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Accidental Vampires should be the title of a YA novel or Manga.  I'd read it.   To toss in my own two cents.  My dolls are referred to as a group as my girls.  I only have girls, so it just makes sense.  

Well, there was another name they had been getting called, but it hadn't been used a lot by my partner or I until recently. So, in boardgame land, there was a company called Fantasy Flight Games.  They sold games in extremely large boxes that the fandom called "coffinboxes."  When I got into Dollfie Dreams, I started using this same word for the sliding sleeve boxes the limited dolls often came in.  This wasn't because of any true similarity to the FFG boardgame boxes beyond size.  It was more because... well, they kind of function like coffins with the dolls lying in there. So a combination of reapplying the earlier term for large boxes and the functional use of a Volks box, I started often referring to their boxes as "coffinboxes." Over two and a half years ago, I went through something unpleasant, and I had to struggle to keep my girls.  Happily, my struggles proved worth it and I got to keep all my doll girls.  The catch was that never again would all of them be out at the same time.  Most of them would have to stay boxed up in their coffinboxes and put away in the closet. Due to the number of coffinboxes in the closet, it started getting referred to as "the crypt" or "the mausoleum."  "The crypt" is the more common usage. Rarely, the girls were starting to be called "vampires."  They were in their "vampire sleep."  This was despite none of them having any vampire sort of background in our personal lore.  The closest it gets is that Tecra would probably like to be called a vampiress, but certainly isn't one.  Cynthia likes that elegant gothic vampiress look, but once again she isn't one. Recently, I had six girls out and decided to get it down to three out and on display.  I'm only supposed to allow myself four out at a time.  So, I put three girls away, and that resulted in lots of comments about "the sun coming up" and "vampire slumber."   Afterwards, the partner started calling the three girls remaining out "Vampires" and "Vampire Girls." The three girls still out are Dusk (Ranko Kanzaki v2), Natasha (Anastasia), and Kaede Takagaki.  The partner seems to use "Vampire" to refer to Dusk and Natasha, and it doesn't seem to apply to Kaede.  But it does seem to be universally used to describe girls that are put away in "the crypt," particularly Tecra (Rin Tohsaka v2). So, that is the story of how my girls seem to have accidentally become Vampires.  It has passed a threshold of common usage and seems to have stuck as a primary reference now.  

If you are wanting to get the 1/4 bodies I would wait until they release the new version which will be much better quality than the older ones. They will be dropping soon I believe, potentially around Sept. I think.  

Psycho Pass Season 3 is kind of interesting and somewhat different to what has gone before. It has a thought provoking look at immigration. Due to Japan's low birth rate I guess they kind of need to do something or there will be nobody left to work in the Volks stores. We're also rewatching Puella Magi Madoka Magica. The much delayed Walpurgisnacht Rising (the 4th movie) is out in movie theatres on Friday. I don't know when it will get a general release. Madoka of course is an iconic anime with nightmarish visuals that will cause dolls to have many sleepless nights.

I agree with that, even if it's mostly just AI training bots visiting websites these days. Also I read a lot of drama around the closure of DoA. I don't know why the hobby attracts so much drama 😦.