Also known as 'The Shadow' Maria Shade is my character from my stories, and that is who i strive to make my avatar look like.

Maria is a fighter and a spy, she fights with daggers or a staff, though she is proficient in many other weapons, including swords. Another weapon she has is her high heeled boots, their heels being in fact blades. She wears only black and generally long sleeves and long pants to hide her daggers, she also wears a tight black metal choker around her neck at all times.

Maria wears her hair over one eye because that eye has a deep scar running through it and instead of the eye she has a black stone. she usually wears the rest of her hair in two plaits that go to her knees through which she weaves spikes and attaches iron balls to the ends.

Maria has three animal companions, a female panther called Darken, A male half wolf called Wolfshadow and a large female eagle named Nightwing, all of them pure black.