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{{character
|image=Steelheart.jpg
|titles=Steelslayer{{book ref|Mitosis|1}}
|born= ~18 years before ''[[Steelheart]]''
|groups={{tag|Reckoners}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
=== Epic Powers ===
* Wind Manipulation: David can move anything in the wind, including himself.
* Flight: David can propel himself through the air under his own power. When used by Steelheart, it was mentioned separately from his wind manipulation.
* Steel Transversion: Assumedly like Steelheart David can spontaneously transforms non-living matter around him to solid steel, spreading out from him in a sphere. Steel and iron have the ability to "insulate" against the transfersion, but other metals are transformed to steel. As this ability is tied to his emotions, he sometimes uses it without intent.
* Invulnerability: Assumedly like Steelheart, David is impervious to harm from all known sources, including bullets, edged weapons, blunt force, suffocation, radiation, electricity and fire.
* Super Strength:
* Energy Beams: Like Steelheart, David can project energy beams from his hands that can vaporize people and melt steel with ease.
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* The Ocean: David used to fear the depths, but he has brought his fear under control; in practical terms, what David describes as an uneasy truce. It was revealed that this fear was exaggerated by Calamity when he gave David the powers of Steelheart, but after confronting it, his fear returned to normal. It is unclear if this would affect David anymore, with Calamity gone.
David manages to track down the Reckoners, a rebel group fighting against the Epics, and finds [[Megan Tarash]], a member of the Reckoners, in Newcago. David encountered Megan while the Reckoner was planning a hit on the High Epic, [[Fortuity]]. When another Epic named [[Curveball]] appeared, David assumed that the plan was going awry and he intervened, ruining the entire plan. After Megan and David take down the two Epics, Megan takes the eager newcomer to her team. David eventually convinces them to let him join. He tells them that he had seen Steelheart bleed, and convinces them to target Steelheart next.
==== Making their Move ====
After planning the hit, David manages to integrate himself into the group and befriend all of the members of the group.
==== The Fall of Steelheart ====
While fighting Steelheart, Prof comes to aid David, revealing that he himself was a struggling High Epic trying to remain sane. Together, the Reckoners successfully execute a plan which results in the destruction of Steelheart's government and the eventual death of Steelheart himself.{{book ref|Steelheart|40}}{{book ref|steelheart|41}}
=== Mitosis ===
=== Calamity ===
With Prof turned, David must lead the Reckoners on a desperate chase to recall their mentor, destroy Calamity, and save the world. David comes to the conclusion that not all Epics are evil and adopts a philosophy similar to the Faithful. The book begins with David, now the leader of the Reckoners, leading them through a mission to steal equipment from Knighthawk to fight Prof. There, David reveals that he intends not to kill his former leader, but free him from the corruption and use him to fight Calamity. He eventually attempts to save Tia from Prof but this leads to Prof accidentally killing her. This breaks Prof and the Reckoners. In his final face off with Prof, he and Megan find out that Prof's weakness is failure and manages to defeat him. Obliteration teleports David to Calamity's glass base in space. David later finds out that he himself is actually an [[Epic]] with Steelheart's powers but he subconsciously blocked his ability to use them. He uses his powers to save Prof, Megan, and himself from crashing to Earth after defeating Calamity. After Calamity leaves, [[Epic]]s no longer go dark and David shows his acceptance of the powers gifted to him.
== Trivia ==
* David runs point most of the time.
* David spent nine years being owned by Havendark Factory.{{book ref|Steelheart|8}}
* David has killed many Epics, including [[Nightwielder]]{{book ref|Steelheart|38}}, [[Steelheart]]{{book ref|Steelheart|40}}, [[Mitosis]]{{book ref|Firefight|4}}, [[Instabam]]{{book ref|Firefight|4}}, [[Sourcefield]]{{book ref|Firefight|4}}, [[Newton]]{{book ref|Firefight|46}}, [[Regalia]]{{book ref|Firefight|50}}, [[Wiper]]{{book ref|Calamity|30}}, [[Loophole]]{{book ref|Calamity|43}}, and maybe [[Calamity]]{{book ref|Calamity|51}}.
== Notes ==
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