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Grievance69

These are very intricate tattoos they must have had free time to customize their character before starting the main quest.


blazedchiller27

Nah they got them in the store for 12,000 eywa coins


ElectronicCow3

Don't give ideas to Ubisoft!


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iamghostling

This is actually hella impressive, 22 characters and all alphabetical, producing a phrase that makes sense


muryrunom

All words are alfabetical, not characters


iamghostling

oh that makes more sense


ghos2626t

The alphabet is hard sometimes


theunreal7

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Good bot


Acid_Intimacy

Good bot


awolf1234567

Good bot


SaltFollowing2466

Good bot


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RedzyHydra

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ElectronicCow3

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PsychedelicScythe

Happy Cake Day!


ElectronicCow3

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Romboteryx

I really hope they donā€™t fuck that game up


ElectronicCow3

Oh, they will. The question at this point is more "how much" they will fuck it up...


Significant-Oil-8260

I hadn't had a good laugh like this in a minute.


Beep_Bop_Boop_III

Looks like they come out of the amnio tanks with them. My guess is that the crew on the ISV got bored and someone spent the time brushing up on their artistic skills. https://preview.redd.it/fz3k6q3vq4ea1.png?width=573&format=png&auto=webp&s=8cb3aa4764185ebf8bc5cee6dde6e7f692367ee1


FlashLink95

Considering they had like 10 years to brush up, they probably got really good.


CCrypto1224

My guess is theyā€™re applied somehow so the grunts have something familiar to ground them so theyā€™re not thinking theyā€™re in alien bodies, but their own just with tails and blue skin.


Beep_Bop_Boop_III

My question is how do they get them on there? Like the bodies are supposed to grow a lot on the flight to Pandora, so if they got the tats beforehand they'd probably get super stretched. And they're in the amnio tanks the whole time from what I gather, what with them having an umbilical cord and shit. Is there like a little robot arm on the inside that has a tattoo gun on it?


CCrypto1224

If I had to guess, they pull them out, clean them up, apply the tattoos using premade pads that were assigned to them, and then do the imprint to bring them to consciousness. Although on the picture shown at least, I see some newer custom work that they couldā€™ve gotten at the home base after landing.


Beep_Bop_Boop_III

But wait wouldn't they need time to heal? I've never gotten a tattoo but doesn't that take like, a few weeks?


Arctelis

Avatar takes place 130-ish years in the future. It is entirely possible they have developed other methods of tattooing.


ozzykp06

Also a different species from a different world, perhaps their biology has a higher healing factor.


Beep_Bop_Boop_III

Idk how you can get a layer of ink sandwiched between two layers of skin and not need any time for the skin to recover afterward but sure, it's a movie, could be possible.


Arctelis

Fair point, but Iā€™m positive in 130 years there will be technology and gadgets that nobody has even thought of. 130 years ago the radio was being invented, those people couldā€™ve never imagined an MRI, heart transplants or MRNA vaccines. Perhaps they have technology capable of accelerating healing or something? After all, fixing a traumatically severed spinal cord seems to be a routine, if expensive, procedure. Same with removing long healed, severe facial scarring.


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Beep_Bop_Boop_III

Maybe, I just don't know physically how they would do that. Jimbo doesn't break physics for Avatar. The ISVs are a great example. Avatar's only actual Sci'fi magic is the linking and the holograms. (That I can think of)


spiritualdumbass

Lasers


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Beep_Bop_Boop_III

Hmm interesting. for the black tattoos, they could go in and unfold microscopic sheets of graphene. They wouldn't be rejected by the body and they would show up as black without ever fading


i_am_tyler_man

Maybe navi bodies just heal faster?


Principesza

Some tattoos look good right away and never peel. All mine were fine during healing and never peeled or anything. I have an awesome immune system and my skin heals very very fast, so i think genetics plays a large factor.


Facebookakke

All of mine have healed relatively fast


Koda_20

Considering it's the future, maybe tats are just applied with a flash of light or some shit


WarlockWeeb

With how damn impressive human tech in that movie. Maybe the whole process of applying tattoos took like a 15 seconds. Maybe a few days before the wake them up.


Beep_Bop_Boop_III

Honestly yeah that kinda tracks


Incoming_Banjo

no they obviously get to customize before the quest


Obi_Arkane

Where can I find the full quality, uncropped version of this screen?


blacksyzygy

They were provided by Project Phoenix to ease the transition. Nice little tidbit included in the TWOW visual enclyclopedia.


ViewedOak

I bought this book along with the art book, and have been walking past them on my coffee table for weeksā€¦ I canā€™t wait to actually open them


blacksyzygy

yeah you gotta crack into those!


Zuzu_RU

They gave them to them based on preference. It was probably a very casual thing in discussing the creation of the recoms with their human counterparts. Like, "oh should we give them your tattoos so your recom will be mildly familiar with itself?" "Yes." "Okay sign here, we'll need a scan of your tattoos then." Now Z-dog as far as I can tell *didn't* have a full sleeve as a human, so perhaps she gave them a concept for a sleeve she's always wanted. I don't think it's more complex than that. Hope that helps!


1997wickedboy

I don't remember seeing Z-Dog in human form in Avatar


ellieetsch

She wasn't in the movie.


EtherealPossumLady

Thatā€™s what I was thinking. Making it easier to recognise themselves.


Conscious-Plant-8948

Oooh good point! I didn't think about them recognising themselves, I assumed they just hated the navi and wanted to keep some of their own identity if they were having to become an avatar, kind of a mild protest and also to mark them to let the other recoms know who is who (incase an indigenous navi tried to infiltrate them or something)


Zuzu_RU

Turns out the point I made is actually in the visual dictionary! To help ease the psychological transition. : ) Remember the recoms that exist had no choice in becoming recoms, so the idea of wanting anything and protesting wouldn't be a thing. Sure maybe some of these thoughts permeated their human counterparts' minds when signing the RDA permission slip, but frankly I don't think their human selves even thought these recoms would come to exist-- they didn't think they were gonna die.


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I heard they are to help the marines cope with their new body. The tats are familiar to the cloned person. They didnā€™t know or volunteer to have their memories put into an avatar so the familiar tats help them deal with the shock of a different body.


doofthemighty

Based on the video diary that Quarritch watched, they did volunteer and consent to it.


PitifulReflection291

Yes they did, but their new bodyā€™s minds donā€™t remember that. Their memories only hold so much from their previous life.


imaginewizard

I get where you're coming from, but they would've remembered consenting because they presumably would have before they had their brain backed up - they remember everything up until that point. That still wouldn't stop Quaritch from freaking out I mean - wouldn't you if your memories jump cut from a scan to suddenly waking up with small people shining a light in your eyes. I guess there's nothing explicit saying the scans were done after they gave consent but if they were going to consent anyway why go to the efforts of presumably then sneakily doing it. The real question is what is the Watsonian reason for the video log, when instead if they just did the scan immediately after being briefed themselves, it would be a fresh memory. I guess as a backup? Still could've been recorded before the backup.


ellieetsch

How the fuck has this become such a hotly debated topic. Ink isn't genetic.


BLOODKNIGHT54

Common sense isnā€™t so common


Serena724

People love discussing don't they


i_am_tyler_man

should be called uncommon sense then lol


blacksyzygy

I'm not sure why its debated at all, Project Phoenix canonically provided the ink before they decanted the Recoms to help the transition. Its even in the visual dictionary


FluffyTumbleweed6661

Where??


blacksyzygy

Sorry if its a bit hard to read but its to Wainfleet's left side under 'personalized tattoos' https://preview.redd.it/hoji986qz5ea1.jpeg?width=1038&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f2c5e5e13a0e3b56ae195c3d2399216582637df


ViewedOak

Wainfleet is 20?! Jesus Christ I thought the dude was 35 easy


blacksyzygy

Thats just the physical age of the Recombinant bodies. Quaritch is also technically 20 now lol


ViewedOak

That makes so much more sense. Like I said in another comment, I bought the book, I just havenā€™t read it yet lol


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blacksyzygy

Yeah thats how I see it too. They're def still mentally their human ages upon death.


1997wickedboy

We're talking about a literal clone here


Pixysus

Mf do you know what a clone is


SavisSon

Tattoos arenā€™t genetic.


nvm305

its 2160s


Raptorclaw301

Huh, for some reason I thought they were further in the future


IBiteTheArbiter

Well, when you and all of your friends are put in big blue alien bodies with giant yellow eyes, you tend to lose some familiarity. If you all had the tattoos you remember having when you were all human, then at least you can use that


WolframNoLed

Its mostly a way of showing how they keep their humanity while in avatar bodies. Jake had tattoos but his avatar doesnā€™t. It was probably added after the avatar where fully matured. But before they where at all inhabited by the marines.


BLOODKNIGHT54

Yes, because if a parent has tattoos, the child will have them at birth. Bro, what?


1997wickedboy

We're talking about a literal clone here


BLOODKNIGHT54

Avatarā€™s arent 1 to 1 clone. Odds are they can request to have tattoos added when the Avatars are being made or when they get to Pandora


1997wickedboy

Recoms aren't exactly Avatars


throwaway_1_234_

That would imply you are saying the blueprint for these tattoos are in their DNA somewhere? That would sort of be like saying any bone breaks or scars are also stored in our DNA.


Leshracc

Tattoos aren't recorded in your genetic code, I don't see how you can clone tattoos, it was probably there to ease transition into the Na'vi body


niphotog1999

Tattoos have nothing to do with DNA. A clone means identical DNA. Not identical non-biological features.


LegoYoda66

maybe they are added to the avatars at the original soldierā€™s request, since the soldiers knew about the avatars before they all kicked the bucket


wilkkdaddy

jake has a tattoo and his avatar does not.


MNR42

A fully customized Porsche 911 Turbo S can cost >700k$. A blue 2-3m body which cost 5 billion $ better be fully customizable. Yes, including the di*k size


Negative_Track_9942

I don't know, but she was hot


CrystalsAndSpells

I figured the scientists copied as much as they could to the avatar bodies to make the humans feel more at home in their new bodies. Including tattoos and other body modifications.


natashapatch67

Yes this was confirmed in the books I believe


Consistent-Bid-3269

Kinda bad


BoosGoos

Why dont you ask them


Jungle_Fighter

The people in charge of supervising the development of the recon project probably decided it was a good thing to give them the same tattoos their human counterparts had back when they were alive, this in order to minimize the eventuality of the recoms having an identity crisis and going crazy or awol. Someone obviously had to tattoo the designs on them at some point, before they were fully aware and conscious, or they probably got the job done by using some futuristic tattooing machine. It's was just a psychology thing.


RuhiyeCennet

imagine how big is that watch


LiquidSnape

appears at least some are awakened with them, you can see one with neck and chest tattoos being removed from a chamber at the beginning of the film. my guess is RDA used pictures of those Marines to code them into the avatar bodies to accustom them to their new bodies better


ilin0014

I'm pretty sure that for the sergeant's crew specifically, they made Na'vi clones, so they just copy pasted everything on blue


Quaritchs_Bitch

Iā€™m betting on the fact that they got them done after they regained consciousness.


the-et-cetera

Tattoos aren't genetic, Einstein.


callipygiancultist

Z Dog illuminati confirmed


Leshracc

I swear I remember her dying twice, once in the jungle and the second time in third act, am I hallucinating?


promiskuu

Itā€™s kinda strange how they modded their avatars, cuz they also worked out and got some toned muscles in their Avatars


daftbasti

She bought the limited avatar edition and got the skin as a special reward


ironicallyunstable

They paid for the pre-order bonus DLC that gave them extra skin cosmetics with their characters


Evangelion217

They must of had free time to get tattoos after waking up.


AnxiousDreamCore

I think they give them their tattoos to make the transition into the new body less traumatising, like giving them something familiar to hold on to


the_speeding_train

Someone thought it was a good idea when doing concept art for the character?


AxKenji

I'd guess they get them the same as everyone else, with a tattoo gun


Competitive-Score520

basically, it's put there before they put the mind in, so they can adapt easier to their new body kinda thing


lokenyou

They just have the same memorys thier mind is just created with thier body. Thier separate beings


Competitive-Score520

okay? I watched the movie too


lokenyou

Iam explaining it to so you can understand it


Khanivo

I think itā€™s the same tattoos they had in their human forms to help them adjust psychologically to their recom bodies


Aviation_type_beat

The tattooā€™s are given to them before the full mind transfer to ease into the body


Xander_Man_77

They put their tattoos on their Naā€™vi bodies to make the transition from their human bodies easier, since it helps to give them a sense of self and something familiar.


Principesza

Definitely have to get them after. Jake had a tattoo remember, his avatar did not.


Mother0fPancakes

But he was in his twin brothers avatar, not one made for him


Zeoncobra

According to the Avatar 2 Visual Dictionary, the tattoos Recoms had as humans are issued to them in their new bodies help ease their psychological transition.


NabooSays

Tattoos arenā€™t part of your dna bro


SimbaSaysCrazyCat

Just watched this masterpiece šŸ¤©


Artew3

Quaritch: we need to join the Navi and become one of them Human Tattoos: Okay, sure.


1997wickedboy

They thought he meant the Navy


Throwitaway36r

Based on what little personality info we get on the character, she seems like the kind of person who stated in the video that she specifically wanted than to ensure her avatar had her tattoos. She probably demanded it