The Five-Man room: Skull reads him his tattoos

texture · YDAU residency, undated

• When: UNDATED, during his residency (Skull "lasted only like four days")
• What: In the newer male residents' Five-Man Room, a short-lived synthetic-narc-addicted kid who insists on the street name "Skull" sheds his muscle-shirt and shows off his high-regret tattoos to Erdedy in a "boneheaded regretless first-category fashion" — flexing to make a tattooed nude writhe and "reading his forearms" to him — while Randy Lenz does jockstrap headstands and Tiny Ewell and Geoffrey Day argue over credit cards. The episode is probably what touches off Ewell's tattoo obsession; Erdedy is the incidental audience.