Which Little Nightmares Fanfiction Features New Character Adventures?

Most I've seen are on AO3. You filter for 'Original Character(s)' and then just dive in. The quality varies wildly—some are just power fantasies, but others get the oppressive atmosphere of the games right. I got hooked on one called 'The Tune of the Maw' where the new kid was a musician, and their 'adventure' was navigating the Maw by sound, avoiding the Janitor's footsteps and the Guests' chewing. It was a clever use of the setting.

You also get a ton of 'what if' scenarios: what if a new runaway met Mono before the Signal Tower? What if someone from our world fell in? Those can feel repetitive, but the few that commit to the psychological deterioration, the slow loss of humanity, are worth sifting for. Don't expect polished novels; a lot are passion projects that capture a specific, creepy moment really well.

Okay, let me think about this for a second. The 'New Character Adventures' tag is pretty broad for 'Little Nightmares' stuff. A lot of fics just slot a new kid into the Maw or the Pale City and run with the established horrors, which is fun but not always super original. The ones that stick with me build a whole new logic for their character. There's a story I read ages ago, can't remember the title, where the OC was a 'lure'—a kid deliberately placed by the Viewers to draw others out. That flipped the usual dynamic.

Then you've got crossovers, which are basically adventures by definition. I read one where a character from 'Coraline' ended up in the Pale City; the tone actually meshed weirdly well. The author had to invent rules for how the Beldam's magic interacted with the Broadcast, which was more creative than most pure 'Six & Mono' rehashes. Platform-wise, I find the more experimental stuff on AO3, using tags like 'Original Child Character' or 'Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence'. The Wattpad ones tend to be more... straightforward self-inserts, which can be a mixed bag but sometimes hit a specific, nostalgic itch.

Honestly, my favorite part is when the new character's 'adventure' isn't about survival but about changing the ecosystem. There's a WIP where the OC is a failed, sympathetic monster, and the horror comes from them trying to protect Six while their own body betrays them. That's the good stuff.

Search AO3 with the 'Original Character(s)' tag plus 'Adventure' or 'Exploration'. There's a notable one called 'The Seventh Guest' that expands the Maw's hierarchy. Archive Of Our Own is definitely your main hub. Some writers on Tumblr and Quotev also do neat, shorter character studies that feel like lost snippets from the world. The focus is often on sensory detail over complex plotting, which fits the games.

I'm always a bit skeptical of OC-centric fics in established horror settings like this. Too often, the new character feels like an author's proxy, unnaturally clever or lucky, which defangs the world. The good ones, though, they understand that an adventure in the Nowhere isn't heroic—it's a process of erosion. The most memorable one for me featured a character who was blind. Their adventure was defined by touch and sound, navigating the Maw's ducts by feeling the rust and listening for the Lady's music. The horror wasn't in jump scares but in the constant, intimate wrongness of textures and whispers.

It’s less about big plot turns and more about those sustained, dreadful vignettes. I tend to avoid crossovers for this fandom; the tone is so specific that importing characters from brighter worlds usually breaks it. The exceptions are from other subtly grotesque universes, like 'Fran Bow' or 'Inside'. Finding those is rare, but when you do, it feels like uncovering a secret level the developers never coded.