Sunny Madison

**Sunny Madison** is a 2020-introduced and all-around character. She is a student at Rainbow High majoring in Computer Animation. She's a cute and adorable fun-loving girl who combines her love for animation, her friends, and for everything cute into an animated series she calls *Hi Hi Kawaii*.

## Contents

* 1 Character
	+ 1.1 Physical Appearance
	+ 1.2 Outfits
	+ 1.3 Personality
* 2 Relationships
	+ 2.1 Friends
	+ 2.2 Other
* 3 Timeline
* 4 Trivia
* 5 References

## Character

### Physical Appearance

Sunny is a teenage girl with a medium build and warm-undertoned deep skin, though sometimes throughout the animated series, it ranges from darker to lighter. She has bright yellow hair styled into a combination of odango buns and twintails, which appears straight with straight cut ends in the animated series. Her greenish hazel eyes are framed by a blunt fringe, and she has four strands of hair on the front, two being short and the other two being long and curled. Her makeup typically consists of shimmery gold eyeshadow mixed with warm colors, sparkly highlight, and berry-colored lipstick. She's a fan of clothes that can be described as "quirky", but sets trends by mixing "unique fabrics and bold details."

### Outfits

Sunny's signature outfit consists of a sparkly, pastel yellow babydoll dress with gold glitter dots under a golden jersey-style jacket. The jacket has white sleeves decorated with the word "RAINBOW" across the arms and a detailed drawing of a sun and moon on the back. She also wears thigh-high athletic socks with a rainbow stripe across the top and golden sneakers with a high rainbow platforms and white laces.

Sunny's secondary outfit consists of a cropped golden bustier top and a pair of pastel yellow skinny jeans with distressed panels across the legs decorated with golden sequins on the inside. She also wears a cropped, yellow denim jacket with stylized writing covering the sleeves that spell out "Rainbow High". Her shoes are golden sandals with a clear strap and stars decorating the chunky high heel.

Sunny wears a golden sequined mini dress with a halter neckline under a cropped yellow puffer jacket when dressing more casually. She wears a beaded choker and a green bracelet on her right wrist. Her shoes are yellow, chunky heels with clear vinyl straps.

As a cheerleader, Sunny wears a cropped hoodie with yellow and white sections separated by a yellow-and-black chevron stripe across the midsection and the word "SPARKLE" written across her shoulders in bold, black lettering. She also wears a yellow, pleated half-skirt with black and white stripes decorating the hem over a matching yellow mini skirt with the letters "RH" in white on the left side. She has yellow knee-high tube socks and yellow-and-white athletic sneakers with a stiletto heel. Her hair is crimped and tied back into two twintails with golden ribbons, and her makeup is much more dramatic than usual, with golden, sparkling eyeshadow, white liner, and pink lipstick. She also dons face paint consisting of a yellow star with the letters "RH" inside of it on her right cheek and the number 19 in yellow on her left.

### Personality

Out of all of her friends, Sunny is by far the most cheerful and energetic. She's easily excitable and possesses a noteworthy love of all things cute or "kawaii," as she would put it. Though she can come off as high-strung and boisterous, Sunny simply has an expressive personality and a strong enthusiasm for the things she loves. She can be somewhat awkward in tense situations, but she's also highly sensitive to other people's emotions and will do what she can to alleviate the problem.

Sunny has also shown herself to be highly adaptable and friendly. She may be emotional, but she's quick to recover from a bad mood. She also manages to retain her sweet and pleasant demeanor regardless of her stress level, as seen when she was the first to welcome Amaya to Rainbow High, even though her introduction was immediately following Bella's expulsion and departure from the runway group. Throughout the day, she continued to stay by Amaya's side and attempted to steer her away from awkward encounters.

As a student of Rainbow High, Sunny is an extremely talented and creative animator and artist. Befitting her interest, the characters she creates are usually adorable and highly stylized. After enrolling in the school, she modeled the characters in her animation projects after her friends.

## Relationships

### Friends

Sunny's closest friend is Violet, as the two have been close since childhood. Though they initially had a small falling out after enrolling in the school thanks to Violet desire to branch out and meet new people, the two were quickly reminded of how much they cared for one another. Sunny is also close to her roommates, Poppy and Skyler. When she felt sad over feeling as if Violet was moving on from their friendship, the two quickly cheered her up.

She is good friends with the rest of her runway group as well- Ruby, Jade, and formerly Bella. She was quick to move on from Bella's departure but still expressed a deal of sadness at her leaving, implying the two were on good terms. Sunny was also the first to welcome Amaya, and overall was the friendliest towards her despite the awkward situation surrounding Bella's expulsion.

### Other

Sunny greatly admires The A's, possibly more than any other character. She has a particular fondness for Avery and her designs.

It can be inferred that she and Colin are not on good terms since he was caught attempting to cheat on Skyler with Ruby and she was very shocked knowing about it.

It is possible that Sunny is related to Ms. Wright, as she slips up and calls her 'mom' in *The Final Runway Show*.

## Timeline

* February 24th, 2020: Sunny's prototype doll is revealed during Toy Fair.
* June 28th, 2020: First official stock picture of Sunny is revealed.
* July 20th, 2020: Sunny makes her first 3D animated appearance in Series 1 introduction video.
* July 26th, 2020: Sunny's debut doll is released as part of Series 1.

## Trivia

* Along with all other Series 1 dolls, Sunny's doll was a Toy Book 2021 Doll of the Year Finalist.
* Target honored Sunny's doll as a Bullseye's Top Toys ages 5-7.
* Sunny's hair is likely a reference to the "Odango" hairstyle popularized by the main character of the anime *Sailor Moon*.
* Sunny enjoys anime and other elements of Japanese pop culture.
* Sunny and Violet's friendship began when they were babies, as their mothers were close to one another.
* Sunny loves escape rooms, so much so that her 10th, 11th, and 13th birthday parties were all in escape rooms.
* In the series, Sunny has an animated show known as *Hi Hi Kawaii*. The characters in her show make up the Fantasy Friends line of toys.
* Some of the real-world inspirations for Sunny's outfits include:
	+ The platform sneakers featured in her signature outfit are inspired by a pair of shoes featured in Gucci's 2017 Spring/Summer collection.
	+ The lettering on the denim jacket from her secondary outfit is a reference to a pattern featured in many clothing pieces by Dior, a French luxury goods company.

Text from Rainbow High Wikia.