<table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong> Madison Taylor, Maddi<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong> 25<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong> Eyes: Dark Green; Hair Color: Naturally Fair; Height: 5'6”; Weight: 122lbs; Build: 32c-23-32, fit, very supple and strong<br/></td><td>(http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz222/DiverseDesires/Madison-1.jpg)</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>Personality</strong><br/><em>Personality Traits:</em>Gets on really well with almost anyone she meets as she has few expectations and understands that people are only who they can be.  Because of her own life experiences she is a great believer in making the most of things and enjoying life, living it to the full and making other people around you happy when you can.  Doesn't really value material belongings is more impressed by someone taking the time to do something personal like write them a song or take them to see the sunrise<br/><em>Strengths:</em>Generous, very understanding and liberal in her outlook, a conscientious hard worker, and as people normally respond to her in kind this helps a lot with traveling, getting offers of accommodation and friendship easily and is a natural skill she falls back on in times of need.<br/><em>Weaknesses:</em>Never hangs on to money, uses her fists too quickly when feeling threatened, emotional, easily distracted by a new idea and can go off on a tangent – stubborn to the point of blindness sometimes.<br/><em>Likes:</em>Music, dancing, new places, people, new experiences and the freedom to be whom she pleases where she pleases<br/><em>Dislikes:</em>Narrow mindedness, routines, being confined or trapped, bullies, people who think money makes them important, intellectual snobs<br/><br/><br/><strong>History</strong><br/><br/>Madison was born and grew up on a small Scottish island in a commune of Scottish Calvinists.  The community was isolated, strict and narrow in its outlook.  Madison never settled to the life, although she was happy to work hard she hated the narrow, puritanism of it all and the rigid, sometimes harsh discipline and lack of freedom. At the age of 15 she ran away.  She has since then led an unusual gypsy life, working, travelling, turning her hand to lots of different things. She had her fingers badly burned at the age of 17, when she fell in love with a man who was actually grooming her to be a prostitute.  Since then she has never fully trusted or opened herself up to man, taking pleasure where she wants it and giving it for money or temporary security when she needed to.<br/><br/>She learned to sail at 18 when a man giving her a lift, when she was hitchhiking, offered her a job crewing on his yacht, mainly to do all the cooking to give his wife a break  She has often taken crewing jobs since then as a way of seeing the world, even delivering new yachts on occasion and luxury cruisers.<br/><br/>She is at home with her body and her sexuality, has even worked as an erotic dancer among other things, and views life for living and never lets herself dwell on the sad or bad things that have happened to her over the years, and her lifestyle has meant rather a lot have.  She's a tough cookie, but the slightly kookie wild child that escaped from her colony is always not far away, she's just as likely to go out and dance naked in the rain, say something outrageous or suddenly pack up and set off traveling with someone she'd just met as she is to stand toe to toe, spit in your face or leg sweep you if you are rude.<br/><br/>~<br/><br/>Maddi met Kira in the yacht club after a regatta.  The two hit it off instantly and Maddi ended up staying two weeks at her house.  Since then Kira has been one of the few people in her life that she always stays in contact with and visits regularly.  Not only did they email regularly and chat on the phone, but Maddi kept a travel blog for her best friends, always posting lots of pictures and witty commentaries on who she met on her travels and her mishaps and adventures on route.<br/><br/>She'd been on holiday with Kira before and had got to know Liz really well, so when she got the call to get her ass over to the mainland, she was there like a shot and ready to go have some fun with the girls.