you not-- dressed in nun-like clothing (this was far before TSON so that was... weird-- explains why I got mass amounts of deja vu), were trying to... do something to us? But since Mono woke up first and had ooga booga magic, he made a compromise with our captors. Apparently, he promised to be their little lab rat, do everything they told him to do, so they could conduct tests on him. He was literally forced to stay in his own little hell just so we wouldn't get hurt or something of the sorts.

I (Six) woke up when the captors were "talking" to/threatening Mono. After the captors left, they left via the steel door. It clicked shut and there was a electric-sound I guess? Like... the beep of a smart lock or something, idk. Mono, despite the threat being gone, did not talk a lot, which is unusual to me. I kinda put two and two together and asked Mono if he was alright.

Six: "Hey... Mono, are you alright?" Mono: "Huh? Oh... yeah." Six: "...You sure? It doesn't sound like it..." Mono: silence Six: "You don't have to do any of that. We can get out of here soon, it'll be okay." Mono: "No, no, it's fine. I'll be okay. Everything will be fine."

He smiled really awkwardly at me, turned away quickly, and I woke up shortly after that.

My brain was fr really goofy back then. I had vivid-ish dreams quite often. They've disappeared ever since school started so... that's great... (this isn't the first time this happened. I had vivid dreams when I was younger, there was a 4-year gap where I didn't dream. It was because school was taking up more of my life. I think the same thing is happening again so weee ✨✨✨)

Aight. That's all I have to say. Goodbye o/

MORE LITTLE AKUMU STUFF (NO WAY DUDE!! FINALLY!!)

SPOILERS FOR LITTLE NIGHTMARES AND OMORI!

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Hi. Okay so... um... Here in this post, I wanna talk about which role would fit each Nightmare Kid, simply because I desperately need to organise my thoughts about this AU-

Let's start off with Raincoat!! Okay, Raincoat, she gives off big-sister vibes-- and let's be real, she probably is a sister figure to Six and the rest of the crew. In Very Little Nightmares, she fell to her death because Six failed to kill The Pretender. Oh boy, death by falling because of someone else's mistake? Hmmm, sure sounds familiar… *stares at Mari* So yea! Raincoat will be the "Mari" of the Little Akumu AU! She'll also be the Something, in a sense. Her death will probably haunt Six forever.

SPEAKING OF SIX-- Let's talk about her! Six will be the Sunny of this AU. Not only is she probably extremely mentally ill, but she's also responsible (in one way or another) of quite a few deaths/life-ruinings! Most notably, the "murder" of Raincoat! She'll be forever haunted by all of her actions! Also, I'd like to mention one of the two commonly accepted fanons where Six is the "quiet girl who doesn't say shit", I mean… that checks out as Sunny-behavior right??? And since I can, we can totally just have Shadow Six represent the Somethings! I'm so good at this /lhj Plus she's the implied main character of the LN franchise so--

Moving onto a different topic... you know how like… Mono is Six's bestie… and you know how Basil was Sunny's bestie? Yea, Mono is Basil. I already rambled about the uncanny parallels between the two characters in the previous post (cough cough, besties until one of them left after unfortunate event, the gosh dang dialogue, literally being abandoned by their bestie and having their mental health spiral because of that abandonment, cough cough) ALSO-- Mono will probably be stored away in the AU's equivalent of "Blackspace", not because he had much to do with Raincoat's death, but because he left in a very similar way Raincoat did. And since the brain loves seeing patterns…. I think it's safe to assume that Mono would just not have a nice time.

Moving on, I feel like talking about Runaway!! The Little Akumu Runaway will be based heavily on my RK Headcanons where he's a loud asshole idiot (/aff)-- and you know who else is a loud idiot? KEL!! Runaway will be the Kel of this AU!! Yippee!! I don't really have many reasonings for this role? All I can say is that everyone, including Roku (The OMORI/Six) and Alone hate his guts.

Speaking of Alone, Alone's just gonna be Aubrey. I just imagine both of them to be like... really strong. That's the only reason I have honestly.

Low will be Hero because that's the last and final slot that needs to be filled. I legit have no reason for this other than the fact that Low feels like a older brother person idk dude. Also, I think it'd be amusing if Low is one of the only people who can make Runaway shut the hell up effortlessly, yk?

Aight, that's all I have to say. Buh bye. I might make another post in the near future featuring all of the concept art/doodles of Little Akumu, I just need to MS Paint-ify it.

Okay bye fr now.

NEW AU IDEA JUST DROPPED!!

SPOILERS FOR BOTH GAMES (but I'm sure you guys are chill with it, right?

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For those who don't know me, I absolutely ADORE Little Nightmares and OMORI. They're both such silly games and I love them both dearly... so what if... I combine them? Best of both worlds am I rite?!

I do remember seeing something similar, where Mono took the role of Sunny with a Headspace and such-- But what if Six took up Sunny's role and Mono took up Basil's? (and Mari's too I guess but shhh)

Not only were both Six and Mono best friends before an unfortunate event that tore the two a part, just like Sunny and Basil, but like-- One of my friends pointed out that Mono can totally pull off being a Stranger/Headspace Basil in Six's hypothetical headspace. Like... LOOK AT THESE LINES IN THE BLACKSPACE ROOM--

"I just... I waited so long for you to come back, SUNNY... but... you never did."

THAT. MONO WOULD TOTALLY WAIT FOR SIX IN THE TOWER BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT SHE NEVER DOES COME BACK--

"Even seeing you now... It's hard to think straight. I can feel my heart hurting and I want to cover my face and hide."

Mono covers his face, he of course he'd feel hurt. And of course he can't think straight because he's bi-- /hj /hj IT IS JUST-- IT IS JUST HHHHHHH

Okay that's all I can think of regarding Mono-Basil stuff. Anyways have this thing that I drew for this thing. Ignore that I used Hero's expressions instead of Basil's shhhh

I might call this AU idea "Little Akumu" Tell me what you think of it :D

Cheers to another year of little nightmares! 👁📺🎶

Happy anniversary Little nightmares 2

Mono and Collector Doodles 📺🌘

There's something charming about these two possibly immortal and most certainly traumatised children. Like... They're both stupid (affectionate), absolutely terrified of being alone, overprotective of their one and only "best friend", AND they both were locked/trapped in a liminal space between time and space for an undefined amount of time! They have so much in common! They'd be besties 💖

Monix doodle!!

The Little Nightmares Kids #One

Here I'll be sharing my drawings & headcanons!

This is an AU where all the kids live (I do love my children doomed by the plot but let me be delusional & give them semi happy endings)

Reference images at the end!

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LN 1

Six: 9 years old, Black hair, Grey eyes, She/her, 🇯🇵, Item: Lighter, Powers: Shadow manipulation. 5th & 6th lady in the cycle. Sharp teeth.

Seven (The runaway Kid): 10 years old, Brown hair, Green eyes, He/they, 🇯🇵, Item: Flashlight. Powers - Water manipulation. Friends w/ Torch. Saved during a time loop & doesn't get eaten.

Torch (The flashlight girl) : 13 years old, she/her, Brown hair, Grey eyes, She/Her, 🇯🇵/🇬🇧, item: Flashlight (previously). The daughter of The Lady ex heir of the Maw. Was caught by the janitor & locked up accidentally, if he had known it was her he wouldn't have done it. She escaped the maw w/ the help of The Mirror Monster.

Ration (Bread kid): 14 years old, he/him, 🇺🇲, Gray hair, Brown eyes. Former prisoner on the Maw. Always very kind to the younger kids sharing his food & such.

Mono: 10 years old, he/him, 🇬🇧, Brown hair, static eyes. Future thin man.

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1) Reference models for Torch & Ration - Child prisoners on the Maw

2 & 3) Reference images for Torch

tell me more about this "mono isnt a human" theory thats really interesting

Thanks for asking! A few people have asked for my thoughts on Mono’s identity, and because I will take any opportunity to ramble about Little Nightmares, I wrote up my (hopefully intelligible) interpretation of Mono, and why I think he was always a Resident of The Nowhere, instead of a kidnapped human child like most of the LN kids. This theory is super connected to a few other ones I have, so I’ll rattle descriptions of them at the start for context. Also this post is insanely long I’m sorry

The Nowhere

The Nowhere is its own world that real children get kidnapped to, it feeds off of humanity and kinda functions like your local mall. A weird amount of emphasis is put on jobs in The Nowhere, Residents are often referred to solely by their job titles (The Janitor, The Doctor, The Teacher, etc. etc.)

Besides having a job in The Nowhere, a Resident's proximity to humanity seems to give them a higher status as well. In a LN1 interview, it was said that ALL residents wear masks (as opposed to just the Twin Chefs); we even see in LN2 that The Doctor makes and presumably sells these masks. A humanoid appearance is something that most Residents want. The more humanoid a Resident looks, the more powerful they are perceived to be (not always, because of The Ferryman, but he’s just chill like that.)

Kids and valuable teens/adults (like the circus performers and Otto from the podcast) feed The Nowhere kinda like how animals feed humans. Some Residents are given jobs to maintain this system. Some jobs require more power than others however, typically these are the jobs that require a Resident to keep control over an entire area, which leads me to…

The Cycle

The head honcho Residents like The Thin Man and The Lady are more humanoid and more powerful than the others, this is because they are handpicked and raised from birth to inherit these forms that are passed down over time. This one is super important to most of my points about Mono, so I’m going to spend some time defending it.

The Lady (prior to the Six stuff) had 4 predecessors, each represented by a different mask/hat that you can collect in VLN; This means that The Nowhere (at the time of the first loop in LN2) is on its 5th cycle. The Thin Man is also a mantle that is passed down, we see the previous one interact with Mono before Mono has even entered a time loop in the LN2 comics. This Thin Man, when datamined, notably wears a different hat than Mono’s iteration.

Furthermore, when asked if Thinny Lad is a mantle that is passed on or Mono in a timeloop in an interview, the devs had this to say:

The Pretender (VLN) is a good example of what I think Mono is supposed to be, and what the child forms of the 5th cycle Residents were. The Pretender is a humanoid child with supernatural powers and a strong sense of loneliness. She has her own mansion and Resident servants. The Pretender is the heir to a currently unknown position. She has a portrait of her and five past iterations on her wall, followed by another one of her and her two Resident parents. The Pretender is native to The Nowhere.

But… who is the boss of all the Residents? Who assigns these jobs? Who creates the natural Residents and brings others into The Nowhere?

The Eye

(you could argue its the ferryman but i think he works under the eye too. employee of the year)

I think most fans agree on this one so I won't spend too long on it, but basically I think the Eye is the unseen overall antagonist of Little Nightmares, overseeing everything and everyone in The Nowhere all the time. The Eye feeds off of misery and has a fate planned for everyone, it is not happy when anything throws a wrench into these plans. I don’t think we are meant to know The Eye’s motives, not yet at least, but if I had to guess; they have something to do with an extremely misguided and angry feeling of loneliness, as that is a prevalent theme in an insane amount of Residents. This finally brings me to Mono.

Mono’s Familiarity with The Nowhere

Mono is very familiar with Pale City, he is much more aware of his own fate, abilities, and world than he’s given credit for.

In the door/boat cutscene, Mono watches every TV in the water until it exits the frame. This early in the game, Mono already has an inherent connection to TVs.

Before Pale City comes into frame for both Six and the player, Mono is already standing, he is familiar enough with the route to Pale City that he knows they arrived without even having a clear view of their destination. This is because Mono has been to Pale City before, in the sixth episode of the LN2 comics:

In this comic, Mono met (and wasn't killed by) The Thin Man shown earlier. So to list off the amount of things Mono was already familiar with at the start of LN2: His connection to TVs, his connection to The Thin Man, and how to navigate Pale City. Mono having a lot of experience living in The Nowhere is demonstrated somewhere even more prominent too:

Kickass Character Design

Six’s character design intentionally makes her not fit in with her environment. While the color scheme of The Nowhere and its residents is mostly bland, monochrome, and washed out (sans the lighting), her jacket is highlighter yellow. This represents that Six does not belong in The Nowhere, she’s from the human world.

With this information to ride off of, Mono’s design becomes interesting. Mono’s design is a beige button up, tan trench-coat, and tan pants: A monochrome, muted outfit that fits in perfectly with the aesthetic of The Nowhere. Mono’s outfit including a key ring and a useful color scheme for camouflage further implies familiarity and experience with the way The Nowhere works. If Six’s simple, bright design represents her not belonging there, Mono’s muted, practical design represents the fact that he does.

His Mask

We actually know why Mono wears his mask, we have a direct answer:

You can interpret this as a representation of Mono being shy or insecure or a combination of multiple things, but I think it’s mainly meant to represent, as the description states: Mono hiding from The Nowhere, Mono running away from his fate. The Eye wants Mono to grow up and be the next Thin Man, but he doesn’t want to. Mono’s mask represents his fear, his refusal to use his Thin Man powers, his refusal to do anything that connects him to the world that hates him and wants him to fail; he wants to hide from that world, his future, and the reality of what he is. But ….

(straight up a post of Mono running from his fate)

Unexplained Powers

Mono’s OP reveal was the moment that shook me the most when I first watched my sister play the game; I’ve honestly always been shocked at how little it’s talked about in the community. To me, it was a reveal that told us we Did Not REALLY know much about the character we had been playing the entire time, and that was exciting.

When Mono fights the Thin Man and contorts the structure of Pale City, it is with ease. This is not his first time doing any of this, his body language does not match that of someone who just discovered/unlocked a new ability, him busting out the moves is framed more like a choice that he decided on just before removing his mask. The Thin Man boss battle is easy on purpose; because it's not too hard for Mono in universe, all he does after is wipe off his head nonchalantly and then he proceeds to warp reality. The ominous boss theme that plays during this fight isn’t even for the Thin Man, its MONO’S boss music. The Thin Man is the one who helps control The Signal Tower’s influence, Mono is the one interfering with it, he is the “Signal Interference.” The theme continues even after he’s defeated The Thin Man, further hammering in that it is his.

Mono has his own ominously powerful boss theme and the abilities of one of the most powerful Residents at his disposal; he is not a normal kid.

Mono even shares a power with the established Resident heir that we already know; The Pretender.

When The Pretender sees RCG eavesdropping on her crying, she yells so loud that it physically hurts RCG, causing the screen to glitch. I don’t think this is just a visual effect to show how loud it is to the player; I think this is an in universe ability. You know where else we see a powerful child amplify their voice on purpose to harm an enemy with a screen glitch/distortion effect? Mono in Chapter 5.

Mono and the fifth Thin Man

I think that Mono ran away from wherever it is he’s supposed to be, (probably the Signal Tower) and The Eye/ Thin Man want him back; this is why Mono is not killed by The Thin Man in the comic, just pursued by him

Loneliness

I don’t think I even really need to dissect how loneliness relates to Mono’s character, but he’s not the only character who deals with it. A huge recurrent theme with Residents is loneliness; the sense that they need something, they are missing something. The Lady has a bunch of dolls, The Janitor has.. a bunch of dolls in his own way. The Hunter too. The Pretender runs off to cry when her human doll friend gets messed up at her dinner party. The Resident we meet in Chapter 3 of the podcast is the most direct example so far of intense loneliness in a Resident, and not so coincidentally, it has a ton of parallels to Mono.

Narrative

For the rest of this post, I’m going to focus on how I think this theory fits into the story; because I think factoring in the cutscenes and storytelling beats is important when putting together something’s lore.

A little chatter about Mono

Mono is often characterized as a shy little boy who plays the straight man to Six’s feral goblin who loves eating rats, which is a whole other can of worms, but with this characterization I feel like some fun and interesting parts of his character are neglected, such as: The fact that Mono is an ominous little weirdo. His attempt at trying to save and comfort someone is to hack down her door with an ax with no warning, then proceed to chase her through the house she’s been trapped in; Mono is not too familiar with human interaction. Mono isn’t really a dashing hero who tries to save every kid he comes across either. In the comics, Mono finds an area that is away from the monster killing all the kids, but it’s not like he tells the other kids or tries to bring them with him or anything. I don’t think that this means he is a toxic manipulative character or anything because he is. 9 or 10 years old. I think if anything, this is a trait that experienced characters in The Nowhere have: RCG and Mono both know that indifference is the way to survive in The Nowhere, good deeds usually get you killed. It’s the way things are. I think overall Mono is a well meaning boy who just talks and acts ominously, because that’s what he is used to; he’s an eldritch overpowered being who lives in hell if it had a 1940s aesthetic.

I think that Mono doesn’t start the game a sweet perfect little boy whose ending is sad because he gets betrayed, that’s not a character arc. I think Mono starts off relatively morally gray out of necessity, mostly helping Six out because it was kinda his fault she got captured. He develops into someone who is willing to fight his fate, fight the Nowhere and stop resorting to the escapism his mask provides, only to get crushed to rock bottom in spite of his growth. After all, the villain of Little Nightmares is The Nowhere itself.

How this creates character conflict in the plot

Anytime Mono goes into a weird TV trance, Six is horrified. Her body language tenses and she moves away from him. Six has seen first hand that even the kids like her in The Nowhere cannot always be trusted or relied on (RCG shutting the door on her). Some kids like the Pretender aren't even normal kids, they have powers they use to kill people. The one person Six is starting to trust, and he’s showing signs of possessing supernatural powers? Terrifying. Mono notices these reactions, they give him more cause to hide what he truly is from her. Residents scare and disgust Six, he doesn’t want to lose the only person he has.

This conflict leads me to another point; you know those moments of Six being sadistic and angry towards Residents? How an ominous music cue plays when she kills the bully and breaks the mannequin’s fingers? Earlier in the game, when Six first catches Mono, his part of Togetherness II plays briefly to show his feelings in that moment, which implies that the music cues we hear when a story beat happens are Mono’s reactions. I don’t think these scary music cues are because Mono is scared of Six being creepy, Mono himself likes to beat up Residents. I think that Mono is scared in these moments when he sees the extent of Six’s hatred towards Residents, because even though he doesn’t like them either… Imagine how she’d react if she knew about him.

It is only the Thin Man fight when Mono is finally pushed to the point of using his powers, because in the plan to get Mono to the Signal Tower: The Thin Man took Six as bait. Six was constantly pulling Mono out of his TV trances, Six was supposed to die back at The Nest, Six has been a problem for the Eye since the start and now it’s time to kill two birds with one stone, to sentence Six to her new fate and to crush Mono’s spirit so hard that he finally resigns to his.

The drop is its whole own debate, but whatever you think about it, I think at least one factor in Six’s decision is that from her perspective: Mono has revealed himself to be an entity she cannot trust, he didn't tell her either; he's been hiding it this entire time. Why didn’t he use this power to help them all the previous times they were in danger? What are his motives? What IS he? This, mixed with other factors, causes the drop. (a lot of manipulation on the part of The Nowhere is involved too imo but this isn't a Drop analysis)

Mono is crushed, he loses Six and any true feeling of empowerment that he had before. Rather than The Eye trapping him in the Signal Tower and forcibly transforming him into a resident, I think Mono actually accepts his fate because hes just. That depressed. He actually ages pretty normally for most of the sequence (except for being straight up like 12 feet tall, the podcast confirmed that Residents are just super super big as opposed to the kids being really small, bros got Resident genes) This sequence from the art book leads me to think that Mono knows what the hat entails, Mono chooses to run the Signal Tower like The Lady runs The Maw. The chair sequence is not actually him sitting in a chair for that long, I think it just represents his resignation more than anything.

BUT! Mono is an “uncommonly single minded boy,” who also has control over time, i.e. Mono Thin Man slowing down time in his chase just to fuck with you or the clock sounds in The End of The Hall. Whether you think he goes back for revenge or to stop the downfall of everything, he goes back in time. I think it's on purpose, I think every TV in the background of the first scene implies that Mono has gone back to this point in time over and over again, failing repeatedly, leaving a new TV behind and forgetting the past attempt each time.

This could all be wrong, maybe Mono is just a really badass 4th grader from the human realm who got his abilities like Six, just off screen. But one thing I love about LN is all of the different, creative and interesting interpretations of the fans. So here’s mine regarding Mono lore. Sorry this was so long and I write posts weirdly it is 4 AM. I hope you enjoyed

Just wanted to know how my comic would look like in color ;з;👍