Doll Couples...Together or Separate?

My first doll was my Youko, and he wasn't really meant to be with anyone. Period. I fell in love with his sculpt and wanted him badly. I've had him since the beginning of July. Earlier this month, I got hold of a DZ Mo on Ebay. When he got here, I sat him next to Youko (Mo is an MSD, which I hadn't owned before and I wanted to see the size difference firsthand). Next thing I know, Youko's arm snapped around Takai (he's strung too tightly and this happens sometimes), and I thought "Wow, they look like siblings." Yep. Youko now has a little brother, and he's perfectly content with this.

 

i don't plan couples. they just happen. Beryl picked her man and not the one i thought it would be. and Rourke picked Couper. he was head over heels for her from the get go. they make the cutest couple. even the msd and tiny kids gravitate towards them like Mom and Dad. Beryl does not like kids so she is all too happy with this.

 

I bought Arra for Larten several months after I bought him. I didn't really plan it. She just had the perfect Arra face. Now that I'm contemplating selling them, the thought of them being separated makes me sad.

 

I had Aki's character set out and with a "boyfriend" but didn't get the bf until a couple years later. And then a couple after that I traded Aki's msd for a SD and they've been together since although there characters are married. Though I do more with commissions of them then the actually dolls..lol but right now the dolls are cuddling and have been in that position for a while haha.

 

My BJD's are characters in a book I'm writing and so they already have romances or villians, etc. For me I'm starting with my MC and once I have her then I look for the sculpt that best fits the Villian and the other characters in the story. But I don't usually purchase them together... unless it's a good deal. :P

 

except my first pair of couple is gradually changed into a pair of couple, just found them too cute to be together
later, the new coming dolls are also grouped into couples lol
it will be kinda sad if he/she is alone lol

 

I have made my Faith and Hope a couple. But I have a strong feeling that Hope will fall in love with Sophie once she arrive. So I guess Faith will have to be heart broken until she found another half.

 

I had originally planned on my first doll being just a stand-alone doll of one of my OC's that I've drawn and RPed with. However, when a friend of mine purchased her doll, the OC that she had based him off of changed my mind, and so with much coaxing from said friend, I decided to instead, base my first doll on another one of my OC's; one who had been a part of one of our favorite RP plots. Shou and Jesper were among our favorite couples mostly because they weren't just thrown together and poof...they're lovers. No...their relationship actually developed in a semi-realistic manner with many ups and downs and we just loved those two to pieces. So anywho...to go with Shou...I went seeking a doll that would best portray my Jesper.

The only key factor that I had to keep in mind when searching for my doll was to make sure that his height and overall dimensions weren't too big or too small in comparison to my friend's doll. For example; Shou is a 1/3 scale doll, so I didn't want to get a 70+ cm or 50cm or under doll, especially given that the, based on the two boys' profiles, they were very similar to height, so I had to keep that in mind. We purchased our dolls at separate times because I had planned on waiting a little longer to get my doll due to financial reasons, but I tried to make sure I ordered him at a time where I would receive him before I go to visit said friend for Halloween so that we could do a photoshoot with the two of them. Pics will be coming very soon.

 

My doll did have a partner before I bought him, a character of a friend's, who would never turn into a doll. But then when I got him he started showing interest in one of the dolls my friend did have, so, well, that was that...
I do have a number of other dolls that I'm planning to get, and some of them are couples, some are characters that are already couple to the above-mentioned friend and dolls she have/is planning to get, and some are, like Tiyu was originally, coupled with characters that will never be dolls... but who knows, that might change once they're home...

 

Well, with the doll I just bought I'll now have the same couple in both child and adult forms. I guess I'm okay with that! XD

 

I had actually ordered a girl doll first and a boy doll second, but my boy got here in record time! I was so excited! My fiancee and I got the gang out to get pictures of and with the newest member (which was my first physical doll!). Her 1/3 that she had just gotten and my boy (also 1/3) sat together and... their hands just fit perfectly together. It was like the molds were made for each other, despite being two different sizes and from two different companies. The picture with them together just turned out to be amazing. My boy always seems to look better in photos whenever she's around. It wasn't planned or anything, but that was how our couple got started. We now take pictures/photo stories of them on dates. They're so cute together!

 

Pretty sure I haven't answered this, so...

Was it planed and did you order them around the same time?

I planned two of my boys as a sort of 'found' family unit and ordered them together so that one of them wouldn't be waiting around for the other all alone.

Currently, I am saving up for a doll to embody a character of mine. She has a fiance, but I won't be ordering them together-- first, because they're more expensive than anyone I've bought so far and I want to bring her home and then start saving over again rather than try to save up a couple thousand dollars to complete and bring them home together. That way I can work on building up her wardrobe while I save for her man. Also, in her story, she spends a period of time losing him and having to find/rescue him, so for them, it does make sense to order her first and let her wait.

Did you have one first and realize they needed a partner?

With Vince, the opposite happened-- I thought I would be saving up to get him a significant other, and as I've had him, I've realized that isn't what 'he' wants.

Did you plan a couple get one first, then get the other?

Not yet, but I'm saving for one now who will eventually also get a significant other.

Or does a friend have one and you have the other?

Never done that and I don't think I ever will. The closest I'll come to that is that I do want to buy dolls of characters I developed roleplaying, and so they do have friends/loved ones who are characters created by a friend of mine. I would still be buying and owning the dolls, since these are roleplaying games that started independent of this hobby with friends who don't collect dolls.

Or did it happen a completely different way?

I think all my own experiences are covered-- one (non-sexual) pair I ordered together, one pair I'll be saving to buy separately, and then Vince who wound up not needing a boyfriend or a girlfriend after all.

 

actually, all of my dolls are from a book i'm writing. I bought one of the main couples in my book, however in the story they're actually supposed to hate each other. When I started taking pictures of them together, I wound up falling in love with how they looked together, so I actually rearranged the ENTIRE book so that they can actually get along in the story XD These dolls totally have a mind of their own!

 

My dolls are all characters in stories I'm writing so most relationships are already planned out. Sometimes though I find characters just telling me that another doll fits certain character's better, or that they were meant to be someone else. They really seem to have a mind of their own. So I find that the relationships between characters are always changing.