Fine line black tattoo of a LEGO minifigure's separated parts, from helmet to legs, running down the forearm.

LEGO minifigure parts on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo shows a LEGO minifigure split into separate pieces: a helmet, a head with a simple smiling face, a hip piece, a torso with arms and hands, and a pair of legs. Short dotted lines link the pieces in a vertical column. Thin black outlines with no shading are set on a forearm, and the person wears a white t-shirt.

Fine line Forearm Helmet Head Torso Leg Dotted line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The helmet was the first to go. It slid off the edge of the bureau in the top flat on Harrow Road, bounced once on the lino and came to rest beneath the radiator, where the landlady's cat found it and spent the better part of a week batting it along the skirting. Nobody noticed for days. Ferdinand, who was nine and had been told to tidy his room, had already decided the figure was broken, and a broken thing is easy to leave where it lies.

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The head went next. It climbed out of the shoebox on the Tuesday, which everyone agreed later was a poor day for it, and sat on the windowsill with its painted smile turned towards the bus stop. The hip piece stayed in the box with the spare bricks, perfectly content to be overlooked. The torso, always the most stubborn of the four, walked the length of the landing with its arms held out in front of it, as if it expected to be handed something, and got as far as the stairs before anyone saw it.

The legs did not move at all. They waited by the kettle, where the lino was warmest, and by Friday they had gathered a small crowd of bottle tops and a bent paperclip, which they seemed to take as a sign of approval.

On the Sunday his mother set them out on the kitchen table in their proper order: helmet at the top, then head, hip, torso and legs. She did not glue anything. She only measured the spaces between them with her thumb and finger and found the gaps were no wider than a fingertip, which was how they had been standing all along. The figure stood whole in the lamplight, and nobody thought to ask why it had taken five days to come home.