I had a similar situation. I have a 1.0 character with the tattoo, but my wife was not able to create her character on the same server at the time. So, I made a new character on another server with her and the tattoo completely slipped my mind.

I don’t see a good reason why they can’t make the tattoo account wide for people who have a character with it.

As for the lore argument…didn’t they remove the cutscenes that only legacy characters could see?