Is your doll part of an elaborate "world"?

I can say "Ditto" to this... Mine are for a novel series I am currently working on (and have been working on for a few years now ) It is a long process to find dolls that match preexisting characters, but I think it's part of the fun . Especially since all of my characters are humanoid descendents of mythical creatures.

Though I do have one doll that was a special event doll I got for free. She is unrelated to the other characters and their world, but she is still adorable.

 

Most of my dolls are based off of a story a friend and I were writing from the ages of 14-17. While it's been over 7 years since either of us has touched working on that thing (it was bad, bad bad bad!) I feel pretty attached to the characters still. It was a huge, elaborate world we'd built up, though. But, I'm the only one with any dolls included in this.

 

I feel in love with my first doll for representing one of the characters I wrote in a sort of quasi-medieval/post-apocalyptic story that is fairly elaborately constructed. When I faced the dilemma of how to dress him, I picked up ordinary clothes. So there he is, defiantly sitting around in modern clothes ("Hey, jeans are fine by me. Do you *know* how much chain mail weighs? As I don't need to kill things in the here and now, why would I bother?" and etc. etc.)
Of course I started to wonder what he and the other characters (once shelled as dolls) would be like as modern characters. It was interesting and it also gave surprising insight into the original story's power structures and plotline conflicts and character challenges. I started writing that modern AU (plus some pix) for some of the doll-inspired prompts on a doll community over on live journal. It kept getting bigger and eventually we took it off there into a website where it could get structured into larger sequences. Then the modern AU went off and decided to get very science-fiction alternative weird, it even dragged in other folks as co-writers, and it got pretty elaborate.
But it doesn't just go that one way. When I added a new doll simply because I liked it, with no particular character in mind at all (another new and strange experience for me, just liking a blank uninhabited doll)--the modern AU zipped out a new character for him (bada boom bada bing, !surprise!!) as if that was my plan all along. From that guy's story (he was pretty surprised too at what happened to him) grew a whole new set of associations, which grew into another two dolls. It's a pain trying to find resin bodies to suit atypical people who belong in a different sort of comic books than manga with pretty skinny yaoi boys, too.
Some characters originated by my co-writers insist on becoming be shelled as dolls too--they'll be very cool as dolls--and I think that may prompt yet more story generation.
They're all fun, but I think I have to figure out how to turn off the plotbunny generator, just for the sake of my wallet!

 

Yes, but it was all created around the doll and the feelings I get around Him as opposed to before I had him.. (although Im pre-planing for my next doll and how he fits in with the little prince.)

 

All My Dolls Will Have there own story line that will all tie in together with 2 or more worlds i pick my dolls based on a story or plot i already have but once i get them i will make up the full story and background for each and every one and make family friends and all that

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aah really interesting topic this is absolutely what I'm doing with my dolls. I have one main world although some characters will have alt versions. The whole thing was inspired by the dolls themselves, I just looked around found dolls I like and it somehow all fit together. At the centre of the story is one main imperial family and then smaller groups of characters, including gods and other unworldly beings, as well as characters from different dimensions. The story line is so big and detailed I can do anything I want! I love being able to find dolls that could be a part of it.

 

All of my dolls belong to stories. Some are more realistic and detailed than others, but this is more how my interest in the story goes. ((I sometimes feel I have the attention span of a hyperactive mayfly when it comes to working on stories and fleshing out characters.)) I didn't create the stories for my dolls, but some have been inspired by or sparked by their personalities.

At times I will create characters based on dolls that I would like to have but it's not so much that I want an excuse to have them ((though I think this might be part of it on a level my subconscious doesn't want me aware of)) it's more that I feel inspired by that particular dolls look or feel and want to create a character based on that. Usually when this happens the doll ends up a part of my collection but this isn't always the case. As the character gains more depth and detail it can sometimes evolve into something completely different and I'll have to continue the hunt for a doll that suits it better. That is generally why I wait until the character is 100% complete before I bring the doll home. I think I am too into planning things out for impulse buying... and my tendency to change my mind or make little adjustments here and there when inspiration strikes never seems to help.

All the dolls in my little world belong to me... but I think this is simply because I am a control freak... <-<;;

 

I do make up stories for my dolls and yes they live in their own little world.
All my dolls get involved with each other. And I just know that if I buy more dolls, they need/have to fit in this setting I've alreaddy made.

 

All of my doll's characters are from a very elaborate world I've had going over the past ten years or so. Some of the dolls are involved with each other, but other ones have separate stories, but they all exist in the same fantasy-verse.
I don't make characters for dolls and put them in the world. I take my preexisting characters and make them into dolls.

 

Yes. The reason I got into the bjd hobby was because I find it amazing that my characters can come alive through these dolls. My characters are part of an elaborate world. So far I have two of my characters as dolls, one is ordered and my best friend just got a doll who is the son of my dolls. We met last weekend and it was so much fun to have them interact. Who knew dolls could be so much fun?

 

(Laugh) Well, I tried really hard at first to come up with some cool, epic story for my dolls to fit into... and I tried a couple of different times, and nothing seemed to work. So I decided to just let it go.

Of course, as soon as I stopped caring about it, the dolls on my wishlist all jumped together and started making a story on their own. XP That's how it ALWAYS happens with me, so I'm not too surprised. XD

I'm planning on writing up at least part of their adventures into a story, and possibly making a photostory collection once I have more than one doll. We shall see.

 

All of my bjds are a part of one giant story I've been verrrryy slowly working on.
I started out collecting bjds to be characters for the main story but somewhere along the line a seprate group broke off and have started their own side story, a prequel I guess to the main story. I've bought several bjds now that didn't have characters before I decided to get the doll, but since I have this new story I've found places for all of them within the new story.
It's a good mix I guess, I can buy the bjds I want since I can find a place for them in the new story, but I can also collect the bjd that fit my older characters, and they all stay within the same universe.

 

Yes they are! Coming up with backstories, and finding dolls to fit into that little world is part of the fun of the hobby for me personally.

 

Yes, my dolls are (or rather, will be) part of a world I have set aside for them. I don't want to reveal too much, but I will say that said world is neither our world nor another, but sort of a limbo between the two. There are elements of fantasy and reality, where humans mingle with werewolves and mermaids, and where it can get dangerous to go out alone at night. That's where my boys are going to be.

 

No, they don't have a created world to live in. The dolls might be be "normal" or "fantasy" but they don't have their own world.

 

All of my dolls are original characters that exist in a human/real life based role play and interact with friends' characters. So, yes, they get pretty complicated! :P

 

Most of my dolls come from my novels, so they live in the world I created (I should say the worlds XD).

But I have planned to buy dolls to incarnate characters not belonging to me (like Isaac Laforeze, "Ralph" Trevor Belmont, Cecil Harvey, Emperor Mateus etc). I think I will let them in their original world or maybe give them little role in photostories, but nothing more.

 

I don't have a BJD yet, and I'm wavering on this point XDD

Initially I did want to have dolls that represented characters from an existing story of mine. I still want to do that... However, I have fallen head over heels in love with Feeple Roke - whose look doesn't fit with any character from that story. I can't make up my mind as to who should be first: Roke, or the character dolls.

 

Yes, still working on creating it, but I will have one

So far, I'm still trying to find proper models for some characters. Otherwise, I find some that just fall into place with what I have

 

I don't know if it counts as "elaborate" but yes.

They're siblings, half siblings, cousins, and friends in the Late-Victorian/Early-Edwardian era, and partly in the modern world - the bridge between the two being the Elves and half-elves among them. They have friends, cousins, and interaction with/among friend's dolls too.

My inspiration comes from the combination of "storybook real-life" and magic common in the books of E Nesbitt. Mostly their world is "the Nursery", although Sera is college age, so too old for the nursery and Jean-Claude is early teens, so getting there.

But it's not formally set out by me or anyone else, it just is and details become apparent as the gang interact with one another.

Teddy