Yes! It is a cut content, in game files! No known purpose, exists as just an icon.
I think the biggest key to why it was cut is... well, look at the color of the eyes in the box. They are baby blue color, and we know Maria has pale green eyes - same as Doll that does mirror her! I have this speculation that making Maria and the Doll the same person was sort of a last moment decision from the developers, and initially Doll maybe WAS just a standalone character and helper. Or based off someone else?
Also, Gehrman needing this repair kit would suggest way longer timeframe of Doll existing (real world I mean) - like to the point he’d need to fix her consistently. I think it could be another reason for cutting it; if cut dialogue lines by the Gatekeeper ( x ) are anything to go by, developers struggled to decide how long time ago Yharnam fell into this sorry place, reaching as far as one hundred of years idea at some point! So maybe removing it helped to further obscure the time passage and let players decide themselves!
ALSO knowing how laconic Soulsborne games are with important characters interactions, they’d need to limit it to one item per NPC - and Maria’s hair ornament pushed more on emotion and Gehrman’s deep sadness. Hunter helping to repair Doll would push more for forming the bond between Hunter and Doll instead and devs said ‘no, backstory between two existing characters is more important’. However IF you give Doll hair ornament, her (rare) prayer for Hunter gets an extra line about her wishing them a ‘peaceful awakening’, so... they actually did both with ornament choice instead!
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welcome to my wonderland [ooc]
silence is golden [ic]
an idol in the sea of infamy [visage]
good things come with strings [musings]
twisted nights and sick delights [aesthetics]
so what does it matter if tou become mute? [headcanons]
struggle though you may; the rules won't bend [memes & prompts]
now sing and keep singing [playlist]
according to my ultimate design [psa]
taste their tears and hear their screams [gallery]
just one teensy little thing [reply]
you wouldn't want to mess with me [answer]
up above they hate chatter; or so i've been told [dash commentary]
good luck and breath deep [dash games]
guess your dreams ain't turning out so swell [wishlist]
that's the price; that's the bargain [plotting call]
as for love; all of the above applies [shipping call]
everybody's bill comes due [starter call]
well go on; take it or leave it [inbox call]
jewels begin to lose their glow; cities go to rack and ruin [open starter]
is it binding? goodness yes! [closed starter]
i always get just what i want [saved]
style au courante [mun's art/edits]
you'd better watch your tail [crack]
since you're in love with a prince [shipping]
these poor unfortunate souls [promo]
they say he's so quiet; so shy and demure [self promo]
wild soirees of exquisit sin [nsfw]
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You can leave your hat on
So Crowley comes up for a nightcap in The Blitz, Part 2 and takes off the wool overcoat the minisode introduced but leaves his hat on.
If you then go backwards and look at what he had on and when in The Blitz, Parts 1 & 2, it gets even more amusingly Ineffable Husbands pretty quickly...
When Crowley shows up in the church in The Blitz, Part 1 in his suit with the hat on, he's the last character to arrive in the scene but the clinch of a subtle commentary happening via the costuming by way of hats. Until the early 1960s, as you probably already know, a man didn't leave the house without a hat on, but they would take them off as a sign of respect in different places indoors-- churches and theatres among them. Women were not expected to do so, largely because the style of women's hats were often the kind that were pinned into their hair and to take it off was a whole damn thing that required more extensive grooming than is possible when just entering/exiting a place. As a result, the Nazis in the church scene are following social custom-- the male Nazis have their hats off because they're inside a church but Greta is not violating anything by having her (rather fabulous, ngl) hat on. Aziraphale, of course, took his hat off and has it in his hand for the duration of the scene.
Crowley kept his on and we're bemused more than anything because we know that while this is technically impolite, Crowley is far more of a good presently-man-shaped-being than these half-witted Nazi spies, right? Which is basically the point of the commentary-- that the rebels are often more morally sound than the conformers. Also goes without saying that Crowley shouldn't have the sunglasses on in church either (and that this is all set at night and during a blackout makes the fact that he does all the funnier) but Crowley can't take the glasses off around humans so... but then, after the rest of The Blitz, Part 1, we then hop into The Bentley with Crowley & Aziraphale at the start of The Blitz, Part 2 and find that Crowley has a new wardrobe addition:
Crowley is now wearing a black wool dress overcoat over his suit. Yes, they're magical and can regulate their body temperatures without actually needing the clothes they wear but the clothes they wear are also part of blending in with the humans of their day and we're now reminded that the 1941 part of The Blitz was going on over the winter into the early spring, something we could forget about momentarily when everyone had their coats off in the church but for Aziraphale, who has just worn the same coat for awhile now. This then serves to show us that Crowley got out of The Bentley outside of the church to go rescue Aziraphale and stopped to take his winter coat off and leave it in the car before doing so, all while choosing to not leave his hat behind as well. Yeah, wearing your hat into a church as a demon could be-- or only be-- about being a demon but we're going to see pretty soon that it's not *just* about that. So, why take his coat off?
Because he wants his angel to see his suit.
Crowley wears a lot of black and he had to be careful not to be mistaken for SS, so he's added in some color. He has some angelic white in the form of a hankerchief and a shirt that's a shade of grey that makes it actually look blue-- wearing his Aziraphale colors, we see-- and a snazzy red tie. You can't see this very well if he has his overcoat on so he left the coat in the car, consciously wanting to look as dashing as possible when showing up to grand romantic gesture Aziraphale.
When they get to the Windmill Theatre, Crowley wears both the hat and coat into the theatre-- but he takes the hat off once they're inside. Churches can go pound sand but Mrs. H? Crowley wouldn't dare disrespect her or her theatre lol. Aziraphale also takes his hat off in the theatre and we see that he does in every place of reverence to him, as he also takes his hat off in the magic shop later on. Crowley then wears the hat and coat both back from the theatre to the bookshop and once he settles in there to help Aziraphale prepare for his magic show, he *settles in*, as we know, tossing his hat on an angel statue, hanging up his overcoat, and unbuttoning and opening up his suit jacket as he sits down. The jacket now open, the design on his tie is now visible for the first time. Aziraphale is amusingly invested in his magic but when he does get around to unburying his nose from his autographed Prof. Hoff magic book, he can look his full at Crowley's whole ensemble here, which Crowley has been alternately hiding and revealing in bits and pieces so far (like a certain show we know lol.)
Crowley wears all of it on their date to the magic shop but keeps his overcoat open and takes his hat off again at The Windmill when he's in the audience and on stage with Aziraphale. However, after the performance, when Furfur confronts them, Crowley has the hat back on-- while he's lounging on the couch, alone with Aziraphale in the dressing room. They weren't exactly about to leave in that moment when Furfur showed up. Aziraphale is still in costume and they're still chatting about the performance. Crowley isn't standing by the door waiting for him to get his stuff so they can go and so already has his hat on. He's sitting on the couch. But the hat's back.
After Aziraphale manages to set Furfur up in this scene, we then next see them again in the bookshop, drinking Chateauneuf-du-Pape and talking about how Aziraphale saved the photo. Crowley's overcoat is nowhere to be seen, presumably hung up on the coat rack in the front part of the shop, but he's kept the hat on and, at this point, there's no other possible reason to not have taken it off but for that Aziraphale likes the hat. A lot.
(And yes, before anyone messages me, I know that's Terry Pratchett's hat. In the context of GO, though, that's Crowley's 1941 hat.)
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