Flare

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Flare is an offence hero who uses her flamethrower and incendiary pistol to defeat her enemies.

## Appearance

Flare wears a standard talon uniform with a shearling jacket. The most noticeable part of her appearance is that her forearms have been replaced with tornado generators that resemble jet engines.

Flare has brown eyes and an short, slicked auburn hair. Around her neck, she wears a choke necklace with a dragon pendant. She also wears a bracelet that has the name "Mona" spelt out. In battle, she wears a respirator to protect herself from the fumes.

## Personality

*Don't you think you think you're taking it too far?*

***You wanted the best and brought me in. I intend to play this out 'til the end. Got a problem with that?***

*(chuckles) Not at all...*

Flare is a ruthless pyromaniac who shows no concern for the chaos she inflicts. During the crisis, she was devoted to her younger sister and became violently overprotective of her. She was also a control freak who became increasingly unhinged as the crisis waged on. She deeply hates the omnics and sees it as her divine role to kill every omnic on sight to fix humanity's mistake, whether they are good or bad. This is a trait that makes her difficult to work with in Talon as she refuses to serve Maximilian since he's an omnic.

She also has something of rivalry with Widowmaker after the assassination of Mondatta because she felt envious of Widowmaker for having the "honor" of killing an omnic monk. Like everyone else, she is distrustful of Sombra but is secretly working with Sombra to find her missing sister, Mona. Flare has a relentless drive for omnic genocide and becomes extremely aggressive whenever someone challenges her on it. Flare becomes excited while in combat, as she fearlessly and rapaciously sets everything ablaze, seeing everything and everyone as acceptable losses as long as her enemies suffer more than she does.

## Backstory

Maya Sands had to become the protector of her sister Mona when their parents were killed during the crisis, which forced the pair to join a gang, The Shades, for protection and sanctuary. Through The Shades, Maya became stronger and tougher in order to protect her sister. One day, however, Maya and Mona were imprisoned after Maya helped the gang leader's girlfriend have an affair with the leader of the rival gang, known as the Marble Bulls.

During their time in prison, Maya learned engineering and was forced to become a mechanic for The Shades. By salvaging books and tools, Flare was able to sneak out and steal a car. The pair ended up taking shelter in an abandoned building and spent several months there making a living. As time went on, Mona grew more and more arrogant because she always had Maya to protect her and always had a safety net to fall back on. In a fit of anger, Mona challenged member of The Shades to a gun battle so she could prove her worth to her older sister.

On the day of the battle, Mona's opponent cheated by informing the gang of Mona and Maya's location and the gang stormed the building the sisters were living in. After a vicious battle, Mona hubristically challenged the gang once more as they were retreating, however, the gang was actually retreating to burn down the building. While the building was burning, the floor collapsed and caused Mona to tumble down to the bottom of the building, which forced a devastated Mona to retreat for her own safety.

After waking up in a hospital, Maya found out her arm had been replaced by a prostetic one. After sneaking out of the hospital, Maya returned to the ruins to find Mona's body but couldn't find it. Horrified and deeply confused, Maya tortured a Shades' gang member for anwers and killed him by burning him alive. Before assaulting the base of The Shades, Maya modified her prosphetic arm into a flamethrower, which she used to kill every member of The Shades and wipe the gang off the map.

Believing her sister to be alive and needing the money to search for her, Maya became a mercenary to travel the world. During this time, Maya found herself under Talon's employment, working as Doomfist's attack dog. Talon promised to help find Mona during their pursuit of another Omnic Crisis, something that gave hope to Maya and enabled her brutality towards anyone who got in the way of her search for Mona.

## Ultimate: Firenado

Flare creates a tornado that's made out fire that moves and bounces around the arena, it does 150 damage per second and it lasts for 6 seconds

## Quotes

***Flare:*** How do you want her?

***Widowmaker:*** Être brûlé au bûcher (to be burnt at the stake)

***Flare:*** (After killing an enemy Widowmaker) Brûle avec moi (Burn with me)

## Trivia

* Flare was originally imagined as having a jetpack,but this would of complicated her design as she would needed the fuel for her flamethrower. She was also imagined as a pyromaniac hacker who was obsessed with taking as much knowledge as she could and would destroy the data source after draining it of its data.
* When she activates her flamethrower, it makes an animalistic growling sound. This was inspired by Mad Max Fury Road as the revving of engines sounded animalistic, and this would fit the dragon theme of Flare's character.
* Flare's personality was based on controversial former shark hunter Vic Hislop and Scaley Pete from Maneater.
* For her weapons to affect omnics, her weapons have to be at a tempreture of 1510 degrees C (2750°F).
* Flare's surname "Sands" is in reference to the code phrase "Mr. Sands", which is used in theaters to subtly signify a fire in the building without alerting the audience.
* Flare was originally from California but was switched to Louisiana and shown to able to speak French.
* "Brûle avec moi" is in reference to the Doctor Who episode "42" and "Brûle avec moi" was the French title of the episode.
* Maya's backstory was based on The Legend of Icarus.