Noone

**Ruth**, more commonly known as **Noone**, is the main protagonist of the audio-fiction series, *The Sounds of Nightmares*. After suffering from a series of horrible nightmares, her parents refer her to The Counsellor in an effort to cure her.

## Noone

The character featured in The Sounds Of Nightmares cover art is assumed to be Noone.

### Aliases

No One (by her former bullies)Patient #1229

Ruth (real name)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Amy Pursehouse (English)Elena Giménez (Spanish) Sarah Tkotsch (German) Clara Quilichini (French) Veronica Cuscusa (Italian)

### Appears in

The Sounds Of Nightmares

Noone lived a rather lonely and troubled life. With no friends and a timid nature, Noone had become the center of ridicule among her schoolmates, who would taunt her and nickname her "No one", a name they would additionally scribble in her books. After falling ill with the "Water Disease," Noone had begun to visit a doctor for her treatment, however, this doctor would conduct various procedures in order to treat her and better understand the sickness she suffered from. While at some point she was recommended to go on a short vacation, she had also become the primary subject to undergo treatment for a newly developed cure for the water sickness. News of the cure inevitably became the center of attention in the Counties, throwing her into the spotlight, appearing on television regularly. Her new fame gradually began to change her life drastically. Her television appearances resulted in her life being controlled by others, to the point that she could no longer choose her own clothing as the television employees made the decision of what she should wear. Her television appearances had additionally changed her reputation in school. The children who would bully her everyday, had now made attempts to suck up to her, ignoring their past misdeeds towards her. Although the Counties had begun to administer the cure to others, and had no record of reinfection, Noone felt the cure did not work for her as she could still feel something inside her body, but with no one to trust, she kept things to herself. Some time after she got sick and was administered the cure, Noone began to have terrible nightmares which resulted in her being admitted to the Counties Psychiatric Institute, where she was assigned to be treated by a counsellor named Otto.

## The Workers In The Walls

Noone meets with the Counsellor for the first time. Upon understanding that she is free to be truthful in the room, she opens up about her feelings and begins recounting her most recent nightmare in which she ventures through the Stone Giant, detailing how she was able to feel and smell things while journeying through it. After encountering a mysterious figure, the Workers, and the Prisoners, Noone befriended a child with gooey hair. Together, they were able to escape the Workers and make their way to a courtyard. After staring up at the circular walls of the building, Noone came to the realization that she was inside of a sort of mass-prison, filled with prisoners desperately trying to get free. Just as she came to this realization, she was confronted by the Tall Woman, the keeper of the Stone Giant, who took hold of Noone's friend with her chains. Just as she was about to capture Noone, she woke up. Noone admitted to the Counsellor that the Workers scared her the most because they were like microscopic organisms inside the Stone Giant, working to keep it alive. However, unlike the Stone Giant, the organisms hidden within her body were trying to kill her rather than help her, and only she knew that they were there. During the interview, she tried to make sense of the hidden image in a painting, which she eventually sees. The Counsellor revealed the name of the painting and the hidden image in the end. After calming her down, the Counsellor sent her to her room with a piece of candy.

## A Penance At The Bathhouse

During her second session with the Counsellor, Noone recounted her latest nightmare and how she was able to sense a real presence from all those she came across, including the environment itself. This nightmare was based in a seaside village where giant, bloated figures set off to cleanse themselves at a bathhouse. At the beginning of her dream, Noone befriended a young child named Jester. Soon after their meeting, Noone became aware of the presence of the Candleman, who distracted her from a Bathhouse Attendee kidnapping Jester. During her retelling, the Counsellor insisted that she put on a piece of machinery to activate a hypnosis-therapy to help her think back on the moment more clearly to better note details of the Candleman's description. After realizing that Jester was kidnapped, she set off to the Bathhouse to save him. Shortly after arriving, Noone demanded the machinery be taken off of her as it was bringing to become overwhelming. Once he did, she described how she spotted Jester being used as a bar of soap by one of the bathers. Unable to save him, she attempted to flee, but accidentally alerted the bathers to her presence. When the biggest tried to reach for her, she dumped a glass bottle of liquid onto his body, which melted him instantly. After concluding her retelling, she becomes upset upon Otto making the decision to conduct more research on her through experiments, starting with a nightly monitoring, but nonetheless agrees to them if it means she can feel better and return to her home. After receiving candy from Otto, she was sent to her room.

## The Theater Of The Mind

Before the recording of yesterdays session begins, Otto is heard recounting yesterdays events, explaining that Noone had vanished briefly in her bed last night while he was monitoring her sleeping. Once the recording of the recent session begins, Noone is heard entering the session room and asks Otto about a mysterious apparatus he had been working on. After sitting down, Noone states she now considers Otto a friend given all the time they have spent together talking. As Otto informs her their session will focus on her conducting an interview with herself to better recall details from her recent dream, she asks to borrow a mirror in the room to speak tp her onw reflection in order to set the tone of interviewing herself. Noone explains her latest nightmare, which took place in a shopping mall. While inside, she was guided through an array of various shops by a mysterious voice that came over the mall's intercom. In each of these stores, Noone felt a strange sense of déjà vu, as they all contained something she remembered form her childhood. Her final destination was a movie theater, where she had her third encounter with the Candleman.

Shortly after this encounter, she broke into the projector room, where she discovered a fleshy mass and a misshapen eye in place of the projector. Upon discovering all the voices she heard around the mall were from the eye, she comes to the realization that the entire mall was alive, reading her mind to manifest various items from her life and the things she wanted in order to entice her to stay with it. Although it begged her to stay, she fled. As the mall began to fall apart, she got one last glimpse of the Candleman reaching his hand out to her before she finally woke up. Near the end of the interview, she was focused on the mirror in front of her, where she noticed a soar behind her ear. As she began to recount how much her life has drastically changed for the worse, she panics, but she was quickly calmed down. After being calmed, she asks why she has these dreams, but Otto reveals no one knows, however, his old professor thought he did but believed they came from another world, his views were however, impossible to prove, hence unreliable and illogical. After receiving candy, Otto informs her he will arrive later to her room to begin the nightly monitoring as she sleeps, then sends her off to her room.

## Two Of A Kind

At the beginning of the story, the Counsellor took Noone to see the Reunion Room, where children that had been rehabilitated by the facility meet up with their families. After Noone receives a piece of cake, Otto reveals to her that she vanished from her bed last night. Although she is horrified and in disbelief that she had disappeared, she agrees to try and trust Otto's process if it means she to can feel better and one day join the children in the reunion room to finally exit the ward. Later, the Counsellor and Noone begin their session, he attaches numerous wires to her head and links them to the same machine that monitored her in her sleep. She began by telling of her arrival at The Carnival where she met a group of children, including a boy named Rusty. As the teenagers chatted, she looks around and finds herself mesmerized by the lights. The group then led her to a Ferris wheel where Rusty revealed that he wanted her to help him escape. During this, Noone reveals the Nowhere is physically real and tries to tell Otto what she knows about the other world, shocking Otto to a great extent. Once the carnivals show began, Rusty instructed her to give him a signal if she spotted a man in a purple suit. As the show went on, the man eventually appeared next to her and was alarmed to discover that her body reacted negatively to his presence. She also noticed a dummy sitting in his lap. She called out the signal, but he was unable to hear her. Just before she ended the retelling, she described seeing the Dummy lunge at Rusty. As she recounts Rusty's fate, she falls into a state of intense shock and panic, leaving her unresponsive to Otto's questions as she hyperventilates and passes out.

## A Deluge Of The Inevitable

During their next session, Otto gifts her a flower to remind her of his dedication to her wellbeing. Noone becomes frustrated, as she feels he does not care for her and only wants to use her to find Sisi. After a moment of arguing and disagreement, she reluctantly agrees tp proceed with the session. Otto lays himself down on a bed in his room to begin a new role reversal therapy, where she attempts to project her dream into his mind as she recounts her latest visit to the Nowhere. She describes floating through a darkness with nothing under her feet, as the darkness faded, she finds herself in a sewer where she was taunted by a group of mean children from above. As she journeyed through the sewer, she witnessed the Balloon-Headed Man and made friends with a small creature that she called a “Mushroom Fairy”. After the fairy leads her to the Balloon-Headed Man's room, they encountered him once more. This time he pursued them until she reached a dead end. The small creature fled from Noone, and just as she nearly escaped the Balloon-Headed Man, she was swept away by a large wave. It was then that she had another encounter with the Candleman, who she deduced was trying to keep her in the Nowhere to save her from her tormented life in the Counties and from Otto. After angering Otto and watching him step out of the room, she rummaged through his things and found test results that revealed that she had a tumor in her brain. Devastated that he hadn't revealed this to her despite the many times she had expressed sensing something was wrong, she finished her retelling and left with the candy in her hand.

That night, Otto attempted to use the Apparatus to look into the Nowhere by attaching it to her head. As the apparatus functions, she is heard struggling in her sleep. Although Otto was successful in obtaining an image, the apparatus malfunctions upon revealing the presence of an eye radiating an intense light through the screen. She disappears from the room not long after the apparatus malfunctions, causing Otto to cry out her name before the recording ends.

## The Lonely Way

It is revealed by Otto that Noone had reappeared in the wards south-wing court yard, but has now been under constant surveillance while confined to her room and has since then been uncooperative with him. Despite the mistrust and resentment she now has towards Otto, even more so upon discovering that he hid the fact that Sisi had also encountered the Ferryman, she is willing to agree to use the apparatus again if it means she can sleep in peace. The Counsellor links the Apparatus to both of their heads in order to link their brains and perform a mutual dreaming, so they may both access the Nowhere. As she ate the candies he provided her, she began to recount her latest nightmare, where she awoke in a clothing room. Rummaging through a chest filled with smaller clothing, she discovers a yellow raincoat which greatly alarmed Otto. In the room, she encountered a puppet, then later hid inside the same chest she opened to hide from a mannequin-like woman, who reopened the chest to begin sewing the torn clothing. Just before the woman was about to find her, she closed the chest and held the lid tight. In the session room, Noone inevitably falls fast asleep and finds herself in a dimension between the Nowhere and her world, a place she has been to before with the Ferryman. Here, she floated through a darkness, which she understands now was more of a dark mist. Looking around, she could see bright shinning stars. As she hears Otto tapping on the keyboard of the apparatus, she realizes she is in a state where she is both awake and asleep. While Otto continues to make preparations to join her, she notices a door in the distance of the darkness, inching closer and closer to her, alarming Otto as she has encountered the door to cross into Nowhere. Noone hears her own voice calling to her from the other side of the door, and as the door opens, she sees the Ferryman standing on the other side of the door, welcoming her. Despite Otto's warnings, she takes a step inside the door to look into the other side and is amazed to see a giant red moon with stars and rings circling around it. However, upon closer inspection, she realizes the moon is a giant eye, while the stars are also eyes of every shape and size imaginable. Noone notices the eyes are looking at her and knows they are pleased by what they see. She watches the image of the door change to show her an image of other children with blurry faces. The Ferryman welcomes her once again, referring to he by her real name, Ruth, and she ultimately accepts the invitation to enter the door and to stay in the Nowhere. As she watches the moon open, she sees smoky fingers inch closer to her. After her body disappears from the session room, she realizes she has not entered a new location in the Nowhere and is still the darkness, but does not feel any sense of panic or need to resist. After a moment of contemplation, she realizes "it" hides in the darkness. The door closes and Noone escapes from Otto.

## Safety At Last

Noone finds herself inside The Cabin of The Candleman. The Candleman explains to her that he knows people who will take good care of her, but she hesitates the offer, telling The Candleman that they might be like Otto, but The Candleman reassures her that they are nothing like that man who became from a nice, caring man, into a monster of his own. He opens a portal to another realm and tells Noone he’ll always watch over her for her safety. Before letting her go, The Candleman gives Noone some of his magic, saying that they’ll be at good use for her before letting her off.

### Meeting Jacklyn, SST and the gang and Meeting Mei Lee

After going through the portal with her new abilities, Noone finds herself inside of a sitting room, before hearing a conservation upstairs. She finds and meet Jacklyn for the first time, alongside her friends. Noone gets treated as the special one, making her feel cared again. The next day, her and Jacklyn go into a local library to find some interesting books. (they both enjoy reading books) While looking around, Noone spots a illustration, showing a girl bring attacked by bullies and bring verbally abused by adults. This picture triggered some horrible memories with Otto and her former bullies, causing her emotional distress. Noone runs off and hides while sobbing uncontrollably on the floor. A girl doing her homework notices her and walks up to her, with concern. After Noone explains her reason for sobbing, The girl felt sorry for her, saying that her mom (when she was young) cried because of attacking her the girl’s grandmother in a fit of rage. They sit with each other before the young girl introduces herself as Meilin Lee or Mei for short. Noone introduces herself as Ruth before saying that she rathers to be called “Noone”

A few days later, Mei introduces Noone to her boyfriend, Lord X. At first, Noone found it strange that a human and a humanoid hedgehog were in a relationship and asked about how come they’re both in gaged. Mei and X bring Noone outside the library and in an alleyway to explain to her.

Their relationship was caused by The Panda, a magical power that was granted by a wish made by The Lee’s oldest ancestor Sun Lee that could turn the processor into a giant Red Panda. When Mei first processed the Panda, the X on X’s chest started to glow and that they tried to hide it no matter what.

One night, Mei would go to a birthday party to show off the red panda. At this night, Mei and her friends realise that 4Town’s concert was on the night the ritual was gonna happen, and Mei started to freak out. This was when X showed up in the shadows with the X glowing on his chest, telling her that if gets rid of the panda, she’ll lose everything she loved. Mei listened to him because of how much she had and the memories with the panda.

Mei rushed to her concert and tried to look for the person who made her keep the panda. She couldn’t find him until she was back at where she was to let the Panda free. She came face to face with him sitting on a bamboo tree.

Mei and Lord X would meet and find out about their future. It looked grim due to Lord X not telling her of her true feelings. Mei didn’t care because she knew about Lord X whether if he was by himself or he was with his friends, she had eyes for him. Mei told him it would be ridiculous just to marry a pop-star from her favorite band. She is actually glad Lord X is here and spending time with her. Delighted, they would become friends.

After the explanation, Noone was happy that both of them becoming friends and that Mei kept a family gift. and so Lord X and Noone became best friends.

## Appearance

Considering *The Sounds Of Nightmares* is a podcast without visuals, Noone’s appearance is unknown. But we know that she wore a plaid dress upon arriving to The Counties Psychiatric Institute.

In the SST Universe, Noone is illustrated with fair skin, Ember eyes and Short, brown hair, style to look like a messy Bobcut. She dorns a white dress with grey accents and a grey collar, rolled up sleeves and the skirt covers her knees, long beige socks and white laceless shoes.

### Alpha Appearance

While Noone maintains some things from her current appearance, but with a few differences.

Noone’s hair is styled to look like some of grunge hairstyle that curves a bit at the end. Her sleeves are long sleeved without any accents, and Noone’s dress has no collar, showing her collarbone. She dorns blue socks with dark blue stripes and wears black boots.

## Personality

Noone is described as being a timid young girl. While she hesitates to talk about her condition at the start of the session, she quickly becomes more willing the more she understands the Counsellors room is a space to speak truthfully, revealing that she is comfortable with speaking her mind about herself and her life if given the chance, such as when she described her feeling of sadness when recounting how aphids devoured one of her flowers or her excitement when spotting a moth in The Counsellor's office. Noone appears to have an aversion to her past, as she is reluctant to speak more about her old home and family when asked, specifically in regards to her mother, she relented that she would rather not speak on them.

Noone has been shown to be intelligent, as seen when she is able to draw parallels between her nightmares and the pain that she feels in her life in the Counties. This is also demonstrated by her sophisticated analogies of the monsters she encounters in her nightmares and her ability to remember very specific details, such as words she didn't understand. She is also very keen to her surroundings, making sure that the Counsellor was always listening to her stories at times when she felt that he was too busy taking notes. She is also shown to be persistent, as seen in the first chapter when she did not give up on trying to determine the shape that she saw in a painting.

Noone has been shown to be somewhat paranoid, as she has stated several times that she believes the water sickness she suffered from is what is causing all of her recent nightmares. Regardless of being told the cure for the water sickness has wiped it out of her system, she knows the cure did not work as she can still feel something lingering within her body, crawling, pulling at her organs and giving her a terrible itch. Noone will occasionally fall into distress as she thinks about how her life has fallen into turmoil since falling ill with the water sickness. With no real answers as to why she is having such peculiar nightmares, Noone becomes desperate to find any logical reason that could help explain things, as the Counsellor continues to deny her seemingly illogical reasoning, such as her claims that the cure may be what is causing her nightmares, rather than the water sickness, as her life did not suffer a major change until she was chosen to be administered the cure and brought into the spotlight on television.

Noone is aware of the Counsellor's beloved Sisi and how she experienced similar nightmares as her. Although she is surprised to learn another person has had her experiences, the Counsellor refrains from telling her more. However, the longer they interact, the more she is able to piece things about Sisi on her own.

After meeting with the gang, Noone is a quietly kind child, and has a great relationship with Mei Lee, saying they feel more like sisters then friends.

## Friends

### Meilin Lee

Mei is a great friend with Noone. Their relationship became so large, that they called each other sisters, despite being unrelated. Mei is always there for Noone and always looking out for her, an example of this is when Noone starts to get into distress or starts to have a panic attack.

### Lord X

X always knows how to make things fun for Noone. When X plans to play a prank on someone, Noone joins in with him, and they manically laugh after the prank was played on.

### Esther

Noone is good buddies with Esther, but sometimes they would fight when Esther starts an argument. Despite that, Noone is good friends with Esther and would be a great team.

## Trivia

* Parallels that Noone drew from her retellings revealed details about her life.
	+ She was bullied at school and nicknamed "No-one" by her tormentors, who would often scribble her nickname into her books.
	+ Amidst the fame she received from appearing on television, the same children who bullied her had attempted to win her favor, disregarding their former treatment towards her.
	+ She appeared on television often as a result of being administered the newly developed cure to treat the water sickness. She would later hate appearing on television and disliked being controlled by the employees as she was not even allowed to select her own clothing.
	+ She wore a plaid dress upon arriving to the Counties Psychiatric Institute.
	+ She used to want a Lotty Potty doll, a doll designed to release a liquid to make it seem like it was using the toilet.
	+ Her favorite movie was "The Healing Horn"
* She loves bugs, nicknaming them "crawlies".
	+ She loves moths in particular as she is fascinated by their existence and way of life, such as how they are so easily drawn towards the light as if under a spell.
	+ While on vacation, she would collect moths in her mothers jars.
* Although she loves her mother, they do not similar interests.

* She dislikes any experiments done on her, particularly any that involve inserting things into her body. This dislike stemmed from the experiments she experienced from her former doctor, who would insert tubes into her stomach.
* Noone used to live in an apartment with mother and father that was next to a polluted stream. They have since have moved to a new fancier house.
* She started having nightmares some time after falling ill with the water sickness.
* Noone specifies a "Feeling" that tells her things and tells her what to do and where to go.
* In Chapter 3, The Theater Of The Mind, it’s heavily impiled that Noone is no more then ten as she was eligible for a gift for children ten and younger.
* Noone’s name in the French version is “Modie” A modified version of the French word Maudit/Maudite, meaning “cursed” in English.
* In other languages, her name is always a variant of “No one” or “Nobody”
* The artist of The Sounds Of Nightmares cover art posted four pieces of concept art, each showing a different version of Noone’s appearance. These concepts were now deleted, her reason for this is that she was “not allowed to show them.”
* In celebration for 1 million listens to *The Sounds of Nightmares, the Little Nightmares Twitter account posted an image of Otto's desk, which reveals Noone's patient number is 1229.*
* In the SST universe, Noone loves drawing, saying that drawing is basically just getting your thoughts or ideas out.
* Whenever Noone has a panic attack, Mei will try her best to calm her best friend.

* Both Mei and Noone do not like the idea of them both being shipped with each other, considering there’s a 4 year gap between them.
* People will wonder why Jacklyn would sometimes illustrate Noone in her current form but illustrates her hairstyle as her Alpha Appearance. This is because Noone’s Alpha Hairstyle is more easier to draw then her current form’s hairstyle and might be canon to the original story,
	+ Because of it, Jacklyn regrets changing Noone’s hairstyle.