Yapp about this Sunny guy, please? (No idea where he's from. I'm just seeing your later posts😅)
OH YEAH TOTALLYYY
he's from this web novel, shadow slave. my cousin recommended it to me(forced me actually, that guy wouldn't shut up about it) and i was obsessing over it for the past 2 weeks😭 also there're like 3000+ chapters and it's not even finished. and im so mad at my cousin, he didn't warn me it was going to be so freaking long
anyways onto my man sunny. his actual name is sunless because he was born during a solar eclipse and there's an ongoing joke about how his mother sucked at giving names cuz she had a "poetic soul" (his sister is named rain cuz she was born during a storm 😭😭)
he's from the outskirts, poor, starving and an orphan. his sister was adopted, so for all intents and purposes he's all alone in the world. explaining the plot would take so long so im just going to talk about the ✨FEELS✨
he's from the outskirts, he's a survivor and a killer at heart, wouldn't hesitate to backstab, betray and lie to survive because that's all he knows and that's been his world from the day he was born. but what's so beautiful about the story is, he learns to grow past his initial mindset of "every man for himself". he is fundamentally selfish, something that was also exacerbated by his circumstances, but as the story progresses he learns that he can't live all alone, that he needs to trust other people to have his back, and to live for something that is beyond himself. the last part develops to the point that he realises the need to use his powers for the sake of humanity
In one arc of the story he gets the charge of a large army and there he learns how to be responsible for other people and that is an incredibly formative experience for him. he remembers every life that was lost under his leadership and each loss hits him really hard. other commanders understand that loss of human lives is an unavoidable part of war, but sunny has a hard time dealing with that. he initially asserts that he will make sure that everyone survives, and when that doesn't happen he comes back stronger each time to defeat the creatures that had killed his people. and this is such an interesting contrast to his initial selfish aims and goals, and it's stuff like this which makes the readers understand that for all he claims to be evil and ruthless, he's not actually.
sunny's biggest wish has been to be free. free to make his choices outside of external influence. something that was born out of the utter powerlessness he felt growing up and the lack of meaningful choices he had. but, one of the main themes of the story is also about how no such thing as true freedom exists. how we're only free enough to choose our chains. be it love, family, morals, goals etc
The amount of effort he puts in, to make sure his loved ones remain safe is insane. He secretly enters his sister's life without revealing their actual relationship and coaches her so that she can survive their dying world. he doesn't reveal himself as her brother because he thinks she doesn't need him since she already has a happy life and a family of her own. and it's so heartbreaking, him being all alone in the world and how insecure he is about whether his friends actually care for him. For all he tries to be cruel and callous, inside he's a softie and that's also something most people in his life can see for themselves.
this guy pronounces himself to be 50 parts greed and 50 parts selfishness, with a considerable sprinkling of spite😂😂 and it's all true except it's mostly just greed and spite. after a life of utter poverty no wonder he sees everything in terms of its monetary value. his greed does lead him to incredible situations and most of the times it's hilarious. Oh and also this guy is crazy, actually loses his sanity every 1000 chapters or so.
One of the plot points is about how he's incapable of lying (not by choice but due to the circumstances of the fantasy world), so he learns to use that particular weakness in a way that makes others think he's lying. so we regularly get bullshit like "oh i survived falling into a star, ate the finger of a dead demon, killed myself to live etc" it's all true except without context most people are left feeling that he's lying lol. a lot of the times even with context it feels batshit crazy
