Megan

Megan is the main character of Having the Barbarian's Baby and Barbarian's Treasure. She is a human survivor of the first crashed ship. She is Cashol's mate and mother of Holvek II and Jewel.

The Sa-khui pronounce her name as "Meh-gan."

## Description

Megan has pale blonde hair and glowing blue eyes.

## Personality

Megan tries to be optimistic, always looking for the bright side. She is a morning person and is friends with Josie. However, inside she can struggle with worry and negative thoughts.

Initially she was also very clingy, especially with her mate, Cashol. She felt very unsure about the future often, worried about having everything taken away from her. As time has past she has come to feel more safe about her situation and is better able to handle when Cashol has to be gone for long periods.

## History

Megan was a Girl Scout as a child and learned to macramé. She had a dog growing up and considered herself a "horse girl." She had been abandoned by boyfriends in the past.

Two months prior to the series beginning, Megan had a one night stand with a man she meant at a club. She became pregnant and decided to keep the baby. However, when she was abducted in 2015, the slavers aborted her child. She got a bad cough from her lack of khui when they originally crashed.

In Barbarian Lover, about a month or so after the crash, Megan was feeling anxious and worried about not having resonated. It made her feel like a reject. She decided to have Maylak check on her fertility and the health of her reproductive organs. She was still healing from the abortion with help from her khui. Shortly after this, she resonated with Cashol.

### Barbarian's Treasure (Flashback)

The next morning, with resonance fulfilled, Megan still felt insecure with her place in the tribe. Cashol overheard Megan talking about this and he was hurt and regretful. Remembering Vektal’s advice about taking things slow, he decided she needed to come to him and put space between them. This made Megan feel worse, not better. The two proceed to miscommunicate through attempts to make the other comfortable.

A couple of weeks, later they go out hunting together, but Megan broke down when confronted with killing a hopper in a trap. This breakdown had more to do with insecurities than just killing the animal. In a hunter cave, they had discussion, coming to a better understanding of each other.

The next three weeks passed happily. That was until a number of the roots in the storage turn up half eaten. Due to a joke Megan made earlier, a young Farli thinks Megan did it. Some members of the tribe were upset about the roots, and Megan thought they blame her. She decided to leave but Cashol interrupted her before she does.

The next day Cashol went out to replace the roots. Megan realized she loves him. Later, they realize a hopper had been eating their stores.

### Having the Barbarian's Baby

Around 15 months after they resonate they had become very close. Megan, who was insure and a touch clingy, couldn't stand the thought of her mate going out on long hunts. Which he had avoid going any overnight hunts during that time. However with the brutal season coming up, and more mouths to feed, everyone was worried there might not be enough food. When Vektal asked Cashol to go on a long hunt, he knew he must comply. Made worse, Megan could give birth to their child any day.

It took some adjusting, but Megan found she could carry on even when her mate is gone. Especially when she discovered Cashol left a scavenger hunt with gifts for her.

Cashol returned from his hunt just in time for the birth of his son Holvek II, which she named for his father.

### First time Jump

Sometime during the seventh or eighth year on Not-Hoth in the time jump between Barbarian's Hope and Barbarian's choice, Megan and Cashol resonated again.

### Barbarian's Treasure (Present Day)

While spending the afternoon with Josie, Megan got to talking about her resonance. When Josie mentions how easy Megan and Cashol's resonance was, Megan decides to tell her the real story. They also discuss names for Josie's kit. Josie goes into labor and Megan watches Joden and Joha. Meanwhile, Cashol and Holvek return from a hunting trip with a young dvisti with a twisted leg as a new pet.

In the time jump in early ninth year, pre-time jump, Megan gives birth to her daughter Jewel.