  Ultra-precise light curves from Kepler provide the best opportunity to
determine rates and statistical properties of stellar flares. From 11 months of
data on the active M4 dwarf, GJ 1243, we have built the largest catalog of
flares for a single star: over 6100 events. Combining 885 of our most pristine
flares, we generated an empirical white-light flare template. This
high-fidelity template shows a rapid initial rise, and two distinct exponential
cooling phases. This template is useful in constraining flare energies and for
improved flare detection in many surveys. Complex, multi-peaked events are more
common for higher energy flares in this sample. Using our flare template we
characterize the structure of complex events. In this contributed talk, I
presented results from our boutique study of GJ 1243, and described an expanded
investigation of the structure of complex flares and their connection to solar
events.
