Oh, and if this Geppetto is "the tailor dude is Geppetto from Fables by Bill Willingham. AKA the Adversary, who has conquered thousands of worlds and united them under his fascist rule." (credit: eilowyn and rebcake) And if he's the same guy from Living Doll, then the Dawn foreshadowing could be also about Angel.

All that talk about losing your soul? Very Angel. He's the one with the detachable spirit.

More Angel = Dawn parallels. Dawn and Angel have both been puppets. And both perhaps being tended to by the same dollmaker.