#Rusty little nightmares

[randybutternubber]

What’s everyone’s opinions on Rusty? I’ve been thinking abt this for a while- I’m super curious because on one hand he can be read as a helpful character but on the on the other he could also be interpreted as either a really big dumbass or semi-malicious out of desperation

What was the plan for noone after they escaped- were they gonna save her or like…? And also I can’t help but think that convincing her to scream BIG TOP over and over could have been a way to distract the dummy and the man in the purple suit rather than warn him of their presence.

Rusty also gives noone the “best seat in the house” which makes me wonder if he placed her in an area where he knew the dummy and his purple idiot husband would appear. It was by such short notice too- did noone just happen to show up at just the right time for them to incorporate her into their plan?

On the other hand though, I think it’s totally possible that Rusty did think someone was going to save noone or thought she could get away, or maybe he straight up didn’t think at all because he has a ball of mush for a brain.

It’s all such an interesting situation because noone could very well be an unreliable narrator.

I think something a lot of people forget is that the reason why noone felt so attached to Rusty was most likely because she also knew the trauma of being “put under the spotlight” just as she was because of her being cured from whatever water sickness is.

Was she blinded by that sort of trauma linked kinship and the dazzling spectacle of the funfair? Or maybe Rusty just has brain damage because the dummy dropped him as a child and then stomped on him until he was a little ginger stain on the ground.

My personal interpretation is that Rusty didn’t intend to use noone as bait, but in his desperation to escape, he basically convinced himself that she would be fine and that they would be able to save her. Alternatively he was so desperate to escape that he was willing to do it at any cost, including that of another. It seems like Rusty wasn’t just going to escape the funfair either but rather “ this whole rotten world”

Ln 3 also mentions something about “a fate worse than death” and we know that Rusty is a teenager- perhaps his desperation to leave was because he was terrified to become an adult or something

And then he got curbstomped by a coked up puppet

Anyways rip Rusty I’ll design you soon and I am so sorry for giving you incredibly depressing lore (if you know you know)

[psychopacifist-rm]

Oh hell, omg, lemme introduce myself!

[cynthiadasorceress]

I'm making a M.A.P.!! (Hopefully...)

It's not open yet, as I'm still figuring out character designs, and more importantly, the song. It'll be an animation about Rusty from The Sounds Of Nightmares (my boy doesn't get enough attention T^T) to either Circus of the Dead or Carousel.

When I am ready for participants, I'll post links to the Discord, Google Doc, and any other resources for the project, along with putting a video on YouTube. So keep an eye out if you're interested!

[haedal-jeong]

My favorite characters & My original characters

[cl0wnwormzz]

Hey! I'm going to start writing headcanons and maybe oneshots

Ok so, I got the notification that my blog turned 3 years old on September 17th, and I've never really written anything lmao 😭 I wanted to start writing canon x reader to entertain myself and maybe revive some fandom. Btw sorry if my English sucks, it’s not my first language Here are the things I'm going to write about:

spider-verse splatoon sweet tooth (netflix show) slashers (jason, bubba, vincent sinclair, hannibal, predator, charles lee ray, billy lenz and maybe more) Sally face She-ra Dorohedoro Rusty lake FNAF security breach MHA Sky cotl Cookie run kingdom Error143 John doe Gravity falls Fran bow Little nightmares (i just write platonic stuff for the kids) Undertale The legend of aang/korra Adventure time Kipo Hilda Detroit: Become Human Playdead Inside

EDIT

Here are more fandoms!

The hollow (netflix show)

Gorillaz

Pigpen (webtoon) plz do request for minu fics

Don’t hug me, i’m scared

Salad fingers

Over the garden wall (the beast 😻)

Invader zim

Mandela catalogue

Stardew valley

Little misfortune (for morgo ofc, and for misfortune in a not romantic way)

You can ask me to write stuff about any character from any of those fandoms! By the way, I'm feeling more comfortable writing headcanons, I'm not that good with one-shots but I'll try to do them too 🩷

THINGS THAT I CAN DO:

Canon x reader

Headcanons

Oneshots (but i’m really bad at then lmao)

Fluff

Angst (but it will probably end with a happy ending, I'm a crybaby)

Smut headcanons

Comfort stuff

LGTB/Queer reader or character!

Autistic reader, we NEED more of those

THINGS THAT I CAN’T WRITE:

Canon x canon

Canon x oc. Sorry, I'm afraid of reflecting badly on your oc lmao

Non-con

Big age cap

I will not write nsfw for child characters like gus from sweet tooth or fran from franbow. If you like that stuff go to therapy pls 🩷

Any weird fetish involving bodily fluids 😭

Yandere stuff

This isn't something I don't do, but writing a fem reader isn't my favorite thing (obviously I'll do it if someone asks for a fem reader) so don't be surprised if almost every post I make has a gn reader!

Well, I think it's already clear what kind of things I will NOT write, so I'm not going to put anything else so as not to make this too long lmao

Well, that's all! Please make a request, I need something to do 😭

[prof-ramses]

The Sounds of Nightmares episode 4 analysis: Head in The Clouds

HOLY FUCK, ACTULLY HOLY FUCK, BEST EPISODE ,BEST EPISODE

Forgive me, now that I've disposed of the build up of hype, we can sort this into two parts, what this means for TSON and for LN3

The young blood:

Given this is our first exposure to teens in Nowhere, and Noone's comments about them "being there for a long time" we can safely say they've at least partially turned into residents, especially with how they're being conditioned to only see themselves as their given roles.

Considering the series is implied to be the earliest point in the timeline so far, I'm wondering if we might see the magician and fire breathers as adults when LN3 launches, though I'm highly doubtful we'll be seeing Rusty alive.

A place of joy in the sky:

The idea that the Circus is an airship is definitely one I didn't consider before, but makes it's similarities to the Maw much more interesting.

On a side note, Noone describing the Fairgoers as having faces like bad drawings lines up with the lumpy looks of their faces we see in the trailer, further proving it's the same places.

Double act:

Now on to who I'm sure would be delighted to be called the main attraction, the Ventriloquist(s?)!

No two ways about it, they are HORRIFYING, and line up great with Tarsier's old philosophy of making Residents look like grisly version of childish misunderstandings of what they represent.

Gameplay-wise I have a suspicion one may function like an alarm, alerting the other of our presence, though I may be completely off on that. From a lore perspective, it feels very LN-like to not clarify if they actually run the Circus or not.

The (not quite) best boy:

Rusty was a pretty great companion to Noone in this trip to Nowhere, he seems to be the most capable kids she's met so far (no offence, episode 1 kid who's probably RK). His confession of fear and hate in the ferris wheel might imply he was closer to becoming a resident than the other kids we've met so far.

The absent local:

Our slightly blobby old friend not appearing was a slight surprise, though he's certainly there in spirit, it helps that he's all but confirmed to actually hail from Nowhere, further solidifying my theories regarding him.

Noone's allegory:

Noone describing the Nowhere as a place with many connected but individual places with unique functions confirms, at least to me, that there is no central force controlling literally everything, rather, there are forces that drift from region to region, upkeeping the nature of the world as a whole-

A few notes:

Since every episode has a different color for the background, I'll go out on a limb and say the finale will be yellow, for fairly obvious reasons, leaving green as the most likely color for episode five.

The idea of fleeing the Circus (in chapter FOUR) reminds me of @queen0fm0nsterz idea that one of the cancelled LN1 comics would be about escaping a facility, and that it would parallel the FOURTH Lady, might be nothing, or it might be a sign we should revisit past episodes with the Ladies in mind.

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Yet another kid takes a fat L in TSON 😔

Rip rusty, you would have fucking hated Ronald McDonald

HELP?

[grim-faux]

a massive headache of an analysis of two very terrible people in my projected ideas and observations

I mentioned this on the discord that I think that the fandom is coddling Noone a bit too much. but hear me out before you "she's just a child, you monster. She was subjected to emotional abuse and Otto is a terrible guy for being a doctor and a trusted adult in her life."

That's all valid. but one thing we should ALL REMEMBER is that the children who are approached or ensnared by the Ferry/Candleman, are not targeted because of the "sordid and sympathetic story of bullying and internalized trauma". Under my observations, I would say the Ferry/Candleman pursues children that are vulnerable and easily manipulated. And of course he's not monitoring these children for any specifics or potential, his role is to catch kids and drag them to the Maw. For profit.

And I wanna sympathize with Otto - very carefully - cause this man is a mess. He's terrible, he's a jerk, he loses control over himself over a >10 child call out on his toxicity. AND HE SHOULD HAVE APPROACHED THE SITUATION DIFFERENTLY, WHICH WOULD HAVE MAYBE SAVED NOONE FROM THE FERRY/CANDLEMAN AND THE NOWHERE.

And I would wager that this last betrayal and abandonment by Cece2.0 tossed Otto the edge of all moral practice. Otto was a horrible guy, he betrayed his patient and Noone's trust - but all of that was not done for himself per say; he didn't throw Noone to the Candle/Ferryman for glory, for discovery, for personal promotion. He was doing this out of his childish desperation to find or at the very least see his sister. Yes, that is absolutely selfish, yes he hurt someone along the way, and he will continue to hurt other kids on his journey to finding Cece.

But Noone also isn't completely blameless. She is of course a child, she is a flawed, sad, and a broken child. Of course when someone said to her, "escape the pain and awful world you live," she leapt at this opportunity, no questions. No thoughts, head empty. But Noone is far from innocent, and she will not stay that way when she goes native to the Nowhere-ville.

Over the course of the podcasts, we see evidence that Noone- among the children she encounters - adapt to this hostile world. Children actively ignore Noone when she calls to them (see Ref noisy children die), others are swift to abandon her when the terrors find them kiddies. And Noone herself begins to react and fight at the hostilities in her environment - this proven in Chapter 5, when a girl tried to take the nome (see Ref mushroom fairy), she threw A FUCKING BRICK AT HER ARM. And especially in Chapter 6, she slammed a bottle over the marionette pinned to the table, killing it probably. Subjected to the Nowhere and the violence there, children either adapt and defend themselves, abandon others - or they die.

And my Discord did have a big analytical study and discussion over Rusty - the trapeze boy from the circus. Rusty was an interesting character, not only because he was a teen - probably inhabited Nowhere for a long time - but he was hinted to knowing a way out of Nowhere. This latter factor, I doubt - I do not think Rusty had any real knowledge of how to escape Nowhere, and all he wanted at the end of the day was escape the circus. We choose to ignore the giant pillars stretching to the ceiling not important no siree. That's the best case scenario. But Rusty and his group suggested one of two things (or all of these things). Kids left to Nowhere REALLY REGRET THAT DECISION EVENTUALLY (maybe you get older and realize how much of a dumb brat younger you was). Or, and also, Rusty was not there because of the Candle/Ferryman guiding him to Nowhere. Otherwise, Rusty would be property of the Maw, since Ferry/Candleman gives not two ceramic dolls who has a kid or what entity wants a kid - Ferry/Candleman will escort that child to MawcDonalds.

So Rusty and his trope came to the Nowhere on their own accord - either through a liminal space or other mysterious and obscure portal people should really avoid in the normal world. And they did not know really how to find their way back to the world they lost.

The last problematic matter of Rusty, is he is sus, like a lot of characters of the Little Nightmares world. He's invested in his survival and happiness and safety. So when he and the group are presented with Noone, they jump at this opportunity. It's not crazy to think Rusty was very invested in getting himself away, and ditch anyone else along the way. Case in point when he suggested Noone to be the lookout (wink-wink, nudge-nudge, teehee), "for the man in the purple suit." Noone later realizes she has no idea what the real plan for escape is, aside from alert Rusty that the man in the purple suit is there. She's told only to signal Rusty nonverbally, but she decided to scream at the teen "big top", which he thinks is a good idea. Yes, of course he would. And apparently whatever happened to Rusty was so horrific, it locked Noone in a panic attack. Which is terrible, since it is most probable Rusty and his group only needed Noone there to draw the attention of the man in the purple suit, use her as bait - but that didn't work out. F for Rusty, you big L.

These incidents with the children - of being exploited and bullied, not just in the Nowhere but from her world, drives Noone closer to the edge of the metaphorical doorway. And Otto exasperated the condition by pushing her closer to the threshold of commitment, all to seek a hint that Cece was still there and he might find her. But it was also Noone who took the plunge, despite Otto beseeching her to wait for him - this is the moth to the light, flying closer to that which is enticing and promises comfort, only to be snuffed out when the moth reached the flame.

One of the running themes of Little Nightmares is that of children succumbing to a fate or falling into the same cycle of torment, they are fighting to avoid. For Six, she becomes the next proprietor of the Maw, unable to leave - only so she can survive. With Mono, we follow him through his struggle to find and free his friend from the Tower, only to get thrown aside and abandoned; then he becomes the thing that he fled from, and eventually destroyed - the Broadcaster of the Tower. The children of Nowhere are not escaping a terrible world for another terrible world, they are accepting of the violence and malice that shaped who they are, and turn that back onto the world that inflicted it - perpetuating the trauma which forged them. There are no happy endings of Little Nightmares, only acceptance.

Otto succumbs to that fate as well. He doesn't seek to help Noone so much as he sought to fulfil his own selfish needs. Noone did not wait for Otto to confront the Ferry/Candleman, or wait for him to turn the Candle/Ferryman away - she took the hand offered and abandoned Otto. Which, in turn, leads to Otto's descent into his tragic villain arch. To be clear, Noone isn't responsible for this adult man who should know better, Otto is far from her responsibility. But this mindset may have been what drove Cece from her lil brother Otto - a clingy child she wanted nothing to do with. And ill reiterate, Noone was not responsible for Otto or his actions, as he was the one who swore to help her, he was the doctor and the figure of authority in her life - Otto was supposed to come to her aid.

But when Otto was at his most vulnerable and had no power over Noone any longer, and he begged her to wait. She did not. As with all monsters of the Nowhere, when the child has the upper-hand or has discovered a clever trap, the child dispatches their tormentor.

As equally as she despises Otto, she favored the Ferry/Candleman for the lies he gave her. For the truth he wove amongst the promises.

Though we can dissect Noone's character and grasp what led to her actions, her story is not one of triumph or escape - it is of acceptance and defeat. She does not overcome a great adversary, she submited to the conditions of the world that created the monsters she hated. Her story has only begun in terms of the Nowhere, and it is far from over. She is not journeying through the Nowhere to reach some enlightenment or to become stronger than the shadows that will chase her, or overcome the hazards that await her. Noone becomes another cog in the machine which keeps the Nowhere and its inhabitants gleeful and fulfilled.

It is fair and fine to sympathize with Noone and her fate, she is a child and a victim to all that was set upon her - left with no protectors or sympathizers. And she fell prey to a master manipulator, as did Otto. in this story, the only one who claims success is the Candle/Ferryman, who orchestrated the whole thing.

[via-rant]

Listening to the sounds of nightmares, on Chapter 5. Otto's a bitch. I wanna adopt Noone. My God I wanna adopt all of these kids bro. Jester! Rusty!!

[kitzu99]

AAYYYYOOOO CHAPTER 4!!? 👀👀👀

[randybutternubber]

The dummy making biscuits like a cat on Rusty’s dead and horrifically mutilated body

[somebody392]

hey! if someone has a lot of free time or is bored to death, maybe let's chat? we can also ramble about tagged fandoms! like this post and i will write to you or you could text me yourself!

(i can speak a little german.)

[columbocorners]

he got small'd

[eyeballsoup7310]

Christmas art project: complete. This was one of my first real attempts at drawing a big scene— could be better but I still like it.

Artist’s notes: I didn’t include all the details I meant to in my sketch and as such it’s missing a lot of what I wanted to add, but I spent too long on the colouring for me to bother going back in and adding them. Most of these people were drawn without reference so that’s why they look funky. I don’t know why I decided to draw half the characters in a completely different style than the others, but again, I don’t feel like fixing it. Yes the scaling of everything is garbage. Also if you mention the window characters’ anatomy you’re transphobic actually /j

Will give notes about who each character is if prompted to. Don’t repost etc etc. And happy holidays to everyone with a holiday around this time

[haedal-jeong]

Halloween LN & RL

1 - Vampire & Jack-o'-lantern 2 - Gumiho & Mangtae hal-abeoji 3 - Witch & Werewolf 4 - Jihayeojanggun & Dokkaebi

[cypaira-the-skeleton]

Twenty-second page!

Captions for the first two panels.

First panel on the left:

(BFG) Father❤️: DO NOT Hesitate to fight back! If I find out they've hurt you I'll make sure to make them regret it!

Me (Raven): Don't worry dad, I'll just talk, cut ties with them, and be home soon. I promise

(BFG) Father❤️: Call me if anything happens...I love you❤️

Me (Raven): Love you too ❤️❤️

Second panel on the right:

*On the group chat*

Raven (Me): Can we meet up? *Last seen at 2:30pm*

Raven (Me): Guys it's important! *Last seen at 3:10pm*

Raven (Me): We REALLY need to talk! Can anyone respond for once?? *Read at 4pm*

Jacob: Okay fine!🙄 Buy you have a to meet us at the 'Dead end tunnel'! We've got something important to do so show up!

Raven (Me): K

AHEM!

Oh look! Raven's soon to be ex-friends are back!😃

Weeks after the incident Raven had finally decided to cut those toxic friends out of her life once and for all. Strangely enough, after being ignored multiple times on chat, Jacob and the others were willing to meet up with her. Something's not right 🤔

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