Traditional colour tattoo of a robed figure making a peace sign beside a red devil giving the middle finger, both riding skateboards, on a forearm.

Peace-sign Jesus and devil on skateboards

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

Two photographs show the same traditional design on skin: a long-haired robed figure with a peace sign beside a red horned devil with a raised middle finger, both on skateboards. The left version sits on a forearm and the right on a calf, with bold black outlines, flat solid fills and simple shading on the robe and devil's legs. Red, yellow, white and black ink dominate, and the figures fill the frame with plain backgrounds.

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The bowl behind the bus depot had been fenced off twice, and twice the two of them had climbed the wire before dusk. Nobody on Thornbury Road agreed on who had started the bet. The robed one swore it was the horned one, who swore it was the other way round, and both were too stubborn to let the question settle.

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They rode it as if they had all the time in the world, which for them was roughly true. The robed one kept his hair tied back and his free hand open, palm out, offering a blessing to the kids who cheered from the rail. The horned one had a cheaper board, red as a traffic cone, and rode with his middle finger raised at the sky whenever the council van rattled past below.

The bet, when it finally came, was simple. First to drop in and clear the far lip without the wheels touching concrete won the depot roof for a week. Neither had ever managed it. The horned one got three metres up, flipped, and came down flat on his back with a sound like a dropped sack of coal. The robed one watched him lie there laughing through the grit, then rolled up beside him and held out a hand.

'Again,' he said. 'Tomorrow.'

The horned one took the hand, grinned, and said tomorrow was a bloody long time to wait. They both knew they would be back at the wire before the streetlights came on. The van pulled away, the fence swung loose on its posts, and below them the kids were still clapping for a trick nobody had landed.

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