'Sunny' is an adult female SandWing-NightWing hybrid princess and the main protagonist of The Brightest Night (book)|The
Brightest Night. In addition to being the main founder of Jade Mountain
Academy and a former member of the dragonets of destiny, she was also
primarily responsible for ending the War of SandWing Succession along
with the other dragonets of destiny. She currently resides within Jade
Mountain Academy.

## Description

Sunny has tawny, unusually bright golden-yellow scales for a SandWing
that have been described to look like rippled sunshine. She has golden
wings, talons, and ears, a small head, snout, and claws, and
moss-colored, gray-green eyes. Despite having scales that radiate
warmth, her tail lacks the venomous barb of normal SandWings and instead
curls to an ordinary point.

She is very small, smaller than Qibli and Winter, and not much larger
than Kinkajou and Moonwatcher. Even standing on her hind legs, she was
less than half of Kestrel's height, and she is the smallest of the
dragonets of destiny. According to Darkstalker, her eyes are the same
shape as Whiteout's. Her voice sometimes squeaks and has a cheerful lilt
to it. She also has a perpetually cheerful expression. She sleeps like a
peaceful chinchilla.

## Personality

Sunny often attempts to be stern, but it is easy to make her laugh. She
is sympathetic, optimistic, reassuring, unambitious, agreeable,
excitable, sweet, and wants to believe the best in every Dragons|dragon.
She dislikes when her friends argue, and she is passionate and
disapproving of violence, with a soul like a blaze of warm sunlight. She
believed that she and her friends would make it through anything bad
that happened to them, because they had to survive to fulfill the
prophecy. She does not memorize facts with ease or keep secrets all that
well, and is often seen by other dragons as cute, sweet, simple, happy,
and lovable. She believes herself to be 'brave all the time.' She does
not like killing dragons, even when they harm her. Externally, it did
not seem as though Sunny ever had negative thoughts; she did what she
was told, and happily. She would never hurt or betray anyone: sentiments
that sometimes make others doubt her judgement and intelligence. She
disliked the fact that her ideas were often less listened to than her
friends' ideas, and in The Brightest Night, she wanted to stop
Fierceteeth's group on her own partially to prove that she was
competent. She is delighted when she is tasked with importance, and
often dislikes when someone calls her simple or sweet. She truly cared about fulfilling the The Dragonet Prophecy,
even after it was confirmed to be fake. She was extremely upset when
Morrowseer told her the prophecy was fake and said that what Morrowseer
said was fake and untrue.

## Biography

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Pre-Series
A SandWing named Dune, a
former Outclaw, stole Sunny's egg from her mother, Thorn, after she had
buried Sunny's egg in the sand near the Scorpion Den. Thorn took this as
a sign of betrayal and had been searching for him for many years, hoping
to capture and kill him. Thorn had even put up "wanted" signs for him
during the years. However, it appeared that the two SandWings were once
close friends, as Thorn mentioned discussing names for her egg with him.
It seemed that she liked the name "Sunny" since that was what Dune named
her. This could mean that Dune still respected, cared about, or was even
loyal to Thorn, despite taking her egg to fulfill the dragonet prophecy.
Although, in The Brightest Night, it was revealed that Thorn had
nicknamed Sunny "Beetle" while she was in her egg, and had been
continuing to call her that while searching for her.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
Sunny was brought as an egg to the cave where the
dragonets were kept by Dune, the SandWing Talons of Peace#Guardians of
the Dragonets|guardian, and a member of the Talons of Peace. Dune
claimed he had found her egg alone and hidden in the sand. She was said
to be the last hatched, and upon hatching, she was revealed to have
neither a venomous barb on her tail nor pale, sandy, yellow scales as a
normal SandWing should have. She also lacked the usual black SandWing
eyes, as her eyes are a green-gray color, which was leading to the
assumption she was taken from the sand earlier than the right time, but
this was proven to be false upon the revelation that Sunny was a
SandWing-NightWing hybrid, with her father being Stonemover, a NightWing
animus.

While under the mountain, Sunny was first seen when the dragonets were
acting out the death of Queen Oasis, with her playing the role of Queen
Oasis. Clay and Tsunami decided not to tell her about their plans of
escape, because they thought she was "absolutely terrible at keeping
secrets." Clay thought back to when they were younger, before they could
fly, they gathered rocks to try and build a pile up to the sky hole.
Sunny had accidentally let the guardians find their stash of rocks.
During her captivity by the guardians, Kestrel, Webs, and Dune, she was
the only one that never complained about them.
[File:SunnyVMorrowseer.png|thumb|Sunny](File:SunnyVMorrowseer.png%7Cthumb%7CSunny)
biting Morrowseer's tail to defend Tsunami But later on, Morrowseer, the
deliverer of the prophecy, came to the cave to evaluate them. When he
attacked Tsunami, Sunny bit him on to the end of his tail to defend her.
When Tsunami was chained, Sunny tried to get Dune to free her, claiming
he could not be this mean. When hearing of Kestrel's plan to murder
Glory, Sunny offered to fly up to the sky hole and squeeze out, but
Starflight turned down the idea, stating even she could not fit through
it. Eventually, Clay left via the underground river to save them, and
Sunny aided in freeing Tsunami by breathing fire on her chains. However,
due to Clay and Tsunami's actions, they were all captured by Scarlet.

During their time in the Sky Kingdom, Sunny was kept away from the
others in a cage that was hung over the feasting hall so Scarlet could
show Sunny off to Burn, who would take her back to her fortress as a
gift. When Peril told Clay where Sunny was, Peril claimed she was just
fine and was eating like a queen. She was also making friends with all
the SkyWing guards, which Peril found disgusting, unnatural, and
unnerving. This really showed just how nice and optimistic Sunny could
be, even in tough situations.
[File:FreeingSunny.png|thumb|Clay](File:FreeingSunny.png%7Cthumb%7CClay)
and the others freeing Sunny Sunny was intended as a gift to Burn,
because of her hobby of collecting oddities to put in her Weirdling
Tower. She was subject to Clay befriending Peril, due to her isolation,
and was not present during any of the fights, only to reappear after
Peril burned through the bars of her cage. She was thrown off by Tsunami
and Glory's trick to get Clay to apologize for what he had said,
wondering why they would do "such a nasty, ugly thing." Sunny traveled
with them towards the Mud Kingdom in the search for Clay's parents, and
also left with the group to find Tsunami's mother, Queen Coral.

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Sunny was with the other dragonets while searching for Queen Coral. She
was the first to hear wingbeats of a passing
SkyWingFile:28.png|thumb|Sunny, after Tsunami attacked the SkyWing guard
patrol and followed Starflight into the trees. When Tsunami attacked a
SkyWing soldier, fearing he had seen Sunny just before she reached her
hiding place, Sunny was upset and horrified at what the SeaWing dragonet
had done, and following this, she was jumpy and nervous around her. They
spent the night in a cave, and the next morning when they headed to the
Summer Palace, Sunny and Clay were the only ones blindfolded. Sunny
hated it because it was wet and slimy, though she did not complain.
Sunny rode on Starflight's back in the tunnel.

At the palace, she stayed with the other dragonets, excluding Tsunami.
After the cave flooded and Tsunami arrived with Auklet's egg, she asked
Sunny to keep it warm.File:Sunny-egg.png|thumb|Sunny keeping Auklet's
egg warm She agreed, though she was clearly a little nervous after
Starflight pointed out the assassin who had been killing off the heirs
might come after her. Sunny showed that by this time she was no longer
upset with Tsunami by nodding vigorously when Clay said she should stay
with them in the cave, expressing delight when Tsunami asked her to keep
the egg warm, and later leaning against her the way she used to.

When they first met Blister, Sunny was frowning at her. After Tsunami
revealed that Kestrel was dead, Sunny was distraught and extremely
upset, but happy that at least Webs was still alive. Sunny and the other
dragonets were imprisoned in the SeaWing's electric eel prisons. She was
also unhappy about Whirlpool's death, covering her eyes when Whirlpool
got electrocuted.

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Sunny traveled with the other dragonets and Webs through the
muddy swamps of the Mud Kingdom to get to the Rainforest Kingdom
inFile:30.png|thumb|200px|Sunny, seeing Silver and worrying about Webs
hopes of both finding Glory's parents, and because the RainWings also
had venom, the dragonets hoped that they might have a cure for SandWing
venom because Webs had gotten slashed by Blister's tail. She was the
first to disappear when the RainWings shot the dragonets with sleeping
darts and was found soon after by Glory and Starflight, trapped and
asleep in a net with Clay, Tsunami, and Webs. Later on, she was shown to
be very fond of Silver, Glory's pet sloth, though Silver was more fond
of Glory than Sunny.

When the dragonets went to the Kingdom of Sand via NightWing
tunnels|Stonemover's tunnel, Sunny seemed to be right at home. After
Blaze came to meet the dragonets, she remarked that she thought Sunny
would be 'prettier'; Sunny asked her how to heal a SandWing's venom, and
Blaze carelessly told her about the healing cactus juice, from the
Plants#Medicinal plants|brightsting cactus, which was supposed to be a
SandWing secret. Once the dragonets got back to the tunnel, Sunny went
to retrieve a cactus arm for Webs but had trouble breaking one off due
to her size. Glory remarked that it looked like she was "trying to tango
with a cactus." Sunny did not participate in Glory's rescue from the
NightWings but watched the RainWing royal challenge competition with
Tsunami. She was holding Silver during the camouflage contest, in which
Magnificent ran towards her to scare Silver.

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Starflight thought about his love for Sunny and wanted to be reunited
with her instead of stuck on the NightWing island. His wish came true
when he along with Flame and Fatespeaker escaped from the NightWing
island and Sunny met Fatespeaker for the first time. Fatespeaker and
Sunny were really friendly with each other, making Starflight twitch
with guilt surreptitiously.

Near the end, Starflight finally confessed to her, which surprised her.
She told Starflight to kick some NightWings for her and free the captive
RainWings.

When the volcano was about to erupt, Morrowseer was the last one to show
up at the portal to the Rainforest Kingdom and told the dragonets that
the prophecy was a fraud. Sunny at first chose not to believe him,
because she believed that it truly was their destiny to stop the war.
When she realized he was telling the truth, she furiously ran back
through the portal, crying the whole way. Starflight thought he had
never seen her so upset.

At the very end of the book, Starflight thought he felt her scales
pressing against his before he was hit by a sleeping dart, though he was
blinded and could not see her. However, this may have been Fatespeaker
because Starflight thought he could hear her voice.

left The Brightest Night

Sunny ran out of the portal from Morrowseer, upset the
prophecy was not real and that her whole life was a lie. When she
emerged, she watched as Clay and Starflight had arrived, and saw that
Starflight had been badly burned. When the NightWings panicked, Sunny
jumped forward, trying to get through, when Preyhunter, Fierceteeth, and
Strongwings grabbed her and pulled her back into the foliage of the
rainforest.

They planned on using Sunny for trade so they could steal the rainforest
from Queen Glory. Sunny tried to stop their plans by making herself look
useless, however, this plan did not work, due to their possession of the
Obsidian Mirror. While the NightWings discussed which SandWing princess
to auction Sunny off to, Sunny bit Fierceteeth on the vulnerable spot on
her tail, and took off through the rainforest. Thinking she could solve
the problem all by herself, Sunny followed the NightWings. When they
took a rest stop, Sunny was able to steal the Obsidian Mirror and also
managing to creep them out by writing with dark red mud that was thick
and a blood-like color: 'TURN BACK. YOU FLY TOWARD YOUR DEATH'. When the
NightWings found the message and the mirror missing, Strongwings thought
that it had been left by "the Darkstalker," making this the first time
he was mentioned in the series, although Fierceteeth, being skeptical,
turned this idea down. The NightWings were then much more careful to see
if Strongwings's theory was right. Sunny then continued to follow the
NightWings to the Scorpion Den.

The NightWings took many more stops during their journey, due to their
lack of good health and stamina. When they finally got to the Scorpion
Den, she met Six-Claws and Thorn and discovered that Thorn was her
mother. However, after a short reunion, Thorn was forced to answer a
call for help, and Sunny was left with Qibli and Six-Claws. When she
awoke later that night, she and Six-Claws headed outside of her mother's
tent, only to be stopped by Addax, who threatened to kill his hostage, Ostrich, Six-Claws' daughter, if Sunny did not come with
him to Burn. After finding out that Addax was doing this to get his
imprisoned family back, Sunny agreed to go with him in exchange for
Ostrich.

While imprisoned in SandWing stronghold|Burn's stronghold, she met
Smolder, Burn's brother and ally, which she described to look horribly
like his other sister, Blister (similar features included dark eyes,
black diamond patterns on his scales, narrow face) who took her to the
weirdling tower for her imprisonment, In there she met Smolder's pet
scavenger, Flower, as well as Ex-Queen Scarlet. The Outclaws later
rescued Sunny by risking their own lives, and Peril helped Thorn, then
released Scarlet. Thorn demanded to see the stuffed NightWing, and told
Sunny she is half NightWing. Sunny then left her mother to go back to
the rainforest.

Along the way, a storm forced her to take refuge in the caves on Jade
Mountain, where she met her father, Stonemover, and ended up telling him
that she is his daughter. The next morning, Sunny returned to the
rainforest and was reunited with her friends. She came up with a plan to
end the war and everyone agreed to it.

After Tsunami and Sunny sent a message to Blister through the Talons of
Peace, she and Clay then sent a message through the MudWings in their
dreams to Burn. They also got word to Blaze via the dreamvisitor Sunny
received from Holler and Fluffy, the scavengers.

While Blister and Blaze were fighting, Sunny found the Eye of Onyx, with
Flower's help, located inside of Queen Oasis' skeleton's mouth and
passed it to Thorn. Enraged, Blister snatched the Eye of Onyx from
Thorn, but it shocked her to death on contact, where she burst into a
pile of black dust. Sunny pronounced Thorn queen, and the main plot came
to an end.

A month later, it was stated that Starflight had learned to fly blind
with the help of Tamarin and that he and Sunny had discussed their
relationship back in the rainforest. Sunny had told him that she did not
love him like Fatespeaker did, which he reluctantly accepted. Then,
along with the rest of the dragonets, she discussed plans for an
inter-tribal school in Jade Mountain.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
Sunny
was at the prey center to break up the conflict between Winter and
Moonwatcher. Sunny later was in the library, reading a scroll to
Starflight with Fatespeaker. There she helped suggest reasons to why
Bandit, Winter's scavenger, was feeling depressed. After the history
cave explosion, Sunny and Tsunami were shown discussing the cave
explosion and about likely suspects. After Turtle told them about the
dragonflame cactus, Sunny told Turtle and Moon to go to sleep and
apologized for what had happened. The next day, she and the rest of the
school staff gathered all of the students to the great hall to address
what had happened the previous day. After Icicle's attempted murder on
Starflight, she sat with Moonwatcher where the latter told her about her
powers and experiences with it. Afterwards, Sunny thanked Moon for
telling her, before whisking away.

left Winter Turning

Sunny was first mentioned when Winter remembered how Scarlet asked for
the dragonets of destiny's lives in return for Hailstorm's. Winter then
thought to himself that Sunny had been one of the dragons who had
confirmed that the NightWings had no more powers.

Sunny was later mentioned to be dreamvisiting dragons.

left Escaping Peril

Sunny was part of the group that welcomed Queen Ruby when she arrived to
collect Carnelian's body. She defended Peril against accusations that
she had, in fact, killed the young SkyWing, not the fire. After Scarlet
hurled "Glory's" decapitated head at the group, Clay had to carry Sunny
down from their previous perch to a rock shelf. There, Sunny sobbed so
hard she did not notice Peril landing in front of her. When they
discovered the decapitated head was fake, Sunny was overjoyed. Later
that night, she dreamvisited Glory so that Kinkajou could be taken back
to the Rainforest Kingdom from the town of Possibility.

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Sunny was heard having a conversation with Tsunami, which was
overheard by Turtle. As Turtle listened to them, he did not notice them
walking closer to him until the last second. When they see Turtle, they
are surprised to see him back at Jade Mountain, stating that they were
worried about Jade Winglet. Then Turtle warned Sunny and Tsunami that
Darkstalker was coming. Sunny said something brief about Darkstalker,
talking about how Fierceteeth and Strongwings had said something about
Darkstalker when she was following them, trying to stop them from
hurting her friends. Then she went after Mightyclaws, so he did not tell
the school about Darkstalker.

Later, she came out to the landing area with Clay to protect the
NightWings that attacked Darkstalker. Darkstalker joked around with
Sunny before she told him to back away from his students. Darkstalker
told Sunny that she was related to him due to her father, Stonemover,
being an animus and that he was also her "great-great-great-a lot of
greats-great uncle." After some talk, Sunny went back inside. The next
day, she headed up the tunnel with a squirrel for Darkstalker. Moon told
her someone was trying to kill Stonemover and she flew to this cave with
the others. She felt heartbroken at her father's near-death and started
sobbing. Then, she jumped on him to pin his talons down while
Darkstalker freed him from the stone. After Stonemover was
re-fossilized, Sunny hugged him, not caring about the blood. She was
astonished when they found out that Flame was the attempted killer. She
asked him why he did it and why his reason would matter. She also said
they have to tell Queen Ruby what he did and that they did not have
anywhere to lock him up for the time being. With all of the drama over,
she slipped away into the tunnels.

Later she was mentioned by Darkstalker to have been dreamvisiting Queen
Glory about his reappearance, despite his asking her not to.

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Darkness of Dragons
Sunny pulled
Qibli from history class to help search for Ostrich and Onyx. Qibli
thanked her for freeing him from history class, and she sternly told him
that history class with Webs was "awesome". After realizing Onyx and
Ostrich may have been kidnapped, Sunny began to question whether Blaze
was right about the school being doomed to fail. Sunny later used the
dreamvisitor to try to find Onyx and Ostrich. After receiving an earring
from Qibli, she was horrified to realize that Darkstalker had flown off
with six of her students. She convinced Tsunami to also put on an
earring. Sunny also hesitated about giving Qibli the weather bracelets,
but eventually allowed him to use them. Sunny promised to dreamvisit
with Glory about the earrings being sent to the Rainforest.

Toward the end of the book, Sunny was shown arguing with the IceWings,
saying they should try to find a peaceful solution.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Hive Queen
Sunny was indirectly
mentioned by Tsunami in the prologue, when Tsunami said she and her
friends had solved plenty of problems without animus magic.

left
The Dangerous Gift
Sunny was
indirectly mentioned when Queen Snowfall thought about how Tsunami's
"gang of righteous do-gooders" would have used animus magic to help if
it was working. Later, she was mentioned when Lynx was talking about the
War of SandWing Succession and how the dragonets ended it.

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The Flames of Hope
Sunny was in
Tsunami's vision. In the vision, Tsunami and Glory were shown arguing
about which kingdom was the largest. Starflight asked them to stop
fighting as they may rip the map and make Kestrel angry. Sunny added
that Clay may tell Kestrel that it was his fault and get punished as a
result. Clay responded saying that it did not matter which kingdom was
the largest, it only mattered which kingdom had the best food, which
made Sunny laugh.

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### Legends

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Dragonslayer
Sunny was the gold
dragon who was shown playing with the other dragonets of destiny in a
cave, being looked in on by Wren and Sky. Wren noted that she had never
seen a dragon that color before. She was shown to breathe a spurt of
fire on occasion on the small hearth heating up the cave. This saddened
Sky, as he could not breathe fire. Once a large red dragon, likely
Kestrel, entered the cave and roared at them, she abruptly stopped
playing along with the other dragonets.

Sunny was later seen by Leaf in a birdcage above the table in the feast
hall of the SkyWings. He noted that she looked sad and desperate, and
then quickly contradicted himself, thinking that dragons could not feel
an emotion other than hunger and anger.

While hiding in the ruins of the old city, Ivy and Leaf saw Sunny
exploring the area, which was also a scene in The Brightest Night. She
was thought to be a whole different type of dragon than any others by
Ivy because of her oddly colored scales. Later, Ivy accidentally used
the dreamvisitor to visit Sunny in her dreams. Ivy was unaware that it
was a dream, and upon seeing Sunny's dream version of Rose, Ivy realized
that Rose was still alive. She tried to ask Sunny about it, but after
realizing that Sunny could not understand her and would probably realize
the location of the burnt city, she broke the connection. This was a
scene also shown in The Brightest Night, which lead Sunny to come back
to the ruins a few days later. When she arrived, Sunny found Ivy and
Leaf and asked them for the treasure, which they gave. Ivy tried to ask
about news about Rose, but Sunny perceived this as Ivy wanting a ride.
After riding on Sunny, Ivy watched as Sunny sorted through the treasure
and realized she was looking for something specific. After Sunny got
mad, which from her perspective in The Brightest Night was because she
could not find the Eye, she took the treasure and left the ruins. Ivy
hoped Sunny would return it to the SandWings so they would no longer be
angry at the humans. At the end of the book, Sky, Ivy, Leaf, and Wren
mentioned that they planned to find Sunny, calling her a "little golden
dragon".

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### Winglets

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Prisoners
Sunny was indirectly
mentioned by Fierceteeth when she wrote to Saguaro about how her plan
should have went, with the dragonets of destiny dead.

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### Field Guides

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A Guide to the Dragon World
Sunny's
commentary was seen in the margins of the book's opening letter.

Sunny was mentioned in Kinkajou's creative writing project about Silver.

In the SandWing chapter, Sunny wrote a letter to Starflight about going
through Burn's Weirdling Tower collection with Smolder. She then
provided him with a list of things that were kept in the tower before it
was destroyed.

## Relationships

### Clay

Sunny cares deeply about Clay, confiding in him often, and relying on
him to help fix problems she cannot solve on her own. Being the smallest
of the group, Sunny sometimes climbs up Clay's back to get a better view
of things. Starflight believes that Sunny trusts Clay the most out of
their friends. When no one else listens to her ideas, she will ask Clay
to broadcast them because he cares, and everyone else will listen to
him. Sunny does not believe that anyone deserved Clay, referring to him
as the kindest dragon in Pyrrhia. Standing near him made her feel that
anything was possible and she believes Clay is dependable and kind. When
Clay was injured during the Battle of Jade Mountain, she ran to his side
instantly to support him. She relies on him to break up arguments
between their friends, and she is very physically affectionate towards
him. She is instantly willing to come to his rescue, and she is fiercely
protective of him when she believes he is in danger. She trusts him and
leans into him when she is afraid.

### Dune

Sunny seemed to like Dune the best out of the guardians and called on
him for help in times of need. She was devastated when Scarlet killed
Dune. Tsunami stated that despite Dune hating everything, she could not
believe that he would hate Sunny, and she believed the best in him.
Despite knowing that Dune had never been particularly kind to the
dragonets, she still missed him as he was the only parent she ever knew.
She tried not to act upset about his death, but sometimes at night, she
would let herself cry for him.

### Fatespeaker

Sunny was kind to Fatespeaker and became good friends with the NightWing
the first time they met. Sunny assumed she felt jealous of Fatespeaker
when she had told Sunny she was taking care of Starflight, thinking that
it felt like "she wanted Fatespeaker to shush and go away." Sunny tells
Starflight that she does not love Starflight the way Fatespeaker does,
and says it is alright if he also loves her too. She encourages him to
pursue Fatespeaker, calling her hilarious.

### Glory

Like Tsunami, Glory mostly thinks of Sunny as a naïve younger sister.
However, Glory was very concerned about Sunny when she left the
Rainforest Kingdom and seemed very determined to have her back. She also
showed affection to Sunny (which Sunny states is very rare) when she got back from being kidnapped. Stated in The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The
Hidden Kingdom, Glory wanted to hide her instead of Webs, this may be
due to the fact that she despises Webs and wants to protect Sunny. When
Queen Scarlet held up her severed head, Sunny was sobbing too hard to
even notice Peril.

### Kestrel

Tsunami stated that despite Kestrel hating everything, she could not
believe that she would hate Sunny. She believed the best in Kestrel and
cried when she heard of Kestrel's death. Despite knowing that Kestrel
had never been particularly kind to the dragonets, she still missed her
as she was the only parent she ever knew. She tried not to act upset
about her death, but sometimes at night, she would let herself cry for
her.

### Moonwatcher

When Moonwatcher was on top of Jade Mountain with Sunny, Moon told her
about her prophecy and mind reading powers. Sunny was kind and grateful
for Moon telling her about her powers. Sunny was the first of the
dragonets of destiny to know about this. Sunny and Moon silently
reassured each other when Darkstalker appeared at the school.

### Peril

Sunny tried to break the news to Peril about Kestrel's death as gently
as she could to Peril, and comforted Peril over her mother's death; she
also offered to let Peril come with her instead of freeing Scarlet.
Sunny reassured to Peril that she believed she was not a monster and
believed she could change, though with some hesitation, knowing Peril's
reputation. Sunny is the only one of Clay's friends that has attempted
to be nice to Peril, but Peril still wants to push her off a cliff on a
daily basis, although Peril knows this is bad. She views Sunny's soul as
a blaze of warm sunlight, the type that is annoying and induces
headaches, and is irritated by how much she smiles. She is intensely
jealous of Sunny whenever she is physically affectionate or shares
secrets with Clay.

### Smolder

Smolder was respectful to Sunny as she was presented as a gift for his
sister. Smolder was kind to her and cared about her, having taken her on
midday walks when he noticed how miserable she was. In addition, he
chose to let her live, but also did not want her escaping. She genuinely
likes him, and appreciated how he spoke directly to her. She found it
strange to admit, but she liked him and did not want to see him die. She
knew she should be mad at him for betraying them, but she could not.
Sunny knew that he was not evil or mean and that he did what he did due
to the terrible life he lived.

### Starflight

Sunny is the only dragonet who does not mind Starflight's lectures,
whereas the others are almost always annoyed by them. In The Dark
Secret, Starflight confessed his love for Sunny, but Sunny was more
surprised and unsure of the way she loved him. In The Brightest Night,
Sunny thought more about Starflight's feelings towards her and dealt
with confusion as to her feelings towards him. She did tell Starflight
she did not know if she loved him or not and that her feelings were a
mess. Sunny was not sure what her feelings were, describing them as, "I
don't know what to do and somebody loves me and don't hurt him and
really, right now? and imagine how happy you could make him and why me?
really, me? and but it's Starflight." She had never thought of him in
the same way he had, not once. When Fatespeaker had told Sunny that she
had been taking care of Starflight, she felt a "flash of something odd."
Sunny had thought it was jealousy, and that would mean that she loves
him back. She thought it would be nice if she could love him back, as it
would make him happy, and she did care about him. Sunny ultimately
decides that she loves Starflight as a brother, which he reluctantly
accepts. She encourages him to pursue a relationship with Fatespeaker if
he loves her back. He is comforting and reassuring towards her, and she
often feels pity towards him when he is ignored by the other dragonets.
When he became too tired to carry her through the ocean when the
dragonets visited the Kingdom of the Sea, he seemed disappointed to be
deprived of her contact. He worries about her safety, and she believes
in his ability to know everything and to be right.

### Stonemover

Stonemover, Sunny's father, lives under Jade Mountain and is an animus
dragon. When Thorn first told Sunny her father was a NightWing, she was
disappointed and horrified because the other NightWings were malicious
and cruel. She finds his pessimistic attitude annoying and thinks he
sighs too much. She did not understand why Thorn even liked Stonemover,
but was sympathetic to him, thinking about how sad his life must have
been. After Flame attempted to murder Stonemover for lying about how he
could not fix Flame's scar, Sunny is shown sobbing for her father. She
was happy when Darkstalker healed him and hugged her father.

### Thorn

Sunny seemed very attached to her mother, Thorn, when they met. Thorn
also thinks a lot of Sunny and tries to protect her from being injured.
Thorn also saves her when she was kept captive in Burn's stronghold.
Sunny thought she would be a worthy queen, as shown when she gave her
the Eye of Onyx. Sunny thinks she is the only dragonet of destiny lucky
enough to know both of her parents. She keeps drawings of Thorn pinned
up in her office/bedroom in Jade Mountain Academy.

### Tsunami

Sunny is often annoyed that Tsunami thinks of her as just as a silly,
naïve younger sister. However, she knows that Tsunami cares about her,
and looks up to her as a sister figure. Tsunami says that Sunny is like
a little sister to the dragonets. In The Brightest Night, Sunny was
angry with Tsunami because she thought the SeaWing did not care that she
was gone, believing her friend thought she was pouting and that she
would come running in a few minutes. However, Tsunami showed lots of
affection when Sunny came back. Tsunami said she would go through a
whole army of SkyWings for her and the dragonets, showing that she cares
for every one of them, including Sunny. Tsunami sometimes is skeptical
of Sunny's beliefs and ideas, causing her to become dejected and hurt.
However, Sunny often leans on Tsunami trustingly, despite Tsunami
doubting her intelligence and judgement. Sunny considered Tsunami the
"good one", believing that if there was someone who could save the
world, Tsunami would be the one to save it.

### Webs

Sunny is sympathetic towards Webs and was woeful when he learned of his
wife's death. After Webs got his tail injury, Sunny was the dragon who
was most active in trying to find him a cure. She was jubilant when she
found that the cactus juice was working on his wound. She believes he
was a good history teacher.

## Quotes

Um, […] Right. Here I go, la la la, Queen Oasis of the
SandWings. I'm so very important and, uh — royal — and stuff. […] I've
been queen for ages and ages, […] No one dares challenge me for my
throne! I am the strongest SandWing queen who ever lived! […] It's
probably because of all my treasure! I have so much treasure because
I'm such an important queen!
acting as Queen Oasis

The Dragonet Prophecy
18-19

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Even Sunny? […] What's that supposed to mean? I'm brave! I'm
brave all the time!
to Glory
The Hidden Kingdom
12

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Glory, you have a cute furry thing! Can I hold it, please
please?
to Glory about Silver
The Hidden Kingdom
49

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It's not optimism, […] It's faith. There's a reason we're
here. What we do today is part of it, but there's more, too, and we have
to survive to make it all happen.
to Starflight
The Dark Secret
239

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Tsunami wants to believe Morrowseer. She's never wanted to
fulfill the prophecy. She doesn't understand how important it is. Clay
would be just as happy if nobody ever noticed how wonderful he is. Then
he could sleep and eat and take care of us instead of fighting.
Starflight would love to stop worrying about the prophecy. And Glory has
enough to do here, now that she's queen. None of them will fight for our
destiny. They certainly won't listen to me if I try to explain that
Morrowseer must have been lying. They'll give me that look I always get,
the one that says: 'Oh, silly little Sunny and her crazy dreams, isn't
she cute and harmless.
thoughts about the Dragonet Prophecy

The Brightest Night
3-4

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As if acting happy means I don't really care about anything. As
if I just need to be distracted and I'll forget about the whole point of
our existence and all the dragons who are counting on us. As if my brain
were the size of a blueberry, three MOONS.
thoughts

The Brightest Night
19

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Oh, […] Your parents were feeling pretty creative.

to Six-Claws about his name The Brightest Night (book)|The
Brightest Night
59

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That's not true, […] You can be whatever you want to be. I
mean, I could say, well, I have no barb on my tail, I guess I'm just
harmless and useless and should sit in the corner covering my head
whenever there's a fight. But I don't want to be useless and I'm not
going to do that, not if dragons I care about are in danger.

to Peril The Brightest Night

135

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Don't let her make you hate yourself. I can't promise you
anything about Clay, but I think — I mean, if I know him at all, I can
tell you the way to his heart is by helping his friends.
to
Peril The Brightest Night
147

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There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's
story, if you bother to find out what it is.
thoughts about
Addax The Brightest Night

90

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I get it! You're menacing! [...] Now what are you going to
do about Queen Scarlet? You should send more guards to watch her right
now. She's the one you should worry about escaping. At least I won't
murder everyone on my way out!
to Smolder about Scarlet
escaping The Brightest Night

141

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This is a suicide mission. Suicide or genocide, those are your
only two outcomes. Clay, we can't let this happen.
to Clay
about the MudWings' planned attack on the IceWings
The Brightest Night
242

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Clay's heart, Tsunami's courage, Glory's determination,
Starflight's loyalty … I think the wings of fire are inside all of us,
inside every dragon.
thinking about the meaning of "wings of
fire" in the prophecy The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest
Night
284

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This is your fate — to accept your new queen.
to
Blister about choosing Thorn as the new SandWing queen
The Brightest Night
296

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No, please don't go attack the NightWings! […] They're all
under his spell, don't you see? It's not the tribe who tried to hurt you
— it's just Darkstalker. We'll find a way to stop him, but IceWings and
NightWings killing each other isn't the answer.
to Hailstorm,
Narwhal, and Snowfall
Darkness of Dragons
294

## Trivia

  - Both Sunny and Darkstalker dislike sleeping; they both feel as
    though they are missing something when they sleep.
  - On the cover of The Brightest Night, Sunny's tongue is not forked
    and is pink.[1] However, neither SandWings nor NightWings have
    pink or non‐forked tongues.[2]
  - When Sunny was still an egg, Thorn called her Beetle, and still did
    in her mind before meeting her.
  - Sunny is shown with amber eyes once in the graphic novel.
  - Sunny has a fear of statues due to the encounter with Orca's statue.
  - Sunny held the Eye of Onyx for a short time, meaning that she is a
    worthy candidate for the SandWing throne, despite her being a hybrid
    dragon.
  - Sunny is shown with a tail barb two times in the graphic novels.
  - Sunny was named after Sunshine, Tui's dog.
  - Out of all the Wings of Fire characters, Tui considers Sunny to be
    the most like herself.
  - There is a dragon Tui has previously introduced who would be perfect
    for Sunny; however, she said it was a matter of getting them both in
    the same place. It is unknown who this dragon is.
  - Tui compares the name "Sunny" to the name "Quicksand," saying that
    she would not seem as bright and bubbly without her current name.
  - Sunny uses her small size to slip out of any hold other dragons may
    try to put her in.