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[trouvaille]

Looking for personal recommendations of tattoo artists. Preferably Maurtia Falls, but have skin, will travel. Experience with nonhumans preferred.

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[ghoulking]

The government is an expert at tattooing nonhumans. But I think they probably are the only ones in that specific line of business.

Though I'm curious if the nanites won't erase the tattoos.

[trouvaille]

Thanks, this has been super helpful.

They didn't erase my existing tattoo or close up the holes for my earrings. I don't see why it would do anything other than help it heal correctly.

[ghoulking]

Alright.

I'm not an expert on the nanites and I never heard of their affects on things like tattoos. So I am just curious.

[trouvaille]

Nonexistent in my experience of having a tattoo and nanites.

[youresovein]

I am indescribably envious right now. I just thought you should know that.

[ghoulking]

[ he isn't talking about already existent tattoos, he knows those aren't affected - but it doesn't matter ]

It'll be easy then. At best they accelerate the tattoo healing process.

[trouvaille]

( as sensible a question as it is, gwen sees no reason to think two identical things would be treated differently based on timing. )

Presumably.

I mean, you can't have it both ways. Why would we be able to have the tattoos on our arms and not any others?

[trouvaille]

I wonder if vampires can get tattoos where I'm from. I've never asked.

[youresovein]

The permanence of it appeals to me. If I ever tried anything like that, it would be gone by the following evening.

[ Or at least that's his confident assumption. ]

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[baetiful]

I can give you a list of friends I've made in the field. There are quite a few patrons of the Iron Throne who practice the craft. But I do not know of any imPorts who are tattoo artists, unfortunately.

[trouvaille]

I got my first one when I was sixteen, which is probably not a great time to do permanent things to your body, but I haven't regretted it.

[trouvaille]

That would be lovely :) I don't know if I'd be keen on an ImPort doing it, anyway. Just someone who's had some experience with them would be ideal. I'd need to drop my glamour, I think.

[youresovein]

It meant enough to you at sixteen to have it done - that has to be worth something. But enough of that, what did you get?

[trouvaille]

It's a black ribbon tied around my thigh in a knot - taking me to a tattooist and letting me pick anything I like was my godmother's reward for becoming a prefect in sixth. Bit hard to top when I was Head Girl.

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[shifting]

Somehow I didn't take you for the tattoo sort.

[trouvaille]

Posh girl prejudice. I have a tattoo, I'll have you know.

[shifting]

I plead the fifth.

But don't leave me on a cliffhanger, now.

[trouvaille]

The one I have is a black ribbon around my thigh, tied in a knot - I sort of liked permanently having something impermanent. And you tie ribbon around things that are special.

Also, I was sixteen.

[shifting]

Hey, no judgement. That's better than a good 90% of teenage tattoos I've seen.

At least you didn't go for song lyrics.

[trouvaille]

My ex actually has a line of poetry tattooed on his arm that I wrote. It was a bit much for me, honestly.

[youresovein]

[ Hey, he understood some of that. ]

Anything you like - quite the reward. So why choose that?

[trouvaille]

I like ribbons. Having a permanent thing made out of something impermanent, and tying a ribbon around something because you want to keep it or remember it or it's special.

As far as the 'getting a tattoo' part went, it was her idea and she'd have been really disappointed if I chose 'not getting one'.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Tattoo of what? Has someone asked that already? I simply do not care enough to read what they might have said.

[Mostly directed at Merlotte.]

[trouvaille]

An eel winding around a chain morningstar. I haven't quite decided where yet, but somewhere I can easily cover with clothing, obviously.

[slightlyoffchilt]

A striking image indeed.

And how does that make you eel?

[He thinks he's so funny.]