Cinderella's Mice Are Traumatized (Dimension 20 Animated) 

the comedy of this bit is just too on point. We all thought they were humans trapped as rats, but no. They were rats traumatized from being humans.

I'm so glad that helping Cinderella wasn't the terrifying bit. It was the fairy Godmother.

"You're 118? You look great!" 😀 Actually, that would be unimaginably ancient to a house mouse. She'd be like one of the Elders of the Universe.

The cosmic horror of being turned into a willing servant

This is actual cosmic horror. Peering beyond the veil to an existence beyond comprehension of the mind, only to be returned to the form and thought you had with the vast and terrible knowledge that is beyond your comprehension. Neat, now make the spider into a tailor!

This reminds me of that one way to explain cosmic horror - the ant that isnt driven mad by the shapes of the computer, but by having understood it for a minute long, and now can't re-understand it but also can't go back to being a normal ant

I completely sympathise with the trauma of living as a human.

I love how this made me realize the underlying cosmic horror of having your consciousness elevated, and then dropped - but you remember things your mind can no longer fully comprehend

"I cast detect thoughts." "You hear the endless screaming in existential horror from a bucket in the closet."

That rat has learned to recognize Fairytale Princesses. A good skill to have.

I really love that he takes a moment to clarify that Cinderella isn't at fault here and they actually like her. It's that sort of silly goodness that really gives heart to these games.

One of my favorite text posts: "An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness. Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does. It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then… It’s an ant again. Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters. This is madness."

I adore the fairytale book in the background during the mouse's exposition.

Proof that the fairy godmother are villians to everyone but the heroine.

"But I'm a MOUSE and He's really a bucket!" THIS broke me! 🤣

Props to Melina, this is amazingly animated!

"I was a man talking to a man. But i was really a mouse and he was a really a BUCKET!" Destroyed me lmaoooo

A few of the Discworld books get into this kind of thing, and how it definitely is torture. Putting one mind into another body and guiding it towards what you want, then tossing it back to normal, especially if it was a mind that was never equipped to handle that view of a larger world, deserves every bit of drama on display in this scene.

I love the detail of the Stepmother’s face being blurred

"I'm actually 118!" "You're 118?!? Great!" Had me smirking

This goes from horrifying to oddly wholesome at the end. With the "your hundred and eighteen?! You look great!"

The flesh morphing in 1:03 really sells the cosmic horror

brennan's voice work is truly something else.

I like how this is a bit of a callback to older myths about how mischievous and even outright evil fairies can be.

There's nothing quite as unsettling as "She made us want to be good servants!"

"We can't go back to the way things were. We're no longer ordinary rats. *We know too much.*" - Nicodemus

I do low key love how much this part made you think how really scary it was in hindsight for all parties except for the fairy godmother and how less cutsie it is compared to what we all originally learned

Same energy as “She turned me into a newt!” “A newt?” “…I got better.”

i love this because its basically what Lovecraftian horror is suppose to be. A being is transported or gazes upon a higher entity/realm and for a moment sees and understands things it was never meant to see or understand and then everything goes back to normal but they still remember and it drives them mad.

"IT WAS A WHOLE FOUR AND A HALF HOURS IT WAS!" Something so mundane both terrifying and yet hilarious.

Honestly, a REEEEEALLY good animation, kudos to the person who did this one 🎉

"But I'm a mouse and he's actually a bucket!" That line was amazing.

Ha "Gilear's Yogurt". Even in another universe Gilear still exists...*Gasp * He is the chosen one!!

"There I am a man talking to a man, but I'm a mouse and he's really a bucket"

1:04 I love the detail that Cinderella herself looks horrified at what the fairy godmother is doing to her mice friends. She wanted to go to the ball, but not like this!!

“How long ago was this?” “I don’t know, a few years ago.” “…” “I’m still real upset about it!”

This scenario sounds like something Terry Pratchett has or would have explored in one of the Discworld books.

absolutely incredible drawings and animation!! i saw this on Dropout when it came out and ive watched it so many times now, im so happy other people can see this too!! neverafter was the perfect october rewatch and seeing this scene animated was top tier!

Brennan did great and this scene is incredible I want to point out how incredibly you animated the mice They're so expressive and fun to look at I can't stop watching it.

The subtle background music added in during the retelling through the rest of the video is such a nice touch, it really sells the dread the mice feel toward the fairy. That and the story telling and animation are amazing, great job you guys!

I loved this scene when I saw it originally, and this just makes it even better. Did anybody else notice the jar labeled "Gilear Gogurt"?

“You’re 118? You look great” “Thank you so much ✨😌💅🏻

Once upon a time Chou dreamt he was a butterfly. He knew only his happiness as a butterfly, unaware that he was Chou. Soon he awoke and could not decide whether he was a man dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Love this deconstruction of the Cinderella story! If I am going to explain cosmic horror to someone, I'll show them this video. This perfectly demonstrates cosmic horror. Great animation!

This is so beautifully animated. I especially love the details to the book pages and the smoothness of the mouse movements. Top tier, 10/10 ^.^

Did they use Brandy's Cinderella as a reference for the story of the mouse? That's soo sweet ❤️

The art of this animation is sooooo good 🥺💖 i need a whole animated series with this animator and artist 🥺🥺😭

To be honest, I can relate to the mouse. Being human is such a traumatic experience.

I'm glad this scene was animated cuz it is the most memorable episode imo especially when it gets descriptive of "The Room" and the transmuted inanimate horrors.

to be fair it is some real eldritch horror stuff for a mouse to be given full human intelligence have that intelligence bound to service experience several hours of that and then have it crammed back into a mouses mind. it's like that comparison ive seen for eldritch horror that an ants crawling on your keyboard but understanding what it is and what its for and why but still being an ant.

This is like the polar opposite of people wishing that they could be turned into house pets: small mammals traumatized by the fact that they even momentarily lived like working humans.

I love Brennan's accents, they're so expressive! So animated!

Meanwhile Pinocchio is downing so much wine in the cellar

Sentience is a special kind of torment.

As any student of Pratchett knows, an animal that thinks it's human, is not a happy animal. Unless it's a cat.

Really makes you start thinking. About all those stories you've heard growing up. About Humans turned into Frog's. Frog's into Prince's. Etc... I actually recall watching, as a young 10yr old, an episode of a live action tv show for kids... Where a good witch came to visit with a family, trapped in one of those Lands of the Lost type situations. She was running from another magic user, who'd been turned into a monster form by herself... Proceeded to grant speech to the family's dino like, tool using, daughter of the family friend. And confidentially informed the young daughter that she'd had Seven Brothers... *_all_*_ of whom she had turned into _*_Toad's._* I was always quietly horrified by that bit of dialogue. Now _I'm wondering about the ramifications of how she gave speech to the dinosaur epoxy._

The sheer amount of body horror when you realize it

As a German, I really liked how the story book was written in German 🥰 Amazing artwork and voice acting! The mice's accents were adorable too! ❤

So imagine being turned into yog'shoggoth for 4 hours and then turn back into a human but you retain all the knowledge and speech ability of a tentacle monster.

It's such a strange double edged sword, seeing Donal in throws of anxiety, but also "I'm a mouse and he's really a bucket" breaks me... EVERY SINGLE TIME

She made me drive a coach I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT A COACH IS!

Imagine going from just using primarily your ID and suddenly your Ego and Super Ego wake up. Now you aren't just looking to survive. You are thinking.

"you're 118? you look great" always kills me lol

I wonder how much of this encounter was inspired by the Discworld book Witches Abroad?

0:04 the picture frame hanging on the left hand side is a pigpen cipher and it says 'he who shall not be named'

I ran a Neverafter inspired one shot recently, stole this idea for my party. They adopted the mouse, named him Zeke, then polymorphed him into a T-Rex to help fight the boss.

Can confirm, I was the bucket.

"You're 118? You look great."

See?! This is the kind of thing I always thought about whenever watching any version of Cinderella! 😂😭

The bucket "THAT COULD BE A MAN!" bit is my favorite

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE AMAZING ART??

That white hair maiden looks very beautiful.

Omg PIB at the end eating one of the mice lmao.

"your 118 you look great" perfection.

If a mouse turned human retains the sentience of a human, imagine the living horror of a bucket turned human, retaining the sentience of a human, but being unable to move or interact with the world in any way. You can't even pray for the sweet release of death, since buckets don't die of natural causes.

I could honestly see someone doing a campaign around this. Makes me think of Terry Pratchett’s Witches Abroad, a woman who decided that she knew how other people’s lives and stories should go and forced the entire kingdom into their “happily ever afters” whether they wanted it or not, whether they were happy or not, and the same to any animals that were in the wrong place and wrong time.

This is a God tier animation! The emotions that you can see in the mouse are just insane 😂❤

I was waiting for this to come out on RU-vid so I could share it with people. Awesome! I've probably watched this a dozen times over on dropout already. Fantastic animation too! Great job!

I mean… when they put it like that, it’s pretty fucking demented!

How to turn Cinderella into a horror story.

Aw, love Puss at the end with the very unimpressed mouse.

Now I want a cosmic horror from the perspective of a animal who gained consciousness and is now having a existential crisis

I love this animation style so much. It’s so beautiful I was entirely distracted

"Wait you're 118? You look great!" Credit where credit is due

I just lost it at "but I'm a mouse and he's really a bucket..."

That whole season was awesome!

Somewhere on that property is a bucket having the loneliest existential crisis in history.

so it's like a human becoming an alien because of an unknown being's power. Suddenly have a bunch of information in my head that doesn't belong to humans (maybe the information of a whole space that humans are not supposed to know or comprehend) and suddenly feel the need to be an obedient servant to an unknown alien. Then when I returned to being a human again, I had some of that unknown information left and memories of being a good servant to an unknown alien. And I can still speak their language. That is terrifying!! I would be afraid of that being who turned me into an alien to come back and do that magic on me all over again.

If anyone wants a similar concept fully explored The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett is a great book

"I made a stagecoach driver." "You ruined a perfectly good mouse is what you did! Look at it! It's got anxiety!"

The dialog feels improvised and spontanous.

Shout out to the Cinderella art, Holy shit! That is a stunning design and art style!

I love the compliment he gives her at the end.

“I’m a man talking to another man but I’m a mouse talking to a bucket.” It’s so beautifully terrifying

I now just feel bad for the mice that were forced into servitude & transformation

With this is mind imagine how traumatized Mr, Frizzles former students must be

Can we talk about how great that mice animation is

Man, I hope JackSepticEye gets the therapy he needs to recover. This sounds awful, being stuck as a person. I think I'll stick to being a sentient potato.

Pib at the end 😭

This is soooo good!! Really interesting perspective on the Cinderella animal transformations, and love animation.