Zora Salazar

“	At the stroke of sundown, there's a shadow in the wood Not sure what she's up to, but you know it ain't no good She's a demon, she's a devil, she's a rough-and-tumble rebel Yeah, she's far beyond your level and she's watching you... Oooh, ooooh... In the gloomy orange light, you won't live to see the night In the woods you hear a whisper, could it be the Phantom Drifter? There's a chance you went an' missed her, just don't turn around... In a flash she's there behind you, out of sight and out of mind And now no one will ever find you buried six feet down...	„
	~ Zora singing her own theme

“	Never wanna rest When there’s a bounty on my desk Find that my ‘tention gets a-wrested by that Poster in my mind I got a fugitive to find Bearin’ my canines, knowin’ that later I Will have won The countdown The countdown Has begun VERSE 1: Tracin’ blood through the mud, I can smell his fear Wounded prey ain’t hard to track “Life was hard behind bars”, said the shakin’ deer “And I ain’t goin’ back!” Tossed a pistol, made it crystal clear what’s next: Ten paces or the iron cuffs Your last chance to dance is layin' at your feet All you have to do is pick it up. Ha! CHORUS: Time’s in my control You won’t see the light of day So show me what you got Take your best shot Fire away BRIDGE 1: Seems the next to hang’s Gonna be an entire gang This event will end with a bang like dy-na- Might’a had a chance But I made physics look askance Big iron romance, they’n I go to dance Five to one They go down They go down Like the sun VERSE 2: Chase you down like the sound of a sizzling spark On a trail of TNT Got your pals, all corralled, just for a lark No one left but you ‘n me And the tic-toc of my flintlock’s hangfire Lights your lifespan like a powder trail You thought that you could run from me? Gonna tell ya, looks like you failed Aw... CHORUS: Time’s in my control You won’t see the light of day So show me what you got Take your best shot Fire away BRIDGE 2: Time to make amends I got a client wants revenge Jailbird had killed his former friend and the law Let the bird fly free Black-hearted murder up a tree So he comes to me cause I’m reputedly Number one By sundown By sundown She’ll be done VERSE 3: There’s a notch on her watch for each man she’s killed I think it’s cute she still has room She’s the cock of the walk at her prison’s guild Chick’s about to meet her doom Gotta hand it to the bandit she can crow real loud But every swan has a final song Might be a canary fairly soon I fear 'Cause her lifespan ain't lookin' long! Hah~! Time’s in my control And so’s the barrel of this gun So show me what you got Take your best shot Now I’ve won	„
	~ Countdown lyrics

Background

Zora Salazar is a bounty-hunting Bliss Ocean officer who, originally, was sent to hunt down Ramsey Murdoch for forgery and embezzlement before being ordered to retrieve the Arsene Amulet from Giovanni Potage by the Bliss Ocean organization.

She is the main antagonist of the "Western Arc".

Statistics

Tier: At least 9-C, possibly 9-B

Name: Zora Salazar

Origin: Epithet Erased

Sex: Female

Age: 31

Classification: Human, Inscribed, Epithet User, Member of Bliss Ocean

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Evil (Apart of Bliss Ocean, a terrorists organization, is a bounty hunter, killing anyone good or evil as long as they get paid for it)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Peak Human level (Can harm those who can harm her, wields pistols, ripped off a window bar with her bare hands), possibly Wall level (Has a stamina stat of 13 which should put her above Indus Tarbella and Beefton), can bypass conventional durability with Sundial

Durability: At least Peak Human level, possibly Wall level (Bullets in the verse only deal minor impact damage, and tanked attacks from multiple Wizard Towers)

Striking Strength: At least Peak Human Class, possibly Wall Class

Lifting Strength: Regular Human

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Moved so fast she appeared as a blur)

Combat Speed: Supersonic

Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Can react to Percy, who can dance around her bullets)

Stamina: Above Average (Has a stamina stat of 13)

Range: Standard Melee Range physically, Hundreds of meters with revolvers, At least Interstellar with her Epithet (Can affect the cycle of the sun)

Intelligence: Genius (Has the highest creativity and proficiency in the series thusfar)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics, Weapon Mastery (Very skilled with her pistols), Accelerated Development (Continuous use of one's epithet will cause it to grow stronger), Aura (All epithet users have an aura around them), Consumption (Type 1. Can eat screws and drink from pinecones to regain stamina and health), Flight & Gravity Manipulation (Can mess with gravity to allow herself and others to float in mid air), Time Manipulation, Physics Manipulation, and Age Manipulation (Her epithet Sundial allows her to dial things forward and backwards in any process which includes gravity, inertia, the cycle of the sun, and even a person's lifespan.), Energy Manipulation (Stated by WoG that when she freezes objects they lose their kinetic energy), Telekinesis (Via stopping and forwarding objects she can in a sense telekinetically control them), Teleportation (Teleported away here), Corrosion Inducement (Can corrode objects by aging them), Power Bestowal & Empowerment (She can also imbue her epithet into an object [i.e. her bullets]. Whatever gets hit by one of these objects will be affected by her epithet. This allows her to instantly destroy any object with a single hit from her weapons), Healing (Confirmed by WoG that Zora can heal certain wounds with her epithet), Regeneration (High-Low. Characters regenerate after winning a battle. Giovannia could regenerate back his broken bones. Possibly Mid-Godly. Molly Blyndeff has an ability named "Hushabye" which dumbs down the opponent to nothing. She later got attacked by bears and when asked if she could erase the bears, she states that they would just come back after the fight. Since everyone instantly regenerates right after a fight in verse, the characters themselves should be able to come back from existence erasure), Immortality (Type 1 and Type 6. WoG states that she can be functionally immortal by slowing her aging process or turning back the clock every few years. Mera's bones breaking were viewed as -1 damage this doesn't only apply to Mera as she broke Sylvie's ribs. It is stated by word of god that everyone in Epithet Erased functions under JRPG mechanics so even attacks that are greatly above them and should kill them can't, for example being shot in the head will not kill them, they are even described as "extremely hard to kill"), Restoration (After battles characters injuries, statuses, etcetera are normally undone, including acts such as de-aging a character, being reverted), Negation (In her song Countdown, she goes over the various targets she's killed, bypassing the usual restoration mechanic of characters), High Resistance to Pain (Characters in Epithet Erased are extremely hard to kill and can survive shots to the head along with taking attacks that break their bones without showing much harm from it), Resistance to Electricity Manipulation (Survived and was seemingly not that harmed by Percy's multiple Wizard Tower attack), Age Manipulation (After a battle is over, affects such as Zora Salazar's ability to de-age a character, were reverted)

Power Absorption & Power Nullification (The Arsene Amulet can steal ones epithet), Power Bestowal (Can give one an epithet)

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Standard Equipment

• Two Revolvers: Revolvers that Zora uses in combat, she can imbue their bullets with her epithet to cause objects she hits to instantly de-age.

• Arsene Amulet (Episodes 6-7): The Arsene Amulet is an ancient necklace that was imbued with the power for its user to steal epithets from others. It grants the user with the Epithet: Copycat. This is the epithet the amulet was imbued with, giving the amulet the ability to steal epithets from their users.

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Notable Techniques

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  Zora's "time gun"

  Sundial: Her epithet Sundial allows her to dial things forwards and backwards in any process which includes gravity, inertia, the cycle of the sun, and even a person's lifespan.
  • She can also imbue her epithet into an object (i.e: her bullets). Whatever gets hit by one of these objects will be affected by her epithet.
    • This allows her to do things like instantly destroy any object with a single hit from her weapons.
  • However, once a process has ended she can't reverse it. (e.g: She can't float if she hits the ground, once her gun breaks it's permanently broken, and if someone is dead she can't bring them back)
  • Her aging ability does not noticeably impact things which do not corrode. (i.e: pure gold)
  • If she turns off her epithet, the afflicted victims will return to normal.
  • Her epithet allows her to be functionally immortal by slowing her aging process or turning back the clock every few years.
  • When she freezes objects they lose their kinetic energy.
  • She can heal certain wounds, but has to be extremely careful. If she sped up time on a wound that wasn't fully disinfected, she could cause it to become diseased rather than healed. Bones have to be correctly set or else they will heal wrong.
  • Tree!: By rapidly aging a seed or sapling, she is able to quickly grow a tree which can be used to launch herself into the air, or to attack and disarm opponents.

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Other

Weaknesses: Once a process has ended she can't reverse it (Examples: She can't float if she hits the ground, once her gun breaks it's permanently broken, and if someone is dead she can't bring them back), she cannot age something that won't corrode, if she turns off her epithet, the afflicted victims will return to normal, if she sped up time for a small wound but the wound wasn’t fully disinfected there’s a good chance that instead of healing it she would instantly cause an infection to swell up. A bone would have to be correctly set, otherwise it would heal wrong. Though she can use this to her advantage in a fight and infect minor wounds making it worse for the opponent. While she mainly uses her epithet, she prefers a fight of skill rather than one of superpowers and would likely accept such a duel if challenged to one, however if she is sufficiently enraged she'll go back on the duel. Has a weakness to soap.

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