Six (Little Nightmares)

Six, also known as A Hungry Child, A Young Girl In A Yellow Raincoat and The Girl In The Yellow Raincoat, is one of the main protagonists from the Little Nightmares series.
== Charactah Account ==
Six is mysterious little girl in a yellow raincoat who is the protagonist of the game, Six has been stuck in the Maw for an unspecified amount of time, imprisoned with other children. Six is a small girl armed only with a lighter, Six journeys through the Maw in hopes of finding a way to escape.
Six does not speak, but her personality is shown through her actions. Six frequently displays the characteristics of an anti-hero. She does not seem to care about saving the other children trapped aboard the Maw and will do whatever it takes to survive and escape the resort by herself, with little or no help from anyone else. She has an insatiable hunger, and will eat virtually anything to satisfy it, with her diet gradually becoming darker and more desperate over the course of the game. On one occasion, a friendly Nome offered the starving Six a sausage to eat. Instead, she chose to feast on the Nome, having realized what the meat is made of while displaying a clear indifference to killing.
Despite her apathy and animal-like cravings, Six displays a high level of intelligence and cunning, being clever enough to evade and/or hide from her pursuers due to her inferior size. She is a proficient puzzle solver: she frequently throws objects at buttons she couldn't reach normally; and—towards the end of the game—incapacitates the Lady using a mirror, having somehow deduced the weakness from all the shattered mirrors around her living quarters. After killing the Lady and absorbing her powers, however, Six truly begins to live up to the game's title.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Little Nightmares
=== Video Games ===
* Little Nightmares
* Little Nightmares II
* Very Little Nightmares
== Trivia ==
* Initially, Tarsier Studios did not reveal Six's gender, which is why for a long time it was not known exactly whether Six was indeed a girl or a boy or something else. However, since many fans referred to Six as a girl unprompted, the studio began referring to her as such as well, and in the following games hints were left that the heroine was female.
* Excluding the unreleased TV series, Six is the only character to appear in every installment of the overall franchise.
* The fact that Six is nine-years-old is ironic since if the number 9 is turned upside-down, it becomes the number 6, which is Six's name. The same can be said vice-versa.
** Six is the only character in the Little Nightmares universe whose exact age is known.
* When Six is eating, a dark version of her is seen nearby, watching Six as she devours her meal. It appears again in a secret ending of Little Nightmares II. This entity is commonly referred as Dark Six.
* As seen in the Gamescom 2016 demo, Six initially was shown having the ability to whistle in order to attract the attention of nearby characters.
* At the moment, in Little Nightmares, players can purchase paid masks in order to change what Six wears over her head. These include a Tengu mask, a Fox mask, a Scarecrow sack, and an upside-down teapot.
** If a player breaks all the statues, they will be rewarded with a white porcelain mask similar to that of the Lady. There is also a Pakku mask, an exclusive gift for Nintendo Switch players with the Pac-Man amiibo figure.
* On the official Twitter account in one of the posts, it was mentioned that Six does not like vegetables.
* Six is currently the only NPC who can die non-canonically.
** This is first seen at the end of the game Very Little Nightmares, where if the Girl in the Yellow Raincoat does not save Six from falling onto the rocks, the latter will die. In this case, the main character will not receive Six's mutual assistance, and the Pretender will catch up with her and vanish her.
** Hostile characters do not seem to react to Six in Little Nightmares II, possibly to save players the stress and worry of keeping her alive. However, she is not invincible; for example: if she is too close to Mono when the Hunter successfully hits his mark, they will both be killed.
* The announcement trailer revealed Six obtaining the yellow raincoat in an unknown room similar to the kid's bedroom where the Thin Man kidnaps her. She was also shown wearing it while hiding from the Hunter and confronting the Teacher in the trailer, implying that the timeline of events for when Six obtained the yellow raincoat was changed in the final rendition of the game.
* Aside from Mono, it is likely that Six was originally going to be a playable character of Little Nightmares II as two pieces of art in the artbook of Little Nightmares II show Six on her own without Mono.
* Six is the only character thus far who has been directly and at times unintentionally involved in the final fate of the protagonists from previous Little Nightmares games. She attempted to save the Girl in the Yellow Raincoat before she plummeted to her death with the Pretender, ate the Runaway Kid after he was transformed into a nome, and dropped Mono before leaving the black tower. Each situation containing major factors which resulted in its end:
** The Pretender regained consciousness after being hit by the boulder Six dropped on her.
** Six discovering the contents of the meat within the sausage and the Maw was made of children and the Guests, but having no knowledge that the Nomes were once children themselves.
** Six falling victim to the Black Tower, becoming corrupted with escapism just as the Viewers and other residents of the Pale City.
* When asked about his take on why Six betrayed Mono at the end of Little Nightmares II, narrative designer David Mervik replied that he couldn’t answer, but did state that “Six's perspective of this will be different to Mono's, and different again to the player's”.
* When asked to explain the events between Mono and Six near the end of Little Nightmares II, the official Twitter account states that "Extracting someone from a fantasy can be deeply upsetting for everyone involved".
* It is implied that Six may not have intended to betray Mono at first, as evidenced 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 suspicion that additional factors were at play in her end decision to let him fall.
* In the concept arts and game files of Little Nightmares II, Six initially had to wear white clothes and a haircut identical to her design in Very Little Nightmares, however, this design was altered to include a charcoal shirt and a grey cardigan, leaving her white shorts as the only part of her old clothing to be present and visible in all the games. How she obtained new clothes remains unknown.
* When someone on Twitter commented that escapism is given through the TVs for the Viewers, the music box for Six, and fan art from the fandom, the official Little Nightmares Twitter account simply states, "Indeed. More of you understand the pain that Mono caused Six than you realize". Implying that while saving Six, Mono had hurt her in the process, leaving suspicion that the destruction of her music box freed her from her escapism, but became a major factor in her sudden decision to drop him near the end of Little Nightmares II as her dependence towards her music box left her resentful towards Mono.
* Upon the release of Little Nightmares, the most popular theory surrounding Six and the Lady of the Maw was that the two were related as mother and daughter. When questioned if Six and the Lady were related, Dave Mervik confirms the two are not related and that such relations are common traditions seen in other media that people would now normally expect to see. However, despite not being related, Mervik states, "but the reality is that these two characters have been thrown together by forces beyond their control."
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== External Links ==
* Six at Little Nightmares Wiki
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