#bjd ramble

So... I got the notification a few days ago that my 1/4 DFH girl body shipped! So I should be getting the body for my Souldoll Aehael soon! It's been about six months, and the body is a custom resin match to Switch Milktea Rose.

I'd like to get a body for one of my other floating heads, too, and I am heavily considering the 1/4 Sprouting Dragon girl body. Rambles photos etc further under the cut.

I've considering shelling Rhys for a very long time. She was one of my character's in a "mini campaign" (of our much larger D&D campaign) where she served as a shadar-kai (shadow elf) private investigator, investigating a cult that was up to no-good. She also drove the squad's car into a "god's" newly-born avatar.

This is my long-standing, multi-year D&D online campaign, and this was the art I used for represent her. I found out afterwards it was a fan edit of Pillars of Eternity's Ydwen, but I was really happy how closely it matched my mental image of Rhys! Finding a BJD sculpt for her has been kind of elusive, though.

I've long considering a Minifee Nanuri 17 head for her. However, something about it has always felt a little... off for me, and I don't love the sculpt - which is always the goal for my dolls. I've also considered a minifee juri 2020 and a minifee klaus, both of which I really like, but the stars just haven't really aligned on it. I guess I'm a little hesitant because, while I do love my minifees, I don't love how bobbleheaded they are compared to my other msds, whose heads tend to be at least half an inch smaller.

I do think both of them have quite a bit of potential to be Rhys still. I've also considered Klaus for my elven rogue who lost something quite dear to her in a horrific ritual, but the consideration for Rhys still stands.

For some of the less melon-headed options (lol), I do really love Withdolls. I have considered a few different ones, namely Angela and Kyle.

I really like both, but I am hesitant to use Kyle for Rhys because there's so few male sculpts I like that are msds that fit with the majority of my crew and I would like to eventually get a Kyle and Aiden for additional boys to... make a futile attempt to slightly "balance" out my crew.

I love Angela but I would have to modify her mouth since something about it has always bothered me - I think it's the lack of a sculpted cupid's bow, which is probably one of my favorite parts of lip anatomy.

Withdoll Nana has been up for heavy consideration, though - I think she's sculpted from the same base as Angela (which is probably the same as Luna, Rachel, and Cynthia), but she has a really nicely sculpted mouth and I really like her more defined nose shape around the nostrils, compared to Angela's.

While her head is up to debate, though, I'm fairly certain I know what body I'd like for her: the "no gender" body from Fatemoons.

Most female BJD bodies are quite... well-endowed in certain assets, as either wasp-waited hourglasses or bottom-heavy pears, and my mental image of Rhys' body was tall, lanky, and athletic but not particularly muscular - long muscles, rather than bulky and show-y. My mental image would probably put her as a "rectangle/banana" body type which, while underrepresented in most doll lines, is actually the body type of the majority of women! I don't care about my dolls being anatomically correct (and sometimes I really wish they weren't), so the body being "no gender" is a benefit too, if anything.

Unfortunately it seems like Fate Moon's dolls are almost always only available in "milk/white" resin so I am waiting to see if a very pale pinkish color becomes an option. I know I can always dye a body and white is technically closer to how Shadar-kai are typically depicted (as white or grey), but white resin is my least favorite fantasy skin color... I kind of hate how it photographs outside - pale flesh resins can reflect in the sun really badly as it is, sometimes making their noses barely visible, and since Rhys is alive, I prefer something that implies some blood circulation. I've already asked Denverdoll about it, so I am just waiting to hear back. If I do with a Withdoll head for Rhys, I would probably get it in rose white or cream white resin - pale but not paper/snow white.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNdMU1b1c0)