General Opinions and concerns
Hi! I’m a senior at high school and recently have been delving into tattoos. Currently I have 3. I’m a HUGE 40K fan and have been nothing but for the past few years. I’ve been gaming also for the longest while and haven’t really stopped since I was 5 when I started with Skylanders on a Wii.
Recently I’ve gotten 2 new tattoos on my upper arms in mock of a space marine’s shoulder pads-their respective group marking on the left shoulder, their status on the right. However, I had been relentlessly teased by a buddy of mine for it being quite similar to some of the most disgusting political parties in our history.
For reference, The Lion is from Destiny;my family coat of arms has a lion rampant, and my homebrew space marine chapter has that as their icon. I also have loved Destiny for many years. That won’t change.
The tattoo I am worried about in question is a Crux Terminatus-an honor badge for space marines dictating to anybody who knows what it is that they’re a highly honored veteran, and they have the right to bear terminator armor, an upscaled, suit of tank armor in essence. The teasing ensued a mild spiral of disappointment in myself for not even thinking of it and trying to find out exactly what the symbol is based on. From what I can confirm, the crux has Games Workshop’s 90s version of a skull on it-which is shared by many of the symbols that come from that era of design. And multiple of my family members and friends had told me that it didn’t matter, and multiple people were confused as to what it was. Even a history teacher had asked me what exactly it was and he is very knowledgeable on the world wars.
Is there any recommendations for another tattoo that could make it less extremist? I am a very big fan of tattoos that involve artistic ways of mermaids, lady death and whatnot and was considering something on my forearm.