You can hear the thoughts of the bucket. "... and the worst part was when I was lend to the prison guard. This is the middle ages DO YOU KNOW THE PURPOSE OF A BUCKET IN A PRISON!? DO YOU?!"
It would actually be *worse* for that bucket than it would for the mice. Think about it. You're a non-sentient, nonconscious object. Suddenly you've been given life, five senses, a fully developed mind and body, and self aware. You know things and how to interact with other sentient beings. Four Hours Later you lose all your senses and locomotion, but still alive. Thinking and self aware, but unable to do anything like a person in a coma. That bucket must be insane by the time some magic user randomly makes contact with it.
@@parrata Who is to say it didn't have a permanent effect on their lifespan? Now imagine a mouse living to be 100 years old after being turned into a man. ARE YOU EVEN A MOUSE ANYMORE, WATCHING TENS OF GENERATIONS OF OTHER MICE PASS ON WHILE YOU KEEP ON LIVING? LIVING WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO SPEAK IN A STRANGE TONGUE THAT NO OTHER MICE CAN?!
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!
I love the fact that there literally is a race from the Cthulhu mythos that does this, the Yithians, who will just randomly select people across all of time and space and forcefully swap their mind with one of them. That way the Yithians can get first hand information of that race in that time period, meanwhile some poor taxi driver from 1920’s New York is stuck in the body of an alien in a city made using science man can not even comprehend. But at least with them it’s in the pursuit of knowledge and they have the manners to erase the memory of the person they swap with when they're done and they swap back, so the worse the victim has to deal with is a black out where they apparently went a little crazy for a couple weeks. This is somehow worse then what the actual cosmic horror writer came up with, you get to keep the knowledge that was forcefully given to you and get to spend the rest of your life trying to make sense of it.
@@LuckyLiegeLady246 Imagine, for one moment being able to tailor fine fabrics and use machinery and then going back to the use of dull tools of ones own arachnid limbs? Of seeing people take joy in your creation, wearing it upon their form, only having to go back to weaving nothing but a trap that brings only death for your prey - and sustenance for yourself.
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
Yeah, but it’s assuming everyone would have the same reaction. They wouldn’t. It’s all just personal temperament. Like if you had undeniable proof that Cthulhu existed, people would fall into three groups. The people who denied it anyways. The people who believed, freaked the f*ck out, and started a riot. And the people who believed but just went back to work. 😂😂😂
@@H240909 Well, what the heck I am to do about a giant squid-monster under the ocean? Unless he’s going to be paying my rent I don’t want to hear about it.
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
Or worse you can still comprehend it, but nobody else does, the profundity of the experience trapped within you like a rat under a bucket trying to gnaw its way out, unable to be expressed because to anyone else it's just gibberish.
The "Awaken" spell in D&D is cosmic horror. You rip a creature - animal or even plant - from its mundane, simple existence. Give it thoughts, divide it from its base species. Foist upon it all the uncertainties and existential horror experienced by mankind, simply as part of the human condition. All so a spellcaster can have a servant for a month. Which the creature spends as an unwilling willing slave, unable to refuse.
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.
Also peep the look of horror on her face as she sees the incomprehensible shift from a mouse that she used to feed and have compassion on to a man and then back to a mouse, for all we know Cinderella probably feels guilt since the cost of her happily ever after was the sanity and blissful ignorance of innocent creatures she cared for.
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 love this and it reminds me of another post I saw where someone compared people summoning cosmic entities to ants and maybe the reason the entities answer is because, if you saw a bunch of ants in a circle chanting your name repeatedly, wouldn't you be curious enough to check them out and ask what their deal was.
I was pretty amused when the mice say she slept in the bed next to the fire, but like a page or so earlier it explained that she was made to sleep in the ash from the stove and that is why her name is, translated from german, ash-
@@dantheplanner We're the only species that has to pay to live on Earth, and while other animals forage, hunt or otherwise procure food and shelter. At least they don't have people calling them about their car's extended warranty.
Phenomenal cosmic power and she helps only the 1 girl that she feels like helping, and then gives rules that she has to follow to make it entertaining... We just have to believe her that she has limits that follow the arbitrary rules that she claims because, what happens when she stops playing or if she decides not to help anymore?
Think about that bitch fairy from beauty and the beast, what the fuck did Lumiere do to get turned into a candelabra? I really doubt Mrs Potts was like "ooh good for you sir you told that filthy starving woman to die in the woods that's the ticket dearie" in her Angela Lansbury voice and now she has to be a teapot for a million years. The servants didn't do anything wrong they're servants indentured to an asshole aristocrat the fairy is the fuckin villain Gaston is just some dude The fae are bullshit, all of them, from the stinkiest tiniest boggart to fuckin Oberon. Go to hell faeries that's what I say that's the code I live by if you see a fairy or whatever you say no way José
Brief reminder that historically the Fae are feared and reviled by most people for being eldritch horrors that are as likely to turn you into your weight in spiders as be any form of actual help.
The fairy godmother helped Cinderella because she was her Godmother, a wise person chosen to be her mentor through life. She just happened to be a fairy. As for the arbitrary rules. The rules are actually clever and give a valuable life lesson that whatever cool/nice things you get, you have to use those responsibly, otherwise there will be consequences. No such thing as free cheese. As you know, ALL magic comes at a price, dearie.
It really is beautiful. I found myself wondering about the German text. Like, is it just the regular Cinderella story… or is by chance the version of the story the mouse is telling? 😂
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 remember having a thought about a month or so ago, no idea where it came from, but it was the thought that "Brennan has no boring NPC's" and I'm still trying to wrap my head around if I am wrong with that assertion.
There's a moment in Crown of Candy where he voices two different Scottish women in the same conversation and I'm blown away every time I think about it.
@@無教会内村 I remember seeing some comment somewhere that said "[TABLETOP GAME] said humans are fey to forrest animals,huge weirdos that will either cuddle you or kill you interchsngably" or something similar. I can't find the comment again,or the name of the TTG
Have you played Elden Ring? one of the antagonists: Miquella de Kind, has the power to "steal hearts" and for all the horrible/disgusting/harrowing/terrifying/traumatizing/mad inducing things that the many, many other antagonists do, nothing made me feel more dread than his unique way of speking: soft, caring, loving, warm, calming... and full of promises.
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!!
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.
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
I feel like the mouses bigger issue is less "I had people thoughts" and more the lack of peace in how quickly and nonchalantly his world was warped and returned and he was powerless in the face of it. He witnessed anything could be anything and he can't know peace from it.
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.
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!
It pretty much is- in Witches Abroad there's a wolf that is made just human enough to be able to take part in a sort of fairy tale (by a fairy godmother no less) and it's genuinely horrifying because the wolf is now able to think with a brain that was never meant to think and... well, I'm not going to explain the entire thing because it has way more effect if you read the book. Several other animals actually get turned into people throughout the book as well, and it really explores the actual ethics and practicality of the idea! Sorry I'm sure you do know what I'm referring to, I just love talking about these books haha
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!
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.
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!
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.
@@seallieart It's from "Dimension 20". Specifically the 16th season called "Neverafter". The audio for this clip came from season 16 episode 2 called "Mirror Mirror".
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.
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._
I was waiting for this to come out on TH-cam 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!
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.
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.
0:49 that is Beautiful the Stepmothers picture in the book. In the same moment having the mouse refer to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and people in general as giants is brilliant if you've watched most of the season.
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
@@cjlane5677 No it's correct! The written story doesn't necessarily match the pictures shown in the book, but it's the first half of the original Grimm's fairytale (until she gets her magical dress). There's no fairy godmother helping her in this version, but a tree growing next to her late mother's grave. And the way the story is phrased, it also sounds like it's the original Grimm's fairytale because the language is a bit old-fashioned here. The only part that doesn't quite fit is 0:58 where you can see in the background "Little tree, little tree, shake..." written in English. But it's correct in German on the next page
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.
@@futuza I had them make a persuasion check first, and they succeeded, so he was fully onboard and decided he liked being a T-Rex more than a human (cause who wouldn't lol). It lead to one of the best moments I've ever personally experienced at a table, and love describing to people. They were fighting the Fairy With Turquoise Hair, who was flying above them, the Mad Hatter was the one who cast polymorph, and then Gretal, who was a Battlemaster, ran up the back of the T-Rex, used trip attack to knock her out of the air, so Sneezy, a vengeance paladin, could smite her with advantage. It was wild 😁
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.
@@rufiredup90the audio for this is from dimension 20. It's a show on a streaming service called dropout, where a team of comedy actors plays dungeons and dragons. Specifically this is from the neverafter campaign
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 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.
really makes you think. rats lifespans are much shorter than humans, so to have spent 4 and a half hours like that must be a HUGE deal and rats aren't built to withhold the complexities of the human mind and cognitive function, as well as the social norms and needs to work in a society as servants that humans have built. servitude and working class are concepts that humans have built to keep a functioning populous, a rat cant understand that! and to have it happen so quickly, suddenly they're speaking English and walking amongst giants that they used to fear or be fed by. their entire world shifting so quickly and for so long, free will taken away and you're forced to endure this with no time to cope or wrap your head around any of it imagine a human becoming a rat in the same manner. it'd probably be terrifying.
"I cast detect thoughts."
"You hear the endless screaming in existential horror from a bucket in the closet."
That's actually horrifying!!!!
"Stanley picked up the bucket."
You can hear the thoughts of the bucket.
"... and the worst part was when I was lend to the prison guard. This is the middle ages DO YOU KNOW THE PURPOSE OF A BUCKET IN A PRISON!? DO YOU?!"
“Oh no not again”
It would actually be *worse* for that bucket than it would for the mice.
Think about it. You're a non-sentient, nonconscious object. Suddenly you've been given life, five senses, a fully developed mind and body, and self aware. You know things and how to interact with other sentient beings. Four Hours Later you lose all your senses and locomotion, but still alive. Thinking and self aware, but unable to do anything like a person in a coma. That bucket must be insane by the time some magic user randomly makes contact with it.
The cosmic horror of being turned into a willing servant
I mean yes, that's coercion
turned into a *sapient* servant. For a small but still relevant chunk of their lifespan (a crude estimate could be that it's like two weeks for us)
@@parrata Who is to say it didn't have a permanent effect on their lifespan? Now imagine a mouse living to be 100 years old after being turned into a man. ARE YOU EVEN A MOUSE ANYMORE, WATCHING TENS OF GENERATIONS OF OTHER MICE PASS ON WHILE YOU KEEP ON LIVING? LIVING WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO SPEAK IN A STRANGE TONGUE THAT NO OTHER MICE CAN?!
It's kinda like body horror also.
Usually, that is only capitalist horror.
"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.
It's probably as crazy as being 1,000 is to a human.
@@titan4257actually that's a pretty accurate scale
He probably knows how long humans live
He's still got people memories! I assume that includes niceties and information about age etc
@@multigrandmarquisyeah I agree 😂
I'm so glad that helping Cinderella wasn't the terrifying bit. It was the fairy Godmother.
And the Stepmother. Cinderella turning out to be a badass warrior princess decked out in glass armor is actually pretty fucking rad, though
Shrek 2 taught me to never trust the Fairy Godmother
😂😂
@@raymondfisheriii791 Wait so they blackwashed her and made Cinderalla a warrior princess? Dang
Yeah, Im happy they didn't regret helping, just traumatized 😂😂😂😂
That rat has learned to recognize Fairytale Princesses. A good skill to have.
“Oh no, she’s singing! Lads, scarper before she sucks you in with her charm!
@@taekinuru2 “NO NO NO! I CAN’T CONTROL ME BODY! DON’T LOOK BACK LADS! LEAVE ME! SAVE YER SELVES!”
@@theonly6blake911 @taekinuru2
*Princess Starts Singing*
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!
It’s fine, the spider is a design major!
@@LuckyLiegeLady246And got a damn high roll.
I love the fact that there literally is a race from the Cthulhu mythos that does this, the Yithians, who will just randomly select people across all of time and space and forcefully swap their mind with one of them. That way the Yithians can get first hand information of that race in that time period, meanwhile some poor taxi driver from 1920’s New York is stuck in the body of an alien in a city made using science man can not even comprehend. But at least with them it’s in the pursuit of knowledge and they have the manners to erase the memory of the person they swap with when they're done and they swap back, so the worse the victim has to deal with is a black out where they apparently went a little crazy for a couple weeks. This is somehow worse then what the actual cosmic horror writer came up with, you get to keep the knowledge that was forcefully given to you and get to spend the rest of your life trying to make sense of it.
@@LuckyLiegeLady246 Imagine, for one moment being able to tailor fine fabrics and use machinery and then going back to the use of dull tools of ones own arachnid limbs? Of seeing people take joy in your creation, wearing it upon their form, only having to go back to weaving nothing but a trap that brings only death for your prey - and sustenance for yourself.
I was thinking that too! Literally textbook cosmic insanity.
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.
People taught they were humans trapped as rats?
they were the only talking animals so problably@@ThemermaidPearl
In fairness, being human is pretty traumatizing for humans as well. Ah, to be an innocent rat munching on some cheese...
It happens in "the Last Unicorn", "I can feel this body DYING all around me."
@@grimleNo we are talking about the original aren't we? Like in the original they can't talk
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
Like after Adam and Eve ate the fruit of knowledge.
Yeah, but it’s assuming everyone would have the same reaction. They wouldn’t. It’s all just personal temperament. Like if you had undeniable proof that Cthulhu existed, people would fall into three groups. The people who denied it anyways. The people who believed, freaked the f*ck out, and started a riot. And the people who believed but just went back to work. 😂😂😂
@@H240909 Well, what the heck I am to do about a giant squid-monster under the ocean? Unless he’s going to be paying my rent I don’t want to hear about it.
@@ArchitectWren Exactly.
_Flowers for Algernon_ .
Still haven't recovered from reading that.
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
Or worse you can still comprehend it, but nobody else does, the profundity of the experience trapped within you like a rat under a bucket trying to gnaw its way out, unable to be expressed because to anyone else it's just gibberish.
@@cognisant307 "And that bucket was the man you talked to. FOR FOUR HOURS!"
Welcome to dementia ..... scary stuff
@@alexschwarz4749flowers for Algernon
The "Awaken" spell in D&D is cosmic horror. You rip a creature - animal or even plant - from its mundane, simple existence. Give it thoughts, divide it from its base species. Foist upon it all the uncertainties and existential horror experienced by mankind, simply as part of the human condition.
All so a spellcaster can have a servant for a month. Which the creature spends as an unwilling willing slave, unable to refuse.
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.
Also peep the look of horror on her face as she sees the incomprehensible shift from a mouse that she used to feed and have compassion on to a man and then back to a mouse, for all we know Cinderella probably feels guilt since the cost of her happily ever after was the sanity and blissful ignorance of innocent creatures she cared for.
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 love this and it reminds me of another post I saw where someone compared people summoning cosmic entities to ants and maybe the reason the entities answer is because, if you saw a bunch of ants in a circle chanting your name repeatedly, wouldn't you be curious enough to check them out and ask what their deal was.
Reminds me a little of Flowers for Algernon. I find that book horrifying in a weird way and I love it so much
Do you think that’s how the Doctor’s companions feel?
Same thing works with regret, reminiscing on the paths you had left/failed
Wasted potential
This is what those dreams where you live entire lives in an alternate world feel like.
I adore the fairytale book in the background during the mouse's exposition.
The writing is the German version of Cinderella, "Aschenputtel".
@@cas3571 Oh, that's a really cool detail!
I was pretty amused when the mice say she slept in the bed next to the fire, but like a page or so earlier it explained that she was made to sleep in the ash from the stove and that is why her name is, translated from german, ash-
@@willowarkan2263 "disorderly/dirty girl"
In the storybook(Disney): *makes the character racial black
Classic
@@pyrocraft5928 do you mean a recent live action movie? I ask since in the old animated movies she was very white, pale, blond and blue eyed.
I love the detail of the Stepmother’s face being blurred
I completely sympathise with the trauma of living as a human.
Having to pay taxes. 😢
@@dantheplanner We're the only species that has to pay to live on Earth, and while other animals forage, hunt or otherwise procure food and shelter. At least they don't have people calling them about their car's extended warranty.
@@VATROUThere was a time when we did the same thing, I guess you were born in the wrong time.
@@VATROUIt's because we pay for society to work for each other. If we don't, no one will fix the roads.
@@falconeshieldwell that’s how it’s supposed to work anyway
"I was a man talking to a man. But i was really a mouse and he was a really a BUCKET!" Destroyed me lmaoooo
THAT COULD BE A MAN!
Proof that the fairy godmother are villians to everyone but the heroine.
Phenomenal cosmic power and she helps only the 1 girl that she feels like helping, and then gives rules that she has to follow to make it entertaining... We just have to believe her that she has limits that follow the arbitrary rules that she claims because, what happens when she stops playing or if she decides not to help anymore?
That explains Shrek
Think about that bitch fairy from beauty and the beast, what the fuck did Lumiere do to get turned into a candelabra? I really doubt Mrs Potts was like "ooh good for you sir you told that filthy starving woman to die in the woods that's the ticket dearie" in her Angela Lansbury voice and now she has to be a teapot for a million years. The servants didn't do anything wrong they're servants indentured to an asshole aristocrat the fairy is the fuckin villain Gaston is just some dude
The fae are bullshit, all of them, from the stinkiest tiniest boggart to fuckin Oberon. Go to hell faeries that's what I say that's the code I live by if you see a fairy or whatever you say no way José
Brief reminder that historically the Fae are feared and reviled by most people for being eldritch horrors that are as likely to turn you into your weight in spiders as be any form of actual help.
The fairy godmother helped Cinderella because she was her Godmother, a wise person chosen to be her mentor through life. She just happened to be a fairy. As for the arbitrary rules. The rules are actually clever and give a valuable life lesson that whatever cool/nice things you get, you have to use those responsibly, otherwise there will be consequences.
No such thing as free cheese. As you know, ALL magic comes at a price, dearie.
Props to Melina, this is amazingly animated!
Truly amazing, I need more of these moments as stellar animations.
It really is beautiful. I found myself wondering about the German text. Like, is it just the regular Cinderella story… or is by chance the version of the story the mouse is telling? 😂
The flesh morphing in 1:03 really sells the cosmic horror
I like that Cinderella looks horrified, too, in that 2-page spread.
body horror but yeah
"But I'm a MOUSE and He's really a bucket!"
THIS broke me! 🤣
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.
This is just reminding me of the goat in Stardust. Yikes.
Witches Abroad had this exact thing going on- Cinderella, but she and the animals are all unwillingly forced into the story
The wolf 😭😭😭
Poor Gaspode
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This goes from horrifying to oddly wholesome at the end. With the "your hundred and eighteen?! You look great!"
brennan's voice work is truly something else.
I legit thought the older mouse was someone else talking, at first.
I remember having a thought about a month or so ago, no idea where it came from, but it was the thought that "Brennan has no boring NPC's" and I'm still trying to wrap my head around if I am wrong with that assertion.
There's a moment in Crown of Candy where he voices two different Scottish women in the same conversation and I'm blown away every time I think about it.
@@hickorybane9323 bruh that was god-tier
I like how this is a bit of a callback to older myths about how mischievous and even outright evil fairies can be.
The Unseelie Godmother
@@無教会内村 I remember seeing some comment somewhere that said "[TABLETOP GAME] said humans are fey to forrest animals,huge weirdos that will either cuddle you or kill you interchsngably" or something similar.
I can't find the comment again,or the name of the TTG
There's nothing quite as unsettling as "She made us want to be good servants!"
Have you played Elden Ring? one of the antagonists: Miquella de Kind, has the power to "steal hearts" and for all the horrible/disgusting/harrowing/terrifying/traumatizing/mad inducing things that the many, many other antagonists do, nothing made me feel more dread than his unique way of speking: soft, caring, loving, warm, calming... and full of promises.
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!!
"IT WAS A WHOLE FOUR AND A HALF HOURS IT WAS!"
Something so mundane both terrifying and yet hilarious.
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.
"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
"I'm actually 118!"
"You're 118?!? Great!"
Had me smirking
It's a little quiet but Brennan says, "You look great!"
Same energy as
“She turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?”
“…I got better.”
From where is this from
@@analauramorelrocha2383 Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Don’t tell me you’ve never seen it…
@@analauramorelrocha2383Monty Python the Quest for the Holy Grail
@@analauramorelrocha2383Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
@@analauramorelrocha2383 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"But I'm a mouse and he's actually a bucket!" That line was amazing.
Honestly, a REEEEEALLY good animation, kudos to the person who did this one 🎉
0:04 the picture frame hanging on the left hand side is a pigpen cipher and it says 'he who shall not be named'
So we should all just imagine that it's Dark Lord No Nose?
"There I am a man talking to a man, but I'm a mouse and he's really a bucket"
I feel like the mouses bigger issue is less "I had people thoughts" and more the lack of peace in how quickly and nonchalantly his world was warped and returned and he was powerless in the face of it. He witnessed anything could be anything and he can't know peace from it.
“How long ago was this?”
“I don’t know, a few years ago.”
“…”
“I’m still real upset about it!”
PTSD is a hell of a thing.
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.
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!
This scenario sounds like something Terry Pratchett has or would have explored in one of the Discworld books.
It pretty much is- in Witches Abroad there's a wolf that is made just human enough to be able to take part in a sort of fairy tale (by a fairy godmother no less) and it's genuinely horrifying because the wolf is now able to think with a brain that was never meant to think and... well, I'm not going to explain the entire thing because it has way more effect if you read the book. Several other animals actually get turned into people throughout the book as well, and it really explores the actual ethics and practicality of the idea!
Sorry I'm sure you do know what I'm referring to, I just love talking about these books haha
Ha "Gilear's Yogurt". Even in another universe Gilear still exists...*Gasp * He is the chosen one!!
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!
“You’re 118? You look great”
“Thank you so much ✨😌💅🏻
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.
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 ^.^
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.
OMG, thank you! Apparently my favorite Zenyatta quote is a reference I've completely missed...
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"?
Wait, what was the original.
There's also an "Adhera approved" sticker on the leftmost jar when the mouse is talking. XD 00:28
Which campaign is it?
@@seallieart It's from "Dimension 20". Specifically the 16th season called "Neverafter". The audio for this clip came from season 16 episode 2 called "Mirror Mirror".
@@princelaughsalotx4934 thank you!
this implies that the bucket is also traumatized
The art of this animation is sooooo good 🥺💖 i need a whole animated series with this animator and artist 🥺🥺😭
The little mouse paw beckoning at 1:34 omg.
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.
May I know where this is from?
@@rufiredup90the never after. Ep 1 is on this channel but the rest is on dropout
Especially how realistic his speech is.
To be honest, I can relate to the mouse. Being human is such a traumatic experience.
I love Brennan's accents, they're so expressive! So animated!
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._
I was waiting for this to come out on TH-cam 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!
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.
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.
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.
As any student of Pratchett knows, an animal that thinks it's human, is not a happy animal. Unless it's a cat.
Indeed
Sentience is a special kind of torment.
Did they use Brandy's Cinderella as a reference for the story of the mouse? That's soo sweet ❤️
This is a God tier animation! The emotions that you can see in the mouse are just insane 😂❤
0:49 that is Beautiful the Stepmothers picture in the book.
In the same moment having the mouse refer to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and people in general as giants is brilliant if you've watched most of the season.
The sheer amount of body horror when you realize it
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
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! ❤
What was written, or was it jibberish?
@@cjlane5677 No it's correct! The written story doesn't necessarily match the pictures shown in the book, but it's the first half of the original Grimm's fairytale (until she gets her magical dress). There's no fairy godmother helping her in this version, but a tree growing next to her late mother's grave. And the way the story is phrased, it also sounds like it's the original Grimm's fairytale because the language is a bit old-fashioned here. The only part that doesn't quite fit is 0:58 where you can see in the background "Little tree, little tree, shake..." written in English. But it's correct in German on the next page
@@madebyanjarts Oooh! That is cool,
Thank you for translating it!
@@cjlane5677 Of course! :)
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.
LOL they traumatized him even more?
@@futuza I had them make a persuasion check first, and they succeeded, so he was fully onboard and decided he liked being a T-Rex more than a human (cause who wouldn't lol). It lead to one of the best moments I've ever personally experienced at a table, and love describing to people. They were fighting the Fairy With Turquoise Hair, who was flying above them, the Mad Hatter was the one who cast polymorph, and then Gretal, who was a Battlemaster, ran up the back of the T-Rex, used trip attack to knock her out of the air, so Sneezy, a vengeance paladin, could smite her with advantage. It was wild 😁
Meanwhile Pinocchio is downing so much wine in the cellar
This is soooo good!! Really interesting perspective on the Cinderella animal transformations, and love animation.
Man, these are great! You guys commit so hard to those bits, and it's great seeing them be so well animated! Love it!
I love this animation style so much. It’s so beautiful I was entirely distracted
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.
That whole season was awesome!
I'm so thrilled to see this fantastic bit animated, and so beautifully too! This style is gorgeous!
May I know what is this based of?
@@rufiredup90the audio for this is from dimension 20. It's a show on a streaming service called dropout, where a team of comedy actors plays dungeons and dragons. Specifically this is from the neverafter campaign
This is absolutely amazing. I was completely blown away by how gorgeous the story book looks, especially the gold detailing
Animators are so amazing! Way to go Melina and Valentina!! 🔥
The bucket "THAT COULD BE A MAN!" bit is my favorite
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.
Now I want a cosmic horror from the perspective of a animal who gained consciousness and is now having a existential crisis
WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE AMAZING ART??
Brennan never fails to come up with the most unique ideas and i love it
I think he just read Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett.
I can only assume he was paying homage, because it’s exactly what’s in the book
"you're 118? you look great" always kills me lol
Wow, this art is gorgeous btw! The animation art style, and the storybook art? Fantastic combination!
I wonder how much of this encounter was inspired by the Discworld book Witches Abroad?
I was just thinking the same!! That poor.. poor wolf…
It definitely reminded me of it, I was wondering if anyone else had noticed it
@@gingernortonyeah that scene traumatized me for life, the poor wolf
“I’m a man talking to another man but I’m a mouse talking to a bucket.”
It’s so beautifully terrifying
Lol I love how this is the second time BleeM has used Augbert as a name
Ahhh, so glad to find this comment :)
I love the compliment he gives her at the end.
Aw, love Puss at the end with the very unimpressed mouse.
"I made a stagecoach driver."
"You ruined a perfectly good mouse is what you did! Look at it! It's got anxiety!"
Omg PIB at the end eating one of the mice lmao.
I love the detail of the stepmother‘s portrait being scratched out
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.
Somewhere on that property is a bucket having the loneliest existential crisis in history.
"Wait you're 118? You look great!"
Credit where credit is due
really makes you think.
rats lifespans are much shorter than humans, so to have spent 4 and a half hours like that must be a HUGE deal
and rats aren't built to withhold the complexities of the human mind and cognitive function, as well as the social norms and needs to work in a society as servants that humans have built. servitude and working class are concepts that humans have built to keep a functioning populous, a rat cant understand that! and to have it happen so quickly, suddenly they're speaking English and walking amongst giants that they used to fear or be fed by. their entire world shifting so quickly and for so long, free will taken away and you're forced to endure this with no time to cope or wrap your head around any of it
imagine a human becoming a rat in the same manner. it'd probably be terrifying.
If anyone wants a similar concept fully explored The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett is a great book
or Witches Abroad
@@sleepCircle Exactly! This is exactly what happens in the book
I just lost it at "but I'm a mouse and he's really a bucket..."
I love this, the emotion behind it is just so perfect!
The defaced page at 0:49 is a beautiful touch.