Disclaimer Leo belongs to Rick Riordan. This just popped into my head I hope you like it.
No one would think out of all of the seven Leo Valdez would have a tattoo. The legion ones don't count they don't mean anything as special as Leo's did and that's how he ended up standing in front of the mirror in his cabin on the Argo 11 looking at each of the carefully.
All together Leo had three, the first one being his mother's name Esperanza in elegant black script underneath his right shoulder blade as remembrance to her. He got it when he was fourteen he got it done by an unlicensed tattoo artist who was looking for someone to practise on. He went to the dude when he got his other three.
The second was one that went from just under his armpit to his hip on his left side, it was five red roses on a stem of sharp thorns he got it because he saw it as a joke like him a rose being very pretty like him being very handsome Team Leo remember. But the thorns to represent the damage done to him and the damage done to others like his mother and Festus and so on; The red to represent blood that was spilt because of him.
The third one was a single a single line from a song by 30 Seconds To Mars 'To the leader, the pariah, The victor, the messiah, This is war.' The Pariah was his favourite because he was always the outcast in school, the orphanages and even now on the Argo 11 he will always be the seventh wheel. That was on his hip on the left so when he looked down when he took his shirt of he would always see it.
Leo got these tattoos because he liked the feeling of the needle in his skin because sure he could slit his wrists but tattoos keep the long term pain on for as long as he lives and that's why he will always have the tattoos because of the long term pain.
So I hope you like it and please comment!
