Second-hand Rose

Face-up artist(s):

PeaksWoods

Date of acquisition:

2017 (made in 2010)

Provenance:

Purchased in the DoA marketplace

Reason for choice:

I love PeaksWoods and have always wanted one of their FOC size girls. When I saw her for sale in the marketplace at a truly great price, I jumped at the chance to bring her home...faded or not!

Best Points:

Gorgeous sculpt! And I actually used her old, faded tan skintone to my advantage in her storyline.

Worst Points:

Because she is an old doll, her tan skintone has faded unevenly and "greened" a bit like the old tan resin from that early era commonly does.

I had every intention of correcting her faded tan skintone once I got her home. But I fell so completely in love with her, I could never bring myself to alter her in any way...she's just too gorgeous as she is. So her fading became an integral part of her storyline instead.

Eyes:

18mm Soulinabox urethane eyes in Turkish Coffee

Wig:

Tibetan lambskin in rosewood color, made by me

Favourite colours:

Any, she has no preference.

Fashion style(s):

Country girl Lolita

Key fashion accessory:

Often wears her Luts bunny ears when in her shape-shifting form.

She scavenges old cast-off clothing, and combines it to make herself layered outfits in an old fashioned, home-made, country-girl Lolita style. She also collects highly decorative and fanciful hats to wear with her pieced-together ensembles.

Name story:

I knew when I purchased her in the second-hand marketplace that she was a very old tan skin doll from the era where that color faded to a slightly greenish hue. So I worked it into her storyline and gave her an appropriately "faded" name, Second-hand Rose.

Character age:

She's ancient (hence the fading) but she appears to be in her late-twenties/early thirties

Character gender:

Female

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

Second-hand Rose is an elven shape-shifter whose life-long duty is to be Guardian of the Gate in the hedgerow of an urban neighborhood (where she protects the veil between the hidden fantasy realm and the ordinary human world.)