Colour tattoo of cartoon characters on skin, including a red crab-like figure with large eyes and a yellow creature at the left edge, with bold black outlines.

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Cartoon characters tattoo in bold colour

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The tattoo shows several cartoon characters outlined in black, including a red crab-like figure with large round eyes, a red lips shape, a white figure with black stripes, and a yellow creature at the left edge. The linework is bold and even, with flat fills and small highlights, and the palette is red, yellow, blue and white. The characters are arranged across the skin with partial figures cropped at the edges of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By eleven the chip shop on Mallow Pier had pulled its shutters down, and Gerald was still scrubbing the fryer with both claws, muttering the way he always did when the bingo crowd had tracked vinegar across the boards. Forty years of frying cod had left him with eyes that popped a little further out than a crab's should, and his straw hat, woven from old bin-liner strips, sat crooked on top of them. Nobody on the pier had ever asked him why the hat, and he had never said.

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The lips came in on Thursdays. They belonged to a striped cabaret singer called Dolores Vane, who arrived on the last tram with a cigarette holder she never lit and a tab she never settled. She ordered a single scallop, sang the first verse of something sad over the jukebox, and left Gerald wondering whether she was real or just the sea air getting ideas.

Tonight she was late. Gerald turned the sign to Closed, then turned it back, because a crab who keeps a chip shop does not turn away a singer. At twenty past midnight the door creaked, and Dolores slid onto the stool with her scarlet mouth pursed and a ten-pound note folded into a tiny square.

"Keep it," she said. "Fry me something that tastes like the sea." He did. When she finished, she pressed her mouth to the steamed glass of the window, and the red print stayed there long after the tide came in and took her away.

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