Sunny


 * "That's not true. You can be whatever you want to be. I mean, I could say, 'well, I have no barb on my tail, I guess I'm just harmless and useless and should sit in the corner covering my head whenever there's a fight.' But I don't want to be useless and I'm going to do that, not if dragons will die."
 * —Sunny to Peril, The Brightest Night

Sunny is an adult female SandWing-NightWing hybrid and the main protagonist of The Brightest Night. She is one of the 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 Edit
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 mostly has the build of a SandWing and scales that radiate warmth.However, her tail lacks the venomous barb of typical SandWings and curls to an ordinary point 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 also is the smallest. Her eyes are the same shape as Whiteout's, although Sunny's are greener, according to Darkstalker.

Personality Edit
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 bright 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. 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, 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. She 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.

Starflight Edit
Sunny is one of the only dragonets 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. She occasionally had jolts of jealousy whenever Fatespeaker was too close to him, this is likely because Sunny knows Starflight likes her and is perhaps a little bit overprotective of him. She has a caring and loving personality in a friendly way. However, at the end of The Brightest Night, Sunny ultimately decides that she loves Starflight as a brother, which he reluctantly accepts. She later encourages him to pursue a relationship with Fatespeaker, which he possibly does.

Fatespeaker Edit
Towards 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." Occasionally, Sunny feels a little jealous of Fatespeaker because of her affection towards Starflight, implying Sunny might have feelings towards him or is just a little overprotective or possessive of him due to Starflight having a crush on her. Sunny gets the vibe that Fatespeaker wants Starflight for herself as more than just a friend. At the end of The Brightest Night, Sunny decides she loves Starflight as a brother and encourages him to pursue Fatespeaker.

Clay Edit
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.

Tsunami Edit
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. 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. Sunny and Tsunami are distantly related, due to them both having royal IceWing ancestors.

Glory Edit
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.

Smolder Edit
Smolder was respectful 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."

Thorn Edit
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.

Stonemover Edit
Stonemover, Sunny's father, lives under Jade Mountain and is an animus dragon. Sunny possibly might be upset about having him as a father due to her difference from a normal SandWing, though this hasn't been mentioned. 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 can't fix Flame's scar on his snout) and Sunny is shown sobbing.

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

Peril Edit
When Sunny met her, she comforted Peril because Peril's mother died. When the Outclaws were fighting, she begged Peril to stop them. When Sunny said there was a problem at Jade Mountain, Peril forces the dragons to answer Sunny or she'll burn their eyes out. Peril still doesn't understand why Sunny always smiles when the world is terrible.

Qibli Edit
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. But as of right now it is safe to say they are on good terms.

Quotes Edit

 * "Um, right. Here I go, la la la, Queen Oasis of the SandWings. I'm so very important and, uh - royal - and stuff. I've been queen for ages and ages. No one dares challenge me for my throne! I am the strongest SandWing queen who ever lived! […] It's probably because of all my treasure! I have so much treasure because I'm such an important queen!"
 * ― acting as Queen Oasis (The Dragonet Prophecy, page 18-19)


 * "Tsunami wants to believe Morrowseer. She's never wanted to fulfill the prophecy. She doesn't understand how important it is. Clay would be just as happy if nobody ever noticed how wonderful he is. Then he could sleep and eat and take care of us instead of fighting. Starflight would love to stop worrying about the prophecy. And Glory has enough to do here, now that she's queen. None of them will fight for our destiny. They certainly won't listen to me if I try to explain that Morrowseer must have been lying. They'll give me that look I always get, the one that says: 'Oh, silly little Sunny and her crazy dreams, isn't she cute and harmless."
 * ― thinking about the prophecy (The Brightest Night, page 3-4)


 * "As if acting happy means I don't really care about anything. As if I just need to be distracted and I'll forget about the whole point of our existence and all the dragons who are counting on us. As if my brain were the size of a blueberry, three MOONS."
 * ― thinking about how her friends saw her (The Brightest Night, page 19)


 * "Clay's heart, Tsunami's courage, Glory's determination, Starflight's loyalty. I think the wings of fire are inside all of us, inside every dragon."
 * ― thinking about the meaning of "wings of fire" in the prophecy (The Brightest Night, page 284)


 * "QIBLI! A gigantic all-powerful possibly evil dragon just rose out of the ground and flew away with six of my students. SIX OF MY STUDENTS."
 * ― to Qibli, after Darkstalker's spell wears off (Darkness of Dragons, page 59)


 * "That's not true. You can be whatever you want to be. I mean, I could say, well, I have no barb on my tail, I guess I'm just harmless and useless and should sit in the corner covering my head whenever there's a fight.But I don't want to be useless and I'm not going to do that, not if dragons I care about are in danger. Um, speaking of which … I could really use your help right now."
 * ― to Peril (The Brightest Night, page 135)


 * "This is a suicide mission. Suicide or genocide, those are your two outcomes. Clay, we can't let this happen."
 * ― to Clay about the MudWings' planned attack on the IceWings (The Brightest Night, page 242)


 * "It's not optimism, it's faith. There's a reason we're here. What we do today is part of it, but there's more, too, and we have to survive to make it all happen."
 * ― to Starflight before they rescue the RainWings from the NightWings (The Dark Secret, page 239)


 * "This is your fate - to accept your new queen."
 * ― to Blister about choosing Thorn as the new SandWing queen (The Brightest Night, page 296)


 * "Don't let her make you hate yourself. I can't promise you anything about Clay, but I think - I mean, if I know him at all, I can tell you the way to his heart is by helping his friends."
 * ― to Peril (The Brightest Night, page 147)


 * "Glory! You have a cute furry thing! Can I hold it, please, please?"
 * ― to Glory about Silver, Glory's sloth (The Hidden Kingdom)


 * "Even Sunny? I'm brave! I’m brave all the time!"
 * ― To Glory, about being brave (The Hidden Kingdom, page 49)

TriviaEdit

 * Both Sunny and Darkstalker dislike sleeping; they both feel as though they are missing something when they sleep.
 * Sunny is the only Prophecy Dragonet with no siblings.
 * Sunny was named after Sunshine, Tui's dog.
 * Sunny is one of three known hybrids alive during the current arc's timeline, and one of eleven named hybrids in total. She is also one of the only two hybrid PoV's, the other being Darkstalker.
 * 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.
 * Out of all the Wings of Fire characters, Tui considers Sunny to be the most like herself.
 * 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. However, Tui did not confirm who this dragon was.
 * In the graphic novel adaptation, she has the head of a SandWing, but on the cover of The Brightest Night, she is portrayed with the head of a NightWing.
 * Sunny is technically related to Winter through her complicated family tree.
 * When Sunny was still an egg, Thorn called her Beetle and still did in her mind before meeting her.

Gallery Edit
Reference by Platypus the SeaWing

Sunny on the cover of The Brightest Night, by Joy Ang

Sunny on the full cover of The Brightest Night, by Joy Ang

Sunny from The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

Sunny fullbody render, edited by WoF Kinka

Sunny on the German cover of The Brightest Night, by Max Meinzold Add a photo to this gallery

References Edit

 * 1) ↑ The Brightest Night, page Summary
 * 2) ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 The Dragonet Prophecy, page 13
 * 3) ↑ Dragonslayer, page 367
 * 4) ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Dark Secret, page 105
 * 5) ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Hidden Kingdom, page 231
 * 6) ↑ Dragonslayer, page 414
 * 7) ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Dragonet Prophecy, page 41
 * 8) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 169
 * 9) ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, page 12
 * 10) ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, page 39
 * 11) ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, page 49
 * 12) ↑ Moon Rising, page 49
 * 13) ↑ Talons of Power, page 38
 * 14) ↑ Wings of Fire finds the dragon in all of us.