Difference between revisions of "User:Spriy/David Charleston"

 

== Appearance and Personality==

 

== History ==

David was a child living with his widowed father when Calamity first appeared. All he and his father had to worry about were typical financial problems; however, those same financial problems would have unprecedently far-reaching effects. David and Blain were at a bank, trying to negotiate a mortgage, when an Epic named Deathpoint arrived. The Epic began murdering random people and soliloquizing about how he could take whatever he wanted when Steelheart entered and claimed the city as his own. Deathpoint attempted to kill him, but only succeeded in damaging his costume slightly, but when he attempted to use a second ability, Blain shot him. However, the bullet grazed Steelheart's cheek, and as Blain didn't fear him, it injured him. Steelheart then murdered him, along with everyone else in the bank, and began the [[Great Transfersion]]. David managed to hide in a vault that Steelheart didn't think to check, though, and so he survived.{{book ref|steelheart|8}} After a year of living homeless and alone, David was taken in by the [[Havendark Factory]], where he, along with many other children worked in exchange for food and board.{{book ref|Steelheart|8}} During this time David became obsessed with researching Epics and finding their weaknesses, particularly that of Steelheart. He compiled a complicated ranking system and many notebooks full of information about different Epics, but try as he might, the one weakness he could never discover was Steelheart's.

 

David had figured out that the Reckoners, a rebel group fighting against Epic rulership led by a man named [[Jonathan Phaedrus|Prof]], were in Newcago and planning to assassinate a High Epic named [[Fortuity]]. The plan was going perfectly until [[Curveball]], another Epic, appeared. David assumed it was going awry and intervened, which would have ruined everything had [[Megan Tarash|one of the Reckoners]] not been able to "checkmate" Fortuity, making it so that he would die no matter what action he took.

 

David fled with Abraham and Megan to the back of the shop. Although Abraham began to dig through the wall with a set of tensors, he wasn't going very fast, and Nightwielder noticed the empty space on the wall where the gauss gun had been.{{book ref|r1|17}} In imminent danger of discovery, David came up with a split-second plan and stepped out from the shadows holding Abraham's gun, pretending that it was part of the store's stock and he had been polishing it.{{book ref|r1|18}} Nightwielder asked him for its specifications, which he easily gave along with those of a couple others, and David retreated to the back of the room with an idea on how he could test Nightwielder's weakness. He found an ultraviolet scanner with a built in camera, and wandered up to Nightwielder and shone it on him, pretending to be fiddling with the device and having not noticed the Epic.{{book ref|r1|18}} Nightwielder then took the scanner from him and crushed it, but not before David managed to take out the data chip with the recording of whether Nightwielder become corporeal when exposed to ultraviolet light or not, finding upon later examination that he did. Abraham was impressed at this discovery, but Megan was angered at the risk, and when they arrived back at the base, Prof shared her feelings, warning David that if he got one of the Reckoners killed from such a reckless risk, Prof would kill him before any Epics could.{{book ref|r1|19}}{{book ref|r1|20}}

 

 

== Things still to Finish ==