
Bits of newspapers can also be seen scattered on the floor in The Maw's library while Six attempts to escape The Janitor, and are written in a Basalt font and format appropriate to newspapers of that time period. In the beginning of the first game, Six awakens in a suitcase where several black-and-white photos can be seen attached to the suitcase's inner lid, baring a heavy resemblance to black-and-white photos of the 1940s, before colored photos were invented.Additionally, The Maw's Guest Area is clearly based off a classic Japanese eatery, complete with sliding fusuma doors and tachiwaki-style wallpaper, and some of the Guests themselves can be seen donning masks which resembling yōkai, or spirits and demons from Japanese mythology.

Since The Maw is specifically stated to be a restaurant catering to insatiable appetites, this would indicate that The Lady has served as its hostess for quite some time. In the DLC "The Residence", it is confirmed that she is in fact an actual geisha, as portraits in her private quarters reveal that she was working as one when she was a normal human woman at some point prior to the events of the first game.

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This could be supported by several prominent elements featured in the series The Little Nightmares franchise (or at least the events of the first game) may take place in an alternate version of World War II Japan.
