Coherent Collection or Motley Crew?

I'm all mixed up. 2 SD boys. 3 MSDs. One MSD on the way. One is cat girl. One Cyborg. One SD about to become a 70cm. Crazy crew I have. Not to mention their styles clash. I think it's because I see my dolls individually rather than a group.

 

For the most part my dolls are a mixed bag. I've got all sizes, with both natural and unnatural hair. I've got an anthro, and I'd like to get some fantasy colored resins. I love what I love, and that's the only really unifying thing. I keep branching into new things, both with the dolls and their clothing. I would never limit myself or turn around and sell a doll because it "didn't match."

Now, I do plan on having a sort of elven family, all girls with white skintones and "blind" eyes." I also have dolls based on OCs which have to match the characters and be on scale with one another, but beyond those I'm completely open.

 

To start with, upon first getting in the hobby, my collection was so mix and match it made me a little dizzy. But, time went on and my tastes changed. Even though ultimately many different companies will be represented, all the dolls I want have a certain...running similarity between them. So, when all is said and done and I have all my characters represented, what may look like a motley crew at casual glance to some will actully prove itself to be oddly coherant to those who will look a little deeper.

 

My group is definitely more of a motley crew. They really aren't meant to be a coherent group, in terms of character or look or size. I don't really want any two of my dolls to be too much the same, so I try to have a different style for each of them. Even when I have two dolls from the same company, they're quite different in terms of expression or size or both.

They do have a few "matchy" traits, I guess. I don't own any rainbow colored resin as yet, although there are plans for a grey tiny in my future. And most of my crew have faceups done by me, so there's a shared look to that.

 

Wow, for some reason I initially thought you were asking us if we collected BJDs inspired by the members of Motley Crue. >.> Anywho, I'd have to say my doll fambly is cohesive, but also dabbles in the "Motley" spectrum. Their characters differ dramatically, as do their face-ups, but they're all girls; and because I'm partiall to dolls with large, sad-looking eyes and full, parted lips, they all have somewhat similiar facial sculpts (pretty cohesive, if you ask me). They also dress quite differently: one wears gender-ambiguous clothes, one maintains the most immaculate and impeccable decorum, and one dresses like a sexy punk-hippie. Yet they all reside under the same roof, and they get along for the most part. (; I'd never select a doll based on how they'd appear with my group (except when proportions are involved), but rather I'd procure the ones I'm partial toward--ones I find appealing. I'd personally like a motley BJD family; I'd love the hugely diverse character potpourri I'd have as a result.