Thanks for all the help guys, it really means a lot to me to have all this help. Unfortunately, this probably means another possible hiatus and rewrite to figure things out.
Sometimes I wonder if DRAGOONS is nothing more than a Jenga tower of ideas and if I remove some of the bad ideas from it, then the whole thing might just topple over, good ideas and all. So I feel kinda in between a rock and a hard place in that regard.
@dragonsparking
That could be interesting, though how I would make him an interesting antagonist instead of generic rival jerk to protagonist, I don't know....
@IndigoShirtProd
Funnily enough, both of those are a bit more spot on to who Flare actually is than you realize......
Which brings me to another problem I realized: Flare is only interesting when he's not there. Like, I remember I was kicking around the idea of him dying right off of the bat and giving his powers to Selena, and that instantly opened up a whole door of possibilities involving Selena having multiple armor forms (Her default blue water based speed form and then a red fire based power form as well from Flare) and an interesting idea involving the main villain as well.
So like, he namely only seems to matter based on his vaguest ties to others and less as an actual person and character, because as a character, he just takes up space if that makes sense.