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You can add stabilizers to fabric to make it pretty much react like paper... but that would kind of defeat the purpose of making it out of fabric in the first place. :P
Stitching the creases might not work quite how everybody seems to expect it to. It might not give you quite the expected reinforcement (stitching doesn't render fabric suddenly inflexible- even if you stitch a valley fold, the stuffing is still going to try to push it outward.) Especially with how much creasing the Pyro model has, it might end up looking pretty bad with all that extra stitching everywhere.
Use a fabric that doesn't fray, or use an anti-fray liquid on the edges of whatever fabric you do intend to use, or you're really going to have problems. Papercrafts don't exactly have seam allowances to hide the raw edges. (And making your own seam allowances would require a lot of experience and forethought.)
The person who made the fabric Companion Cube probably didn't even base it off a papercraft at all. A cube is easy enough that they probably made the pattern from scratch. ;3 If you have no experience making dolls, yes, this might be very difficult. Fabric will react in unexpected ways that paper doesn't. I second the recommendation to start with something simpler, unless you know what you're doing. Maybe not even a papercraft, but go to a fabric store and pick up an actual fabric doll pattern, so you can acquiant yourself with how fabric patterns usually work. (Or even just try the Companion Cube pattern.) And good luck!
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