I have a node with taxonomy term reference fields. The taxonomy term has an image field. Without installing extra modules (I already have WAY more than I should have) is there a way to display a specific field for the taxonomy instead of the textual? And do it from a Childtheme?

I have the DEVEL module installed and after selecting the specific field I still get no ideas. I have dug around inside the field, looking through the various attributes of that field without any ideas.

    Array > 'element' > '#field_name'
    Array > 'element' > '#field_type' = 'taxonomy_term_reference'
    Array > 'element' > '#items' > 'tid' = 4
    Array > 'element' > '#items' > 'taxonomy_term' > Object = Recursion

It feels like I am 'right there' and should be able to grab something like ['element'][0]['field_taxonomy_term_image'] and render, but I can't find anything. I realize, after searching stackexchange, and google, that I could install Views and tweak around with it to get the desired output, but I know I've seen somewhere that you can (without coding) get the output of a taxonomy term to be another field than 'title' but I don't remember where I saw it.

**UPDATE:** I have found the path, but can't figure out how to output it. I did a DPR versus a KPR and just dug through the text. Here is what I see. Inside of template.php inside of a drupal-based custom function THEMENAME_field__content_type($variables) I dpr'd $variables['element'] and found this object/array/path.

    [#object] => stdClass Object
        [field_faction_affiliation] => Array
            [und] => Array
                [0] => Array
                    [taxonomy_term] => stdClass Object
                        [field_faction_icon'] => Array
                            ...
                            [uri] => public://Faction - Jinteki.pnp
                            [filemime] => image/png
                            ...

So I feel like... I could theoretically, create a new $variables['faction_icon'] to pass on to my tpl.php using the pieces above to generate an img tag. Any ideas?