"Just gonna out me like that, huh? You're no fun."
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic, at heart... I like the idea of "true competition." Duels at dawn! Battles of destiny! Just two warriors givin' it their all where the only decidin' factor is pure old-fashioned skill! But these days? Skill don't matter anymore! You can train your whole life and be the best you that you can be, just to get beat by some schmo born with a superpower. That's why I wanna get rid of these things! You shouldn't get to be strong just 'cause you're lucky. You really think you can stand in my way?
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 can seem quite 'intimidating' at times, and she is even able to make Ramsey fear her, as she is an adept dueler and can easily beat anyone whom she deems as obstacles.
She is incredibly ruthless and selfish when it comes to achieving her goals, as shown by how she de-aged Bugsy Pugsler after he refused to hand over the Arsene Amulet, or her turning Howie Honeyglow into an old man. However, she claims that generally she doesn't prefer going power-mad often, as it’ll make things boring for her and is against the spirit of Bliss Ocean, therefore favoring fair duels (not that she isn't ready to play dirty if she gets angry enough). Her underhanded tactics are reflected by her erratic nature, such as hitting Ramsey’s “horrible, horrible” face with her second gun in a fit of rage after Ramsey broke her first one and soon after cheating the “fair duel” and using her epithet on Percy’s discarded sword in an attempt cut and then age both of them into dust, this is the first case we see of an attack doing infinite damage.
Although a proficient epithet wielder, she actually hates her own epithet because, as a thrill-seeker, she sees it as a killjoy for being overpowered, hence joining Bliss Ocean.
Zora can be hypocritical with her actions, e.g. damaging a building Howie was constructing for no reason, while getting angry at Ramsey for breaking a gun she had made. This extends to using loopholes to justify herself cheating: She was in-favor for fighting Ramsey and Percy without her epithet (since they weren't using their own), but also waited until an advantageous time to undo her power on time-stopped bullets she had fired beforehand, claiming that it was fair for her to do so.
First Zora tracks downs a runaway prisoner and then had him duel her, Zora presumably winning. She then killed an entire gang and making them scared by making physics “look askance,” taking a little longer to track down and kill the last one. The song’s final client wants her to track down their former friend’s killer, and get revenge. Zora notes that she thinks it’s “cute” she still has room on her watch that she uses to mark each of her kills.
Zora arrives at the house that Molly, Giovanni and his minions are staying at. She asked for the whereabouts of Vincent Murder (who is actually Giovanni in disguise). Molly stated to Giovanni that he just needs to find something that people are scared and takes out a bar of soap. Zora, terrified at the sight of the soap, rans off screaming as Molly and the others starts laughing in delight.
Abilities
Skills
She is a proficient shooter that can use her pistol to knock out her opponents in only a few hits, and accurately hit an acorn on the ground while standing on top of a building.
Unique Abilities
File:Timegun.pngZora's "time gun".Epithet: 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.[5]
Jello thinks that when she freezes objects they lose their kinetic energy, however he has not confirmed this.[6]
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.[7]
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.
Equipment
Twin Pistols: Zora made her own pistolsCitation Needed. One was destroyed by Ramsey in Winner Take All. They are six-shooters and are often imbued with her epithet to move forwards or backwards someone's age, often to point of turning someone to dust. Making these much more deadly then regular fire-arms in the World of Epithet Erased.
Zora enjoys targeting Ramsey and always aims to destroy him, not only because he has committed embezzlement but also due to Ramsey having a bounty on his head.[8]
In the Episode 5 commentary track, jelloapocalypse revealed Zora's name was inspired by a highschool friend of his, whose full name is "Theodora Zora Salazar".
Zora is also whistling “Great at Cowboy” when breaking into Ramsey's jail cell at the start of the episode.
Her revolver is based on the Schofield revolver or Smith & Wesson Model 3.
It was revealed in the Among Us Script that she has tried to normalize child murder. (in Among Us, at least)
Her eye markings are the results of her potent Epithet. She cannot get rid of them because they are permanent. [14]
Zora is the first character in the series to speak censored profanity. She swears 3 times.
Despite being in Nova Class, Zora isn't the strongest officer in Bliss Ocean.[15]
She is the third leading officer of Bliss Ocean.
Jello describes Zora as the kind of Smash Bros player who "picks a top tier fighter and sticks with them the entire night" but still loses to Yoomtah who "changes her character every round and [messes] around all night doing gags like FALCON PUNCH ONLY and still wins." [16]
On Twitter, Jello revealed how she would play Among Us, which is:[17]
CREWMATE: Third imposter. Purposefully sabotages people and doesn't do tasks. Will pick a target and follow them around menacingly for half the game for no reason.
IMPOSTER: Brutally efficient but honestly pretty obvious the second someone suspects her.
Her favorite food is Pine Jam. "Pine Jam" is short for Pine Cone Jam which is a real thing you can make with foraged pine cones. Forest Fact™[1]
She likes “Whistlin', Shootin', Huntin', Beer, and Scootin'”.[1]
On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of how well liked in the fandom each character is, placing Zora in "Well-Liked (w/ Rare Exceptions)."[19]
On Twitter, Jello made a tier list of Stardew Valley spouses, Zora being paired with Haley because "Haley insults Zora the first time they talk and Zora spends a month gifting her trash. Then she's like "I'll make her fall for me.. then tell her I'm not interested! That'll show 'er!" But then the event where Haley plays in the mud and Zora was like 👀"[20]
On Twitter, Jello revealed he was sent a set of teas inspired by characters from Epithet Erased. Zora was used on a tin of pu-erh spice, chocolate chai pu-erh, and gunpowder tea titled "Zora Sip-azar". It had the caption "Cardamom And Cinnamon Just Like Zora: Spicy!".[21]
