Realism tattoo of a woman in a pirate hat holding a pistol, shown in black and grey with blue accents across the upper arm and shoulder.

Pirate woman portrait on upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A large portrait of a woman wearing a tricorn-style hat, with long hair and beaded strands, holding a flintlock-style pistol near her face. The realistic shading is mostly black and grey, with smooth gradients on the skin and hat, and a blue wash behind the hair and along the top of the hat. The design wraps across the upper arm and shoulder and fills most of the frame against a plain top.

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The bride's father had promised his daughter to the miller's son, and the whole of Scarrow turned out for the banns. On the morning of the wedding, though, a ship with black sails came round the point and dropped anchor beneath the church wall. Nobody needed telling who was aboard. Captain Maud Halloran had once been paid off for the miller's grandfather's debts, in silver and in a promise, and she had come to collect on the promise.

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She walked up from the quay in a blue coat with the tricorn pulled low, jet beads braided through her hair so they clicked when she moved. The villagers stepped aside. At the church gate she stopped and drew a flintlock from her sash, not to fire it, only to turn it in her hand so the brass caught the sun. "I'll have the first dance," she said, "and then you may have your wedding."

The miller's son was a sensible lad and offered her the waltz. She took it, and she led him so well that by the third turn he had forgotten the bride entirely. The fiddler played faster, and faster again, until the old men were shouting and the children were laughing, and the bride, who had a mind of her own, slipped out by the side door and took the harbour boat to the point. She rowed it herself with her skirts hitched up.

By dusk the ship had gone and the miller's son stood at the gate holding a ring he had never been asked to give. Folk still say the Captain left one bead on the church step, jet and warm from her hair. The bride kept it on a cord round her neck, and when people asked why she had married a man so easily danced away, she only smiled and said she had got the better end of the bargain.

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