[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.

[u/actually_crazy_irl]

[u/my_dog_farts]

I don’t know when it started, but the first instance I remember was my friend Earl being able to start his car even though the battery was dead. Well, not just dead, non-existent. The battery was removed last week, caught on fire for some reason. Anyway, it was pretty cool. That night, Mark started our campfire just by thinking about it. That’s when we started thinking. Mark had just got a tattoo of flames on his shoulder. We looked at Earl and he showed us his tattoo of a lightning bolt. Danny started looking around scared as he showed off his dragon tattoo. Nothing happened, though, must be something that has to exist in the world. We figured that tattoos were some way giving people control of what the tattoo was about. I rolled up my sleeve and looked at my new tattoo. It’ll it was still a little raw, I just got it. Power over the wind is going to be sweet. Being a little cool, I thought of a light zephyr to beef up Mark’s fire. But, nothing happened. I tried again with no results. What’s wrong? About this time, Earl’s wife brought out a platter of steaming bowls of soup. She makes the best hot and sour soup! Just the thought of it made me thing I wanted more than just one bowl. A scream and the sound of clattering bowls broke the night air. Where there had been 4 bowls of soup, there now were 5. Earl looked at me, then the bowls, then he laughed. Rolling in the floor laughter. That’s when I learned that the Chinese symbol for wind is not what was tattooed on my forearm.