Wonder of the World

her, but a furry

## Personality

Wonder is clumsy, dopey, and dumb.  She trips over herself and falls to the ground at least once a day, and almost falls over multiple times a day.  She also tends to knock into whatever's in her path, and she loses her balance often — meaning that she'll sometimes just fall over for no apparent reason.  She's often covered in bruises or scrapes, but she also has a thick skin and tends to just brush herself off before she continues on — usually to go trip again, or something of the like.  She has trouble understanding the simplest of things, especially when people try to explain it to her in a complicated manner.  If someone isn't explaining it like she's a newborn, then she's not going to understand it — and even then, they may have to try a few different ways to explain it before she actually does understand.  Combined with that, Wonder is a very dense person.  Hints and clues aren't something she takes to, and they wash right off of her like water off a duck.  A person must be blunt with her, otherwise she won't get it.  Not using words doesn't work too well with her, either; she can understand a simple point or gesture towards something or some other signal that has already been explained to her, but otherwise she's not likely to catch on.  Body language is something that completely flies over her head, and if someone is uncomfortable then she's not going to notice unless they tell her.  She's gullible and naïve — if a person tells her something, then she's going to believe it, even if she doesn't know them.  After all, why would they lie to her? That's *mean*.

She's completely ignorant to the ways of the rest of the world, and she'd be the type of person to put her trust into some random guy she just met on that one shady street corner.  Anyone that approaches her she expects to be her friend — in fact, she's probably already calling them her friend, even if they don't like her.  Societal rules that most people are already aware of are something that also go over her head, and she has little to no concept of personal space or things that maybe shouldn't be shared with others; she'd blurt out plenty of personal things to people that she barely knows, just because she doesn't know better.  She has a terrible memory — not to the point where she'll forget something that was just told to her a moment ago, but she will forget entire people if she doesn't talk to them often enough or even various experiences she's had.  She's the kind of person that would *actually* forget about what she had for breakfast, not have to think about it for a while and remember after putting some effort in.  She's even forgotten about people that have died before, as long as they weren't too important to her (before she lost her memories, at least).  She also has trouble remembering names, and it can take her months until she finally gets someone's name right on the first try.

Wonder is absurdly cheerful, as she constantly has a smile on her face and never lets anything get her down.  Even things like death or a fire or a famine or a drought wouldn't put a damper on her.  She has quite a bit of compassion and sympathy, and she'll often find herself fawning over anyone that she thinks needs her help for whatever reason.  If she thinks that someone needs company, then she's the first one there to spend time with them, and she often spends a lot of her time playing with kids that she comes across.  Spending her time with kids is one of her favorite things to do, as they always seem happy to have a new playmate.  She can also act like nothing more than an excitable child at times, so it's unsurprising that she enjoys their company.  She probably wouldn't make a good mother, though — she doesn't really have enough smarts to make for a motherly figure.  That doesn't mean that she wouldn't want to try, however, and she would probably require a lot of extra help from the people around her, and an experienced mother might need to step in from time to time.

## History

Wonder did not always have the name she does now.  She was born with the name Sunshine at Night, and she had four siblings: Owl in the Morning, Page of a Book, Odd Snowflake, and Fish in the River, and raised to be a follower of Isis, as the rest of her family was.  Even if she didn’t completely understand the whole religion thing.  While she, and the rest of her family, hails from the Than’Laysian Empire, she spent almost all her life traveling with her family.  Her parents made their living as traveling merchants, and so Sunshine saw plenty of things and places and people as she grew up.  No matter where she went, Sunshine made plenty of friends and got along with essentially everyone she met: most notably was a tiefling named Yuhala, a half-elf named Chiem and their full-elf half-brother named Vulred, an aarakocra named Krirr, and plenty of other tabaxis.  For a while, some of these people even traveled with her and her family; she made friends with a lot of aspiring adventures who wanted to start off their travels by wandering with a friend, but would eventually split off on their own.

It was intended that her and her siblings would take on the burden of the business once they were older, and while Sunshine was more than friendly enough for the task, the rest of her family worried about how fucking dumb she was.  Sunshine never had very much interest in running the business, though: she didn’t see anything *wrong* with it, but she wasn’t exactly eager to do it, either.  When there was a flood in a town her family was passing through, Sunshine found her true calling.  Adventuring! Helping people! Saving the day!

Her family was, obviously… concerned with this sudden future career change.  But she was dedicated to it, and they didn’t want to hold her back either, so she left her family with plenty of supplies from them and at least a pound of good luck charms.  She traveled on her own for two whole years, not even dying in the process – though she did get a bit close, at times.  Even when that happened, though, she got help from the people around her and even managed to make a few friends along the way: a fire genasi named Singe, a kenku named Click, and a halfling named Anrana, most notably.

Then Experiment Shenanigans happened, and she forgot all of that.