Tattooed Sorcerer and Ascendant Recollections

[Matchstick-Man]

Wondering how these two would stack. Would it treat the familiar as if I were level 2 sorcerer? What all does that entail, or is there no affect and it's worthless?

[Glutton]

Tip, link or spoiler stuff like this, not everyone can chime in on something as buried as an obscure trait.

Spoiler:

Ascendant Recollections
Benefit: Your sorcerer level is considered to be 1 level higher when determining the effects of your 1st-level bloodline power.

Spoiler:

Familiar Tattoo (Su)

A tattooed sorcerer gains a familiar as an arcane bond, as a wizard equal to her sorcerer level. Her sorcerer levels stack with any wizard or witch levels she possesses when determining the powers of her familiar—this ability does not allow her to have both a familiar and a bonded item.

Unlike most familiars, her familiar can transform itself into a tattoo that she carries in her flesh. Transforming into a tattoo or back to normal familiar form is a move action for her familiar. In tattoo form, the familiar looks like a stylized version of itself, but does not count as a creature separate from the tattooed sorcerer. In tattoo form it continues to grant its special familiar ability, but otherwise has no abilities and can take no actions except to transform from tattoo into creature. A familiar tattoo cannot be erased or dispelled.

This ability replaces her 1st-level bloodline power.

I would say yes, you would gain abilities on the familiar advancement track as if you were one level higher. Not very impressive.

[deuxhero]

I think there is a larger question here: Are abilities that replace one of a type of abilities (such as a hex, alchemist discovery or magus arcana), considered as that kind of ability for things that boost or require such abilities (mostly Extra X for ones for ones that replace the first instance.).

Some do call it out as being a specific one that MUST be taken(for example Stargazer oracle says "A stargazer must take the following revelations at the listed levels", explicitly calling it a revelation) but others do not (Seeker Lore for Seeker Oracle does not say it is a revelation).