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=== 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. After failing to kill Calamity with a bomb and being rescued by Prof, who is finally confronting his fear of failure, David forces Calamity to leave by making Calamity face his own fears. 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.
== Relationships ==
=== Blain Charleston ===
{{quote
|I hadn't been fighting because of my father's death. I fought because of his dreams.
|David{{book ref|steelheart|epilogue}}
}}
[[Blain Charleston]], David's father, dies when David is only eight.{{book ref|steelheart|prologue}} His death greatly affects David, whose primary motivation in the subsequent ten years is revenge.{{book ref|steelheart|25}} Though during those years David thinks his father's belief in good Epics who would come to help humanity is foolish,{{book ref|steelheart|25}} he realizes that his father was right as he uncovers the truth about first [[Megan]] and then [[Prof]].{{book ref|firefight|4}} The two meet again in [[Firefight]]'s alternate dimension, where Blain has been grieving David's death.{{book ref|calamity|51}} They express their forgiveness toward each other and begin building a new relationship founded on their shared power set.{{book ref|calamity|51}}{{book ref|calamity|epilogue}}
=== Megan Tarash ===
{{quote
|I think I fell for you that first day. Stupid, huh? Love at first sight. What a cliché.
|David to [[Megan Tarash|Megan]]{{book ref|steelheart|30}}
}}
David is attracted to [[Megan Tarash|Megan]] from their first encounter.{{book ref|steelheart|30}} During the incident, she convinces him that there is a sniper watching him and leaves him kneeling in an alleyway; this is the origin of her nickname for him, Knees, that endures even their confrontation with [[Calamity (Epic)|Calamity]].{{book ref|steelheart|6}}{{book ref|calamity|epilogue}} At first Megan resents David for upending the team dynamic and convincing them to target Steelheart, but David is incredibly attracted to her for her competence and lack of fear.{{book ref|steelheart|21}} He believes in her goodness before anyone else is prepared to.{{book ref|firefight|4}}
== Trivia ==
* In the parallel universe from which Megan pulls [[Firefight (Epic)|Firefight]], David was killed by his father, potentially on the [[Day of Annexation]].
* David runs point most of the time.
* 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 (Epic)|Calamity]]{{book ref|Calamity|51}}.
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