> > > > winter"Now I think about it, why did you have it done?"mute
> > >
> > > So I'd look like me, of course.
> >
> > So, who'd you look like, before you were artificially enhanced to look like THE REAL you?
>
> The REAL me? No, no, I don't have this delusion about who I am, nor a complex about being someone trapped inside someone else's body. The tattoo of me looks exactly like me without the tattoo, only now I look like it.
>

The tattoo looks like you, only now you look like it?

Perhaps, then, I could conclude that Sam was Mostly Transparent before he had the tattoo of himself made, to conceal this particular "visually apparent" shortcoming regarding himself...