I only ever do little ones on myself, I'm not that good with pain.
( there's a few examples littered around his body to demonstrate the point — the wonky stick figure on the inside of his elbow, the little smiley face on his knee. he looks vaguely amused about it, like nick's pain tolerance is an inside joke for them.
nick thumbs over the small sketch he's traced out on his ankle, then glances back over briefly at kyle. he waits a moment to respond though, until he's dipped the end of the needle into the ink pot and starts to push it into his skin along the line he'd drawn out. )
You don't really talk about it. The tattoo.
( the ex, either. he doesn't really know how to bring things up, but gently dangling the topic while he's doing something else is as good a start as any. )
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( there's a few examples littered around his body to demonstrate the point — the wonky stick figure on the inside of his elbow, the little smiley face on his knee. he looks vaguely amused about it, like nick's pain tolerance is an inside joke for them.
nick thumbs over the small sketch he's traced out on his ankle, then glances back over briefly at kyle. he waits a moment to respond though, until he's dipped the end of the needle into the ink pot and starts to push it into his skin along the line he'd drawn out. )
You don't really talk about it. The tattoo.
( the ex, either. he doesn't really know how to bring things up, but gently dangling the topic while he's doing something else is as good a start as any. )