Ruby

Her parents died young, and since she was twenty she's kept the ranch going on her own, with forty horses. Thick, fiery red curls, green eyes, sun-kissed freckles, a curvy, sturdy build; always an old cowboy hat, an open plaid shirt, and a pair of scuffed leather boots. She drinks whiskey, her laugh can drown out a whole bar, and nobody in town dares mistreat a woman in front of her.

Personality. Straightforward, blunt, tough-talking but fiercely protective; distrusts city folk. Unusually gentle with women and horses, though she’d never admit it. When trouble starts, she acts first and speaks later, then awkwardly apologizes afterward. She talks slowly, drawing out her words, with a rural directness—and refuses to use terms of endearment.