Realistic colour tattoo of the droid R2-D2 from Star Wars on a lower leg, with blue and silver shading and a dark background.

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R2-D2 realism tattoo on a lower leg

Realism · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A detailed tattoo of the Star Wars droid R2-D2 sits on a lower leg, shown upright and facing slightly to the side. The shading gives the metal body three-dimensional depth, with highlights on the silver dome and grey tones across the panels. Blue dome sections and a small red light add colour against the white and grey tones, and soft dark shading surrounds the figure on the skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Come closer, you lot, the gas lamps won't stretch to the back of the room. Nobody in Anchor Street will tell you this one straight, so I will. It was the winter the Mersey froze at the edges, and Mrs Okonedo's crane lifted a crate off the Cardiff boat that rattled like a tin of nails. Inside, folded on itself like a sleeping hedgehog, was a droid no taller than a bin. Silver dome, three stubby legs, and one blue panel on its head that somebody had painted with more care than the rest of the ship.

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Old Tully Frane took it home on a barrow, because he owed the dockmaster a favour and nobody else wanted the job. He spent three nights with a soldering iron and a cup of stewed tea. On the fourth night the little red light in its dome blinked on, and it turned its head towards the window as if someone had called its name from the street. Then it beeped, a sharp rising noise, the way a kettle does before it boils.

Tully swore it was asking the way. Every night after that it rolled to the door and waited, and every night he let it out into the rain. It came back each morning with a bit more oil on its feet and a torn scrap of ferry ticket caught in its panels. By spring he had worked out that the stubs were all from the crossing to Birkenhead, and that the droid had been going there, slowly, one ferry at a time, to find the owner of a voice it kept in its memory.

So here is the thing I never tell in daylight. On the last night of March, the droid stopped at the door, lit its red eye, and rolled off into the fog without a backward glance. Tully never saw it again. But the ferryman swears a small silver shape got off at Birkenhead, walked straight up to a woman waiting under a lamp, and the two of them went home together.