soullesshuman said: Oh lawdy I remember this scene. It's an interesting interpretation. Did the dolls turn into bunnies just before Mary and Ib ran in, perhaps...?
Ah, that scene. It's just that, if you were paying attention and reading the bookcases around (I had to use that term), there's something there that tells about "the conscience of the mind" or somethin'. Anything near to that. So, Mary and Ib see bunnies while Garry sees creepy blue-skinned dolls. Since Mary and Ib are still quite innocent, all they can see are bunnies and not the creepy dolls in that room. Capiche? Oh, don't mind me, I'm just making things clear.
I think it's something along the lines of Gary not being fooled by the illusion of the bunnies, seeing them as their true form, the dolls. Ib is fooled at first, but by the time they get to the toy-box, she's been... Traumatized enough, let's say, to see things as they really are. Gary getting caught by the big doll in the painting basically snaps his mind for a bit, so he fails to see reality just until the point Ib smacks him around a bit. And, do you really think Mary, one of the Insane Artist's works herself, would see the bunnies as cute? I think she mentions in one of the paths that she likes the blue of the dolls and thinks they're cute, doesn't she?