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Megan grew up in Portland, Oregon.{{book ref|Firefight|34}} Her house burned down when she was very young, and she has nightmares about this. {{book ref|Firefight|36}} Megan joined the Reckoners sometime before the book starts. She appears to have a genuine hatred for epics, however supports Steelheart for the stability he brings. She appears to have joined the Reckoners with his knowledge (at least as far as no lenience is shown towards her or her cell from enforcement or Nightwielder). She actively works with the Reckoners towards their goal to defeat Steelheart.

 

David encounters Megan when he attempts to meet and join the Reckoner. Megan later betrays them when they begin to target important parts of Steelheart's infrastructure. Megan was killed while escaping from their Conflux hit on a motorcycle. [[David]] defended her and confessed his infatuation for her while she died. [[Prof]] brought her back to the hideout with [[David]], and cremated her. However, she still reincarnated because she was dead before the fire ever touched her. Later, during the [[Steelheart]] hit, David found Megan listening to an audio recording of her death, including David's confession. She told him to stay away, however, or she would shoot herself, as it meant nothing to her anymore.

 

In the beginning, Megan is secretly helping David. Before David almost drowns after his encounter with [[Obliteration]], Megan saves him and David realizes that the Reckoners believe that she killed Sam, another Reckoner that was part of [[Mizzy]]'s team, but David refuses to believe this. David later finds Megan and decides to keep his encounter and her location a secret from Prof and the Reckoners. Megan makes several revelations about her powers and her current status. She reveals that her Epic ability to create illusions are actually the her reality warping powers. She also shares her fear that her reincarnation abilities may actually be resulting from her subconsciously pulling parallel existences of herself to replace her when she dies. David and Megan become closer and a romantic relationship between them begins to blossom. Megan later reveals that she came to Babylar in hopes that [[Regalia]] would somehow be able to remove her powers in the same way that she claims that she can gift and augment Epic powers. When David is trailed by [[Val]], he is believed to have been working with regalia all along and that Megan is seducing him. Prof, in the guise of David, texts Megan to meet her where she eventually dies trying to save David from a burning building. While David fights a corrupted Prof later in the book, Megan reincarnates and saves David from his battle with her reality warping abilities. Because she confronted her fear, the corruption from her powers lessens greatly and she is able to use her powers more freely. Her fear of fire and it being her weakness leads David to believe that Epics' weaknesses are linked to their past somehow.

 

Megan rejoins the Reckoners, with her Epic status being acknowledged and accepted by the other members, and aids David in his mission to infiltrate Nighthawk's base. Mizzy and Megan still have tension since Megan killed Sam while corrupted. Megan begins to experiment with her powers and learns how to bring corporeal or solid items to her reality. In attempt to free Prof from his corruption, Megan uses her powers to summon Tavi, Prof's and [[Tia's]] daughter from another reality that possesses similar powers to his own, to fight him. Unfortunately, Megan and David's tactic shows little results and Megan is nearly corrupted once more from the stress of her powers. Later, Megan fully accepts her powers and finally completely frees herself from the corruption of her powers when she refuses to run away from her powers and let [[Larcener]] take them away. This lead's David to conclude that Epics can only free themselves from the corruption of their powers by accepting their powers as well as confronting their weakness.