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

Doll for sure isn't alive, that could mean, we all shouldn't think of families, couples or friends for them. But I don't think its even possible (for me). They look so fine, that I'm planning two dolls, that could 'interact' on photo sessions, share clothes and so.

If someone thinks one doll without any social or family connections - it's just okay, we all decide to create or not something like personality and false-life. Doll will stay a doll - still life figure, that pleases our eyes.

 

For my own dolls that I just started collecting they are going to be turned into characters from some fashion illustrations that I have done. So they kinda have friends/significant others. If I wasn't doing these characters I'm not sure how important them having friends, etc are. For example my 60cm Obistu was an impulse buy..I'm not really sure what I am going to do with her or if she will have friends or significant other, she will be in a home with MSD sized doll family but I have no real direction for her.

I guess it really depends on what the hobby means to you, what you have in mind for your dolls. I mean you can have a single doll and have fun going to doll meets and your doll can have friends/etc that way.

For me my problem is who to take where since I have multiple dolls. I have an anime con I'm going to in 2 weeks and can't decide who to take, 2 dolls would be too cumbersome I think. I know they wouldn't really feel neglected, but I would feel bad for leaving one behind.

 

Everyone needs friendship.

 

I don't think my dolls "need" a significant other. However, I do feel like I would want them to have one. I have always treated my toys like they have feelings, so the idea of giving my doll a significant other appeals to me. Besides that, its an excuse for me to buy another doll.

 

I have one set I can't break up, though my other dolls just have to muddle along with Hello Kitty or whatever as a S/O. I know it's not logical and they are just resin, but those two just come as a set in my mind. It's not that I wouldn't swap out a mold, it's just there has to be both of them, like bookends. (I'm glad other people do this too, so I'm not the only nut).

 

I tend to desire representatives of both genders in each size. For the most part I've stuck to that, except for my oddball msd, an Orientdoll Tae. Compared to my AoD's, his sculpt is 5 cm shorter and lightyears more refined.

 

I do, apparently. I tried buying one doll at a time but both times I ordered I ended up with two dolls to be a couple. I still have no idea how it happened. :P
As for size, there's a difference of 3-5cm between the partners (all of them are hybrids so I can vary them in height like real couples ^^). So far they are all SDs.

 

My only two dolls are dating. I prefer it that way. Once I had one, I knew I wanted his companion. His companion was a surprise from my girlfriend, but we were talking about how I wanted him partly for that aspect. I'm in love with love, so I can't imagine having such a detailed, posable, customizable doll without a partner. BJDs are pretty much the best opportunity to play with a couple!

 

I don't think I could ever sell a significant other of a doll. But I don't think I could ever sell a doll period, I mean I specifically picked out that one for a reason(I get way to attached).

 

I only have 1 doll but my sister has 3 and still lives in the same house. They're my little boy's cousins and he's always with them. I think when we do eventually move away from each other I'll have to buy him a friend. I don't want him to be lonely. :]

 

I feel like they need company, yes. Most of my dolls are character DDs, and if there's s a doll from the same series a character is close to, naturally I want them to be together. I imagine my Nanoha and Fate would be lost without each other. One of my customs is an original character who has a sister she's very close to, so I've made her too.

Now I'm tempted to make a friend for my Obitsu boy, since he's the only boy in my group of girls.

 

I'm a character/storyline driven person...I have romantic interests for dolls I don't even own yet because the character is in my head. lol

 

For me yes they do, as the story they belong to are so tied to gether with each charater I find myself going well so and so needs so and so and this person needs that person and it just kinda gets so that yah they do need extra friends to keep company.

 

When I get my girl I'm going to have to get her a boyfriend. I just want her to have one because it would be so cute. And Don't think I could sell either one and have them be alone even if they aren't alive.

 

I was curious to know if your dolls have relationships with other dolls. I.E. siblings, parents, girl/boyfriends. My girl is currently in love with one of my friend's dolls, another girl. It isn't often that they get to see each other but they seem to enjoy each others company when they do.

 

Some do -- I have a couple sets of siblings at the moment.

 

Yup. For the dolls I currently have home I have a set of 3 sisters, the oldest is a mature mini girl, the other two are slim Yo-sized, and mirror image twins. The oldest sister also has a GF that is home. And I have several home who are friends with others from their 'story line' grouping. I also have a set of male and female twins. I like my dolls to have relationships of the familial, romantic, and family sort, since they are characters from stories I hope to tell once I have all cast members needed home and completed.

 

As for now the two dolls I've got dosen't have any relationship but that's because they look so very different, one's a CP El and the other's a LLT Roderich... Maybe when I make medieval clothing for my more realistic sculpts my El can be some kind of fairy or something. We'll see. :-B
But when my Saint arrives he will be the best friend of my Roderich and later I plan on getting a sister for my him as well (which I've yet to find a fitting mold for).

 

Well of my three dolls...
Pyrrie has a boyfriend (one of my roommates dolls) and he enjoys being around him.....and also somehow drops his pants (and underwear when he's wearing that) whenever I leave them alone together ... he also has a little brother
Onyx has a big brother, and a tutor ( another of the roommates dolls) and they like being together.
Berry doesn't really get along with anyone except child dolls, but has no family or significant others...

 

I've never felt the need for any of my dolls to interact with each other or other peoples dolls, save for Cephied who likes to "collect" men. I don't have any doll friends though (or male dolls that exist in the same continuity as her) so I can't really see her getting any xD Enya has her brother, but they don't interact as much as siblings probably should, Caroline is a very solitary creature, and Florence COULD have friends, but I don't feel the need to get her any. She's cool with chillin by herself.