Tattoo

Tauron Tattoos

Many Taurons sport tattoos, from which can be read essential aspects of their life stories, including familial connections. The most extensive tattoos are found among members of the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate, and many Capricans associate the practice with the Ha'la'tha ^{(CAP: "Gravedancing")}. However, members of the Heracleides militia were also illustrated ^{(CAP: "The Dirteaters")}.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace & Samuel Anders

Instead of wearing wedding rings, Samuel Anders and Kara Thrace^[1] created tattoos on their arms that, when they embrace, form a unified circle with wings. The symbol for the colony of Caprica is also in view^[2].

From a behind-the-scenes perspective, Michael Trucco adds that it is their wedding band, but that this is never fully explained in the show. Further, these matching tattoos are applied by the makeup department.

Other

Felix Gaeta displays a tattoo of a rather large tiger during his interview with D'Anna Biers ^{(TRS: "Final Cut")}. Gaeta indicated he was quite inebriated with ambrosia to minimize the pain of the tattoo.

Socinus has a tattoo of an Aries design on his right arm ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.^[3]

An unnamed pilot has many tattoos on both upper arms, depicting a tiger and a dragon, among other things.

Vireem, specialist aboard the battlestar Pegasus, has a complex tattoo on his left bicep, featuring a Chinese-style dragon and glyph ^{(TRS: "Pegasus" and "Resurrection Ship, Part II")}^[4].

Gaeta's tiger tattoo ^{(TRS: "Final Cut")}.
Socinus's tattoo ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.
The unnamed tattooed pilot seen throughout the series.
Vireem's tattoo ^{(TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part II")}.

↑ Actress Katee Sackhoff has a number of personal tattoos on her body. The crew uses various means to cover or block these tattoos from view during filming, but the results are not always perfect. See the article on Katee Sackhoff for details.
↑ In a TV Guide photoshoot video interview, Katee Sackhoff comments: "...the tattoos that Anders and Starbuck got when they got married and uh, it kinda looks like the Redwings sign doesn't it? Or logo, but its, um... when he's holding me the rings match up and it becomes one ring with two wings. So it's very cool there's some signs in there like the Caprica symbol and some space things and its all very intricate and very cool and the guys over at Twin Villain Tattoo down in Gastown designed it so we're all very excited about it."
↑ It is not yet known if the tattoo belongs to Alonso Oyarzun or if it is purely for the character of Socinus, as both the actor was born under the sign of Aries and the character is a colonist of Aerelon.
↑ Visible on his Vireem's left bicep in both the "little robot girl" sequence and the subsequent brig beating sequence, his tattoo (likely the actor's own) is that of a Chinese-style dragon and the 吉 Chinese glyph over a spiral background likely that of a whirlpool.

[1] Actress Katee Sackhoff has a number of personal tattoos on her body. The crew uses various means to cover or block these tattoos from view during filming, but the results are not always perfect. See the article on Katee Sackhoff for details.

[2] In a TV Guide photoshoot video interview, Katee Sackhoff comments: "...the tattoos that Anders and Starbuck got when they got married and uh, it kinda looks like the Redwings sign doesn't it? Or logo, but its, um... when he's holding me the rings match up and it becomes one ring with two wings. So it's very cool there's some signs in there like the Caprica symbol and some space things and its all very intricate and very cool and the guys over at Twin Villain Tattoo down in Gastown designed it so we're all very excited about it."

[3] It is not yet known if the tattoo belongs to Alonso Oyarzun or if it is purely for the character of Socinus, as both the actor was born under the sign of Aries and the character is a colonist of Aerelon.

[4] Visible on his Vireem's left bicep in both the "little robot girl" sequence and the subsequent brig beating sequence, his tattoo (likely the actor's own) is that of a Chinese-style dragon and the 吉 Chinese glyph over a spiral background likely that of a whirlpool.

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