May The Force Be With You

I'm sure everyone knows about the hit movie series "Star Wars". Some of us bigger fans than others, but I'm 100% sure today I've met their biggest fan.
As I walked into DNA Tattoo shop as I usually do every Friday, I saw Scott already working on a guys leg, as I looked closer I see that he is getting the character "Darth Maul". It didn't look like your regular Darth Maul, instead he was more like a sugar skull. He had flowers for his eyes, his mouth wide open with candy like teeth and flower designs all over his black robe.
This reminded me from my past blog, on the day of the dead. Sugar Skulls are part of a Mexican tradition, as I asked him, he had the same thought in his mind. He was getting this tattoo to remember all of his cousins and Grandmas cooking. He told me that as a child he used to sit at home with all his cousins watching the star wars movies while their grandma would cook them delicious dishes such as chile colorado with arroz and frijoles and always a tres leches cake for desert. He said that this tattoo reminds him about all those times they would argue because they all wanted to be Darth Maul because they loved his double sided light saber. He decided to make him a sugar skull because their grandma would always make them celebrate the day of the dead with them.
I really enjoyed the way he put his childhood culture in his tattoo because I know a lot of people might think that his tattoo is stupid because it's based off a movie or because he is just a role in a movie, but to him it's all the memories from the times he sat at home playing with his cousins while smelling the mouth watering aroma of the food.
I really enjoyed talking to this guy about his tattoo because as he spoke I could picture him sitting in a living room playing around, yelling the phrases he remembered from the film and getting anxious to eat. I can picture him helping his grandma helping him make the sugar skulls for the day of the dead in the kitchen as they speak.