The Doll (Bloodborne)

The Doll is one of the characters of Bloodborne. She is an animated doll made to resemble Lady Maria, someone her creator cared for deeply. Every time The Hunter returns to The Dream, they are greeted by her kind and caring demeanor, offering to talk or level up.
She is voiced by Evetta Muradasilova who also voices Lady Maria in Bloodborne and the Maiden in Black in Demon's Souls and its remake of the same name
==Personality==
The Doll is a kind and gentle figure in the nightmarish situation of Yharnam outside the dream, a caring person who greets The Hunter whenever they return to The Dream. Her tone light and gentle with every line of dialogue though oddly enough, lacking emotion, which is quite fitting as she is technically an inanimate object.
Despite the horrid treatment she has and will suffer, never once does she hold grudges. Even when ignored and treated with indifference by her creator, even when hurt or even killed by The Hunter, even when the building she lives in is set alight, even when her creator and the one she prays to is killed, never once does she harbor any ill-intentions, her kindness remaining as she continues to serve her friends, even caring for The Hunter when they're trapped in The Dream or twisted into a Great One infant.
She is rather polite with her demeanor though she can slip up sometimes, falling asleep at random though she will apologize when waking up. When performing gestures in front of her, she does know how to react to them, giving bows and applause or even giving hints on how to communicate with the Great Ones. After all, she does pray to one oddly enough. 
==Biography==
===Past===
At some point after the death of Lady Maria, Gehrman out of grief made a deal with the Moon Presence using an umbilical cord at the Old Hunter Workshop. The deal trapped the first hunter in a dream where he may help out any hunter that joins the hunt. As part of the deal, the Moon Presence animated The Doll in order to care for Gehrman, a human-sized doll in the likeness of Lady Maria though unfortunately, she lacked the domineering personality that the first hunter liked in his dead lover, leaving him to resent The Doll. She never had any qualms for this though.
===Bloodborne===
Entering the dream, The Hunter finds themselves in a large area in another realm of existence with a building and a garden. A doll laid lifeless at the way to the building where The Hunter can take some offered weapons and meet the person running The Dream, Gehrman. He gives some advise on the hunt as well as allows the hunter to do whatever they want with anything they find, including The Doll.
After The Hunter encounters their first boss and returns to The Dream, they are greeted by an unexpected figure. The Doll has gained sapience and mobility, now standing upright. She kindly greets The Hunter, explaining her role in The Dream as well as the services she has to offer, mostly just someone to talk to and a way to grow stronger. 
During The Hunter's exploration in the Old Hunter Workshop, they can find the mortal realm version of The Doll, lifeless as it is supposed to be. A copy of her clothes are found in a chest while a Small Hair Ornament can be found in a shelf. Giving it to The Doll, she seemed to have a reaction to it though not averse, in fact possibly the first time she felt joy which leaves room for suspicion on Gehrman and previous hunters in the dream. The Doll rewards The Hunter with a tear stone which can be used as a blood gem.
With the death of Lady Maria, The Doll felt some form of liberation she could not identify, indicating the possibility of ties with the person she's based on. Progressing with The Hunter's Nightmare, The Hunter can kill the Orphan of Kos. Afterward The Doll will comment on Gehrman's newfound ability to sleep comfortably, one of the few things that changed after the completion of that storyline
===Ending===
After the death of Mergo's Wet Nurse, The Hunter will find the building in The Dream to be burning and a gate to the garden has opened. The denizens though don't seem too bothered. The messengers are still doing their thing and The Doll is still kind and friendly as always. She will also remind The Hunter to meet up with Gehrman which will allow for 3 possibilities for endings, all of which will have her involvement in the end. 
====Yharnam Sunrise====
With The Hunter no longer in The Dream, The Doll prays by a gravestone, hoping for The Hunter to find their worth in the waking world. She's also aware if The Hunter has returned from a previous journey, having a specific gravestone for them as well as praising their strength for going through this journey more than once.
====Honoring Wishes====
With Gehrman free and The Hunter trapped in The Dream, The Doll now cares for her new master. In the end, things still run the way it used to, now with the hunter instead of Gehrman. As the night reigns back in, so does the hunt and hunters will need The Dream more than ever. 
====Honoring Wishes====
With the death of the Moon Presence, an unexpected consequence befell The Hunter. With the death of this Great One, the power within them began to twist them into a new form. A newborn Great One, completely helpless, writhing on the ground until they were found by a familiar, caring, loving figure they knew for so long
==Gallery==
File:Story Trailer Doll.png|The Doll in the story trailer
File:Lifeless Doll.png|The Doll's lifeless physical world form in the Old Hunter Workshop
File:Doll Photograph.png|Photograph of The Doll
File:Doll and Gehrman.png|The Doll and Gehrman in the Gamescom trailer
File:The Doll Comic Bloodborne.png|The Doll as she appears in the "Death of Sleep" Comic
File:The Doll Bloodborne.png|Close-up view of The Doll
File:Great One Hunter 1.png|The Doll holding The Hunter, now a Great One
==Trivia== 
*The Winter Lantern enemies has a disturbing similarity appearance-wise with The Doll and fittingly, they are usually found in Nightmares
*The Doll seems to possess the same immortality The Hunter does, reviving after death
*Her resemblance to Lady Maria also extends to the theme of her clothing with lumenflower motif present in parts of her attire
==External Links==
*The Doll on the Fandom Bloodborne Wiki
*The Doll on the Fextralife Bloodborne Wiki
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