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Obsolution — Transmutation Circle Tattoo

Published: 2005-06-30 11:40:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 70223; Favourites: 415; Downloads: 10052
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Description An FMA-inspired tattoo design I made back a long time ago.
When I made the design I used a runic glyph font for the logos, with many of the runes being proper runes with individual meanings (I wasn't aware at the time, oh so naive). So in terms of nordic runes, it's gibberish, but in literal typeface terms of what character each rune was assigned to this is what the symbols translate to;

"Power of the Mind
Power of the Heart
With my own two hands may I guide and shape my destiny"

After this design I had my error pointed out and I made a point to not use nordic rune fonts after that. I intended these designs to have some mystery to them, but at the end of the day these circles and glyphs are so you can impart your own message and meaning to them. 



UPDATE:

If you like this design enough to want to get this tattooed, here are some things to consider;

- First of all, wow. I'm honoured you like the design enough to make it permanent.
- You want to tattoo this? Yes absolutely, go nuts!
- I made this design a long time ago and had very little understanding of how tattoos work, so take the design to a tattoo artist and get their professional advice on it, feel free to make any and all adjustments necessary to make it work better as a tattoo for you. You're the one making this permanent, so make sure its perfect for you.
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Comments: 74

Bryman17 [2006-11-17 18:46:35 +0000 UTC]

Yo man
Awesome job with the tattoo
FMA is the best anime out there
just wondering if I can get that tattoo

Peace out

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Obsolution In reply to Bryman17 [2006-11-21 00:11:24 +0000 UTC]

hah yeah FMA rawks

as for getting it done if you're cool with getting a tatt that someone else already has then it's cool. but there are two conditions,
1: send photos when you're done.
2: when people ask who designed the tatt send them to me

Here's how the tatt looks fresh too, happy inking
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Jessy-Rae In reply to ??? [2006-10-25 20:37:17 +0000 UTC]

Very nice! I love the design!

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Obsolution In reply to Jessy-Rae [2006-10-26 03:09:54 +0000 UTC]

thanks
this tatt is quite the popular one hey?

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Jessy-Rae In reply to Obsolution [2006-10-26 13:56:26 +0000 UTC]

Why not? It's awsome. ^_^ Can't wait to see more!

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vampiric-whisper [2006-09-26 01:09:24 +0000 UTC]

im about to tat this on my body!, no shit ill send pics if u want..... mua ha ha

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Obsolution In reply to vampiric-whisper [2006-11-21 00:13:25 +0000 UTC]

apologies for the late delay,
I'm glad you like my tatt so much

send pics if you get it done k?

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vampiric-whisper In reply to Obsolution [2006-11-25 00:48:28 +0000 UTC]

hee okies!

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romonster In reply to ??? [2006-05-12 01:02:56 +0000 UTC]

FMA RULES!
nice tat design

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eidrien [2005-09-15 07:09:04 +0000 UTC]

i like i like

ad

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Obsolution In reply to eidrien [2005-09-18 07:55:05 +0000 UTC]

why thankyou

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xombieoctopus [2005-07-24 01:16:32 +0000 UTC]

Wow...this is amazing. I was wondering, if I credit you,could I get this as a tattoo? E-mail me back at ladylotusblossum@neovampire.com, seeing as deviantart tends to mess up alot on me. ^_^

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Obsolution In reply to xombieoctopus [2005-07-24 04:44:11 +0000 UTC]

Deal.
Check your email yo

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Graveborn-Sovereign [2005-07-03 19:05:34 +0000 UTC]

haha i like leetkyte's comment...
i like this! looks very Celtic!

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1337Kyte [2005-07-01 04:42:20 +0000 UTC]

can you pwease tell me what the runes say almight artist of transmutation circles and everything else?

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brazenserpent [2005-06-30 21:48:41 +0000 UTC]

"Power of the Mind
Power of the Heart
With my own two hands may I guide and shape my Destiny"

nice design, but dude, you totally butchered the runes.
each individual rune is symbolic of somethin' more, and is fairly religious to Ausatruar, so yeah, you might want to study up on those some.

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Obsolution In reply to brazenserpent [2005-07-01 02:05:09 +0000 UTC]

damn you're good How'd you figure it out so quickly?

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brazenserpent In reply to Obsolution [2005-07-02 12:59:02 +0000 UTC]

eh, i just memorized runes.

however, gotta note that some of the ones that you got on your tat design are a little corrupt from old nordic stuff. it's all good otherwise

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amasarac In reply to brazenserpent [2007-12-12 04:59:16 +0000 UTC]

i memorized runes in the 7'th grade

and you really should use real runes as stated before the runes have a deeper meaning than the letter.

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Sonikkitty [2005-06-30 19:15:55 +0000 UTC]

WOOW shiney. the symbols are self made? O.o wow. they looks kinda real.


...now i'm curious, you bastard!

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Obsolution In reply to Sonikkitty [2005-07-01 02:17:42 +0000 UTC]

yeah the three symbols inside the circle are mine (unless they bear an odd resemblance to symbols that exist already, which they most likely do )

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rio-armare In reply to Obsolution [2005-07-01 17:57:38 +0000 UTC]

the one on the lower left looks suspicipusly like "hi," japanese for Fire. *shrugs*

cool design! ^_^

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Vumnoo [2005-06-30 17:40:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha,....

Cool James..

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