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Type: Volks (old) F08 head, Volks SD13 medium bust body She appeared on All Hallows' Eve. We don't know why or where from, but she was so strange and beautiful that we kept her. At first, she was very quiet, but soon she began to ask us for gifts. Pretty things, like little bits of ribbon and shiny stones. She was so sweet we could hardly refuse her. She asked for more things... a feather from a raven, black ink, a doll. Then one day she asked for a pet. A special kind of pet. A little boy. From that day on, Daniel was hers. She's never without him, she carries him all day and they whisper to each other often, though Daniel has never spoken a word to us. Mina also takes it upon herself to keep her eye on all of the others and flitters about, making friends with each of them in turn, then moving on to something else almost immediately. She loves pretty clothes and dressing up for us and having her picture taken. She has many secrets, and she keeps them prettily.
Type: Jun Planning Classmate Takeru Daniel never speaks out loud and rarely ventures far from Mina, but seems to have been empowered by the appearance of Nettle. She's smaller then he is and he wasnt sure that was possible.
Type: Lovely House Shin Cho We don't know the whole story. It began when we found him sitting on the kitchen table, eating our fruit. We did not know exactly what he was... It's funny, because he always looked different to us, though we never knew exactly why. We do know that he was quite charming and we enjoyed his company. He stopped in many times, but last spring the visits ended as suddenly as they began. Much later, we realized that was also when the neighbors patched the hole in the old wall of their garden.
Type: Lovely House Shin B Pia is like candy. Perhaps that is because she only eats sugar cubes. She babbles constantly about everything and nothing to no one in particular. Sometimes she slips into a strange language without realizing. There is an odd innocence about her which can be disarming, but she is simply too sweet to not love.
Type: Cerberus Project Vampire Soo Yuko has intentions which are only known to her. She came to us, told us that this was where she belonged and that she was not leaving. We were immediately quite taken with her, but I guess we didn't have a choice about that either. She's dangerously beautiful and uses that to her every advantage. She's a wealth of macabre bits of knowledge, like the fastest way to kill a cat or how to find the freshest graves. She has been known to sleep in a small coffin and her teeth are suspiciously pointy, but I'm not asking any questions...
Type: Volks Cyndy I Lenore is mute. Though we are still learning about her, she has already taken on a silently authoritative role and acts like an older sister to the others. She is especially liked by the little ones, as she often tends Rowan, and is even tolerated by Nettle. She has an intense gaze and incredible grace which seems to have come from a life of privilege. Though she does not use words, no one has trouble understanding her and it seems a simple matter of allowing others to hear her thoughts.
Type: Luts Kid Delf head 1006, Luts girl body Our best guess is that Rowan is an imp. She is young and generally not interested in anything beyond her octopus and lizard friends. (Her rapport with nature seems limited to creepy crawly things.) She likes to be dirty and plays naughty tricks on whoever is around. She'll occasionally let Lenore wash her hands or tie her hair back, but I suspect that may only be because Lenore doesn't bother to reprimand her. She's perfectly crude and reluctantly adorable.
Type: Elfdoll Catsy Nettle is a just a tiny grumpy cat.
Type: Narindoll Narae (white skin) Lilly is a ghost. She has only made herself known to us by showing up in photographs. We don't know who she is or was, Pia told us her name is Lilly and nothing more.
Type: Unoa Quluts Sist Tallulah is a friendly girl. Sometimes a bit too friendly. She's also very comfortable with herself and her tiny body. It's difficult to get much conversation from her because she usually begins to undress if she senses she's being watched for more than a minute or two. She brushes her hair a lot and has a massive collection of stockings. As a matter of fact, when she arrived on our doorstep, she had with her a tiny suitcase full of stockings and nothing else.
Type: Volks Sei Tenshi (one of a kind from the LA Volks opening) Yuko found something outside of our window one cold winter day. It was on the third floor, in an abandoned pigeon nest and looked to her to be an easy meal. Luckily, Pia happened by and stopped her mid-strike. Seeing immediately that the small pink body had tiny wings, Pia kept Yuko away by convincing her that she had found an angel and that they aren't actually filled with blood, just marshmallow fluff. The little angel is in a deep sleep from which she only rouses to blink once or twice. She has therefore told us nothing about herself or where she came from, but Pia keeps her safe, ties ribbons in her hair and named her Pigeon.
Type: Latidoll Yellow Miel We (that is, Kat and Mat) have a four-year old son named Gideon. Like most parents, we also have a box filled with pictures and cards and random bits marking kiddie milestones. The last time I opened that box to add a hand-outline turkey, something was moving inside. Suspecting a mouse, I cautiously uncovered the wiggling lump and found Dig. He seems to have sprouted from a tuft of Gideon's first haircut hair. He is therefore insanely cute and teeny and is usually found rummaging under the couch for M&M's or Cheetos.
Type: Domadoll Kkotmu Ramona is 7 and will not smile because she's missing her front teeth. She says she lost them in a fight, but I sort of doubt it. She has a turtle named Jeffrey. She keeps carrots in one pocket for him and cigarettes in another for her, but I don't think she really smokes either. Wherever she comes from, its obvious Ramona had to be tough. She keeps it up here, but seems content to stay so long as there's enough food to stash in her other pockets.
Type: Musedoll Ciel head, Notdoll girl body We found her sleeping in a small trunk in a local antique shop. The owner was just as surprised to find her as we were, so when we offered to buy the trunk, he thought we should take her too. There were strings in her trunk with her, and holes in her wrists and ankles. If she was a marionette, her crosspiece was not with her. Now, no matter where she's left in the house, she always winds up back in her trunk in the morning.
Type: Soom Namu (white skin) Judge is the puppet master. He has created and performed in the Judgment Theater of Wonders all over the world. His marionettes are renowned for their beauty and for the way his touch brings them instantly to life. The stories they tell are almost always cautionary tales of love lost and the folly of youth. He is cruel and prone to anger. He lives as a recluse and avoids even his most devout fans. With his handiwork, however, he seems to be a different man. It is said he has made marionettes as large as himself and possesses the skill to make even them come to life.
Type: DollsTown Soph Despite herself, Morrow is a devourer souls.
Type: Latidoll Blue Yern Alice seems to have stepped back through the wrong looking glass... specifically, the one leading to our sitting room.
Type: Volks Sei Tenshi (one of a kind from the NYC Volks 2007 Dolpa) The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that Paloma was on a rescue mission. She seemed happy to have found Pigeon and gave Pia lots of kisses for keeping her safe. But she wasn't here very long before she decided she was sleepy too and settled down with Pigeon and she hasn't woken since. Pia is thrilled.
Type: Volks SD Masha Octavia is Judge's younger sister. He was estranged from his family from a very early age, and was unaware of his parents' death before Octavia's arrival on our doorstep. He was hesitant to let her stay, but agreed when she offered to act as his assistant and help with his show. She is afraid of her brother's temper and they do not talk much, but she has become fascinated by his art and respects his privacy. It is obvious she did not see much beyond her childhood home, but she is resolute to make her own life and seems a bit less delicate every day.
Type: Orientdoll Vampire Ui (white skin) Balthazar belongs to Yuko. I don't know if she made him or found him, or even if she likes him or just keeps him handy in case she needs a snack.
Type: Tinybear Bracken (white skin) Our house is close to 200 years old. In those years, it has developed all of the quirks of old houses -- a slightly crooked wall here and a gap in the floorboards there. One day, our cat was *quite* interested in just such a gap and Mat investigated with a flashlight. Just inside the hole, he found luggage. Specifically, he found two minuscule suitcases filled with impossibly tiny clothes. Worried that we would not find the owners before the cat, we moved my childhood dollhouse just in front of the hole and set the luggage down inside, hoping that was enough of an invitation. The very next night, we noticed a bit of movement in the house and spied tiny white figures in the windows. We knocked gently and thus we had the pleasure of meeting Sebastian and Isadora. We have offered them use of the house, which they are very grateful for, and we have since moved it up off the floor. (Though the cat is no longer interested since Sebastian confronted her with the seam ripper he keeps by the bed.)
Type: Tinybear Moona (white skin) Isadora is inspiring in her tiny homemaking. She likes to sew new dresses for herself with scraps from my sewing and she makes beautiful meals in miniature with bits of things she finds in the kitchen. She ties a new ribbon in her white hair every day and sings beautiful songs of love to Sebastian. She is still easily frightened by us, since she is used to hiding from humans, but she will occasionally tell me stories of her travels with Sebastian through the old homes in the city.
Type: Lati White Belle Dig got wet and Squid popped out of his back.
Type: Elfdoll Alice Cherry Blossom & Ballerina Alice They were sold to the sideshow at a very young age. It was easy to see why -- the twin pig-faced girls could really draw a crowd. As they got older, they had to keep the audiences coming and so they developed an act -- singing, playing the accordion, finishing each other's sentences. When things became desperate, they upped the ante and wore a single dress and sold themselves as conjoined pig-faced twins. Of course, in time, the truth became obvious. The owner of the side show was not only desperate, but he was very very nearsighted. The girls were, after all, only pigs.
Type: Planetdoll mini Riz (white skin)
Type: Fairyland Realpuki Soso (white skin) Chavisory must have had a family at some point. I suspect the cat may know, but there's no way to be sure. I found her sleeping in a plant on the windowsill and she greeted me with a nasty bite. Changing tack, I lured her with cheese, bagged her with a baby sock and dumped her her in the dollhouse. Thanks to more cheese and Isadora's patience, she was bathed and clothed and settled into the attic bedroom. Though she'll submit to being dressed, she prefers to be naked. Though I still cannot touch her, she loves her new home and is never far from Sebastian or Isadora, who have adopted her as their own.
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