Black fine line tattoo of the word warr;or in handwritten script, with a single arrow below it, shown on skin.

Warr;or script with arrow

Fine line · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo reads warr;or in thin, handwritten lettering, with a semicolon in place of the letter i. Below the text, a long black arrow runs across the frame, with three fletching lines at the tail and a solid arrowhead on the right. The linework is clean and uniform, and the image is black and white with no shading.

Fine line Lettering Warrior Semicolon Arrow Script Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Mam, we are eleven days out of Hull and the swell has stopped turning my stomach, so you may tell Mr Ashby I am not dead of seasickness after all. I have the composing stick you gave me strapped inside my coat, and I have been setting type in my head since Spurn Head, because it is the only trade I know that stays still while everything else rolls.

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Do you remember the handbill for the archery meeting at Hessle? The word was WARRIOR and the i had snapped in the forme, so Mr Ashby had me fish a sort from the spare case. There was no i left in the drawer, only a semicolon, and he swore and said it would have to do. Nobody at the butts seemed to mind. The bowmen read it as a stop, a breath, and then a go on, which Mr Ashby said was more than most handbills manage.

The captain's clerk, a man called Pell with an archer's shoulders, saw me copying the line onto the back of a manifest. He took my pencil and drew a long shaft under the word, three feathers at the tail and a head as sharp as a compositor's rule. He says a line of type wants something to fly along, or it just lies there being read. I have pinned the page above my bunk, and every morning it points the way the ship is heading.

I will not be home before the frost. When I come back I will bring you a sort from every port we touch, and we will set the bill again properly, with the i restored, unless you find you prefer it the way it came out. Tell Mr Ashby the stop was his doing, and that I am not finished yet.