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Character Creation: What-Race, Nationality or Species is your doll? Pt. 2!

Apr 28, 2012

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    1. I have daemons, who never age and change form and gender and race.
       
      #81 Beau~Barbare, Dec 31, 2012
    2. I made up this fantasy world when I was little, and ever since then I've been creating species and countries for it. My dolls are all characters from that world, so when I get a new one I just thumb through one of my massive 5 subject notebooks with all the species and their descriptions written down and based on 'feel' I pick one I like for the sculpt. I've got about 54 different species so it's not like I'm going to run out :P It is good fun though, and cuts down on *pardon* the 'elf-angel-vampire-god-demon-from-the-underworld-werewolf-ghost-fairy' syndrome. I think it's quite nice that so many of us do explore this sort of thing though :)
       
      #82 Teruchan, Feb 10, 2013
    3. Most of my dolls are Australian because I'm Aussie and find it easier to relate. However I don't really think about it etc.

      My other dolls are from fantasy worlds sooooo no real life races.
       
      #83 tea-wrecks, Jul 16, 2013
    4. I think at this point, like tea-wrecks, my dolls are New Zealanders because I'm a New Zealander and it's just easier to relate haha. Although my tinies are faeries, so I think they're just...faeries? I don't know haha. I am planning a Japanese girl, but other than that...yup, just Kiwis haha
       
      #84 MissCarrion, Jul 17, 2013
    5. My dolls are just...Asian! I don't want to decide on a specific nationality so I have more freedom when it comes to choosing names ^_^
       
      #85 ame_hime, Jul 18, 2013
    6. They're all from a world I created,so they're not from existing countries. Dahlia's a witch,Dane's a wizard,Pumpkin is an elf..and I'm turning one doll into a angelic spirit-Aurelia.
       
      #86 DahliaDevere, Jul 18, 2013
    7. Parker: Half white, half Korean
      Nina: Half Indian, half Korean
      Hope: ...whatever race the people in FFXIII are. White? Japanese?
       
      #87 neato, Jul 18, 2013
    8. Mirza is predominately Pakistani.
       
      #88 Eri-chan, Jul 18, 2013
    9. When people ask me about race, I automatically think of, you know, humans, vampires, fairies ect. In that way then, well, all my dolls are human! I have no interest in fantastic creatures, so everybody was born and raised down here on earth, haha .


      However, when we're talking about ethnicity, then all my dolls and characters have different cultural identities, though they all live in the same town, inside the same culture. I grew up in lots of different places and I always get amazed by the fact that, even when we are raised in the same place, our cultural background simply pops up and you can clearly see what make us all unique! I try reproducing it to my dolls, so they are English, Scottish, Welsh, Flemish, French, Brazilian, or even people raised between two different cultures, like half Korean and half English or half Russian and half Japanese.
       
      #89 Momobou, Jul 18, 2013
    10. The character's my dolls are based upon are German, American and a pair of faeries. None of them are Asian in descent and none of my dolls ever will be despite being made in various Asian countries as I just don't have any Asian characters XD
       
      #90 Sephy_Kiriyama, Jul 19, 2013
    11. My characters come from a fantasy setting, so although there are races, it's not very specific yet. I do know the nationalities of most of them and I am working on the traits and customs typical of each race though because I like diversity in a setting. Besides, the different ways of life of different races/nationalities shape my characters' personalities and their physical traits in some way.
       
      #91 Allie, Jul 20, 2013
    12. They're "doll" race :) In other words, they don't have one.
       
      #92 Saba, Jul 21, 2013
    13. Very different, I like different races... But prefer a darker skin color.
       
      #93 Jane2507, Jul 21, 2013
    14. My dolls are American, like I am. ^^; They have no backstory or anything, and I generally give my dolls English-speaking names, so I just decided they're American.
       
      #94 PandaBerryInSpace, Jul 22, 2013
    15. I find it curious how the words "race", "ethnicity", "nationality", and even "species" are often used with the same meaning! Especially when nationality is used to mean race or ethnicity, it is very curious and also a bit disheartening (to me).
      Two of my BJDs are white, and another is undefined. They have no nationalities. They are meant to depict humans.
       
      #95 Porcelania, Jul 22, 2013
    16. My Kid Delf Bory and his sisters are American, and their parents are from France~
      I'm waiting on a Kid Delf Pine in light tan skin that will be Hawaiin ^_^
      And I'm pretty sure my Minifee Siean is English, she seems like she would be, and my Kid Delf Wintery '12 is undecided, I'm not sure if she's more American or Italian~
       
      #96 AttilaTilly, Jul 22, 2013
    17. Porcelania, I'm sorry it's disheartening. I use them together but not interchangeably because they are related because they are assignable aspects for a doll or a character and help me define (rather than describe) their background. It's not meant as disrespect for the non-changeable nature of the same for humans, who don't have these choices or mutability. I think of them very differently for dolls.
       
      #97 mimimontoya, Jul 23, 2013
    18. My dolls shell characters from a little town in Georgia (USA) near Atlanta. They are the usual Southern US melting pot w/a lot of Asian thrown in. Not to get terribly complicated - I've got:
      Italian (Calibrizis & Ionescues) that of course married non-Italians
      Scottish (well I feel the Ellis' are Scots/Irish like so many Appalachians)
      English (at the time of the Mayflower anyway) - Dickersons
      German - Esterhaus (came over to the Colonies LOL)
      Phillipino - Papa Esterhaus married Juanita Kim...
      Chinese - (the Longs thought they were part of an old Louisianna family - LOL - the Cajun is from their great great grandma cause great great grandpa came over to build a railroad)
      Taiwanese - first generation - the Angs
      the Ansell boys married exotically after WWII/Korean War/Vietnam so there's:
      Japanese - thru Hawaii -
      Indian - as in Hindi... see above
      Vietnamese - see above

      and
      Korean (sending their kids to America for school in that long-held Seoul tradition)

      I'm sure there's Native American mixed in (probably Lin Dexter...) and Tawanna Pritchard's black (& English/French...)


      It's all very typical of America. I would like to add that I don't use Caucasian except as sort of a general term since - prefer to mention the country.
      I don't have any Middle Eastern characters as of now (again little town in Georgia - the Asian connection is exotic enough LOL)
       
      #98 Teleri, Jul 25, 2013
    19. Hm...

      Lysander was born and raised in Canada, but his family is very French--he is fluent and his family speaks the language at home. I don't know if there is a certain 'look' for French people, but his large family is primarily olive-skinned with darker hair.

      Gailan was accidentally born in Austria, and his father is English, but he's very much an American mutt.

      Uriah is American. He does not know his father's identity and has met his mother only twice. (Including the day of his birth ...)
       
      #99 Havra, Jul 25, 2013
    20. This is kind of cool, because I never make the association "I am this so my doll should be too!" Im very white/hispanic and none of my dolls are the same. I prefer tan so I have two from india, one from i dunno.. Persia... (I just think it sounds cool, but just think aladdin and the lamp.. and then forgive me if im really bad at geography) One was meant to be a viking but im thinking be -might- end up actually being an alien. One girl is american, one girl is russian, one boy is from london, and all my sd's and Soom are from a totally other universe lol
       
      #100 ArouraAnn, Jul 25, 2013
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