"Just gonna out me like that, huh? You're no fun."
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But these days? Skill don't matter anymore! You can train your whole life and be the best 'you' you can be... just to get beat by some shmo 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. [...] Do you really think you can stand in my way?
Zora Salazar is a bounty-hunting cowgirl 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 by the Bliss Ocean organization.
She is the main antagonist of the "Western Arc".
Personality
Zora enjoys her job as a bounty hunter and seems to be quite confident in her own skills. She can seem quite 'convincing' at times, and she is even able to make Ramsey fear her, as she is hyper-fixated at dueling and can easily beat anyone whom she deems as obstacles.
She is actually incredibly malicious and selfish when it comes to achieving her goals, proven by how she de-aged Bugsy Pugsler after he refused to hand over the Arsene Amulet, or turning Howie Honeyglow into an old man. But she claims that generally she won’t prefer doing so often as it’ll become boring for her and is against the spirit of Bliss Ocean, and 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 shooting Ramsey with her extra gun in a fit of rage after Ramsey broke her first one.
Although a proficient epithet wielder, she actually hates her own epithet because as a thrill-seeker, she sees it as a killjoy for being powerful, hence joining Bliss Ocean.
Zora can be hypocritical with her actions, as she for no reason damaged the building Howie had been working on but also got angry when Ramsey broke the gun she had made. This extends to using loopholes to justify herself cheating, as she was ready to fight Ramsey and Percy without her epithet (since they weren't using their own), but also undid her power on time-stopped bullets she had fired beforehand, claiming that it was fair for her to do so.
Abilities
Skills
She is a proficient shooter that can use her pistol to knock out her opponents in less than a few hits and hit something as small as an acorn in 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 forward 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 (Example: 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.
However, 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. (Example: pure gold)
If she turns off her epithet, the afflicted victims will return to normal.
Also, her epithet allows her to be functionally immortal by slowing her aging process or turning back the clock every few years.[1]
Jello thinks that when she freezes objects they lose their kinetic energy however he did not confirm this.[2]
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 would swollen it instead. For bones, they have to be correctly set or else they will be healed wrong.[3]
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 in his head.[4]
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Trivia
Zora is a Slavic name that means dawn.
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".
She enjoys sleeping in the woods, hence she kind of smells.
It was revealed on jellopocalypse's twitter that she has tried to normalize child murder.
Her eye markings are the results of her potent Epithet. She cannot get rid of them because they are permanent. [9]
Zora is the first character in the series to speak censored profanity.
Despite being in Nova Class, Zora isn't the strongest officer in Bliss Ocean.[10]
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 **** around all night doing gags like FALCON PUNCH ONLY and still wins." [11]
