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

I don't have to pair my dolls up, but I prefer to. I just like to set them up in their little doll house like they're hanging out, having a conversation. I only truly have 1 couple though. I more like the idea that they can have a friend to hang out with whether it be a SO or not.

My boyfriend has a Kill_U which he has an immense backstory for and he now feels the need to get him a girlfriend. I thought it was interesting because even though he's not super, super into the dolls, he still wants his doll to be happy and have a mate.

 

yes..same reason as Valentine, it's hard to tell the story with just Vasiley..(which is why I'm having so much trouble doing photostories of him +_+)..he and Sumiya are the story, it feels weird with just one of them..

 

I just feel the same, so I'm in the need of getting the full story just completed if I have the SD it's going on through.

 

I really prefer mine coupled up, but I am getting more OK about them not being so.

Fir example, my Uyoo is a solo, simply because there is absolutely no one else in her size/proportion. I also am working on a trade for a Lishe head, that will be a hybrid doll of some sort, and I don't really picture her paired up either.

If I needed the money though, I could seperate my couples. You can always re-pair up a doll that you absolutely must keep at a later date when funds aren't as tight.

 

even though it stretched my budget i had to get a friend/significant other for Edgar...i didn't like the thought (even though he's a doll) of him being lonely while i'm at work.

i don't think i could split them up... if i had to, if i had no choice...i think i'd beg and plead everyone i knew for help so i would have to

 

Only two of my dolls are paired romantically (Caro and Simon). I bought Simon "for" Caro--

Caro: He was my birthday present. ^ ^

Simon: THIS again, oh lord--

But Simon is his own self, he's a person in his own right, I have my own relationship with him, and would never sell him. Even though he didn't pre-exist the Wizard Eckstine whose photograph I saw, as a character in my head.

My other dolls have non-romantic, but complex and ambivalent relationships. They interact with each other in my head and they become more interesting in the process. Tseng by himself is pretty interesting. But Tseng hiring Martin to "look after Ira" (uh, right) is even more interesting. Er. To me, I mean. ops:

Rather than think in terms of pairs, or dolls that "belong to" other dolls, I think in terms of a kind of spider-web of interactions--

Fontenrose: Like Sex and the City? ^ ^

GJ: O_O (Oh...KAY...)

--but ultimately, it's all about the characters who develop their own depth. I kind of line up with idrisfynn. I personally feel that if there's no first-order bond (where you think "this is my dollie" rather than "this is my dollie's boyfriend") I would be more likely to feel okay about letting that dollie find a different home. Your mileage may vary. ^ ^

 

"Random soliloquies" are something I like to stay away from, because they do feel strange to me half the time. They can be interesting, and useful, but for my story, the interplay of characters is hugely important.

I feel the same way, which is why Joce's arrival was such a problem at first. He broke up the "pair" idea (and generally caused trouble), but at least that's all sorted out now. XD

 

I like to pair my dolls off.. though not all of them have their significant others or friends..

Aeri with her boyfriend Fachtna, Alastair with Traian (luckily, my friend bought Alastair's boyfriend so I didn't!), Azrael with Krieg (eventually;_____, ect...

It kind of forms a domino. Example. I got Aeri. Had to get her boyfriend Fachtna. Then I want to get her two brothers, Aiden and Cillian (and possibly her little brother Donovan - pocket fairy boy).. It goes on and on.

I'de feel bad parting them, so I guess I know where you're coming from. It's hard to split couples or friends.. like shimmeringcat said:

 

I tend to clump mine together in groups. I have four SDs (all girls!) and two MSDs (Myu and Akira).Only my Unoss, and my DES are "lonely". I was hoping for a Chiwoo elf for DES, but I guess I won't hold my breath...

 

I know that although my QiXa loves her puppy Perri, and all her other plushies, sometimes I walk into the room and I guess it's just the way she is posed, but...it looks sometimes like she is...lonely being the only bjd...Mom says it's just me making excuses to go overboard and get more bjds, but...she did look lonely. I would like to think she will be happy when her sister (Soah) gets here. I bought them matching tees from Dollmore and I can't wait to get pics of them both. Also, I live so far from other members here in Texas, I feel kinda like we are in a dolly desert and QiXa only has penpals. I hope to be able to meet other members someday, but for now, I want her to at least have siblings that she can "relate" to, as in other bjds.

 

Well, I just sold my girl doll's boyfriend, but I decided, since I had to sell him, they "broke up", but she is getting a new boyfriend. I think that you can't have just one BJD, I have always thought my dolls have needed friends. (Also it gives me an excuse to buy more!)
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Not all of mine have a significant other but they do have sort of pairings, or groups... sisters, best friends, that kind of thing, and I do like taking pictures of certain ones together. I know mine aren't alive too, but I am with shimmeringcat... I can't IMAGINE breaking up Sabrina and Memphis. I can't do it! I'm sorry you are having to consider selling one of your dolls.

 

I definitely feel the need to pair up my dolls, and I'm not sure why! I have two, but had never originally considered putting them together as friends/posing partners/etc, especially not because they're different sizes. Yet now I always have them sitting next to each other and "interacting" - I don't like to see them apart, in fact! I think it just makes it more fun for me to pose them together and dress them in similar colours and design clothes with the idea of them being a unit.

 

My dolls and future dolls, don't nessicarilly pair off I only have one true couple, while the other four are a band, and full of interpersonal drama. I want my dolls to be very story-centric, so having them all is needed, other than that I don't feel like they "need" SO's.

 

Hm. Well, the love triangle between three of my dolls is what necessitated the buying of one extra. . .

The Tender Yen and the Twing-key needed to be together because he made her and that was just the way it was.

But I think the most significant and compelling relationship among my dolls is between one of my dolls and another's owner's doll.

I was (sort of) planning to get them someone like that to be their companion but this was somehow more fulfulling. Now I can't imagine life for Morgan without Haika. . .

Three of them, a third of my brood, couldn't care less about romantic relationships and have fulfilling interactions with the rest of the group.



I really think that if you want your dolls not to feel lonely but aren't in a fincancial position to get them a companion, then why not find them a friend/lover in another owner's doll? This is a surprisingly social hobby after all, and a visual one too, so correspondence isn't that difficult. Then no worries for your doll and you can save your money as an added bonus.

^____^ Just a suggestion. . .

 

Well, for me it's this weird OCD-like need to keep things in parallel but also just my own insatiable lust for dolls, I guess. When I had ordered Ginger, Isao was announced and I was stunned to find a boy doll that I thought was actually manly-looking and pretty cute, so I decided he'd become Ginger's boyfriend. When Jun Tachibana came out, I Just Knew, but then some weird little internal monologue told me that I'd better pair her up with Roger and find Ginger a new boyfriend... which I did for a while, but then it just didn't seem right for Ginger to not have a boyfriend. In my head, I always thought, no, not right, Jet needs to have a little pal... I don't know who or what, but she needs one. Now, I've got Antimony and everything's peachy, except when I think about bringing home a fifth doll, which I hope to do this year... that will make five dolls, and that's an uneven number, and they'll not be all nice and symmetric anymore in their number, so there has to be a sixth doll. Maybe this is some subconscious need being expressed through my doll family to have order and balance in my own life. It kind of makes sense... I guess I never really thought about this thoroughly.

 

I don't know if it's by coincidence or some sort of subconscious want, but they always seem to fall into place like that. Lots of entwined relationships. Kaya and Kamui are best friends, Kamui has his boyfriend Jaede and his younger brother Kami (who are both owned by other people, so I second vermaxen's suggestion). Andrei and Mitya are long-time best friends, Kivai has a roommate pending, and then there are more to continue the procession (but that comes later).

I guess I feel like everyone has someone in life, and so that concept continues for my dolls. It would break my heart to think that they're lonely. I'm a sap. D:


~Kalmia

 

It's important to me that everyone has friends, or a significant other, or both. Family is important too. When I have a doll on my list that doesn't have one of these types of connection to any of the others, I feel uncomfortable and force myself to make a connection.
Mostly I like making couples.

 

If Seiji ever got attached to anyone, then I don't think I would be able to sell them. I don't see that happening, because he's very content being by himself. I think he actually dislikes company, if anything, but if it did, I wouldn't be able to sell.

 

I'm egocentric, I guess; all my dolls had better revolve around ME, and not another doll... MUAH HA HA HA HA

So I would have no qualms breaking up a "pair" to sell off a doll I wasn't personally attached to, *especially* if it meant paying my rent on time or having food on the table!

I *would* be having second thoughts if the doll was rare or limited, because I might really miss it when its gone, even if it does nothing much except sit somewhere and look pretty.