Mera Salamin

"Just gonna out me like that, huh? You're no fun."
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“	What I'm most afraid of? You want to know what I'm most afraid of? I'm afraid of this. I'm afraid of a world where I spend the rest of my life like this: brittle and creaking and constantly on the verge of breaking. I'm afraid of a life where someone bumping up against me on the street means a trip to the hospital! I'm afraid that this is all there is! But now, I finally have an exit. I finally have a way to leave. And if you think you can keep me here? Then you’d better be ready to die trying.	”
—Mera Salamin, "Reflection"

Mera Salamin
Weakens any object to the breaking point. Also affects the user.
Nickname(s)	Lady Mera (Indus Tarbella) Miss Tour Guide (Molly Blyndeff) Miss Lady Mera (Molly Blyndeff)
Statistics
Age	26
Gender	Female
Epithet	Fragile Drowsy (Stolen from Sylvester Ashling, formerly)
Stamina	★ (1)
Proficiency	★★★★★ (5)
Creativity	★★★★★ (5)
Professional Status
Affiliation(s)	Sweet Jazz City Museum (Formerly)
Occupation(s)	Tour Guide/Security Guard (Formerly)
Personal Status
Relatives	Father Mother
Friend(s)	Indus Tarbella
Media
Voice Actor	Lindsay Sheppard (English) Mari Manfron (Spanish)
First Appearance	Quiet in the Museum!

Mera Salamin is a former employee of the Sweet Jazz City Museum whose epithet causes her constant pain. To negate it, she attempted to steal the Arsene Amulet with her bodyguard/assistant Indus Tarbella by infiltrating the Sweet Jazz City Museum. Her plans were foiled by Molly Blyndeff and Giovanni Potage and her, along with Indus, were arrested by the Sweet Jazz Police Department.

Her epithet, Fragile, allows her to weaken objects and people to their breaking point, including, unwillingly, herself.

Appearance

Mera is described as being "tiny" and having "sweet black nail polish" that is "always getting chipped for some reason". She has long, deep blue hair that can be seen as black, as well as periwinkle eyes with prominent eyelashes and possibly eyeliner. She dons a sand-colored sweater vest with an indigo bowtie, a cream long-sleeved, collared shirt with jagged cuffs and an indigo stripe placed horizontally along each sleeve, torn indigo jeans, black tights, and cobalt loafers.

Personality

"Yeah! Those are... words!"

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Mera is a crafty individual, having managed to fool everyone by pretending to be a museum tour guide as part of her intricate heist plan.

She is also willing to manipulate others and tends to be dry and abrasive toward others. When things don’t go as she has planned, she falls into a fury. This is mainly due to her epithet, Fragile, with which she can relieve her physical and emotional side effects.

She is incredibly irresponsible as well, putting the whole blame of her museum heist on Indus. Despite this, she has quite formidable power and a high tolerance for pain.

Due to the immense pain, she has felt all her life which is originated from her epithet, Mera is willing to go to any length to stop it. She believes, especially due to her stamina absorption ability, that the only solution she has is to steal from others. Nevertheless, she has, through coaxing, been able to show some forms of kindness and gratitude to others.

History

Past

"Yeah! Those are... words!"

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On December 19, Mera was born to her wealthy mother and father on an island between Taiga Country and Desert Country, owned by Taiga Country.

She was in great amounts of pain her entire life and was bedridden for her entire childhood. Her parents spent half their fortune to try and find a doctor that could cure Mera's "illness" (in reality, the physical effects of her epithet) to no avail.

One day, her father came to her room to tell her that him and her mother are going out and that she shouldn't get out of bed. Also telling her to stay in bed since she isn't well. He tries to comfort her by saying she will be well enough able to play with the other kids outside soon. They then leave and immediately afterward, she stares at the kids playing outside, her epithet subconsciously cracking the window.

It's not that her condition got better with age, but rather that Mera learned to live with it. She would learn she has the epithet Fragile, which she hates more so than any other character in Epithet Erased has shown towards their epithet. She began researching epithets furiously to find a way to control her affliction.

On her journey, she eventually passed through Desert Country where she met and challenged Indus Tarbella to a duel and easily bested him. Indus then swore loyalty to her in order to one day become strong like her.^{[Citation Needed]} She got hired by the museum in Sweet Jazz City, Taiga Country in the hopes of stealing the Arsene Amulet.

Museum Arc

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Non-Canon

TWO-LOWEEN

Artwork drawn by Ramsey.

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Among Us Script

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I Want it That Way Animatic

Percival King is at the Sweet Jazz City police station, looking at a police lineup for suspects. Sylvester Ashling is running the operation, asking Percy if she knows who in the lineup is the criminal. Percy responds she only heard the criminals voice whilst singing the song "I want it that way". Sylvie asks the criminals to sing "I want it that way". Number one, Ramsey Murdoch, hesitates before singing the opening section. Mera Salamin, Indus Tarbella, and Giovanni Potage sing the following sections. All five criminals then sing the following section together. Criminal five, Zora Salazar, sings the section "I never wanna hear you say" by herself. All of the criminals sing the last section together before Percy makes a comment that criminal number five is the one who killed her brother. Sylvie then admits he forgot they were looking for a criminal in the excitement of singing.

That Beautiful Sound Cover

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Abilities

Unique Abilities

• Epithet: Fragile: Can increase an object's frailty until it shatters. This also affects her own body, leaving her in a constant state of agony.
  • Scattergun: By combining her Epithet with Indus Tarbella', Mera breaks Indus' barrier into pieces and telekinetically launches them towards her targets.
  • Crystal Generation: Creates crystalline (most likely glass) spikes and walls from nothing.
    • Watch Your Step: Mera attaches crystalline skates to her feet and swiftly skates across the ground while wielding a crystal spear to attack with.
  • Stamina Absorption: Absorbs stamina from other people, healing herself while also dealing equivalent damage.

Former Abilities

• Epithet: Drowsy: A stolen epithet from Sylvester Ashling. Molly Blyndeff immediately returned it to him after defeating her.
  • Nightmare Fuel: to be added

Relationships

Indus Tarbella

After besting Indus in an honorable duel, Indus swore his loyalty to her in order to learn from her and become stronger. Mera took this to her advantage and began teaching him many of her "training practices" such as "training" for laundry and paying her taxes. It is implied that Mera finds his muscles attractive, as when Indus tries to distract the kids with his flexing in Quiet in the Museum!, she jokes that he "caught her attention." During Reflection, Mera looks conflicted when Molly asks if she likes him, showing that she might feel guilty at the idea of allowing him to be arrested. Later in the same episode, she complies when he nudges her in an attempt to get her to thank Molly. This may indicate guilt over almost letting him be imprisoned despite his loyalty to her, or it was just a result of exhaustion.

Molly Blyndeff

During Quiet in the Museum!, Mera asks about Molly's epithet. When she receives the answer "it's dumb", she is quick to brush her off. However, later when Molly negates her damage from Giovanni, she proclaims that after she finds the amulet, she would take Molly's for her own. Since Molly could dumb down pain, she was the one Mera was looking for to negate her own epithet, which keeps her in constant pain. Despite Molly trying to comfort Mera during Reflection, it's only after Indus nudges her that she briefly expresses gratitude.

Giovanni Potage

Giovanni is, according to Mera, an annoyance. She considers him childish and inferior as a thief, quickly subduing him and his guards. As Giovanni and Molly become friends, he shows even more hostility towards Mera, who is trying to steal her epithet. This culminates in Giovanni gaining the upper hand on her and foiling her plans, as well as beating her in battle.

Sylvester Ashling

Initially, Sylvester is fooled by Mera into doing her bidding, him believing her to be a member of the museum's staff and bargaining with her in exchange for examining the Arsene Amulet. However, when he learns the truth, he becomes hostile towards her. Sylvester shows immense determination in stopping her from harming Molly, which leads him to losing his epithet to her when she beats him in a fight. Mera is shown to respect Sylvester's epithet abilities, though she also underestimates them at certain points. She called him a "weenie" when he fell unconscious just before he summoned Dr. Beefton.

Ramsey Murdoch

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

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

Trivia

General

• Due to her constant pain and overall fragility, she has to take headache pills for 80% of her diet.
• She wears sweet black nail polish that chips a lot.
• She has a fear of ducks. The reason is, in her words, "They're small and fast, and they bite".
  • This was used against her in That Beautiful Sound Cover.
• She had a lonely childhood due to her epithet.
• It was revealed in TWO-LOWEEN that she is a furry. Her fursona is an arctic fox named Gwennifer.
  • This is re-confirmed in her Prison of Plastic Promotional Infocard, saying that she likes furry art and her favorite animal is the snowfox.
• Indus and Mera currently share an apartment, in which Indus sleeps on the floor. It is unknown if Mera made him do this.^{[Citation Needed]}
• Brendan Blaber also confirmed on his tumblr that her eyes "occasionally gloss over and turn white like cataracts". He also noted that he could have done a better job showing it.
• In universe, Brendan Blaber has said she's 'Taiga-Islandrace', which would translate to her being half-Filipino in real life.
  • Mera is mixed-race Southeast Asian from her paternal family. This most likely means her father is from Island Country.
• He has also asked Howard Wang to continue to voice Mera’s Dad in the future.^{[Citation Needed]}
• She would have gotten a villain song if the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached its stretch goal of $400K.
  • Out of the three characters who could have gotten a villain song (the other two being Giovanni Potage and Zora Salazar), she is the only one who did not get one.
• On Twitter, Brendan Blaber revealed how she would play Among Us, which is:
  • CREWMATE: Actually a pretty diligent crew member, but comes across as prickly. "Fine! Vote me! See if I care!" Always gets ejected in rando lobbies. Gets mad easily.
  • IMPOSTER: Has a little too much fun. Tries to set up double kills with her imposter buddy. Usually fails.
• She is from an island between Desert Country and Taiga Country, owned by Taiga Country. Additionally when someone commented this makes her look like she lived under a bridge, Brendan Blaber implied she did. However this would conflict with what is shown in "Reflection"
• In a tumbler ask from 2019, Brendan Blaber stated she was 27, but in the Prison of Plastic promotional infocard, she was stated to be 26.
• Her height is 5'0".
• Her birthday is December 19. This makes her a Sagittarius.
• Her favorite food is Squid Ink Pasta.
• She likes watching snowfall, big cushy beds, and furry art.

Design

• Mera's given name is likely a derivative of "mirror," while her surname is Salamin, "mirror" in Tagalog, a language in the Philippines, referencing her ability to raise broken glass from the ground and her fragility.
  • Brendan Blaber has confirmed that her name literally means "mirror mirror".^{[Citation Needed]}
• In battle, when she takes damage from her epithet or damages others with her stamina absorption, the damage number appears cracked and pale purple.
• She has a slight twitch in her left eye that's most noticeable in the episode 4 cutscene.

Tier Lists

• On Twitter, Brendan Blaber made a tier list of how well liked in the fandom each character is, placing Mera in " "Yeah, You're Pretty Good" "
• On Twitter, Brendan Blaber made a tier list of Stardew Valley spouses, Mera being paired with Alex because "She needs a himbo. She's holding out for a himbo till morning light."

Fanworks

• On Twitter, Brendan Blaber revealed he was sent a set of teas inspired by characters from Epithet Erased. While not pictured, Mera was apart of the set, with a lemongrass, spearmint, and green rooibos citron tea titled "Mera Sala-mint". It had the caption "Sharp Blueberry And Lemon Verbena On An Icy Mint"

Gallery

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External Links

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