Mono

Description.

Mono is the main protagonist of Little Nightmares II. He was a kind and helpful boy who saved Six from The Hunter's house and accompanied her on a journey to Transmission, only to be betrayed by the girl and become the main antagonist of the game.

Appearance.

Mono is a small, scrawny boy of very short stature, the same size as the other children in the game. He has pale white skin with a dark tone on his body. His face is hidden by a light brown paper bag with two round eye holes that allow him to see clearly. For clothing he wears a single-button olive-colored trench coat that reaches below his knees and over a brownish-gray shirt tucked into his long brownish-gray pants rolled up at the bottom, allowing him to carry items such as a key and a flashlight on the side of his coat. His hands and feet are bare. Beneath the paper bag he wears on his head, he has short, messy black hair that sticks out a bit. Mono has a rather thin, slightly more angular facial structure and dark, half-closed eyes. Monkey has part of his pants rolled up, which makes it easier for him to jump, and which people use to jump over pits.

Personality.

Mono is shown to be a protective and trusting child with good intentions. He goes out of his way to help others as shown when he struggles to free Six from her imprisonment in the Hunter's house and offers her his hand. Despite Six pushing him away and running off on her own at first, he remains by her side to offer his help again despite her initial rejection of his aid. Mono demonstrates a certain degree of empathy and compassion towards others, and is also theorized to be the one who helped the other children nearby before they were kidnapped by Lanky. Part of his compassionate behaviors are based on the trauma of the horrible things he witnessed, disturbed by the rotting bodies in the Hunter's house. He is also a rather cautious child of his surroundings as he can use objects at his convenience to assess the safety of the path ahead, implying that he is quite resourceful. He is also shown to be a rather determined and stubborn boy in achieving his goals, and rarely gives up on any task. Mono's main characteristic is that he likes to wear various objects on his head that allow him to hide his face, which may indicate his shyness or unwillingness to show his personality. He also wears said bag on his head because "the world hates him and wants him to fail", possibly leading him to think that the world is cruel to him, or he thinks that everyone is against him. As Monkey begins to finally reach the Signal Tower, he becomes injured and attempts to walk a straight path to the Signal Tower, while being guided by the contortionist shadow of Six, who is still alive and distorted, thus confronting Beanpole once again. Tired of this world's apparent resentment towards him, Monkey takes off his hat and angrily decides that enough is enough of this cruel world trying to hurt him.

Personality. (2)

He chooses to fight Beanpole head-on with his transmission powers and succeeds, proceeding to restore the curved buildings to their normal, straight form, implying that he may have the ability to restore distorted or twisted things. After Mono rescues Six and returns her to her original state, the walls of the place begin to crumble with large-eyed fleshy skins, so Six and Mono attempt to escape the Signal Tower once it begins to collapse. When Six catches Mono near the exit, she ultimately decides to let Mono fall into the abyss to get out herself, leaving him trapped in its depths. Mono ends up sitting on a chair, likely shocked and hurt by the betrayal. Mono decides to sit on a chair that transports him to a room with a pink aura far from the world of flesh nubs, and ages as he becomes toxic, twisted, and vengeful, taking the same form and place as Beanpole.

History.

Little Nightmares tells the story of an apocalyptic world where children no longer have much importance due to overpopulation, and they were simply no longer needed, there were still a few who were simply looking for a home and shelter. However, there was a place where children were still sheltered, and that place was The Nest. Little Nightmares II. Not far from the Nest, near Pale City, a kind of broadcast began to spread on televisions, causing adult families to watch it forever, their faces distorted by addiction. Only a few children managed to escape the destruction of the place, but they were quickly kidnapped by El Larguirucho, with only one being able to escape, and that child was Mono, a boy with a plastic bag on his head with two holes for his eyes. Later, Six begins to pass through the area, but a hunter does not stop stalking her, but when she distracts him for a moment, she sees Mono from afar sitting in a tree, which El Larguirucho takes advantage of to kidnap her. Mono quickly goes in search of her rescue, leaving a television and passing all the traps that The Hunter had set, until finally he reaches his house and enters the window, taking an axe to free Six from the basement, who was blinded by a music box. Due to the distrust she had in people, she rejects Mono's hand and pushes her to run away, Mono quickly chases her and manages to collaborate with her to get through the obstacles, escaping from The Hunter and managing to kill him with one of his weapons that were in the shed. With that problem out of the way, Mono and Six board a giant gate that floats across the ocean until they reach the Pale City, a vast continent teeming with televisions and the inhabitants' clothes.

History. (2)

Mono begins to feel a kind of trance with the television as it picks up its same signals, which makes it for a moment enter a kind of dimension with a pink tone, although Six helps her to get out of the effect. The children continue advancing until they reach a school, where some porcelain children called The Bullies kidnap Six and trap Mono for a moment. Quickly Mono will embark on a terrifying odyssey where with a hammer he manages to kill the porcelain children, but still, he had to hide from The Professor, who could stretch her neck infinitely. Mono finally manages to find Six, who was hanging upside down by the Bullies and together they escape from the school in a terrifying chase with The Professor who had seen him while he was playing his piano. The two children go out again through Pale City and in one of the places, Six finds the same yellow raincoat that that girl once had, and decides to put it on since it was raining. After finally arriving at the hospital, Mono once again has a trance with the television, and Six takes advantage of the opportunity to free him since only she could get him out of the connections. It is there that they both encounter The Doctor, an abominable monster who crawls across the ceilings and uses the hospital and living people to perform traumatic experiments. Six and Mono manage to evade him many times, until they trick him into staying inside an oven and turn it on, ending the doctor's life. Later, Mono again has another connection with the television, but this time, he manages to get much further, freeing Beanpole, Six scares her and signals her to run but because Mono did not cooperate, she decided to run away and due to the enormous fear she had of him, she was unable to save Six and let her be captured by Beanpole.

History. (3)

Feeling guilty, Monkey decides to go save her again, using his ability to travel through televisions. Monkey finds Six calling for help on one of the televisions, and quickly decides to go save her, but Six doesn't let him and starts chasing him down a long train track, crashing badly into it. Monkey realizes that he can't escape from the Lanky Man, so he decides to confront his fears and defeat them himself with his television powers. Already in the Signal Tower, Mono enters the place of The Transmission, where he is in the dimension that caused all the distortion, that is where he meets the Distorted Six, a gigantic version of Six with deformed and somewhat contracted arms and legs, followed by a large messy hair. Six acts peacefully with the music box and even approaches Mono when he calls him, but he gets brutally angry when the music box hits him, which makes him angry and begins to attack him. Mono quickly manages to destroy the music box and frees Six from the trance, where the world begins to collapse and both run to the exit. Mono makes a very long jump to whom Six catches, but she decides to drop him and leave him for dead in that world for somewhat unknown reasons. Mono began to wander through the walls of flesh until he finally sat down in a chair and began to slowly age, revealing that he was destined to become Beanpole, doomed to repeat an endless cycle of pain and betrayal. While Mono was condemned, Six began to go out again through the Pale City, where consumerism and work were the only things that abounded now, which made everyone forget about children. Six meets an Atlantic boatman who takes her to a vertical ship shaped like a skyscraper, and quickly arrives in The Maw.

History. (4)

Once aboard the ship, Six embarks on an odyssey to avoid being consumed by hunger, eating everything from a loaf of bread offered by a child to a live rat, who is kidnapped by The Janitor, a blind monster with long arms and excellent hearing and smell. While another child was also kidnapped, Six took the opportunity to escape from there, passing through a sea of ​​shoes and even through his room, finally Six manages to knock down part of a cage that let a wall fall on the Janitor's arms, killing him for the cause of losing his arms. Arriving at the kitchen, he had to go through a long journey where two twin chefs with false faces lived due to their deformities, passing through the surface of The Maw and seeing how so many obsessive and consumerist people boarded it. The beings boarded the ship to eat meat after meat, but their hunger was so much that just by seeing Six they tried to eat her immediately. While this was happening, the other runaway child ended up trapped by the lady, and was transformed into a Gnome by The Lady and later devoured by Six when she offered him a sausage. Six gets enough energy, and quickly decides to go to The Lady's room to finish her off immediately, running through the room and managing to defeat her with a mirror, since behind her mask she was a horrible monster. Finally Six defeats her and takes advantage of her weak state to eat her neck and finish killing her to satisfy her hunger, taking her powers to absorb vital energy with a kind of black smoke, and taking the soul of each of the members who once tried to kill her while she walked darkly on the surface of a place, sitting there on a small island shaped like a skyscraper in search of a rescue, without knowing what will happen now with so much power.

Theories.

• It is said that the reason Six betrayed Mono was because she had realized that his hunger had resurfaced, and she preferred him to die there than to die at her hands. Another theory is simply because Monkey was in a cycle where he was meant to just be Beanpole, as he shares many similarities with him, such as the ability to alter reality and enter televisions, or that Six was just plain evil. • Mono's voice is somewhat soft and rough, which suggests that he doesn't talk much. • Possibly Six has some kind of curse due to her selfishness and having betrayed Mono, which condemned her to an insatiable hunger and vanity, just like with The Lady, since perhaps she is her successor, like Mono with Lanky. • When Monkey first sees Six while on top of a tree, she was kidnapped by The Hunter, possibly to wait for her to grow up somehow. Monkey felt a bit bad, so he decided to go find her, starting his adventure with him by coming out of a television. It's possible that Beanpole being Monkey from the future tried to make his past self change something with Six in order to get out of the place and end the cycle of pain and betrayal after being defeated by himself. • The Lady and Six share many similarities, as Six is ​​always hungry due to betraying Monkey, since she had that curse, and possibly there is no food that can satisfy that void that remains in her heart. • His birthday is unknown. • In one of the comics, we can see how the bag that Mono used on his head managed to get out of the Pale City, and ended up where Six was, it is the shore of a small island with a lighthouse, Six finds it and when she sees that it was hers she breaks down in tears while hugging the bag. • It is said to be in a world where you become a greater nightmare and fear, like Mono did to Lanky. • Like Six, Mono must be between 9 and 10 years old.

Theories. (2)

• He may not need to eat or go to the bathroom because he is in the digital world, the possible reason why Six dropped him off the bridge, his hunger was about to resurface.

Description on the Website.

When the world bends before the incessant transmission of the signal tower, Mono takes refuge where he can. The thin paper mask he wears offers him some relief, helping him forget that the outside world hates him and wishes him failure... But he can't hide forever.

Description in X.

An extraordinarily determined child. When you set your mind to a task, you rarely give up before it is completed.

Curiosities.

• Even though he never speaks or says any common greetings, he seems a bit friendly. • Like Six, Mono's name is based on a number (one); however, given his motif, it could also be a reference to 'monochrome television', also known as "black and white television". • Mono is the first child in the Little Nightmares game series to speak, or at least utter a recognizable word. • Mono is the first children's character to have his entire face visible at one point. • The Beanpole that appears in the cutscene at the end of the Resident DLC is Mono, for the simple fact that Little Nightmares II is a prequel to Little Nightmares and it is precisely in Little Nightmares II that Mono defeats Beanpole and takes his place at the end of the game. It is possibly Mono looking for Six. • It is implied that Six may not have intended to betray Mono at first, as shown by the fact that she reached out and caught the boy before he fell into the abyss, while also temporarily contemplating her next move, leaving suspicions that there were additional factors that played into her final decision to let him fall. In the secret cutscene, Six can be seen shaken by this.