Very Little Nightmares - The Story Explained

The Craftsman reminds me of the guy that worked in the boiler room in Spirited Away.

I just realized that the doll that the pretender was yelling at looks a lot like the girl you free earlier in the game

You know, whenever anyone talks about Six's backstory, they always forget to mention the comics, because they give some Six backstory as well. It shows how the Ferryman finds Six walking down the street in the middle of a city and then takes her to The Maw. So what I think is more likely what happened was that Six took the raincoat and the board and sailed to the mainland, where she found a city and was either found by the Ferryman immediately or she lived in the city for a while before she was picked up.

The scariest thing about The Craftsman is that he doesn't have his mask over his nose

Gonna be brutally honest, of all the things I wondered about Six, how she got her coat was never on the list of top 100 questions. Great game, but, such an odd thing to reveal.

I actually have a theory on what exactly happened when Raincoat girl hit the water. The pretender managed to kill her. This theory is mostly based around the fact the two were close when they hit the water and raincoat girl had her back to the water. That would make it a lot harder for the said coat to float back up when she died but if her body vanished then it makes sense

LN2 is a prequel of LN1, VLN must come before LN2 which contradicts your assumption about six finding the coat in the sea and then hopping aboard the maw. In LN2, six is found without the yellow jacket locked inside a cabin. The main character, Mono, saves her and the 2 set out. Later, Six finds the yellow jacket in a pile of garbage in an alley. And at the end of the game (if you’ve collected all the secret shadow children), Six escapes the tower and a shadow version of herself appears in front of her, pointing at an ad for the Maw. She heads to the Maw (but if you read the comics), she was taken there by boat by a giant fat guy in a trench coat. There is speculation that The Lady is actually adult Six and the entire series is a paradox.

Just to support your theory, the term ‘pretender’ is often used for a member of a royal household - not directly in-line to the throne - who still has a legitimate claim on it. The most famous in the U.K. was Bonny Prince Charlie, son of James II, House of Stuart. ‘The Pretender’ shares the same power as The Lady but has a different lineage. A right to rule, but not the support for her to do so; so perhaps she’s as much a prisoner as the Butler and Craftsman? Kept there against her will by The Lady who fears her throne might be usurped if she were released?

maybe she's called the pretender because she's actually an adult with dwarfism pretending to be a child? she's bigger than the other children after all. just a thought

We have come a long way from six-being-the-lady's-child theory

I speculate that the system here is like a triangular trade in real life, the three locations being the Mainland, the Maw, and the Nest. I can’t be sure about all the details but here’s what I’ve got so far. The Mainland (least known about location) uses the Hunter and Teacher to capture children and sends them to the Nest, also using the Signal Tower/Thinman to hypnotize the citizens, perhaps making them want to travel to the Maw. Side note: the children in the Teacher’s class are porcelain, the Hunter seems to create trophies of his kills. The Nest imprisons children and grooms the Pretender for the Lady’s job, using some children for the Pretender’s dolls but most going to the Maw for slaughter. The Maw cooks Guests and children to feed to more Guests, for maybe allowing the Lady to become more beautiful, but a real purpose is still unknown. Well, that’s my theory. Comment any additions.

Instead of calling the girl in the yellow raincoat the girl in the yellow raincoat can we call her zero? In the little nightmares 2 digital comics we have 6 protagonists in each story. Mono (meaning one) Two/Duo (the boy with a blindfold and feather.) Three/Tribus (the girl with a bloody nose who tunneled with a spoon in the hospital) Four/Quattour (the chubby boy with the lolipop) Five/Quinque (the boy/girl who is wearing a ghost costume.) I'll edit this comment when I find out the latin words for the numbers. Edit: edited

I would be surprised if it was anything but taxidermy. The kid you released is the one you push over at the dining table. Probably makes that white haired girl think she has real friends Edit: the lady was actually lonely as well because in her room you see her singing to a bunch of fake dolls

I personally don't think the lady has any ties to the Mansion in Very Little Nightmares. I think there is a deeper lore within this game. I think that people have sold their soul, or something to gained immense power which drives them to insanity: the eyes being a representation of the one who gave them the power. When the eyes turn people to stone, it represents how easy the power can be taken while also acting as security for it's followers. The Lady wanted to be powerful, but her beauty was the price. The pretender wanted to stay a child forever, but at the cost of sucking the life force out of anyone she touches. That's the reason the Craftsman makes her dolls, to keep her company. As for the Butler, his powers were either a side affect of the Pretender's getting her own, or he is so loyal to the family that he wanted powers to keep serving his mistress.

Damn Everytime six makes a new friend they die

Theory:if the pretender Disintegrates you when you die then maybe when you fell in the ocean she did get you but the bubbles are there because the pretender dies and that’s why only the rain coat comes up only

Heres a thought, what if the pretender's is related to the lady? Not a daughter but a niece instead? What if the lady wants the pretender to be her heir but the girls father, the hanged man, didnt alow it and so he was killed leaving her alone with a mother whose always away?

Apparently, there is dark magic in the LN Universe that requires some specific things like Children's ashes. There is a secret room with ashes in a jar in the original LN. The Lady is not the only one who can have these dark powers. That is maybe why there are gnomes in the Nest. If you Six's face (using mod, analysing the trailer of LN2 and searching in the gamefiles) you can see that she has white cloaths and dark short hair. In the LN Comics, we see that the child that gave Six a piece of bread is a boy. In the Maw there are drawing and pictures of a little girl with dark hair and a raincoat. Some people thought that Six was the Lady's daughter, but the developers said no. Maybe the little raincoat girl was the daughter, but she was a deception for the Lady and she had to escape (or maybe she was more beautiful than the Lady). Then they thought that Six was her and that is why she was in the Maw, even if she didn't belong there. I think that the Nest theory could be acurrated. But who knows? Maybe there is not a corelation between the Maw and Nest...

9:30 her face has me thinking "It puts its name upon the the test, or else its sent to the nest........"

*gasp* *THROWS VASE AT HER * 4:48