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|born= ~18 years before ''[[Steelheart]]''
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|books=[[The Reckoners]]
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'''David Charleston''', an orphaned teen living in Newcago, is a member of the [[Reckoners]] on [[Earth (Reckoners)|Earth]]. After his father was killed by the notoriously godlike High Epic, Steelheart, all David could think about was revenge. In order to enact his revenge, David compiled an insurmountable amount of information on Epics, including their history, abilities, and weaknesses. He would later join the Reckoners, a group of ordinary people that are humanity's only chance of combating the Epics, and concoct a plan in taking Steelheart once and for all. After successfully taking down the High Epic, all David had to worry about was all the other Epics wreaking havoc.
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Before having powers, David fights using a rifle and tensors.
After being captured by Regalia, and at her urging, Calamity gives David the Epic Powers of Steelheart. However, due to David having already confronted his fears moments prior, Calamity was unable to force David to turn evil through the powers. David's powers manifest when he is under great stress.
* 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.
* Energy Beams: Like Steelheart, David can project energy beams from his hands that can vaporize people and melt steel with ease.▼
=== Unconfirmed Epic Weakness ===
* The Ocean: David used to fear the depths, but
== History ==
=== Childhood ===
David was a child living with his widowed father when Calamity occurred. All he and his father had to worry about were typical financial problems, when Calamity appeared. When David was eight years old, he witnessed his father, [[Blain Charleston]], being murdered by the High Epic [[Steelheart (Epic)|Steelheart]] on the [[Day of Annexation]]. After a
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==== Tracking the Reckoners ====
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.
==== Betrayal ====
He later finds out that Megan was an Epic named Firefight, an Epic with reincarnation and "
==== 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}}
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After the death of Steelheart, the Reckoners have to defend the city of Newcago against Epics from another place in the world. An Epic with replicating powers known as [[Mitosis]] arrives in Newcago and confronts David after hearing that he had killed Steelheart. Upon fighting [[Mitosis]], David realizes that Epic weaknesses always have to deal in some way with the Epic's past.
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==== Journey to Babilar ====
The Reckoners learn that Epics, including Mitosis, were being sent to Newcago by a High Epic known as [[Regalia]] in Babilar, formerly New York City
==== A Familiar Face ====
In Babilar, David meets more members of the Reckoners and finds Megan camping out in the city. There, David learns that Megan is illusory powers are really reality warping powers and that she struggles to fight the corruption resulting from the use of her powers. After sharing intimate moments with Megan, a bond between
==== Revelations ====
Regalia reveals to David that [[Calamity]] is
==== An Unexpected Twist ====
David eventually succeeds in bringing down Regalia and Newton, another High Epic in Babilar, but loses Megan after Prof lures her into a burning building to "save" David. After repeatedly convincing Prof to accept his Epic status and that he too can fight the corruption, Prof fails and wreaks havoc. Prof's destruction leads to the deaths of both [[Valentine|Val]] and [[Exel]]. Because Megan confronted her fears by running into the burning building, and had died by remote-fire sniper suicide rather than flames, her death was not permanent and she
=== [[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. 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's possible death, [[Epic]]s no longer go dark and David shows his acceptance of the powers gifted to him.▼
▲'''Epic Powers'''
▲* Wind Manipulation: David can move anything in the wind, including himself.
▲* Super Strength: That ability David is still developing.
▲* Energy Beams: Like Steelheart, David can project energy beams from his hands that can vaporize people and melt steel with ease.
▲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
▲* The Ocean: David used to fear the depths, but not too much anymore; practically what David describes an uneasy truce. It was revealed that this weakness was augmented by Calamity as David had not even had this fear before the Epic attempted to turn David into a Epic.
== Trivia ==
* David vastly prefers rifles to handguns.
* In the parallel universe from which Megan pulls Firefight, David was killed by his father, potentially on the [[Day of Annexation]].
* David hates being called a nerd
* David has an infatuation with Megan Tarash.
* 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}}.
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