Mind = blown.

Since my post about two weeks ago on recycling dolls of previous characters into present ones, I've been thinking about rehab in general, specifically for 1:6 scale BJDs. Because they're relatively expensive, it makes sense to maintain as they are only those that I'm really really attached to and then recycle the others. And by "recycle," I do not mean "throw in the bin;" I mean "redo as new people."

In practice, this means that I am keeping the following 1:6 scale BJDs as is: Ellery, Lucian, Flower, Ginevra, Mellifer, Novella and Submit. Ellery and Lucian occupy favored historical status as beloved characters, while the rest are unique fantasy characters in a mythology universe who are not being converted.

That leaves a whole shelf load of people available for conversion. There's Avery, Kristin, Jamisia, Mazzy and MacKenzie, the secondaries of Me and My Muses. There's also Absinthe, a tertiary from LHF.

We also have quite a few people in an ambiguous state. Ç’est à dire that Kinneret, Béatrice, Theophany and ??? Chaz, the incoming Batchix Nan Sook, will hopefully become zombies and/or zombie groupies in a few years, when Me and My Muses wraps up, but right now they're not really doing anything except for having unusual names.

I'm gonna have to think up more realistic, commonly used names for them. Their personalities can be unusual; their clothes, hair and appearances can be outlandish, but their names have to be down-to-earth.

Now back to my to do list, as I think up "normal" names in the back of my head...

Yeghisabet

I lackadaisically collect nicknames and foreign-language equivalents of my name, and I ran across a new one [to me] just now: the Armenian Yeghisabet. You can hear a woman pronouncing it here.

Anyway, I always had the amusing idea of writing a story or something where all characters were nicknames or variants of Elizabeth, so there's another cast member...

It's cool to look at a bunch of variants and nicknames and see what elements of the name remain the same across the options.

Name changes

I've been thinking about it, and I've made some name changes...

Kinneret is now Isabel Forrest.

Béatrice keeps her name and adds Doucette for a surname, as well as French Canadian ancestry.

Theophany keeps Theophany as a daily name, but her given name is Tiffany Marvin. [Tiffany was too boring.]

??? is now Chaz, short for Chastity, Loving. It should be obvious why she goes by Chaz. :p

I notice that there are no cis dudes in the Vermont zombie community yet, and I'm perfectly okay with leaving them out. That's because cis dudes are incredibly boring. They've been done before.

Eventually arriving, on top of everyone else

Dunno if I've mentioned this before, but the arrival of my Elfdoll Doona Ryung entails the creation of at least three full dolls.

As a default doll, Ryung is 20cm high, representing therefore a child 4 feet tall, who could convincingly be anywhere between 6 and 11 years old. She comes with four expressive faceplates: neutral, sleeping, half-closed and pissy.

I believe that Ryung's headsculpt could also work for a more mature doll. Therefore, to make Isabel, I want to mount the single Ryung headback + half-closed faceplate on a 27cm body.

For Isabel's body, I have chosen a Xagadoll Lara, who only comes as a full doll, that is, a body + head. When I put Isabelle together, I will thus be left with a Lara head, a Ryung body and three Ryung faceplates [neutral, sleeping and pissy].

I plan to put the Lara head on the Ryung body to make an as-yet-undefined kid.

I also plan to sculpt a headback for one of the remaining Ryung faceplates to create a head for Isabel's identical twin brother Carter, who is NOT a zombie. Carter then needs his own body; I'm thinking an Illusion Spirit Spirit with the chest sanded down, reflecting Carter's status as a trans guy [with, incidentally, a butch lesbian past at a women's college].

I'm thinking that one of the remaining faceplates would be for Isabelle's pre-zombie flashbacks, while the other could be her sleeping or something. Then I would have to film lots of naps to make good use of it. :p

Hey there, Carter. Hey there, unnamed kid. Welcome to the club.

Other Zombies in Vermont character thoughts...

Primarily so I can get them out of my head and go back to work.

Isabel's best zombie friend is a woman who uses an electric wheelchair, because I'll be damned if I spend all that money to make a 1:6 scale one and then not show it off. She is missing parts of both legs.

Béatrice, another of Isabel's regular associates with a currently undefined role, is a woman who has achondroplastic dwarfism [the most common type]. She also identifies as fat and is a member of the fat acceptance movement. She and Isabel's best zombie friend know each other from PWD activism and often discuss the deplorable accessibility of the state.

Should I be perturbed...

...when an author from the US states that he is "righting" to inquire on his submission status?