YOUR ANIMORPHS TATTOO AU IS. SO COOL. do you have any more thoughts on it that you'd be willing to share?
Ahh thats very kind but I cannot stress enough that it's not my AU!! I linked it in the post too but This is the original!
But as far as my thoughts:
-I think Cassie, as an Estreen, would be able to choose where the tattoos go, and how big they are. She believes the only one she can't influence is the wolf, which covers her whole body, but I think it's just her own brain and internalized guilt not letting her move it. She placed it there for a reason, even if it was subconscious.
-along that line, the size and composition of each tattoo (whether it's the full animal or a part or feature) is based on how that person subconsciously feels about that morph
-facial tattoos are the most rare, and only appear when there is some kind of identity issue in the person
-David has his lion on his face
-Marco has an ant that is always in a different spot on his body,, leading to him occasionally spotting it and freaking out trying to kill it before realizing it's his own flesh
-Rachel has a scar where the croc morph exploded out of her back
-at first I assumed Rachel would teach everyone how to do makeup to cover the tats at school, but recently I've also like the idea that maybe only other morph-capable people can see the tattoos at all.
-OR,, maybe in the same way they were able to practice morphing clothes, maybe with enough practice they can learn to demorph without the tattoos appearing right away (Cassie can go 5~ minutes before they fade back in,, Rachel and Marco have about 2 minutes,, Jake gets about 90 seconds, and his tiger stripes never fully disappear)
-ive seen a lot of ppl ask if Tobias' tattoos go under his feathers in his bird body,, which is hilarious and cursed,, but I imagine they appear on his human form (bc of ellimist fuckery)
-when you morph your tattoos go to z-space
-visser 3 is basically the lady from Blindspot but as an andalite