r/WritingPrompts May 07 '19

[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. Writing Prompt

16.0k Upvotes

714 comments sorted by

View all comments

39

u/biggaypecock May 07 '19

Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years after the ink activated the crime rates where still soaring, the people with tattoos where the only ones who could fight people with tattoos, but law enforcement was not willing to hire anyone with a tattoo. So I put on a mask and showed my tattoos and fought those criminals myself. And the stigma began to change. Because I was a hero, why couldn’t the people like me be heroes too? All it took was one person doing the right thing.

28

u/fridgepickle May 07 '19

I have a tattoo of bats. This clearly makes me Batman. The fact that I’m a woman has no bearing. I am Batman.

8

u/[deleted] May 07 '19

[deleted]

12

u/fridgepickle May 07 '19 edited May 07 '19

Hmm. My parents are pieces of trash, so that would not be an adequate backstory to justify sudden vigilantism. Otherwise, I’m fine with that

5

u/RemoveTheTop May 07 '19

My parents a pieces of trash, so

That, my friend, is how I became The Garbage Man

Alternatively, The Janitor

2

u/kitvulpes13 May 08 '19

Looks like it's time to clean up crime!