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Thanks a lot for designing the tat, I wanted you to do it because I don't just want to get some cheesy tattoo that I'm gonna hate later like so many other people do. I want it to be of Achilles. I've always been obsessed with Greek mythology and I wanted to pick something that would have a lot of meaning. You know that martial arts training has always been really important to me, and when I'm done with college I still plan on going into special forces (I still wanna be a Greenie Beanie, lol), so I thought Achilles would be the best to represent the warrior spirit. He was human, and had plenty of flaws but was a living legend. In the Iliad his mother (the goddess Thetis) told him that he could either fight and die for Greece and be remembered for eternity, or he could not fight and live happily for the remainder of his life and be forgotten after. He responded immediately saying that it'd be better to die with honor than to live with dishonor, and that's the kind of attitude that I want to have.

I found a couple of cool pics of ancient artwork of Achilles that I thought might serve as better ideas for you than I could sketch out. Here's the links:

http://img110. imageshack. us/img110/5756/achillesgc4. jpg

http://img110. imageshack. us/img110/9910/achilles2fi5. jpg

I just thought these were cool but go ahead and do whatever comes to mind. I was thinking it would be cool if it still had some kind of archaic feel to it though. I also want it to have a lot of meaning in it. I thought it'd be cool if there could be 3 points somewhere in it (like designs on a shield, points on armor, or whatever) that if linked together would make a triangle. I wanted it to be low key like that, just 3 points, rather than having a full on triangle. That way it won't be a copy of the Gracie triangle but will keep the original meaning as the fusion of Body-Mind-Spirit.

I'm also getting in touch with someone who can read and write Greek so that there could be some kind of cool Greek inscription on it. I'm tossing around some ideas but if you have suggestions or thoughts on that let me know.