No "character" doll owners

As for me... The names, character and personality starts a bond between me and my dolls... It's like you're giving them a soul. I created a story based on the doll how I see them... The mold also influences their character, personality and the story itself... My story evolved around them as they come to me... I cannot imagine myself owning a doll with no specific character...

 

No, you're certainly not alone, I also own a couple of dolls that don't have a character or at least not one that would go beyond having a name and that's all.

I also usually just buy dolls, because they visually appeal to me and not because I have a character for them in mind. I couldn't care less for the latter. Eventually some of my dolls develop some kind of character or at least some kind of relationship to my other dolls over the years, but it's not always the case and I don't worry if it doesn't happen either.

 

None of my dolls in all these years have had a story, a background or similars, so, there is no story in common for them or anything. For me my dolls, are just that, dolls, and I "play" with them and consider them as some kind of art, otherwhise I'm afraid I wouldn't have them because jus the fact of having to think in stories and such would stress me quite a lot.

But it seems real, although they don't have a story or background, they have a very defined personality. When I see a mold I like and plan to buy, I have an idea of what I wanna do with it, wig, face up, eyes, style... And every single time when the doll has been home she/he has rebelled, so at the end all my dolls have turned up into a whole different thing rather than the original idea which doesn't make me very happy beause it implies spending a lot of money! It looks like they're dolls but have a personality of their very own and although they don't have story or a character, it's obvious much to my dismay.

 

There are many owners who have characters and stories there are many who do not

I have half and half - all have names because eventually you need to refer to your doll(s) either in posts or other stuff, it became a little odd to refer to it as "company doll mold name" or my doll

many people name or give a somewhat stories to their dolls because it adds concepts for photos... it is similar to developing styles in painting etc

 

if i spend such a load of money into whatever, i must love it and name it and and and.... etc
if my boyfriend draws eyes and a mouth to a piece of paper, i can't discard it anymore, then he makes a cute voice and the piece of paper lives on my desk... i think then theres no problem to love a doll like a real child or a piece of my self hehe, the charakter comes automaticly i think. and i'm not a RPler or something, may a little shizoid, so i think that "hobby" is good for me, and bad for my money lol i have a little idea but nothing more, it's a surprise. but for a simple decorating object... way to cute and way to expensive. but may... nothing is happen to my feelings, or may a personality comes up with.
i can't tell really, cause it's a little therapy for me too. in fact puppets, Dolls etc.. scare me like hell x.x
but this sort of dolls doesn't fear me at all yay

nya anyway all i want to say is, i don't buy a doll and write his/her whole pesonality and biography down before, or buy it after a charakters build.

 

My dolls were chosen simply because I thought they were cute. They weren't chosen to "shell a character" and don't have back-stories. Once they arrive I do name them and they sort of develop personalities as far as the style of clothes I dress them in. I enjoy dressing them and posing them for photos but they don't interact with each other and I suck at making up photo stories. I mostly have them because I enjoy pretty things and wasn't allowed them as a child.

 

None of my dolls have characters, in fact I find it difficult to say they even have names. I've "named" them, but their name doesn't indicate a personality. They are blank canvases to me, they become whoever and whatever I need them to be at the time. They don't have 'default' outfits, they don't even have specific eye/wig combinations. My dolls are very dynamic, and change all the time.

 

Nope! None of my dolls have characters put to them ^_^

I treat my dolls like they are friends I've just made. I know a little bit about them based on first appearances, but I don't create a background story.

I wouldn't make up a detailed plot for my wife's best childhood friend simply because that friend already has a life story :-)

So, that's how I treat my dolls. If something comes a long that I think my dolls might be able to use in a photoshoot, I tend to treat that item like a Christmas gift. The doll may or may not be able to use it in a photoshoot.

And usually, this kind of thinking is true! I've gotten my dolls plenty of things that just didn't seem "right" for them. (My Littlefee has a camera that is totally not acceptable for photos I take of her. Why? I don't know. I just can't ever get the kind of photo I want to get when she uses that camera.

(I did get her a different camera -- MUCH different than the one she already had. Turns out, my Pukifee LOVES the new camera, but my Littlefee only uses it 5% of the time. I guess she's just not a photographer :-) )

Yup, that's it. ^_^

 

We have a doll without story. She's a baby, so she only has a name. Neither we take photos of her as we do with the others, she's just a cute doll to look at.

 

None of my dolls, BJD or others, have a character. I do give them names though, I always have. As I'm around them, dress them, pose them, interact with them, see them daily, they start to take on different ideas in my head, different personas. I don't develop a character plot nor do I set and back story in stone, but they do start to take on personalities to me and sometimes I will attach them to a loose outline of what I think their lives would be like but nothing more than that.

 

Maybe it will come with time, but my dolls haven't a character. Don't know, maybe it is just a matter of age? As a kid I had some dolls with character and history etc., but others "personalities" were blurred, even if they had names.

Actually IMO it's cool to have a doll with a background, I like to read about it from other owners, but for now I'm not even sure about the optical style I want to give to my BJDs. But I'm new, you know...

 

I got into BJD's in part to give ideas in my head some life. So my first doll (who is on her way to me) already has a character/plot. However, all dolls (none of them being BJDs) beforehand have had no character, just a name. I guess it's just personal preference.

 

Ahh that happens to me too!! There's a term for this, but I'm one who often feels sympathetic for inanimate objects. Thats more the way I treat my dolls too.

Since I don't write or anything, (which is where I'm assuming the characters are coming from) I don't have any characters. My written stories are so horrendous. xD

My dolls will probably have mild relations to each other, but nothing intense that requires a title of "lover" or "boyfriend/girlfriend" etc.

 

This is a really interesting thread to me, because I can't imagine one of my dolls NOT having a character! The idea of having an empty resin shell completely mistifies me. Of course, I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do; people can do whatever they like with their dolls. But for me, the whole concept of a doll without a character is just... bizarre!
How can you HELP the dolls having a character? BJDs have such expressive faces. Even their bodies are expressive. Surely the doll just tells you its character, sooner or later? How do you not look at your doll and say, "Ah, he's a shy boy who asserts himself when he's pushed" or "This girl is intellectual and rather haughty, though she's very loyal to those she cares about". Things like... I dunno, chairs and tables and things, I can imagine not giving them personalities (though I do anyway). But BJDs have faces and eyes and expressions!
Needless to say, my dolls have very intricate back-stories and complex characters. I've only had these characters for a year or so, whereas I've had other characters that have stuck in my head for the last decade- and they were REALLY complex, bafflingly so.
It's always so fascinating to see just how much this hobby can differ from person to person ^^

 

My dolls don't really have characters either. What they do have is semi-contrived (meaning they have names and made-up personalities) and isn't part of any of my creative endeavors (meaning any stories, comics, or RPG plots I"m writing). In fact, all of the characters I've tried to find dolls for just don't fit any.

 

the main reason i have characters for my dolls is because they're part of pre-existing stories/books i'm trying to write. i actually got into bjd partially so i could have the characters there, in front of me, while i'm writing. so i think it's understandable to be the complete opposite, and only want the dolls because they're dolls!

 

Oh good, so I'm not the only one :XD I was sort of surprised to see how many doll owners have dolls that are based on their OCs or some other character! My dolls don't have any characters, I just bought them because I liked how they look... they exuded a sort of feeling/aura that I found attractive. I have way too many OCs and I find that it's hard to get a doll for each one and to try and find the perfect sculpt for it. I just get the dolls I like and make up a little story for them from there.

 

My dolls don't have characters. That doesn't mean their empty though! They do have STRONG personality :3 They are my little people and they make themselves known to me, but I have no stories for them. They just simply exist as dolls with souls

 

None of my dolls have concrete characters assigned to them. About half of them don't even have special names; I've just kept their sculpt names.
I like to dress them up, I like to draw them, I like to pose them, I like to paint their faces (and sometimes their bodies), I like to make things for them, I like to photograph them. I might like them to look a certain way because of my own proclivities, but that's about as close to imbuing them with personality as I get.​