Sunny

Sunny is an adult female SandWing-NightWing hybrid and the main protagonist of The Brightest Night. She is one of the former dragonets of destiny and the main founder of Jade Mountain Academy. She was primarily responsible for ending the War of SandWing Succession.

Appearance
Sunny has tawny, golden-yellow scales like rippled sunshine, golden wings, talons, and ears, a small head, snout, and claws, and moss-colored, gray-green eyes. Aside from being quite small, Sunny has scales that radiate warmth. However, her tail lacks the venomous barb of typical SandWings and curls to an ordinary point instead. Sunny is very small, much smaller than Qibli and Winter, and not much larger than Kinkajou and Moonwatcher. Even on her back legs, she is less than half of Kestrel's height, and out of all the dragonets of destiny, she is the smallest. Her eyes are the same shape as Whiteout's, although Sunny's are greener, according to Darkstalker.

Personality
Sunny has an excitable, bright, bubbly, empathetic, cheerful, good-natured, kind-hearted, and optimistic personality. In Escaping Peril, Peril described her as a "blaze of warm sunlight." Her ability to always seek the positive side in even the worst of situations led to her friends underestimating her while growing up under the mountain. Although it is sometimes inconvenient, Sunny often feels compassion for dragons with evil intentions and believes that beneath every seemingly bad dragon is always a backstory or a reason to be that way. Like Moonwatcher, she is a firm believer in the philosophy that everything happens for a reason, and this way of thinking is the main source of her perseverance and hope. She dislikes violence and tries to solve most problems peacefully when possible. Sunny is also quite empathetic and forgiving; even though Dune and Kestrel were not very kind to Sunny and her friends, she sometimes cried for them after their deaths. Sunny is steadfast and strives to be helpful whenever she can, regardless of whom it is that needs aid. In Moon Rising, Moon described Sunny's mind to be hopeful and determined, as well as mentioned that her thoughts also matched her actions. She is usually the underdog, because of her size and cheerful disposition, but she proves that she is intelligent and fearless. Sunny also seems to be devoted to making the world a better place. This is shown when after Morrowseer explained that the dragonet prophecy was fake, she didn't become relieved and plan to live an ordinary life. Sunny said that she wanted to stop the war and liked being destined to end it. Sunny's personality has developed and changed throughout the series. During The Dragonet Prophecy, she was content with most things in her life (according to the other dragonets of destiny), and rarely complained or purposefully created conflict. Growing up, Sunny was frustrated at the other dragonets, besides Starflight and Clay. She believed that she truly did have good ideas, but ones that her friends would only approve of if they came from someone other than her. In The Brightest Night, wanting to prove that she is more than what her friends think she is, she follows Fierceteeth, Preyhunter, and Strongwings, in an attempt to stop them from selling her and her friends' location to Burn. After meeting her mother Thorn, and later her father Stonemover, she resolves to be like her mother, Thorn, who fixed her problems by doing something about them, rather than like Stonemover, who gave up on a happy life years ago. She returns to the rainforest and her friends with a plan to bring Blaze, Blister, and Princess Burn together to end the war. Sunny then realizes that her friends did truly do believe in her after they all work together and successfully end the war. Although still kind, hopeful, and compassionate, Sunny has become more firm, confident, and direct like her mother.

Abilities
Sunny has no known abilities, but she has a strong belief in the dragonet prophecy.