Welp, now that we're just waiting, I guess I'm gonna dump the rest of my guys? They- alongside the others- have been on the backburner for a while. (´ 3｀)
This devious fella is Fran Silva! (In Step 1)
They're 90-99% Chilean, the one percents just a random thing, I think? They use he/him in step 1, later they have a preference for they/them (however, unlike Qiu, they don't mind if they get called by he/him or she/her, infact, it's really amusing to them on how they get perceived by other people).
Fran is as cheeky and mischievous as a 10 year-old can get, no active hostility though. They lived in Australia before moving to Golden Grove. Quite relieved to actually. Despite how popular they were, they also had a target on their back by some kids and got pinned down and those kids tried doing a crude job of trying to remove his birthmark, saying it'd make them look a lot prettier.
Opal was not happy and extremely worried when Fran came home with a gashed forehead, y'know as one parent does, and Fran came to hate his birthmark. If anything can break their mischievous persona, just bring up their birthmark and you'll meet a snappy Fran and a glare. He's best friends with Qiu in 1 and 2, and likes to tease them about how popular they stayed- unlike Fran, falling from popularity and is probably on many people's hit list (they think it's really funny that people are that pressed on their existence), and friends with Tamarack, trying to coax the inner-wildchild out again.
Step 2 Fran, who now gets the nickname 'Ace' because of how they're seemingly flawless at everything they do, is not much better than their 10-year-old self when it comes to mischief. Instead of just staying in one place this bastard (with love) reached their claws out onto the town. They don't mean for anything to last long, usually ending up with a silent apology of gifts or acts to help.
Fran is teasing, and doting for Tamarack and Qiu, but teamworking for Tamarack and contesting for Qiu.
Initially, I was going to have Fran be a lot more colder and be one of those kids that 'you could never get close to', intending them be my 'just neighbors' route dude but as actually played their route, I scrapped that idea and we have this fella.