Ramsey Murdoch

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**Ramsey Murdoch** is a rat-faced underworld appraiser with a *literal* heart of gold. He formed an uneasy alliance with Percival King to save his own skin from the bounty hunter Zora Salazar.

His epithet, ***Goldbricker***, can transmute his body and anything around him into solid gold and back.

## Appearance

Ramsey is a man with red hair tied in a low ponytail, he has white skin, and pointy ears. He wears a red Hawaiian shirt with white flowers on it, a red belt with a golden buckle, white khaki shorts and red slippers. He also wears two golden piercings on his right ear. He has a golden tooth, and his right eye is gold.

His formal clothes consists of, a black suit with golden buttons, worn over a white button up with a magenta colored necktie, he also wears black pants and black shoes.

## 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 reflects his facial features and personality.

Despite his sly and manipulative nature, Ramsey is seen willingly be helpful, shown when he helped Giovanni sneak past the police (Specifically Percy), and also gave Percy a pinecone to drink.

## History

### Past

     **"You see, the trick of this challenge is figuring out what to do with an incomplete recipe."**

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At some point he got into a fight with a Mundie and lost his eye, replacing it with one made of gold.

He used his epithet to swindle rich folk to get about 2.5 million dollars, including "operation mid-ass". Before deciding the safest place to be was in 'jail'.

## Abilities

### Skillset

* **Art Degree**: Ramsey is a skilled freelance artist who has an art degree. He does commissions but he used his talents for mostly for forgery an apparel, becoming exclusively for appraisal after being arrested by the Sweet Jazz Police.

### Unique Abilities

#### Epithet: Goldbricker:

Allows him to transmute objects into solid gold and back, which even includes himself (but, seemingly, not other characters). He is able to turn objects into gold from a distance and can do this to disorient his opponents by making their weapons worthless or making their clothes too heavy. Although, the effect seems to only last a day at most. Ramsey can move normally while he turns his whole body gold and is even able to repair severe damage done to him, such as reattaching his severed arm. He is so proficient at turning his body to gold that he can use it instinctively to block himself from damage to the point where can precisely match Zora's aim on him.

* **Fool's Gold:** Ramsey can seemingly duplicate an object he has in his possession into an almost perfect golden copy. However, the copies do not last very long and seem to decay after a short time. He has historically done this to commit fraud or theft. He used this to trick Zora by switching out copies of the Arsene Amulet.
* **Crayon Darts:** Ramsey carries a deceptively normal box of crayons with him since he can turn the tips of the crayons into gold, making the crayons become painful darts.
* **Static Cling:** A combo technique he performs with Percy, Ramsey turns himself into gold. He then gives a bear hug to the opponent only to allow Percy to summon a bunch of Wizard Towers to zap him & the opponent.

## Equipment

* **Golden Eye**: This eye was created after a Mundie destroyed his natural one. It does not work.
* **Crayons**: *to be added*
* **Phone**: *to be added*

## Relationships

### Zora Salazar

Zora and Ramsey are intense rivals. 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 sees 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.

Ramsey's alliance with Percy may be uneasy and they may be unsure if it will even end well but they've still managed to make it functional for the time being. They make a good team and get along well, despite being polar opposites. They have a mutual respect for each other, even though their places in society as a police officer and a criminal should make them enemies by default. It's just that, when it comes to Percy, everything about him is on a need-to-know basis, especially his abilities, and the fact that he has an epithet. The way Ramsey sees it is plain and simple. She doesn't.

After Percy knows 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.

### Giovanni Potage

Ramsey was very supportive of Giovanni and even states that he's a 'good kid'. However, he also considers Giovanni to be an idiot, saying it's a shame that he's going to get swindled by the Banzai Blasters.

He also was shown to be willing help him slip past the police, specifically Percy.

### Mera Salamin

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Not much known about their relationship, but he'll team up with her in Sweet Escape.

### Indus Tarbella

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Not much known about their relationship, but he'll team up with him in Sweet Escape.

## Merch

### Doll

* A Ramsey plushie was sold in Makeship.com because of the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reaching $260K.
	+ It was sold out/ended on September 3, 2022.

## Trivia

### General

* He is listed as a contact for appraisal in the Banzai Blasters Manual.
* He 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.[Citation Needed]
	+ He, in fact, accepts all kinds of commissions, no matter how weird they are.
	+ Nevertheless, he probably won’t draw gore or racist topics.
* He hates and judges birds.
	+ The reason Ramsey hates birds was originally just because William T. Sopp thought it was funny. The in-universe reason is because, as a fellow artist, he hates when birds poop on statues because a lot of love and care went into them. Also implying Ramsey does not understand that they are not doing it intentionally.
* The gold stars on Ramsay's epithet statistics are actually fake stars.
* In "All's Well That Ends Well", Ramsey wrote down the basics of his powers on a piece of paper because he was afraid of his memory of his epithet being erased. Ramsey didn’t write down what his word was, or even how he could do any of those things. But it didn’t matter. Ramsey is a clever guy. Just seeing that limited information was enough to make him think “Hm. If I can morph gold and turn myself into gold, maybe I can reattach fallen limbs. If that’s the case, I can get my own arm cut off to remove the eraser cuff with no negative consequences, thus turning my powers back on and saving us from Zora.” Within 30 seconds Ramsey had already forgotten what his power was again, but he remembered that he thought it was a good idea to cut his arm off. It was a stupid-sounding plan, but it was better than getting cut in half with a sword. So he gave it a shot.
* Brendon Blaber originally believed that Ramsey is 34 but cannot confirm due to other crew members being his creators. He would later be confirmed to be 31.
* He has a golden eye in his right eye socket.
	+ His gold eye is fake. It is for replacing the original one which has been lost during an incident that involved a Mundie attacking him. In fact, this eye does not work at all.
	+ Because character models are mirrored when they are facing the opposite direction, it is common to see Ramsey having his golden eye be on his left as a result of such mirroring.
* If Ramsey ever turns a person into gold, the said victim will remain static and cannot move. While he can move when he turns himself to gold.
* Ramsey can still be afflicted even when in his gold form. In fact, you can still melt him or use rapid changes in temperature to damage him.
* He is not Bisexual.
* He is wanted in four countries for fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, and Smuggling a single pigeon with a small hat.
* On Twitter, Brendan Blaber revealed how he would play Among Us, which is:
	+ CREWMATE: The guy constantly checking in on Security and Admin to make sure everyone's story lines up. Good at spotting liars but bad at convincing other people.
	+ IMPOSTER: Kills the smart people first so they can't talk. Overall the best player.
* His height is 5'10" when slouched, 6'1" when not.
* He was born on June 16, this makes him a Gemini.
* He is probably divorced.
* Unsurprisingly, his favorite animal is the rat.
* His favorite food is Beef + Broccoli.
* He likes burying treasure, art commissions, and staying in his lane.

### Design

* 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.

### Tierlists

* On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of how well liked in the fandom each character is, placing Ramsey in "Well-Liked (w/ Rare Exceptions)"
* On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of Stardew Valley spouses, Ramsey being paired with Leah because "Artist Solitary"

### Fanworks

* On Twitter, Jello revealed he was sent a set of teas inspired by characters from *Epithet Erased*. Ramsey was used on a tin of thai chai, mango mate, and kona pineapple tea titled "Ram-steep Murdoch". It had the caption "This Tea Has Been Turned Into Solid Mari-Gold".

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Ramsey Infocard for Epithet Erased
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Epithet Erased | EP6 - All's Well That Ends Well
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Epithet Erased | EP7 - Winner Take All
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Epithet Erased | EP5 - Redwood Run
5. ↑ Ask:Is there a reason for Ramsey's eye being gold? Was... - December 13, 2022 - Epithet Erased on Tumblr
6. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epithet-erased-pop/epithet-erased-prison-of-plastic
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ramsey Trivia 1
8. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190091540672/does-ramsey-consider-anything-off-limits-in
9. ↑ Epithet Erased QnA Stream (feat. The Epithet Cast) (6:57:02 - 6:57:35) (Clip)
10. ↑ https://tmblr.co/Z0Wm1x2mWIm-d
11. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189847010827/sorry-if-this-has-already-been-answered-i-havent
12. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189531710167/may-i-ask-the-ages-of-zora-percy-and-ramsey
13. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189658354067/is-there-a-reason-for-ramseys-eye-being-gold-was
14. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190148420377/if-ramsey-turned-someone-else-to-gold-would-they
https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190088991687/so-does-ramsey-not-age-in-gold-form-he-took-a
16. ↑ Jelloapocalypse on Tumblr - April 24, 2023
17. ↑ RAMSEY + FEENIE DOLLS
18. ↑ Among Us - October 18, 2020 - Brendon Blaber on twitter (6)
19. ↑ Epithet Erased on Twitter - 12/20/22
20. ↑ EpithetErased character Stardew Spouses - 12/13/2023 - Epithet Erased on Twitter
21. ↑ https://twitter.com/EpithetErased/status/1241818221474430980