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I don't know why she tattooed it even though I have a fairly good idea of it signification.
Every single one tattoo on her skin has a meaning:
- the wasp is her hacker name and the surname she got as a sparring partner in the boxing club, being incredibly fast with avoiding shots and throwing punches. It was also one of the rare time she could conect with people, make 'friends' : her sparring partners and the other guys in hacker republic.
- The rose on her leg I don't know. It was only mentioned once I think.
- The cordon on her ankle was made after she was raped y her tutor maybe so she would never forget that she was still vulnerable and to promise herself never to underestimate danger again. Well that's my interpretation anyway.
-Maybe the cordon on her arm was about her time in the asylum, strapped to her bed.. I dunno.
For me, the dragon is about the toughness, the unstoppable strength than awoke in her when she fought her father. The fact that, even after everything that happened to her, things that would have broken everybody else, she refuses to be a victim. She has to fight back, she can't just take the abuse and crawl in a corner, she can't afford to be broken because she knows that nobody will look after her.
A dragon is something that can't be tamed or caged, it's wild it can't be befriended (just like Lisbeth and her difficulty to form relationships, even extremely shallow ones with anyone, everything in her screams "don't touch me!". When you think about it, even her very few 'friends' don't know anything about her. She only told her first tutor about her past, and it was after many years, when she really trusted him. Mikael only knows her past because he investigated, she hasn't even told Mimi (her occasional girlfriend) where she works).
Anyway, the dragon (for me) represents her inner strenght (inner self?), a warning that she is way more than what she appears to be, in short : "if you think you can use me or if you try to hurt me think again, ask the others that have tried before, you really don't want to awake the beast"..
Argh, It's so hard to explain...