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Who was your first doll? Do you still own him, her, or it?
My first doll was a DIM Achernar, he was my Judas 1.0 and I partly still own him.
He was a present from my father that's why I kept at least his head, even though it's not used by me anymore and is stashed away in the doll drawer all the time.
Who is your favorite doll?
I hate this question because I never know how to answer it Dx
I have favourites for many different things, like favourite doll to pose, buy stuff for, play with etc., but I think my Iplehouse Bibiane "Ryanne" is currently my favourite, also because I really like her doll and her partner Liam (Choco's Granado Hansel).
Which doll do you hope or plan to buy next?
I will buy Kazuhira's body next (custom Island Doll Norse body), and then most likely the body for Ocelot.
Especially Kaz' body is very important because then the chess pieces are finished so far.
Afterwards I will wait till a company releases a doll I'd like for the adult Ramin.
Quick! You've instantly got $800 and must choose a doll to spend it on right now or it's gone forever! Who do you pick?
Uuuuh, aaaah, that's hard because all the dolls I want are way more expensive than 800$ ;_;
If money wouldn't be an issue it would be a SD17 Williams or a male SOOM Amber, for 800$ there's no one really left I'd like to have X'D
Maybe a Volks DWC-01 or F16 from Mandarake.
Quick! You've instantly got enough money for any one and must choose a doll to spend it on right now or it's gone forever, but this time you have to buy the doll for someone else! Who gets the dolly, and what do you get them?
I would get Choco a brand new Iplehouse Dexter for the new Big Boss <3
From the rest I'd get a custom wig for him.
Are you currently waiting on any dolls, heads, or bodies?
I'm only waiting for Kazuhira's new head currently, I bought a second Andrew in their re-release in their new bronze skintone because I disliked the sunshine skintone from the first release. I'm glad they made a new tan AND re-released Andrew on top of that so I could finally get Kaz in a proper color.
Do any of your dolls seem to like you to the point that they are infatuated with you?
Do any of your dolls seem to dislike or even hate you?
I don't think of my dolls as living beings or things with "a soul", so I can't really answer these questions.
How many characters do you have in your story (if there is a story)?
I have two, but the first one is a bit of a mess and not very planned out and the second has a lot of characters I don't have as dolls and never will have, mostly because the dolls I have represent only a short timeframe of the actual story and before and after this timeframe characters died/were born and so on.
However, I have three dolls in the first story, and nine in the second.
Who's your most expensive doll at the time you purchased them, not counting items you bought separately for them?
Uffff...I think Herr Schwarz, my Iplehouse Arvid, was the most expensive.
I had to order him through CDS and had to pay a hefty fee for the light brown tan on top of that.
Which doll had the shortest wait so far?
My SOOM Afi. I got his head second-hand from a german collector, he arrived at my home after two days.
A week later I already got an offer for an Afi body on DoA and that body arrived barely a week later, without customs.
Who's the biggest doll you own?
Currently Hans is the biggest in height (Akagi body with CTY S. Adamas head), the beefiest one is Herr Schwarz with his EID body.
Got any floating heads? If yes, how likely are they to receive bodies anytime soon?
Yes, two.
A Granado Andrew (Kazuhira) and Granado Mads (Ocelot), Kazuhira will get his body as soon as I have his head at home since Islanddoll needs it to match his body.
No clue when Ocelot will get a body, but it's not high on my priority list since he's only a side project anyway.
I usually avoid floating heads.
Got any floating bodies?
Technically yes, but actually no.
Roman's body is currently headless since I'm waiting for someone to buy his Saint faceplates so I can buy him an old Saint head. I will just switch the faceplate system for a full head, and the look will be a bit different since I will most likely get an SA Saint instead of going for OE again.
Do you have any extra, unclaimed pairs of eyes? How many if so?
A lot, especially in blue XD
I also have a few eyes I only keep for commission purposes, like my 16mm ones (I don't have a doll that needs that size), and eyes that are just too special to sell. Can't say though how many, they are all sorted in boxes and Choco's spare eyes are in there too.
Do you have any extra, unclaimed wigs? How many if so?
The unclaimed ones I have are the ones I keep for commissions or because they are a limited color. But I don't have much wigs that are not used as second style for a doll, maybe 4 or 5?
I don't buy wigs often since my characters have usually all a pretty difficult style and I'm glad if they have one suitable wig XD
Anything you've said "never" to in the hobby that you later gave in to?
Fur wigs. Funny enough I'm now at a point that I want to toss them out again.
I basically went from "urgh fur wigs" to "fur wigs are awesome!" to "oh god, throw that thing away".
Alpaca and other mohair has spoiled me too much XD
Do you own dolls that aren't BJDs?
Yes, I own a Dollfie Dream, two Blythe and one Azone Pure Neemo.
I would love to have more DDs but I hate how quickly they stain and that all the molds I want are of course super expensive limiteds and I'm not interested enough in them to pay several hundred dollars for a head.
I'm currently madly in love with my Blythes though and have a lot of fun with them ;u;
What was your last doll-related purchase?
Uuuuh....eyechips for my Blythe Ambrosial, before that I traded a Rocking Horse outfit with a friend and bought a bunch of other clothes.
What do you expect your next doll-related purchase to be?
A new wig for Dok.
What was the last doll-related thing to arrive to you by mail?
A Dollheart coat and hat for Ramin.
What was the last doll-related thing you purchased in person?
I bought a wig from a friend when she visited us, it's a two-toned Leeke in their two gray tones and I have a weakness for two-toned wigs ´__`;
Okay, confess a secret about your BJDs that nobody knows about!!
I wouldn't say nobody because at least people who visited me knows about that...but all my dolls smell nice.
Every glass cabinet has one or two scented balls of wood hidden somewhere so when you open the cabinets or get the dolls out they smell nicely.
They smell usually fits the character, like Herr Schwarz smells like Davidoff Cool Water, Roman smells like the ocean and Salvatore like incense.
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My doll collection has one major topic, the one of temptation, something that my characters should not fall prey to.
For some that means to resist love, not to listen to the voices in their head and others just try to find peace in a cruel world.
My collection has currently three stories.
The biggest one is part of a major chess world project I have with my girlfriend ChocolateDecadence, I own the black pieces while she owns the white ones.
All my pieces are tan skin.
The second story has just started, it's about a prince and his two guards which are reincarnations of the sun and the moon.
I also sometimes have dolls that do not belong to any of these stories.
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