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|born= ~19 years before ''[[Steelheart]]''{{
|'birthplace=[[Portland]]
|earth=Reckoners
|first appeared=[[Steelheart]]
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== Attributes and Abilities ==
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She is an extremely accurate shooter, which helped with the fact that she has no offensive epic powers.{{book ref|r1|4}}{{expand}}
=== Epic Abilities ===
==== Essokinesis ====
▲[[File:Firefight portrait.png|thumb|right|230px|<small><center> by [[User:Therustyrobot]]</center></small> Portrait of Megan's dimensional double, Firefight]]
Megan's power was originally assumed to be the ability to create illusions, but in fact, her power "pulls" items from another reality into this reality.{{book ref|Firefight|35}} This caused the illusions she creates to be extremely realistic, nearly impossible to distinguish using any detecting method.{{book ref|calamity|6}} Also, since the ability tends to pull things from a "nearby" parallel universe (among the [[Reckoners Multiverse]]), a tricky fact is that the illusions she creates are actually possibilities. This can be used to somewhat predict the future; if something is going to happen, it is possible that it will happen the same way as Megan's illusions.{{book ref|calamity|6}}
==== Reincarnation ====
Megan has the ability to reborn with a new body roughly one day after her death.{{
=== Weakness ===
Fire causes the shadows that Megan summons to be dispelled. She thinks that if she is killed by fire, she won't reincarnate.{{book ref|Firefight|36}} Megan confronted her fear, dispelling the majority of the darkness, but she still feels its effects if she overuses her abilities, or after reincarnating.{{cite}} Megan's weakness comes from when her house was burned down when she was young.{{book ref|Firefight|36}}
== History ==
==== Reappearance ====
While fighting Nightwielder, David finds Megan and comes to the conclusion that she is the Epic named Firefight as reincarnation is one of her abilities. It is revealed that Megan betrayed the Reckoners as they began to target important parts of Steelheart's infrastructure by infiltrating the organization and feeding information to Steelheart. Initially, she seemed to be unable to recall any past events before her death as seen when she struggled to remember David's identity. 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 death meant nothing to her anymore.
=== In Babylon Restored ===
▲[[File:Megan_Tarash_by_Bernardo_Curvello.jpg|thumb|left|350px|<small><center> by {{a|Bernardo Curvello}}</center></small>Megan as a Reckoner, with an image of her alter ego in the background]]
==== Resurfaced ====
After the events of ''Steelheart'', Megan travels to Babylon Restored and allies herself with [[Regalia]]. The Babilar Reckoner cell attempts to observe and track her. At some point in the intervening ten months, their point man, Sam, attempts to confront and kill her despite orders to the contrary. Megan shoots and kills him in self-defense. This causes the surviving members of Sam's team, particularly [[Mizzy]], to develop a deep personal hatred for her. When David, Prof, and Tia arrive in Babilar at the beginning of ''Firefight'', Megan observes their movements in the city and covertly helps David several times. When David almost drowns during his encounter with [[Obliteration]], Megan rescues him. Later, she uses her illusions to prevent [[Newton]] and Obliteration from spotting and capturing him while he is doing reconnaissance in the city. David realizes Megan is around and asks her to show herself. The two have a tense conversation, but Megan agrees to stay in communication as long as David keeps their contact secret from the other Reckoners. The two have several more encounters over the course of the book. David tries to persuade Megan to reveal herself to the Reckoners, believing that he can reason with Prof and Tia, but Megan refuses.
As the two grow closer, Megan makes several revelations about her powers and her current status. She reveals that her illusions are created by temporarily projecting pieces of parallel universes into this one. She also shares her fear that when she reincarnates, she is simply being replaced by an alternate version of herself with similar memories. Megan also reveals that she came to Babilar 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. After recognizing the effects of her powers on her mental state, she no longer wishes to be an Epic. David explains to her that he is trying to uncover a pattern in the weaknesses of Epics and shares some of his research with her. Eventually, she admits that she reciprocates David's romantic interest in her, and the two of them kiss for the first time. Later that same day, she reveals her weakness to David: fire cancels her illusions, and she believes that she would not reincarnate if burned to death.
She helps David capture the Epic [[Knoxx]], to whom Regalia claims to have recently granted powers, so that David can interrogate him and find out more about Regalia's capabilities and intentions. At this point, the Reckoners intervene. They believe that David has betrayed them by working with Megan behind their backs and that Megan is only using him to undermine their efforts. David is put on probation and imprisoned in the Reckoners' base, and Knoxx is killed. Prof confiscates David's mobile and uses it to lure Megan into a trap by sending messages claiming that David is trapped in a burning building and needs her help. Megan, suspecting foul play, sets up David's rifle, which he accidentally left in her possession, in the window of a neighboring building before heading into the burning building to investigate. When Prof traps her inside the building, she is able to use the remote fire function on David's rifle to shoot herself, thus evading death by fire and escaping the trap.
==== Saving David ====
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 of fire, 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 somehow linked to their past
=== Hunting Prof ===
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