The Dark Urge HAD to have had a special little temple outfit, and if they didn't before I KNOW that Gortash would've made sure they had one (can't take over/destroy the world if you ain't looking cute).
I based part of it on that one death mage armor from the Basket Full of Equipment mod because it's banging. The red wrap is supposed to be the deathstalker mantle :D
Below is the tattoo'd chest in full + a version with added uhmm 'surgery' scars courtesy of Kressa Bonedaughter and some others.
Saw some alta fanart from @ash-and-starlight about Zuko and Aang being ink buddies (because they both had tattoos in the art) and the way Aang’s tattos were drawn were really cool and I feel had a lot more significance to them than the solid color blocking they did in the show.
Completely understand why they drew his and the monks with solid blue arrows, drawing complex patterns over and over again while also depicting motion us hard as fuck, but I think it’s a really interesting concept to think about how the airbenders had unique tattoos that all, while all looking like arrows as we see in the show, showed the individual and their personality/what they may have done to earn their tattoos
The monks are/ seem like the kind of people who value community and friendship and respect in a way that they connect themselves to each other through their arrow tattoos while acknowledging that people are unique and have their own sense of style, humor, behavior, and ways of showing love or any emotion really.
I think it’s something that could really expand upon what we already know about Aang and the monks and how they viewed each other, their community, themselves, and even the world around them (since some may take inspiration for their tattoos from other peoples/friends/environments they’ve met and been apart of)
Do you think a Christian should be able to get tattoos? Are body alterations of this type prohibited under your philosophy? Why or why not?
When a person dies, their atoms may go anywhere and be absorbed into other living beings, including other people. (If the atom had seven bodies, whose atom is it at the resurrection?) Therefore it seems necessary that a person can be resurrected without any of their original matter needing to be present. In this case we can say that God creates for us a new body. In what sense, then, can you say the resurrection body is the same body as we had before?
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Yes, Christians should be able to get tattoos and piercings and fake tans, and dye their hair, and microblade their eyebrows, even undergo certain cosmetic procedures, and all sorts of similar things, because the minor characteristics of the body do not impact the perceived fundamental nature of the person any more than having one's legs blasted off in the trenches does. On the other hand, changing your body to appear to possess the phenotype of the opposite sex does; you are refusing your fundamental nature as a woman to make others believe you have a different fundamental nature. Male and female are the only two different fundamental, soul-body natures there are among human beings. Tattooed and not-tattooed is surface-level, body only.
I can say the resurrection body is the same body as we had before in the same way Paul said it in 1 Corinthians 15 when he stressed physical continuity. I can't pretend to know how the science of the resurrection works (to bring science into miracles seems like a futile venture in itself), but I can affirm that Jesus fed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish, and I can affirm that the body Jesus died with was the same body Jesus rose with.