Sunny Kimura/Lore

> **TW:** This page contains mentions of child abuse, transphobia, murder and violence
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## Early Life

████████ Kimura was born to a legal clerk (father) and a surveillance officer (mother) living in the mid level of Proxima Centauri b. Both of Kimura’s parents self-identified and were genetically aligned with people speaking the ancient dialect that evolved from Earth Japanese- despite this, the child that would grow to be Sunao Kimura grew up learning only Galactic Basic. He was an only child.

In comparison to the great majority of the galaxy, Sunny grew up materially privileged- as with all other citizens of Proxima Centauri b, he never had to worry about where his next meal was going to come from, in exchange for constant surveillance. Despite this, he experienced a difficult childhood. His parents constantly fought with each other, and when they weren't fighting with each other they were taking out their frustrations on him. They never hit him hard enough to manifest visible injuries or else risking both their comfortable positions in Proxima's middle class- however several minor complaints about noise and some requests into investigating their household were never followed up on, most likely due to Ms Kimura's position as a surveillance officer. Unlike the majority of other houses in the Inner Core, which were installed with various audio and video recorders, the Kimura household's surveillance equipment had all been adjusted or tampered with to preserve the lie that all was well within the house. One of Sunny's only positive memories in his childhood was an instance where after going to school with a sprained wrist, he was sent home and his mother wrapped it up for him with a reprimand to not bring injuries acquired at home into the public eye. Up until the day he was outed, he never fought back or ran from either of his parents. He feared and resented his father and both loved and was afraid of his mother, and both parents and their actions would deeply affect him well into adulthood.

Sunao was generally average in most classes in Beginner's School aside from taking a mandatory Public Speaking course and excelling in it. He was an outgoing and hyperactive child who was remembered fondly by other classmates and with some small degree of exasperation by teachers, due to his class clown antics and rebellious attitude. As well as general disruption in class, General Surveillance made a note of his somewhat unprecedented behavioural issues early on but no intervention was ever filed. Early incidents included repeated refusals to return home after school, seemingly random outbursts of intense rage or upset, and one instance of bruising another child’s wrist over what reportedly was a harmless remark made as a joke. These incidents would be viewed unfavourably during his later double homicide trial.

### Death of Parents

In the morning on the day of the incident, Sunao (at this time aged 12) left for school as usual. Mr and Ms Kimura (aged 42 and 43) received a communique from Education Surveillance informing them that their child had been crossdressing as well as asking other children as well as staff to refer to him as male.  Proxima Centauri b has a reputation for conservatism and rigid upholding of the norm and does not encourage such notions as “gender diversity”, and there is a general policy of immediately informing the parents of any deviance, to be handled within the family. Both parents did not show up to work that day, presumably to discuss their course of action to take with the presently unaware Sunny. A note was made of their absences, but due to their general reliability in the workplace, it was dismissed without much concern.

Sunao returned home. Upon reentering through the front door, he was immediately made to stand in the kitchen as both his parents demanded an explanation and shouted at him for his deviance, thereby drawing unwanted attention to the Kimuras. As usual, he stood there and took it all with a blank expression, unwilling and in a way unable to talk- this was how he'd coped his whole life up to this point, and usually it was enough to placate them both into either leaving him alone or getting onto the more physically painful part, which would end the overall cycle faster. In this instance, it wouldn't be enough for his father, who picked up a kitchen knife and brandished it at Sunny. This had never happened before, with the usual method of pain being dealt by bare hands. It frightened the boy enough into running away, prompting his father to chase him throughout the house, slashing at him with the knife as his mother stood by. Sunny sustained several injuries in his attempt to flee, being slashed repeatedly across his hands and forearms as he tried to protect himself. At one point he ran into the house's bathroom and tried to lock the door behind him, but his father broke it open and dragged him back out to the kitchen. Sunao began to fight back here, trying to grab the knife, and he received three wounds across his face. However, the grip on the knife was loosening, and the younger Kimura managed to wrestle control of it. He retaliated and in a blind panic, stabbed his father in the torso eight times, killing him.

Upon witnessing this, Sunny's mother finally understood the gravity of her actions over the years- the repeated abuses acted on her own child and her own choice to cover it all up had lead to this- her husband bleeding out on the floor, and the shocked 12 year old who had been forced to do it. The ramifications on her own life and the life of the unborn child she was carrying would be severe. Making her final, selfish choice, she knelt down beside Sunny and calmly ordered him to kill her too, pointing out the spot he would need to plunge the knife into her chest. Traumatised, in physical and mental pain, and his mind in an incredibly fragile state, he silently did as he was told.

###### **Sunny's actions from here onward vary depending on route.**

* Crewmate
* Imposter

## Arrest and Imprisonment

No movement was spotted from the outside of the Kimura household for three days. Calls from employers for Mr and Ms Kimura went unanswered. Inside the house, Sunny knelt between the bodies of his parents, frozen in the shock of what he'd witnessed and done. The combination of the abuse he had endured over the last 12 years of his life as well as the ordeal he'd been through since simply coming home from school rendered him almost catatonic. After this, he retained no memory of the three days- his recall ends the moment he steps through the door of the house and returns at the point when he's found. He remembers seeing his parents bodies and the sensation of being covered in dried blood, but doesn't remember much else.

On the morning of the fourth day, a surveillance officer was called to the household due to employers’ concerns about the safety of Mr and Ms Kimura. Inside, the officer discovered the teenager, still motionless. Sunao was taken to the hospital due to his injuries as well as severe dehydration- doctor’s assessments indicated he had not moved from his position to eat, drink or sleep since the time of his parents’ passing. He was still holding the knife when the initial officer discovered him- the officer had to break two fingers to make him let it go. Due to the amount of time since receiving the injuries to when he made it to the hospital, Sunny was left with scarring that otherwise would've been healed with no signs of damage due to Inner Core medical capabilities.

There were attempts to question the boy once he was lucid, but they were met with a blank, expressionless stare and silence.

### Conviction

Sunao Kimura was tried and convicted of two accounts of first degree murder. Despite ample evidence in support of pleading for self-defence - the state of the house (relative disorder, furniture overturned and pushed aside, one bathroom door having been kicked off its hinges), Sunny's multiple defensive wounds, and evidence that his own mother had tampered with the audio and video recorders- Kimura made no attempt to do so. While on the witness stand (an action ill advised by Kimura’s legal counsel) the teen simply stated, “I killed my parents” with very little inflection or hint of remorse, which reflected poorly on the jury’s decision. Other factors included his record of poor behaviour in school and also the revelation that his mother had been in the first term of pregnancy at the time of her death. It was one of the very few cases to be held in person on Proxima Centauri b in the past ten years.

Sunny was sentenced to five years in juvenile detention (an incredibly light sentence for a double homicide, and most likely due to his Inner Core status) and immediately sent offworld to a holding facility in orbit around Proxima Centauri b. Two of the conditions of his imprisonment that his legal team requested on his behalf, were that he was to be referred to as Sunao and as a male, and would serve in a male holding facility, both conditions granted as they seemed more rather than less dangerous for him. He would never return to his planet of birth.

### Meeting Rem

Sunny was assessed for suitability to the indentured servitude program that was filling crew shortages on government spacecraft. Due to his passivity, small size and ability to pick up new skills quickly, he was assigned aboard a spacecraft also holding similarly aged inmates mostly from the Mid Rim and some officers sent to patrol the open space between the star systems of the Inner Core.

The officer in charge of the juvenile inmates was a young Rem Demir. She submitted multiple requests for Sunny to be transferred either into different dorms, taken off the mission, or to another spacecraft entirely. According to her reports, he was subject to near constant verbal and physical brutality from the other juveniles, possibly in part to his unwillingness to defend himself, his obvious place of origin being the Inner Core, as well as his comparatively young age (most other juvenile inmates were between the ages of 15-18). Oftentimes, Rem would enter a shared room to find Sunny being ganged up on, and he would hide behind her legs as she reprimanded the other inmates for their behaviour. She also on some occasions comforted him as he cried, an act of kindness he would never forget. Even with her aid, Sunny's memories of this first mission are miserable- Rem could not constantly protect him from the abuse meted out to him. This behaviour came to a head when Sunny unexpectedly launched a verbal attack on ████████, aged 15 and a fellow inmate, who had been tormenting him, resulting in ████████ being humiliated in front of the other boys while in the midst of the cafeteria. A few hours past lights out on that night, ████████ managed to steal a gas canister from the ship’s store, and doused the sleeping Sunny in the contents before setting him alight.

The injuries that the 12 year old suffered were severe and initially it was thought that he would not survive them. The spacecraft was forced to make a premature stop on ████████████████ to drop off Sunny as well as Rem to supervise the detainee (though not before ████████ was severely disciplined for his actions). Sunny spent almost a year in recovery, relearning how to use his left arm, although much of the left side of his torso had nerve damage and extensive scarring. Rem was present for the first two days of Sunny regaining consciousness after the incident, but was later reassigned to a different mission and sent away. They wouldn't see each other again for 16 years, until the Scylla 06942 mission, but Sunny retained a deep affection for the sole adult who had treated him with genuine kindness in his childhood.

### Growing Up

By the time Sunny was 13 and he had mostly recovered from his injuries, he was again sent offworld on a different craft on much the same assignment as the previous one. A complication arose when it was noted that on this same craft, ████████ had also been assigned. Previously during psych evaluations with the hospitalised Sunny, the boy had expressed a startling lack of enmity towards ████████, despite what the other inmate had done to him. Regardless, whether it was an attempt to force a reconciliation between the two boys, or simply a documentation error, they were assigned to the same mission. This would prove fatal, as upon entering the same room with ████████, Sunny drew a concealed gun and fired it twice, shooting the 16 year old in the forehead and cheek and killing him instantly.

Unlike the two lives Sunny had previously taken, this was wholly premeditated. The gun he used had been stolen from a lax hospital security guard a few days earlier, and Sunny had disassembled it thoroughly and then put it back together again in an effort to understand exactly how it worked. However, he had never actually fired it until he shot and killed the other inmate. Upon questioning, he expressed no remorse. A year and a half was added to his sentence for the murder of the other boy (again, a relatively short punishment and most likely due to the other inmate’s status as being from the Mid Rim), but Arctis authorities were more intrigued as to how a 13 year old with no prior combat experience had managed to dismantle, reconstruct and then fire a gun accurately.

An exam of sorts was set up, with Sunny being encouraged to participate in exchange for his own room on his next mission. It consisted of several different guns and other long range weapons, and a firing range, with Sunny told to take however long he needed to do the best he could. At this point he was unfamiliar with all the weapons except for the one he’d stolen and used to shoot ████████ with. After examining a few of them, he disassembled the ones that he deemed more complex and then reassembled them and tried his best to hit the targets prepared. While not perfect by a long shot, and with a relatively poor accuracy especially using the larger, heavier guns, he was deemed somewhat of a prodigy by the officials spectating and given his promised private room. He was also ordered to begin shooting lessons.

This would mark a turning point for Sunny. Now protected by a reputation of being dangerous, and his skill in sharpshooting growing daily, as well as the privacy of his own space, his confidence grew. Portions of the more relaxed and outgoing side to his personality began to creep back in, and he was no longer sullen and silent and constantly bruised. The way he saw it, he was no longer relying on the dumb luck of the universe for survival- this newfound skill was his alone, and if it kept him alive then he would hone it to perfection.

Over the next few years, he went on several back-to-back missions, more than the average inmate by far, and solidified his position as a capable marksman who, despite his propensity for disobedience and disrespect, was a highly valued asset to any given crew. He was extremely reliable at his job, and versatile, which as he was assigned missions further and further away from the Inner Core and into the Mid Rim, a trait that would become invaluable as the range of weapons he would be required to master grew. Along with his accelerating ability to pick up any gun and fire it with freakish accuracy, Sunny was developing another skill- talking. Working out how to be charming and affable saved him a lot of trouble- instead of having to intimidate or fight people into submission like many other juvenile inmates, he simply got others to like him more than they wanted an easy target to beat up. His outgoing nature wasn’t completely crafted to save his own skin, and he genuinely preferred to spend time with other crew when everyone was getting along, as opposed to sulking on his own. On occasion, his bravado wouldn’t be enough to stop an argument or fight breaking out- Sunny usually was dealt the short end of the stick from these due to his subpar hand to hand combat abilities. However, as the years went by, this would stop happening. He developed a bit of a reputation as someone who seemed easy to beat to a pulp, but if given the opportunity would return the favour fatally, with a bullet, whether it be a fellow inmate or a superior officer. Due to this, other inmates stopped picking on him. However, a consequence of his scattered unauthorised murders would be the lengthening of his sentence. At 12, freshly convicted, he would have left juvenile detention at 17, and been eligible for parole even earlier than that. Now, it seemed like he might be jailed indefinitely.

As he got older, Sunny started to explore the power of his charisma and his innate skill to charm everyone he met. He realised he enjoyed the company of other people much more than being on his own, because being alone meant being with his thoughts and doubts and especially the absence of memory that marked what had landed him in juvie to begin with. After overhearing fellow juvenile detainees discussing their sexual endeavours, Sunny decided that it was something he wanted to try. At age 16, he first had sex. He found it extremely distracting, time consuming and enjoyable, and as he got older, he became quite skilled, both in the act as well as seeking it out. He used it as a way to pass the free time he had on missions, as well as something to take his mind off more dangerous things. Despite amassing a fair number of partners over the years, Sunny never entertained the idea of a deeper connection to any of them. The concept of it seemed laughable on several fronts- for one, he was constantly being assigned to new missions, and was never staying in the same place for long. It would be impossible to stay in touch with any of them, and truthfully, he never really cared enough about any of them to want to try. Also, though he’d never admit it out loud, there was a part of Sunny that simply could not comprehend the idea that someone would want him for anything, let alone permanently, for more than his skills and his body.

### Meeting Griffin

At 17, Sunny was a seasoned crewmate, although still considered unruly and somewhat of a nuisance onboard ships. This general distaste by Arctis towards his attitude despite his skill was the reason why he was sent out to increasingly distant missions- he had not been in the Inner Core region since approximately the age of 14. In the Mid Rim, he was often assigned to smaller ships and short missions, acting as the sole or primary sharpshooter for the crew. His missions were often patrol or support based, but even without participating in active warfare, his skill as well as his kill count grew. Sunny maintained his deliberately constructed carefree demeanour- he didn’t consider the people he was ordered to kill his victims, just a part of his job. He also kept most others at an arm's length, reasoning that due to his inability to keep in touch with anyone for more than a few months at a time meant that any friendships would be pointless and inconsequential.

His latest mission would change that. Onboard with a larger crew, he was one of two individuals assigned with the weapons systems. The other person was Griffin Swann, who directly outranked him due to his status as an enlisted soldier, despite being considerably less experienced as well as being a year younger than him (although officially he was older). Assigned to share a room with someone he at first believed to be a narc, Sunny was initially combative before realising that Griffin was a newbie. Upon questioning Griffin's obvious youth, he found himself somewhat sympathetic to the other boy and agreed to keep the fact that he'd lied on his enlistment forms a secret, with Sunny knowing full well he was hiding secrets of his own. Against Sunny’s better judgement, they developed a kind of mentor/mentee relationship, with Griffin learning a more hands-on grasp of ranged combat after much pestering and Sunny asking for little things such as extra dessert and small chores being done in exchange. Both were also prone to long sleepless nights due to insomnia, and would often spend those hours quietly talking at first about relatively inconsequential matters, but later more personal topics. During this time, Sunny came out as trans to Griffin, the first time he'd done so of his own volition after years of being wholly stealth. Overall, it was a much more harmonious bond than either of them anticipated, and Griffin was the first person in a long time Sunny would consider a genuine friend.

Other people onboard would be less reciprocal to their growing bond. Sunny, while dedicating a good portion of his free time to shoring up Griffin's abilities, had not stopped sleeping around. Another inmate, █████ who Sunny had initiated a brief entanglement with early on in the mission and then dropped due to █████'s growing infatuation with him, grew increasingly combative towards Griffin, assuming that their closeness was due to a romantic relationship. He began spreading crass rumours about the pair throughout the ship, embarrassing Griffin and in turn infuriating Sunny. This eventually led to an altercation, verbally initiated by █████ but physically escalated by Sunny himself, resulting in him being beaten bloody due to his general physical ineptitude.

█████ grew increasingly obsessive and unstable in regards to Sunny and Griffin, and after much sneaking about, found out that Griffin had lied in order to enlist early in the military. While not that serious of a charge in the long term- had he been found out, Griffin would most likely be dishonourably discharged and barred from reentry for a time until he was of actual age- it was enough to potentially take him off the mission and out of the military for good. █████ threatened to disclose this to their superiors. Despite Sunny's own personal feelings about a 16 year old in this line of work, he knew how much the job meant to his friend, and killed █████ before he could expose him. Although Sunny and Griffin did their best to hide what had happened, the murder was eventually discovered and Sunny claimed sole responsibility, resulting in him being removed from the mission and thereby separated from Griffin. Despite their friendship having lasted a little under a year, and resulting in punishment for them both (Sunny's sentence was extended yet again, Griffin was reprimanded for not keeping him in check) they would remember each other with considerable fondness in the years following.

### Ultimatum

Legal adulthood made Sunny's life almost immediately harder. Having been placed with the male juvenile detainees during his youth, he was notified that once he was of age, he would be transferred and listed among female inmates, much to his shock and indignation. Taking initiative to contact his prior legal representation in the Inner Core for the first time in nearly 6 years, he lodged an application to fight this decision- however due to the timing of this he would turn 18 before it was assessed. He was then moved and reclassified as a female inmate, despite having lived as male for at this stage a third of his life.

While incarcerated as a legal woman, Sunny was deeply unhappy. After years of living with and around other boys and crafting his particular attitude to match his environment, he was busy playing catch up to try and make sure he stayed in a relatively comfortable position in the general hierarchy of his new life. Additionally, the previously vague notion that he was solely attracted to men with no attraction to women solidified into fact for him. By the end of his first year, he’d had enough.

At 19, while on a routine refuelling stop partway during his current mission, Sunny stole a scalpel from the medical bay of his assigned ship and disappeared into the streets of the lunar colony. He was unaccounted for for two hours before being found unconscious in the public restroom of a random bar, bleeding heavily from deep self-inflicted lacerations to his chest. Medical examiners noted that while ordinarily someone would have passed out much sooner from shock and pain, Sunny was somehow able to keep going with his rudimentary top surgery, and only passed out from blood loss. Being in the fringes of the Mid Rim, medical care was limited, and Sunny once again barely survived. As a result of this new trauma, the nerve damage to his upper torso was severe, resulting in almost complete loss of normal physical sensation to the approximate area. Psychological evaluations were held to assess his mental state and whether his actions constituted an attempt on his own life, but due to his practised evasiveness and the examiners’ inability to ascertain whether he was lying or telling the truth, the results were inconclusive. However, this reflected fairly poorly on Arctis, as Sunny was still legally a citizen of the Inner Core, however long estranged. It fast tracked his application and aided in its success- his prior name and gender were stricken from the record and by the time Sunny had recovered enough to once again be fit for assignment on spacecraft, his old identity had been altered. He returned to life as a male inmate, this time wholly stealth, just as he’d wanted.

### Reuniting with Griffin

Sunny was assigned to a small-crew ‘cleaning’ mission in the Mid Rim, almost in the Outer Rim, to a system that was considered a no fly zone due to the aftermath of previous conflicts that had centred around the now dead planet Trion. In yet another stroke of luck, a 23 year old Griffin was also on this mission- at this point the two men hadn’t seen each other in almost seven years. They’d both changed in their respective ways, no longer boys, but nevertheless were pleased on such a fortuitous reunion in the vastness of the galaxy. Assigned to be roommates yet again, Sunny was initially jokingly upset that in the years that they’d been apart, Griffin had managed to outgrow him by several inches.

While a routine mission for Sunny, their assignment, which was to eradicate the androids currently occupying the solar system, held a considerable amount of weight for Griffin, due to his past on Trion as well as his current views on androids. While Sunny committed himself to the mission with the same level of flippant competency as he had always done, Griffin was more emotionally invested. While they never had any notable outright disagreements over the morality of the task given to them, Sunny personally had some reservations about what could be deemed an almost genocidal mission and expressed them in private to Griffin in offhand comments, much to Griffin’s annoyance. Despite this, they actually became closer over this time, and Sunny learnt more about the truth to Griffin’s past and why he was so antagonistic to artificial life. Learning this made Sunny more sympathetic towards Griffin’s hatred for the androids, but personally his own neutral stance on them didn’t change- he may have been assigned help in wiping them all out, but he harboured no actual animosity towards them. Other members of their crew were less comfortable with the orders given the humanlike demeanour of many of the androids, and eventually it all culminated in Griffin and Sunny being ordered to execute one of the other ‘cleaners’ for growing sympathy towards their targets. They carried out the orders with no questions asked.

Due to limited crew members and a growing sentiment that the crew itself needed to be reassessed for viability on such an emotionally charged assignment, Sunny was reassigned to a different crew altogether while Griffin was given the option to stay on and continue cleaning the planets of the android presence. Despite considering each other good friends, Griffin viewed his personal vendetta against androids more of a priority than accompanying Sunny into the unknown and chose to stay on. While honestly a bit disappointed by this, Sunny didn’t hold it against him and the two parted ways amicably with the lighthearted promise that the universe would throw them back together at some point inevitably.

### Joining the Scylla 06942 Mission

The Scylla 06942 mission is Sunny’s longest assignment to date and his first foray into the distant reaches of the Outer Rim and further into the Uncharted Territories, having spent most of his life in the Mid Rim. Prior to entering the ship, he doesn’t feel any particular way about it- although his assignments prior to this have had a set start and end date, lasting from a few weeks to around a year, and this one may very well be his last, it’s simply another task on a never ending list. Despite the joy of reuniting with Rem as well as Griffin, he has maintained very modest expectations for his life and expects to continue this until his luck finally runs out. Of course, this will probably change… depending on his survival.

## Escape from Proxima Centauri b

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