Do you feel like your dolls have to have a friend or significant other?

I never thought so before. Then I saw Iplehouse Tedros and thougth he would be the perfect friend for my Iplehouse I. I am hoping some day I can buy him.

 

I don't think it's really a requirement for the dolls to have a significant other, but knowing how each of them relate to each other helps with the story (and also helps control the buying of dolls). Of the four that I currently have, only 2 of them are lovers, and the other ones have a guardian, sibling-like employer/employee relationship.

 

Actually, I'm getting a friend or my MSD, but it's not him who screams for a friend, it's my SD. I feel sorta bad for that, but I just think my MSD needs a friend too! Since I got three different doll-sizes, I just really feel like they should have a friend. For an example for the photographs, it would definately be funnier to post two dolls of the same size. I think it'd make my dolls happier too, to have someone they could share their size with.

 

Iuno, I suppose it depends on the particular doll~

 

I guess I don't feel like they need to have significant others, but I do occationally feel like they need to have siblings. I find myself wondering if I should buy my Maunier boy the girl version to be his sister, even though I don't really want a girl version of Cass (one Cass is enough thank you.) relationships like that are hard to figure out (for me at least) since I like siblings to look somewhat alike, and it's hard to sometimes find the right doll for that when a sibling has been written into the story. As for romantic relationships, with my gang, those change all the time. I figure if it's not one couple, it'll be another.

 

I was wondering if there was a thread that discussed relationships dolls have with other dolls. I have hit a slight problem. My boy who has been with me almost 2 years now, which is a world record has not been able to keep a GF. I have had him with 3 girls and each one I sooner or later sold. Could it be I feel no one is good enough for him? I tried looking and it was always she looks to old, to young, to short, to tall, to not his type. All my other dolls have friends or partners, but not him. So does anyone else have this problem that they have one doll that is no matter how much you care for them, will always be alone. He does have a kid brother and sister, but no GF.

 

Heehee Well this is a great thread for me XD I am a super love-addict, and for me, yes, I think my dolls should have companions. Even if it's just friends ^^ Unfortunately, I don't have a second doll yet ;_; but I WILL XD

 

For me, it's not that I feel they NEED it, it's more "This is the story, these characters are together". So, yes for the story sense, but no for the actual doll needing an actual companion.

 

I don't think its nessicary for a doll to have a companion/loved one, but I think its more fun. I like to treat my dolls kinda like if they were alive. I know for myself I'd be extremely lonely if I didn't have a friend to talk to or hang out with. I also belive that if you don't have a connnection with the doll, its probley not the/a right doll for you. Dolls to me are like wedding dresses, you find it and you immediutly know its the one. Although it would be sad to see that doll go, I'd be happy knowing that the doll is with somone else who actually has a real love for the doll because its perfect for them.

 

I love my Bory to death, but whenever I go out I can't help but feel bad for him. My boyfriend was the one that got me Bory, and soon after he told me not to worry that he will have a friend soon. My boyfriend and I usually buy things in sets of two now, because we are always together and we can't imagine anything being by itself. It is very weird and strange but it is us.

 

i actually grow super attached to inanimate objects, and i feel your pain! i had to sell some of my less watched anime, but i still felt horrible doing it.
i've only had my crobidoll yeon-ho for a few weeks, but i already miss him! (he's at home, i'm at college...)
and i've already sort of formulated a story behind him and my incoming MD Ryu, and now i can't really imagine one without the other!

 

I don't know that I feel the have to, or feel bad if they don't but it is true most of them have a friend, significant other or family member. Since the dolls are shells for characters and of course all of those characters have other people they interact with I tend to want all of the characters. Most of my adult dolls do have a significant other, though not all of them I intend to have in doll form. I did feel bad for a while when I had Aric but didn't have Killian yet. They just seem so lonely when they aren't together.

 

DEFINITELY!!
I know they're not real and all, but it's not fun being all by yourself! Thus, my boy shall have friends! >: |
As for siblings and significant others... I haven't thought that far yet.


And Wow... animemom, that's so peculiar (the poor boy!) Maybe he's just not meant to have a GF... ? :'D

 

My dolls don't have to have significant others, but most of their characters do so they do by default. ^_^; Some of my planned dolls aren't having their significant others put into doll form, though, so...that might be weird when it comes to it.

 

As a reply to the thread, my answer is yes. I feel that my dolls should have friends or significant others because I just can't stand seeing them sitting there all alone. It looks so sad, and I'd be sad if I were in his/her place.

In my opinion, I think you'd be right about selling the particular doll you can't seem to get attached to, but me, being a highly sentimental person, would never be able to bring myself to do that. Though you hadn't really bonded so much with the doll, I'm sure the other already has bonded with them during your absences. I mean, it just wouldn't seem the same anymore, even if he/she has already become good friends with the other dolls.

 

I do find that I enjoy my dolls more when they have another doll to "interact" with. If they don't have someone they just tend to stand there and do nothing, which bothers me on some level. It's possibly because I have so many dolls which are all 'related' to another doll that those that aren't stand out to me . There are currently a couple of dolls I have which I am working on getting family members for, so that they're not on their own in my crew.

 

My doll collection will be an actual related family. So, there is a level of interconnectedness even if they won't all have a romantic partner.

 

This is how I feel too. I love my first doll to bits, but he became infinately more fun when he had another doll to pose with and play with.

Not all my dolls have friends or partners. 2 of my dolls are very seperate from the others, and don't interact with them at all, but the rest are all characters who are sociable in some way, so it makes sense that they have company around them. Even my grumpy old Ark (I mean, who can he be grumpy with if he never has any company? )

 

My dolls don't have extended story lines or anything like that, so I don't really worry about relationships most of the time. They do all sit on the same shelf, but that's about the extent of it

 

My doll actually has an enemy.
When I first bought her, I was considering getting her a significant other, but as I developed her character more I realized she's not the type to care about such things.
And even then, "her enemy" is just the same doll, but with different eyes, wigs, and clothes, so she will never be free of her oppressive shadow! Mwahaha