Vallant

Face-up artist(s):

unknown, probably a Korean artist

Body blushing artist(s):

me

Date of acquisition:

23 January 2023 (head) // 1 July 2023 (body)

Provenance:

Y!JA (head) // Taobao (body)

Reason for choice:

I'd been looking for another boy to join the crew for a while. Every male sculpt that caught my eye got compared to my Dollstown Mui, and was found wanting. Mars was the first one who was *not* found wanting. So he came home.
DF-H seemed to have all the aesthetic and posing qualities that I wanted, and they offered resin matching as well.

Best Points:

He's awfully handsome - Kana sure sculpts a good face. The DF-H body is engineered for versatility and I can get him to do all kinds of cool poses...

Worst Points:

...but the body's sculpting really lacks natural curves and rhythm. Of all my crew he's the only one that always looks stiff instead of relaxed, so I have to introduce relaxedness into his posing. I think his default hands are atrociously sculpted so I ditched them for much better Volks hands. His legs have *zero* natural curves, look shapeless in pants, and they're sculpted too thin for his upper body so he feels top-heavy. Unfortunately legs can't be replaced.

Eyes:

Soul in a Box, 14/6mm green-orange gradient

Wig:

Mu暮 8-9" milk white (Taobao)

Favourite colours:

light neutrals - green, white, brown, grey

Fashion style(s):

Forever wearing a white T-shirt

Key fashion accessory:

he needs no accessories

Maintenance: Elastic - 3.5-4mm diameter arms, 4.5mm diameter body. Joints sueded with pleather, arms wired with 1.5mm/14gauge coated aluminium.

Name story:

valorous griffin rampant

Offsite roleplay:

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

Alke Vallant, angel of courage.

Playful, affectionate, elusive.
His bird aspect is a griffin (sea eagle), and his season is winter solstice.

The third angel to arrive. He was comatose for half a year and slow to wake, but awaken he did and all at once. Playful and warm - when he's happy, he'll jump on you; when he's angry, he'll also jump on you. But something about him remains shy and hidden. He won't talk about the trauma that brought him to the sanctuary.


Justinian says,
"No, I don't understand what happens when we get enfleshed, but I'm telling you I don't care about that. Fine, maybe what I did was unlawful, whatever. But I know what I saw. He was lying there, in pieces, too broken up to bond to all his new flesh. His wings were torn out, gone -- the fires all going out ... that's the hand of dark forces right there. And you're telling me to turn away from that, to let darkness have the last word? What's the unlawful thing now? Of course I had to save him."


Syr says,
"Yep, we play go sometimes. Hehe, I beat him all the time - we're usually done before he's finished chatting. I try to go easy, but he's just not good at the game! If I wanted to play go properly, I'd play with Hayk. Oh my... I really have to pay attention when I play with Hayk. Vallant, he doesn't care about the game, all he wants is a chance to talk. He talks about a lot of things -- the war in heaven, his old comrades -- you know, all the things that make up a white malakh's world. Of course I listen to it all. Friends do that for each other."


The anpiel says,
The loss is permanent. The wounds will never heal. He still needs us. Yes! we shall go pounce on him now!


For more backstory, see Vallant's profile on my doll site

Photos of Vallant at my doll blog.​

With Oshidori.