Sunny Smith

Sunny Smith is a character played by BryceWithAWhy.
==General Information==
Sunny is an emo girl and mobile mechanic. She lives in an RV, describes herself as "emo", holds Marxist and anarcho-syndicalist beliefs, often believes that any missing friends or family are dead unless proven otherwise, frequently threatens murder (although never follows through), and commits arson as a way to "feel normal human emotions."
Though she describes herself as emo and listens to emo music, she also enjoys listening to post punk, goth, nu metal, and house music. Her favorite bands are Deftones, Joy Division, and Korn.
The closest thing Sunny has to religious beliefs is her belief in the "Void", the primordial chaotic darkness that lies beyond current human understanding. She often stares into the inky darkness, perceiving and embracing the chaos, and knowing that she will never master understanding what cannot be understood by a human mind.
Sunny frequently experiences night terrors, and says she has a sleep paralysis demon named Spencer, who only talks about the Cleveland Browns.
In her waking life, Sunny is very athletic. She does several pushups every morning, runs very quickly, participates in the Sandy Shores fight nights, and used to frequently swim across the Alamo Sea. She claims that she once tried joining her high school's diving team, but was rejected for being "too emo."
She does not experience sexual or romantic attraction, and identifies as aromantic asexual, or "aroace." However, she has told her friends that she's fine with dating and wouldn't mind being in a platonic relationship.
==Physical Description==
Sunny is an emo girl with green hair, who typically wears sunglasses and dark clothing. She claims that her hair is naturally green because of chlorophyll, and that it blooms in the springtime. When it "blooms," it turns pink.
She has two tattoos: a Pac-Man ghost on her lower torso that she got on her eighteenth birthday, and a kraken on her right arm that she got on her twenty-first birthday in honor of her former MC. She also has markings on her back caused by a fish scale skin graft to help heal burns sustained during an explosion, and proudly bears her scales to this day.
==Background Information ==
Sunny was born in Cincinnati. Her alcoholic parents died in a car fire when she was about 11 years old, leaving her with her brother Smitty Smith, and the two Smith siblings swore to look after each other from that point forward. However, because of the heavy trauma, Sunny has little to no memory of this time in her life, and says she doesn't remember whole chunks of her childhood. She also says she doesn't remember the sounds of her parents' voices, but she remembers that her mother was pretty.
Sunny apparently attended a Cincinnati Reds baseball game in her childhood after being gifted a free ticket, but remembers next to nothing about it because of the gaps in her memory.
During her time in high school, Sunny was bullied daily by a popular girl named Caroline. One day, Sunny pulled Caroline aside and asked if they could talk privately, and Caroline agreed to meet with Sunny in the girl's restroom in between classes. Sunny walked in and Caroline's friends jumped Sunny, severely beat her up, dunked her head in the toilet, and wrote "FREAK" on Sunny's forehead with Sunny's lipstick.
That night, Sunny stared into the Void for the first time, letting her perception of chaos envelop her mind. The next day, she followed Caroline from a distance, waited until Caroline was alone, and broke her jaw. As Caroline was the prom queen, student council president, and daughter of a member of the school board, Sunny was severely punished. However, because of the incomprehensible darkness that Sunny thought she'd perceived from the Void, Sunny finds most ambient light too bright and prefers to wear sunglasses everywhere.
After graduating high school, Sunny drifted from city to city, following her brother around the world. In one city, she met and married Dean DeLuca after a series of "Yes" dice rolls. She also met Erin Stormbringer, who took her under her wing and eventually patched her in as a member of Kraken's Inferno Motorcycle Club, providing Sunny with her first real sense of structure.
During her marriage and MC hangaround stage, Sunny came to terms with her lifelong lack of sexual and romantic attraction, and came out as aroace.
Not long after Sunny found out about Dean's other wife, KIMC was eventually chased out of their former city after the police raided their compound. Sunny spent two weeks hiding in a cabin in the Yukon before regrouping and resettling with the rest of KIMC in Los Santos. However, Sunny was disturbed by Erin's increasingly erratic behavior (which later turned out to be because of Scott Sabitini manipulating her); after Erin disappeared, Sunny called a vote with the remaining members of KIMC to remove Erin as president and disband the MC.
Because of her life falling apart within the span of a couple of months, and because of her existing abandonment issues, Sunny still has trouble letting go of her attachments to the past while trying to find her way forward.
==Relationships==
=== Smitty Smith===
Sunny's older brother Smitty Smith was the only constant in her life following their parents' deaths. When Sunny was around 15 years old, her brother dropped out of school and left to pursue a gang life, leaving Sunny to fend for herself. Sunny later told a therapist that she felt hurt by his decision at the time, but also hadn't been angry about it.
Lacking any direction following her high school graduation, Sunny followed Smitty across the United States. She briefly lost touch with him while originally getting involved with the Kraken's Inferno MC; they later reconnected in Los Santos, and hung out often after KIMC dissolved, including after Smitty joined Disciples of Ares MC.
After sustaining a head injury, Smitty lured out Sunny and stabbed her. After another violent incident, Sunny had a conversation with Smitty that revealed that his head injury had turned him into a sociopath.
A couple of weeks after Sunny began therapy and medication for her PTSD over these incidents, Smitty texted Sunny and said that he'd had his brain scanned at the hospital, and was found to have frontal lobe damage. Smitty later contacted Sunny again, said he'd been in another accident, spent time in jail thinking about what he'd done to her, and apologized for it. The two eventually had a face-to-face conversation behind the Vanilla Unicorn, where Smitty had Sunny check his pockets to see that he had no weapons, and where Sunny requested that Smitty see a doctor to have his head examined.
Since Smitty's recovery, the two Smith siblings have reconciled. Sunny refused to associate with the late Jackson Archer due to Archer abandoning Smitty and the rest of DoAMC for another MC, which led Smitty and the other remaining members to briefly reorganize themselves as Hades. After Hades fell apart, Smitty spends his time coming and going from Los Santos, although he once briefly floated the idea of forming a new group with Sunny.
===Dean DeLuca===
Sunny originally met Dean DeLuca a faraway city, when Dean went by the alias "Dean DeChance" and pretended to be eleven years older. They were married for four months after a series of "Yes" dice rolls, and Sunny was briefly one of Dean's "dice-ciples" before meeting Erin. As Sunny was slowly coming to terms with being aroace at the time, she and Dean never consummated their marriage, and were more like best friends than romantic partners.
Sunny and Dean were married for four months before Sunny learned about Lulu DeLuca, Dean's real wife. Because of Dean's dishonesty, Sunny didn't take the news well, and non-fatally unloaded several rounds from a submachine gun into Dean's torso.
After resettling in Los Santos, Sunny, upon hearing about how Dean had made amends with Lulu and was sending money to his son in Portland, eventually warmed up to hanging out with Dean again, figuring that his support for his son is important given how her parents weren't involved in her own life. Since then, the two have long since apologized to each other -- Dean for hurting Sunny's feelings by betraying her trust, and Sunny for shooting Dean -- and she has admitted that she still cares for him deeply and wants to watch out for him.
===Erin Stormbringer===
"She is the Storm Bringer." 
Sunny looks up to Erin Stormbringer, a goth woman who had taken Sunny under her wing with Kraken's Inferno Motorcycle Club. Sunny regards Erin as an older sister and confidant, and thinks that Erin's burn scars make her beautiful. When Sunny decided to come out as aroace, Erin was the first person she told. 
Shortly after relocating to Los Santos, Erin's behavior became increasingly erratic in ways that Sunny felt would hurt the MC and its members while they recouped their losses after their raid. Sunny and other MC members raised these concerns to Erin privately, but their concerns went unheeded. Erin's poor decision making later turned out to be due to the manipulations of Scott Sabitini working with his own ulterior motives.
A few days after Erin mysteriously disappeared from Los Santos, and not long after Sunny was stabbed by Jim Collins in retribution for Erin's potential hangaround Davi Jones leaving unauthorized KIMC tags in Emerald MC territory, a despondent Sunny called a vote to remove Erin as MC president and disband KIMC, an act she still feels incredibly guilty about.
Sunny much later concluded that Erin didn't go crazy, but was likely letting grief over KIMC's losses cloud her mind. Sunny assumed that Erin's grief had overwhelmed her to the point of abandoning the Krakens and Los Santos, and didn't look further into her disappearance. A few months after Erin disappeared, while stressing about Smitty having stabbed her, Sunny told Dean that she quietly wished Erin would return, forgive her, and take her away to "...someplace else...Arizona, Montana, anywhere" to get away from Smitty.
It later turned out that Erin's absence was because Scott had kidnapped her and kept her locked away in a torture dungeon in the South Side. Scott turned out to be the former chaplain of the Aberdeen Angels, Erin's former MC, and infiltrated the Krakens in order to destroy it from within to make Erin suffer for the Angels' perceived sins. After Sunny started having nightmares about Erin, and had a tarot reading warning about Erin meeting chaos, Sunny eventually reached out to Scott.
Upon finding out that Scott had never left Los Santos and never tried to contact them, the former Krakens began to suspect that he had information about Erin's disappearance. They eventually tracked Scott down and followed him to the industrial park near the South Side, where they rescued a horrifically injured Erin.
The next day, while on their way to confront and execute Scott, Sunny revealed news of the vote to Erin. However, Erin immediately forgave and consoled Sunny when Sunny offered to receive punishment for going against the club by calling the vote. Since then, Sunny has done what she can to help Erin heal, and seeks her advice on how to handle things.
Sunny frequently calls Erin "the Storm Bringer" as an honorific, says that she derives strength from Erin's lessons, and refers to Erin reverently. She does, however, have issues with Erin's addiction to dumpster diving.
===JoAnna Ganso===
Sunny made friends with JoAnna Ganso after the two met at PDM. The two frequently hung out, with Sunny regarding JoJo as a "land mermaid." JoJo (along with Smitty) recommended Sunny for membership in Disciples of Ares MC, although JoJo requested that Sunny not to tell anyone that JoJo was the MC's vice-president.
However, Sunny distrusted JoJo for a time after Smitty sustained temporary brain damage turning him into a psychopath. Since then, their friendship has been on the mend; Sunny gave JoJo some advice when JoJo's marriage to Dylan Rider fell apart and tries having conversations with JoJo to gauge her mental state.
After Oblivion fell apart, JoJo invited Sunny to join Hades; Nathan Soto would later invite Hades to merge with the new group he briefly planned on forming. Sunny would later try hooking up JoJo with Erin Stormbringer.
===Nathan Soto===
"He is the Wizard."
Sunny was friends with Nathan Soto in KIMC prior to arriving in Los Santos. Following KIMC's raid in their older city, Soto was believed to have been killed while battling a cartel that had murdered his wife. However, he had in fact sustained a head wound that gave him temporary amnesia, and was placed into temporary custody by the FIB.
Shortly after relocating to Los Santos, seeing a gas station triggered a memory of blowing up a gas station with Sunny, and he gradually recovered many of his previous memories. Shortly after, Soto was present alongside Sunny for the rescue of Erin Stormbringer and the execution of Scott Sabitini.
For a time, Soto planned to start a new motor club in Paleto, which he planned on merging with Sunny's brother's group. However, Soto eventually dropped this idea to hang around Devil Dogs MC, which upset Sunny for a few days.
Sunny likes to threaten Soto's life from time to time, and jokingly uses him as a scapegoat. She calls him "the Wizard" as an honorific, reasoning that he "returned from the dead" like Gandalf.
===Raaja Queen===
"He is the Rat King."
Raaja Queen and Sunny were friends in KIMC prior to arriving in Los Santos, and stayed friends even after KIMC's disbandment. The night that KIMC voted to disband, Raaja and Sunny admitted that they thought of each other as brother and sister.
Sunny adores Raaja, even though her emo lifestyle doesn't typically match pace with his joyful enthusiasm. She calls him "Queenie" as a nickname, and the two often ride together doing mechanic work or tow work.
After Raaja joined THE DOLL$, Sunny told him that she was proud of him. For a time, Sunny was concerned that Mira Whana's having rejected her for the gang meant that the two couldn't be as close anymore. However, after Mira treated Sunny kindly when Sunny was feeling sad, Sunny reevaluated these thoughts and spent an evening smoking weed with Raaja and catching up with him.
Sunny calls him the "Rat King" as an honorific.
===Riley Warner ===
"She is the Pirate Queen."
Riley Warner was friends with Sunny in KIMC prior to arriving in Los Santos, and the two stayed friends even after KIMC disbanded and Riley joined the DOC. Sunny and Riley often spend time driving around the city doing mechanic or tow work, avoiding crowds, and swimming in pools and ponds. 
Their relationship was briefly strained after Riley married Kai Fulci, who Sunny hates after he described Sunny as "drug addicted" and Riley's other friends as "sketchy," which he only did because Sunny had told him she would "murder" him if he ever hurt Riley. For a time, Sunny stopped making fun of Kai around Riley out of respect for her friend; later on, during Riley's contentious divorce from Kai, Sunny resumed making fun of him. 
Sunny frequently calls Riley "the Pirate Queen" as an honorific.
===Wade Williams===
"He is the Maverick."
Sunny was friends with Wade Williams in KIMC prior to coming to Los Santos. She enjoys making Wade uncomfortable by telling him not to die in his sleep, and by occasionally asking Wade if she is pretty (he believes that if he says no, then Sunny might get mad at him for calling her ugly, and if he says yes, then she will get mad at him for trying to hit on her).
After Sunny expressed her guilt over calling the vote to disband KIMC, followed by finding out her brother's reasons for stabbing her, Wade calmly told Sunny that none of her recent trauma was her fault and that she still has a family with her remaining comrades.
When Wade took over as leader of Oblivion, Sunny enthusiastically followed his lead, later saying that Wade's opinions on matters mean a lot to her. He confessed to Sunny that he didn't believe himself to be a good leader; Sunny countered that his bravery, loyalty, and wisdom gave her strength. Wade later joined Sunny in disbanding Oblivion, agreeing with her reasoning for doing so.
She calls him "the Maverick" as an honorific, saying that she got the name "from some old cowboy movie."
===Others===
Sunny originally got along with Nathan Soto's younger brother Alexander Soto after meeting him when he came to Los Santos to tell the MC about his brother's supposed death at the hands of a cartel. "Xander" was present during the KIMC dissolution vote, and left the city for a few months shortly afterward. Xander eventually cut ties with Sunny and her friends after it came to light that his brother was actually alive, when they learned that Xander potentially gave an FIB agent -- who may or may not have actually been a cartel member in disguise -- information that could lead to his brother's former KIMC companions being harmed.
Sunny is very fond of her friend Ivy Martin. Sunny enjoys Ivy's sense of humor, and wants to help out whenever Ivy has a panic attack. Their friendship was briefly affected after Sunny left Oblivion, but the two reconnected several weeks later as Ivy debated her own future.
Sunny absolutely hates Brooklyn Baker for holding Sunny's wallet and ID cards as evidence after Sunny was kidnapped by The Blocks and John Fleeca, assuming that Baker did so as petty revenge for Sunny's ex-husband Dean DeLuca accidentally poisoning Baker with a ham sandwich long ago (which he claims only happened because of Baker's supposed ham sandwich allergy). Because of this, Sunny calls Baker "Ham Sandwich." After Baker questioned Sunny about the Blocks threatening to mutilate her, Baker told Sunny that she could call her if she ever needed help, to which Sunny coldly responded that she would call "literally anyone else" instead of Baker.
Sunny has an acrimonious history with James Gamble, who she knew from her old city, and who used to call her "5150" as a way of casually calling her crazy. Sunny nearly had a panic attack when Gamble approached her at Cluckin' Bell, assuming that the recently transferred officer had tracked her down while KIMC was on the run, and got upset when he brought up his old nickname for her. Sunny was further annoyed when she heard that Gamble said that he and Sunny had buried the hatchet, when he'd never actually apologized for making fun of her.
Sunny bonded with Zedrick Bay, another emo, after first meeting him in the parking lot at Up-n-Atom one night. The two found that they have a lot in common, in that they're both emos from Ohio who have green hair, write poetry, and who left home and found new families that accepted them for who they are. Since Sunny is aroace and Zed is uninterested in romance, the two decided not to formally date and instead just hang out as friends.
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