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Hello! I come from the theory post you made about ep 3 of the podcast, I really enjoyed it!

About the Ferryman: I must absolutely agree with you. He is horrifying. His voice not being able to be heard is something that had me scratch my head a bit, I will not lie. I have been thinking about some possibilities and ultimately I have decided that the reason why his voice is not heard is because his speech is too inhuman to be comprehended/replicated in the real world, but can be understood fine in the Nowhere.

Might also explain why, whenever he's properly referred to as "The Ferryman", the recordings and tapes glitch. He cannot cross over into the other timelines physically: he can't exist somewhere outside of the Nowhere. Which is why calling him by a pseudonym, the "Candleman", is easier for Noone, maybe.

What I know for sure is that the man is ancient.

I love the idea of the ferryman being to "foreign" to the human world, it adds to how ancient he feels, like he's and integral and innate part of the Nowhere, almost like the lure of an angler fish. (On a side note, Noone's description of his voice reminded me of a fic called "His Little Nightmares" which is about how Roger started working at the Maw, because Roger describes the Bellman as sounding "like he was trying to speak while drowning in tar".)

Another theory I have is that the naturally powered kids (Mono, Pretender) are regular visitors, just from a similar, but different world, with the "function" of producing a large crop of powerful entities for the Nowhere to choose to "relocate".

I noticed the organic seeming parts in demo footage but couldn't quite shake the feeling that Baby's mostly doll, time will tell if I'm right. Now that I think about it, the Bullies also had fairly organic looking limbs... . If her head was transformed by her eye then maybe the cracks around her mouth come from her trying to eat before realizing she couldn't open her mouth, in which case, Christ that's sad :( .

The Pretender parallel is something I hadn't noticed before, I love the idea of a bratty girl that can disintegrate people having a ceramic kaiju as an adopted sibling.

The spiral thing is fascinating to me because the demo and trailers only shows Baby in ways that make it impossible to tell if her stomach glows like that in the game itself.

I think the video in this tweet:

shows better than any other the weird spinning light pattern on Baby's stomach. One might even say it's a spiral, maybe she contains the mirror that takes the kids to the second area and we have to get her to "open up", it would explain why they decided to make her a doll.

I have been wondering, though... is she entirely a doll? She does seem to have folds of skin on her arms. The only thing that appears to be doll like is her head, which as you can see has little holes where the hair would normally be.

Taking the Lady's dolls as reference, you can see there is a striking difference: Monster Baby's skin is flexible and soft. All of it except for her head, which is where we know the shining Stone Eye is implanted. I keep wondering if at some point she used to be a... semi normal baby? Entirely made of flesh? Hell, I'm even pondering the possibility that her head looks like that because of the Stone Eye. Like an unwanted side effect.

It would not be the first time we see a doll made out of a living being... the Pretender was quite fond of those, wasn't she.

((Completely unrelated I keep thinking about the Pretender and the Baby here making friends. They remind me of each other in many ways because of the Baby's given description. Monster Baby is starting to grow on me idk how to feel about it))

Going back to what you were saying though: the pattern does seem like it's a spiral because of the way it continously rotates, but I can't help but wonder if it was just a prop for the huge Baby. It might mean something more, but until we see more of her, we can't say for certain.

So cute it's like little nightmares meets pixie hollow or something

Little Nightmares characters as Tinkerbell Fairy Talents! 

After speaking over it with @ciipher-arts (who knows more about the Tinkerbell movies than I do) With her advisement, I decided to assign talents via colorscheme instead of any other truer association with their darker original powers. 

I caught COVID this past week and sketched these out while I was sick in bed. It was therapeutic. 

*Mono's color scheme is a fight between olive green and brown depending on the lighting, so here I decided he'll represent brown.   *Noone, the last character, is from the Sounds of Little Nightmares. We don't know what she looks like outside of having a dress and a head silhouette. (And the silhouette has a purple background) So It's likely this depiction is inaccurate, but there were no other orange-schemed characters that fit the "animal" talent. Plus, Noone always loved moths as a child, so it may as well be her. (I'll make an official design page for her at some point, but I heavily based her design off of Jane from Peter Pan 2) 

Six, Mono, the runaway kid, the girl in the yellow raincoat, the pretender, Noone, Low, Alone (C) Little Nightmares