What do you think Flambae thought the day Mecha Man Blue exploded?
Oooooh, this is a difficult question.
Let's see.
Just to establish my own facts -> Flambae brags about his fingers more than he has issues with them. Thus, his beef with Mecha Man Blue is for being busted, thrown in prison and humiliated. Plus, some self-pride and denial, he doesn't want to admit to anyone that Mecha Man admittedly saved his life (where lesser 'heroes' would have killed him as he had wanted) and that he actually owes almost all the good things he has in his life after he burned that bank/mall to the hero.
So, I image his feeling are pretty complicated.
On the outside -> he keeps the facade of being a Big Blue hater, talking shit and maybe even saying shit that crosses the line when people poke at him, but he's by no means laughing with satisfaction or cheering on at a bar table with vindication.
He'd keep this facade up to protect his own pride because, even tho he's forced to know deep down Mecha Man saved him, he wouldn't be able to stand a single person going, "you want to thank someone/Mecha Man for kicking your ass?"
That's something Flambae would only admit to Prism after they got shit faced drunk together.
On the inside -> We canonically know Flambae see Mecha Man as a real hero (and not in like a hero fan way).
Why? I haven't come up with a scenarios yet (but funny enough I don't want it involving any one of Flambae's family, at least not directly. Indirectly feels more emotional to me).
So, seeing a real hero -
A hero whose put in the work 10 times over to show/prove he's more than a nepotism bitch baby.
A hero whose worked for a full decade and a half (without Flambae knowing Robert started as a teen) everyday with basically no breaks, weekend, holidays, or otherwise.
A hero whose given his whole (entire) self to protect and help the city over and over again for reasons Flambae couldn't even begin to grasp, aside from guessing Blue just wanted to follow in his father's foot steps.
Seeing Mecha Man, a real hero, explode, essentially die in the sky, and then crash into a burning crater-
I like to imagine Flambae thought Los Angeles just nearly lost one of their few, very few, best heroes and a hero who could never be replaced.
Lost a truly one of a kind hero, who Flambae would eventually learn was named Robert Robertson (the Third only in name).
Because you know neither Bobby or Robbie ever saved people the way Robert did.
And Flambae's new life, risen from the ashes of a burned down bank/mall, is proof of that.
