Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman in a classical helmet and cloak covering the upper arm.

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Warrior woman in helmet on upper arm

Realism · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A realistic portrait of a woman in profile wearing a classical helmet with a ridged crest and a draped cloak, with a small ornate brooch at her shoulder. The work uses smooth grey shading, soft blending and fine hair-like strokes around the face and helmet edge. It is shown in black and grey and wraps around the upper arm, with the helmet filling the top of the composition.

Realism Upper arm Helmet Warrior Woman Portrait Armour Cloak

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The helmet hung on a nail in the press house, between the cider crates and a calendar from years before I was born, and my grandmother called it Thea after nobody I ever met. Every August, when the Bramley windfalls split on the grass and the wasps came drunk to the drops, she lifted it down, rubbed the dust from its ridged crest and set it on the bench beside her knife. I was nine that summer, the year the lower rows flooded and half the old trees were lost, and I believed the helmet was the only thing on the farm that had not given up.

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She wore a brass brooch shaped like a knot of leaves, pinned at her shoulder to whatever cardigan she had on. She said it had come from a town with no orchards at all, a long way south, and that was all she would say about it.

On the last evening of the month we climbed the ladder to pick the late russets. The light went long and gold across the rows, and she told me to hold the sack open and not to talk while the wind was up, because the wind always made her quiet. I watched her instead. She stood on the top rung with one hand on the branch, looking out over the valley as if it owed her something, and loose strands of hair blew across her cheek and stayed there.

"Don't go anywhere without a helmet," she said, and dropped a russet into my sack. I still have that apple. It has gone hard as a stone, and it sits on the bench in the press house now, right where the helmet used to be before I took it down.