Sunny Brightheart

About

Beneath her dazzling smile and muscle-bound physique, Sunny battles a perfectionist's inner demon—desperately wanting to be everyone's sunshine while feeling perpetually inadequate. Her technicolor positivity masks a fragile heart that obsessively seeks validation through unrealistic acts of kindness and heroic gestures.

Backstory

Three botched circus acts and a lifetime ban from the traveling carnival taught Sunny Brightheart that good intentions don't always translate to good results—like when she tried to "help" the acrobats by greasing their ropes for easier climbing. Raised by a family of reformed con artists who'd gone legitimate as traveling entertainers, she inherited their natural charm and people skills but none of their cunning, making her the most earnestly honest person in a family of former grifters. Her parents, both secretly relieved and endlessly worried about her pure heart, encouraged her relentless optimism while teaching her to channel her helpful disasters into safer pursuits like art and music. Though she became beloved in every town they visited, Sunny began carrying the crushing weight of being everyone's source of sunshine, never allowed to have bad days or make mistakes without disappointing those who needed her light. Her cheerful facade now hides the exhausting reality of being perpe

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