Name/Nicknames: Dulcinea de la Cruz (Dulci at times)
Gender: female
Rank/Position: Candidate, hair stylist
Age: 22
Birthplace: Cancun, Mexico

Physical Description: Not the picture of a gorgeous woman, Dulcinea comes in more at average-looking. Dark brown hair, tanned skin, dark brown eyes, average figure as well. She�s 5�6�, and 130. Neither muscled nor overweight. Physically little about Dulcinea stands out.

Personality: It�s all in how you present yourself. And Dulcinea knows how. Dulcinea is a little b*tch. She�s Miss Popular. She constantly gives you the impression that you aren�t good enough. She�s the girl from your high school that you always hated, who wasn�t really pretty or good at anything in particular, but nonetheless you hated her because she somehow had that social status. She carries herself like she�s Queen of the World, seems to get toy boyfriends with her prove-you�re-good-enough attitude, and throws them away when she�s done. She�s managed to get herself into Candidacy because (a) her dad is an interviewer (b) her mom is a scientist on the Project and (c) she�s a superb actress. It�s about the only thing she does well. If she�s going to be on Pern, you can be damn sure she�s going to be the BEST there is on Pern. Very opportunistic.

Background: Dulcinea was born in Mexico to a better-off-than-most family. Her mother�s science background and her dad�s psychology work got them on the plane ride to Pern. Dulcinea was always the little princess, and her dad has spoiled her rotten out of love for his only daughter, his �princesa.� They came to Pern, they settled, her parents were great helps to the community of Landing, and Dulcinea learned she disliked hard work immensely. She went to any length to avoid it, usually by making �friends� with the boys, and as she got older making little promises to get her way (a kiss for some help with this, a date for help with that, and so forth). Having something of a talent with hair and beauty, she got into hair styling and now does that as a �day job.� She gets all the good gossip this way, knows who�s got bad taste and who has good taste, who�s got the power and who�s full of it. It�s a better way to get ahead than you might think for a girl who can pretend she cares so well! Two of her brothers went North, and she considers Threadfall to be an unfortunate thing indeed, very icky, and certainly nothing she wants much to do with. But the potential to get one of those gold eggs is too much for her to resist, and since the firelizard egg that held her little menta�d brown Rico (only the best for his little girl�s 20th birthday of course�) has given her some experience with the critters, she�s going for the gold quite literally!

Family/Friends: Rosita de la Cruz/56/Dragon Project scientist/New Landing
Tomas de la Cruz/58/Psychologist & Candidate Interviewer/New Landing
Esteban de la Cruz/38/medic/went North
Salvador de la Cruz/34/farmer/went North
Paco de la Cruz/29/sled pilot/New Landing
Manuel de la Cruz/28/medic/New Landing

Hobbies & Skills: hair-cutting, putting on a good face for those who matter, gossiping and being a bitch

If your persona were a song, the title: Bitch

Pets: big brown menta firelizard, Rico

Dragon's Name: Umikath
Age: Infant (hatched 12.3.11)
Color: gold
Physical Description: A sort of burnished gold, darker than most of the others seen so far, a deeper and nice color. Still small and growing, so size is variable!

Personality: Umikath has been, from the word go, a diva. A queen bitch, one might say. Pushy, proddy, do-it-for-me-because-I'm-better-than-you diva. She clearly loves Ducli, but the two will be certain to bash heads as they have strong and similar personalities.