Colour neo-traditional tattoo of an animated princess with dark hair and a teal tiara, holding a small bird, with white blossoms, on the outer thigh.

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Animated princess with bird and blossoms

Neo-trad · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A cartoon-style princess with dark hair, a teal tiara and a teal top sits with a small bird perched on one raised finger. White blossoms and a black, flowing shape fill the lower part of the design. Bold outlines and soft pink and teal shading give the piece a colourful, illustrative look against the skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Yusuf had sold birds in the lane below the palace wall for forty years, and he never once let a customer hold one before paying. So when the girl with the silver tiara climbed down from the balcony one afternoon, her sleeves rolled and her face hidden under a borrowed scarf, he watched her hands more than her face.

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She bought the finch for three almonds and a copper coin. It rode on her raised finger the whole way back through the gardens, cocking its head at the fountains, and by the time she reached the terrace it had learned to sing the name of the gardener's son. She laughed so loudly that the guards looked up from their dice.

The finch did not stay in its cage for long. Each night it flew over the wall and returned at dawn with a white blossom from the orchard beyond the river, and each morning the princess tucked the flower behind her ear and pretended not to know where it came from. The stewards counted the blossoms and found none missing. Only the dark smoke that slid along the stones after sunset seemed to know the difference, and it grew longer every week, curling round the cage like a cat that has found a warm lap.

On the last morning of summer the cage stood open on the terrace. The finch sat on the princess's finger, sang once, and let the smoke carry it over the wall toward the river. She left a single blossom on the step where it had been. By evening Yusuf had hung an empty cage beside his fig tree, and he found that he did not mind.

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