you seem to be missing something, good sir...
Ah, now we get into the business of Cole only having one arm. It makes his job as a tattoo artist quite frustrating, but it's nothing he wouldn't do for those less fortunate than he. Actually, there really isn't anything Cole wouldn't do for those less fortunate. Why, I'm getting ahead of myself. Why don't we start from the beginning, yes? You see, one day as Cole was getting ready to open shop, a man walked in with both his arms missing. Cole asked how he had lost them, and he simply said that a dog had torn them off after he was abandoned in some backyard. Cole didn't push the man for further details, as he saw the man had trouble speaking of it. The man was a doll, and he came in looking for a miracle. He told Cole that he needed a tattoo desperately to remember his lost mother, but that he had no more room to put it. He was desperate, and brought up the aspect of a face tattoo, even though this was a bit dangerous considering he was an older doll. Cole was afraid he's accidentally chip off pieces of the old man's face if he dared tattoo on the frail plastic skin. Instead, he asked Thing to form a tattoo on his right arm, and traced it with his tattoo gun. After the tattoo was finished, he popped out his arm, and helped to attach it to the older man. It didn't quite fit right, so they had to tie it with some leftover fabric that Cole used to wipe away the access ink, and the man was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. In return, the man handed him a worn, baby blue bow tie that he said he'd kept with him for some reason. The man said it brought him miracles, such as Cole and his generousness. Cole wears it as a reminder of the old man, because the old man taught him something. The man taught him that anything is possible, as long as hope is involved. The man never knew when he walked into Cole's tattoo parlor that he would be leaving with an arm that reminded him of his mother, but when he did, he couldn't have been any happier. Cole would've given up his arm again and again if it meant seeing the gratitude and happiness on the man's face. Though only having one arm frustrates him immensely, he reminds himself of what the man felt without any arms at all, and this blows away any frustration that he may have, because he knows he has it better than a lot of people.