Lonely Mono

A uncommonly single-minded child.

Lonely Mono is the main protagonist of "Little Nightmares 2" by Tarsier Studios and Supermassive Games. This is what would happen if someone saved him from the room in the Signal Tower and brought him to the BEF.

## Lonely Mono

Lonely Mono is an AU version of the character Mono from "Little Nightmares 2". He is what would happen if Mono was saved from his own personal hell.

## Backstory

Mono started out as a kid trapped in a cruel world who would wear a paper bag over his head to forget the world hates him. After an uncertain amount of time, he found a cabin in the woods and met his new friend Six playing with a music box. After killing the Hunter, escaping the Teacher, and burning the Doctor alive, they ran into a powerful foe: The Thin Man, and despite their attempts to hide, Six got abducted. Mono rushed to save her but failed and ended up having to run away. After a difficult chase, Mono got hurt in a train crash, once he got back to the surface the Thin Man appeared ready to abduct him too, but tired of everything, he kneeled down and took off his bag. Once he did, he got up and fought back against the Thin Man with his own powers.

Soon after three telekinetic hits the Thin Man is defeated and fades away. Finally victorious, Mono uses his power to move the Pale City to the Signal Tower to save Six and (probably) destroy the Transmision, after entering he follows a tune that resembles the music that Six's music box played. He finds Six, but in a monstrous form, and in order to save her, he had to break her music box. After struggling through that, Six and Mono sprinted to escape the Tower before they were trapped inside, unfortunately, he was slower than Six and narrowly escaped the crumbling path. At the last second, Six betrays him, leaving him to rot and escape by herself. Mono, broken by the betrayal of his only friend, had no other choice but to sit in a chair on a pile of grotesque flesh, and when he does, the walls of eyes and flesh start to close in on him and before he was crushed, he suddenly woke up in a room, all he could do is just sit down defeated. However, unlike the normal ending where he grows up into the the Thin Man, he is rescued a couple of weeks in by a certain alchemist who also shared his pain and saved him from his hell.

## Abilities

Throughout Little Nightmares 2, even before Mono unleashes his powers, he shows some incredible skills:

* **Unlimited stamina**: Unlike the protagonists in previous installments, Mono has unlimited stamina. This allows him to run as far as he can without getting tired.
* **Weapon proficiency**: Unlike other children in the universe of *Little Nightmares*, Mono is able to wield weapons to either defeat small enemies or dispatch obstacles. The weapons may vary from a twig to an axe.
* **Signal traversal**: After Six is kidnapped by the Thin Man, Mono is able to travel from one television to another. This would help him to traverse through the Pale City to reach the Signal Tower.
* **World bending**: Shortly after Mono defeats the Thin Man, he starts to bend and distort the buildings around him. With this supernatural power, he is able to move himself to the entrance of the Signal Tower without moving his legs (this could also be tied to Telekinesis).
* **Soul absorption:** If Mono explores the hidden places, he can find Glitching Remains which he can absorb which causes some flinching.
* **Time manipulation:** Unlike the other powers and abilities, this one was never shown with Mono and was actually shown by his future self, the Thin Man. The Thin Man has the ability to slow down time around him while remaining unaffected by this alteration himself, causing any people or objects in his environment to slow down. He also can use this power to fast-forward himself in time, giving him the illusion of teleporting despite actually just walking to his intended spot.

## Personality

Before the betrayal, Mono was a naturally protective, noble, confident, well-meaning boy who was willing to go out of his way to help others, shown when he risks his life to save Six 3 times even if she didn't do much for him. He is also cautious of his surroundings, and resourceful enough to use various objects to aid him, however, he has an apparent fear of being alone, as shown when he always holds Six's hand and calls out for her to come back when she leaves. Now ever since Six left him to rot his personality has changed greatly, because of the anger and sadness he felt plus the Transmission corrupting him, he's obsessed with not letting anyone leave him again and always worries that someone might betray him for a second time, this results in a clingy, obsessive, paranoid mess that hides behind his mask (i.e. his paper bag). He experiences frequent mood swings between anger, loneliness, delusion, etc.

Fortunately, he still has positive traits from his past, since he was only in the tower for weeks, instead of the years that are normally in the loop. His clinginess, although obsessive, still results in him being protective over his friends but unlike before, where he was protective because he wanted to make sure that his friend was safe, now it's pure fear of being alone. Even if there are embers of who he once was, someone needs to stoke them, and with the group Mono lives with, that isn't happening anytime soon.

## Appearance

Mono is a short and scrawny pale-skinned boy whose face is hidden by a torn light brown paper bag with two round eye holes that allow him to see. He wears a one buttoned worn-out khaki trench coat that reaches below his knees above a brownish-gray shirt tucked into his long brownish-gray pants rolled up at the end. His hands and feet are bare. Mono can also wear items like a key on the side of his coat.

Under the paper bag he wears, Mono has short, messy black hair that sticks out a little bit. It is later shown that without the bag, Mono has a fairly skinny and slightly more angular facial structure and dark eyes with crazed white irises.

## Behind the Scenes

Mono comes from "Little Nightmares 2" after a suspenseful opening. Throughout the game, you solve puzzles, run & hide from monsters, and figure out deep lore. Because of this, the game has been praised for this. Main artwork is uncredible as where it has come from has been deleted. However, the two other pieces of art are credited by Nekkon (ON HIATUS) on Twitter and by DragonessBlueFlame on ZeroChan. Little Nightmares 2 can be played on:

* PlayStation
* Xbox
* PC
* Nintendo Switch

## Trivia

* Mono is the first playable character in the Little Nightmares games series to actually speak, or at least utter a recognizable word.
* Mono is the first playable character in the franchise to not have his face hidden by shade, but rather by an object.
* Mono is the first child in the franchise to have his entire face visible at one point.
* Given his motif, it could be a reference to "monochrome television", also known as "black-and-white television", or like Six, Mono's name could also be based on a number, being the number one.
* The concept was inspired by this artwork done by Nekkon (ON HIATUS)
* He MAY have a grudge against Cannibal Six because of the betrayal.