Talk:Dust/@comment-172.12.117.140-20160720000448/@comment-25396609-20160720031538

i think shoving the crystal inside them was a visual metaphor, chish. Pretty sure having a large foreign objct that close to your vital organs would kill you.

Besides, when a tattoo scabs over the ink is totally unaffected. The pigment is beneath the top layer of skin and has particles too large for the white blood cells which usually break down foreign bodies to digest and remove.

If anything the aura would cause the tattoo to set faster since the skin would heal over the ink/dust and seal it into place.