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Sunny Sunrise Intro
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[Character info is under the cut. Everything here is written as if it was written by the people running the website.]
Sunny Sunrise is an unused Welcome Home character concept, whose development was cut short before it was ever finalized.
But, luckily, there's plenty of restored concept artwork and notes from which we can deduce what she would've been like.
Apparently, there once existed the idea of a segment in the show which would have been aired exclusively during the morning.
The segment in question was going to be called "Way To Start The Day!" and it was where Sunny's character would come into play.
During the segment, she would teach children about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast each day, having proper morning hygiene and not sleeping in too often.
More often than not she would've also invited the other characters to accompany her on the way, and that's where it would get fun.
You see, Sunny was supposed to be an antagonistic character. A comedic one, but an antagonist nevertheless.
Her main enemy being Sally Starlet, someone who, as a gag, says that she doesn't know who Sunny is, despite the fact that they've known each other since childhood.
Sally was always seen as the brightest star in the sky, meanwhile Sunny was seen as the second brightest. (The sun is a star as well, but almost nobody in this universe believes Sunny when she argues this, as a gag.)
So, due to this Sunny swore that she'll get her revenge on Sally one day. In every segment of hers she'd try to ruin Sally's life throughout some elaborate plan, either with Sally directly or through one of the other neighbors.
One of the notes states that "She doesn't live in the main neighborhood, but instead her house is located in the one next to it." which confirms that she wasn't supposed to be part of the neighborhood, but instead a minor character that would appear occasionally.
The plans would always be rather silly and not 'life ruinningly' evil, they would rather just cause minor inconveniences. The plan would basically be a fail each time even if it goes according to plan because they don't cause that much damage anyways. Despite this, Sunny would keep trying.
Personality wise, Sunny is a loud, energetic, confident and a mischievous person who is, besides her 'evil shenanigans' a kind girl at heart. She's quite sporty and would show some easy morning exercises during her segment. She'd be very expressive with her gestures and poses, anything to get her words across as dramatically and fantastically as possible.
Even concept artwork for her puppet had been made and it was going to be a live-hand puppet that requires an additional hand to move the head, since it would have been quite large. One unique feature that this puppet was supposed to have, is that her shoes could turn into actual mini roller skates with the press of a button, which would've also been a thing during her segment, as she would kick the heels of her feet and the wheels would show up. This was most likely done as to emphasize that she's quick on her feet, according to a note. But, unfortunately, the puppet was never made.
Even though Sunny's s character is nowhere near present in the universe of Welcome Home, we can still find reused remains of her character in the characters we do have.
The main example of course being Sally Starlet, whom Sunny is most likely a beta version of. While the design and personality attributes are obvious, Sunny also shares Sally's talents and love for singing and dancing, which Sally is supposedly better at than Sunny.
Also, Sunny's loves and interests for knitting, sewing, cooking and baking were given to Poppy instead. Sunny's name was most likely taken from a bird concept character who was also named Sunny.
The direct reason for the erasure of Sunny Sunrise as a character is currently unknown, and even though we do have some theories about it, we'll wait until we gain more information about the overall production of the show until we try to piece it together any further.
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Alright, the paralels between these two are as obvious as it can get, so what's up with them?
[The answer to that is under the cut! Everything here is written as if it was written by the people running the website.]
Since the creators of Welcome Home couldn't find any use in Molly Moon and Sunny Sunrise separately, they've decided to combine the two, and give them their own little spin-off show, titled "The Plan!"
Well, at least, that seemed to be the plan, (Pun intended.) since we have managed to find a decent number of scripts for it. And, interestingly enough, the number of scripts doesn't line up with the number that was planned originally.
There seem to be far more than what was needed.
We haven't restored the entirety of them yet, because some scripts are damaged more than others or are just missing entirerly. Like the first episode, for example. While we found the other episodes with ease, episode one is nowhere to be found, except for a brief description of it's contents as a note:
"The origin story of how Molly and Sunny met, and an insight of what their lifes were like before that happened."
We have managed to compile enough information about the show as to where we can talk about it.
Supposedly, the show was about the unused concept characters Molly Moon and Sunny Sunrise, who were put together as a comedic antagonistic duo, due to their opposite personalities and designs, which oddly enough fit together perfectly without it being planned that way. They would've been redesigned to fit the finalized versions of the Welcome Home cast later on but the development of the show was cut short before it was ever fully finalized.
The show was supposed to be animated instead of it being done with puppets.
Episodes lengths were: 5 minute shorts, 11 minutes for regular episodes and 22 minutes for specials.
The plot would follow the antagonistic leader Sunny and her sidekick Molly, as they try to ruin Sally Starlets life every episode... with plans that don't really cause that much damage anyways.
Episode structures were always the same, with the same kind of scenes and dialogue but with differences added to keep it interesting. (Note: Like Phineas and Ferb.) Every plan would fail in some manner at the end of every episode.
Besides being leader and sidekick, Sunny and Molly were also best friends, despite their many differences.
Sunny is there to motivate Molly to get out of her shell, and Molly is there as a voice of reason, to remind Sunny when something isn't a good idea. These two would compliment each other well, which would make for a fun watch.
Although the show would mainly focus on the comedic aspect, sometimes it would also include a lesson, which falls more in line with the original Welcome Home.
The direct reason for the erasure of the show is currently unknown, and even though we do have some theories about it, we'll wait until we gain more information about the overall production of it until we try to piece it together any further.
🎊¡¡¡Funky outfit time!!!🎊
Through all the ways you survive this phase,
it is unrewarding every day!~
You are caught in the chains
of a bot-like game,
looping on and on, it's all the same,
it's always never changing!~
"she believes she is at the very top" <- prev tags
Y'know, I don't think it was clear when I made the Sunny posts, but...
Sunny's motivation to make these plans doesn't come from the fact that she herself believes that SHE'S at the very top, no.
It comes from the fact that Sally is such a constant (maybe even arrogant, sometimes) show off that it pisses Sunny off.
Sunny would be perfectly fine with, hell, even being last place. She doesn't really care about it. Yes, she used to be unhappy with only second place, but she's changed since then.
She's trying to one up Sally to become number one just to spite her, to rub it into her face.
This motivation is clear during the episodes, but it'll be a while till we get to those so I wanted to put this out there-
Since Sally is a star, what would she think of the many stars in the sky at night?
As beneath her!
I was gonna post this during pride month but I didn't to avoid spoiling Sunny-
Also, there's a small bonus under the cut.
It's these two post note doodles that I drew separately initially, but they ended up looking really cute next to each other. 🧡☀️🌛💙
GDGJMJGGN 💀💀💀
Sunny: "Y'know, I heard that people are shipping us!"
Molly: "Oh, to where? I've never been on a ship before-"
Alright since my off site friend actually really ships these two, I made up a ship name for them: moonrise.
Moon + Sunrise (Their last names.)
I can't confirm whether it'll be canon or not but she was really into the idea so I'm rolling with it for funsies-
I was gonna post this during pride month but I didn't to avoid spoiling Sunny-
Also, there's a small bonus under the cut.
It's these two post note doodles that I drew separately initially, but they ended up looking really cute next to each other. 🧡☀️🌛💙
Let's get into the process of Sunny's creation! I seperated it into two parts under the cut. ❤️
Final version of the design:
Concept art:
Old versions of these two drawings:
#1
Ok, so, the story behind Sunny's creation is actually an interesting one.
Basically, some time last year I had the idea to create an Opposite AU for my oc's, which would have essentially been an au where all of my oc's would be the complete opposite of who they are.
I gave up on the idea of it, because I realized how much of a spoiler it would be for some of the oc's stories if I turned everything on its head.
Molly Moon, was turned into Sunny Sunrise. Thing is, this version of Sunny was very different from the one we have now. I actually saved the description I wrote down, please note that some of this stuff is NOT CANON anymore. Here:
[I'll keep it short, the whole unused character thing still stands, but, instead of it being aired before nightime it was supposed to be aired in the morning. Sunny's segment, named: "Way to start the day" was entirerly focused on her favorite thing: the world finally waking up! In the segment she would mostly teach children about the importance of a healthy breakfast and not oversleeping every day. She would also do some simple morning exercises. Personality wise, Sunny is harsh with her words and loud with them at that. Overly confident with a massive ego, she thinks she's the most important person in the room at all times. And she's not even slightly suddle with anything. No matter how mean her opinion is, you will hear it, and she'll think you're blessed to hear it from her. Even though she has a sharp memory, she purposefully doesn't bother to remember things that she thinks are unimportant. Her main gag would be that she's so loud at times that the intensity of the sound can break anything around her. She's fast on her feet and with her actions, and always has in mind exactly what she wants. Her main room would be "The Bathroom" which has a comically large mirror so that she can see herself in full glory no matter where she's walking in the room. "The Kitchen" would be the second room. Catchphrase: "Rise and shine! It's time for breakfast, and you get to feast upon your favorite eye-candy, me!~"]
After I scraped this au idea, I kinda just forgot about Sunny. A while later I was working on Molly's lore, during which I created a character whose concept I still find interesting.
Her name was Sammy Starshine, a parody of Sally Starlet. Yes, an actual parody character which the canon would've been aware of, this character was basically a big ongoing gag. She was based on this beta version of Sally, but her head was some sorta different star instead:
Personality wise she was actually kinda mean and overly bossy, with Molly being the only one who could really stand her, because Sammy was only nice to her. The whole trying to ruin Sally's life concept was actually a thing at this point too. I had a very specific plot for her story in mind, and I like it a lot so I won't talk about it, because I wanna reuse it somewhere else. Sammy influenced the overall story A LOT, even though she's not a thing anymore.
A while later I realized that I wanna do this character differently, and then the Sunny Sunrise we know today was slowly created, after I decided to reuse the Molly Opposite AU concept, but give her a far nicer personality.
And that's about it, I'm glad that I figured it out.
#2
I thought of Sunny a long time before I started to work on her, and the original design idea I had for her did not end up making the final cut.
She was always gonna have a sun head, and eyes that were basically Molly's eyes upside down and more roundish, with spiky eyelashes that bend upwards, unlike Molly's which are round and bend downwards. Also, her nose being that shape is supposed to kinda resemble a sun dial.
For her head colors it was basically "Like Sally but different shades." I was slightly afraid that her and Sally would look too similar, but I'm glad that they don't.
The outfit is what gave me the most trouble.
Originally she was gonna have a rainbow scarf with clouds at the ends, but I couldn't do that because of her head situation. I still like the scarf design idea, I might reuse it somewhere else.
Also, she was gonna have an off the shoulder top instead instead of a sweater, and a skirt. Those two clothing items were originally pink, but I ended up changing it because I realized that it made no sense, given the fact that Molly is primarily blue, which meant that I needed to make Sunny also blue if I wanted a two of them to fit together.
Unlike Molly she is light blue while Molly is dark blue, which is an obvious reference to the clear blue sky and then the night sky. Also in the same way that Molly has different shades of dark blue Sunny also has different shades of light blue. Like Molly, Sunny also has a cloud motif.
Since Molly has the sheep on her pajamas I wanted to give Sunny a bird somewhere in her design to parallel Molly but thing is I couldn't for the life of me figure out where to put it. Since I couldn't fit it into the character design I instead put it onto her house. I also put a bird somewhere else, but I'll show you that some other time. (I'll talk about the lore connected to the birds in a different post.)
I went for shorts instead of a skirt because I had no character that wore shorts in their main outfit and I wanted to mix it up, and also I thought that shorts were far more sporty than skirts.
The bow was a random addition that I fell in love with as well as the beauty mark. I gave the bow the little ribbons on the side cuz it gives me ninja vibes.
She was always supposed to be carrying a rainbow bag around but it looked bad and the heart bag version of it was too difficult to draw so I just decided to get rid of it.
The shoes gave me a lot of trouble because originally she wore boots with big white leg warmers which were supposed to go together with the clouds on her sweater. And they did but I didn't like that design and I couldn't figure out what to do with it.
Eventually I decided to change the boots into sneakers and give her rainbow socks. I still didn't like it because there was too much blue in the design.
Then I changed the shoe colors to be blue and black, and that's where it clicked. I made the shoes completely mismatch, with a rainbow sock on one leg and the leg warmer on the other.
I knew that I had to put a rainbow somewhere but I was struggling to figure out where, the sock was a good solution for this.
Unlike Molly who is completely covered, Sunny has both her shoulders and legs exposed, to show that she's more open and extroverted than Molly.
The fingerless gloves were an idea that I've had since the beginning, I was debating on what type of gloves it should be but I just went for the regular type at the end.
I did have the idea of giving her fake fangs and that she wears them cuz she's convinced that it makes her look more evil and scary, but I scraped that idea cuz she ended up looking too silly with them.
At one point I tried to completely change the outfit to make her wear an over the shoulder cloud jacket instead, which wasn't a bad idea in concept but I butchered it in execution so bad that I just scraped it. I might reuse this idea one day.
And, that's about it. She's honestly one of my favorite character designs I've made so far!
nature is beautiful
Molly and Sunny memes because I'm oh so normal about them, don't even worry about it-
(The fandom being me and my mutuals- 💀)
[Upcoming au sneak peak
+ meme credits under the cut.]
Breaking Plan AU, where Sunny White and Molly Pinkman need to cook. Coming in the year 3000!
Credits:
I don't know what I'm doing
can I come over
can I come over 2
what's important in life
photosynthesis
giant map for the plan
I've decided to enjoy life anyways
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Some stuff I made for Sunny-
I got nothing much to add, but I'm very pleased with how everything turned out! ✨
There's concept art for the house under the cut!
