Jason, my artist at Artistic Ink in Summerville, SC and I decided we wanted a color scheme to make it completely stand out from everyone else. We went with the koi in icy blue swimming upstream (against the current) in a river of fire to symbolize a constant battle of good and evil in a different way than we had ever seen in a tattoo. It was 9th tattoo and it took us about 15 hours in three sessions to complete. It turned out better than either of us thought it would.