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How Long Before You Named Them / The Importance of Naming

Jun 15, 2008

    1. I think I would feel bad keeping the doll's name the name of it's mold. I had a debate with myself over that, because I have a DZ Aleister on layaway, and Aleister has ALWAYS been one of my favorite names. I considered keeping it but then I felt like I would come off as unoriginal. *_* I think I'm just going to go ahead and name him Loki, then one day I'll get a doll to named Aleister.
       
    2. I named all my dolls before I got them. I even made up their background stories before I got them. Then I work with their face-ups and clothes to get the image for the character I have in mind.
       
    3. Most of my dolls I named before I get them. One was a name I really liked even before I heard about BJD's and It fit so well in what I was looking for in a character. My newest doll on the other hand was such a stumbled on purchase that I didn't name her for a couple of days because I just forgot she needed one!! I also have a doll coming that I don't have a name for yet because I'm not quite sure what I want to do with him yet so it might be a while.
       
    4. I make up all my dolls names and stories before I get them. then I just pick a doll I like that I think fits the character perfectly. All of my dolls had names long before they even arrived. When they get there I just customize them to fit the character perfectly.
       
    5. I have a B&G Freya and I would get comments about her looking like Chii (from chobits) with the wig she was wearing. I decided to keep her Freya to be Chi sister and get Chii later (as a B&G Sandra). I originally had no plans for her. She has always been Freya for me. But as of recently, she's been showing me that she doesn't want to be Freya. She doesn't want to be a Chobit. She wants to be an elf. SO while Freya would still be a perfectly good name for her, she it showing me that her personality may be a little bit not Freya. So while I still call her Freya, I am coming to realize that is not her name.

      I have a huge list of dolls that I want, and every single one of them has a planned name, personality, and everything! Freya was just my first doll and I just needed to get to know her first.
       
    6. I like to have a name before I have my dolls. I think it would bother me to actually have the doll and not be able to call him or her something. :|
       
    7. I have decided names for 8 dolls now, though I only have two of them at the moment. I usually first have the character and after that, I find a doll for it. Usually it happens like "she/he is so gorgeous, would make perfect *name*". Only one doll so far has made her character herself. After seeing her I just knew who she would be.

      For me, changing the name after I've decided on it, would be impossible. The name makes the personality, and I really don't know what to do because there is a name that tries to tell me "I am your next character, I'm like this, I behave like this, I look like this" but this name already belongs to my friend's character.
       
    8. My first two boys, Akiel and Raine, were/are based on two of my characters, so they were named before I even decided on their molds. :lol: But my only girl took a while to name, since I got her without a character in mind. I like for the names I chose to have meaning behind them and help express aspects of that character's personality. I named my girl Lithien (meaning "Daughter of Ashes") and she wound up being another character of mine later on. :sweat
       
    9. I didn't name my first doll for quite a few weeks, just kept thinking of her as Sooah - I just didn't come across the right name.
      Because I never had such a big doll before, my sister took to referring to her as the 'F-ing Enormous Doll' so I started thinking of her as the F.E. doll and that became Effie. Then she kept calling my BJD Tyler 'Freaky Tyler' and that stuck too.
      So now I try and think of a name before the doll arrives just in case she comes up with something totaly unsuitable that sticks!
       
    10. Most of my dolls I named before I got them. However, the few that I waited to give them names, I was able to name them within a few hours. Though I think that is because I spend oodles of time on my computer researching names. So I'll know what type of name I want (all my dolls are named after gods/goddesses) but it takes me a little while to nail down the exact name.
       
    11. All of my dolls have been named before I got them. Then again, I've got a pretty strict naming scheme: all of my current and planned SD sized dolls are named after pathogens and all of my current and planned MSD sized dolls are all based off a tabletop roleplaying game character and her mechanical minions. Their personalities and stories often change after I get the doll itself, though.
       
    12. It took me until I paid for Kiril to come up with his name. Before that, I'd been debating back and forth, but as soon as I paid, it was "Kiril," and it's stayed like that.
      Hiroshi I named soon after I got Kiril, and at this point "Hiroshi" didn't exist yet. So I looked for a doll to be him.
      Haneol I named as soon as I saw him in the MP ^^a;
      My '08 Man Head from Luts, tho.... He still doesn't have a set name yet (and it's been a few weeks now). He has three or four that he keeps drifting in and out of, so I've decided -- I'll just have to buy another of the same doll. ^^a;
       
    13. It took me a while to name my dolls. Even now I sometimes call Poppy (my BF May), May. It became a little easier to name them once I decided upon a theme - flowers - but now that I have a boy I haven't decided if I will continue the trend or not.

      Names are fluid for me, as well. I mean, I am not one to create a character before the doll actually arrives - and it takes a while for their personalities to develop. So the first name that I pick might not fit, but that's ok... a new, better name will emerge.

      For me, the doll itself is the constant - anything I add (wig, clothes, backstory, name) is just peripheral and can change according to my whims.
       
    14. It didn't take me very long to name my doll. The instant I saw the doll I've always wanted, she was named Mimi.
       
    15. I'm so bad with naming my dolls! I have one that I've had for a couple months now and he's still got no name, and I put very little effort into thinking up a good name for him. And I keep changing other dolls names around, even though I've had them for over a year. But I do have a few dolls who's names are rather important. I guess names don't really matter much for me.
       
    16. It took me about three days, I think, to name Toshi. I kept going back and forth and nothing just seemed to "fit" his personality or his character. ^^; I actually didn't plan anything about him, just knew that I totally loved him at first "blank slate" glance and thought that things would fall into place once I got him. (Which they did.)

      I've always been really picky with names, I have a tendency to name things. >_> Even the individual external hard drives of my computer have names.

      In the case of BJDs, I suppose the importance of names would depend on the owner and their reasons for owning their dolls. For Toshi, it was important that he have a name because he jumped out of the box and sort of acquired a character of his own. He didn't feel complete without a name. But I suppose, if I ended up getting a doll that seemed to want to be...fluid (for lack of a better word, it's 3am =_= - always changing style/faceup/species/whatever), then I wouldn't feel a name was necessary.
       
    17. My first doll her name changed about 50 times within the first 3 days of having her, then stayed as Mijikai for a year, and I just changed it to Demitria *Demi for short* after Metrocon lol, but the doll I'm still saving for *points to signature* already has a name ^^
       
    18. It took me a little over a month to name my first doll.
       
    19. I named them before they got here. Except for Keno.. He was kind of hard to do. I had thought of a few names before he came.. but none seemed to suit him until the name Keno came to mind. No idea where it came from..

      Im having a hard time coming up with a name for a girl doll I am planning to get. She is a tomboy.. so it cant be anything to girly.. x.x Iv been thinking over the name Kasidi, not sure if it suits her though.
       
    20. I name my dolls before they arrive. I give them names when I decide on the mold. Just a habit. But they're easily changed, and I change my mind quite often. But once they arrive, and I associate a name with them, I can't change it, no matter how much I'd like to, if that makes any sense at all.

      Once I give them a name, I can figure out their character, their identity, and they become mine, my dolls, and that's what helps me bond to them, to figure out where they belong in my little doll family. I find it vastly important (besides fun!).