Spotlight: Doll #19- Venus Shaeffer

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 January of 2022 I had just lost my mom to cancer and needed a pick me up to help get me through the rough patch. So I decided to use my christmas money to buy and customize a doll. The original plan was a Marie-Grace base with Felicity's electric green eyes, freckles, and brown hair. Venus ended up being a Blaire Wilson base with custom eyes, freckles, and thick wavy black hair, and I can't imagine her any other way. Her customization video is up on my youtube channel if you want to check it out. Link to my channel and all of my socials are in the "My Socials" page of this website. 

Back to Venus, the eyes that I received ended up being blemished, the pupils somehow got scratched and in some spots are a metallic silver from the base mechanics of the eyes. The seller was more than happy to send me a replacement pair free of charge, but I ended up keeping the defective eyes in Venus as I also have defective eyes. She very quickly became an extremely special doll. She became my first fully  blind doll, and by some unfortunate circumstances I too became fully blind a few months later. I was able to almost entirely regain my vision in one eye with the help of corrective surgery and stronger glasses. After going through that I grew even closer to Venus, feeling like I could truly understand her. Venus is Echo's best friend, they grew up together, went to school together, I have so much fun finding the little quirks in their relationship from them being friends for so long. Like how one time in science class in elementary school their class was learning about bats. When the teacher brought up echolocation Venus turned to Echo and said "Omg is that you're real name? Is Echo short for Echolocation?" and thus Echo's longest running nickname was formed, Venus still calls her it to this day.

Venus is a demigirl and lesbian. She's dating Echo. She has a collie x golden retriever mix named Saturn who is her guide dog.

Any questions on Venus? Ask them in the comments!

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