Difference between revisions of "Fortuity"

'''Fortuity''' is a [[High Epic]] living in [[Newcago]]. He isn’tisn't extremelyparticularly important in [[Steelheart (Epic)|Steelheart]]’s's government, and has fallen out of favor with him.{{book ref|steelheart|38}}

Fortuity has precognition powers, which allows him to sense what will happen in the near future. He can use this power for minor events, liking predicting a dice roll or foretelling the weather. His precognition powers also allow him to never miss with a gun. Fortuity can also use it to easily escape danger caused by conventional methods.{{book ref|Steelheart|1}} This danger sense is incredibly powerful.{{book ref|Steelheart|5}} In fact, his precognition powers are so attuned that he can avoid machine-gun barrage and even tell if his food was poisoned, or if a building was rigged to explode. He is classified as a High Epic forbecause of this power.{{book ref|Steelheart|1}}

Megan had already gotten the handcuffs on Foruity, but had failed to attach him to the lamppost. Fortuity tried to run away, but [[Tia]] blew up the Reeve Playhouse, scaring Foruity back to where the Reckoners wanted him.{{book ref|Steelheart|3}} After some chase, David stole someone's car and trapped Fortuity in an alley. However, Fortuity chose this moment to reveal his heightened reflexes, and gracefully backflipped off of the windshield, shattering the glass. As Fortuity launched for David, Megan checkmated him with two bullets on each side of his body, while he was airborne. The two bullets were impossible to simultaneously dodge and as such killed him.{{book ref|Steelheart|4}}{{book ref|Steelheart|5}} The Reckoners did not get a chance to harvest any of Fortuity's cells after they killed him.{{book ref|Steelheart|16}} ItInitially, initiallyit was widely believed that it was the Reckoners who wherewere behind the hit,{{book ref|steelheart|11}}, though the Reckoners later spread rumors sayingclaiming that it was agents of a new Epic, [[Limelight]], were responsible.{{book ref|steelheart|13}}