her whole message was sort of "I was lost now I'm found"--if we take that seriously, and concede tattoos are more or less permanent, then it would make sense she would have them as relics from a misspent youth, but not as a matter of personality "own them" in the way sol suggests, as features of her truest self. at a certain point that idea itself transforms the tattoos into a point of pride, i.e.: as a "scar" one is proud of (maybe going so far as to get new ones, but for the "right reasons" this time--a spiral like development of the concept--doing something that when overlaid on eachother appear identical, but only as a kind of flattening of the process that actually occurred--this is illustrated in Aion). In the final analysis you can end up having tattoos that were in some sense contrary to your base values, that have come to represent a higher truth, especially in the form of the Christ image, whose entire symbol is a representation of this transformative process. To say this is not the case is to flatten out the image of type so much so that tattoos literally become a type identifier or not, full stop, which, in turn, makes typing trivial for a lot of reasons, not least of which it becomes a superficial form of post hoc categorization without meaning, but also because it becomes way too easy. if this method were in principle valid type itself would be a matter of simple data entry across a limited and freely available set of metrics. you see people striving for this form of "type" by questionaires, scientific measurements, VI, etc. they're all forms of trying to find type in a flattened field of possibilities, but type itself is precisely that thing that transcends these sorts of attempts, because it is the intercourse between factors, all of a high dimension, that produces unique results. it is nothing less than the irreducible complexity of humanity trying to be fit into a box. even if you construct the box on the principle that humanity operates according to cognitive modes, discerning those modes to an objectivity can only come as a product of doing violence to the individual. in that sense typology is not the pursuit of fitting people into the system, its in noting the literally limitless amount of exceptions to the rule, because its in that space personality is actually found