Sunny

Sunny is an adult female SandWing-NightWing hybrid and the main protagonist of The Brightest Night. She is one of the former dragonets of destiny and the main founder of Jade Mountain Academy. She was also heavily responsible for the end of the War of SandWing Succession.

Appearance
Sunny has tawny, golden-yellow scales like rippled sunshine, golden wings, talons, and ears, a small head, snout, and claws, and moss-colored, gray-green eyes.

Aside from being quite small, Sunny has scales that radiate warmth. However, her tail lacks the venomous barb of typical SandWings and curls to an ordinary tip instead.

Sunny is very small, much smaller than Qibli and Winter, and not much bigger than Kinkajou and Moonwatcher. Even on her back legs, she is less than half of Kestrel's height, and out of all the dragonets of destiny, she is the smallest. Her eyes are the same shape as Whiteout's, although Sunny's are greener, according to Darkstalker.

Personality
Sunny has an excitable, bright, bubbly, empathetic, cheerful, good-natured, kind-hearted, and optimistic personality. In Escaping Peril, Peril described her as a "blaze of warm sunlight." Her ability to always seek the positive side in even the worst of situations led to her friends underestimating her while growing up under the mountain. Although it is sometimes inconvenient, Sunny often feels compassion for dragons with evil intentions and believes that beneath every seemingly bad dragon is always a backstory or a reason to be that way. Like Moonwatcher, she is a firm believer in the philosophy that everything happens for a reason, and this way of thinking is the main source of her perseverance and hope. She dislikes violence and tries to solve most problems peacefully when possible. Sunny is also quite empathetic and forgiving; even though Dune and Kestrel were not very kind to Sunny and her friends, she had cried for them after their deaths. Sunny is steadfast and strives to be helpful whenever she can, regardless of whom it is that needs aid. In Moon Rising, Moon described Sunny's mind to be hopeful and determined, as well as mentioned that her thoughts also matched her actions. She is usually the underdog, because of her size and cheerful disposition, but she proves that she is intelligent and fearless.

Sunny's personality has developed and changed throughout the series. During The Dragonet Prophecy, she was content with most things in her life (according to the other dragonets of destiny), and rarely complained or purposefully created conflict. Growing up, Sunny was frustrated at the other dragonets, besides Starflight and Clay. She believed that she truly did have good ideas, but ones that her friends would only approve of if they came from someone other than her.

In The Brightest Night, wanting to prove that she is more than what her friends think she is, she follows Fierceteeth, Preyhunter, and Strongwings, in an attempt to stop them from selling her and her friends' location to Burn. After meeting her mother Thorn, and later her father Stonemover, she resolves to be like her mother, Thorn, who fixed her problems by doing something about them, rather than like Stonemover, who gave up on a happy life years ago. She returns to the rainforest and her friends with a plan to bring Blaze, Blister, and Princess Burn together to end the war. Sunny then realizes that her friends did truly do believe in her after they all work together and successfully end the war. Although still kind, hopeful, and compassionate, Sunny has become more firm, confident, and direct like her mother.

Addax
Sunny was not fond of Addax due to him taking her as a gift to Burn. However, she was not vengeful towards him, telling Thorn that revenge wasn't worth it and that he had his reasons.

Clay
Sunny cares deeply about Clay, confiding in him often, and relying on him to help fix problems she can't solve on her own. Being the smallest of the group, Sunny sometimes climbs up Clay's back to get a better view of things. Starflight believes that Sunny trusts Clay the most out of their friends. When no one else listens to her ideas, she will ask Clay to broadcast them because he cares, and everyone else will listen to him. At the end of The Brightest Night, Sunny said that she didn't think anyone deserved Clay, referring to him as the kindest dragon in Pyrrhia.

Dune
Sunny seemed to like Dune the best out of the guardians and called on him for help in times of need. She was devastated when Scarlet killed Dune.

Fatespeaker
Toward the end of The Dark Secret, when Starflight and Fatespeaker brought Flame to the rainforest, Sunny approached the NightWing and told her she liked the bracelet-like pattern of silver scales on her foreleg. Fatespeaker responded by saying she liked the way Sunny looked, and that all the SandWings she'd met before were 'sort of pale and dusty-looking.' They became good friends the first time they met. As quoted from Glory; "As strangely adorable as you two are, I need you to either go away and discover your twin souls somewhere else, or focus on battle planning with me." Sunny assumed she felt jealous of Fatespeaker when she had told Sunny she was taking care of Starflight, thinking that it felt like "she wanted Fatespeaker to shush and go away." Sunny tells Starflight that she doesn't love Starflight the way Fatespeaker does, and says it's alright if he also loves her too. She encourages him to pursue Fatespeaker, calling her hilarious.

Glory
Like Tsunami, Glory mostly thinks of Sunny as a naïve younger sister. However, Glory was very concerned about Sunny when she left the Rainforest Kingdom and seemed very determined to have her back. She also showed affection to Sunny (which Sunny states is very rare) when she got back from being kidnapped. Stated in The Hidden Kingdom, Glory wanted to hide her instead of Webs, this may be due to the fact she despises Webs and wants to protect Sunny.

Moonwatcher
When Moonwatcher was on top of Jade Mountain with Sunny, Moon told her about her prophecy and mind reading powers. Sunny was kind and grateful for Moon telling her about her powers. Sunny was the first of the dragonets of destiny to know about this.

Peril
When Sunny realized it was Peril headed towards the SandWing stronghold, her heart sank when she wondered how Peril would react to the news about Kestrel's death. Sunny felt bad when Peril explained that Ruby had kicked Peril out of the Sky Kingdom and attempted to sympathize with her, though Peril told her not to feel sorry. Sunny tried to break the news to Peril about Kestrel's death as gently as she could to Peril, and comforted Peril over her mother's death. Sunny seems to trust Peril to help her in bad situations, as she asked her to stop the Outclaws from fighting. Sunny is the second dragon to tell Peril that she is not a monster, and that she should not let Scarlet make her hate herself. Sunny offered to let Peril come with her instead of freeing Scarlet, though the firescales SkyWing declined.

Preyhunter
Though Preyhunter aided in Sunny's kidnapping, she was considerate and kind towards him. Sunny comforted him using the warmth of her scales when she noticed he was having a nightmare. Though Sunny felt sympathy for Preyhunter, she still stole the Obsidian Mirror from him.

Qibli
When Qibli first met Sunny in The Brightest Night he acted very coldly towards her, as not only seeing her as a possible threat to Thorn but also a threat to the love he gets from Thorn. Eventually he got to know her better and became kinder to her, and they established a good friendship.

Silver
Silver is Glory's pet and seems to enjoy spending time with Sunny, likely because of her warm scales and personality.

Six-Claws
Six-Claws was one of the Outclaws that was assigned to protect Sunny. He was the most kind of the Outclaws to her and he seemed to not see her as a threat. When his daughter, Ostrich, was in danger of being killed by Addax and his group, Sunny accepted the offer of being taken, which showed she would accept dying for his family.

Smolder
Smolder was respectful and kind to Sunny as she was presented as a gift for his sister. Smolder was kind to her and cared about her, having taken her on midday walks when he noticed how miserable she was. He also chose to let her live. And in The Brightest Night Sunny thought Smolder to be "maybe even as smart as Blister."

Starflight
Sunny is the only dragonet who doesn't mind Starflight's lectures, whereas the others are almost always annoyed by them. In The Dark Secret, Starflight confessed his love for Sunny, but Sunny was more surprised and unsure of the way she loved him. In The Brightest Night, Sunny thought more about Starflight's feelings towards her and dealt with confusion as to her feelings towards him. She did tell Starflight she did not know if she loved him or not and that her feelings were a mess. Sunny was not sure what her feelings were, describing them as, "I don't know what to do and somebody loves me and don't hurt him and really, right now? and imagine how happy you could make him and why me? really, me? and but it's Starflight." She had never thought of him in the same way he had not once. When Fatespeaker had told Sunny that she had been taking care of Starflight, she felt a "flash of something odd." Sunny had thought it was jealousy, and that would mean that she loves him back. She thought it would be nice if she could love him back, as it would make him happy and she did care about him. Sunny ultimately decides that she loves Starflight as a brother, which he reluctantly accepts. She encourages him to pursue a relationship with Fatespeaker if he loves her back.

Stonemover
Stonemover, Sunny's father, lives under Jade Mountain and is an animus dragon. When Thorn first told Sunny her father was a NightWing, she was disappointed and horrified because the other NightWings were malicious and cruel. She finds his pessimistic attitude annoying and thinks he sighs too much. But Sunny still deeply cares for her father as shown in Talons of Power when Flame attempts to murder Stonemover for lying about how he couldn't fix Flame's scar on his snout, and Sunny is shown sobbing.

Thorn
Sunny seemed very attached to her mother, Thorn, when they met. Thorn also thinks a lot of Sunny and tries to protect her from being injured. Thorn also saves her when she was kept captive in Burn's stronghold. Sunny thought she would be a worthy queen shown when she gave her the Eye of Onyx. Sunny thinks she is the only dragonet of destiny lucky enough to know both of her parents. She keeps drawings of Thorn pinned up in her office/bedroom in Jade Mountain Academy.

Tsunami
Sunny is often annoyed that Tsunami thinks of her as just as a silly, naïve younger sister. However, she knows that Tsunami cares about her, and looks up to her as a sister figure. Tsunami says that Sunny is like a little sister to the dragonets. In The Brightest Night, Sunny was angry with Tsunami because she thought the SeaWing didn't care that she was gone, believing her friend thought she was pouting and that she would come running in a few minutes. However, Tsunami showed lots of affection when Sunny came back. Tsunami said she would go through a whole army of SkyWings for her and the dragonets, showing that she cares for every one of them, including Sunny.

Trivia

 * Both Sunny and Darkstalker dislike sleeping; they both feel as though they are missing something when they sleep.
 * Sunny has a fear of statues due to the encounter with Orca's statue.
 * Sunny was named after Sunshine, Tui's dog.
 * Out of all the Wings of Fire characters, Tui considers Sunny to be the most like herself.
 * Sunny held the Eye of Onyx for a short time in The Brightest Night, meaning that she is a worthy candidate for the SandWing throne.
 * In an interview, Tui confirmed that there is a dragon she has previously introduced who would be perfect for Sunny; however, she said it was a matter of getting them both in the same place. Tui did not confirm who this dragon was.
 * When Sunny was still an egg, Thorn called her Beetle, and still did in her mind before meeting her.

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