Needle

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Needle is one of the two protagonists of Sickly Sweet, the other being Peejay. He's a boy who during his first time in the Nowhere, finds himself in the Candy Factory.

Profile[]

Appearance[]

Needle is a short boy with frizzy ginger hair and black eyes. He wears a green shirt and cape, along with black pants and a wooden mask to cover his face. He wears string with two spool across his chest and holds a needle in his left hand.

Personality[]

Needle is a courageous, considerate, and caring boy. Needle has a big brother he looks up to and attempts to emulate his brother when figuring out his actions. As such, Needle isn't afraid to take the lead and take on a big brother role to help Peejay. Needle wants to make others feel safe and willing to change their path to make sure Peejay isn't scared, as seen as he chooses to not make her climb high heights.

He rides his successes high and is confident in his skills if he's proven to be able to overcome something he'd never otherwise try. While typically brave and confident, Needle is deeply afraid of bugs, to the point of curling up in fear when around them. Whenever Needle is scared or unsure, clutches his needle close to his body. Upon setbacks and failures, Needle is remorseful and will doubt himself, realizing he can't be like his big brother, but tries to make up for them and is determined to reach his goals with Peejay.

Story[]

Sickly Sweet[]

Needle's journey starts with him waking up in the Candy Factory with Peejay. The two notice that they're in a storage room, completely surrounded by darkness. All they can see are shelves, bumps and outlines of boxes. Looking off in the distance, they see the outline of a door. Needle cautiosly takes a step forward to see if he could make anything else out, constantly looking back to see if Peejay would see him. As he gets closer, all he can make out is a pile of junk. The two make their way in front of what appears to be a mound, soon realizing that it is two to three times their size. The two decide to continue their path by going through the sharper edges of the room. The two make it through, and soon hear a creek: the metal pieces the two just went through are starting to fall upon themselves. The two quickly realizes that the metal was one of the things holding the giant mound together, which starts to sway and tip. The two charge over to it and they move forward, as the tower luckily drops to the side, to the jagged area they just went through, making a loud noise. Because of this, Needle and Peejay start hearing the rumbling and skittering of the Candy Weevils. Scared of bugs, Needle is overwhelmed by fear. He clutches his needle and starts rocking back and forth. This is noticed by Peejay, who decides to take the lead. The boy starts chasing the bugs to no avail, which calms Needle down. Impressed by Peejay's bravery, Needle gets a hold of himself. He offers his hand to Peejay to make their way through the door, which he accepts. The two walk towards the door. They try to push it, but it's too heavy for the two. Running out of options, the two look at the top of the mound, finding a sphere of metal, a cart of sorts and a wooden plank. The tension gets Peejay, who starts tearing up a little, before being comforted by the boy, who uses his cape to wipe his tears. The two decide to go for the plank, which is at the foot of the mound. They grab the plank and dig it in the opposite side of the sphere. They climb up the end and with both their weight, push the sphere forward, which is powerful enough to make contact with the door and push it wide open. The sphere gets stuck between the door sill and the door, shaking, meaning the two kids have to make it to the door in time. As the two come dashing down to make their way to the door, they notice that the mound they were on, was made of candy all along, noticing various things in said mound, such as leaves and even a hand in it. The two run and pounce over the sphere as the door shuts.

The two kids, now past the storage room, the two make their way through what seems to be an assembly line. Soon enough, they see a member of the Herd asleep on his break, blocking their path to the exit to the room. As the kids come up with a plan to carry some boxes to reach the exit, the sleeping Herd starts to stir a little and looks around. While Needle succesfully hides under one of the boxes, but Peejay takes a moment to get on the same page and makes quick eye contact with the sleepily blinking Herd member, before hiding under the box as well. Because of this, the sleepy Herd member starts to feel like something weird is going on. After the two kids prepare a stack of candy to hide behind, Needle accidentaly falls, awakening the Herd member, who takes one stack of candy, leaving the kids with one less piece to hide with, forcing them to grab more from their supply. After they build a wall of candy boxes to completely hide from it, the Herd member, still sleepy but now in work mode, starts grabbing those boxes at random times, slowly growing more awake and noticing that the boxes are not where it left them. Needle and Peejay decide to stack up boxes of candy to form a tower to later drop it on the Herd member, but as they drop it on the resident, the Herd member hits a button that sets the whole factory on alert. As more Herd members come running, Needle and Peejay finally leave the room through the vent. Unfortunately for them, the Herd member now knows what Needle looks like.

Needle and Peejay find themselves navigating through the vents after escaping the Herd. In the vents, the two hear the skittering of the Candy Weevils again. Diving deeper they find a split path, where from one side, they could hear the chittering of the Candy Weevils, while from the other, they could hear the commotion caused by the Herd, which makes Needle feel remoreseful for his mistake. Peejay proposes to go through the side they could hear the Weevils from and Needle follows, determined to make up for the trouble he accidentally caused. As the two dive deeper in the vent, the chitter grows louder, as the two can hear what feel like groans and wales, before the vent slides open and the two fall down in the Tasting Room, where a member of the Herd is laying down, tasting candy.

The Weevils soon followed as they started pouring down in the room, where they were quickly noticed by the Herd. A member of the Herd then left and soon came back with a fumigation machine, a single purple puff of it killing a Weevil, flipping it over. Needle and Peejay now have to make their way out while avoiding all of the Weevils, the Herd and the poisonous gas. The two notice a window in the distance, which seems to be the other way out of the room. In an attempt to distract the Herd, Needle and Peejay throw a Weevil into the mouth of the eating Herd member, causing it to start twitching and choking and making two Herd members run out to find help, leaving only one Herd member searching for them. As the remaining Herd member continues its search, Needle and Peejay hide behind a column. The choking and convulsing Herd member then slowly rolls his head over the two kids. As he sees the two kids, it stops choking and tries to get his hands on them, being however restrained by the Tasting Room. The Herd member then tries his hand out, getting it stuck between one of the column holding the candies between him. As the two kids make their way to the metal chute, a Weevil twitches with its last strenghts, causing one of the kids to toss it onto the laying Herd member, causing it to start trashing about, knocking down the chutes. The two kids jump off as more Herd members enter the room, one holding a large plunger, now looking more worried about helping the formerly choking Herd member than finding Needle and Peejay. They start plunging on the front of the Herd member's mouth and as the two kids make it out the window, they hear a liquid, squelchy and mushy sound from the previous room, as the candy eaten by the Herd member vacates its body.

Moving onto the next room, the two kids find themselves in what seems to be an office, where the two are on filing cabinets. It isn't long before they see a face peering through the filing cabinets, looking for them, aware of their presence. The Supervisor is wielding a fly swatter, attempting to make contact with the kids. She successfully hits Needle, who starts doubting himself because of all his previous failures, thinking he can't be like his big brother. Luckily Peejay quickly rescues him, which is, however, short-lived. When the kids try to make a plan for their escape, the Supervisor lands another hit on Needle, causing him to fall a few sets of drawers in the cabinet. Luckily, the kid manages to pull himself up. The Herd then arrives to the Supervisor's office, helping her find the two. The kids find a bottle cap and decide to throw it on the other side of the room, distracting both the Supervisor and the Herd, who run to check if the noise could have been the kids, allowing them to make their way through the office to the other side of the room. As the Supervisor runs to check it out, she bumps into the Herd and falls back to the edge of a filing cabinet, which shakes and hits the filing cabinet needle, causing a slow domino effect. Peejay unintentionally makes a noise, getting the attention of the Supervisor, who swats down on him. Luckily Needle is quick to catch him. He rescues him, and the two dodge the Supervisor's fly swatter once more. The hit from the fly swatter tilts the cabinet that the two are on, causing it to shift to the one next to it. The kids make a lasso with a rope and a key, throw it to the top of the cabinet, and watch as it wraps around a typewriter. The Supervisor peeks over from the side and watches the two climb up. The kids pull off the typewriter, causing it to fall on the Supervisor's head. It doesn't knock her out; instead, she's finally getting her bearings. The Supervisor grips her fly swatter with intention as the kids make their final escape. While Needle confidently jumps and makes it to the window, he can't clearly see where Peejay could be. He doesn't understand if he made it or not. As Needle gets ready to leave the Factory, the last he ever hears of Peejay is the fly swatter smack against the wall after he misses the jump.

Needle makes his descent down the window, into what he thought would be his freedom. In the end, out of the Candy Factory, he realizes that he escaped it only to enter a world he did not know. Unable to celebrate, Needle remains stuck in the Nowhere.

Trivia[]

During the game/play, Needle was played by Damien Haas.
- At times, Damien and Abby Trott, who played Peejay, would give the characters voices, saying things such as ''Hide!'' or calling out eachother's names when the kids would be in danger.

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Video game characters

**Little Nightmares + Secrets of the Maw** Six • Nomes • The Hanging Man • Leeches • The Janitor • The Bread Giving Boy • Dark Six • The Shoe Monster • The Twin Chefs • The Guests • The Lady • The Runaway Kid • The Flashlight Girl • The Granny • Shadow Kids • Dr. No (pictured) • The Third Chef (removed) • The Wax Bellman (removed)

*Very Little Nightmares* The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat • Nomes • Six • The Kid with a Red Scarf • The Craftsman • The Butler • The Dump Monster • The Pretender

*Little Nightmares II* Mono • Six • The Hunter's Victims • Glitching Remains • Nome (DLC only) • The Hunter • The Teacher • The Bullies • The Lunch Lady • The Patients • Living Hands • The Doctor • The Viewers • The Thin Man • The Mail Recipient • Dark Six • Monster Six • Flesh Walls • The Television with an Eye (unused) • Spirit (unused) • The Baker (removed) • The Barber (removed) • The Principal (removed)

*Little Nightmares III* Low • Alone • The Dwellers • Nomes • Monster Baby • Beetles • The Herd • The Supervisor • Candy Weevils • The Puppets • The Kin • Mini-Kin • The Performing Child • The Ghosts • The Plants • The Nurses • The Hypnotist
Comic characters

Little Nightmares (2017) Six • The Twin Chefs • The Boy in Green • The Long-Haired Girl • The Refugee Boy • The Humpback Girl • The Bandaged Kid • Leeches • The Bread Giving Boy • The Guests • The Ferryman • The Janitor • The Lady • The Refugee Boy's Younger Sister • The Villagers • The North Wind • The Boy who got Tall • The Boy who got Forked • The Boy who got Strong • The Mirror Monster

Little Nightmares Comics (2021) Six • The Hunter • Mono • The Toddler • The Thin Man • The Girl with Braids • The Doctor • The Fat Kid • The Bullies • The Teacher • The Ghost Child • The Viewers • The Baker (cameo) • The Black Children • The Tall Figure
*Descent to Nowhere* Hush • Mono • Myra • Marion • The Jailer • Leeches • The Guard • The Baker (cameo) • The Prisoners • Chief Downes • Akedia • The Prison Nurses • The Cleaners • The Movers • The Chained Resident • The Ferryman • Nomes
Miscellaneous

*The Sounds of Nightmares* Noone • The Counsellor • The Candleman • Noone's Parents • The Workers • The Prisoners • The Tall Woman • The Child with Gooey Hair • Cici • The Bathers • Jester • The Merchants • The Shopping Mall • The Counsellor's Professor • The Performing Children (Rusty) • The Man in the Purple Suit • The Carnival People • The Dummy • Nomes • The Naughty Kids • The Balloon-Headed Man • The Puppet • The Perfect Lady • Ethan

*The Lonely Ones* Ruse • Feast • Mim • Ruse's Nanny • The Dough Giants • The Centipede • The Performer • The Puppets • The Ball Pit Monster

*Sickly Sweet* Needle • Peejay • Candy Weevils • The Herd • The Supervisor

Stop-Motion Project Emy • Hym • The Ferryman

Other Animals • Children • Unidentified Characters