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i-did · 4 years ago

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HELLO 👋 I WAS SENT HERE BY PALMETT-HOES. What are your thoughts on the foxes + tattoos?? Originally it was Neil + tattoos but if you have thoughts of the other foxes too I'd love to hear them if you want to share 🥺

Okay, so I actually might try to become a tattoo artist and love tattoo culture. I also have already about 30 tattoos, some the size of my whole hand and some the size of a quarter, a lot of mixed and matched stuff. I also always try to think of the foxes in their timeline, so 2006-2007 era, and when I think said foxes would get tattoos in their life and why.

NEIL

First off: I personally HC Neil has keloid scarring and a lot of scarring so tattooing is hard on his skin. I have a friend who has more scars than I've ever seen on anyone else IRL before and we both love tattoos but even with him trying to prep the artist, unless they were a scar micropigmentation expert, they usually underestimated how hard it was going to be to tattoo on his skin. It's uneven and dense and doesn’t hold ink well. His non-scarred skin faired a lot better but his skin was something artists just weren't prepared for. I might get some micropigmentation on some skin grafts I got to even out the coloring and make it look more “natural” but I’m waiting to see if the pigment will settle and heal more first.

I personally don't see Neil ever getting a tattoo, and this bums a lot of people out lmao. I think his scars are too thick and too raised and it's too cosmetic and aesthetic centric for it to be something on his radar. On his skin that isn't touched by scars I think he would want to leave as be mostly out of neutrality. I don't see Neil as the type of sentimental tattooer, I see him thinking “well if it matters to me I remember it” sort of and him wanting to keep the really deep stuff personal just for himself and even another person putting it on him is someone else there. I think if he were ever to get a tattoo, he would be like… idk it would be the kind that says “yes I got shot, stop asking” over a bullet hole scar or like that one guy whos missing his leg and above it there's a tattoo that says “one foot in the grave” that's the only type of tattoo I can see Neil doing and even still I'm not convinced he would do it.

ANDREW

I don't ever see Andrew covering up his scars with tattoos either. I think he likes how the armbands can come on and off and be fully covered to not at all. He's not ashamed of them but he's private, and I think the tattoos could seem like he's trying to hide them when he's not-it's just nobody's business. I think if he were to get anything it would be American-traditional, it ages well, its classic, and doesn't really go out of style. Before the…. Let's say 80s, there weren't the different tattoo “styles” like there are today. It was just… tattoos in America. There was Japanese-style tattooing and then American-style tattooing, and since tattooing started curating its underground culture in the ’50s in America… those circles did not blend. They do now, but they sure as hell didn't then. So I could see Andrew with American-traditional because it's classic and I could see it appealing to him, but I could also see Russian prison tattoo style black-work something that appeals to him too. Get him some gulag tats. However if he had those, and since I currently HC him as white and with a buzzed or grown-out messy buzzed head, he would deadass look like a fuckin skinhead so... yeah lmao. Overall I don't see Andrew getting tattoos really, but if he would, American-traditional seems fitting.

KEVIN

Okay, so Kevin out here looking like a MF SoundCloud rapper with his single face tat and nothing else going on. I know it might be OOC but since his mom is Irish and I HC his dad as Maori (even tho in the canon Wymack likely has 90s new age tribalism, which is a complicated issue but instead I choose culturally significant tattoos over the tattoo trend that was largely popularized by a movie lmao anyways-).

So I think Kevin is the only one who dives into tattoo culture and bonds over it with his dad. If he just has the chess piece, it still feels like a branding, like a mark so distinct against the rest of him, but one full sleeve of Celtic knots and symbols and the other arm full of Maori's distinct tattoos of swirls and symbols could be a cool way for him to reclaim his own skin and have it not be something he did just to cover something up, but make tattooing something connecting him to his cultures and family.

NICKY

Nicky is the guy who got like, fierce, or pride, or something like that tattooed if he got a tattoo. I see Nicky getting a pride tattoo of some kind maybe and it being calligraphy or like if Nicky/Erik is a bear then he gets a bear paw. I could also see him getting his and Erik’s wedding date tattooed somewhere. I also don't see him as the type who didn't know how much research and shit goes into finding the artist for you, and kinda assumes you can go to just anyone and just walk in and then was like “wait what” when he couldn’t (or couldn't if he wanted to get exactly what he had in mind) so he probably got/gets tattooed by some non-homophobic apprentice, maybe even that apprentices first tattoo, and also since Nicky is Mexican and darker-skinned I doubt he thinks to put on sunscreen and the sun makes his ink lines bleed and so it doesn't age the best (it be like that).

ALLISON

Got a trendy tramp stamp to like, really stick it to her parents. Right on her lower back I bet it's the classic 2000s swirls and a butterfly and some of those stars, idk what they're called. If she was a young 20-year-old now tho she totally would have gotten a fine line tattoo, like not a tight three, a real 1 needle tattoo. They were seen as really nice back then and “so Cali” and like I could see /maybe/ her getting it done before she's 30 but they were not that common yet and like micro-realism is so new we still kinda don't know how it's going to age at all since tattoos before it have been designed they way they have for aging. Again if she got a micro-realism/single needle tattoo tho it would be something kinda basic like a butterfly or like a lion. I swear I've seen the same google image lion tattooed on a lotta people and like IDC it's your skin. But yeah, she gets the classic 2000s swirl butterfly and stars tattoo above her crack one night, maybe after a really bad phone call with her parents and she got drunk and pissed off. Maybe someone said she couldn't take the pain. (which btw, tattoos don’t hurt as much as they make them out to be in shows and shit, they can hurt tho)

DAN

I HC Dan as very dark-skinned, she's 75% black and 25% Sioux and grew up in a very very white area when outside her home on the res. Tattoo culture is still really sexist and really colorist, and at this point in history I think if she ever did want a tattoo, she maybe asked vaguely about it and they flat out said “I don't know how to tattoo on black skin” or “it doesn't go with my art” which… are shithole excuses and I think she thought, “well fuck u too” and never thought about it much since then.

RENEE

I HC as Renee as darker-skinned than Dan, and like the only places she could possibly get tattooed are maybe her palms, the bottoms of her feet, or her inner mouth probably. Some people genuinely are so dark that tattooing is hard, because it's based on the concept of black ink on a lighter surface, which is why scarification catches on in cultures where the skin is too dark to pigment with ink effectively. However, the idea of fuckin, 15-year-old Renee who is still Natalie with “PU$$Y” tattooed in her mouth kinda sends me. I think lil kid Renee thought she was gangster, and tbh she was, and I could see her getting some “fuck you/in your face” tattoo, especially if she was a lesbian in such a homophobic world, getting that tattooed is even better. We also know she got her back tatted in the EC with angel wings that look almost closer to dragon wings, so I imagine they show up as almost raised dark lines like scars from the untrained tattoo artist going way too deep, making it a cross between a tattoo and scarification, even if accidental. (also white ink really wasn't a thing yet and even now is still kinda hard to tell how it will heal, so that's why I don't think she gets any white ink tats)

MATT

He's a rich boy from NYC, he could really get like… whatever he wants. Once he's famous he can afford it that's for sure, but even before then he could with his allowance similar to Allison (even if on a completely different level). However, I doubt he gets anything lol. He's not particularly religious in my HC and doesn't have the same sense of being lost like I feel Kevin does with his own parents (I mean Kevin was raised like an orphan, kinda so it makes sense). I need to develop Matt’s background further on what it means to him personally to be a Filipino-American. I have several ideas about how his parents met in the Philippines and then came here but I would need to flesh out locations and then local cultures and then his parents said opinions on tattoos and then how matt would react to said opinions. I could see him possibly getting something for dan or his kids tattooed on. Which really makes me want to have him get his first kid's name tattooed really big or intricate somewhere like on his chest over his heart and then his kid comes out as trans and he's like “...fuck” lmao and gets it removed maybe and then redone or something. I see him viewing tattoos are personal and symbolic, and if he would get something it would probably be family-oriented, possibly Dan's portrait or like his baby's footprint which I've seen before.

AARON & SETH

Stick and pokes were not nearly as common then as they are now, and I feel like people kinda have to remember how taboo tattooing was then and still is now in a lot of cultures. My family is Not happy lmaoo. But it is what it is. Stick and Pokes were not a thing bored white middle-class teens did like I see them doing now. It was seen as super sketchy and I know someone who was 16 getting tattooed in a garage by someone who was both drunk and just out of prison for the first time, and that was seen as sketchy as stick and pokes at the time. I could imagine either Seth or Aaron having a failed and fucked up stick and poke tattoo, and out of the two of them, Seth seems like the drunk tat guy. Maybe once he got drunk and mad as fuck after Allison and him broke up and she said he didn't seem serious enough so he got her name drunkenly tattooed on his arm or something and then she was even more pissed because it was spelled wrong “YOU FORGOT THE SECOND L OMFG SETH.” (I can also imagine his future girlfriends don't love it lmao). I also love the idea of Seth just having Marvin the Martian or the Tasmanian Devil tattooed on his ass.

Anyways sorry for the lack of pictures but I didn't want to do that... so I didn't. I didn't go into niche tattoo culture and history like I was expecting myself to but this also got fuckin long. Might not be what you were hoping for at all but it is my current opinion on the foxes and tattoos. (This is also surprisingly free of my own personal aesthetic opinions on tattoos and that I'm kinda proud of ngl, since my preference is none of these, but also I grew up in a very different tattoo time than them)

#aftg #all for the game #ask #mailob #fig writes

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everyhowlmarksthedead · 4 years ago

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THIS IS LAS VEGAS

Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes x Reader

Anon asked: hi ! :) could you write a fic that reader is one of the LO (maybe close with adelita) (and has a powerful role between galindo and lo) has a thing with angel or ez romantically or friendly :)) is it too much btw ? no pressure !!! thank you !!!

Word Count: 750

Author comments: This work wasn't re-edited, so I'm sorry if you find grammar mistakes! I hope you all enjoy. Gif isn't mine, credits to the author.

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You don't know how it happened and maybe it involves a conflict of interest, but his lips taste so good, and the fact of hiding it from the world makes you want a little more. Even so, you're sure that couldn't change if Adelita or Miguel found out.

EZ and you take the advantage of the minimal opportunity to spend some time alone. Your favorite moment? When your crew, the Mayans and the Galindo Cartel meet at San Buho Tribal Casino. You always find each other at the back alley of the building. He usually is the first to come, because you have to attend some businesses as Adelita's right hand. But when he hears the heavy door getting opened, his face changes completely. That perfect and charming smile of white teeth receives you. Your steps go fast towards him, until you're allowed to jump into him, surrounding his waist with both legs.

“Hey, rebel”.

“Hey, boy scout”.

You get infected by the happiness, being your little break from real world, with a bunch of dead bodies, drugs, corruption and guns. You know that you would never have a normal life together, but sometimes looks like it's something possible; some times like those one. He rests your back against the wall, so he can place both hands on your cheeks before pressing his lips on yours. At first is a slow kiss, gentle, kindly, taking your time to taste them with yours. Then, when he tucks in his tongue, it's get somewhat desperate and needed while his hands travel your sides down until they can grab your ass squeezing it.

EZ has the power to make you feel as a goddess being revered with just a glance. And when he touches you, he makes you feel you're at heaven. Twisting your neck slightly, your mouths fit like two pieces of a puzzle, sucking and biting each other's lips with the desire you've been containing for the last week. Sometimes he finds out how to text you, at least a simply ‘ily’ or an ‘imy’. And sometimes you play with your laptop and the software, enough to send him some texts back. But when you meet, you don't even care if the world is burning down among furious flames.

“Te amo. Lo sabes, ¿verdad?” (I love you, you know it, right?) He asks you out of air, resting his forehead on yours, with closed eyes as you are.

You just nod, biting your lower lip, caressing the back of his head with your fingertips. Everytime you see him, and you have to pretend you only know him because he's Angel's brother, you feel some butterflies in your lower belly. Especially when you catch him looking at you, in front of everyone.

“Algún día no tendremos que escondernos”. (One day we'll stop hiding)

“I know, baby… I know. But for now, let me love you a little more”. He begs at the end, touching his nose with yours, before kissing you again so slowly and breathtaking that all you want to do is scream it to the world.

“I love you, Ezekiel”. You whisper between some smooth kisses, touring your hands down to his chest, grabbing his shirt to pull him closer.

“You know? Last night… I thought about a crazy idea… that I want to do only with you”.

“EZ we can't run away right now, we talked about it thousands times��”

“No, listen, I know, but…” Pulling away your head to support it on the wall, your eyes are maintaining his naughty gaze. You know him better than you know yourself. “This is Las Vegas…”

“Yeah… I know”. You reply raising an eyebrow, licking your lower lip by trying to hide a smile.

“So, what if…” Pursing his, he turns his eyes somewhere to the alley just for a second “... you marry me, ah?”

“You're crazy, you know it, right?”

“Yes. But would be fucking awesome. Don' you dare to reject me, rebel”.

“Not even in your worst nightmares, prospect”.

EZ kisses you again, once and again, with small and short crashes. He's totally happy so you are. Getting married it's not a foolishness, but even if you two would like to do it in presence of your families, you know that probably that will never happen. And if you have to die tomorrow, you want to do it calling yourself ‘(Y/N) Reyes’.

#mayans mc x reader #mayans mc #mayans mc imagine #mayans x reader #ez reyes x reader #ezekiel reyes #ezekiel reyes x reader #ez reyes

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moonlitalien · 6 years ago

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Sorry if this is an odd question but I was looking back at the awesome art of your clone squad where it shows them all and their helmets and was wonder if there was any significance of their helmet art design to their characters? Or is it purely aesthetic?

Oh that’s a nice question!

let’s see...

For Tremor, the leader of Ophidian Squad, I went with a very simple helmet design bc he didn’t strike me as someone who would spend a lot of time designing his helmet/armor. He’s one of the oldest clones in the GAR, he tends to not care about this sort of stuff.

Still! He retains his individuality in his own ways, eg. his facial tattoos. But he already knows he’s easily recognizable thanks to his mutation (heterochromia, his left eye is naturally blue)

Plutarch however is VERY passionate about his Mando heritage (and follows a strict code of honor, among other things), and he loves the traditional tattoo art of Mandalorians, so he painted his helmet and his armor accordingly, and is also the go-to artist for any clones who wants a traditional Mando tattoo.

He tattooed his own face with a tribal skull after Syd’Onii rescued him : as the sole survivor of a massive and deadly Separatist bombing, he sees himself as some sort of walking dead man from now on, and it’s also a tribute to his fallen brothers.

Reyes was the easiest to design because he’s based off a character from my indie universe/fiction Arsenal Zero, Shô Reyes.

I gave him pretty much the same design as Shô and since Shô also has a huge dragon tattoo on his back, I thought it’d be a fun reference to paint Reyes’ helmet with a Krayt Dragon!

And my beautiful baby boy Nuit is an artist, much like Plutarch, except he’s more into painting and drawing than tattooing! He -loves- all the colorful things, eg. butterflies, candies, rainbows, etc. so of course his helmet reflects that.

He’s also the youngest clone of the squad so he gets a free pass to paint and put stickers on everything and Syd’Onii will always defend him. |D #littlebrotherprivilege

All of them have painted their armor/helmet in teal/blue colors as a tribute to Syd btw, because those are her favorite colors.

#ophidian squad #OC: Nuit #OC: Plutarch #OC: Reyes (clone)#OC: Tremor #clone trooper #tcw #star wars #the clone wars #val answers #captainderyn

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