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

Template:Charbox Sunny is a young female SandWing-NightWing hybrid, with distant IceWing blood. She is the main protagonist of The Brightest Night, one of the five dragonets of destiny, and one of the founders of Jade Mountain Academy, which is both her home and her workplace.

Despite the dragonet prophecy being fake, Sunny was successful in bringing the War of SandWing Succession to an end in The Brightest Night.

Biography

Pre-Series

Pre-Series

A SandWing named Dune, a former Outclaw, stole Sunny's egg from Thorn (who was not yet queen) after she had buried Sunny's egg in the sand near the Scorpion Den. Thorn took this as a sign of betrayal and had been searching for him for many years, hoping to capture and kill him. Thorn even put up "wanted" signs for him during the years. However, it appears that the two SandWings were once close friends, as Thorn mentioned discussing names for her egg with him. It seems that she liked the name "Sunny" since that is what Dune named her. This could mean that Dune still respected, cared about, or was even loyal to Thorn, despite taking her egg to fulfill the dragonet prophecy. Although, in The Brightest Night, it is revealed that Thorn had nicknamed Sunny "Beetle" while she was in her egg, and had been continuing to call her that while searching for her.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising

In Moon Rising, she seemed to be the same Sunny we knew in the first arc, with the addition of feeling really terrible after the fire that killed Bigtail and Carnelian at Jade Mountain Academy. She was also the first of the dragonets of destiny to find out about Moon's powers. She is shown to have some doubts about being a teacher wondering if "anyone would take me seriously as the boss of anything."

Winter Turning
Sunny does not directly appear in Winter Turning, but she is mentioned to be dreamvisiting dragons.

Escaping Peril

Sunny was part of the group that welcomed Queen Ruby when she arrived to collect Carnelian's body. She defended Peril against accusations that she had, in fact, killed the young SkyWing, not the fire. After Scarlet hurled "Glory's" decapitated head at the group, Clay had to carry Sunny down from their previous perch to a rock shelf. There, Sunny sobbed so hard she didn't notice Peril landing in front of her. When they discovered the decapitated head was fake, Sunny was overjoyed. Later that night, she dreamvisited Glory so that Kinkajou could be taken back to the Rainforest Kingdom from the town of Possibility.

Talons of Power

Sunny is heard having a conversation with Tsunami, which is overheard by Turtle. As Turtle listens to them, he doesn't notice them walking closer to him until the last second. When they see Turtle, they are surprised to see him back at Jade Mountain, stating that they were worried about Jade Winglet. Then Turtle warns Sunny and Tsunami that Darkstalker is coming. Sunny says something briefly about Darkstalker, talking about how Fierceteeth and Strongwings said something about Darkstalker when she was following them, trying to stop them from hurting her friends. Then she goes after Mightyclaws, so he doesn't tell the school about Darkstalker. Later, she comes out to the landing area with Clay to protect the NightWings that attacked Darkstalker. Darkstalker then points at her and says rainbows. Darkstalker also says that Sunny is related to him because her father, Stonemover, is animus and that he is also her "great-great-great-a lot of greats-great uncle". After some talk, Sunny goes back inside. The next day, she heads up the tunnel with a squirrel for Darkstalker. Moon tells her someone is trying to kill Stonemover and she flies to this cave with the others. She feels heartbroken at her father's near-death and starts sobbing. Then, she jumps on him to pin his talon when Darkstalker frees him from the stone. After Stonemover is re-fossilized, Sunny hugs him, not caring about the blood. She is astonished when they find out Flame was the attempted killer. She asks him why he did it, and why his reason would matter. She also says they have to tell Queen Ruby what he did and that they didn't have anywhere to lock him up for the time being. When all of the drama is over, she slips away into the tunnels. Later she is mentioned by Darkstalker to have been dreamvisiting Queen Glory about his reappearance, despite his asking her not to.

Darkness of Dragons

Sunny pulls Qibli from history class to help search for Ostrich and Onyx. Qibli thanks her for freeing him from history class, and she sternly tells him that history class with Webs is 'awesome'. After realizing Onyx and Ostrich may have been kidnapped, Sunny begins to question whether Blaze was right about the school being doomed to fail. Sunny later uses the dreamvisitor to try to find Onyx and Ostrich. After receiving an earring, she is horrified to realize that Darkstalker has flown off with six of her students. Sunny also hesitates about giving Qibli the weather bracelets. Sunny promises to dreamvisit with Glory about the earrings being sent to the Rainforest. Towards the end of the book, Sunny is shown arguing with the IceWings, saying they should try to find a peaceful solution.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Hive Queen
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Legends

Dragonslayer

Sunny is the gold dragon who was shown playing with the other dragonets of destiny in a cave, being looked in on by Wren and Sky. Wren noted that she had never seen a dragon that color before. She was shown to breathe a spurt of fire on occasion on the small hearth heating up the cave, which this saddens Sky, as he cannot breathe fire.  Once a large red dragon, likely Kestrel, entered the cave and roars at them, she abruptly stopped playing along with the other dragonets. Sunny is later seen by Leaf in a birdcage above the table in the feast hall of the SkyWings. He noted that she looked sad and desperate, and then quickly contradicted himself, thinking that dragons cannot feel an emotion other than hunger and anger. While hiding in the ruins of the old city, Ivy and Leaf saw Sunny exploring the area, which was also a scene in The Brightest Night. Later, Ivy accidentally used the dreamvisitor to visit Sunny in her dreams. Ivy was unaware that it was a dream, and upon seeing Sunny's dream version of Rose, Ivy realized that Rose was still alive. She tried to ask Sunny about it, but after realizing that Sunny cannot understand her and would probably realize the location of the burned city, she breaks the connection. This is a scene also shown in The Brightest Night, which leads Sunny to come back to the ruins a few days later. When she arrives, Sunny finds Ivy and Leaf and asks them for the treasure, which they give. Ivy tries to ask about news from Rose, but Sunny perceives this as Ivy wanting a ride. After riding on Sunny, Ivy watches as Sunny sorts through the treasure and realizes she is looking for something (this is the Eye of Onyx, but neither Ivy nor Leaf knows this). After Sunny gets mad, which from her perspective in The Brightest Night is because she could not find the Eye, she took the treasure and left the ruins. Ivy hopes Sunny will return it to the SandWings so they will no longer be angry at the humans. At the end of the book, Sky, Ivy, Leaf, and Wren mention that they plan to find Sunny. She was thought to be a whole different type of dragon than any others by Ivy because of her oddly colored scales.

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Winglets

Prisoners
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Relationships

Starflight

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 does.

Fatespeaker

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

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

Sunny is often annoyed that Tsunami thinks of her as just as a silly, naive 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

Like Tsunami, Glory mostly thinks of Sunny as a naive 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.

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.

Stonemover

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

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.

Quotes

"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"This is a suicide mission. Suicide or genocide, those are your two outcomes. Clay, we can't let this happen."

― to Clay about the planned attack on the IceWings

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"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

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"This is your fate - to accept your new queen."

― to Blister about choosing Thorn as the new SandWing queen

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"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

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"Glory! You have a cute furry thing! Can I hold it, please, please?"

― to Glory

Family Tree

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Stonemover

Thorn

Sunny

Trivia

• She is the only dragonet of destiny that does not have any biological 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.
• Sunny held the Eye of Onyx for a short time in The Brightest Night, meaning that she is a worthy candidate for SandWing queen.
• 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.
• Because Sunny's father is an animus, if she had eggs, they could be animus dragons. These dragonets would be the first Sandwing animus dragons hatched since Jerboa II.

Gallery

• Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
  Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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  Sunny on the US cover of The Brightest Night, by Joy Ang
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  Sunny on the full cover of The Brightest Night, by Joy Ang
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  by Mike Holmes

Graphic novels
Sunny on the cover of The Dragonet Prophecy, by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes by Mike Holmes