Monday DE: I can't think of a title, it's Monday, I'm too tired

[splash_of_blue]

It's a Monday (again), and so naturally my thoughts turn to the contemplation of pain.

(Don't mind me, I just haven't had tea or breakfast yet. Never even mind second breakfast...)

ANYWAY.

What tattoo(s) would your pups get? Do they have any already, and what do they mean? And for the muns: what fandom tattoos do you have/would you like, and why?

Comments

[have_no_mercy]

Tess has no tattoos and wouldn't get any.

Rose has none but might get a rose or something one day when it's not so scary.

Kylo has none and thinks that's just fine.

Creed wouldn't be able to get any. Healing factor.


As for myself, I have plenty of tattoos but none are fandom related.

[shinyhappygoth]

Enzo would like one, but neither he nor I are sure what yet! Both his siblings have them, and both include the icon symbol so of course his should as well, but otherwise, uncertain. (Suggestions for other elements to include are welcome!)

Zecora has her cutie mark and is satisfied with that at this time. (Not even sure how or if tattoos would work for equines.)

I am SPARSELY COVERED IN BEES! (All currently drawn by Shaenon Garrity, but I have a few drawings yet to be applied, including one by Rebecca Sugar! Guest bees!) The userpic is on my calf; everything else is just bees, roughly life-size, scattered about my person. I like to consider it all one very sparse tattoo of a swarm.

[i_am_your_host]

The bees tattoos sound cool! That is a nifty idea.

[shinyhappygoth]

Thank you! I have titled the overall work "Tea and Honey". ;-)

And it's technically a fandom tattoo as well, because the original teacup picture was a Kickstarter reward where you could get a sketch of a Skin Horse character of your choice, and I chose Gavotte the sentient swarm of bees just to be difficult, and apparently this sort of thing is how Shaenon handles that.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka doesn't have any and I honestly can't think of her getting any.

Sabine doesn't like the permanence of tattoos, but I can see her drawing various designs on her self with pigment sticks. Her artistic style changes so much, it'd be hard to say what she'd draw at any given time.

Jessica doesn't have any that I know of, but I can see her having a cheeseburger somewhere secret.

Danny has this sick dragon brand that looks like a tattoo.

As for myself, no fandom tattoos but someday I'd like to get Sabine's starbird design. I've also thought about getting Bitchplanet's non-compliant stamp, but I'm not that deep into the series; though I love the idea of the rebellious nature of those who've gotten the tattoo.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato probably wouldn't get a tattoo, but if he did, his Crest would be the obvious choice. It helps that it's a really simple design.

[cottoncandypink]

I can't picture either of mine with tattoos, though I think Wilford might have got a few when he was younger if he had more money to throw around. It didn't happen, and now he doesn't see the point.

I've got a couple fandom tattoos. One which I'd like to clean up, and one which I'd like to cover up. I'm also working on a Norse sleeve, and have a couple more small ones hanging about that aren't really special.

[cameoflage]

Wilson's from a time and place when tattoos were for disreputable people and sailors, so he's not interested.

Caring about their appearance in a purely aesthetic sense at all is still a work in progress for Bastion, but I could see them coming around and wanting floral designs painted on their armour as a compromise between the amount of dirt necessary to get real flowers to stick to them and being totally unadorned.

Cirava would enjoy having a tattoo of something that looks like it should be on the cover of a 1980s synthpop album. I don't think they have any tattoos at the moment, but it's an option on Alternia, just not a priority for them.

It doesn't really seem like Aradia's style to get a tattoo, although she doesn't have anything against them. I just can't think of anything specific she'd like to have as one.

Thurlow canonically has tattoos, though in places covered by their clothing almost all the time. Some of them are spywork tattoos of no personal meaning, but they also have a back piece of the impossible Parabolan jungle they've occasionally visited, a Correspondence symbol just because it's cool, and the face of their long-melted Noman.

For a few years I've contemplated getting a line from the Sunless Sea beta tattooed on my arm or chest, but it's not really enough of a priority for me to decide on the exact look I want or choose a tattoo artist.

[shinyhappygoth]

Bastion could get pressed flowers decoupaged onto their armor if they wanted real ones!

[cameoflage]

Oh hey, I didn't think of that! I rarely think about decoupage, and when I do it's generally with that song from the death metal sbemail playing in the back of my head.

[splash_of_blue]

Super-belatedly:

Sam has no tattoos; they probably wouldn't work due to his healing abilities, but he's never really felt inclined to try anyway.

Molly, again, has never really considered one. If she did get one, it would probably be 'Try Not To Die', Nico's old rallying cry, or a reference to her siblings and their found family. The process of getting one would probably be quite tricky, as her powers (and therefore invulnerability) can kick in automatically to protect her from being hurt. She probably could get one, but it would take a hell of a lot of focus and concentration at all times and... well, she's got bigger things on her mind as an adult.

McGonagall has a tiny phoenix somewhere extremely discreet, probably on her back or ankle: it's a hangover from WW2 and the original Order of the Phoenix. (I disregard JKR's later canon and substitute my own as and when it suits me, which is... most of the time, honestly.)

Raoul got a horribly ill-advised tattoo of the King's Own logo (yes, the group that he commands)... on his arse. Yes, he was very, very drunk at the time, and yes, it was because he was also very unhappy at the assignment at the time. For this and several related reasons, he no longer drinks.

(Buri, obviously, has never, ever let him live it down. He hasn't been to a healer to get it removed because it is at least a good reminder to himself to never hit the bottle ever again.)

Snow Leopard Woman has none. She has better things to do.

War has, when she wants, a huge sword tattooed on her back. As to whether or not it's there, that depends on whether or not it's useful for her to have it.

Phil Coulson has an old and very faded West Point tattoo on his arm, acquired when he was young and stupid and very proud of joining the military but before he 'resigned' (i.e. decided to invite his boyfriend to his passing-out ceremony)... He's been kind of considering getting it covered with a SHIELD-related tattoo (not the logo, something plausibly deniable), but is also pretty sure that doing so would scream mid-life crisis (and result in Natasha teasing him until the end of recorded time).

Victoria has a tiny tattoo of three bullets on her left ankle. It's an Ivan reference, so of course it had to go on her foot...

Poe does not as yet have any tattoos, but will almost certainly have the Rebellion symbol some time after the war.

BB-8 is a droid. The closest they get is graffiti, and it's usually not self-inflicted. He'd zap you if you tried.

Personally, I have no tattoos, but there are a few I've been considering for years which are fandom-related:
- A tiny turtle with a watercolour-style background, for Discworld, possibly with the words 'the turtle moves'.
- The text With a little guts and lots of glitter. It's a La Cage Aux Folles quote, from the group version of the song 'I Am What I Am'.
- A quote from the movie Inception: You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. It has memories of hanging out with my best friends in the last year of uni, which was the last time we all lived together, and also has an implied message of 'when life attacks, fight back with bigger weaponry'.

[darkeryetdarker]

I could see Urainia getting a full-back tattoo of a star chart, or something star or galaxy-related.

Gaster does not have skin. (And I don't think he'd be the type to get one, anyway.)

I have an Undertale tattoo - a pixelated red heart and the words 'stay determined'. :)