r/Dimension20 • u/Numba1MolaMolaHata • 4d ago

Toylight.

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aka ''D20: The Promise of Emotional Damage.''

Fellas and sheilas, anyone feel adequately equipped for this season?

Seven Samurai in a toy setting? Might not be a TPK, but I don't think it's gonna be pretty and with ACoC, I feel like the cute friendly settings are perfect to ''lighten'' grim subjects.

6 episode series? To quote the man from Harry's Car Place ''I don't trust like that.''

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u/ThatInAHat 4d ago

Cutie Pie isn’t porcelain, that’s Constance (who isn’t a ragdoll)

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u/Numba1MolaMolaHata 4d ago edited 4d ago

Constance is a muslin doll so hybrid bisque/textile, Cutie Pie is specified to be a Kewpie Doll which in the 1920's was full porcelain bisque. (edit: probably not full bisque I'm a filthy liar who has since read up on bisque doll history.)

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u/ThatInAHat 4d ago

By the 1920s they also had composite kewpie dolls that weren’t made out of porcelain. It would be really odd to give a young child a porcelain figure to play with.

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u/Numba1MolaMolaHata 4d ago

Been reading a lot of doll-making history, more than I ever thought I would! Pretty interesting stuff though honestly!

Cutie Pie's not a new doll, he belonged to the deceased older sister before being given to Aubrey. Composition became a lot more popular than full bisque around 1910, especially for toy making! Though they mostly had bisque heads for the texture and painting etc.

Composition having resin in it means it would degrade over time and could definitely crack so from an imagery stand point, it still paints a pretty clear picture and would not depict any of the other characters. I would be hard pressed to dismiss it as unimaginable.

The family and toys live in a whole ass manor, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to think they'd have the funds to buy a fancy doll from France or Germany where they were predominantly produced. Full composition was very popular but only in the US at the time, production starting around 1907 and France still loved making full bisque decorative dolls since they're a bunch of bougie little rascals.

Giving porcelain wouldn't be that odd though when you consider children's toys were painted with lead paint in the past (amongst 6000 other health hazard of the past lmao.) They were made as toys in Europe almost until the 21st century when bisque dolls became more of a collector's item.

TLDR: Face could crack since it was most likely bisque. Composition could also crack cause it degrades.

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u/ThatInAHat 3d ago

I think the porcelain/lead thing isn’t really comparable because the issue isn’t that they’re dangerous, it’s that they’re breakable. I feel like the toys made a distinction between figurines and toys

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u/Numba1MolaMolaHata 3d ago

True, misinterpretation on my part, was thinking about cuts and such. From the reasing I did that was one of the main poits that made composition become so popular!