Today's words of the day are "more/maw" and "essentially". Got some exciting things happening on the channel soon! Patreon will be launched in the next week or so (hopefully), I will be continuing my playthrough of Lost in Random and also it looks like we might actually be getting some DLC for Little Nightmares 2! Thank you for the continued support. It genuinely means a lot.

Plus, one way the Maw makes sense that the rest of the world doesn’t: it isn’t warped. The building aren’t bending, the people aren’t just killing themselves or wasting way, the people on the Maw work with purpose. In the pale city, the buildings are bending, the people’s faces are warped and asynchronous, it’s all chaos and discord. The Maw makes sense because it isn’t touched by the signal tower.

*It's heavily implied that the children were not always used for food.* Throughout the game we see infrastructure within the Maw clearly designed for beings of small size, from levers to ladders. Since the flooded parts of the Maw appear to have once been living quarters, I theorize that the children were once raised to work as maintenance crew and helpers for the ship's staff, likely after being transformed into Nomes. (We see Six performing such tasks in the game's concept art.) The man in charge of the children's training and care was the tall fellow we see hanging near the start of the game, who couldn't live with the new "let's just eat them" policy enacted by the Lady after she removed her sisters. This explains why the Maw is in such disrepair, and why its remaining staff are stretched so thin. The Janitor now has to do all the maintenance himself AND look after the children. The Twin Chefs have grown ill as they work non-stop to prepare every meal and clean every dish themselves. The Granny (who I theorize used to be the manager of the living quarters) now lives forgotten in the flooded underbelly, her entire section of the ship abandoned with nobody to maintain it. The Nomes now wander aimlessly through old maintenance passages, having forgotten their purpose.

I have a really morbid theory that guests know they are going to die, and the Maw provides them a ritualistic, hedonistic way out. In the second game, you see people jumping from buildings, and everyone else suffering, so maybe the rich can afford a good death, while the poor have to take themselves out in more miserable way.

The way I thought of the Maw being “the only place that makes sense” is that is has a purpose and a structure. The children and fish are gathered for meat, the chefs cook the meat, the guests eat the meat, and the lady takes their life force to run the maw until someone overthrows her. Other locations like the school and hospital. Why teach children that can’t grow up and why help patients that just end up sitting in the dark all day. Comparatively the Maw makes more sense.

I always thought the maw is a living being. The guests are the food all the rooms are like organs and six is like a parasite. That's maybe why there aren't as many people as there used to be, because the maw is getting older.

I feel like it's described as the only place that makes sense, because of how simple life is there for the guests. They eat. They sleep. They do it again. There's no drama, no responsibilities, and no worries about the post- apocalyptic world outside.

Considering the amount of gluttony consuming the guests, I'm not sure the Lady has to cast a spell on them. They may willingly sign away their life if you promise them enough food to finally satiate them to the point they aren't hungry.

Every time I think I know everything there is to know about little nightmares these mysteries come out and I'm back to square one, good on you for managing to put it all together 😅

The water leaking from the entrance of the Maw makes it look like it's drooling

I actually noticed the mouth of the maw looks like, one of the chefs masks mouth

The Maw won't die because it continually replaces the Lady. Six is the next one. There have been 5 others before, including the Lady that Six kills. That's why she's called six. I still don't think the children are consumed by the Guests. I feel they are reserved for the Lady who needs their life force to stay young (also why there are so many Nomes in the Maw). Love your theories Tericho!!!

When it comes to the thin woman. I think her hunger is more than just power-hungry. Remember the kid after consuming her gains this power to consume the life force of everybody that comes near her. I think that was basically how the system worked. She drew The guests in The guests ate and ate until they were tired. When they went to sleep their life force would be taken from them and they die, Feeding her and then the body is chopped up to feed everybody else. And with that and the eye creature that is The source of the signal Tower. I basically assumed that little nightmares is basically Love craft horror. There’s really no happy ending. Only survival and the attempt to keep your sanity.

I’m usually scared of big things (don’t even think about jokes you could make out of that) like huge ships or planes and the maw is one of them and it just adds to the experience. So damn cool it reminds me of the game “inside”

Maybe the hunger comes from leaving the signal. Because as we see six gets her hunger from leaving. No one in the city shows signs of hunger, but maybe if you leave you get hungry because a part of you belong to the signal. So without the signal you miss something. This can also explain why the maw is the only place that makes sense. You can escape the world, but it comes with one price. The hunger, so the circle of food have to continue in the maw to keep them safe. It also looks like they all got exposed to the tv at one point because they wear masks. Idk 😆

So if the maw "makes sense" because if it follows the rules does that mean the pale city is "chaotic" because it doesn't?

I don't think the Maw dies once the lady is defeated, an interesting thing is that six inherits a power that consumes not the flesh but the darkness as it were from the guests, pulling it into six and this causes the lights and the maw itself to react. I would say greed is the overall theme of the maw or desire. Those that arrive on the maw already seem to be gross and fat to begin with yet the maw draws them in and for the most part I think the lady is an extension of this, she is obsessed with image yet her own image is a lie which is why there are very few mirrors about. Just like the area where the guests stay, the image of a fancy restaurant is also a lie and it might be true that the lady draws them their with that lie but when Six inherits the power from the lady it isn't the same. Six is hungry for something and at the very beginning of the game it alludes that six used to belong to a family but is now by herself. Six's loneliness eats at them and in the end it isn't the flesh that satisfies her but perhaps their souls. Obviously the intent and history are not told directly to the player but the Maw itself has a power of it's own. Transforming others within itself, turning people into stone/nomes/monsters and while it might be a giant machine its hard to tell if it even requires supervision anymore as most of its inner workings appear unattended. There is certainly a power there that is pulling at the strings of others, consuming the guests, and bolstering the dark nature within others. But whatever it is the Maw is a predator even of itself and self maintaining.

I was trying to find the meaning of the Maw like months, but you explained it better than anyone today in just 11 minutes... You are pretty smart Tericho, keep up your amazing work!🖤

does anyone else think there's some sort of twisted beauty to the Maw? I mean, the architecture and decoration always felt so terrifying yet mesmerising to me. Maybe I just really like Japanese architecture and creepy stuff.

Those nets that scrape the sea floor are also used for collecting coal.

I still think it's interesting that the beings like Six and Mono are still being referred to as children...I mean they are but they aren't human children...when playing the sequel I thought it was kind of disturbing that I kept finding child sized shoes but they were far too big for Six and Mono which leads me to an even better theory...maybe THEY are the little nightmares.

I personally felt the Maw was a sort of ark. Mean to keep certain people safe from... whatever. The thin man, magic,the world, the governments, etc. Just, at this point, the maw is more a relic and anomaly center then an ark. Mainly cause many are drawn to it for one reason or another.

As you smash the music box in LN2 (in the end), you can see that it looks like the maw

I know I commented this on another video, but ever since I had the idea, I've just been in love with it and it lines up so perfectly I want to get the idea out. My idea is that the nomes all throughout the maw in the first game are in a way being controlled by the lady sort of as a way to lure Six into her quarters to kill her, maybe to end some kind of loop, maybe for some other purposes, but obviously, her plan goes wrong. It seems like all throughout the game, you're following the nomes, and when you think of it from that perspective it actually looks like they're leading you somewhere, and the runaway kid was just another piece in the lady's plan to kill Six. Another thing that secures this idea even more is that the lady seems to have destroyed *almost* all the mirrors possibly in preparation of Six's arrival, but ends up missing one mirror. Maybe the lady watching from the distance at the start of chapter 4 isn't her watching over the guests entering the maw, but actually her keeping track of your progress. Same with the secret room in the DLC where you can see Six going through the Shoe Monster room.

The maw existed before the pale city right? Given that there's a flier for it at the end of the 2nd game. Perhaps whatever the eye symbol is supposed to be that is the force behind what created both the tower and the maw and who knows what else.

I always got the impression that the maw was taken over, and was once a more normal and less evil place.

I always saw little nightmares as a metaphor for the seven deadly sins. The obvious being gluttony and sloth as well as vanity, greed, wrath, pride and envy.

The Maw always reminds me of cruise ships where many women and children go missing, never to be seen again.

Sweet, it's interesting that you still get ideas out of this old game.

I interpreted the "sense" as meaning it's a place without discord. It's perpetual and safe for those not on the chopping block. While it seems nightmarish, it's not a nightmare in the sense that reason isn't abandoned. Woods where people are prey, a school where everyone misbehaves, a hospital where disfigurement is sought for, the signal tower, they're all disfigured from their intentions. The Maw intends to be what it is, thus it's different.

At this point, I think the theme of LN 1 is not hunger. Its controll. Controll over other. Controll over your surroundings, cobtroll over others (which is where hunger comes in) and most of all, controll over your own path and future.

Thing to be noted that if maw Is a living creature and the waterfall represents saliva the several holes represent nose and ears then granny lives in maws gastric juice and hence she could be changed by the surrounding or the gastric jucie she is living in and that's could also give us reason that why she catches children as the lady would had promised her to be out of there is she would catch the main protagonist of the LN comics

the maw is going to die unless six actually stayed there and became the lady, after all, where would she go after the ending of the first game? its already a fact that little nightmares 2 is a prequel so, we don't know what six did after she absorbed the power of the lady

Holy actually crap I’ve been wanting you to make a video on this

The Idea of the maw may be inspired by moving castle Design, but the fact it's lives on ocean probably comes from Zaratan, a monster who's represented in differents mythologies, as a gigantic turtle monster and in his hull carries a Island, and because of the gigantic size, sailors would dock and pretty much be drowed or eaten

For how the Maw came to existence, we don't have official information yet, but since it's main theme is "consumption" we can say this about its line of succession as well: the Ladies eat each other to obtain the power/magic to run the Maw (just like Hawl with his Moving Castle). We see that when Six ate the Lady and obtained her power as a result, because of her Hunger which the Thin Man awaken upon kidnapping her and thus Shadow Six was born; who is the personalizing of Six's Hunger since this Shadow appears every time Six hits by it. Yes, this is tied to the Time Loop theory: the Thin Man and the Lady of the Maw are connected. They're monsters born from each other. However I think the Lady in LN1 was NOT Six, but Mono's previous friend: I'll call her "Five". In the DCL, there was the statues of 5 or 4 Ladies.

"childrens just give up hope." IryS flashback*

Tericho, keep up the great work! This was very intuitive and I enjoyed it alot. I dont have really anything to say, just wanted to drop a comment to help the channel :) See you next time!

I’ve Noticed That The Only Place That Has Really Gave A Person What They Want Was The Signal Tower. (Excluding Mono Because He’s The Power Source) It Gave Six An Escape From The World, And The Viewers, To Watch The Signal (Mono).

While we’re all here in the comments, I really recommend we watch Terichos play through of lost in random! Part 1 is the video before this, go check it out! Great video as always Tericho :)

Terry’s just gonna keep on rolling with content. Love to see it!

2:25 I thought you were gonna say "Light Nightmares dark with a side of whimsical." but yeah, that works to.o.

You deserve way more subscribers, your the perfect youtuber we all need.

Hell yeah let's goooo bro I'm madly in love with your videos so much keep it up

Hey Tericho. There's speculation that a DLC for LN2 may have been confirmed on Bandai Namco's website. SuperHorrorBros covered it and I wonder if you could give us your take on it? Also still requesting a Shadow Six theory from you.

I didn't realize little nightmares' design was actually inspired by ghibli I just felt like they were similar

I do believe ItsJustJord discovered that the Maw was not what it is now

funny i was watching a review of spirited away a few hours ago and was like "oh thats what happens in little nightmares with glutton humans....oh that looks like the janitor...oh those little guys are carrying coal like the kids"

Love your Videos, because of them i could get Little Nightmares 2 After some Discussions with my Patents:D

I have never played little nightmares, I have heard of it, but only the name. This seems really interesting, and I love the excessive horror. I will consider playing this game.

That's one thing that, as an artist and 3D model artist, I really loved about this game... The fact that it reminded me so much of Spirited Away, and they later confirmed that they got a lot of inspiration from it.

Keep going with your Vidos pls There realy good!!

All really sound. But one thing that also would make far more sense on why the guests come - they are originally normal people with regular hunger, but The Lady has cursed them to have an insatiable hunger, which makes them want to come to the maw.

Tericho back with another awesome video

No wonder I fell in love with the art! Spirited away! The janitor kinda resembles kamaji

What if the MAW has a gift shop? Like theres a place where you can buy the old gustest belongings to make more funds

Probably the lady cares for the children so that they forget about all this guest killing eating things and then they get killed after

LN YOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Keep making LN content I love it!!!!

I think it's always a bit risky to try to impose a rational framework onto supernatural horror. I meant it's a legitimate take and it is very much human nature to do so, but I don't know whether it is truly necessary for something like the Maw to have an economy.

Roger may have originally lived in pale city and then was hired to work at the maw, he gets hypnotised by the TV which plays the veronica song, which is heard on another TV in little nightmares 2.

Thank you it was very helpful.

Well I think I actually have an explanation to why six is hungry. (Spoilers for the second game) The second game, timeline wise, comes before the first game. During the period where thin man is released in LN 2, six is taken.. but she leaves something behind. A shadowy, glitchy version of herself. Her soul, or something similar. Without her soul, or what she left behind, she was able to warp and change into a monster in the games ending sequence. She leaves Mono behind in a time loop, because she was scared. She arrives on the maw, with something missing. Something her body is trying to fill by causing her debilitating hunger. She gains pains from being so hungry because she's trying to get something she lost back, her soul. Her body is making her eat because thats what it thinks is missing. She eats the gnome and the lady because she doesnt know what else to do to get her soul back, or the part of her that she lost.

i need this game now

If I recall you can grow certain types of plants from artificial bulbs, in fact I think some nuclear shelters do that.

I just subbed!🥳

I'd described Little Nightmares' style as "Eerie Whimsy." It takes the coziness of Ghibli and old claymation films, and takes away all comfort.

I always thought The Lady is Six's future self just like how Mono turned out to be the Thin Man and I think Six will be the next Lady. The overall time loop keeps happening even though in the Maw, there is no space warping or buildings are affected by the signal tower, I think time does. Mono is keep creating this time loop without realizing it

Love Little Nightmares theory’s :)

isn't it weird that one of the chefs looks just like the maw.

I think what it means by the maw being normal is that it’s not warped

"you see the guests enter the maw through the mouth which metaphorically represents that the maw is consuming them"

I have been inspired to make a maw diorama

Where did mono get his tv powers from. Is the maw itself cursed or are the guessed cursed to get onto the maw Is shadow six a cruse or a guilt feeling? Who's the kid who gave six that piece of bread? In the kitchen upstairs the chefs have a picture of a boy on the wall who also appears on the frame wall from the dlc and i think also the little nightmares art work, who is he. In the kitchen the fish hanging from above are Incredible huge size but in the last chapter outside of the maw there us a seagull that looks pretty normal size compaired to the maw. Is everything big or is six just small? Had to make a lot of questions so he mabey will read them and continue the Theories. Cuz they are kind of empty now.

The Maw looks like the cook. With the entrance being the mouth and the crevice too.

The maw, although it may seem chaotic is the only place with order in little nightmares

i can see how cool it would be with a game or an dlc in the below part of the maw. (i know the boy dlc is in the middle of the maw i mean like below where the net is)

I hope we go back to the maw in little nightmares III and in the trailer we did see fish corpses dropping down from somewhere so maybe

This brings back the fondest of memories

Wish anyone make a diorama of The Maw And a diorama of RK and The Granny Cool explanation!

1:35 i knew ittt, the moment i saw the monsters eating so much, i remember spirited away ❤️

We probably missed a couple of other creepy monsters in the maw but we did get to find these monsters Janitor Chefs Guest The lady The granny Wax bell man is dead The ferry man we couldn’t find

Never ending hunger sounds like me on a Saturday morning

i'm probaly just really stupid but how can the maw just rise out of the water and then submerge again?

2:40 - Actual Maw Analysis 6:36 - Damn I never knew.

6:14 "The maw I think about it" Amazing not sure of this was on purpose or not but either way I laughed at it.

So what is the connection between the maw and the signal tower/the transmission?

It doesn't die because in this universe, the children are doomed to become who they kill. Six becomes the lady, and the whole thing starts all over again. As an act of revenge on the world, she lures the gluttonous people who wanted to eat her, drains their life, and recycles their meat back into the food, stealing and selling their valuables and burning their abandoned suitcases and clothes for fuel.

I need those background instrumentals again!

The coal is brought to the Maw via the large trawling nets. Most of the fish we see in the kitchens appear to be surface dwelling species not bottom dwellers where the trawling nets are located, so the nets must be being used for gathering coal from the seabed, which is then used to fuel the Maw.

Honestly The Maw as a whole looks like a giant ass wasp nest. Dunno bout ya'll but as a guy who has a phobia of bees/wasps thats what I instantly thought of when I saw that image of the full Maw.

Looks like the metal glen from Ruby Quest...

I mean, there is no doubt the Maw is currently lost. We killed Roger the Janitor, the Guests (the Chefs have now no one to cook for), the Granny who lived there for God knows what reason, and of course, the Lady, who's in charge. Six left the Maw, she wouln't possible want to stay, so all that's left is the nomes, the children, and the chefs. Possible the one who pilots it too. Maybe its purpose will change, maybe it'll just go down with its passengers, maybe it will find a new heir. Who knows.

I wonder if the Maw is a metaphor for consumerism

Stomach rumbled just as you said “and we get hungry”

2:28 " little nightmares is dark with a side of darkness, in a dark source, with a frosting and sprinkles of darkness just in case it was not dark enough " this is how I will forever explain little nightmares

Also, it probably feeds 'the Eye' in some way. The ruler of this world is an elder obscenity after all.

You took a fall into the Maw, where hungers always peeking

Your theory for the coal...what if the maw is dredging petrified wood from the bottom of the ocean?

Way I see it, the maw is merely an extention of The Signal Tower with The lady/witch serving broadly the same purpose as Thin man/Mono. Shadow 6 is Mono/Thin man's legacy as her demon or guardian? Yes howls moving castle, what I thought at 1st too! And of course spirited away 👍👍 Some of those ropes are Likley anchors 2

Trawling nets catch the... everything