One year ago today, I received Val, my DZ Chen, after a grueling 5 month wait. I pre-ordered him through Emory at Junkyspot, he was the first doll I ever pre-ordered.
He came to me blank with bright yellow glass eyes, clothes that ended up staining him, but no wig so Kiki-Chan78 let me borrow a wig until I could get him one. I did order him a wig, but DZ never sent it...
He then was subjected to my third face up ever. It wasn’t horrible per say, but it wasn’t great either.
When my SO got her doll leaves R Eleanor, Val decided that he liked her and adopted her cat ears as his. Eventually I gave him a tail as well, and it stuck. This went against a lot of things I had planned for him. He was meant to be gay, and a human/vampire. Nope. He wanted to be a fox. I begrudgingly complied.
Then he threw me for another loop, he adopted Mina as his daughter. Mina is my 11cm MuDoll Brownie Nene, who is puny compared to his towering 70cms…
Eventually my SO’s DS R was sold, so it was just Val and Mina. Around that time Val finally got his trademark fishnet shirt.
A while after that, I deemed his tail too short for him, so I put on him my longer white fox tail and reblushed his ears.
After nearly a year of his face up, I felt confident and dissatisfied with his old face up enough to redo him.
Finally I got him some proper sized ears and blushed them, finally completing his look barely in time for his first birthday.
So here we are today, October 17, 2012, what a ride it’s been!
Happy Birthday Val, from the bottom of my heart. Onto many more years!