Realism-style colour tattoo of a stormtrooper helmet with red roses and cream feathers on a forearm, wrapped in clear plastic.

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Stormtrooper helmet and roses on a forearm

Realism · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A detailed portrait of a stormtrooper helmet with a grey and cream shaded face, a small mechanical detail near the mouth, and a curled cream ornament above it. Red roses with shaded petals fill the lower and right sides, with pale leaves and feathers framing the helmet. Smooth grey shading gives the helmet volume, while saturated reds provide the main colour contrast against the skin.

Realism Neo-trad Forearm Stormtrooper Helmet Rose Feather Leaf

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fair came to Holm Cross the week after the harvest, on eleven painted wagons that nobody had ever seen leave the county. Tobin Reeve sold toffee apples from a barrow by the church gate, and he was the one who found the helmet, lying in the rag wagon under a tarpaulin gone stiff with rain. It was white once and grey now, with a round eye at the side like a lamp that had gone out, and a little bent hose hanging from its mouth. Nobody in the fair would say whose it was.

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Mother Sillery, who kept the rose stall, took one look at it and told him to put it on, because a thing left out in the rain wants a head to keep it warm. He didn't believe her. He put it on anyway, to show her it was only tin, and the world went quiet and close, with only his own breath coming back at him through the hose. When he lifted the visor the rose stall had gone. In its place was a garden of red blooms as wide as dinner plates, climbing the tent poles, and pale feathers caught in the guy ropes like letters nobody had come to collect.

For a year Tobin wore the helmet at every fair that came through, and every year the roses came with him. He grew older and the helmet did not. The people of Holm Cross began to say that the toffee apple boy had become the keeper of something, though nobody could say what it was he kept.

The next autumn he took the helmet off at the gate and hung it on the church railings. Mother Sillery came for her roses and found them already blooming there, red against the grey stone, with the feathers folded neatly on the step. She said nothing, which was her way of agreeing.