Years ago, I saw a picture of a silver-haired ball-jointed doll sleeping inside a suitcase. I was enchanted. I remember showing my phone screen to my friend who was sitting beside me. "Look", I said. "She looks just like an angel." You could probably call that "love at first sight"...

Suigintou is the first of the seven Rozen Maiden dolls, a series of living dolls made by the legendary dollmaker Rozen. These dolls compete in a battle royale called the "Alice Game", where the last survivor gets to become "Alice", the perfect girl. Suigintou is ruthless in her pursuit of victory- she's the series' initial antagonist, after all! However, she changes a lot once she meets a sick girl who calls her an angel-Megu, that is(and you can imagine how insane I went when she said that!).

Her character in the 2000's anime is quite different from how she is in manga, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love her dramatic broken-doll schtick...and also her sword. She's the quintessential edgy anime girl.

In a lot of ways, she feels like a character designed in a lab to appeal to me-and it might've worked a little too well. The very-expensive Suigintou super dollfie has become sort of a meme among everyone who knows me...she will be mine someday, and then I'll get married to her. Trust me.