Zora Salazar

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**Zora Salazar** is a major character in *Epithet Erased*. She is an inscribed cowgirl-themed bounty-hunter and Bliss Ocean officer who originally was sent to hunt down Ramsey Murdoch for forgery and embezzlement before she was being ordered to retrieve the Arsene Amulet from Giovanni Potage.

## Physical Appearance

Zora is a tall woman with long brown hair, suntanned skin, and yellow triangle markings on her face. She dons a cowboy hat with a triangle patterned brim, a red neck bandanna, and a poncho which has a symbol that resembles the sun in the middle. Under her poncho, she wears an orange long-sleeved embroidered button down shirt, a belt with a plus-shaped golden buckle that has a sun symbol in the center, brown and dark brown striped leggings, and brown boots with golden sun-shaped spurs on its ends.

## Personality

Zora enjoys her job as a bounty hunter and seems to be quite confident in her own skills. She is hyper-fixated at dueling and can easily beat anyone whom she deems as obstacles.

She is incredibly malicious and selfish when it comes to achieving her goals, proven by how she de-aged Bugsy Pugsler in "All's Well That Ends Well" after he refused to hand over the Arsene Amulet, or turning Howie Honeyglow into an old man just for the sake of demonstration in "Winner Take All".

Although a proficient epithet wielder, she actually hates her own epithet because as a thrill-seeker, she believes it makes duels too easy to enjoy and less fun. She also despises epithets in general because she sympathizes with the mundies who are skilled, but are constantly living in the shadows of inscribed epithet users.

While this has yet to be demonstrated in the show, Brendan Blaber has confirmed that she hates children with an intense passion, and has went so far as to try to normalize child murder.

## Abilities and Powers

### Epithet

Zora's epithet "Sundial" allows her to speed up and reverse any kind of process, this includes but is not limited to gravity, inertia, the cycle of the sun and even a person's lifespan.

### Weapons

Zora wields dual pistols, which she claims to have made herself. In the *Epithet Erased* universe, bullets are not lethal and only deal minor impact damage, but Zora is able to bypass this rule as she is capable of imbuing her epithet into bullets, allowing her bullets to age people quickly to death.

## Relationships

### Ramsey Murdoch

Zora has hunted down countless bounties in her lifetime, but she seems to have a personal vendetta against Ramsey specifically for some unknown reason. While it is never specified when it began or how long it is, Zora's hunt for Ramsey is implied to be one with a history.

### Percival King

Zora does not care for Percy, only seeing her as an obstacle standing in the way of Ramsey. Despite this, Zora seems to hold some respect for Percy's determination and skill.

## Trivia

* Zora is a Slavic name that means dawn.
* Her name was derived from an old high school friend of Brendan Blaber's who name was "Theodore Ozora Salazar".
* She enjoys sleeping in the woods, hence she kind of smells.
* She is bisexual, and is sexually attracted to women with hourglass figures, which is a pun based on her time themed abilities.
* Zora is the first character to perform an attack that does -∞ damage, since she can age almost anyone or anything into dust.
* Her mother is deceased.
* Her eye markings are the results of her potent epithet. She cannot get rid of them because they are permanent.
* Zora is the first character in the series to speak censored profanity.

## Reference Sources

1. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189381807212/are-any-of-the-characters-in-epithet-erased-lgbt
2. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189939502652/out-of-curiosity-what-type-of-girls-is-zora
3. ↑ https://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189621395457/is-it-possible-for-an-epithet-to-have-some-kind-of