The only issue with that is how/why she would have gone just a week or so in the past but then "ONLY" go and hide? It doesn't really make sense that she could "accidentally" go through time (like MC did the first time), and if she was "sent" there by coughing person/the bad guys/whomever why was she told just lay low (but not so low she couldn't tattoos done)?
Personally I think its hard to believe that she did all the steps necessary to accidentally travel, maybe she went into the abandoned facility to calm down but step after that would be pretty suspect (unless you happen to be looking for family death related secrets like MC). However the idea that she was sent with a purpose only to be left for a week or two or even a few days just rasies the possibility of getting caught.
The following "assumes" quite a bit about Ripples world based on "common sense"/"it helps a player connect with the world". What do we know about tattoos in the world of Ripples? We know that they are "common" enough that a student is able to have them fully shown at school and she not only does not receive grieve from the teachers but none of the other students(or more importantly MC) treat it as if it's some freak or unusual thing it's just "Lizze and she has sleeves". However even with every characters acceptance of the idea of someone getting tattoos a majority of them don't have large tattoos like the ones Skylar got this update which logically is because the students don't have
1. Time
2. Money
3. Pain tolerance
4. Religious/other reasons.
Skylar (pre ghosting you) is not stopped by reason 3 or 4 because her having the butterfly previously shows that she is able and open to the ideas of tattoos. Pre ghosting Skylar might have had issues with time especially if she wanted two full sleeves done and 2 side pieces you are still looking at a single artist working over multiple days (the only way around this is to "automate the tattoos" but that prevents the idea she went to the past altogether). However the main issue is cost; we know Skylar/her mom is "less financially stable" than MC and his family evident by MC repeatedly saying he should help her out financially.
For everything to work she needs to be sent to the past by someone (she couldn't have stumbled upon time travel/sent us the weird texts AFTER SHE GHOSTED US neaning her sending them couldn't have been the thing that started her accident travel because then she would have not had enough time to get all those tattoos (because she would have only been in the past for the time she was "missing"), then she did whatever "mission" she was sent to the past to do only to be left to her own devices.....
We know she had a choice in getting the tattoos because she has absolutely no shame about them which would only be the case if she wanted to get them. If she didn't want the tattoos she would have tried to hide them (like a scar or brand).
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