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

Well for me it all depends on the doll itself. For example, with my first doll I want a story is forming through my head already and she could have an MSD boy as a child maybe or an SD male as a boyfriend. But for others I probably wouldn't even bother with a companion. So I guess it's all based on preference or if you can't live without them or not.

 

I have to have significant others. Even if it's just a brother or sister, my doll needs another person. Otherwise, it makes the story harder to move along.
And if that's not a good enough excuse; then its just another reason to buy another doll

 

Yep.
Peitari and Osiris want some girls for their arms and Sakura wants a big brother ^_^

 

Personally, If I sold Oliver(which I wouldn't) Dayton would be sad, and vice versa

 

I personally don't think that EVERY one of your dolls need a significant other. Especially for me who has like a million girls on my wishlist and only like 5 boys. Lol. I going to write a story with 5 other dolls I'm really wanting to get. And they all have significant others. 3 girls and 3 boys. But that's for the story. And it all makes sense. But I don't think I'll have a significant other for all the dolls I wanna get. 'Cause I'm very picky when it comes to boys. And it might take me forever to find one for ever one of my dolls.
However.. If I start to make a story that involves one of my dolls.. And suddenly there has to be some sort of love interest. Then, I might be tempted to get one. Lol. I'm a sucker for love stories and love to write that. So in that case I might give into getting a few of my dolls, that I thought wouldn't need a significant other, one. But I still don't think that every doll needs one.
And in your case.. Why keep a doll you don't pay much attention to, for your doll. Even if it is their significant other. We all love our dolls, and wants whats best for them.. But you have to think about yourself sometimes to. Who knows.. Maybe you'll fall in love with another doll to replace the dolls significant other.. One you'll pay more attention to, and are more attached to. You never know.

 

My dolls almost always seem to pair up in order of arrival for some reason. It's sort of a first-come-first-served harem. Like sushi boats.

There's lots of paired lovers (or triangle affairs), a couple best-friend pairs, & some siblings. After my first three Tokyo Boys, which were adapted 'story' characters, the rest of the boys just sort of filed in, & their character dynamics developed on the fly. It's usually just "who just looks best together?" because alla these boys are just so pretty. But sometimes, two dolls have an immediate chemistry together-- just like some people on a blind date-- and really click. Adrian & Ilya, for example; Ilya was placed on Adrian's lap when he arrived for convenience, because I had no more doll-furniture seats in the house. But then they looked so Right together that I left them there.

But some of the boys don't pair up. Some are waiting for absent lovers/friends... some are purely disinterested in friendship or romance with anyone.... several of them are less-than-corporeal & have no use for anything stronger than friends. Some I get the feeling that they're staying single deliberately to keep their options open. And a couple of them are here just for ME!

 

I don't feel a need to get a significant other for my DD. I think it would detract from the whole of who she is in my mind if her personality depended on having another around. I love the idea of her being single, independant and able to do whatever she wishes without consulting someone outside of herself.

 

I generally like to have at least 2 dolls of the same size so that they can be friends. They don't need to have a significant other, though.

 

For me it depends more on the character whom I choose to give a doll form. If the character has friends then mostly likely it's friends will get dolls forms too if they are developed enough.

Lets take my character Noelle for example. She has friends/minions or whatever you want to call them; Jenning and Jenkins. She also has enemies; Lunyka, Duckman, and Einly.

Since all of these character are rather developed I'll most likely get doll forms for them all. It more or less how to do with the stories I have for them. Of course if someone else's character wanted to befriend one of my characters then it would be more like a human interaction with the 'do you like the same type of things that I do?' and 'do we agree on the same subject matters?' type of thing.

tl;dr- It more or less has to do with the character portraying the doll rather then just the doll itself.

 

Most of my dolls have significant others or brothers/sisters or they can share someone their size. I have a Customhouse petite Ai girl and a tiny elfdoll Hana that are "single" but then again they are taken care of by the bigger dolls. It's just the pretend story that sits well with me. For some inexplicable reason the partnerships between my dolls is meaningful to me. I don't question it. It's a good thing.

 

When I got my first doll, Taejun, he was a fairly new character for me, and was kind of on his own. I had planned to move onto dolling a group of 4 intertwined characters next, who had no relation to Taejun whatsoever, but then I ended up buying a MD Ryu head in the marketplace on a whim. He became Asriel, who was created on the spot for the head, and Asriel in turn became the best and only friend of Taejun, a quiet loner. Asriel's arrival helped me to understand Taejun's character much more, and I am glad that both of my boys have a companion in the house.

Originally I thought about getting a MSD to be a brother for Taejun, but I think this arrangement worked out much better. I would like to have some sort of companion for every doll I get in the future (as most of my characters have some sort of significant other or close friend) though there are a few who probably won't have them, and I think they'll be okay. It depends on the character, really.

 

My current doll needs a friend. That's one of the reasons why I'm saving up for another 60cm girl right now. She's lonely being the only big girl in the house. I also think it's cute to have two or more girl dolls together. I do that with all of my smaller non-BJD dolls.

 

Yes, I don't want my only doll to be all alone. So she will get more friends later on.

 

I would love to have a Dollfie Dream boy around, but other than that, my Dollfie Dream girl doesn't really need a friend or SO, she's quite happy by herself. All my resin dolls interact with each other, but they all come from different continuities so technically they don't match up at all and none of them have out and out best friends or lovers among the group.

 

Let me see... I have two gay couples, one heterosexual couple and one of my boys is a loner. So, I think I don't mind any way. It just happens.

 

Since my first doll would be a little boy, I don't think he'll be getting a loved one soon.

As for friends, I'm sure he would like friends, but that's what doll meets and DOA is for

 

It depends on my characters, but if I had a doll that was attached to another doll, but I personally wasn't as attached and was thinking of selling it, I would find it incredibly difficult.

 

The doll I own now and the dolls on my wish list all already have a set family. Sanyu will not get a boyfriend. But I will be getting her mother, Gael. Gael will not be getting a boyfriend, either. To be honest, I don't think any of my female characters have boyfriends. Or girlfriends, for that matter. So it's really just family. A lot of them have sisters.

 

My dolls are sometimes friends with each other. As far as a significant other, that's me.

 

I got Malice my first little boy and I thought I was done. But he just seemed so sad and alone that I had to get him a few friends. Now that I have James coming home my DoD Ducan Homme I know he's going to need a girlfriend.