The Complete Little Nightmares Timeline Explained (Horror Game Theories)

poor mono he seems like his worst nightmare was just being alone.

Theory: When the thin man kidnaps six, six wasn’t in a bad hiding spot, the thin man just remembered where she hid from when he was mono

i spent the whole game holding six’s hand because it made everything less scary only for her to drop mono to his doom in the end ... very depressing

Six being the Lady actually makes sense since the Lady hummed the same tune that Six did when trapped

She drops him because she sees his face, for all of the game mono hides his face. But he takes it off when fighting the thin man, so when she catches him she finally recognises him as the thin man. The one who kidnapped her.

It's also important to notice that there are several clocks in little nightmares 2. As you progress, the time shown on each clock suggests that time actually moves backwards. A clock in the school shows around seven minutes to six, while a clock in the hospital shows around 13 minutes to six

*Funfact* : Six need to attack 6 times with the mirror to defeat the lady. Mono also need to hit 6 times with items to destroy the music box.

Mono: just a kid with cool powers
Six: "and I took that personally"

mono was actually really cute and him and six were such an adorable duo i’m so sad that six did that to him 😭

So technically the Thin Man isn’t evil, he’s just trying to break the cycle of eternal darkness and torment the The Tower is controlling, in turn stopping The Tower and it’s damage on the realities

There's something I want to point out I haven't seen a single youtuber cover.
With Six letting go of Mono, people assume it's because she's lost her trust in Mono, or sees the thin man in him. Yet, here's the thing.
In the scene where the thin man takes Six from under the table, you see the shadow of Six left behind. I believe this shadow is Six's soul.
After loosing her soul, her mind and body were under the control of the radio tower. Since Mono killed the thin man of current, the radio tower needed a new thin man. Six, being under the control of the tower, let go of Mono well aware of the consequences.
Six wasn't supposed to be turned normal after becoming her twisted self. So after becoming normal, Mono set himself up for his own demise.

I really wish that the Little Nightmares team make a game where they explain if the world has always been this fucked up

I think the reason why Six let Mono fall because he, in her mind, betrayed her by destroying her music box even though it was to save her. Because, when we first see Six in her monstrous state and call to her she presents the music box too Mono as if to show or share it with him. She only gets violent after he tried to smash it. Also, if you look at the way Six slowly gets up and stares at Mono after finally destroying the music box, her body language seems hostile to me. Because to her, that was a safe place, that was her comfort and he took it from her.

Six is a hex. In Greek, "hex" is the number six. As in hexagram, a six pointed star.
Hex is also a word for a witch or a curse. In the original game, Six becomes the witch by absorbing the powers of "The Lady".

I like how he explains the Rain Coat by saying it drifted to a city, rather than just saying that there was maybe a second raincoat.

Learning the whole story has made me love this series even more. Out of all the games I've played in 2021, Little Nightmares 2 impressed me the most. I really hope they make a LN3, even though the developers said the story is done.

I think the most likely theory for Six's sudden change of mind and letting Mono fall is because she saw his face for the first time (looks up at her with mask gone) and recognized him as the Thin Man. In shock or to protect herself, she let Mono fall.
Also, I always thought the names were Six, representing the sin of gluttony, and Mono, referencing Monophobia (the fear of being alone), but those are definitely open to speculation.

As much as I loved the theory, I find really weird to think that the Pretender might be the next in line for the title of the Maw's ruler. I mean, would the Lady really designate a successor? She's obsessed by keeping her eternal youth. Wouldn't choosing a heir feel like, admitting she's going to die eventually? It doesn't sound like something she'd do to me. Still, amazing video, I love how it all went from a cannibalistic kid to convoluted time paradox stuff.

Six should write a book "To all the boys I've doomed before"

You really think Thin Mono would one day think ‘well if I’m still doing this then this plan clearly didn’t work last time, maybe I should try something else this time.’

Mono's name also seems to be connected to Monophobia- the fear of being alone. He's left alone in the tower, he's willing to help and travel with Six and doesnt move on without her, and instead saves her whenever they were split up within the school, etc. It seems more likely to be the origin of his name, and it just helped that Mono = 1 so that itd fit with Six already having a number as a name.

honestly, i think six is going to turn into the signal tower because of her endless hunger and ability to drain life force

I believe she lost her memories when Mono defeated her in her nightmare form, that's why she didn't help him, she thought he had hurt her.

I dont really think Six is a bad person by nature. She attempted to save Mono and hugged the Gnomes. I feel like she was either scared of Mono at the end for the reasons you explained, or maybe her self-preservation kicked in and she knew she wouldn't be able pull him up in time. That or she was corrupted and was pre-destined to drop him in order to keep the timeline alive.

So mono just needs to practice running so that he can make the jump without six's help

I feel like 6 was always meant to be the lady and mono was always going to be the thin man. It's just a continuous cycle that will never end

i feel like it'd be easier to say that the reason Six can draw from memories she's still yet to have, is because she's already been tainted by the Signal Tower, as you mention in the beginning. That way, it sounds reasonable that she also somehow receives memories from elsewhere in space and time, especially considering that Mono (or Thin Man) has a particular fixation over her...

I’ve had this theory for a while and it was that all the enemies (ie. The Teacher, Hunter, Doctor, Patients, Thin Man and Bullies) all know the outcome and what’s going to happen (especially Thin Man) and that’s why they attack Mono, to stop the loop from happening and stop the signal tower all together.

Also, the more you smash Six's music box, its starts to resemble The Maw, which may imply she already had plans to go there, or that she had been there already

I feel crushed for both of them.
I’ve seen life at its worst and what it can do to people.
It’s hard to be mad at Six in the same way that many of you are.

It also makes sense because as Mono “defeats” the thin man with his powers, you can see the thin man holding up his hand telling mono to stop, trying to stop the paradox ther before it keeps going.

What if six was trapped in the pale city for so long that it changed her. In Very Little Nightmares she’s really helpful and try’s to save the girl at the very end and clearly still cares about her as we see her putting on her raincoat. My idea is, is that the deeper she goes into the pale city and the longer she’s there the more twisted she becomes. At the start of little nightmares 2 when mono finds six she’s scared but not trying to escape and when he comes in and frees her she runs away like in very little nightmares showing that even though your another child she’s still just as fearful. You can see a drawing of the signal tower in the room showing that it has some sway over her already. All of the monsters they face push her deeper and deeper into the darkness the longer she stays in the pale city. The thin man capturing her seems to me like the nail in the coffin as her “soul” separates from her body leaving her empty, angry, and broken. When mono saves her she’s still broken as shadow six still shows up in her hunger so when mono destroys her music box, the only sense of comfort she has after all she’s experienced and lost, she already too far gone and drops him out of pure anger. When she leaves towards the maw away from the pale city a part of her is still gone so even if she’s away from the signal tower the damage is already done, there’s a literal whole where her heart should be. She keeps getting hungry through out the first game because while it can help with the pain it can’t replace that missing peace. Why? Because it’s not *her* missing peace. She’s not a loaf of bread, she’s not a rat, she’s not the run away kid, she’s six, so the only way to complete her soul is to consume it again, and she dose that through the lady. This shift shows in the lady as well because as the lady isn’t kind to her guests (considering the fact that she kills them and feeds them to the other guests) she’s kind to the children (in a weird way). She doesn’t kill them but she dose capture them and put them to work for her, but at the end of the day this is really just to save her younger self from her fate. Other than that she only shows cruelty to the other monsters in the maw, wich is also understandable considering her own experiences with people like them as a child. In a way six becomes more kind when she’s the lady, when that missing part of her soul is returned to her, but at that point her fate is sealed. This all makes sense to me in the grand sceem of this too. If six just being near the pale city changes her than it dosn’t matter what the lady or the thin man do because she’s out of there reach, out of there control. Mono saving her and taking her deeper into the pale city is completely out of there control. They are trapped where they are and by the time they can get to them the damage is already done. It’s a fixed loop that can’t be stopped no matter how many times they’ve been through it. It’s like a the snowball effect, once it starts rolling you can’t stop it, and by the time the lady and the thin man can reach them they can’t do anything about anymore. So the cycle continues and both the pale city and the maw have a host to hold it together forever.
At the end of the day I don’t think six was always evil to twisted. Call it wishful thinking but I think it makes sense.
Wow this was long... bye!

This video was sooo helpful. You did an amazing job connecting all the major plot points. I was just getting a bit tired of all the boring speculative theories that didn’t really answer any questions.

A theory I had since I played the first game was that Six got her name from the 6th basic human fear. The fear of death.
But then I thought that Mono would represent the 1st basic human fear, the fear of poverty.
With little nightmares II though it sounds more like Mono would be a closer representation the 4th fear, the fear of loosing a loved one.
One can still draw the line between Mono and the fear of poverty, in that he is all alone with nothing. But it might be a bit of a stretch...

Man I feel so bad for both Mono and Six(also every other kid and adults in this world), like it’s because of that tower(which we might get an explanation of how it happened and affected all of the world in a future game or comic). The tower causes the world to be mess up, eventually getting a host that can fuels it(host feels betrayal/sadness/empathy which gives it more power maybe?) and said host is stuck in a time paradox where both he himself and six cause it(Thin man taking Six inside the tower which causes her soul to disappear and makes her body betray Mono which causes the events to happen). Every person in this world tries to hide their deformities and regular human life is distorted where to the point children who aren’t affected by the tower are either eaten or mistreated. Man I hope that in the future game whoever our protagonist is whether it’s still Six or someone new, can destroy that stupid tower once in for all so the world can eventually go back to normal(in…about a couple years or decade most likely, but still).

This is why I need to continue watching these videos. They're always so brilliantly done and they make sense of every single detail that seems to fly over people's heads. I can't wait for the 3rd game.

Theory: Six’s name comes from the 6th deadly sin, which is gluttony, considering how she always had a serious hunger issue in the original game, from eating normal food to the little gnomes and then the lady, and I think the passengers on the Maw back this theory up because of how they eat not stop and are really really fat
Another thing I forgot to mention which puts the nail in the coffin is that the game was originally going to be called “Hunger” before the developers went with “Little Nightmares”
EDIT PLEASE READ:
I AM NOT GOING BY THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS ORDER. I AM BASING OFF THE ORDER FROM DANTES INFERNO. A READING TALKING ABOUT THE SINS IN THE THREE CIRCLES OF HELL. IN DANTES INFERNO, GLUTTONS ARE PUNISHED IN “CANTON VI” WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING GLUTTONY IS THE SIXTH PART.

I fell in love with this game series instantly.
What a precious gem. 💓

Has anyone else noticed that Six doesn’t help Mono at all during the escape from the signal tower? She doesn’t even stop to wait for him to catch up. She is far ahead of him at all times and doesn’t use any team work until she catches him from falling at the end and even then she lets go of him. She didn’t trust him anymore, she was either under the control of the tower or she saw The Thin Man in him.

If Mono is Thin Man, could that mean Six could be the Lady since they consume endlessly? There are TV sets scattered around the Maw so Six could have time traveled (losing more of herself and getting hungrier in the process)! Also it might just be a similarity in design, but the Lady's mask reminds me a lot of Mono's face when he's falling at the end in 1st person.

5:00 The people with the faces scratched out are the Pale City residents with the distorted faces watching the TVs. In Chapter 4, many are seen falling off of buildings in order to get closer to the screen

Is it possible that Six dropped him so he can become the Tall Man? If the signal tower was controlling her, maybe it forced her to let him go. That’s why she’s the catalyst?

Also the fact that the hunter captured six before the events of little nightmares 2 gives a possibly unintentional reasoning to the hunter not even attempting to shoot her at all during the boss fight. This could also support the idea that the hunter wants a form of company in him being alone, which can also be supported by the fake people at the dinner table.

imagine being six and deciding to drop one of your friends off a cliff and in result dooming the entire world

Just finished my own play through for the first time of Little Nightmares 2 this weekend... one thing I love about these games is that they do leave things just vague enough for you to draw your own conclusions. As such, I didn't read it as a time loop or paradox situation with Mono and the Thin Man, but more that the entity that is the Signal Tower demands someone with powers like mono has in order to broadcast its signal and spread its influence. So when Mono defeated the Thin Man and was left in the tower, the tower corrupted Mono into inheriting his position so it could continue to project its signal and influence over the world.
Also regarding the number 6 on the door.... I don't know that I buy that it's proof of a canonical time loop. If it were supposed to be door number 6, it would be much more prominent and visible, not something that just looks more like a faint shadow on the door.

Ohhhh shit the Thin Man was a good guy, and when you die or get captured by the Thin Man, that’s technically the good ending where the world is saved

This is the best Clip-Share channel I have ever stumbled across. Thanks for all your hard work. when you create you make the world a better place by simply making the viewer enjoy themselves for that brief moment. So yeah it's nice when someone's hard work and effort shows.

I've got a theory of what Six's story really is:
-The Tower corrupted much of the globe as thoroughly as it could. But there were few who tried to stay as isolated from the network as possible, trying to build their own versions of order, away from the tower. But due to have been already touched by the corruption, even their forms of order are delusional twisted.
One such family is the Nest family. Their deformity was that they lost their souls, fractured into tiny glitched pieces, so they appear mostly normal, were it not for the fact their appearances were grotesque enough to refuse to appear in the photos. Another is the Lady, whose deformity was endless hunger in order to reverse her weakness and physical condition. These three had an arrangement in order to maintain the Maw working and keep themselves isolated from the main land.
The patriarch and matriarch had two children, twin girls, more beautiful than them, yet souless as well. However, what made these two children special, was that one girl had the power to externalize her void, making people disappear in thin air. The other girl on the other hand needed to keep eating something that was or is alive, getting more powerful and beautiful with each victim she consumed. The latter is named number 6, as she's supposed to be the new Lady, as the current one seems to be getting more unhinged and sadistic with the guests she invites in order to get more money to maintain her establishment. The former becomes incredibly jealous of her sister, painting herself, to be even more beautiful than Six, ripping her sister's face off from a photo, and then ends their mother, as she planned to have more children.
She then took control of the house's insane doll maker and the weary Butler by physically disabling the most threatening parts of their bodies, and ordered them to build that phantasy world of hers filled with dolls made from the children her mother intended to adopt and did everything she could to make it seem like she was an only daughter. Because of these events, Six stopped wearing anything that might have her look like her sister, and started to use her powers to find ways to attract children passing by her home in the hopes one of them could help her take her sister down.
Eventually she succeeds. However, having grown fond of her latest victim, after her departure from the realm of the living thanks to the Pretender, she takes on her coat both to pay tribute and to hide herself from the world.
After these events she goes to the mainland in order to destroy the Tower for being the reason her family was ruined, only to lose her beloved coat and be caught by the Hunter, who wished to let her body give up naturally in order to stuff her as his new daughter.
And after the events of this game, in which she and Mono unknowingly find the glitched pieces of her soul, and her betrayal, as her hunger finally began to take hold of her, she was instructed by her shadow/soul (who either couldn't or refused to return to her body) to go to the Maw, where she should have gone to in the first place, in order to feast and become all powerful.
And she did just that. However, because of the time distortion, she actually went to a past version of the Maw before the events in the second game.
She made her way to the fortress, where she found her father's hanging corpse and what her family had been truly financing. They had been financing a mad narcissistic creature whose goal was to destroy the bodies of beautiful children and trap their souls in beings know as Nomes, under the excuse of protecting them from the Tower's corrupting broadcast, using the bodies to fatten the guests and then turn them into tomorrow's menu. A sadistic cycle to behold no doubt about it. As Six finally defeats the Lady, the guests and satisfies her hunger, she leaves, but her fate in this cycle becomes unclear. What I do believe, is that time in the Nest and the Maw works differently as well, since it is located far away from the Tower's tentacular reach. So she probably remains there in order to become the new Lady, going mad from her regret in leaving Mono behind, unable to see her reflection not out of vanity, but out of guilt, thus restarting the cycle, and this time try to capture her younger self earlier in order to keep her away from Mono and punish her past self. Only to fail, leading her younger self to go into the Pale city and continue the loop, now returning to a point in which her future self is already the Lady and she must defeat again in order to regain the powers the Tower stole from her. And that is where we know no more. She either decides to stay and continue the cycle. Or she leaves to try and fix her mistakes.

I think that when mono was caught by six at the end of the game, he wasn't wearing
his mask witch revealed to six that he was the thin man. after seeing his face, and recognizing him as the thin man,
six thought that dropping him and killing him would stop him from becoming the thin
man but instead it just caused the cycle to repeat.

The amount of effort that went into this video is insane!!!!! Thanks for making this

i watched my first snippets of this game less than 24 hours ago, and i'm already so drawn in to the lore, my goodness

Wow I've been a fan if your channel and the little nightmares series for a few years and I've seen a lot of theory's but I've never seen a theory this good.

Mono's full name is Monophobia, which is the fear of being alone. This makes it rather ironic that he spends most of his life alone.

Or, rather than 6 having memories of her past incarnations, it could be that, since the Signal Tower was already effecting her mind, it was showing her glimpses into what was to come. You had already theorized that the Signal Tower is unbound by the constraints of time, so it would make sense, just like how the room Monster 6 is in shows representations of what's to come.

Seems like every child that runs into Six very quickly meets their demise; she truly is the little nightmare

What if the tower warping six changed her and caused her to betray Mono? Like, it turned her evil? The tower’s influence took her over

2:45 So that's why. Until then, I thought the most plausible explanation was that Mono had been thrown there from one of the nearby televisions and that he was trapped in an endless loop, like the popular Limbo theory. In Limbo, once you find the girl, you are transported back to the beginning of the game. In Little Nightmares 2, Mono becomes the main antagonist, constantly looking for Six or keeping her close to him.

Who else would love to see in little nightmares 3 thin man vs the lady

What if Six is The lady? She hums that music box tune all throughout the first game...Six played the song so much that I'm sure she remembers every bit of it. (My Big Brain theory)

When six was captured, you could see her glitching remain. what's left of a child isn't the child, but an empty husk. this is also why six isn't hungry in little nightmares 2, because its a prequel to little nightmares 1. she's trying to fill the emptiness in her.

Another theory on Six's name is that the Sixth deadly sin is gluttony meaning she was named after the gluttonous creatures she encounters and eventually becomes.
Take this theory with a grain of salt though I just thought it was interesting so I shared it.
Also this timeline makes so much sense, great theory's!

Six only dropped her cause:
-Mono Axes Her door and brings her in a demon world(first met)
-Made her leave the music box
-Putting her in direct danger
-She has a crazy blood thirsty problem
-the music box she cared breaked
-She saw Mono's eyes which looked like Thin man's eyes

Also at the very beginning of Little Nightmares 2 when Mono comes out of the TV, you can see multiple other TVs behind in the distance, indicating that those are the ones Mono came out of in previous cycles of the time loop. I could count four TVs that were visible, so at least 4 time loop cycles have happened.

I want to know the answers/clarifications to these because they've been keeping me up all night & I'm really hoping someone could enlighten me:
1. In the beginning where Six was in the room playing with her music box, I get that the time in this game is backwards hence the drawings on the wall with the Very Little Nightmares on the right & The Little Nightmares 1 on the left.... But why is the Signal Tower on the leftmost part?
2. Are the drawings on the wall only a hint of the whole timeline (in backwards) or did Six (being a naturally selfish person who only thinks of herself because that's how she learned how to survive) drew them because she knew all along so she could succeed into getting her shadow self to lead her into getting the powers from The Lady & she was only using Mono to achieve that?
3. And why are The Thin Man & Mono two separate beings? Aren't they only one? Is it possible that The Thin Man is the Shadow Self of Mono, so he sent his Non-Shadow Self into a TV (as a kid again) in an attempt to break the time loop?
4. Is the true source of all evil in this game the Signal Tower or the Squirming Abyss? Did it only turn into a Signal Tower because of the Squirming Abyss using The Thin Man's powers to its advantage or are they both one thing?
5. Are The Pretender, The Lady & The Thin Man all different evil beings/bosses from different parts of the game's world or are they all corrupted by The Signal Tower/Squirming Abyss?

Finally someone who I can relate in terms of timeline. I'm new to the game, played several times making connections and looking at details and so on; Your explanation is exactly what I feel, though of course you took noticed of very precise details I didn't, but as far as timeline, yes I am with you that. Still there are other bizarre things that keep bothering me; What/who exactly are the porcelain kids, or what they represent? What happened exactly at the pale city. This people looked so corrupted and hypnotized, their homes were even neglected, at some point of view we notice that, were the children neglected too, I think. Don't really think comics are specifically tied to the games buy still it was very peculiar, when the kids in front of the bonfire say what has she seen? And it looks like Sixs has pretty traumatic experiences with the people; Apart from that she state that sometimes the light makes you see things you don't want, so you escape to dark or so...
Such a well made explanation...

Six doesn’t feel threatened she feels vengeance he broke her most valuable thing she had

Mono ether dies a hero or lives long enough to see himself as the villain (or literally every protagonist in this storyline)

I came here hoping to find some sort of happy ending but now I’m just even more sad

I have a headcanon/theory that one of the reasons six dropped mono is because she was still being corrupted by the signal tower, or she was in some pain because of it. She just wanted to get out, and her brain was all rattled. She was weak and probably traumatized. That could be a reason she became hungry, something that happened because of the signal tower corrupting her somehow or maybe a sickness from the signal tower? I just don’t think that she would just drop him like that, seeing how attached to the raincoat she was (and how attached to the girl in the yellow raincoat), and all the things Mono did for her. I’ve also seen theories on six possibly having survivors guilt about what happened at the end of very little nightmares.

The fact Mono deliberately hides his face from the start indicates he was already aware, at least subconsciously. Thinking about it there's no other obvious reason he'd deliberately mask himself 🤔

I realized why thin man tried to kill mono because he was trying to break the cycle but in the end he kept failing

This pulls everything together. But it kinda makes me more sad than before... I love Mono and Six being together as friends...

Theory that six becomes The Lady: The Lady's powers are seemly she sucks the life out of people to keep herself young. At the end of LNs Six eats the lady to gain her powers and then sucks the life out off the people on the Maw to satisfy her hunger, but this won't satisfy Six's hunger forever and since the Maw attracts so many guests its a perfect place to satisfy that hunger again. So six will continue to run the Maw attracting people to come to the Maw to eat and fatten them up just so Six can suck out their life force to satisfy her hunger forever and ever, and overtime Six will keep growing up until she become the Lady herself running the Maw just like Mono becoming the Thin Man. Its also backed up that once someone comes on the Maw they never leave (probably because they died to six and their bodies disposed). Since, the world is like a time loop Six will come back to kill the Lady( aka herself) and start the cycle all over again.

So in a way, the Thin Man isn't the bad guy as he tries to either eliminate himself in his younger form or try to escape from the signal tower's grasps.

So really, six is the villain. She is the cause of the time loop. She keeps saving herself in order to stop the loop, which in turn keeps it going. Mono just wants to leave, and six won’t let him.

Can I just say I hope Mono escapes the time loop and that him and Six stay friends in a normal world. I mean I can already imagine the sitcom of Mono and Six living together.

Another neat fact I found was that when fighting monster six, you smash the music box a total of six times. One at the start, 3 while fighting and 2 in the end

Has anyone considered that after gaining the powers of the Lady, Six would eventually become the signal tower? I know it seems weird, but with how time is looped, it could be.

Monophobia = fear of being alone
The tower feeds off of fear and Mono's fear is being alone. That makes so much sense ! 🤯

I hope mono will come back and have either some sort of revenge or the roles be reversed but this game is very in-depth and is very fascinating

Just beat both little nightmares DLC and little nightmare 2 today and damn that game had me so jumpy. This is a great game seriously need a part three

this video really helped put everything together for me as someone who didn’t read the comics, super well done

Honestly, I was waiting for him to say that Six was the radio tower to go along with the theory that Mono has space and time controlling powers and she gains them when she lets him go.

So tin man was triying to save mono and while imprisoning six he was showing her future and past so convince her to stop to cycle but six probably feels the hunger already because of the tower and she thought its the only way that she will be satisfied so even knowing what she will become she still decided to end mono

So did they just gave you a false sense of cute friendship with the holding hands? :(

This is a good theory of the timeline! 👍
I enjoyed this video, my mind is blowed away, but this univers is soooo twisted that it couldn't be explained 😀

What six needs to do is somehow get over her fear or whatever it was that made her drop mono, and actually pull him up (atleast I think)

I think that maybe Thin Man told the monsters to only capture six and kill Mono. That’s why the Hunter doesn’t kill her, and when you’re both running from him, he only shoots at Mono. It could also explain why the dolls at the school capture six but kill Mono.

I didnt know it was prequel but i asumed since Six seems to know what to do sometimes and with Mono she can reach places she couldnt before cause she was alone...

Imagine if Mono actually escaped from the tower-

Plot twist: The viewers in Little Nightmares 2 are watching Little Nightmares theories, that’s why they’re so addicted to the TVs

Such story, such lore. And all this comes without a single word said.

I dont know if this has already been said or not, but maybe The Lady from LN1 is future Six. She was humming Six's tune when you entered her room in the Maw, and they already established that there is some weird time paradox stuff going on. Maybe the past versions of theses people of power have come back to haunt them, their own little Nightmares.

i was already traumatized after the hospital, did not need to be emotionally scarred by the ending. 10/10 one of my new favorite games

Six is such an interesting and grey character, I don't think she's 100% bad but I also don't think she's 100% good either. She's traumatized and a child and she lives in a world where the only person you can trust is yourself, and every situation is life or death. I think that Six took Mono not saving her from the thin man personally (you can see her reach out for help but he stays hidden) and I think that when she was holding him, seeing his full face for the first time, she recognized him as the Thin Man and dropped him because she knew he was the one who hurt her, not knowing she was just continuing the loop. Plus, when you look at it through Six's survival of the fittest view, Mono is quite a burden. He's much slower than Six, she constantly has to save him while he barely ever saves her, and he only ever gets her into danger. The only reason Six stayed with Mono was because she cared for him, but I think that flame of affection was extinguished onced she realised who he truly was.

When I realized Six wasn’t pulling Mono up as fast as usual I had a moment of realization
She wasn’t going to. 😞

You know, now that LN II is out, there is an interesting link between The Lady and Six: both of them are very fond of music boxes. Remember, in DLC, we knew that The Lady has a music box of her own, and listening to it (seems to) calm her down. And this is the same with Six. She likes the music box very much, and it "calms" her down, too.

This game gave me nostalgia, after finding out the tragic loop histori the characters are boun to. Sad and heartbreaking.

Knowing the story begs the question, will there ever be an end to this cycle of horror?

(Around 8:43) Umm anyone else notice when Six makes it out the TV in LN2 and she stands up as her Hunger Ghost appears, the shadow she casts makes a noticably similar silhouette to The Lady. Like so similar it's almost certainly on purpose...