So I understand magical abilities will be suppressed until they get tattoos. However, I am wondering if you would qualify one of my character's features as a magical ability or if it would even work in this world.

In his canon, this character can see magic as it works in the world, even before a magician actually converts it into a spell. He was born with this ability as far as we know, so it's basically a feature of his sense of sight. Would he lose that until he gets a tattoo?

And if/when he sees like that, what would he see, if anything? In his world, magic looks like threads drifting through everything and around people that are magical. I assume it would be different in this world.