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nightweeen

Dear Little Nightmares, happy birthday.

bananadramaaa

vilochkaaa

call me if u get lost! (*´▽`)ﾉ

momopatchi

St. Chroma studies

edibleteef

Finished >[]<

bxmbl3beee

Old LN drawings

d1n6

Does anyones art style just completely change on paper

Some of those are just mono and six if they would be in Reanimal

yourdeepestfathoms

The first time I watched the lamb birth scene (my laptop can't handle playing the game itself), I also got the ick. A child was giving birth to something she didn't know was put in her. Lots of similarities to teen pregnancy and rape, w/ a victim not knowing or understanding what was happened to them.

But I also had a Catholic upbringing, so my other thought during this scene was "the Girl is Mother Mary giving birth to the Lamb of God."

Not to stir up religious issues or anything, but in some interpretations, Mother Mary was just 14 when she was married to Joseph, an adult man, before impregnated by God and giving birth to the "savior" of humanity.

I think there are some interesting parallels with Mother Mary and the Girl from REANIMAL. Maybe the lamb was also a savior of sorts, bringing an end to the war-torn world (though not in the way the orphans intended).

i was honestly surprised by the lack of religious symbolism and imagery in this game! there’s not as much as i was expecting!

i don’t agree with the theory/idea of the Lamb being a god or deity of sorts (i interpret it as an extension of the Girl), but i definitely see the parallels! the Virgin impregnated with a Lamb. but unlike Mary, Girl didn’t have a choice and did not know what was happening to her (to my knowledge in reference to Mary- not religious, but i think she was confronted about it and told?).

funny you bring up religion, though, because i was trying to make sense of the Pelican, and apparently pelicans have pretty big religious symbolism behind them. so now Tage and i have a running joke that Bandage is Jesus since he seems to be tied to the Pelican.

yourdeepestfathoms

the Lamb has so many teeth.

like she hasn’t even had the chance to lose her baby teeth before the adult teeth start coming in, shoving for room until they’re protruding from her mouth.

forced to grow too fast.

yourdeepestfathoms

she’s just a girl 🥰🥰🥰

partly-poisoned

One of the ways Reanimal feels like a spiritual successor to Little Nightmares is that it feels more mature. The characters aren't quite as small; they can reach doorknobs without jumping and keys aren't half their size. The world is still too big for them, but not as much. They speak in actual words, not just soft little noises. They get to keep weapons and fight back against enemies.

The enemies are different as well, especially in the final chapter. Aside from the sheep monster, the enemies are seemingly-normal humans. Not fat monsters who eat children, or faceless zombies hypnotized by TV. There's nothing visually disturbing about the design of the soldiers, but the fact that they're soldiers is scary enough.

The fears are more grown up. It's been pointed out the ritual carried out on the Girl very much feels symbolic of SA. She wears a white dress (nightgown?) and a rabbit mask, giving her the appearance of innocence and fragility. She was betrayed by people she trusted, leaving her 'pregnant' with the sheep monster, something that was forced onto her. She has painful moments of feeling the sheep monster inside her, during which the other characters move away from her rather than helping. The sheep monster is born when it violently crawls out of her. Soon after a red stain appears on her stomach, and grows until by the end of the game almost the whole dress is red. Her innocence is gone.

It's like Little Nightmares is about the horrors of being a child in a world not meant for you, and Reanimal is about growing up and realizing how many horrors hide in your world.