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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22929317\/monster-babies-etsy-diy<\/a>
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When Arend Smith first learned about the \u201creborn doll\u201d community, he was an investment banker doing fantasy sculptures on the side; after teaching himself to work with Super Sculpey, oven-bake clay, and wire armatures, he quickly became hooked. Soon, his talent began to attract collectors interested in masks, statues, and garage kits<\/a>. When a client asked him to make a vampire baby, Smith was drawn into a new subculture that would later influence his decision to pursue fantasy art full-time. <\/p>\n

\u201cI came up with a character that was loosely based on \u2026 Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em>, which is one of my favorite vampire designs ever \u2014 the bat form that [Dracula] takes in that movie,\u201d Smith recalls of his first reborn doll. \u201cThe reborn community \u2026 was something that I had not really encountered with the collectors that I was used to.\u201d Today, Smith runs Ravendark Creations<\/a>, where one of his vampire babies<\/a> \u2014 a posable 16-pound doll made from a master mold \u2014 goes for a cool $1,250. <\/p>\n

Reborns<\/a> are lifelike (often ball-jointed)<\/a> baby dolls, made of silicone or cloth with glass eyes. The community runs the full spectrum of doll collectors, role-players, grieving parents, people who can\u2019t have children, and folks who see them as a form of therapy. Some bring their reborns out in public, keen to see others do an inevitable double-take when they realize that the baby isn\u2019t real. Researcher Emilie St-Hilaire even sees \u201cpromising implications<\/a>\u201d in the reborn-human relationship for the future of AI companionship.<\/p>\n

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