Talk:Flash Sentry/@comment-15629929-20131109221500/@comment-10390252-20131226091511

Dahsgirl is right; he's meant to be just the cute boy that the main protagonist and antagonist are fighting over in a bit of teen melodrama.

I think that Flash was a nod to all the high-school drama film tropes. Watch Digibrony's review on YouTUBE - he explains how the writing team used and, to a certain extent subverted and exploited the tropes and clichés of the high school teen film to tell a subtle and far more mature story about power, ambition and what it can do to someone.

So, Flash was never really meant to be a fully-realised character. He was part of the High School experience for Twilight and Sunset, nothing else.

That doesn't mean that the pegasi guard, Flash Sentry, can't be used effectively in FiM. You could make a running joke out of his clichéd nobility ("Flash, I'm an alicorn; functionally indestructible! If anything, I should be jumping in between you and danger."), have Rarity make it her Life's Quest to set up him and Twilight because he's her 'knight in shining armour' ("Rarity, please don't use my brother's name when talking about romance; it makes it sound wrong!") and explore his secondarly talent in music, which leads to a completley left-field relationship with Lyra that enrages all the FlashLight shippers into a Rage Quit.