Hm - perhaps it's that I'd rather not have imperfect representation, yes... in a similar way that I don't like fanfic and I'm not crazy about fanart. And dolls are so fake compared to, say, the realistic lighting and the drawers that open. I'd rather have no Aubrey-Maturin than stiff, awkward, pretentious Aubrey-Maturin.

I love my wooden poppets very much though, because they're rather effortless (even though they took an enormous amount of work, making wigs and all). But they don't have faces, and their limbs are stiffly articulated, and they're very limited, but the limitations make them charming. They're very self aware that they're fake. (Imaginary people who know they're not real.) The roomboxes have no idea that they're fake, though, so they'd see right through any imposter doll that thought it was real. The roomboxes don't mind the self-aware poppets making occasional visits, though, because the poppets are humble and unpresumptuous visitors.