Name: Maria Gonzales<br/><br/>Rank(captain, knave, civilian, merchant, etc): Pretty dancer and tavern wench.<br/><br/>Description(you are encouraged to post a picture or a link): Long chestnut reddish brown hair, her body is voluptuous. She is covered from neck to toe with gorgeous colored tattoos. Everything from flowers to birds and animals. Sometimes it seems as if there is a pattern on her lush body, but what is it and how do you decipher it is a mystery. Normally she is dressed in peasant blouse, low cut and showing off her cleavage. Along with some kind of flirty full skirt like the lovely Spanish dancers wear. Sandals cover her pretty delicate feet. She sometimes wears bangles of gold and silver given to her from various admirers. Pierced ears always contain some kind of long dangling earrings.<br/><br/>http://www.yourhairexperts.com/gallery/chestnut-hair-color-2/chestnut-hair-color2.jpg<br/><br/>Personality (what your character is like and what motivates them): Maria is flirty and vivacious, after all she lives on the tips she gets from the tavern patrons. Her dark brown eyes are very expressive. Her temperament can go from flirty to dangerous if her temper flares. She can be as hot as they come, and she knows how to defend herself. She carries a very sharp dagger at her belt.<br/><br/>Basic History (what made you who and what you are, where you are from) : Maria was born in the lively port of Trinidad, her mother a Spanish flamenco dancer and her father a very powerful governor. But he did not acknowledge her and the child grew up never knowing who he was. Maria's mother raised her daughter the best she could, making a living as a dancer. When Maria was fifteen, she began training in earnest to follow her mother's life. But a raid on the tavern ended up with the poor girl being sold as a slave to the evil Duke of Flarentine, who took her to his Fortress in Dominica. There she was forced to please him and his guests as a dancer and bedroom slave. Maria was rescued by a Captain Gerold Lampton, a British military man who destroyed the Fortress and freed all of the slaves. She was seventeen when she was rescued and the good Captain took her to Martinique and to the tavern where she works now. Pegleg Dan's Dancing Dolphin. Maria soon found herself a good life entertaining the various tavern goers. Pegleg Dan was a retired British Quartermaster who was kind and gentle to the young girl. He does not allow the men to harass the girls, but they are allowed to make private arrangements if the girls wish to make extra gold.<br/><br/>Maria met Blackbeard in one of his runs to gather supplies. He became enamored of the Spanish beauty and often took her to his room and showered her with kindness as well as gold. He took to paying for her to get tattoos, as he admired the look of them on her fine body. She never left the safety of Santa Lucia. Many of the rumors surrounding Maria say she knows where the treasure lies, but those are false rumors. She has never seen the treasure, but it is a safe bet that she knows about it.