(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m592/MistressofPen/Rachel/mcadams1.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Irene O'Rourke<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Main "hybrid" Bartender & Working girl<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Saguaro Saloon<br/><strong>Local/Passerby:</strong>Local<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Irene's friendly so long as no one steps beyond her boundaries.  Anyone who is abusive to an animal might feel a burn in their ass from her shotgun filled with birdshot.  She knows there's some people who like to be hit and mistreated, but it's their choice; the poor animals don't have a choice, but they have a defender in her; she knows what it's like not to have protection.<br/><strong>Weapon of Choice:</strong>Shotgun.  But, she's a dead-aim with a hurled shot glass.<br/><strong>Description:</strong>Irene is average height, at five feet, four inches, more in her heeled boots.  She's thin and light complected, with intense blue-green eyes.  She tries to stay out of the sun, wearing hats or carrying a parasol on the rare occasions when she steps out into the heat of the day.  She likes to wear a mockery of the fashionable lady's attire--perhaps a nice walking dress, but in a shocking shade of pink; or a ball gown that just happens to have the front bit of skirt missing.  She's known to don men's clothes to work in as they allow more freedom of movement.<br/><strong>Background:</strong>Irene came to Oasis as a mail-order bride.  Timothy O'Rourke had been a good match for her.  But, it didn't last very long.  Someone decided that her husband's land looked too good for him to have and killed him while he was out tending the fenceline.  The murderer was never identified, some saying Timothy accidentally shot himself -- off his horse.  Some had looked at Irene as a likely suspect.  But, she was never arrested, though questioned at some length.  Her working ran to running a small farm and caring for her husband for the two years they were married.  When she had nowhere to turn, when even the church turned her away because there were some within who still thought she'd killed her husband, Irene turned to the only place that welcomed her, the Saguaro Saloon.<br/><strong>Courtesan Limits:</strong>Hetero, no sewage, no animals, no kids.  As in the time portrayed here, understands that violence did take place; but so did retribution.