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Everyday Ghost #02 - Doll

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Everyday Ghosts Challenge - Day 2 - Doll



Gender:

Male

Age:

27 years

Marks:

- doll / marionette body consisting of wood, metal and wax
- muteness

Punishments:

- restricted mobility / weird marionette moves
- can't communicate through mimic and talking
- fragile
- being mistaken for an object

Background:

As the only son of an average family he was always excited to get new toys to play with.
Even if he was a boy, the toys he liked the most were dolls and marionettes. He played with them everyday, spending more time with them than with other children.
At some point he started to treat his dolls as his friends and talked with them while he still refused to play with other kids. Making his parents worry about him and his general mental condition, he stopped talking to his toys when he got older, at least trying to become more social and communicate with others. His parents were relieved while he still prefered to stay with his unlively friends.
When he was old enough it wasn't much of a question what he wanted to do as his job. So he started to work at the toy shop of his town.
Impressing his master with his skills he became a permanent feature of the shop to show his abilities to their full potential.
After some years his master died due to an illness, still passing his store to his apprentice.
This gave him the chance to experiment more and try to do more extravagant dolls, especially more realistic ones. Soon he became famous for it and he got new customers besides all the children. Young women wanted to have a little doll of themselves, like a miniature version of them. Their wish was granted and the dollmaker's fame grew.
Someday he got a special client, the daughter of the richest man in town. She wanted a doll of her as well, but after seeing the result she wasn't satisfied with it, telling the dollmaker that it wouldn't look like her at all. He should do it again and make it bigger. He did it, but again it wasn't good enough. He should do it another time 'cause it wasn't realistic enough and now it should even be life-sized!
He was desperate what to do. Everything he achieved seemed to crumble as the opinion of this girl would influence more of his clients and he could lose all of them in no time. Still, he tried it again, yet he couldn't forget about her saying over and over again that it wouldn't be realistic enough.
When she visited him the next time she wasn't pleased again, calling him a bungler, asking him why it's so difficult to make the doll look realistic.
He snapped and broke her neck.
Bringing her corpse into his atelier he got the idea how to make his dolls finally look realistic enough so nobody could ever criticise them again!
Separating her head from the body, her skull became the perfect template for the dolls head and he was right, the doll he created was the most realistic one he ever did and he got more praise for his work than ever before.
He called it a memento to the girl that was later found dead in the streets, so her beauty could live on. Nobody knew the truth.
This doll was his masterpiece, making more clients come into his shop. But at some point his usual skills weren't enough again ... More girls wanted a life-sized doll like this and again, some weren't satisfied as well.
Fortunatly it was so easy for him to snap their necks.
At some point he simply got mad. At night he could hear the dolls with the real skulls inside talk to him, making him more and more crazy. He saw them moving, he heard them laughing. And society became suspicious as there were more girls found dead and he created mementos of them every time ...
One night was the worst of all. The dolls were talking too loud, they were coming closer to him, so he stood up from his desk and turned around to scream at them. Accidently he threw his lantern to the ground and the surroundings immediately caught fire. There was no way out. The dolls still didn't stop laughing at him while the wax melted away, revealing the gruesome truth beneath.
The dollmaker died in the fire and there was nothing left of him but ashes.




I almost forgot to upload this today, haha~




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Kuroshiro-Ki's avatar
The story for this sounds very much likely to happen anywhere and I think that's what makes it scary and so dark because it can happen to anyone Q A Q
I love this design too, especially the thighs :iconmingplz:
But seriously the outfit and the anatomy of the puppet is really amazing! The concept is very clear too and knowing that he died because he brought everything on himself makes it very poetic because he died at the hands of those who died at his; surrounded by the objects that he loved the most ;;;;