no but imagine the tally marks turning black if their love is requited.
and then imagine the tally marks becoming a scar when the one they love dies.
Imagine someone with no tally marks meeting someone with 50 tally marks
Imagine someone with no tally marks starting to like someone with all tally marks scarred
imagine aromantics with no tally marks laughing at this tally mark bullshit system
imagine someone afraid of being in love suddenly getting a tally mark
imagine someone married with a single nice black tally mark has a new one just appear
imagine someone with a single scarred mark that refuses to love again gets a new mark and it’s black
imagine someone who falls in love too easily having a lot of marks
imagine nurses at old people homes taking care of people with scarred marks, black marks, and no marks
Goddamnit someone write a book
the thing is falling in love does always mean romantically. So with the married one, may the other to this person is freaking out because they see this red mark and they think they might be replaced, then their other says “We’re going to have a baby” and then the other person gets a red mark as well.
oh… oh dear.
someone who kills their children/loved ones, and the laws surrounding using tally marks as evidence in a trial