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[Sialater]

Cerrydd wrote...

Nilfalasiel wrote...

I don't remember it ever being mentioned that tattoos had anything to do with citizenship ranks though. I think it's just birth origin.

I think this too. Otherwise you have to keep changing the tattoos whenever someone gets pro/demoted.

I meant maybe like intricacy.  Would explain maybe the detailed design on Nihulus and Velarn's face.

[Cerrydd]

Sialater wrote...

I meant maybe like intricacy.  Would explain maybe the detailed design on Nihulus and Velarn's face.

One of Aria's men has the same pattern. I don't get the feeling he's very high on the hiearchy if he serves Aria.

[Nilfalasiel]

Sialater wrote...

Cerrydd wrote...

Nilfalasiel wrote...

I don't remember it ever being mentioned that tattoos had anything to do with citizenship ranks though. I think it's just birth origin.

I think this too. Otherwise you have to keep changing the tattoos whenever someone gets pro/demoted.

I meant maybe like intricacy.  Would explain maybe the detailed design on Nihulus and Velarn's face.

Yeah, but the problem still applies: when their rank changes, they must also change the tattoo. And can you imagine all the different designs they'd have to come up with? It'll still have to be recognizable as a colony tattoo, but also to reflect all the possible citizenship ranks? Sounds like a big mess in the making.

[Nilfalasiel]

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...

Also, I don't see how turians would get their tattoos as kids. Wouldn't the image get scewed and stretched as they grew? I don't know much about tattoos but I've always heard they don't react well to...uh, extreme changes in skin surface.

Hmm. If it's something like a henna tattoo (ie. it's not literally etched into the skin), that could be a way to work around the problem. Shep's comment about "slapping some face paint on" could actually refer to that.

[ciaweth]

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...

On a completely unrelated note simply because I am all hot and bothered now. Did my use of that comparison (sensationalist I admit) really rub people that raw? I didn't mean it that way, but I didn't expect such strong indignation either. I expected people would kinda get I was exaggerating.

Yes, it did rub me the wrong way.  You don't use references to ****s to embellish an argument.  It has no place in a joke or an exaggeration.  Find some other way to do it, imho.  If you're the powerful arguer you say you are, you can do that with no problem.

[ciaweth]

Nilfalasiel wrote...

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...

Also, I don't see how turians would get their tattoos as kids. Wouldn't the image get scewed and stretched as they grew? I don't know much about tattoos but I've always heard they don't react well to...uh, extreme changes in skin surface.

Hmm. If it's something like a henna tattoo (ie. it's not literally etched into the skin), that could be a way to work around the problem. Shep's comment about "slapping some face paint on" could actually refer to that.

Yes--I've never seen a place in canon where it was referred to as a tattoo.  If it has been, can someone point me at it?  I want to see.

[Cerrydd]

ciaweth wrote...

Nilfalasiel wrote...

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...

Also, I don't see how turians would get their tattoos as kids. Wouldn't the image get scewed and stretched as they grew? I don't know much about tattoos but I've always heard they don't react well to...uh, extreme changes in skin surface.

Hmm. If it's something like a henna tattoo (ie. it's not literally etched into the skin), that could be a way to work around the problem. Shep's comment about "slapping some face paint on" could actually refer to that.

Yes--I've never seen a place in canon where it was referred to as a tattoo.  If it has been, can someone point me at it?  I want to see.

The Wiki calls it a tattoo, but I don't think it's ever really stated in the game or anywhere else that it is a tattoo as we know it - a mark that can't be washed off. But I always interpreted Shep's comment about "slapping some facepaint on" as a joke, referring to the colours turians wear. Also, the wounded part of Garrus still has some blue markings and even though Garrus is badass and stuff, I can't imagine him applying facepaint to his face everyday around those sensitive parts.

Just speculation though. I really hope BW puts moar turian info in ME3.

[Sialater]

You didn't offend me, just playing the big sister and mediating before it got out of hand.



Let's just drop it completely. Consider it Godwinned.

[Sialater]

Thereby adding to their duplicitous reputation?

[Arhka]

Well, it's the future. I wouldn't be surprised if the facepaint was some wonderous material that could resize itself corresponding to the wearer's growth. Or if it was some device that rearranges the metal exoskeleton they have into patterns.

EDIT: Ragabul, just noticed your sig. Gonna be interesting to see if Ashley notices the relationship in ME3. Lols would ensue.

Modifié par Arhka, 14 juillet 2010 - 09:30 .

[Nilfalasiel]

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...

I think the facepaint is probably a tattoo. For the reasons Cerryd observed plus it just seems kind of weird to have to paint such an elaborate symbol on your face every day.

Well, you wouldn't need to reapply a henna tattoo every day. As for there still being bluish markings around Garrus' scar, I've already noticed that his wound looked like layers of skin got peeled off in places (it looks that way around his mouth, especially), so if only some skin got peeled off, I'm pretty sure a henna tattoo would still be partially visible as well.

Hmm, I just thought of an interesting application for bareface turians. Couldn't they paint their faces as whatever and possibly be effective spies or something?  In fact, it seems that having permament facepaint would almost limite turian in some ways.  Do you think some turians change their facepaint to game the system somehow?

If it's a real tattoo, it's probably super complicated to have it changed. If it is some form of semi-permanent paint, then there would be more flexibility as to what they could do with it.

[J4N3_M3]

Gonna quit for today. Four missions are not enough to trigger Garrus' love triangle dialogue! meh! good night y'all....keep the Garrus love up while I'm away in lala land in the yellow boat with the pot smoking chipmunks, the hula dancing chimps and the pink llama.

[lovgreno]

I wonder what turians would think about the human habit of henna tatoos? Garrus could look rather snappy in those.
Huh, typicaly that everyone left just now. Well goodnigt then.

Modifié par lovgreno, 14 juillet 2010 - 10:55 .

[Pacifien]

I was reading about henna and as soon as I read "binds to protein" I figured that can't be good for Garrus.

[Collider]

This makes me wonder. What kind of human customs do you think Garrus or Turians would find weird?

[Pacifien]

Collider wrote...
This makes me wonder. What kind of human customs do you think Garrus or Turians would find weird?

Decorating dead trees with twinkly lights and breakable baubles.