Megan Tarash
| Megan Tarash | |
|---|---|
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| Born | ~19 years before Steelheart |
| Abilities | Epic |
| Aliases | Firefight |
| Groups | Reckoners |
| Birthplace | Portland |
| Homeworld | Earth (Reckoners) |
Megan Tarash, also known as the Epic Firefight, is a member of Steelheart's inner circle. She also infiltrated the Reckoners, a group that kills Epics.[1]
History
Megan grew up in Portland, Oregon.[2] Her house burned down when she was very young, and she has nightmares about this. [3] 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. However she betrays them when they begin to target important parts of his 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. Her fear of fire and fire being her weakness leads David Charleston to believe that Epics' weanesses are linked to their past somehow. 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 Firefight, Megan appears in Babylar. The Reckoners believe that she killed Sammy, another Reckoner that was part of Mizzy's team, but David refuses to believe this. 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.
Appearance and Personality
Portrait of Firefight by User: Therustyrobot
Abilities
- Reincarnation
- Minor Essokinesis: Megan possesses minor reality warping abilities previously assumed to be the ability to create illusions
- Parallel Existence: Megan possesses the abilitiy to exist in every parallel universe with or without a few differences as seen with her parallel existence, Firefight.
- Parallel Summoning The ability to summon people as well as items from another reality. Those pulled from another reality typically appeared in the form of shadows before Calamity. Megan would later uses this ability to summon Tavi from another reality to fight off Prof.
- Major Essokinesis: Reality warping abilities bordering on omnipotence, for a very short time after reincarnating.[4]
Weakness
Fire causes the shadows that Megan summons to be dispelled. She thinks that if she is killed by fire that she won't reincarnate.[3]