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| “ | Misbehaviour will not be tolerated in The Teacher's classroom, and nothing escapes her cold, twisted gaze. In her domain, children should be seen and not heard, and if one should be heard, they will never be seen again. | „ |
| ~ Description of the Teacher on the Little Nightmares 2 website. |
| “ | An educator with an unusual ability to detect troublemakers. Her class is full of well-behaved children. | „ |
| ~ Description of the Teacher in concept art. |
The Teacher is a major antagonist in the 2021 indie horror video game Little Nightmares 2. She is the cruel head teacher of the Pale City's twisted elementary school where none of her students, even the porcelain Bullies, are safe from her wrath. Notably, the Teacher has the disturbing ability to extend her neck to enormous lengths to search for and catch her victims.
Her vocal effects were provided by Christian Vasselbring.
Characteristics[]
Displayed through her actions, the Teacher can be best described as a twisted portrayal of a cruel, short-tempered and authoritarian old-fashioned teacher. She always demands strict obedience from the Bullies and never tolerates "misbehavior", incorporating various methods of discipline against "troublemakers". She frequently menaces her Bullies in the middle of class for little to no reason by threatening them with her ruler or smacking their desks; ties troublemakers up while forcing them to draw on a chalkboard while they wear dunce caps; and is heavily implied to beat her own students, as she can be see repeatedly smacking something with her ruler just out of frame while Mono sneaks across wooden beams.
The fact that the Teacher applies discipline for petty reasons and never loses her smile may imply she has a sadistic streak, further proven by promotional descriptions of her character. In addition, evidence suggests that the Teacher is implicitly homicidal (mainly towards children who are not Bullies), as students who disobey her class rules are said to "never be seen again"; the chubby boy in the fourth chapter of the Digital Comic gets caught by the Teacher and faces an uncertain fate; and the Teacher's method of snatching Mono between her teeth is likely lethal. Despite clearly being a sinister educator, the Teacher has several talents reminiscent of ordinary life rarely seen within the distorted Pale City, as she tries to teach at the best of her ability, preparing biology presentations and can play the piano and write music.
Nevertheless, The Teacher is a highly aggressive foe who tries to capture or kill Mono in any efficient way she can, most commonly by stretching her neck out whenever Mono is out of her arm's reach and either uses her neck to lunge at Mono to bite him or will chase after him by extending her neck after him at an alarming pace. The Teacher is also very alert at all times, as she will investigate any noise made within her presence by, once again, extending her neck to view areas she otherwise cannot reach, forcing Mono to avoid getting her attention as much as possible while he sneaks through the School.
Furthermore, whenever Bullies are present, the Teacher will commander them to attack at will, should she spot Mono during the classroom segment. As with the rest of the monsters in the series, the Teacher never speaks and only vocalizes through a variety of noises, mainly raspy breathing, loud screams, shrieking and growling. In addition, the Teacher emits a hollow croaking noise with her throat whenever she stretches her neck out.
Appearance[]
The Teacher demonstrating her ability to extend her neck to search for Mono.
The Teacher is a very tall and slim elderly female humanoid with medium-long hair and a head that is disproportionately large to the rest of her body. She seems to have aged considerably, as her face possesses several wrinkles, baggy eyes and her hair is visibly graying. Her brown eyes are rather far apart and her mouth is always curled up in a sinister smile. The Teacher's attire is reminiscent of old-fashioned disciplinary teachers, which includes a beige button-up shirt, a leather belt around her waist, a gray skirt, black high heel shoes and she often carries around a ruler.
However, the Teacher's most striking physical trait is her mutated, serpentine neck which she can extend to highly grotesque lengths without any real limit to how far she can stretch it, as it is flexible enough to curl around multiple corners at any given time. Even without stretching her neck, the Teacher can also twist her head around at least 180 degrees so she can see directly behind her. It is never explained how her neck has turned out this way. Her skin also looks very dry and worn. It may seem like her skin may not be, this is speculated by some fans, actual skin, instead being porcelain or a mask, like the Twin Chefs from the first game.
Biography[]
Background[]
Nothing is known about the Teacher's past or how much the Signal Tower's transmissions have affected her physical appearance. However, she seems to run the Pale City's school entirely by herself and has maintained very strict rules for the porcelain students who run rampant there, known as the Bullies, who are rowdy, violent and mischievous. The Bullies are only ever calm when they are in the Teacher's presence, as she employs harsh discipline and punishments to troublemakers in her classes, which installs the Bullies with fear. At the School, the Teacher seems to teach a variety of classes, including classes of a vaguely academic nature; unethical biology classes, where she keeps a variety of harvested brains, organs, body parts and dead animals (such as frogs) prepared for dissection; and music classes, where she composes her own music while playing a piano.
Little Nightmares: Secrets of the Maw[]
The Teacher makes a cameo appearance in Little Nightmares' DLC campaign Secrets of the Maw, specifically in the third and final chapter "The Residence" where a portrait of her can be found in the Lady's living quarters. It is unknown how the Teacher is connected with the Lady and the Maw.
Digital Comic[]
The Teacher makes an appearance in the fourth chapter of the promotional digital comic book app for Little Nightmares 2. While a frightened, chubby boy fights his way through the Bullies at the School with nothing more than a lollipop, he is forced to hide inside a locker once he hears the Teacher's footsteps. The boy's attempt to hide is all in vain though, as the Teacher approaches the locker and dangles her head in front of the holes of the locker to peer straight inside to see the boy hiding. She opens the locker, where the cornered, helpless boy faces an uncertain fate at the hands of the Teacher.
Little Nightmares II[]
Mono sneaking through the Teacher's classroom.
When two children, Mono and Six, sneak into the School during their journey through the Pale City, a silhouette of the Teacher is seen illuminated in a dark hallway where she retracts her extended neck back to her body before disappearing. When Six is eventually kidnapped by a horde of Bullies, Mono is forced to sneak his way through the School to rescue her. He first comes across the Teacher in a classroom full of scared, obedient Bullies while the Teacher writes on the chalkboard and occasionally reads notes at her desk. Mono quietly sneaks under or behind the Bullies' desks whenever the Teacher writes on the chalkboard to reach a back room at the other end of the classroom, where he finds a key on top of a bookshelf.
Mono accidentally pulls the bookshelf over while trying to climb it, causing it to crash on the floor, alerting the Teacher. As Mono hides, the Teacher stretches her neck out to investigate the room, but is unable to find Mono and returns to the classroom shortly after. Mono grabs the key and sneaks his way back through the classroom while the Teacher menaces and disciplines the Bullies and unlocks a nearby elevator to the upper floors of the School.
The Teacher looking for Mono as he climbs across a bookshelf.
Mono reaches the wooden beams above a room where the Teacher is heard smacking something with a ruler, accidentally alerting the Teacher's presence when he knocks a few bottles into the room below. He makes his way across the beams while hiding from the Teacher as she extends her neck above until he reaches the library through a vent, where the Teacher enters shortly after him. The Teacher uses her neck to lunge at Mono on the other side of the library's bookshelves, but Mono manages to evade getting caught between her teeth. He then carefully climbs across a column of books, hiding on the opposite sides of them as the Teacher searches for him until she exits the library.
Deeper into the School, Mono comes across the Teacher in the School's lab where the Teacher is preparing for a science class, storing dead frogs, gathering tools for dissection, building a human anatomy model and making notes on the chalkboard. While the Teacher is working, Mono sneaks through the lab by hiding behind the jars of body parts throughout the room and enters the back room of the lab where he escapes through a vent.
The Teacher using her head to pursue Mono in a vent.
After Mono rescues Six from the Bullies, the two children encounter the Teacher one last time in the music room, where she is playing a piano and composing what she plays. While the Teacher is playing the piano, Mono is forced to sneak behind her to reach a crank that lowers a platform above, occasionally stopping whenever she stops playing to write down her notes. Sneaking back up, the lowered platform allows Mono and Six to jump over to a vent, but opening the vent door alerts the Teacher to the children's presence. As Mono and Six rush through the vent, the Teacher uses her neck to squeeze her head through the vent and slithers her head towards the two children, shrieking in her attempts to chomp them. The Teacher makes one last attempt to bite Mono at the end of the vent as the two children exit the school through a small window and hide in a dumpster.
Unable to find Mono and Six outside, the Teacher grunts in frustration and retracts her head back through the vent, allowing Mono and Six to escape the School and make their way to the Hospital. The Teacher is never seen again after this point. It is presumed she went back to teaching as she was before the two entered the school.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Teacher's theme is called "Captive Audience".
- The soundtrack for the Teacher's piano song is called "Etude for a Minor".
- The soundtrack that plays when the Teacher chases Mono and Six through the vent is called "Claustrophobia".
- The Teacher's ability to extend her neck is similar to how the Janitor from the first game can extend his long arms to either catch Six from far away or climb throughout the Maw.
- The Teacher's extendable, flexible neck possibly pays homage to the Rokurokubi, a yōkai from Japanese folklore where it is believed that it can extend its neck freely in an identical manner to the Teacher.
- The Teacher being able to twist her head around 180 degrees during the piano section may be a reference to the 1973 supernatural horror film The Exorcist.
- Similarly to the Twin Chefs in the first game, the Teacher is the only major antagonist in Little Nightmares 2 who survives the game's events.
- Concept art for Little Nightmares 2 reveals that the Teacher would have been accompanied by a lunch lady in the School before the character was cut. Instead, the lunch lady's dead body can be found in a secret room.
- The Teacher's science lessons seem to have an almost entirely negative impact on the Bullies, as they are shown to dissect frogs only for fun.
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