A wanderer hero bids farewell to yet another world they save. They continue their travels, unaware of their own impact in that world. However, they won´t come back. That´s their own rule. And the inhabitants of that world know it, but grieve so much, they can´t bear to let them go.
So they create copies of the legendary hero. Dolls that resemble them in strength but not in mind. Some, the closest to the hero, try to get the dolls to act exactly like the hero, in an effort to have them back. Others, see the dolls´ potential as weapons.
There are dolls to sooth the grieving, and there are dolls who create disasters on their maker´s orders.
Those destructive dolls create chaos when the one they´re modeled after helped saved. This doesn´t escape some of the doll´s simple minds, but what can a simple doll do against their creators? Would they give up such a purpose in order to be more like someone who doesn´t even know about their existence?
And so, wars are won and lost with battles fought with identical dolls on each side. Centuries, pass by and the hero´s tale twists. Millenia after, the heroics of one wanderer have become myths of an evil entity who reproduced in their own image to bring discord to the world.
Nobody remembers the original story besides the oldest dolls. Half broken, their appearances changed or locked into basements to be protected. The dolls who spent their times trying to be the wanderer they resembled in strength and mind by hearing their closest companions tell their stories. After millenia, those dolls stop hiding and clenching their empty chests, they go outside to clean their reputation.
One of those dolls encounters an ancient soldier doll in their journey.
That doll was created for war. To be used and discarded when it shattered. So the doll that was meant to heal wounds by those that leave behind others can´t stop themselves from trying to help it.
Both dolls had an original they took after, and while both had questions for them, neither could get answers from someone who wasn´t there anymore. There was no point to be like them. So, can this two dolls really give a proper meaning to their existance, if not based on someone else´s?