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hi tamber!

i was wondering if you could talk about dylan's tattoos, if that's not a huge spoiler. what are some tattoos she has/when did she get her first one/do any of them have special significance to her? (also does she get annoyed at people asking her about them. i know a lot of people with many tattoos do)

(also sorry if you've answered this already!! hope u have a good day :))

hi arlo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

dylan waited until she was 18 to get tattoos, because despite all of the other illegal activities she was doing at the time, she thought it "wasn't legal to get one before then"! they're not a spoiler, and they're all based within three categories:

• coping with death (now with a fun pop twist!)

• esoterica and good luck charms to combat her bad luck (bastardized and made cute!)

• she was an 18 year old who wanted some tattoos and didn't think that she would have to live to deal with the consequences of still having such dumb tattoos.

DISCLAIMER: some other people have designed tattoos for dylan before, too, and i love those so much :D these are just the tattoo designs i had imagined at first.

a few from each category;

1st category:

1. "don't fear the reaper" tattoos, one on her arm w/ a scythe taking root. absolutely has never heard the song, saw the title and immediately ran with it. a reference to the (don't fear) the reaper mission in cyberpunk 2077 (which is the ending my file for dylan picks also so :B)

2. her sister's initials tattooed on her arm. she got it done while synth-coked up at her academy graduation; it was the first time she'd seen her sister in years, and the last time she's seen her in years. got her autograph on her arm and tattooed it after.

3. her really mean highschool nickname "killshot" is on her knuckles. it sounds really dumb. it is. came from her first round of loyalty testing @ the academy and was dubbed as such for a short period of time after Not Hesitating to zero her girlfriend at the time.

4. skellyhands on the back of her neck 2 indicate death having a grip on her or something dramatic.

2nd category:

1. her first three-card tarot reading after quitting her job, tattooed on the inside of her arm. apparently, she liked her results.

2. a rabbit with a dotted line wrapped around its foot to indicate cutting, the number 13 plastered around a few places, mostly notably makes use of the hanged man and death as the tarot she associates w/ herself.

3. the evil eye is peppered around. an awful, bastardized version of it resides on the back of her hands; big, soppy anime eyes. yes, she will insist that it is still the evil eye.

4. pagan protection symbols and all sorts of good luck charms.

3rd category:

1. snake wrapped around a sword going down her throat; just thought it would be Really Cool and also be an interesting pickup line.

2. a giant bow is tattooed in between her tiddies; once again makes for a pretty good pickup line

3. the tattoos on her thighs are from a "trip" in which she watched a specific old vid where the main characters find themselves to not be in kansas anymore. it's like. their Evil versions. toto is eating people like a zombie. the tinman is crying. (yes, she does want a cover up.)

none of dylan's tattoos have been acquired in the way we get them in 2022. she opts for the 2077 method of having a ripperdoc stab a numbing serum into your arm and tattoo the design on in an automatic machine. if she had to get a tattoo traditionally, she simply would not.

a lot of the symbols she uses are absolutely taken out of context, inconsiderately used, and bastardized: this is on purpose design-wise! she lives in a world where the esoteric shop offers "crystal radiation healing"! everything's been commandeered for profit! nothing has meaning anymore!

also the layout of her tattoos was based off of ryan from inkmaster...... sorry

she doesn't get irritated if you ask about her tattoos, but frazzled. no, she doesn't have a cool reason why she got that one. she doesn't even remembering getting it. she just wanted a tattoo. wants to seem like she has a Deep Meaning for all of them but she just doesn't, and asking about them means you'll find that out

EDIT because i forgot to answer some questions: she doesn't remember the first one she got, but it's a stupid little checkered heart on her arm. her sister's initials and her three-card reading have the most meaning to her :^)