Lady Maria meets the Doll
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Story transcript
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: Who goes there? The Nightmare is no place for wandering dolls.
The Plain Doll: Forgive my intrusion. I am called the Doll, and I have traversed realms to find you.
The Plain Doll: I have long sensed a connection between us, though I know not what it might be.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: So... he made you after all. I suspected as much.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: Gehrman was always one for sentiment, even when he tried to hide it behind that gruff exterior.
The Plain Doll: You are... the one I resemble? The dear one he could not forget?
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: I was his first student. We hunted together for many years.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: But I could not bear what we did at the Fishing Hamlet. The atrocities we committed in the name of the Healing Church.
The Plain Doll: And so he created me in your image? A companion who would never leave?
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: He created you because he could not let go. A perfect, obedient version of me that would never question, never abandon him.
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower: Tell me, Doll, does that knowledge disturb you?
The Plain Doll: Not at all. I now understand the sorrow in his eyes when he looks upon me. And why I feel such profound compassion for him.
The Plain Doll: I may have been created in your image, Lady Maria, but I have found purpose in my own existence. Perhaps that is something we both share.