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I was thinking of the manual way as well, the only thing is it requires ashes of paper or something of that sort basically ashes and water. That means fire, and this can be very dangerous, also I think tattoos for grounders would be really dangerous I mean come on needles from a radiation infected world and just pricking yourself with it .-.
Yes to both of these! There's no reason the grounders can't have tattoos, but they'd have to along the lines of tribal, so nothing like a heart or a peace sign. I remember rejecting someone's tattoos they had in a CS for this reason, cause they had a Disney tattoo.I don't really see why they couldn't have tattoos. Linkin has them in canon (unless they're painted on or something), and the original inhabitants of the islands (the Polynesians) had them, IIRC. However, I think "conventional" Grounder tattoos would be "tribal," Maori-ish, Viking knotwork, or otherwise "warrior-style," i.e., no Disney logos, smiley faces and the like. :) There wouldn't be any fancy tattooing machines involved, of course. More like, mix up some pigment, dip a needle in it, and poke the recipient's skin with it by hand to make the tattoo. Slow, painful, and probably at least a little dangerous (risk of infection). Elaborate multicolored and shaded tattoos would probably also be out, due to the low-tech method.
I'm fine with paint rather than tattoos being the custom, but I don't think tats are implausible for the setting.
And, keep in mind that getting a tattoo would be a long and painful process. So they can have them, but it's not likely that many grounders opt to get one.