Learning the Limits

I'm making reasonably decent progress on two of my stories, and if I stay with it, I should be able to post something new soon. In the course of working on "The Blue and the Grey" though, I find myself with a dilemma. At the end of the last chapter, I made the choice to introduce a canon character as a potential antagonist, namely Chancellor Neighsay. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I realize that it has just made things more complicated. The problem is that I haven't seen most of the episodes that he appeared in, and as result, I don't understand the character. He was certainly an antagonist at some point versus Twilight, but the info I have seen about him seems to indicate that he was not just some bad guy. That has forced me to come up with a much more nuanced approach to the next chapter, as I have to consider just who Neighsay is, and just how the wider society may react to someone like my character, Dawn Rider, and Equestria's rarely seen military. This may slow things, but it may improve the final product, if my limited skills are up to the challenge.