For those of you with dolls who have lovers.. (or want one)

Actually, my first doll I found because I'm planning on her being in a couple. I found Homme Ducan, and while I was saving up for him I searched for his perfect lover, and found Granado's Fayette, and I needed her with that flower so I got her first. Their kid was also exclusive to MOC and was discontinued, so I made sure to get him before they ran out of stock. Next I have another special edition doll, then hopefully Ducan lol.
So long story short, My doll does have a lover, he's just not home yet

 

At first I planned out a story for Aharon and got him a girl, but in the end they both turned out completly uninterested in each other. Lucy went off with a girl belonging to a friend of mine. At first Aharon fell for a boy over the internet, but it did not work out. Currenty he is in fact dating a muggle (as me an my friends like to put it) who never heard of BJD's before him, but accepts the kid just as he is. So it's all well so far.

 

I (will) own both the dolls involved in a pairing. While my "family" I'm currently saving for was made by my friend and I she doesn't have the funds to pay for dolls. And she also moved over 900 miles away so it's difficult for us.

 

My dolls don't like to be tied down.

 

I prefer to own both dolls, but I'm not opposed to a doll having a relationship with someone else's doll. As far as enjoying the relationship, I'm not really sure. They sit together, go to cons together, take pictures together, ect. For my couple I was lucky enough to buy them both together. They were always meant to be together, and honestly their relationship is so much a part of their character that if I had only been able to get one of them I don't think I would have gotten either.

 

My dolls only like each other. It would be hard for me to see them like other people's dolls. I'd rather them like one anther.

 

-Do you prefer to have your doll fall for one of your own dolls or someone else's? Why?
Since my dolls are from a "closed" storyline, their significant others will be from the same story and thus in my possession. If I ever get a doll I'd "RP" with, I wouldn't mind them hooking up with someone else's doll, but I don't see that happening in a hurry. They might make friends outside their story, but no relationships.

-If both your own, what do you do to enjoy said relationship?
As one of my pair is still waiting for a body, I haven't had the chance ... but I'll probably have them sitting together/cuddling more than the others, and they'll get to live their relationship in the photostories too Apart from that I'll just see what happens.

-When you get or got the second doll, do you or did you plan to have him/her be your first doll's love or it just turned out that way?
Since they're from a pre-existing story, I planned it. I knew from the start I was going to get both or none at all, I've been planning on them to be my first dolls ever since I decided which story's characters to "dollify" and so they will be.

 

I am planning to have both types of couples, one within my own collection and one between different owners. I don't really have a preference, both are fine. I do prefer in person, though. The person who owns one of the dolls my doll is coupled with just moved but we were planning on doing photo stories and have been creating their backgrounds. As for the couple that I'll have in my possession, I plan to do photo stories.

 

I could never have a doll whose Significant Other was owned by someone else. The two dolls that I have are a couple and I bought them intending for them to be a couple. I like photographing them together, or posing them when they're not being used in "couple-y" poses. That, and I'd feel bad for giving a doll a long-distance relationship, as odd as that might sound.

 

My DD girl is dating my friends Kizdoll Saiy, my Island doll Amy is dating a doll owned by another friend, and my DollZone Mo is dating her girl.
The story of my DD girl, Suzume, is the most entertaining. I went to a doll meet at Otakon about two years ago with my DD Yukino, whom I named Suzume. We hit it off immediately and joked about how we wanted to have partners for our dolls, but neither of us had doll friends where we live. We both thought the same thing at once- pair her boy, Saiy, and my Suzume. We took a bunch of pictures them together that weekend, it was great! We've kept in touch and met up a few times since then. We even sent letters as Saiy and Suzume to each other with small gifts.

My Island Doll girl, Chii, is dating a boy owned by a different friend. I'm not sure of his sculpt, but his name is Chai. I've been friends with her for years now, and initially Chai was dating her girl, Azura (DollZone Annie). She decided at some point a little bit ago that she didn't like them as a couple anymore, so we thought it would be nice to have Chii and Chai date. I've seen her since then and we took some pictures of them together. I recently bought a Dollzone Mo and now he's been paired with her Azura, but I have not seen her since they became a couple, so no pictures exist of them together yet.

 

My dolls tend toward being based on existing OCs, so their significant others are also part of that story, and I do own them together, which is the way I'd prefer it.

I also have one boy who is a fan character and was meant to just sort of be off on his own as a special extra doll, but after playing the same character in an RP where he found a lover, I'm seriously shopping around for a doll to turn into that character as well.

The others, who are just sort of developing as I go, so far don't seem like they have any interests that way, and for my wallet's sake I sort of hope it stays that way.

I don't think I could do a couple where I owned one half and another person owned the other half, I'd rather be able to pose them together on my shelves than to just have a few pictures here and there.

 

Would you rather have their ideal significant other in your own possession or seek out someone else with said ideals? I would rather have them in my possession, then I could pose them together and make up my own back-story for them both.

My MNF Chloe does have an identical twin who lives in another country, but I wouldn't have a partner living somewhere else.

 

I do have dolls in relationships, and prefer to own all of them myself. Of the characters that are paired, I have only acquired one full pair. In order to enjoy their relationship, I take photos of them together. I also write fiction of them and of the other pairings that I don't yet have dolls for yet

 

-Do you prefer to have your doll fall for one of your own dolls or someone else's? Why?
Yes. I feel like I can create a better storyline if I own the doll and I have created the character and are more familiar with said character.

-If someone else's. In person or internet?
They both have their benefits as well as draw backs
If its someone i know Id rather it be someone i know well who understands that it is more of the interest of creating a storyline
On the internet you do get the benefit of being somewhat anonymous but sometimes like any online relationship of sorts there are still dangers.

-If you have the choice of either (ruling out financial problems, originality or lack of, etc), which would you prefer?
But I dont think id prefer wither

-If your doll's significant other has a different owner, do you take pictures, role play, chat in-character, have their backstories figured out, plan out their future or do anything else with the dolls? Id be willing to take pictures and perhaps figure out a story of sorts beyond that I do not know.

-If both your own, what do you do to enjoy said relationship?
I create an interesting story and take pictures.

I do have kind of a couple
They are Cadmus and Delphinia

However my doll Loki gets jealous

Sometimes Id be half tempted to create a "grown up" version of him as there is something I like about the pairing of Loki and Delphinia

If i do that maybe there will be a love triangle of sorts who knows?

 

-Do you prefer to have your doll fall for one of your own dolls or someone else's? Why?
I prefer to own both dolls. This way I can control their entire story line and change or add to it without conflict. I would however love to have my doll be best friends with someone else's doll.

-If someone else's. In person or internet
see above

-If you have the choice of either (ruling out financial problems, originality or lack of, etc), which would you prefer?
I would prefer to own all of my own doll couples.

-If your doll's significant other has a different owner, do you take pictures, role play, chat in-character, have their backstories figured out, plan out their future or do anything else with the dolls? n/a

-If both your own, what do you do to enjoy said relationship?
I plan to take photos and possibly a photo story at some point.

 

A few of my planned doll sets include lovers My next full doll is going to be Siri, Leah's girlfriend, and once I get Michael home, I'm going to get his boyfriend Cordiel a body.

All of my dolls are my original characters, some of whom spawned from roleplay ideas. My dolls have storylines with my friends' dolls (okay, my friend's doll), but no relationships as of yet. One of my planned dolls, Hikaru, is supposed to end up dating one of her planned dolls, Iago. In the future, another friend of mine and I might shell one or two of our characters, in which case they'd be long-distance lovers. Considering our characters' stories, though, that's the least trauma they'd have to endure

All of my planned pairs so far were planned in the story, or just ended up happening in the story, but I wouldn't be adverse to two of my single dolls ending up as a pair. Even if it only works on a meta level instead of in their actual stories (my dolls' characters exist on two levels: the story level, where they're representations of characters in my writing and act out scenes from their stories; and the meta level, where they have their personalities, but exist as my dolls in the real world--if dolls in the real world talked and moved on their own).

 

My current pair of boys are in a hate/love relationship if that counts! I definitely prefer for my dolls to be together with me since I can decide stories and plan out photos a bit better. I haven't really been in the role-playing scene so I wouldn't have experience in talking to other owner's dolls through the internet. I like making them pose and yep...

A recent photo of them!

 

-Do you prefer to have your doll fall for one of your own dolls or someone else's? Why?
I would definitely have to own both dolls. I'm too much of a control freak to let anyone else be involved in my dolls' stories

-If both your own, what do you do to enjoy said relationship?
I write about the dolls' characters and photograph them together. I also make props related to their relationships (like love letters or meaningful gifts).

-When you get or got the second doll, do you or did you plan to have him/her be your first doll's love or it just turned out that way?
This has varied a little bit. When I bought Seira (my Migma), I wasn't expecting her to be involved with Falx (my Galena). It just sort of grew organically out of writing their characters and photographing them together. On the other hand, when I bought Dante (my Alex), I knew she and Löwe (my Chrom) would have a... complicated relationship. And my Rosette girls, Adelaide and Sophie have exactly the kind of relationship I knew they'd have when I bought them (which isn't quite a 'real' relationship, but is definitely more than friendship).

 

I have actually had it happen where I was going to have a doll relationship with one of mine and my friend was going to get one to go with him. But that friend never actually got the sculpt, so I literally did nothing with this doll accept a few face-ups. That friend has since left the hobby and we are no longer on speaking terms. So with that, I changed the character. It felt awkward at first, and I still even catch myself calling him by his old name. But now, I'm saving up to buy his girlfriend, and change his clothes/wig/eyes so he'll look more like the character I've changed him to and hopefully that will help.

So in other words, I know that I will keep all my pairs to myself. I like this better anyway, because if your doll's partner is not always available, you can't take pictures of them whenever you want . And then they just seem lonely all the time.

 

I have several dolls that are in relationships. Three of the couples I own both dolls, two couples I only own one doll.

For me it's been just trying to figure out the dolls character, or I would purchase a new doll and just knew they were meant to be together. It's nice owning both dolls because you can take nice couples photos with them at any time.

The other two dolls, my best friend owns their other half. I've sent letters in the mail from my dolls, post cards, and even did a photostory of my girl missing her man during the holidays when we were too busy to hang out. I even made my girl a locket with his photo in it. She wears it all the time.

I think it's kinda fun also when a good friend owns the other half of the couple. You can actually role play their stories out and exchange gifts and things. (This makes being single at V-Day a little better.) I guess it's all really down to personal taste, and if you can afford to own both dolls or not.