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Help with refining plot?

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Alright so basically all I've got for my story is where there's this teenage superhero. He can manipulate light and air (so he can fly). His supervillain is this super-smart girl from his school whos really good with technology. She's not really evil, they just have kind of an arrangement where she gets to be his villain in exchange for keeping his identity a secret. It kinda just gives them both something to do with their skills. Eventually I want this really bad villain to come in and try and recruit the teenage villain. She realizes he's crazy and turns into kind of an anti-hero to help hero defeat him. Theyre not gonna fall in love tho, he's aro/ace and she's too caught up with all her techno work, theyre just gonna kinda become besties and exchange witty banter

Things I don't have:
how he got his powers
who the actually bad supervillain is
how the new supervillain get introduced/what theyre motive is

Pls help

@Lupout

1) How he got his powers: Typically the cliche ways of getting powers in superhero genre stuff are: nuclear explosion, secretly an alien, lab experimentation. Anyone of these is fine, and probably won't be questioned by your readers bc they're common tropes. Alternate ideas: his parents could have been experimented before they had him and worked for the government. It's just a fluke that sometimes happens in your universe (scientist want to figure out why, but it's kind of hard to catch people with superpowers, plus live human experimentation is generally frowned upon.) if you want to go the more comical route, maybe he had an accident in chemistry one day, and then suddenly bam, what do you know he can fly. Whatever route you take just own it and make sure it fits into his back story, like he probably wasn't the only isolated victim of a nuclear reactor explosion, so maybe steer clear of that one.
2) I'm a fan of famous politicians and celebrities being the villains because it just makes it that much more funny that no one recognizes them, otherwise, maybe the principal at their high school or teacher, someone they know generally makes more sense, but if they live in a big city, it's fair to assume they don't know everyone and it's okay to introduce a random person as long as the method of doing so makes sense.
3) I think motive is pretty much up to you, money, helping family, childhood trauma, or being a full on psychopath are all good options though. The new supervillain can just fly in out of nowhere intruding on lil villain's home or somewhere that proves that she isn't safe and that the villain maybe knows too much about her. Make sure however he comes in it's unsettling. Maybe mention ahead of time an uptick in crime in the city or some robberies or something to set the scene.