Just assume that every bugbear has a friend who is constantly sick of their fibs and stories, even if they’re true. Or not true. You can really never tell with a bugbear.
Just assume that every bugbear has a friend who is constantly sick of their fibs and stories, even if they’re true. Or not true. You can really never tell with a bugbear.
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I believe the part about them having the tattoo, just not it being a medallion. Yeah, I said it.
I’m with you. The only way it could be a “medallion” is if it was done by a Sphinx and imbued with the proper magic at the time.
I suspect a medallion tattoo would have to contain metal, like that of a First Prime. And, as Teal’c explained to a curious street kid, “the pain was… excruciating.”
Ask Meesh once she figures out the making of typical medallions! XD
Thank you for answering this! It was a weird enough question that I honestly didn’t think it’d rate an answer… You know, though, this isn’t just the sort of story I think a bugbear’d love to tell, I think getting the medallion as a tattoo (whether or not it worked) and *telling their kids and grandkids they’d have to have it excised and preserved* would also be the sort of thing they’d do. And the sort of thing the kids/grandkids’d solemnly go through with “because it was Grandma’s wish” AND because it was also a sort of horrible, very-bugbearish family joke.
Makes me think of Sharing Knives and lakewaker funerals in the Bujold novels.
I wonder how much of Bugbear Funnin’ is a cultural thing vs. some kind of innate instinct for them…
My mom was told when she was getting her most recent tattoo that it’s now possible to keep a graft of a person’s tattoo after they die. We both thought that was a bit too morbid x’D
that bugbear’s hair reminds me of ramona flowers, so I’m choosing to believe that is ramona flowers, the bugbear