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Just wanna test something

Reblog if you are an avid or even the slightest of a Little Nightmares fan. Please, I need to know how many of you there are so I know this community isn’t as little as I thought. (I’m so sorry that pun was so bad I’ll be leaving lmfao)

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Replaying the LN1 dlc chapters again because I love to suffer!! Time for some thoughts and observations on the Lady and the Residence chapter as a whole.

(Please keep in mind that I am only making observations about what I see as I play the game! I missed a lot of external content and fandom activity so please don’t be rude if I say things that are considered obvious.)

I like how it’s immediately obvious that this area is much more lived in, and despite the mess of books on the floor it seems otherwise very clean compared to the rest of the maw! The hearth is still glowing with embers, and clearly sees frequent use. Books are left open near comfy chairs, or set aside for later reading and sorting as if someone got halfway through picking up the mess when a book caught her eye.

About that hearth: it’s goddamn COLD in the Residence. Despite the luxury here compared to the rest of the Maw, RK’s breath fogs up in the air in several areas. I’m not sure if that’s meant to be a side effect of the Lady’s presence or just an unfortunate reality of living in a big metal boat?

The ladders and stepstools are perfectly sized to allow kids like RK to get around with relative ease. Same for the stairs. There’s no real struggle to use them as intended. The Lady is more petite than many of the Adults in this world, but not THAT small. It’s almost like this place was designed with children in mind, to an extent.

Similarly, there’s places that are intentionally difficult for kids to get to on their own. The secret room behind the bookcase for one, or the hall of broken mirrors. It feels like there’s a defined “safe area” where those hypothetical children can roam, and as long as they don’t touch anything they shouldn’t it’s actually VERY safe???

Which brings me to the Lady herself.

I’d forgotten that when we first pass her, she’s playing her song on a music box. That detail certainly feels different after playing LN2

Dolls. There’s SO many dolls! Shelves full of them, carefully lined up in rows. More on that in a bit

The Shadow Children. God I have so many thoughts about them but no idea where to start??? I forgot about their dash move, which is a) annoying, and b) really cool! I’m not sure if it’s more like a temporary speed boost, or a baby-steps version of the way the Lady can appear out of nowhere. Plus they sound like they’re having a good time, and a lot of the time they don’t even really attack until you point the flashlight at them (or provoke a different Shadow Kid near them). They just kinda stand there menacingly until you get too close? I have to wonder how they came to be. Might make another post on this later with more details about their behavior and some thoughts I’ve had about them.

The above two points plus some other environmental clues lead me to believe that the Lady might actually want to be a mother? Which is a fucked up desire in the LN world already, before you even think about the fact that she feeds children to the Guests on a regular basis. But… the dolls treated with such care, and the way the Shadow Children are given porcelain masks to match her own and allowed to roam her Residence, and the fact that many of the library shelves are made accessible to someone RK’s size even though the books are LITERALLY their height…

It’s possible that the Lady’s problem with mirrors (and her appearance) is about more than just vanity. Like, it’s one thing to be upset that you aren’t beautiful and can’t regain your lost youth. It’s another thing to resent your appearance and age because you wanted to do more? If you wanted to start a family, and raise children of your own in as much luxury and warmth as you could offer, and now that you’re at the end of your life you have nothing to show for it but corpses and shadows and sagging skin…?

I think this adds another layer of complexity to her character. Don’t get me wrong, she’s still definitely not a great person (and who would be, surviving in this world?) and I like Evil Women as much as the next guy, but… vanity and greed and a genuine desire for companionship or family are NOT mutually exclusive. She can be self-obsessed and okay with doing terrible things and STILL be upset that she doesn’t have any children of her own to pass her Fucked Up Cannibalism Boat down to.

Of course there’s also the idea that she DID have children and none of them lived, but that’s another concept entirely.

On a lighter note! She likes tea :]

She also seems rather forgetful, at least with her belongings? She’s the type to sit down with tea and a book, then just kind of get up and leave the teapot on the bookshelf if something else captures her attention.

That being said her security measures are SIGNIFICANTLY more refined and clever than any of the others in the Maw. She’s pretty damn intelligent! She might just also be scatterbrained at times.

It probably isn’t meant to be funny but. The big portrait over the stairs. She’s just doing the Mona Lisa pose but backwards. Babe?

Side note. There’s SO many paintings around and WHERE are the artists? Did the Lady paint them herself? Is there some wandering Painter that goes around making dozens upon dozens of portraits for the monsters of this world? Has someone made that oc? I want to see them

Globe :]

The huge grandfather clock ALSO feels very different after playing LN2. I doubt that one was as much of an intentional callback when they were making LN2 tho? Clocks are just always sort of ominous

Never noticed before but the decoy book doesn’t have a big eye design on the cover! I never bothered to look at the decoy much before

Why does the secret bookcase door have skid marks in FRONT of it? You push it BACK to open it. What

I really like how RK will carefully set a Flotsam bottle down so it doesn’t fall over, but if they’re carrying one of the Lady statuettes they just. Open their arms and watch it drop directly to the floor.

I could definitely read into the idea that the Lady made a mechanism where the only way to enter one of the wings is to BLIND THE WATCHFUL EYE. I could read a lot into it. I could also find meaning in the fact that the wing hidden behind this puzzle has several statues of faceless children in it. Maybe a post for another day but probably not <3

Spiders :] in all seriousness! The presence of spiders and cobwebs generally means this wing has gone untouched for quite a while. That’s in pretty sharp contrast to the way the rest of the Residence feels like a home. A weird home, but still.

I am currently assuming that there are bedrooms behind those green doors we pass at the very start of the Residence chapter? Because we only really explore the huge library and gallery areas.

Might replay that part of Six’s route later to knit together a mental map.

Forgot about the little shrine of lady statues inside the wall. Who’s leaving offerings? The Lady herself definitely can’t fit in there. Is it the Shadow Children?

Speaking of them again. They kill you by rushing INTO your body and seemingly possessing you??? I want to know more about them PLEASE

May or may not be a child or doll in a birdcage near the end of the Shadow Kid section. The cage is open but the figure inside sits motionless. Reminds me of the end of Six’s route, where she’s ripped open the doors of her prison but can’t actually go anywhere. She’s forced to sit and wait for some outside force to act on her again.

Piano :]

That fucked up little moment where the Lady herds RK into a room where there’s a mirror waiting, just the right size for them to pick it up and fight her like Six does… except it’s already shattered. They never had a fighting chance. All the doors were already closed and locked before they could see the sun.

That’s all for now! Leave a little like if you read this far <3 I appreciate it!!

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Ok elaborating on this

So basically we all know Mono has access to some OP reality bending powers, especially later in life. Hopping through screens, teleporting, slowing down time, pushing and pulling with enough telekinetic force to shake city blocks… and so much more <3 but I’m fairly sure it’s reliant on the existence of a Signal/Transmission to Tune. He needs radio waves to manipulate, basically?

All of this is possible with, like. Relatively early telecommunications technology!

From what I remember, the real world had its first television broadcast network (the BBC) in the early 1920s. It did some stuff for a while before the scene really exploded in the 1950s, after ITV showed up and BBC responded with more accessible free programming to prove they were the better choice. (More on that some other time maybe. It’s a brief summary here)

I’m sure everyone has slightly different ideas for when, exactly, LN2 is taking place? But I definitely think it’s somewhere in that range where TV broadcasts exist but are very limited. There’s only one provider, and whatever they’re showing is what you’ve got. The range of the broadcast also isn’t super great compared to modern tech.

But in our world, we have things like:

regular radio communications used by things like car radios, alarm clocks, portable radios, fixed radio systems….

Broadcasting in general, which in this case refers to most types of mass-distribution of audiovisual content.

Radar technology???

COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES. Those are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and so on. Wireless computer networks

And So Much More!!!

All of those typically use radio waves rather than (or in combination with) a different type of electromagnetic waves. I think. Most of this is stuff I know about because of Wikipedia binges. Anyway basically what I’m saying is that your typical smartphone can (and does) interact with most of those! Some (like the pixel 4) even include radar for some reason. Don’t ask me why I don’t know man

My point is: we see what Mono can do with the Remote in-game. He’s able to use it on any television that’s still intact, to turn it on or off. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but being able to use it with ANY working television is pretty cool, considering! Plus he’s able to use that in combination with his screen hopping power to navigate the hellscape of the Pale City pretty effectively.

Now imagine giving him something compatible with his powers that has a MUCH broader range of things it can do. Imagine giving him THE INTERNET. A vast web of network connections and broadcasts suddenly at his fingertips, and almost EVERYONE carries this little Signal Device around with them 24/7. That’s a LOT OF POWER. We’ve seen what Mono’s powers (and the Tower) can do with regular, old-fashioned TVs. How much havoc could he wreak with something like this?

Luckily for us his main goal in life is just to… have friends and be safe.

I think it would be really funny to give Mono a modern cell phone.

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I think it would be really funny to give Mono a modern cell phone.

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First LN AU I made up: Spiteful Six AU!

In the final scene of of LN2, Mono jumps and Six catches him, and in her moment of hesitation before pulling him away from Certain Doom

Mono sees the look on her face as she contemplates dropping him into the abyss, and he’s like. “Ah. Yeah I deserve that.”

He’s not an idiot. He tries to be a good person, but he knows that survival is the most important thing for most people. He runs slow, and falls often, and talks too much, and he’s put her in danger one too many times. Besides, he’d be distraught if someone stole and destroyed his hats! He’s a little surprised, sure, but… he understands.

So he goes limp and accepts her judgement.

But Six sees this. She sees his face clearly for the first time, watches him go from fear to confusion to grin acceptance.

And she’s like “HEY. It’s not a SATISFYING TWIST if you just accept death at your bestie’s hand!?”

She’s trying to punish him for hurting her by hurting him back. Trying to cut free this weight holding her back, to convince herself she doesn’t need him. Because needing him is scary, and it meant she let him close enough to hurt her like no monster ever could.

But if he’s OKAY with it, what kind of punishment is that?

So, just to spite him, she pulls him up. If she has to continue struggling through this awful world, she won’t give him the mercy of escaping it. He’ll make himself useful as a distraction if nothing else.

(Six stubbornly ignores the part of her that feels relieved when the acceptance in his dark eyes turns back into shock. It doesn’t make sense to see him give up, after everything.)

Basically just!!!

Six: “this guy is more trouble than he’s worth. It was probably for my own good but in the process of rescuing me he deeply hurt me and betrayed my trust. Fair’s fair, he can die,”

Mono: “oh ok :( I understand”

Six: :|

Six: >:/

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For the first time in two weeks my tumblr app is working again. Yippee!!!

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Listening to the thin man’s theme isn’t enough I need to eat it

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