Would your collection be different if you started with a different doll?

I don’t think it would as my tastes have changed mainly due to outside influences (movies, art, maturity) just as much as advances in sculpting and doll diversity.
I started with tinies, have ventured into 1/3, sold them then over a decade later repurchased the same sculpt and ventured into 1/4 size too. I buy because I like that doll based purely on its own merits and never even think about whether it ‘fits’ my collection or not.

 

I feel like only the size would've been different. If I didn't have Minka (tall yosd) at home when I returned to the hobby I probably would've gone for the msd-minifee scale instead for the main size I collect. (My first ever doll was msd(I sold him and all my other dolls when I "quit" the hobby), and that size is so convenient! It's not as itty bitty as yosd to 1/5 but also way easier to deal with than bigger dolls)
Aesthetics wise everything would be the same, I am very fond of the whole baby faced but edgy thing I have going on in my collection

Maybe my dolls would have more shoes... Finding nice shoes for yosd and 1/5 is such a pain

 

I don't think so. My change has been changing since I started in the hobby like 16 years ago.so I just go with the flow.

 

I think I would've ended up on the same track although I'm not rigid and I make exceptions if I like a doll. On the other hand I would've gone crazy if I had bought my first doll from a company that took 8+ months.

 

Yes, for sure!
When I started I thought the 1/3 dolls would be to big for me, so I went with the 1/4 and smaller dolls.

But slowly the 1/3 started to creep into my collection. I found out I really prefer the larger sized dolls. They are easier for me to photograph, find and make props for, and make clothes for. I have more dolls 1/3 and up then I do 1/4 dolls. I still have my 1/4 collection, but they just sit on a shelf looking cute. I don't really do anything with them.

If I had started with the 1/3 dolls. I would have realized this was the size doll for me. I would have probably only picked up a few of the smaller 1/4 dolls for curiosity, and realized they just didn't fit with me. I now have nearly 20 of them shelved. I love them don't get me wrong, but they just wouldn't have been in my collection if I had started with the larger dolls.

 

I actually did this after about 4 years of collecting in this wonderful hobby. I initially tried out some different sizes, then settled on the MSD size and proceeded from there. But then something magical happened…Dollzone released their flower dolls, Moment and Anson. I was absolutely mesmerized! I moved heaven and earth to bring Anson (see avatar) home that year, and even though she was also MSD size, she simply eclipsed ever other doll in my collection with both her uniqueness and her character. I put so many layers into her artwork and rich character development that all the others felt redundant by comparison. So I made the very difficult decision to sell all the others and rebuild my collection from scratch around her. No longer was I tied into a certain size…instead I was building fascinating characters she would like to engage with. I created a fantasy world where everything and any size BJD was welcome as long as they truly inspired my creative imagination. It gave me the freedom to build a wonderful collection based purely on imagination alone, which was secretly what my soul was yearning for. Now, nearly two decades into this hobby, I’m still in love with my collection and inspired by each and every doll I own.

The moral of my little story is that it’s never too late to restart your collection if that’s what you truly would love to do. It’s your collection after all, and the quest is yours alone.

 

Do you ever think if your collection would have shaped up differently had your first doll been something else? A different overarching style, different sizes, different companies? Or would that have no influence?
The year when I bought my first doll was also the year one limited, yo-sd sized, anthro doll I have loved for a long time now was released. Had I done a better research and found out about the existence of the company and this kind of doll, I would have probably started collecting with that doll then follow up getting similar dolls to build a world around it. I'm not sure I would've gotten a human-like doll after that, but a bunch of little animals with their personalities and jobs to form a little kingdom.
Of course my tastes have changed since I started, the meaning of my collection has changed, but now, having with me a resin family of 3 humans and 3 anthro dolls and knowing how/how much I interact with them and what I enjoy doing, I think it would've been really bad for me unless I changed that idea half-way, and probably would've meant for me to abandon the hobby at some point.
So, despite any mistakes and the changes in taste, I'm so happy with the way the things turned out.

 

Honestly... probably not. My first doll was a Migidoll and I'm still obsessed with the same Migidoll sculpts to this day, even though I keep buying and selling them (I'm determined that the ones I have/am getting now are staying!)

Getting my Delf Soony made me realise I love Delfs, possibly more than any other dolls, so if I had started with her I might have bought more Delfs sooner... but I think I still would have wanted the Migidolls too and would have ended up with more or less the same collection eventually.

 

I think so. Back in 2015 or so when I was still trying to save up for my first BJD, I had made up my mind that I wanted that doll to be Elfdoll Dami. I'd waffled between her and Minifee Shushu for ages but Dami won out. Unfortunately, I don't think Elfdoll ever made Dami again after that point and by the time I could actually afford my first doll (in 2017) they had shut down completely. I naturally went for my second choice, Shushu. I liked her sculpt a lot, and Fairyland, particularly Minifees, were very hyped. I heard wonders about their posability, and I had a kind of "if I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on a doll, I want it to be the best there is" kind of mindset.

And I was very excited about her when I got her, but as the years went on I had to face it. I wasn't happy with her, particularly her body/posing. But spending so much on her and looking forward to her for so long kind of made me feel like I had to be happy with her. I still love my Shushu to death, especially after rebodying her, but I feel like I've ended up enjoying the less expensive dolls I've owned more. I think if I had started with maybe an underrated and less expensive (less perfect) doll I would have been happier. In fact I think if I'd managed to get Dami like I wanted to, I'd still be enjoying her to this day.

It's interesting to think how my collection might have been different if I'd started in a different place.

 

the key thing for me, there won't be any collection, because I knew back than if I wouldn't be able to buy the one doll I fell in love with, I wouldn't buy anyone else. Just to be clear, despite I liked lots of bjds, yet I dreamed about specific one for 7 years! When I was able to finally bought him, that was the turning point, not the vice versa. Only because I acquired him the collection is started. If we talk aesthetically this is also not the case either, each doll is crafted very carefully, I didn't sell a single doll or parts I bought and it's when 80% of my bjds are hybrids. 11 years and my collection is pretty consistent and stable, I need just one more character, but it's not so crucial. Only one thing that I consider right now if it's feasible to get new WIP mecha-body from Ringdoll, but even if it's not, it won't change anything

 

No, I don't think so. Maturity was a huge factor and not the first doll. I had no vision and no goal. After 10 years of collecting, I had only 2 dolls that looked decent together and pretty much every size that was available at the time. It would have been a disjointed mess regardless of who I started with. Only in the last 5 years or so has anything come together when I was able to decide what I wanted the most rather than EVERYTHING.

 

Well, my first was Soom Mini Gem Idrial. I thought I would stick to the fashion doll sized BJDs since I grew up with Barbie or American Girl dolls. Then Soom released Elf Dia, around the same time that I think the Hobbit movies were still a big deal. He was my first big doll. I think if I hadn't bought him, my collection might have stayed small. Now I have so many dolls, all kinds of sizes because I went from "oh it'll be nice to have cute fairy dolls" to "LET US RECREATE THE SECOND AGE OF MIDDLE EARTH MWHAHAHAHA"

I do think I need to thin out my collection - I have some human dolls who look sort of out of place amongst a hoard of elves. But I don't know if I can part with them - two are supposed to be based off of favorite video game characters, another two are from a favorite high school anime, and then the other 3 are supposed to be a "human ended up in a fantasy world and befriends a fairy prince and a cat girl!" I also have two anthro cat dolls but they're Japanese nekomata so I don't really want them to go either. I feel like I need someone to help me look at my collection and help me make it more cohesive.

 

When Little Monica announced they were closing down, that is what pushed me to take the plunge and buy my first (two!). I think that if I hadn't bought those two dolls then, it might have taken me even longer to take the plunge! I'd been wanting my own BJD for years and years at that point.

I wonder if I'd started with only a 1/4, if I would have avoided buying 1/3s! Though my biggest doll is 75 cm, so perhaps I would have always gotten there eventually!

 

My first was 60cm, my second 70cm and then I never looked back
I always knew I wanted big dolls, 70cm just happened to hit the spot best.

I do think though that maybe with mir fashion sized options back then I miiiight have leaned towards that at some point? 70cm just had the faces I wanted, but my fashion sized guys are definitely easier to handle.

 

I don't think so. If I had gotten other sculpts or sizes I would just about taken the same amount of time to get here and I would have eventually tried one size or sculpt at one point or another. Maybe I would have ventured in a different direction sooner and got where I'm now sooner, but the trip would have been similar.

Most of the reasons for my collection now versus then have to do with knowing what exactly I like in dolls or I don't in terms of poseability, something that I didn't pay as much attention back in the time, as well as the advancement in doll making and the availability of a lot more diverse sculpts, things that I simply wouldn't have been able to acquire back in the 00s when I started. What I want in a doll is a lot more clear to me now than it was at the time, so certainly maturity and experience with different sculpts has helped shape the me of now, as well as ageing has shaped my likes and personal aesthetic over the years a lot more as well.

 

Hoo boy. If I hadn’t started my collection with a Volks SDC Kurenai I really don’t think I’d have gotten the bug to “Catch ‘em All” Over the years I’ve gotten more big dolls, and smaller ones. The differences make them all interesting so I would probably still have a zillion dolls, even if I hadn’t been compelled to collect every SDC girl

 

I don't think so! I started my collection with a Kid Delf Cherry back in the day, convinced that 1/3s would be entirely too big and too pricey to ever reasonably collect. She ended up not working out (I gifted her to a friend) and I moved over to 1/3s and nontraditional 1/4s anyway.

As I've matured in the hobby, I've learned to stop sacrificing what I really want for the sake of saving some money. I think, no matter who I started my collection with, I would've eventually self-corrected to having a collection that looks roughly like my current one.

 

Maybe not completely different, but if I had started directly with SD-sized dolls, I wouldn’t have ended up with some of my adult MSD dolls later on in the hobby. Now, whenever I consider buying a new doll, I always try to ensure it will be a stylistically and proportionally consistent choice. All of my dolls represent characters from a single story, and I like them to form a cohesive cast that looks good together.

 

I think so. I have only SD-sized dolls, because that's what I started with. I like my dolls to match. Kinda regret not starting with a tiny doll sometimes.

 

The biggest change from my first doll almost 17 years ago to now is just the size. My aesthetic is still pretty similar, and my body/jointing preferences are about the same, too. I fell in love with my first doll the second I opened his box, I even cried a little. I just loved him so SO much instantly, and I still have him, despite him being my only current 1/4 adult and much preferring 1/3. I bought him in stock, so I got to ease into how wait times work, too. Considering what dolls were available at the time, and how hard I fell for him, I think any other doll would have been a mistake. If my first intro to the hobby hadn't been such an amazing feeling or I wasn't that impressed, I think I might have seen it as a waste of money, or had terrible buyer's remorse and just given up right then.

 

It would!

When I'm starting this hobbies I take my time and do the research first. At that time I'm thorn between a Grail 1/3 doll that had caught my heart for a long time (Like 10 years-ish) and a 1/4 that seem to be more suitable for the future project that I want to do with my dolls.

Back then if I start with that 1/3 girl, my collection would be only 1/3 and be much smaller than it is now. 1 or 2 doll maybe?

I would still spoil them a lot however

That said, this is about me in a parallel world who choose 1/3 instead of 1/4 to start. I won't regret my decision and am happy with my current collection though

 

I've actually had to restart my collection after losing all of the ones I had before. Some had to be sold to fund an unexpected move after a personal catastrophe. The few I kept they got stolen and I was so devastated that for almost 6 years I barely set foot on DOA.

It's only been the past 3 years that I've been stable enough to buy dolls again. After I got housed again a couple of friends very generously sent me some minis and one of them she continues to send me one or two birthdays/holidays every year. She's the BEST that woman.

Until this year I had nothing but MSD sized BJDs. This year I bought 2 Spiritdoll bodies and a white Korean body pretty cheap. One of the Spiritdoll bodies came with an opposite sex head. I really like this doll but I made the mistake of unstringing it to sand it and until my arthritic hands get better unfortunately it's going to stay that way.

The other one I bought a head for but it also needs restringing because one day the elastic for the arms just let loose and his arm fell apart. The cord needs replacing, I guess. The third body, the white one I bought to match a very beautiful and pretty rare head that I found from Moonlight Wonder. So far so good with her and she's even 3/4 dressed at this point.

Lastly, just this past month I got a steal of a deal on a Domuya Alice so I went from no SD sized dolls to 4 and I may still not be done because I'm eyeing a certain head as a replacement for the one head that I bought who's origin is questionable.

That wasn't the plan. I was going to stick to MSD sized dolls as they fit more into the small apt I have now but I really like SD sized dolls and I suppose having a small crew was inevitable.

But I did not actually go back and just repurchase the dolls I lost. I miss the Creature and my Saint a lot. I did the hybrid thing to be able to afford those and it was hard. I still love the Saint but I am thinking that if I ever go there it will be the mini version.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with my crew of new dolls. They have really helped me deal with the loss of my older ones and life in general. I'm ill a lot right now. I don't get out as much as I should. I'm fighting swelling and other issues that make it really hard to play and craft. I guess that and everything I've been through tends to make me pretty laid back about "which" dolls I end up with lately.

I would barely have BJDs if I didn't have some generous friends. I'd have my SDs but not most of my minis. I just don't feel like I'm in a place where I'm going to be too upset about anything much anymore except for maybe not being able to immediately restring the dolls that need it. If it takes me a long time to get a doll finished that's okay.

I was homeless from mid 2017 to mid 2021. In late 2018, early 2019 I was hospitalized and I nearly died from blood clots and pulmonary embolisms. I got into a shelter after that and finally got disability and I got housed in June of 2021.

It changed me utterly the experience. I'm no longer as fussy or as entitled as I once was. I'm very disabled, and my legs are so bad I have to use a walker. I can't help but be a lot more humble in my expectations after all that.

I'm just so lucky to be alive and to even have dolls again...

 

When it comes to scale, yes I think my collection would be different. My first doll (Dream of Doll Lahoo) was 1/3 and 64cm tall, and I've been wedded to this scale ever since. I now love dolls in the 57-68cm range with 65cm being the sweet spot. Whereas I've owned 1/4s and 1/6s before, but just couldn't get into them and sold them all.
If this experience is anything to go by, I'd fall in love with whatever scale I started with, then find reasons why I love it and want to stick with it forever. So if I'd started in eg. slim minis, I might've continued with them today.

Stylistically though? Probably not different. I bought my first doll thinking that I'd like the stylized BJD look, then discovered I didn't and I wanted something a little more realistic. I ended up selling almost all the dolls I bought as a newbie including my first doll, and bought different dolls instead. So I've had a kind of restart already, and my collection today looks quite different from my collection as a newbie.

But I had much fewer stylistic choices when I first got into BJDs in 2009; if I got into BJDs today, I would've been able to start in the kind of semi-realism that I've always liked. And since more dolls are being made at different scales with this style, I might've begun in say slim 1/4 or 75cm, and stayed with that.

 

Somehow I doubt so.
I got my first doll (Dollmore Liebe Klum) as a teenager and never really did much with her, mostly because I lived in a rural area with limited internet.
When I got back into the hobby two years ago, only 1/3 really caught my eye. I like to sew for my dolls and 1/3 hit that sweet spot of being easy enough to sew for while having a particular presence for their size.
I find sewing for my Volks MSD/SDMs fiddly enough, so I doubt mature/slim minis or tinies would have grabbed me. On the other end of the size spectrum, I feel 75cm+ dolls are too unwieldy for me to travel with, and a lot of them have the pinheaded look that doesn't gel with my others. My tallest (and smallest head) is a Loongsoul 73cm and I feel he's going to stay the tallest in the house.

 

i don't really know to be honest. I've always liked some sculpts from Fairyland, another ones from Iplehouse and many of Dollfie. But I don't know what would happend if first of all I would see a Lusion or a Trinity since I started collecting SD sice. Maybe I would have like 3 lusion or so instead of 13 bjd of different sices? Maybe. but I will never know.

 

Probably? My first doll was a msd so I plan to try to keep my collection to msds in the future so they’re the same scale to photograph together. If I had gotten a sd to start I’d probably do the same for sds.

 

If I didn't start with Ara, I wouldn't have any boy dolls in my collection! He's still the only one, and I don't see that changing any time soon; there's some lovely boys out there but I just prefer the look of the girls' bodies. Heck, even if I did eventually get an Impldoll Avery, I might have tried putting the head on a girl body. I don't think my collection would otherwise be much changed, though. I generally aim for the same size for ease of clothing, but I have already broken that rule because above all else, I just get dolls that I fall in love with. I just don't know who I would have started out with; I got Ara to celebrate having paid off my student loans, and I think all the other dolls in my collection either didn't exist or weren't available for order at the time. Maybe Black Cherry Dolls Zeri, but I didn't hear about them until later.

I was about to say if I'd started with my DearSD Megu my collection would shift, but I got her secondhand here so I don't think I would have been able to get her to start my collection! If I'd gone more that cute, baby/toddler look to start in general, though, I might have more of those; there's a few dolls in that range that I adore but I'm not getting for space and again, would introduce more sizes to sew for.

If I had started with an SD in general? I might have stayed with that size. Smaller SDs though, not the big beefcakes, and I don't think I'd have as many dolls. Only so much space in the apartment and not as many SDs have captured me the way my MSD gang has. The only SD I can think of that I would for sure want to have brought home is an SD Megu, but that would just be swapping out the body of my DearSD, so not much of a change at all!

 

I think it would be at least close to the same. I think the only changes would be shelling certain characters to different dolls, as I recently realized a boy of mine would be better as another sculpt ^^;

 

Yes ! If I start with an iplehouse sd girl, I won't have my little ones (do not want to buy too many clothes of different sizes

 

I don't think so. I started with a vampire SD with elf ears (Doll In Mind Galahad) in 2008. I tried every size from tinies to 65cm tall in the first years, but finally sticked mostly with dolls in 55-68cm range (with some exceptions), with a soft spot for heads with fangs and/or horns and/or pointy ears.

 

Happy to find you also on DoA ! For me it's just the space and financial problems, I do love my tiny dolls and fantasy parts, it's still much easier to manage sticking to one or two sizes of accessories (huge fan of accessories orz). Probably in 5-6 years, the different roads would lead to the same route, but until now, I am happy with my collection, while keeping a love for sd bodies.

 

My first dive into bjds started when I was 28 years old after only previously experiencing heavily commercialized dolls (Barbie, various run of the mill baby dolls). I discovered bjds from one of my Lolita meetups. She had a Smartdoll and that’s what got me into bjds. I wanted to try a doll smaller than a Smartdoll so after prolonged research I decided on a customized DDP. Looking back on it I felt like Wyvern was the perfect starting point (mid size vinyl) doll to help me eventually narrow more into my preferences (small 1/6 scale resins). I went up in scale (1/3 Smartdolls) and down in scale (1/6 Atelier Momomi Pitusas-4) and I only ended up selling 3 of my 5 Smartdolls in the end.

 

I think it would for sure be different. Especially since I started out just trying to get he cheapest dolls possible, so I started out with a 1/12 scale. Which I would not have done now, now I'm really only into MSD's or SDs (mostly msds but yano, i'm not opposed). I think also I would have taken my time, tried to get more second hand stuff.

 

I don't think so. After having some experience with owning dolls, I now know that though my first doll was beautiful and I still appreciate the sculpt, it's not my style in terms of owning preferences. I think I'm beginning to get closer to easily telling the difference between which sculpts I like and which I want to own. I could be wrong about this, but it seems that having a first doll that wasn't quite the right style hasn't prevented me from finding my way to a style I like.

 

I did this too, a lot of MSD's because they were smaller and cheaper. I finally took a plunge with the SD's and my first one was crazy priced and full set, but my mother gave me half of the money as a Christmas present so it helped. I don't even use the full sets of any of the dolls that came with them. As a side note, I really shouldn't buy full sets.

The rest of my SD's were Mystic Kids. Bobobie, Resinsoul, all cheap and they were all instock... I miss you Junkie Spot!

I really like the first original dolls that I got, I don't regret purchasing any of them, but most of my newer dolls cost about twice as much if not more, than what I paid for the SD's I used to purchase. I also don't mind the wait. I used to be very anxious about waiting. I think this hobby has taught me some patience.

While cheaper dolls can be great, I no longer just stick to them for the price. If I buy a less expensive doll, it because I genuinely want the doll, and not because of the price.

 

I don't think so because I want all of the dolls. Fun fact is, I will one day talk about my first bjd here. I like her; It's good that I have been fine keeping her in box because I had problems with another doll. Maybe I'll dress her and rotate her for display, next month. I want to see what she looks like, how she poses, and note any changes needed.

 

I doubt it as I had a negative experience (knowing what I know now, it probably wasn't that bad, but at the time it was bad for me) with my first doll, though that definitely didn't stop me from moving forward and collecting more!

I very quickly sold my first doll because I was disenchanted with her. I had problems with the face-up artist, and I didn't like the doll as much in person as in company photos. The face-up artist took a couple of months longer than expected and was very poor at communication but they did come through eventually. As I said I would be a bit more forgiving now, though the communication could have been better.

That all being said, I so often find myself interested in 1/4 girls and slim minis but I almost exclusively collect 1/3 girls. I have tried a 1/4 girl here and there but they never stick. There are some I find so beautiful or cute but I just feel like the clothing out there available for them is so lacking, while clothing for 1/3 females is so varied and versatile. I also have found that I am very fond of Volks Dollfie Dream (all Volks dolls) and I prefer a mature doll to a child, so MDDs wouldn't work for me.

So yeah, I wonder, but I think I would have eventually come to where I am now no matter how I started! Fun to think about, for sure.

 

Oh jeez this is such a good question - YES.

My first doll was a 70cm SD and I got so hooked on the big boys. I've had 3 70cm's now and 60cm seems cute to me lol. I often think if I had started with MSD's I would've stayed on that path since I noticed other people starting around the same time stayed with the smaller sizes. There were definitely a few meetups I went to back in the day where I was the only giant owner l

 

It's hard to say, but I think so.

One thing that I think would have changed the trajectory of my collecting would have been if I'd purchased a female doll first. I had a boy sculpt that I loved and decided to make my first doll, but once I had him I struggled to connect with him and feel inspired with his style, and he ended up sitting in a box for like six years until I was ready to give the hobby another shot. My second doll was a girl and I just felt so much more connected with her and excited to work on her. I don't know exactly what it is, but I just prefer girl dolls! I've acquired a lot more dolls since and basically all of them are female or genderless.

So to answer your question, I think I would have gotten deeper into the hobby sooner had I started with a girl, and the dolls in my collection might look a little different since my taste in dolls has changed since I first decided I wanted to try the hobby.

 

Had it been another MSD sized doll as my first, my collection would have still probably turned out fairly similar but I’m not sure if I would have gotten a second doll quite as quickly. I like sad faces on dolls, which my first has, and once I had her it wasn’t long before I felt like she needed a friend. My second was comparatively “cheap,” Kid Delfs were almost $100 less than Soulkids were at the time, and that made getting a second doll a whole lot more palatable at the time. Once I had a second, the gates were opened from merely having a doll to collecting.

If I’d started with a 1/3 scale doll, I think it would have been much much longer before getting a second. 60cm+ always feels so grand to me. I love both sizes, but SDs don’t fill me with the urge to collect the way MSDs do. I still think my grail would have been Volks Suiseiseki, but she especially has always felt very “independent” in her persona — had she been my first, I’m not sure if I would have had a collection at all, and instead only had her.

Where I think the biggest difference would be, had fantasy dolls been more common and obtainable, if my first had been fantasy, more of my collection would be (maybe). More so than fantasy, I like unusual so for this I think I would have still been drawn towards non-fantasy sculpts like Rosette Fir and Volks F-12, most of Souldoll’s sculpts, etc.

 

I think about this sometimes. I started with a volks sd13 which made me gravitate away from Uncle size dolls (70cm and up) and any realistic or mature sculpts and go more towards the big featured, big headed dolls such as Volks and others. I think if i would have started with a 70cm doll I would have had more mature looking dolls in my collection to match.

Just recently I bought the 50cm Baldwin IV from Ringdoll and that was a hard decision for me because he's much more mature and small at the same time, very different from the other ones I have, and I was debating on getting him BECAUSE he didnt match my collection, so I feel like I couldve been swayed if I started with something else.

 

yes! I started with a vinyl doll and it was a super easy first doll to get my into the community, if I had started with a resin dolly first off I think I would have been overwhelmed and made lots of costly mistakes that would have led to heartbreak and fear of messing up with future dolls that could hold me back!

 

If I did collect differently, I would have started with at least one MSD instead of so many little ones. Mainly, though, it all ended with my finances when I started.

 

I get this cause I started w a volks with a company face up so I was not going to mess up his beautiful face up just to do my own projects, so if i started with a blank doll or something I could have maybe gotten more into customization early on?

 

When I see this question, I think of character development instead of size/type.

A couple months before I bought my first BJD, a Volks SD13B Isao, I briefly considered ordering Haute Doll Hound. If he had been my first, would I have bought Isao?

Three months later, I did buy Haute Doll Hound, but that was after buying 5 other BJDs (Volks Megu and Heath, Elfdoll Soah, Min Del Re and Nabee). Would their present characters have been different, and what stories, if any, would I have written?

 

I like your take on the question. Honestly for me i feel like what other dolls ive gotten have not affected the characters of my previous dolls. It could also be because I had my Volks Heath for at least a year before truly developing a character and personality and had bought multiple dolls in between. BUT the doll I won in a raffle actually did help define my Volks Heath character wise so maybe...it couldve changed if I never had won her...