Red Rising Saga · Character

Dano Sunshine

Also known as Tinpot, Sunshine, Dano

Minor
First seen · Book 4 · Ch. 6

His pimply face splits into a humming grin under buzzed dragon tattoos, short frame bending like rubber in splits. Piercings glint as he sprawls cat-like, nasal voice carrying Red ditties through the smoke. There's a wiry, unpredictable energy that makes him impossible to ignore.

Gender: male
Age: young adult
First appears: Book 4 · Ch. 6
Books: 1

Dano Sunshine, the young pimply Red acrobat, joins the heist crew with his flexible 50kg frame, doing splits and humming ditties in his black bodysuit. From bar stares at Pinks to couch lounging with burners, his luck turns grim—fox-bitten leg, skull caved by Kavax's punch, body melted by plasma. His arc is a tragic tumble from cocky gymnast to fiery corpse in the mission's chaos.

Description

Dano is a young short pimply Red with a flexible acrobat's gymnast build, barely 50kg soaking wet, buzzed head emblazoned with Obsidian dragons and glinting nasal piercings. He wears a hooded black bodysuit paired with spider gloves and a ruby chronometer, often sprawled like a drunk cat exhaling green and purple stained smoke from burners. His wiry presence hums with restless energy. Dano is a young, slight Red, described as weighing barely fifty kilos, with a pimply face and nasal piercings. His hair is buzzed close and patterned with Obsidian dragons, a striking design that makes his head as memorable as his quick, catlike manner. He wears a black neoPlast bodysuit, sometimes with its thermal hood, and tends to sprawl with casual restlessness. His wiry frame and self-conscious air give his eager swagger an endearing edge.

Connections

Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals

Ephraim ti Hornconflicting source relationships
Dano is part of Ephraim’s close-knit heist crew. He jokes with Ephraim but agrees to help him undertake the Syndicate’s dangerous job.
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Cyra si Lameniscoworker
The two crew members argue over Cyra’s incomplete hacking and her share of the heist payment; Dano needles her about her work.