The Purgatory Nine

The Purgatory Nine are the minor characters who appear in “The Whimsical World of Leopold”; their only appearance is in “The Mouse Whisperer”. They were the spirits of the dead mice who died in different time periods.

List of the Purgatory Nine members’ deaths
Robert (died from a farming accident by farm animal stampede in 1903)

Leon (died from tuberculosis back in 1922)

Yakov (drowned in a lake in 1939 while being chased by angry children that he had conned in the past)

Ruslan and Marnie (died from a freak car accident on their way to their grandparents’ house in 1953)

Opal (raped and murdered by a serial killer in 1979)

Thomas (died in a lab accident in 1989)

Milo (beaten to death by his abusive father in 1999)

Fedya (died from leukemia in 2000)

In the fanfic
Their only appearance is in “The Mouse Whisperer”, where one hand drags Mitya into the purgatory; Milo becomes the first to wake him up by rudely slapping him across the face. Then the dead mice proceed to reveal their respective deaths. Taking pity in them, Mitya agrees to help them get reincarnated, which he eventually succeeds. Then as they descend to heaven to rest in peace, they thank him prior to getting reincarnated, allowing him to return to the real world.

Trivia
The Purgatory Nine is inspired by the Ed, Edd n Eddy Purgatory Theory.