Picking a partner for your doll

I have first the characters picked out, and then I try to find doll as similar as possible to that vision. So, I have not experience similar problem. But, hey, maybe your second boy wants to be single? xD

 

My dolls are around the same height and I go for realistic looks when picking my sculpts so they don't look weird standing next to each other. So far, seems to work for me.

 

My husband and wife are same company. We saw a girl IRL and they can share clothes, wigs, and shoes which helps on the budget and sewing side. The hard part was picking the face mold but user pictures and thinking hard about who she was helped out. One of the kids is same brand and one is another but that was all about looking like their parents. I also have identical mold twin brothers.

 

For the most part, the characters already exist (in other media, as my own OC art, or as concepts that are coming together), so it's mainly a matter of finding a sculpt that looks similar and falls within any other restrictions I have for the group. Where I can, I like to have height dynamics between pairings or groupings of dolls as well. For instance, in one couple, one boy is considerably shorter than the other; in a pair of brothers, both have head sculpts from the same company, but one is a hybrid to give them different heights. Oftentimes, if I have multiple potential sculpts, I'll look at the height of the dolls to narrow things down that way.

 

I bought a couple to begin with, they're from the same company so very compatible (even though the characters aren't really supposed to be)

 

I have been looking for a long time for a partner for my doll.... I guess maybe I'm super picky and haven't found the perfect male sculpt that compliments her.... Shes getting a sister, so I hope I don't find one for her first!

 

For me, the characters usually already exist, so the only moment this doesn't work out is when a doll doesn't work for the character I intended it for. Some of them have been reshelled for that reason (one of them or even both), but usually I get it right in the end. I started out with dolls from the same company and they work together perfectly, but they have still been turned into different characters. But hey, they're a couple As long as I get some kind of vibe from them together, it works. Having said that, I'm about to pair a Fifth Motif Venitu with Angell-Studio Sherry (on a Maskcatdoll body), who is both significantly shorter and a lot more stylised. I have no idea how this will turn out, but I'm going to try because I adore both dolls and individually they are perfect for the characters. If it works, yay! If it doesn't, I suppose I'll have to find a solution. So far I've never NOT found a character's SO, so I'll get there in the end

 

For my dolls I tend to first create the story and then to buy the dolls to "incorporate" the characters. That way I still haven't had any problems

 

I just let it happen. Dolls of mine naturally gravitate towards each other.

 

I like for them to have partners and want to eventually have a little family unit of three. I think clicking important, though I decide this based on whether or not they look good together. Thankfully William and Soren are a good match, in my opinion.

Height, size and appearance are important factors for me. If one doll is much taller than the other, I guess I wouldn't mind so much as long as the body proportions are not obviously different. But I think half a head bigger is the most I would personally want.

My dolls don't have set characters, so I think this is a bit easier for me to do. If personality was another thing I had to factor in prior to purchase, it would be another hurdle to tackle.

 

Since all my dolls (and their significant others) come from my characters, I already know the basics of what I want. I also try to find sculpts that will look nice together, that definitely helps. I also feel as though getting the doll's wig, faceup, and clothes just so really helps to get the character to click just right, in my experience.

 

My dolls start as OCs in my RP, but sometimes two surprise me and become a couple, or two I want paired don't work out. I bought boyfriends for both Amir and Parker, and Amir rejected TWO guys I bought for him (one is still in the house with his own story now), Parker dated his for a little bit but it fizzled (still own and adore the doll/character). Both currently are in relationships with dolls I had no plans to own. In RP, I created a side character meant mostly to be a NPC filler character, and Amir fell for him and I had to shell him. In Parker's case, I was planning to sell a doll, and just felt this sudden strong urge, AFTER I listed him, to repaint him and make a boyfriend for Parker. It worked, though I ended up reshelling him later to a sculpt I liked better.

Some of my dolls are also in relationships with other people's dolls through roleplay online. I'm not picky about sculpts in this case, just about how compatible they are in rp.

Still, I have others who are completely fine staying single. Kier, for example, is asexual/aromantic. So there's one doll I'll never need to buy! (Instead, I just had to buy his brothers and cousins...>.> )

 

I don't really do the "dolly-fic/dolly-roleplay" thing with my crew (Even though a fair number of them are resin avatars for favorite tabletop RPG and MMO characters, with often extensively detailed characters behind them-). The few potential couples that I've had over here that just didn't work out were always a matter of the sculpts not looking right together rather than anything to do with the characters... The heads were badly matched in size, the features weren't in scale, the sculptural style/level of realism was off... That sort of thing.

My one hard and fast rule for this collection has always been that the dolls I wanted to pose and photograph together had to "match" enough to look good together... That's as true for my couples as it is for my friend/sibling groups.

 

I have that exact problem right now. My boy doll has a brother, which I'm looking to get soon, but I can't decide on his orientation hence the entire boy/girl couple issue. I'm hoping to solve this dilemma soon, but in the meantime, the brother should take the edge of his loneliness and they can be there for one another!

 

I've never considered having doll partners before and wasn't too fussed about it since I was going to let most of my characters build themselves once I got them... that was until I saw Be with you's age27 Wood. I thought paring him with EID Asa would hopefully be something interesting, since they're the only two very large dolls that I've ever (so far) wanted, and wish some sort of relationship between the two, plus they seem like quite a cute couple I don't have either of them yet, but hopefully when I do they go well together :P

 

My characters are all pre-existing and my dolls are simply their resin avatars. Usually when my dolls have partners, the couple is already well established as characters, and it's just a matter of finding dolls that fit them.

 

I'm still waiting for my first doll but I'm already saving for his partner. ^_^

 

My girls are all young single teenage girls who don't date lol ... I never intend to get them partners!

 

The personality of my boy is that he's quite spacey, talented and creative, but not the most social. However, I wanted him to have someone he is very close to, but more as a very close friend, or a non-romantic soulmate. That's when I decided he would suit having a smaller girl to kind of look after but look up to at the same time. I decided to buy Alazea (a KS-Doll Moonstone MSD). She looks a lot younger than him (he's a RingDoll Andrew so he still looks young) but she'll be older than him. I found this kind of tradeoff between youthful looks and age/ maturity would mean that they both compliment each other~

I'm not saying that my boy (Bartholomew is his name) would be immature, but Azaleas wisdom would show through despite her size and looks~