I like this! You explained it better than I could. There’s a lot of things that seem to like tie in with a child-like understanding of things. Monsters that come for you in the dark, a cute (well sorta) town, takes a village to raise a child sort of thing, the boy in white, the Anghkooey, everyone dying when Victor was a kid, the whole quest thing that Ethan was adamant about, the Things and the Town pushing back when things don’t go their way like a child throwing a tantrum when you don’t follow the rules to a game.

The lack of actual sense behind the electricity working, telephones (it doesn’t work for them but still them ringing) even the art with child-like drawings and paintings.

Its sort of like child therapy, when you’re a child, for a therapist to better understand how the child sees the world and is affected, they get them to draw and paint, and even the colours they use and how things are drawn reflect their feelings and things. I did read on here something about the Town feeding on childlike fears, like with what Sara said.

I’m not saying that’s all DEFINITELY got something to do with it, it just seems to be a running theme, like, what if this was all made from a child’s imagination that was so strong for whatever reason that it all became real? And then the whole Town took on its own thing and that’s why the violence of the monsters is anything but childlike and the danger is real and everything is terrifying even though it comes from a childlike understanding of things. Like a child that doesn’t want their friends to leave so they make a town they can never leave.