David Charleston

Character from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

An orphan with a notebook full of Epic weaknesses and a talent for terrible metaphors — the only person alive who saw Steelheart bleed, and he's going to make it happen again.

Also known as: Steelslayer, David

What They Know

• Witnessed Steelheart bleed in the First Union Bank — the only known person who saw it happen and survived
• Steelheart's weakness: he can only be harmed by someone who does not fear him — David's father wounded him because he was shooting at Deathpoint, not afraid of Steelheart at that moment
• Maintains encyclopedic notebooks on Epic powers, behaviors, and weaknesses — years of obsessive research
• Discovers that the Darkness (Epic corruption) can be resisted by facing your deepest fear instead of fleeing it — the key revelation of the series
• Joins the Reckoners to kill Steelheart, eventually becomes their leader after Prof's corruption
• Terrible at metaphors — consistently, spectacularly, endearingly terrible

Connections

• loves — megan
• mentored_by — prof
• ally_of — abraham
• ally_of — cody
• ally_of — tia
• ally_of — mizzy
• kills — steelheart
• opposes — prof

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