<div class="floatleft">(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j480/Erion2451/imagesqtbnANd9GcRSMUOsGnWqWuU7DqKzJYNGk8KLGOFMuWf-enHwrZ_quIGrM36mqg.jpg) </div><strong>Player:</strong>AribethAmkiir (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=128873.0)<br/><strong>Name:</strong>Katarina Acosta<br/><strong>Age:</strong>25<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Bi<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Spanish<br/><br/><strong>Allegiance:</strong>Pirate<br/><strong>Ship:</strong><br/><strong>Rank/Occupation:</strong>Captain<br/><strong>Equipment:</strong>Ship ledger, spy glass, concealed money purse, soap, gunpowder horn, bag of musket balls.<br/><strong>Weapons:</strong>2 flintlock pistols upon her body, 2 concealed throwing knives, a dagger, and a cutlass.<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Katarina is a tall woman (for the time period), at 5’8” and has a thicker bone structure than common women.  Her Spanish decent is evident in her dark hair and brown eyes.  She is smooth skinned and fleet of foot, and normally wears loose men’s clothing to help conceal her gender.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Katarina has a reputation for being ruthlessly savage to her enemies and rewarding her friends.  She is an intelligent woman, with obvious education, and has a unflappable charm that makes it easy to like her.  She is cunning and deceitful and thoroughly enjoys being a pirate.<br/><br/><strong>Biography:</strong>Katarina was actually born Katharine de la Costa.  She was the youngest daughter of a wealthy banker and plantation owner in the region of Cadiz.  At the age of sixteen, Katharine, along with her sisters, was kidnapped from her home by Barbary pirates.  The girls were meant to be sold as slaves, yet the Katharine caught the Captain’s eye and he kept her for his own.  The captain was not a kind man, and Katherine quickly learned how to endure his attention and even appease the man’s appetites.  It wasn’t long before he decided to make her his wife and she was married.<br/><br/>She endured this life for two years, before she was finally able to sew enough discord amongst the pirates to cause a mutiny.  She slit her husband’s throat during the chaos of the mutiny and then jumped ship.  Shortly after returning to civilization, she discovered that her family had all been killed or sold into slavery.<br/><br/>It wasn’t long before she caught the eye of another man of fortune.  When the authorities came to arrest her for piracy and murder, he helped her escape and together they stole a Sloop and entered a life of piracy.  She concealed her gender from the crew and acted as a First mateon the ship.  When her new lover eventually died, she took over as acting Captain and swiftly culled any pirate who disliked her command from the ship and his life.  She has since brought on female pirates and has plans of crewing her ship with nothing but women.  She recruits from the poor and disenfranchised, the whorehouses and slaves.  She believes that any woman strong enough to endure the filthy pawing of a man is strong enough to do what it takes to survive on the open seas.<br/><br/><strong>Anything else:</strong>Has an unbridled hatred of the Barbory Coursairs and is known to go out of her way to sink their ships or interfere with their conquests.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>