It's out of my hands

In an earlier post, I talked about finding some jointed hands for my Dollshe Saint as his current ones, one of the ball sockets has broken straight through in two places and is being held in place at the moment because it's pushed up against the wrist and the hand part.

I put in an order last weekend for some Universe Doll B.J. hands as they were having a 15% off sale on them until August. I ordered through LegendDoll.

Photos courtesy of Universe Doll

I love how very slender they are and I think they will fit my Dollshe boy perfectly. I ended up getting them in pink as my Dollshe resin seems to have a pink undertone to it. I initially ordered them in yellow but then realised it was too yellow against the DS resin and the dealer kindly let me change it. I like that they give you 24hrs to make any changes before they send your order to the doll company.

I think they'll most likely take 2-3 months as Universe Doll is a single artist company.



In other doll news, I've finally made a decision to go ahead with getting the Impldoll SGB Star body later in the year. I really love the hourglass vibe to this body and I am really loving a lot of the clothing Impldoll have for these bodies. The question is ... which head.

Photo courtesy of Impldoll

These are my current contenders, from left to right: Star Alberta, Idol Delia, Star Alma, Idol Azalea, Idol Octavia. Some of the Idol heads look good on the smaller Star 65 body (Azalea). I have read that Delia who is meant to be on the 70cm body actually looks good on the Star 65 body because her head is smaller. Octavia I am having a hard time finding owner photos of but I am thinking her head may be too big for the shorter body. Both Alberta and Alma are Star 65 so they were made for the shorter body anyway.

This new character is going to be Inara, the witch that saved and raised Amaryll and incidentally is who Amaryll believes died in a bandit attack. Amaryll herself buried Inara. What she doesn't know is that Inara is truly immortal, not the divine kind but the kind that literally cannot die. If she's injured severely, it may take her a full turn of a season to heal and regenerate the dead cells in her body. But she always comes back to life. It's her curse. At least that's what she believes. It's actually because of a particularly vicious virus that broke out two hundred years ago and wiped out half of the population, regardless of race or creature status. The other half were lucky enough to escape it. Only Inara managed to contract the virus and survive it. But at a cost. It changed her on a cellular level and she is able to regenerate depending on the severity of her injuries and survive any attack on her body. It might take a while but she always survives.

During those dark days, Inara lost both her husband and her child to the virus.She eventually remarried many years later but learned she could no longer bear children. The virus had also taken that ability from her. She also did not age like normal people. This is why she decided to live apart from people and honed her knowledge of magic and how to use it. She learned how to wield blood magic and infuse items with her own magic to protect herself.

I just have to decide which of these lovely heads will be my Inara.

I also mentioned that I was looking for an additional head to share my Popodoll 68cm body. I had considered the Universe Doll Higos head,  but then I was browsing, as you do, on Granado's website and came across this sculpt...

Photo courtesy Granado

He is Granado's Dark Lord Enoch. I was sad to see he was sold out so I emailed Granado to ask if they ever re-released their heads. It turns out they do, they just don't have a set plan as to when that happens and which heads they will be offering in each period. So it's just a matter of waiting really. I can order through LegendDoll as they offer the head and Granado confirmed they had a special deal with that particular dealer to offer those heads but they did say I couldn't ask about my order directly if I went through their dealer. I would have to direct my questions through LegendDoll which I kind of figured anyway.

I do prefer to order direct as it cuts out the middle man so I will wait and hope they do an October re-release for Halloween or something. I'm not in a huge hurry so I can wait for a while. If I get too impatient, I know I can always go through their dealer. Both places offer layaway so it doesn't make too much of a difference.

I kind of fell in love at first sight with this sculpt. I'm not normally a vampire sculpt kind of person but his character just came to me when I saw the sculpt. My heart did a little jump and I knew this was THE ONE.

My world does have elves but they're the pale kind and most of them were wiped out during the virus outbreak. Only a small handful managed to escape but the elf clans were decimated by the loss. They pretty much disappeared after that. It's believed they simply died out and became extinct. No one has seen them for two hundred years.

Malek, like Inara, survived the virus. Unlike Inara, Malek actually died but the virus brought him back to life and changed him. He's no longer an elf, but something between elf and monster. He's often mistaken, if he's seen, for one of the Princes of Hell. He's also going to be Inara's love interest. The two bond over their shared immortality and the ways in which the virus has changed them and taken from them.

So I finally have a doll wish list again.