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Drea ([personal profile] kissingtheshoreline) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2026-07-08 11:24 am
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the LIFE TATTOOS AU meme
 

what if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves? (x)


i. the blank slate: you don't have any tattoos. are you relieved? upset you don't have anything to tell? do you imagine sometimes what they'd look like if you had them?

ii. the moment: a tattoo has just appeared. is it your first? one of many? what's happening in your life to make it show up?

iii. the reveal: you finally understand what that tattoo means. is it a good thing? a bad thing? or something bittersweet?

iv. the tale: you and someone else are sharing stories about your tattoos. do you tell the truth? lie? only listen and never speak?

v. soulmates: these are the tattoos you and your soulmates share: the ones that mark you as bonded for life. what are they like?

vi. the wildcard: there are many as many options as you can have tattoos. here's a place to make your own story.

image from. adapted from original.
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Susan Pevensie | Chronicles of Narnia

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Chase | Dispatch

[personal profile] hesarunner 2026-07-08 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lying down crying thinking about him getting an hourglass with the sand slowly running out when he learns about his powers.]
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[ exCUSE YOU this is so heartbreaking ;_; they wouldn't have been in communication when the tattoo first showed up but if you wanna explore those feels when robert finally sees chase's tattoo for himself, i'd totally be down! ]

exactly!!!

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Archie Kennedy | Hornblower

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Grantaire | Les Mis

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[Prefer canon for this, but can do modern/reicarnation!]
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Quynh | The Old Guard

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Bumblebee | Teen Titans

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William Laurence | Temeraire

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[Voicetesting!]
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Rachel Caustello | HoC/OC

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Dr. Jack Abbot - The Pitt - ota and wildcard, can also reroll

[personal profile] comfortindarkness 2026-07-08 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Most people, if they have the tattoos, have stationary ones. A bloom of color on a shoulder, a roadmap etched across an arm.

Jack's are different because they move like shadows across his skin. Coiled around his wrists one day, wrapped across his middle the next. Sharp and edged one day, soft and blurred like watercolor the next.

It's not something he likes to talk about because every time they move, something happens and it isn't always a warning that he's about to have a good time.

He didn't hear about the PittFest shooting from the police scanner, at least not at first. The tattoos warned him.

The night shift knows not to ask about them. But that might not stop other people.]
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[personal profile] endurings 2026-07-08 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ooc: would love to play with this; maybe Robby learns the secret after they have sex the first time, or move in together? I think it would be cool that once they figure out that they are soulmates, Robby suddenly gets a tattoo like Jack's, just one to start with, and it freaks him out.

Thoughts? I'm just rambling here, so anything you have to add or take away is fine! ]

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Yours + extra

[personal profile] nexttarget 2026-07-08 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The arrow stretching along his forearm had always been broken as soon as it had appeared on him; when his mother's heart stopped beating, it snapped in half. He didn't understand why an arrow until he and Barney had joined the circus, but it still was broken; the black and gray seemed to pick up a few colors, if you were looking closely.

It had minor repairs over the years, when he got away from the circus, when he met Phil, it wasn't snapped clean in half anymore; it was still in half, but the parts were lined up, not separated at an angle. When he met Natasha, the head was cleaned up, and more color came in; when he met Barnes, the fletching evened itself out like a bird had run its beak through the feather.

Eventually it was held together by tape, a little broken but whole.

Like him.

2006, he, Nat, and Barnes got sent to extract a medical team that had gotten pinned down, and he felt the arrow move for the first time in decades... it was surrounded in purples and blues, and the crack was mostly healed; it happened when he laid eyes on a guy with curly red hair covered in blood and freckles; why was it always redheads?

He's sitting in the place he's renting in Pittsburgh, chasing down some problems he, Nat, and Bucky had been tracking.

He can feel the arrow drawing back on his arm, and turns on the news and frowns; another mass shooting, when would it fucking end? He gets a text from Jack, and we'll that explains the tattoo.

Heading into work, early.

Clint just responds with Stay fucking safe.

He doesn't want to just sit around, but he wants to help, in his own way, so he perches on the roof of the hospital, doing what he does best, keeping an eye on the people he cares about. In the end, it's just a normal guy, mad his wife left him; this shit pissed him off more than gods, more than aliens...

When it's all over, and he sees Jack heading to the park, he packs up his bow and lingers against a street light for a while before approaching.]


Hey.

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rumi || kpop demon hunters || ota

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Conrad Achenleck | Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name 🦇

[personal profile] convalesces 2026-07-08 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Conrad has one tattoo, but he won't be so happy to have more popping up... unless it's shared with his soulmate.]
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Rush Warden | OC

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Karen Page | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] pagekaren 2026-07-09 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
(I live for this trope, especially ii and/or v vibes! OTA for gen, 25+ for shipping.)
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Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU | OTA

[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2026-07-09 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Love this concept and am here for everything. He's got at least a few that are obvious (a bullseye, a baseball) and a few that aren't. I'm also thinking of an angsty option where what happens if he gets a little mark every time he kills someone on his back, which means it is chock full right now. The black ones are for deaths he didn't care about while the colored ones are the rare ones he did care about.

For shippy stuff, soulmate tattoos are my JAM, especially if they're the kind where it isn't completely obvious who the other person is supposed to be when they first show up.]
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Rapunzel l Disney's Tangled

[personal profile] soligenous 2026-07-09 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Esp weak for soulmates, always. Maybe she has the obvious of a tattoo of the Corona sun emblem. I'm not sure on others, but honestly, Claire's art/her paintings are gorgeous as inspiration of aesthetics/style at least.]
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clark kent / superman || superman (2025) || ota

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Rocky | Project Hail Mary

[personal profile] amaaze 2026-07-09 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
( Carvings instead of tattoos, but you get the gist. )
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Eve Macarro | Ballerina

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mia allen | evil dead | ota.

[personal profile] detoxes 2026-07-10 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[iv or v please.]
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Zoey Westen | original character

[personal profile] pythianwoman 2026-07-10 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Bare bones about her: sarcastic seer with a knack for finding trouble, or having trouble find her. More in-depth information about her is here. Can easily AU her into just about anywhere.

Zoey's visions play out along her skin, long before she sees any portents in her dreams or in her head. The flowering vine tattoo coiling up her right leg, up her back, to her right shoulder is mostly always a constant. But her vision tattoos grow out of that tattoo like it's a living plant, down her arms, across her chest, down her other leg.]
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Samira Mohan | The Pitt

[personal profile] slowmotional 2026-07-10 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Voicetesting, please be gentle. Absolutely here for canon, crosscanon, assumed CR, AUs, exploring moments during the seasons, in between the seasons, AFTER the seasons, AU future things Like an AU where she sticks around for the upcoming season 3?

Samira seems to get a new tattoo showing up every time something bad happens. The morning after, blossoming on her skin like a shitty souvenir. She gets them after something good happens, too, though. It's just the ones that show up after something bad always hit harder.]
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zoey | kpop demon hunters | ota

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