Name: Delores Banes
Occupation: Rancher and occasional brawler
Age: 29
Sexual Orientation: Delores believes that if god sends a special someone your way, it's not for you to doubt him because of differences in gender or race.
Sexual Style: Romantic.
Sexual Dislikes: None (or more accurately, she hasn't been exposed to most things so doesn't know if she doesn't like them).
Residence: The Banes ranch in the Badlands.
Religion: According to her sister, Delores is a nondenominational Christian. Delores isn't entirely sure what that means.

Description: Anybody that knew the Banes girls would say that Vanity got the looks and the smarts; Delores got the brawn and perhaps.. the wisdom. Thanks to her plain appearance, patient demeanour and size - much of which really is muscle - some folks unkindly claim to have mistaken her in a far-off field for one of her cows. In the middle distance as a silhouetted figure atop a horse she is often mistaken for a husky man, and even up close, it has been remarked that she dresses, drinks, smells and fights like one. However, under her hat, grimy auburn curls and sweat-stained shirt is a curvy, heavy-set woman with rosy cheeks, pillowy lips and fists that could floor an ox.

Height: 5'7
Weight: 210lbs
Hair: Auburn, curly
Eyes: Brown

Personality: Had they known how their first child would turn out, her parents might have called her Patience Forgiveness Banes for these are the two traits people most often associate with her. She is slow to anger and slower to judge and can easily forgive the desperate; Her mother died of cholera in '73 before they moved down to Texas but plenty of people got it worse and Delores just doesn't have it in her to hate someone who stole from her because they were starving. She's no fool though, despite her lack of schooling, and listened to every life lesson her daddy had shared with her.. but few people can tell the difference between duping someone and charitable sympathy, so many think of her as a rube.

Never the less, Delores endures life's hardships with little more than a shrug or sigh but the stress is still there, just waiting for the next time she drinks and fights.

Skills: Animal husbandry, riding and wrangling, bartering, rope-work, leather-work, sewing and brawling. Delores is also a competent labourer and wood-worker. She can dig ditches and saw wood with the best of them.

History/Background: The oldest of the Banes sisters, Delores moved down to El Paso with her sister and ailing father four years ago. A former railroad engineer, her father had nothing but money to entrust to his girls and knew how easily that could be frittered away.. so he purchased some land with the intent of building a farm they could run together when he was gone. He lived just long enough to see the completion of the ranch and the purchase of thirty head of cattle, but when he died two things were clear; neither of the Banes girls could look after that many cows on their own and the youngest, Vanity, frankly considered the work beneath her. A full ten years younger, Vanity convinced Delores to use her share of the inheritance to buy her half of the farm, then returned north with the intention of getting herself an education. They keep in touch but Vanity hasn't been back since.

The arrangement wasn't a good one for Delores as it left her with very little money to keep the ranch running; She worked fourteen hours a day, six days a week, but even with the help of their one ranch-hand O'Donnell, it was too much. Delores turned to drink and - when the need arose to let off some steam - fighting. Her un-ladylike behaviour got her into trouble a few times but she managed to keep the Banes ranch afloat until O'Donnell left. That put her over the edge and a rival ranch took advantage and bought thirty acres from her - all of the good Banes land north of the river - for next to nothing. That was two summers ago and although the Banes ranch is little more than twenty acres now with a few horses and half the herd they started with, it is at least manageable but still not ideal.