Sunny Kimura

**Sunao Kimura**, better known as **Sunny Kimura**, is an inmate serving his sentence aboard the Scylla 06942 as a weapons technician and a sharpshooter. Originally a seemingly privileged citizen of the Inner Core, his early childhood and adolescence have dramatically impacted his life's trajectory and turned him into a deceptively dangerous person, hidden behind a pleasant and charming mask.

## Appearance

Sunny is a tall man with a slim but falsely muscular build, visually somewhat similar to a ballet dancer. He appears in his mid-twenties (due to time dilation) and is generally considered to be relatively attractive in a "pretty-boy" way. His unusually tall height (at least for an AFAB person who has never had HRT) is due to his adolescence spent almost wholly on low gravity light-speed spacecraft- in exchange however, his physical strength, muscular and bone density are comparatively weak. He maintains a near constant half-smile and his hands are notably very steady.

Sunny has tan skin, black hair and eyes, and chooses to wear his hair loose and slightly unkempt, hiding his eyes. He has a lip piercing and several piercings in both ears. Notably, he has several old scars over his mouth and nose, and some smaller ones on his hands and forearms. Sunny also has a large burn scar on his left side that begins under his jaw on his neck and continues downward to his upper thigh. Additionally, he has top scars on his chest. With the stringent exception of the top scars, he seems to have no issue with showing his scars off. Unlike many other long-term inmates and spacecraft crew, Sunny has no tattoos whatsoever due to his fear of needles.

While working, Sunny wears his basic battle armour, which in accordance with his numerical designation on the Scylla 06942, is painted a bright yellow. While on duty but not in active combat, he wears the typical all-black weapons uniform. While off duty he typically wears inexpensive baggy clothing in black or neutral shades or his prisoner gear, and work boots. He wears a compression sleeve on his left arm and can often be found chewing the end of a freshly blown out match.

His ingame avatar is of the yellow crewmate wearing the heart hat.

## Personality

### As Crewmate

From the outset, Sunny is outgoing, likeable and socially gifted. He very easily manoeuvres through conversations with others, even with total strangers, and doesn't take himself seriously. His mildly self deprecating manner of humour makes him extremely easy to get along with. He treats most around him with a nonchalantly playful attitude, including superior officers and wardens, oftentimes to his detriment. When meeting and spending extended periods of time with people he views as much younger than him, he adopts an almost older brotherly mentality and can become quite physically affectionate, slinging his arms around people's shoulders, poking their cheeks and using them as arm rests depending on height.

Upon arriving to a new mission with a new crew, Sunny often notes who he considers attractive and who seems likely to be attracted to him. He's extremely confident when he pursues someone, always with the assumption that they will be receptive to his advances- in his defense, they have almost always have been. He uses other people to pass the time and avoid thinking too deeply about things, and once the mission is over he will leave the partner/s that he's accrued over the duration of the mission with no expectation of any further association. He sometimes weaponizes this flirtatious attitude to antagonize and embarrass people who are attracted to him if he dislikes them.

Sunny consistently maintains an air of amused calm, despite whatever true emotions he may be feeling under the surface. His perpetual half-smirk has been described by prior crewmates as “smug” with varying degrees of exasperation or fondness. He's been noted to feign total ignorance or forgiveness that is later often violently revoked- Behind the laid-back personality he projects, Sunny is capable of seemingly sudden and unpredictable acts of violence. In truth, he's simply very skilled in hiding his true emotions towards someone, and when he decides he would rather not have to deal with them anymore, he removes them.

In reality, despite his apparently playful nature, Sunny is extremely closed off emotionally, silently harbouring a festering wound of guilt and instability that eats at his ability to form genuine positive bonds with people. He's cordial with everyone but close to no one, early experiences in his life haunting him almost constantly and staining his objective view of himself and others. This unwillingness to accept that things could, potentially, be better for him, that people could genuinely want to care for and maybe even protect him or love him defines his flightiness and his deliberate shallowness.

Sunny is defined by his fear of change, and his stubborn adherence to a cycle that cannot be sustained. He has no long term goals and expects to die young, achieving nothing and being remembered by no one. While supportive and optimistic for others, he retains a harshly pessimistic view of himself.

### As Imposter

Sunny's temperament is dramatically different in his Imposter Arc, although outwardly he seems to have roughly the same personality. His listless lack of drive present in his Crewmate Arc is replaced with a single-minded goal to survive, and put as much distance between himself and the Inner Core as possible, even if he has to murder countless innocent people to do it. His playful and open demeanour is merely a front to assess and make others let down their guards- he is cruelly analytical in all his social interactions, and an extremely opportunistic killer with very little remorse.

## Abilities and Powers

As an unaugmented human, Sunny possesses no particular ability not technically available to any other ordinary human. Additionally, due to his adolescence spent in low-gravity environments, his bone and muscle density are lower than that of a planet-raised human, limiting his physical strength and making him one of the weakest melee combatants aboard the Scylla. Despite this, he remains a proficient crewmate, and a serious potential threat.

**Expert Marksman:** Owing to his remarkably steady hands and quick observation skills, as well as over a decade of experience, Sunny is a talented sharpshooter. Considered a prodigy upon the discovery of his unprecedented skill with ranged weapons at the age of 12, he has above average to excellent proficiency in most long range weapons without needing any prior experience. He has since honed his repertoire to include most if not all types of human guns, and some of inhuman origin. This also extends to larger ballistic ordnance like the weapons systems of the Scylla 06942.

**Emotional Manipulation:** Sunny's high charisma and emotional intelligence aids him in a more controlled grasp on social situations, allowing him to pry information or support from others. Whether he chooses to use this gift for his own personal gain or to aid others depends on his route, but the fact remains that his ability to earn the trust of others is second to none. Whether he is aware of the range of his abilities is somewhat unclear (route dependent). He is a gifted liar, inscrutable to most, and has a well crafted persona that very few would be able to crack.

### Equipment

As an inmate, Sunny is not technically allowed to have any personal weaponry on his person unless given explicit orders by a superior officer, meaning either Rem, Dove or Griffin. Despite this, he's been known to have a knack for stealing small guns and keeping them concealed until he decides to use them.

**Spacecraft Weapons System:** Officially, this is Sunny's official post and the main reason for his assignment upon the research mission. The weapons system is mostly designed to destroy smaller objects in the ship's path, like meteoroids or stray space debris, however there are settings that can be enabled which turn them into something more suited for combat. Sunny is the main operator of this system, and due to the infrequency and unpredictability of when it will be needed, he either spends weeks away from the system with ample free time, or several days straight doing nothing but vaporising meteoroids.

**Handgun:** Sunny's preferred weapon is a simple handgun. He's not particularly sentimental about any one gun specifically, having used countless over the years, but this preference is mostly due to ease of access and concealment.

**Sniper rifle:** He likes the shape of them, and firing with unerring accuracy from especially far distances is one of his genuine points of pride.

## Trivia

* Sunny was originally created in February 2022 and his personality was drastically different
	+ He was taller than Niko, quite stupid and happy-go-lucky and had no backstory
	+ The only resemblance the original Sunny has to the current canon one is his name, ethnicity and the large burn on his left side
	+ It was only upon his redesign in late July 2022 (his creator was inspired to do so due to this render of Niko) that he became a character rather than a concept
* One of Sunny's initial inspirations was the actor Takuya Kimura as a young adult- Sunny's last name is a direct reference to this
* Other later references include Billy Loomis (Scream), Denji (Chainsaw Man), Kaeya Alberich (Genshin Impact), and John Silver (Black Sails)
* His name means 真 (Sunao) - “true”  木村 (Kimura) - “tree village”. Sunny was chosen as a nickname first and then Sunao was chosen after.
* His alignment is **Chaotic Neutral**
* His assigned Major Arcana card is **Death**
* Of the crew, his likeability rating is so far the highest
* His lack of tattoos stems from his creator's desire to dock him some sexy points before he became too powerful
* Sunny has relatively low alcohol tolerance and is a sad drunk
* He has a debilitating phobia of needles and more specifically things being inserted under his skin- due to this and also his general mistrust of doctors, Sunny has never been on testosterone and instead has self-trained his voice to register as a cis man's
* Sunny has very limited sensation on most of his torso and his left side due to extensive injuries, and a high pain tolerance
* He secretly enjoys cheesy romance holo novellas, despite his pessimism towards the concept of love in general
* His playlist (Meant to be played on shuffle, with Family Line as first and Sunny Day as last)