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Do you think that the original 2017 comics are still canon? Or at least certain characters like the ferryman, north wind, and the mirror monster?

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Short Answer: Yes.

Long answer: Like everything else in Little Nightmares, it's complicated.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, out of all the characters from the comics, the Ferryman is the only one who is 100% confirmed as canon. I say this because of various paintings with him as the primary focus appearing in the Maw both in LN 1 and the DLC - this last one is especially important because the DLC was released after the comics were already cancelled, therefore implying that the Ferryman is still an existing character in the universe of the games.

Plus (and again, this is important!), he's also one of the collectibles in VLN.

I have mentioned this in my various posts about the Ladies already, but I must repeat that I like how the room reflects the character of their jack-in-the-box in very creative ways. For example, the Ferryman's room here is filled with water that most likely came from the broken barrel on the side (see as two Nomes are taking a quiet bath in yet another barrel), and the largest piece of the barrel somewhat resembles a boat. It's really clever.

I would talk about the VLN rooms for hours, but I'll keep them for another post. Moving on.

The Mirror Man also has his own jack-in-the-box and paitings on the Maw! Incidentally, he's also standing in the same pose.

(he's gonna do it to em)

Judging by all the broken mirrors laying around in both LN games and DLC, we can assume Mirror Man also has canon privileges, although I'm fairly sure the Lady, the Hunter and possibly the Teacher aren't too happy about it.

Now, about the North Wind... this is where it gets complicated.

You see, the North Wind himself does not make any other appearence outside of the comics... but the Refugee Boy he was chasing does.

And this is extremely strange to me. Why him, and not the North Wind himself? The Humpback Girl isn't relevant to Mirror Man nor his room at all and all the other jack-in-the-boxes are antagonists - monsters, so why this major shift? Maybe it's trying to tell us something about the true nature of the North Wind?

Going back to your OG question... this room still shows signs of the North Wind's presence, overall. It's incredibly messy and the toilet paper has flown everywhere like it was either thrown or blew around by an extremely strong wind.

Ultimately, I would say that, while Mirror Man and the Ferryman are definetely still canon to the games, the North Wind might not be - or he might be different from the one we saw in the comics. The presence of the Refugee Boy might imply that the kids from the comics are still somewhat canon characters.

You mean the Ln 1 comic kids being parallels to cup, tengu, fox and scarecrow or?

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HELL YEAH BESTIE YOU GOT IT!

The hypothesis came into my mind while making the LN iceberg. Basically I was synthesizing the plot of the cancelled comics and I thought,

"Wow, I never realized that Humpback Girl and the Lady both have a strong disliking of mirrors due to bad experiences with Mirror Man. Cool coincidence."

Then I realized the Humpback Girl keeps her face covered at all times - like the Lady, who costantly wears a mask, and that they both are wearing different shades of orange.

(Not sure about this one, but Humpback Girl's friends might be seen as paralleles to the Maw employees. I mean, the guy with the super long limbs? The conjoined "twins"?)

And this got me thinking.

If, hypothetically, Humpback Girl is paralleling the current Lady... then what about the other kids? Could they be seen as paralleles to the previous four?

Before we go on, keep in mind: I'm not saying they're exact paralleles. While the Lady can't keep away from mirrors, Humpback Girl is terrified of them.

But what I am saying is that their similarities might help us understand the Ladies a bit more.

And you'll tell me, "But there's only five children! The Bandaged Kid got snatched away, so the numbers of kids and Ladies don't match!" Not to worry: we're ""confirming"" two theories in one hit.

Because we only have one other child tell us their full story (curse the day the comics were cancelled /lh), I'll begin with announcing that the Refugee Boy is paralleling none other than Scarecrow.

I mean... look at the boy's hood and tell me it doesn't resemble the scarecrow mask.

(Yes, this is important for my reasoning - it's gonna help us determine who the other children match.)

Let's recap what we know about Scarecrow. She has a tendecy to run and hide from the horrors of the world instead of facing them (like the boy who is trying to evade the clutches of the North Wind), she wears blue and she could have possibly had a sister which might have been one of the others.

And, wouldn't you know!, the Refugee Boy also happens to have a younger sister! One who wears a red cape.

You already know where I'm going with this.

Yep.

Recreating Tengu's mask using a hood must be complicated, but the choice of color for the cape was spot on. It's literally the same shade as the little statue from the DLC.

We know that Tengu, unlike Scarecrow, was someone who wanted to fit in with the monsters to avoid being hurt - and that this was just a facade she put out in order to make herself seem stronger than she actually was.

The Refugee Boy's sister is straight up replaced by a monster, a.k.a. the Ferryman, who is a shapeshifter (thus creating this "false persona"), while the real girl had already been claimed by the North Wind.

It's what Tengu did, just... not literally.

But there's more: when I first introduced the idea of Scarecrow and Tengu being sisters, I ended up wondering if such an event would go down in regards to the Thin Man and Lady coexistence theory. Would the Thin Man only kidnap one of the girls or both? And today, I think I finally have my answer.

In this story, we could see the North Wind as a stand-in for either the Thin Man or the Hunger itself, or even a mix of both. The one who snatched the girl away from her sibling...

Look at what the girl's skeleton is wearing.

Yellow cape. Much like the signature yellow raincoat both Six and the girl in the Lady's paintings (who could be a possible younger Lady) wear.

Only one of the girls was taken; only one of them is destined to become the true Lady of the Maw. And that girl was Tengu. Scarecrow became a Lady, yes, but only by association. She was just a normal person thrown in a world where she had no chance of keeping herself safe other than hiding away from everything else - including her own sister.

(Btw, this also explains the drawings seen on Tengu's wall in VLN. The three children rappresent Tengu, Scarecrow and their Mono... until the Eye changed everything.)

(Again, these drawings are not literal parallels. They're telling two stories simultaniously: the one of the three children who became nomes, and the one of an unlikely trio who was doomed from the start.)

So, if the girls seen in these paintings truly are the two headless statues, then we can give the girls a face.

Tengu. Scarecrow.

Okay, so we established Scarecrow and Tengu as the Refugee Boy and his sister respectively. Cool. But what about the others who don't have a story?

And this is when the hood designs come in! It was istantly clear to me that the Long Hair Girl would parallel Teapot. The shape of her hood is literally the same as the reversed teapot mask.

Lastly, going by exclusion and the ripped hood, the Boy in Green would parallel Fox.

From how little we see of him in the comics, we get that he's a rather calm child - he's also the one who offers to help Six remember her forgotten past. We know that Fox had a gentle and caring nature, so I feel like it would make sense for him to be her "stand in" of sorts.

And this is all for now. I love making theories about the Ladies and it was nice to include the comic children into this!