Colour tattoo of a smiling teal handheld game console inside a pink and purple galaxy heart with small sparkles, on the lower leg.

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Handheld console in a galaxy heart on a calf

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A teal handheld game console with a smiling face on its screen sits inside a heart filled with pink and purple galaxy shading and small star sparkles. The console has a directional pad, buttons and a red accent, all drawn with bold dark outlines and flat cartoon-style fills. The tattoo is shown on the lower leg against a plain skin background with a dark blurred object at the edge of the frame.

Calf Heart Galaxy Sparkle Smiley face Cartoon

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dilys found the charger under a tangle of takeaway menus and a tin of loose buttons, and plugged it into the socket behind the bread bin. The console on her kitchen table had been dark since the winter, its teal shell dusty along the seam where the grey plastic had gone soft. She pressed the square button on its side. Nothing. She pressed it again, and the screen lit up with a face: two dots and a curve, the same face it had worn when her son unwrapped it at nine years old.

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"Still in there, then," she said. Gareth had moved to Cardiff in March and rang on Sundays, mostly to ask about the boiler. The console had been his first, then a thing she carried on the bus to play a hopping game with a blue pig. She had never been any good at it. Tonight she held the pad with both thumbs, the way he used to, and the little character on the screen jumped the first gap and landed with a chime.

She played until the chip shop sign across the road clicked off at ten. Each time a level ended, the face grinned up at her, and she found herself grinning back like a fool at her own kitchen table. Somewhere past midnight the machine played a low tune she had forgotten it could make, and a word appeared in chunky pixels: SAVED.

On Sunday she rang Gareth and told him she had found his old machine. "It's still got the face," she said. "Still smiling at me. Daft thing." He laughed down the line, and she heard a kettle start in his flat a long way off. "Keep it charged, Mum," he said. "It remembers where you left off."