Agnes

Face-up artist(s):

Art Jjanji

Body blushing artist(s):

Arrived with it from the seller

Date of acquisition:

21 May 2021

Provenance:

Bought used on Japanese Y!Auctions

Reason for choice:

This sculpt was the second one I ever felt 'heartstruck' with - but she was a limited from 2016, four years before I started collecting BJDs. When she popped up on Yahoo Auctions right after I got a lot of backpay, during a stressful period in my life, I couldn't say no to myself.

Best Points:

Her sweet, soft expression and gentle puppy eyes

Worst Points:

The body blushing is chipped!

Eyes:

IntoX 'Sunset' 16/7

Wig:

Leekeworld W121_E (Sandy Brown)

Favourite colours:

Ivory, Lavender and Rose

Fashion style(s):

Dressing and Tea gowns from the 1890's, with significant influence from the Aesthetic movement.

Pre-Raphaelite & the Aesthetic movement, but she's homebound due to very poor health, so she spends all her time in dressing or tea gowns, depending on how she feels that day.

Name story:

Soft and noble without ending in an -a

Character age:

26

Character gender:

Female

Offsite roleplay:

This doll's character is not available for offsite roleplay.

But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror’s magic sights,
For often thro’ the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
And music, came from Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady of Shalott.​

Due to a lifetime of poor health, Agnes has spent most of her life at home, attended by her noble family's cadre of doctors and nannies. Suffering has made her gentle and compassionate, but hungry for all that life has denied her. She passes her mute hours daydreaming of lives she will never live; every day seems the same.

Agnes Dreaming by Dreadromantic, on Flickr