Ramsey Murdoch

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**Ramsey Murdoch** is a major character in *Epithet Erased*. He is an inscribed rat-faced underworld appraiser and sly con artist who is on the run from the infamous Bliss Ocean bounty hunter Zora Salazar.

## Physical Appearance

Ramsey is a lanky man with slicked back red hair and a standard goatee. His signature "Gross Rat Face™" has a scar on his left eye which has been replaced by a false golden one which does not work, golden ear piercings on his left ear, and a single golden tooth. As for his casual attire, he wears a red Hawaiian shirt with white shorts and red sandals.

## Personality

Ramsey is a very sly con-artist who is good at manipulating people into unknowingly helping him achieve his goals.

In general, he acts laidback and cool when negotiating, but when being placed between a rock and a hard place such as possibly being legitimately arrested or his life at risk, he becomes panicky and cowardly. He is often compared to a gerbil or a rat, which does reflect his facial features and personality.

While he may be a criminal, he can legitimately act nice on occasion and will look out for his allies.

## Abilities and Powers

### Epithet

Ramsey's epithet, "Goldbricker", allows him to transmute objects and people (including himself) into solid gold, which he can morph. However, the effects are not permanent and the affected will revert back to normal hours later.

### Miscellaneous Skills

Ramsey is a professional con artist who's infamous for using his epithet to swindle large companies out of their savings by trading them his "fools gold".

Ramsey also draws art commissions online as a side job, and supposedly has an art degree. This is a reference to his voice actor, William T. Sopp, who also does commission work.

## Relationships

### Giovanni Potage

Ramsey has very little faith in Giovanni, but does respect his ambition. While he did aid Giovanni in evading Percival King, this was most likely done because Giovanni is the only person that is helping Ramsey buy time from Zora.

### Zora Salazar

Ramsey has claimed that he has made several enemies in the past, but none of them seem to scare him quite as much as Zora Salazar. While it is unknown how long he has been running from her, it is implied that they have a long history together.

### Percival King

As soon as they meet, Ramsey views Percy as a way to gain some much-needed protection from Zora, so he makes a deal with her almost immediately. He offers to help her catch criminals in exchange for being let out of jail and protection from "any dangerous folks" they "might run into" which, unannounced to Percy, means he's hoping to avoid himself being captured by Zora. After some thought and quite a bit of hesitation, Percy agrees and from then on, an unlikely, very uneasy alliance is formed.

Despite everything, Ramsey does seem to take a liking to Percy quite quickly. He enjoys her wit and genuinely does want to help her out when he sees she needs it. However, Percy is still a cop and, like her or not, Ramsey knows that if he isn't careful, she can and will send him straight back to jail, where Zora would soon find him, so his guard is up around her from start and he can't bring himself to trust her completely.

As a precaution and a way to get an edge over Percy if their alliance goes south, he lies to her when she asks him if he has an epithet and tells her he's a mundie. He continues to hide his ability from her even in battle. He also deceives her by helping Giovanni behind her back. He even debates ditching Percy altogether, wondering if he could catch the train out of town and escape from both her and Zora this way, but decides the train, which he doesn't doubt is just as run down as the rest of Redwood Run, would be so slow, so he might as well be walking and sticks with his current plan.

Eventually, the duo encounter Zora, and Ramsey has no choice but to stop running once Percy cuffs both of them together in an attempt to draw out and challenge Zora. Thanks to their teamwork, Ramsey and Percy do end up surviving, and even managed to steal the Arsene Amulet right from under Zora's nose.

After Percy learns about his epithet and proceeds to arrest him, Ramsey is upset at first. But after she offers to give him a comfortable cell and allows him to make up for his crimes by letting him use his appraisal skills in the future, he accepts her offer.

## Trivia

* The gold stars on Ramsay's epithet statistics are actually fake stars.
* The term "Goldbricker" is an informal term used to refer to con artists. The term originates from the practice of coating bricks of a much less valuable material in gold to make them appear to be solid gold. This actually makes Ramsey a goldbricker himself.
* Brendan Blaber believes that Ramsey is 34, but cannot confirm due to other crew members being his creators.

## Reference Sources

1. ↑ https://tmblr.co/Z0Wm1x2mWIm-d
2. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189531710167/may-i-ask-the-ages-of-zora-percy-and-ramsey