Context matters a lot. He got the tattoo with military buddies in the early 2000s, in Romania.
It’s not very hard to imagine a group of drunk 20 year old men picking a skull tattoo because it “looks badass”. There was almost certainly a language barrier with the tattoo artist and back then we didn’t all have computers in our pockets to access all the world’s information.
Really not that hard to belive they saw a skull as a skull. It’s a relatively obscure symbol even in the modern day.
Context matters a lot. He got the tattoo with military buddies in the early 2000s, in Romania.
It’s not very hard to imagine a group of drunk 20 year old men picking a skull tattoo because it “looks badass”. There was almost certainly a language barrier with the tattoo artist and back then we didn’t all have computers in our pockets to access all the world’s information.
Really not that hard to belive they saw a skull as a skull. It’s a relatively obscure symbol even in the modern day.