"Little Nightmares The Butterfly Effect" Trilogy is a Little Nightmares fanfiction series written by the mad author Wendigo Studios, an author of many stories, based on the aforementioned video games. It stars Six, Mono, the Runaway Kid known as Seven by the author, the Girl In The Yellow Raincoat or rather Raine and the Pretender/Liz as the five protagonists of the story and their situation.
Around the children exists a cycle created by the Signal Tower in order to keep itself immortal that is based on the events in Very Little Nightmares, Little Nightmares II and the first Little Nightmares. Six and Mono are the biggest victims in this cycle as it leads to the loss of their loved ones, their innocence, their freedom mostly Mono, having to be a servant to the Signal Tower and Six a slave to her hunger curse while everyone around either dies or is broken beyond repair, and of course, each other.
Raine would crash land into the Nest, rescue the ones trapped within the mansion, outwit the monsters living there (Liz, the Craftsman and the Butler), team up with Six and attempt to escape the Nest. However, the Pretender foils this escape by chasing Raine down to the edge of the Nest’s cliff and launching both herself and the raincoat girl into the waters below even after Six drops a boulder on her.
Having lost her friend and having her heart broken, Six escapes the Nest alone on the raft she and Raine had set up for their escape, heading to the Pale City. Upon arriving, this starts the second phase of the cycle where Six would meet Mono and outwit the likes of the Teacher and her troublesome students, the Doctor and his horrifying Patients then the Thin Man and Tower before finally dropping Mono.
The third phase of the cycle begins when Six gets kidnapped by the Ferryman and taken to the Maw, run by the Lady, Six’s final hunger victim. There the girl in the raincoat meets five cloaked children by a fire, all with interesting stories of their own. Light kids found in the Lady’s quarters, the Maw’s employees like the Janitor, the Twin Chefs, the Wax Bellman, the Maw’s Guests and finally the Lady herself which doesn’t end well for her.
At the end of another cycle, Six sulks in the waters of the Nest on the raft she and Raine had set up, her emotions running wild as she wails about the loss of her loved ones. Meanwhile, Raine finishes her rescuing the other prisoners of the Nest, freeing them from the Pretender though her grief over not seeing Six, Mono or any of her family again surfaces but she isn’t deterred from her mission. In her mansion, Liz/the Pretender goes through her usual routine of having a tea party with her dolls, smashing one to bits, mourning her loss before chasing down Raine.
Far from the Nest, Mono sulks at the House, the House is silent but the grief, pain and fear the children felt when the fire appears, the Thin Man appears and kidnaps the other comrades of Mono and Mono has to escape. Traveling through the tv then meeting up with Six, his beloved, for their cursed adventure which leads to his downfall. However it seems like he isn’t alone, something seems to be wiggling beneath him. Far from the Pale City, Seven wanders the roads of a part of the Pale City that many have never seen before with six other children, fuming about his fate of being turned into a Nome and eaten alive more than anything else.
But the result will still end the same, however unknown to everyone, the flap of a wing, the smallest of changes, can cause the Signal Tower and the cycle to break.
It currently has two arcs written here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37399195/chapters/93330385
and https://archiveofourown.org/works/42264441/chapters/106121820. There’s also an audio narration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtARKHZM8A&list=PLpArXct20DNfr_hMYFj9jKWuixpWMpo3N and a Podcast series: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wendigo-studios-tales-of-darkness-and-insanity/id1656840645.
However, this fic isn’t for the faint of heart and there are tones of mature content, so reader/viewer description is advised.
"The Butterfly Effect" provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Raine as she manages to save Six and Liz from the hellstorm that threatens to topple their raft and survives a thunderstorm while in her balloon before she crashes into the Nest. Six as well as she appears to have learned many kung fu moves from the Wax Bellman, has a powerful curse on her and is very protective over Raine and Mono. Lastly the Lady, though she doesn't do much in terms of asskicking, she manages to herd the children aboard the Maw into a safe room before she, Wax Bellman and the hooded children managed to get the Maw completely submerged.
- Action Mom: Seen above, the Lady is the mother of Raine and Mono and acts as a mother figure to the other orphans on the Maw. Though she doesn't do much asskicking yet, she manages to stay calm enough to herd the children into a safe storm room then submerge the Maw underwater before the storm could topple it.
- Adaptational Badass: Raine, Mono and Six go from being helpless children to badasses, Mono becoming stronger with his powers and his mysterious companions. Raine and Six especially, the former having trained in the Maw to gain hold of her shadows and the latter training in martial arts.
- Adaptational Heroism: The adults of LN get this in response to a part of the cycle being broken. The Wax Bellman and Lady almost up to eleven as they struggle to get every last child on the mainland of the Pale City and the Nest. Six also gets this treatment as she’s more regretful of her actions eg: dropping Mono and assists Raine in rescuing the children still trapped in the Nest as mentioned at the beginning of the story. The Maw gets this too as its called the last safe place for the children of the LN universe.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Six is becomes this in this fanfic mostly to Raine and Mono due to their kind treatment of her. The Twin Chefs also as given their interactions with the Bread Kid and expressing concern for his well-being when he starts showing signs of a panic attack. Wax Bellman also, being a decent father figure to the Lady and acting as a decent boss to the hooded children. Roger as shown in the Wilderness arc to the Nomes when they get scared by him.
- Adaptational Protagonist: The other adults all ascend to this role the second they hear word of Raine and the Pretender surviving the fall from Nest's cliff. The Wax Bellman, a cut character from the first game, gets a major role as not only the Maw's bellman but also the Lady's caretaker. Similarly, the hooded children Six meets by the fire in the Maw also gets this treatment, becoming heroes of their own story moreso in the Wilderness Arc. Similarly, Lez who was one of the main antagonists in The Seven Year Nightmare gets reverted to a protagonist role thanks to the cycle and Mono.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Seven slightly in the fifth chapter when it comes to his fate into a Nome understandably. Nightlight moreso in the second arc after Seven's disappearance. Stub briefly in the Wilderness arc.
- Age Lift: All characters have aged by three years within the cycle, example: Six is now twelve instead of nine.
- Advancing Wall of Doom: The giant wave that swallows Raine's raft in the seventh chapter.
- A God Am I: The Signal Tower is implied to be one in the first chapter.
- Badass Driver: Raine, even though her ride is a busted raft she, Liz and Six are on.
- Barefoot Captive: Six, Mono, Seven, Raine, the Scarf Kid and later, Liz.
- Big Bad: The Signal Tower in this story as it's responsible for all the strange happenings in the Pale City, Maw and Nest, the adult transformations, child murders and of course, the cycle.
- Big "SHUT UP!": Though Raine doesn’t say those words exactly, Raine still tells Liz/the Pretender to shut up when they’re in the wilderness, given who’s out there with them, this reaction is understandable.
- Body Horror: Of course, the adults are terribly deformed from the Signal Tower's corruptions.
- The Cameo: Characters from other LN writers make their appearance in the Butterfly Effect universe, most notably Lez, Alle, the Brothers then later Greeney and his girlfriend not Jess from The Seven Year Nightmare by Fervidlizard 32. In the audio drama, we see Merv and Jess in the house scene where the storm is ripping apart the cabin and later T shows up on Scarf Kid’s raft.
- Crapsack World: The Maw, Nest and Pale City are all deathtraps with monsters roaming every corner, preying on the vulnerable children if they're not careful to run or hide. The Signal Tower is revealed to be the root cause of this with the use of it's boardcast and the Thin Man, the Lady's husband and Mono and Raine's father.
- Come with Me If You Want to Live: Raine to the Pretender when the storm picks up into it's next stage.
- Death of a Child: Raine, Liz and Seven die multiple times in the cycles before the story starts. Seven suffers the worst as he gets eaten alive by Six like in canon till Tempting Choice. In the first chapter of the first arc, it is implied that Six and some of the children had attempted suicide.
- Dream Within a Dream: The Signal Tower's cycle is possibly this as the kids trapped within can't seem to die.
- Escape from the Crazy Place: Six, Raine and the other children trapped inside the Nest as per usual, however unlike the previous cycles where only Six escapes, her, Raine and the other children managed to escape with the Pretender in tow thanks to the hellstorm the ember butterfly and the North Wind created.
- Eldritch Location: The Nest, Maw and Pale City are this because of the tower.
- Oh, Crap!: The Thin Man’s reaction to the Signal Tower’s endgame, understandably so.
- Living Ship: Averted with the Maw which is the only safe place for children.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Mono and Six become the Lady and Thin Man's successors respectively at the end of their parts of the cycle with Mono taking the place as the Signal Tower's battery and Six either becoming the new Lady, escaping the Maw or offing herself. Till Six spares the Lady in one part and Mono spares the Thin Man in another as implied in the Wilderness Arc.
