The dolls in my possession function as if they are all from different universes and are here for various reasons relating to their characters. Each named doll belongs to one of my many storylines, or their arrival created one.
The timeline is still in a very basic form - I'm starting with arrivals and filling in the blanks from there!
If you want to know how the dolls link together, scroll right to the bottom. It's a bit spoilery for the timeline.
3rd April, 2007; Eden arrives. She has no memory of who she is or where she comes from. She clings on to the toy rabbit she appeared with and takes "Eden Lilim" as a name as it's the first thing that comes to mind. She doesn't know if it's significant or not.
???, 2007; Eden meets Rae. They become instant friends.
7th August, 2007; Mitsukuni arrives. He remembers his family and younger brother, but as he's only a little kid he doesn't remember much else. Eden is glad for the company. His arrival vaguely sparks a memory of a sibling in her mind.
16th August, 2007; Culi arrives. She remembers being chased by hunters before arriving and so assumes she came here for her safety. She seems very aloof and scary to the two smaller dolls.
1st September, 2007; Culi finally relaxes and speaks with Eden and Mitsukuni. Mitsukuni reminds her heavily of her own son from her human life, but she knows in this form he cannot age and potentially become this lifetime's reincarnation. She quickly becomes fond of him, and he is fond of her in return as he misses his mother.
20th September, 2007; Eden, Culi and Mitsukuni spend the day out with Cain. Eden is a brunette for the day.
26th September, 2007; Mil arrives. He quickly takes command of the group and harmonises it better. He is very fond of Eden but doesn't know why. He misses Salena deeply.
28th September, 2007; Mil tries flirting with Culi, and she with him. They quickly realise this is a bad idea as they don't need a power struggle.
26th October, 2007; Mil meets Cain. Mil takes great delight in teasing and semi-flirting with him. He strips in front of him.
25th December, 2007; Mil somehow becomes a gateway. Now, instead of only remembering his original lifetime, he can see what he understands to be every version of his life as it would have played out. He spends from now until 1st January hiding away from the others to try and make sense of things.
13th January, 2008; Mil flirts with Sparehead when he's borrowing a body. From some angles Sparehead looks like a younger version of Mil, causing Cain much concern as it's his body being borrowed.
16th May, 2008; Eden and Mil spend the day out.
27th June, 2008; Mil flirts with Yuuki. He considers flirting with Xpianus.
28th August, 2008; BoyCuli happens. She enjoys it a lot.
11th September, 2008; Irinei arrives for a short period of time. He doesn't have any answers for Mil but helps settle some of his fears.
5th October, 2008; Mil flirts with Ria.
13th October, 2008; Sylvian arrives and no-one notices. He wanted it this way as they're not ready for him yet.
17th November, 2008; Epsilon arrives. She enjoys the attention. Sylvian is glad of her arrival as she records everything to her harddrive. He often reviews the footage at night, and uses her to create charts and profiles keeping track of which characters relate to what and who, why they are here and how they arrived. She agrees not to tell anyone, and none of the other dolls can use her as a computer like he can.
25th November, 2008; Culi, Eden, Epsilon, Irinei, Mil and Sylvian take part in a Secrets meme. {Images linked to names}.
27th December, 2008; Mil takes a quiet moment late that night to wish Salena was around, or failing that, another character from his life who can keep him in line.
4th October, 2009; Lily's head arrives. She takes over Eden's body on occasion at night to spy on Sylvian. (floating heads aren't generally "seen" by the other characters.)
22nd September, 2010; Marina arrives. She doesn't speak for quite some time and there is a lot of confusion over who she is until she 'recognises' Mil as her uncle Icarus - his son - making her his granddaughter. Mil discovers although he can see his own lifelines, he won't know if someone else in the group is related to him as everyone in an earlier or later generation is blocked out of his visions.
23rd September, 2010; Ilye's body arrives and she becomes a full doll. Mil is glad to see someone he knows and who will keep him in line. He is starting to become concerned for his sanity.
23rd September, 2010; Sylvian uses Epsilon to create a "family tree" of sorts relating to Mil's storyline. He reveals to Epsilon his position in the doll group and why he is still in hiding. He has realised Lily is here.
2nd January, 2011; Hiroshi arrives. He doesn't talk to any of the rest of the group. Sylvian leaves him alone for now.
19th January, 2011; Mil's alternate head arrives. He is promptly put on Ilye's body. Mil then flirts with himself.
26th January, 2011; Arcadia and Momo arrive. Momo is sent to the main group while Arcadia joins Sylvian. Ilye becomes somewhat concerned that as soon after Mil#2 arrived so did another child. Neither version of Mil can confirm or deny if Momo is related to him. Ilye then wonders if you have a child with your opposite gender self is it technically a clone? Culi is amused by this theory and Mil says nothing.
14th February, 2011; Mil and Ilye spend the day away from the rest of the group. He confides in her about the lifelines, his confusion about the other dolls and his mounting depression. He tells her of one lifeline where Tylor didn't arrive until 2 months later than the main one. Ilye helps ground him.
15th February, 2011; Mil makes a conscious effort to stop slipping.
17th February, 2011; D arrives. He and Momo become friends, she doesn't understand why no-one else will acknowledge him. She is later told by Arcadia the others cannot see him as he is a ghost.
18th February, 2011; Eden swaps to Epsilon's body full time until her new body arrives. She starts having odd flashes of what seem to be memories. Lily also takes over Eden's old body full time. Sylvian confronts her that night and is told he'd better hurry with his plans as soon it will be too late.
28th April, 2011; Eden's new body arrives. As soon as she switches over she remembers everything and calls for Sylvian. She cries for the first time since arriving at one realisation.
1st May, 2011; Mil & Mil#2 do a photoshoot in an area reminiscent of home. Mil realises #2 doesn't really need to be here and questions why he is.
20th May, 2011; Sylvian pulls the strings to finalise his plan. After regaining Epsilon as his extra eyes he realises what Lily meant and so needs to work quickly.
22nd May, 2011; Sylvian tells Eden of his plan. She agrees with it.
9th June, 2011; The dolls take part in a repeat/update of the Secrets meme.
...TBC!
Doll Character Links
Eden: the centre of the doll world. All of the others are here because of her - her unconscious loneliness calls them towards her - but her unconscious self is not powerful enough to heed exact commands straight away due to her memory loss. Once she switches to her new body she remembers everything and creates this list. Her real name is Aurélie, Eden was the nickname her mother called her.
Mitsukuni: the first person Eden calls out for is her elder brother. This message warps into "an elder brother" and Mitsukuni arrives instead.
Culi: Eden calls for her mother. This warps into "a mother" and gives Culi, although it should have given Mariota instead.
Mil: Eden's power is getting a little stronger, and so a call for her father actually succeeds. Still without her memories and Mil unable to recognise other generations of his own family, this goes unknown although they become very close.
Irinei: is another misfire. Eden desires answers but Irinei can only see his own timeline - the wrong one.
Sylvian: is not actually called forth by Eden. He came in search of her but upon seeing her memoryless state holds back.
Epsilon: another misfire. She is called by mistake when Eden sneezes.
Lily: comes of her own will. She comes in search of her brother Sylvian.
Marina: Eden wishes for another member of her family. This call succeeds but as with Mil they don't know this.
Ilye: Eden knows of Ilye from Mil. She wishes for someone to help with Mil's loneliness and so Ilye arrives.
Hiroshi: because Eden does not know of Sylvian's existance, she calls for her companion. It fails as he is already here but brings forth a similar character.
Arcadia: Arcadia comes of her own will. She controls magic use in Mil's universe and has noticed this group as an anomaly.
Momo: Arcadia creates her when she arrives here to send to the main group as a spy. Arcadia cannot do this herself as she is a centaur.
D: Eden calls for her other brother. This fails and gives D instead, who shares the hair colour, pale/bruised skin and age from when Arlen was badly wounded - the main difference being Arlen survives and D does not. They would have the same eye colour but ghosts always have grey eyes.
Salena: Sylvian puts plans in place to pull Salena into the group. He cannot do it alone and so gets Eden's help once she has fully awakened.
