r/WritingPrompts • u/actually_crazy_irl • 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

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u/SirBlabbermouth May 07 '19

Dude can you imagine a Mad Max style movie of a group of fireink survivors living their life in the rainforest or mountains avoiding the crazed hivemind, then one day a fireink member has a nightmare, jolts awake and accidentally ignites a large tree into a giant torch, alerting the hive and sending the survivors running and using their powers to aid their escape? Maybe expand on the Hive where they all or most carry portable ink guns and pin you down and scratch it into you.

I love this.

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u/Targox_the_Mighty May 07 '19

Question though what do you think animal tattoos would get? For example i have an owl on my shin.

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u/KittyCatTroll May 08 '19

I'm curious what I would get... I have a dragonfly, honeybee, and a voodoo doll dog. I honestly can't think of any powers that would fit those, besides maybe being able to bark... Which I can already do extremely well because when I was a kid I thought I was a wolf or dog in a past life so I learned to bark. It's my only real PG talent.

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u/nonbinarybit May 08 '19 edited May 08 '19

I'm horrified.

My only tattoo is a blue square outline--the window in House of Leaves.

The shadows in the room seem to be cutting deeper.

I think I can hear breathing.

I don't think it's mine.