A Little Nightmares Sideblog I Use Sometimes

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LITTLE SHITMARES IS BACK. There's a lot of TSON (The Sounds Of Nightmares) ones since I said I would do that then i forgor. This isn't my best art since I got tired and really wanted to get these out since I know a lot of people seem to like them.

for anyone confused, the puppeteer refers to the perfect lady in the last episode of TSON, it's her name in the subtitles. Shes the character in the forehead one and also the person replying to “I fucking love purple” (the man in the purple suit) in the second image

Original images under the cut

Happy Halloween!

The Nowhere’s child population can be divided into two groups:

The first group are children that are simply native to The Nowhere. They just appear somewhere unobserved with basic knowledge of how to walk, feed themselves and do other minor survival things (Child Speech sometimes comes with that basic knowledge, but not always).

Out of the protagonists, Six, Mono, RK and Low are all fully native to Nowhere. They just spawned in somewhere like Minecraft Mobs and have been surviving ever since. The Pretender is also native to Nowhere, but is a special case because she was born biologically from the Lady instead of just appearing one day.

The Second group consists of children that have been dragged into the Nowhere from our world. The methods of reaching Nowhere vary though. Some are lured in by the Ferryman (like Noone), others are lured in or forcibly taken by other entities similar in power like the North Wind and the Eyes of the Signal Tower (especially if the child fell asleep in front of the TV). Even the Broadcaster and Lady can reach out and guide children to the Nowhere, they are equally as strong as the Ferryman after all, but they’re not as experienced as the Entities that made it their whole mission to steal away children, so the Lady relies on the Ferryman and the Broadcaster uses the Flesh Walls.

Some children don’t even get dragged to the Nowhere by force. They just sleep and their subconscious gets them dragged fully into the Nowhere completely on their own.

Children from the real world make up a minority of the population though, especially since their inexperience and lack of Built-In-Nowhere-Survival-Instincts means that they don’t often last very long, and ESPECIALLY since they’re often brought in by powerful entities with their own plans for them. The Ferryman still works for the Lady after all, and the Maw can always use more children to serve to the guests and the Nest can always use more dolls. Luckily, many children can and have escaped from the entity guiding them mid being Nowhere-ed. They still end up trapped there, but they end up some place completely random inside of whatever horrible place the entity has planned for them.

Also: Many Children native to the real world go through something referred to by other children (and some Lords) as “The Visiting Process” where they sleep in the real world, appear somewhere completely random in the Nowhere (never in the same place twice), and then disappear back to the real world when they either die, fall asleep or simply go unobserved for too long in the Nowhere. After several nights of this they’ll fully cross over into the Nowhere, where they’ll be completely stuck with no way back. Sometimes this “Visiting Process” is because of a Lord trying to drag them in further over the course of several nights until they finally cross over. Sometimes it’s because the Child’s dreams slightly overlapped with the Nowhere and now they’re being dragged in naturally. Some children don’t even go through this at all.

Out of the Protagonists, only RCG and Alone are native to the real world. The Refugee Boy and Humpback Girl are also from the real world. Noone is also native to reality (obviously) and Otto’s sister Cici is also obviously from our world.

For Visitors (Children native to our world), memories of the real world are not an easy thing to keep. The Nowhere by design tries to make you forget about the real world, warping your mind the longer you spend there. That’s why telling stories is so important among children in the comics. You need to keep yourself reminded of where you came from.

You also slowly lose yourself as you age but that’s another thing in its entirety.

The Refugee Boy and Humpback Girl tell stories referencing Villages and Homes and Parents, stuff from the real world, but their memories are slowly failing them. That’s why you have the North Wind showing up to destroy The Refugee Boy’s Village and Children talking about their parents just before encountering Magic Mirrors and the Mirror Monster. Their memories of home have become warped and have been slowly and slightly merged with memories of their dreams and how they came to be trapped in the Nowhere, and they’re having difficulty telling the difference between their memories of reality and dream.

RCG/Raine: Visitor

Six: Native

Mono: Native

RK: Native

Low: Native

Alone: Visitor

Toddler: Native (survival instincts and ability at such a young age is only possible for a native Child)

Spoon Girl: Visitor

Lollipop Boy: Native

Ghost Kid: Visitor

Refugee Boy: Visitor

Humpback Girl: Visitor

(All of the unnamed members of the Maw Campfire Crew are native to our world)

The Pretender: Specially Native (Biological Child of The Lady)

Previous Pretenders/Mask Wearers 1-4: Specially Native (Biological Children of The Lady)

Six, Mono, RK or really any Kid that’s native to the Nowhere somehow escaping it and ending up in the real world around when Christmas happens.

Leading to “What’s This?” Being sung by them as they excitedly run around looking at all the stuff that they’re never seen before.

In the Necropolis, a place that is probably hundreds if not thousands of years old, we still see mechanical eyes, but they have killed seemingly normal adult humans. The world clearly isn't in the state it's currently in by the time of The Sounds of Nightmares, but it still seems to have a general disregard for children. There appear to be a lot of cycles (the Ladies, the Thin Man, the Maw docking, etc) so maybe the world just gets slightly worse each time?

I share this opinion with you! I also believe the world of the Nowhere has gotten worse and worse gradually overtime.

Something interesting to note is that there also seem to be children who are, somehow, from the Nowhere. The biggest example being the Pretender and the Refugee Boy. The Pretender, because we see her family pictures and her home where she (supposedly) grew up in -- and in the Pretender's quarters there are also several pictures of children who have "Nowhere-esque" features.

And then there is the Refugee Boy and his sister, who mentions that the charm he was given at birth was something given to all children from his village specifically to protect them against the North Wind, who we know is an entity from the Nowhere.

Mono is also a strong candidate for being a born Resident, although considering how his cycle works it might have not always been that way.

Again, as you mentioned, I think the world went on the decline gradually. There might even be some sparse places, like the Refugee Boy's village, where the destruction has yet to arrive.

Now, considering this information, I am wondering which ones of the monsters we meet are born Residents and which ones are Visitors turned Residents... to refresh your memory, Visitors are those who end up getting stuck the Nowhere with the intention of leaving it, so pretty much every protagonist & child we've met up to now (excluding Mono). Residents are the people who either give up hope, let themselves be swayed by the Eye or choose to stay. I do have a STRONG suspicion about a possible "Visitor-turned-Resident", considering how their cycle works...

Not exactly a sleep over but their trying!

seems that the pretender isn't exactly happy with these conditions.