Do you Pair your doll’s ?

Hm... that's an interesting question. And I think I am definitely not immune from wanting my dolls to have 'friends', though it's not necessarily by size-- I ordered Pete and Billy at the same time so that they would be together, even though they're not the same size, but they make up a little family-type unit of their own. Billy doesn't mind hanging with the big boys, as it were, and Vince seems pretty happy whatever company he's in.

I will definitely feel bad for my first SD, since she'll be A) lonely waiting for her fiance (shelling a character, in-story she spends some time searching for him when he goes missing anyway, so I guess it works out in a way...), and B) wondering why she's surrounded by so many little dolls.

And with my OT dolls, I definitely have them paired up and passed on getting one because she'd be the odd one out.

 

My dolls are all "friends" anyway. They aren't part of different storylines or groups or anything so I don't need to assign each doll a similar friend or partner. I managed to resist buying an 80cm doll I liked a lot because he'd have looked pretty dumb hanging out with my MSD/SD size dolls. I like all of my dolls to look like they belong together.
I NEVER take pictures of my DoC Tan Elf Ivan and my Notdoll Citron together though because their head/face size and style look stupid together and it bothers me pretty badly.
I have two dolls that are a couple (if we're talking about this) but I didn't buy them to be together. I would have bought both of them either way and they just kind of ended up together.
I just buy individual dolls I like and they all fit together somehow.

 

It is, it is! Well, Akandos are just so damn affable and cute and huggable, with those big dewy ILU eyes and squeezy muscles. Who could bear to give him away to someone else's attentions? Bijan is my House Woobie. Mine mine mine.

 

I have this almost OCD-like need to pair up most of my dolls, but strangely, not for ALL of them. I originally planned to have four YoSDs, and I currently have three (MIGHT get a different fourth one at some point...), two of which are a pair in that they are the same race of fae-whatevers and they are best friends and live together. Originally, I was going to have two MSDs, because I felt weird only having one, especially since she's in a world with otherwise only SD dolls, so the other MSD was going to be her sister. After buying the second MSD, I decided to reshell the first one into a bigger doll, and when the second one arrived, she wanted to be a completely different character, and I do feel like she's lonely sometimes because she's gonna end up my only MSD and she doesn't even belong in the same world\story as any of the other dolls.... But I think she'll be good friends with many of my friend's MSDs, at least. Then there's all my big dolls. Because they're mostly young adults, I feel like I should pair them up romantically. So far I have a definite boyfriend\girlfriend pair, a girlfriend\girlfriend pair, another potential boyfriend\girlfriend pair (depends on if she likes him when I actually have the money to bring him home) and then some 'family ties'. The boy from the first pairing and the girl from the last one are brother and sister, and then I've got a female doll and a male doll from two different world\stories, but I feel like they know eachother somehow. Not romantically though. Like maybe He's her father or uncle or grandfather even. I'm not sure, neither of them are human, especially not the man! (His head is a skull, so yeah.)

Only ONE doll of mine I'm TOTALLY FINE with her being the only one of her size, my realpuki Roro, Buckwheat. But that's because she lives in my world, the 'real' world, only one with faeries. She's a house faerie and she lives in various hidey-holes in my house. I don't know why, but she's not in the same world and my other fae-whatevers, the Yo's I mentioned earlier, even though they also live in a world very much like ours but with faeries.

 

i don't really feel the need to pair them.... they just wind up that way =w=; i have 2 sd13s, an sd17, a msd, and a tiny. i got the sd17 cause he was my grail but he's somehow managed to pair off with my sd13 girl as a couple .-. where as the male sd13 is said girl's brother and the msd is all obsessed with the brother XD and the tiny, well, i don't plan on getting another in her size, she's just the baby :3 and more for my 5 year old than me XD but she WILL be getting older siblings (like a larger tiny 22cm instead of her 12 =p, and a minifee sized sister possibly). I do plan to have a few stand alone dolls, like my DEW who will be gender-bending later into a girl, she's gonna be on her own cause she's from a different era than my others, and maybe a couple others also from other era's or planets as the case may be that are planned or incoming :3
I forgot to mention.... my SD13 girl has a twin who belongs to one of my closest friends XD as does my SD17, tho his twin is shorter since it wasn't from the limited release lol. So gigantic family started YEA and it doesn't look like there's an end in sight <w>

 

I do have a brotherly pair and a few pairs of close buddies, one pair of whom I called the "Double Trouble" LOL! I also have plans for a pair of twins but that'll probably take time to complete. I know what you feel about pairings of the same size though! When I got my first doll, I did feel like he needed to have a similar sized friend (though he is still the only doll in that size I have for now LOL)! I do have one potential pairing that is between a SD boy and a tiny but the details still need to be ironed out because my tiny is still just a head for now LOL!

 

For me it's more about the sizes I like. I almost exclusely get sd's. I ordered an MSD recently but she doesn't look good with all of my other dolls, so I am selling her , I felt like it was that or get another one for her to pair...and she was rather expensive and strange sized for MSD so I'd need another from that company.

I also find myself wanting MSD kids suddenly because some of my dolls are based off of characters who have younger siblings. I never wanted a child doll before @_@. So it's a sort of pairing.

I have one "official" couple and I have to say, I get immense pleasure from having them.

 

I paired off my SDs, but they were from a story that I created. I had Angelo by himself for a while (a year and a half!), but then I did want another doll, so I bought his wife. I felt kind of cruel making him be alone. D: They look so nice together on this chair in my room... As for my new tiny, I don't really know if I'll get a friend for her too. I like the idea of having a doll to be enjoyed individually. But, I am a sucker for romance stories. Maybe one day, I'll bring home a boy fox for her. I think it depends on how I feel about her once I've had her longer.

 

Yeah, I generally feel a need to have dolls in at least pairs, if not a larger group. I have a pair of tinies, whose concept is meant to be very matching with matching outfits and all. And I have a little doll 'family' I'm planning out too, which will be three or four dolls. It's okay if the sizes are a bit mixed, so long as they scale perfectly to each other, but I require that if they're meant to work as a pair or set that they are all from the same company and are all the same style aesthetically and proportionately.

I do have one exception, because she was a gift doll and I wouldn't normally buy a doll from that company. I'm not about to buy her a companion from the same company, just so they can match, when the style of that company's dolls doesn't even appeal to me in the first place! But I'm making her work for me, in her own unique way, and she's just kept separate from the rest as an... exception to a lot of rules, actually.

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I definitely felt the need to pair my MSD up with his girlfriend, then when I got my 70cm I got a 65cm to be his friend. Similarly I bought my mum a tiny, and she lamented that he didn't have a 'mummy', so I saved up and got her an MSD a while later. Since my own tiny is just a baby I didn't feel like he needed anyone other than his pre-existing family, and I am going to be getting one last doll (a 70cm woman) who is going to be part of the trio of larger dolls in my house. They're in a three musketeers-esque friendship, so I don't think I'll feel the need to get a fourth so that they can be in pairs. I do tend to feel the need for a doll of mine to have another doll to 'keep them company' though - otherwise my empathy goes into over drive and starts forcing emotions of loneliness and sadness. It's quite funny actually, back when I just had my first doll I used to give him the off-topic 1/6 dolls as friends, and it never felt quite right. Now my 70cm boy is sat quite happily with a monster high doll (the 65cm is waiting for his body and the 70cm girl is just an idea right now) so I guess different dolls create different responses in me.

 

Oh, dear me, yes... the dolls want friends/lover/relatives...!!!

I'm not compelled to do this, but it's always more fun to pose dolls with other dolls, and similar looks and sizes and some chemistry between them helps! So I think it's a natural thing to want to do (if really, really bad on the wallet!).

 

I feel like most of my dolls need pals or a partner that are the same size as them, but the one size I don't really feel tempted to get another of the same size of in the future for is my Yo-SD, I feel like it's because it's big enough to interact with my MSDs as kind of a littler one and also small enough to be able to play with my future tinies.
All my other sizes I would probably want to have another of it's size, like MSDs, SDs, and tinies I feel like need their own samesized mates.

 

Yes, I do feel like my dolls need friends, but not necessarily of the same size. My tiny can interact with my MSDs and I'm cool with that as long as he also has tiny props he can play with on his own. When I had an SD, though, it was really weird having her interact with my MSD and tiny and I humanized her and thought she might be lonely. lol. It's only that my biggest joy comes from posing and interaction and the hobby is significantly less enjoyable if I don't have two dolls to pose together.

 

I bought my girl specifically to be with my boy, but they are based on characters... Either way yes ^^

 

I bought or I'm gonna buy my dolls to fit a character, this OC has backstory and therefore I may pair them with other memebers of that backstory, and if I do then I decide which size would be better

 

I mostly avoid this, by owning dolls mostly of one size. But when I do buy dolls of different sizes, I do tend towards pairs. I have three Teenies (two bought together as twins) and two MSDs (bought together as friends). The only doll I have that doesn't have anyone her size is my Cylin, and I can mostly put up with that because she's not complete yet (I only have her head and fairy parts). Once she's complete, I'll probably want a friend for her as well

 

I can completely understand your feeling. I don't know if I feel the same way, yet, since I'm just getting my one doll who is an odd size at 52cm (A souldoll Vito size) but he's coupled/paired with my darling's MSD doll.

 

Some of my characters are in a relationship so when I shelled them, I prefer to pair them up. I find it easier for my dolls have a close enough size partner to interact with. And the ones who are in a relationship have enough background for me to work with.

My girl waited two years for me to get used to her odd size (50cm) before I got her a Souldoll Vito to shell her boyfriend. And I have a 70cm OC guy who is encouraging me to save up for an upsized shell for his wife(she exist as a much smaller OT doll at the moment but he does not have a smaller version like her since I didn't want dollify her family in the first place -_-' ). He seem kinda lonely without her around(or at least a similar scale version)

 

I have an SD girl and eventually I want a companion for her, male or female...my problem is I have spotted two I really love but they are Iplehouse and therefore are really expensive and no matter how hard I look no other doll compares to them.

I have three MSD dolls on order and another I'll be ordering once she's available to order, so yeah they will have companions.

My tiny is alone for now, I haven't found a similar sized doll that calls to me.

I wish I were made of money.

 

Yes I pair mine I have a family of dolls and they are all related in some way. My main couple is Rukia and Thomas they have two kids. She is MSD(48cm) and he is SD(60cm) he is bigger but not too much more like she is a small women and he is the tall well built man. They have the adult look so they are adults. With my smaller ones the MSD (40cm) May and Klaus. They have a teen look but Thomas and may are both Resin Soul so there siblings. may and Klaus are a couple there my teens. It's my Renji who now needs a girlfriend.