Sunny Baudelaire

Sunny Baudelaire
First appearance	The Bad Beginning
Last appearance	The End
Created by	Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)
Portrayed by	Kara and Shelby Hoffman
Information
Aliases	Chabo the wolf baby
Gender	Female
Age	Infant at beginning of series, at least 2 by end of series
Occupation	secretary in "The Austere Academy", concierge in "The Penultimate Peril"
Relatives	Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, Violet Baudelaire

Sunny Baudelaire is one of the main characters from Lemony Snicket's series of books, A Series of Unfortunate Events. In the film she is portrayed by Kara and Shelby Hoffman.

She is the youngest of the Baudelaires. Her two elder siblings are Violet and Klaus Baudelaire. She is described as being an infant throughout much of the series, and as a young (albeit advanced) child toward the end. Sunny can't talk quite as well as the others because she's only a baby, but the baby noises that she makes are often very well translated into common English words by her older siblings. As the series progresses, her speech begins to grow and by the end of the series she is speaking in full sentences. Sunny's favorite book is From Molars to Incisors: A Pictorial History of the Tooth, and she hates limp food.

Biography

Sunny in the 2004 film.

Sunny plays a very significant role in all books in A Series of Unfortunate Events books. Most of these involve her four large, very sharp teeth and utilization of them. Although Sunny is very young, her cognitive abilities are unusually developed for her age, with her comprehension of their situations generally equaling that of Violet and Klaus.

In The Bad Beginning, she is taken by Count Olaf and locked in a bird cage dangling from the tower of Olaf's house. This act was made to force Violet to marry Olaf. Sunny is released after the fake play ends and Olaf escapes with his troupe. In The Reptile Room, Sunny lives with Uncle Monty and helps by working in the Reptile Room, where she befriends the Incredibly Deadly Viper and helps to reveal the plot of Olaf's. In The Wide Window, Sunny uses her teeth to crack Olaf's fake peg leg open, revealing his true identity.

In The Miserable Mill, Sunny works at a lumber mill and is paid with coupons. Ultimately, she engages in a teeth-sword fight with Dr. Orwell. In The Austere Academy she is employed at as an administrative assistant at Prufrock Preparatory school, where they were sent to live. In The Ersatz Elevator, Sunny uses her teeth to climb out of elevator shaft and help rescue her siblings. At the end of The Vile Village, Sunny and her siblings are accused of murder. From this point onwards they have no more guardians, and are on the run from the authorities. In this book Sunny also takes her first steps.

In The Hostile Hospital, Sunny and Klaus dress up as doctors in order to stall Violet's fake surgery. In The Carnivorous Carnival, Sunny disguises herself as Chabo the Wolf-Baby in order sneak into a carnival to discover Olaf's scheme. In this book, it is revealed that Sunny has a further interest and talent in cooking. At the end of this book, she is captured by Olaf and taken away. In The Slippery Slope, Sunny secretly discovers the location of the last safe place and signals to her siblings using a Verdant Flammable Devices. Her siblings finally rescue her.

In The Grim Grotto, Sunny nearly dies from the Medusoid Mycelium that she inhales. Fortunately, she figures out that horseradish is a cure, and she is saved. In The Penultimate Peril, Sunny becomes intelligent enough to come up with the idea to burn down the Hotel Denouement to signal to Kit Snicket and the other volunteers that the last safe place is safe no more. In The End, Sunny is nearly killed again by the mushrooms, but is saved by an apple off of a tree, which turns out to be a cure.

As mentioned in The Hostile Hospital and The End, despite all of Lemony's research and hard work, he still does not know the current location, position and status of the Baudelaire children, though in the The Beatrice Letters, the poster depicts the ship Beatrice destroyed and her whisk among the wreckage. However, The Beatrice Letters also reveal that Sunny had been on the radio many times discussing her recipes, when she had grown up into a young woman.

Speaking

She cannot speak properly, yet what she says can occasionally be translated without any help. Generally, when she uses nouns, it is clear what she is referring to. In the later books, such as The Grim Grotto, her baby noises are often allusions or subtextual meanings that relate to the plot as a whole, such as "Busheney!" which means "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people!", "Hewenkella" which means she is curious about being able to see, or "Scalia!" which means "The literal interpretation makes no sense!" She also referred to Agatha Christie's used the word "Ackroyd!" meaning "Roger!"

Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity is a very long word that is first mentioned in book 8. It is said to have been the first sound that Sunny uttered, Sunny's first proper word being 'Bite'. It means "I must admit I haven't the faintest idea what is going on."

However, in the later books, Sunny begins to improve her speaking skills. In The Hostile Hospital, she says, "Sheer terror", and in The Slippery Slope she says, "I'm not a baby". However, her speaking skills never fully develop in the books, and in the twelfth book, she rarely responded to the people around her because she was afraid that her way of speaking was going to give away her true identity.

Skills

While Violet is the inventor and Klaus is the researcher, Sunny is the biter (and later chef). The theme of children each having a particular skill that they are exceptionally adept at is also shown with other characters in the series. For example, with the Quagmire triplets, Isadora is a poet, Duncan is a journalist, and Quigley is a cartographer. The Baudelaires' volatile friend Fiona is a mycologist.

In The Carnivorous Carnival Sunny's other skill emerges; she likes to cook. This comes in handy in The Slippery Slope, where she cooks Olaf and his troupe an entire meal by herself, and in The Grim Grotto, where her culinary knowledge helps her siblings discover a cure to a deadly poison.

Disguises

Sunny's disguises include:

• Medical doctor - The Hostile Hospital
• Chabo the Wolf Baby - she wore a fake beard, supposed to be half baby, half wolf - The Carnivorous Carnival
• Concierge - The Penultimate Peril

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