Castor Hart (Flare)

Castor wasn’t really the superhero type. Being the oldest of the Rebel Squad and the oldest of the Hart family, he has a lot of protecting to do.

Being a superhero wasn’t really all his idea. But after the moon exploding and the recent rise in crime, he didn’t really know if he had a choice. The city needed help and his siblings needed protection. One day, a government organization reached out to him saying “they were in need of heroes”. He accepted this offer seeing that the city was already on the verge of a purge.

The organization created an initiative called “The Champions”. They are meant to give people hope and hopefully stop the world from going into complete chaos. He wasn’t the only one they reached out to. The other members come from every continent. They get paid a lot of money because the government isn’t gonna let them start working at some random fast-food restaurant part-time.

The team was going well at first but suddenly it felt less like a good deed and more like a reality tv show. The Champions had to put on an act to keep people going. They had to pretend that they weren’t just ordinary people trying to do a good thing but more like superheroes who can get themselves together and save humanity. Castor thought it was humiliating to act like a charming, loveable guy every time anyone interacted with him but it got him money and security so he just goes with it.

The name Flare was all his idea. It’s meant to symbolize light in the dark. Someone who’s there whenever he’s needed.

He was fine going out and fighting crime. Unfortunately, his siblings had decided to follow that trend. It was already hard enough to protect them before. But now that Zada became Stormbird and Harper became The Harpy and started the Rebel Squad, it made his job a little more difficult.