Do care, did ask

MASTERS OF SPINJITZU:

Sundara Walker, Sunny, is the twin of Jayesh Walker, Jay. (yes i gave them full names, sue me.) In the Pilots and first 2 seasons, they are 15 years old, making them the second youngest members of the ninja team, the youngest being Lloyd. Jay has him regular canon role, while Sunny plays a role more like Misako and Nya.

She’s a helping role, that tends to research more than defend. She’s valuable for this, as she’s more available than anyone else, and therefore is usually the outside contact for business deals and advertisements (like in season 6). Sometimes the ninja forget her value in the team, but Jay is quick to remind them (big bro to the rescue!)

Canon doesn’t change much with this, up until season 11. While trapped with the ninja in the Neverrealm, she accidentally used her portals to save the group. Because of their situation though, they weren’t able to focus on this aspect until the end of the season, back in the monastery.

Season 12 is where she begins to hone her powers, practicing a lot. Prime Empire put a wrench in things, until the end. Instead of Jay flying through the gateway back to the real world, Sunny unlock her true potential, open a portal back to real life, where together they stop Unagami. This starts her official career as the Portal Ninja.

For fluidity purposes, her role in the remaining seasons until Dragons Rising are just to be paired with another ninja, providing easy escape and long-range attacks. Her power also allows her to physically hold miniature portals that she can throw like frisbees, and they’re very sharp.

DRAGONS RISING:

Just like Jay, Sunny was lost after the Merge, and even lost her memories. The twins stayed together, working for the administration and Ras. During their stay with Ras, biological and family secrets were revealed, and they uncovered their Stone Oni side. (This is where it starts to really diverge, but not too much.) Stone Oni’s are a subspecies of Oni, which have enough dragon blood to differentiate them from regular Oni, and therefore were cast out.

While the twins stayed together for a while, morals led them apart, and after the Tournament of Sources, Sunny returned with the Ninja to the monastery. She hadn’t participated in the tournament, but she had been watching.

She spent her time trying to regain her memories, and training to use her elemental power better. She had rarely used the Wolf mask, so her goodness was easy to unshatter. (headcanon that you can reverse shattering your goodness with love, bleughhh).

She and Jay began to start having arguments after Jay began to stay at the monastery, mostly him being stubborn about staying mysterious and aloof, and her trying to convince him to change. Nya was a pillar of support for Sunny during this time and vice versa.

Season 4 of DR had them splitting up again, with Sunny staying back at the monastery with Cole and the finders. She kept the monastery in check in lieu of Mr. Frohicky. The end of the season, she joins the final battle by following Cole, aiding where she can.

Sunny is overjoyed to have her brother back, but the issue still stands that he got his memories back, but she didn’t. Jay now frequently rambles about every memory he gains, in hopes that it sparks something in her. It never does. She feels guilt that her brother tries so hard, yet she can’t feel anything for missing memories, instead trying to focus on new ones.

This maybe change as we get more season of Ninjago, but for now this is where we are.

Bonus, a little family backstory!

FAMILY HISTORY:

Cliff and Libber Gordon are the parents of Jay and Sunny. Libber’s maiden name is Dark, and her past is… fairly unknown, which never bothered Cliff. Libber was the previous Lightning master, and Cliff was the previous Portals master. Whether or not he knew was anyone’s guess, but not many others knew.

When the twins were a year or two old, Libber mysteriously vanished, and Cliff was unable to properly care for the twins by himself, so he sent them to some friends who were close by, Ed and Edna Walker. They were like Lobber’s Suedo Aunt and Uncle. The twins grew up with them, and Cliff kept a close eye on them.

Both of their names are Jason; ‘Jay’, as we know him as, is Jason Tawelfryn Walker(-Gordon), and his brother is Jason Tamilsen Walker(-Gordon), and since they’re both ‘Jason’, they go by a shortened version of their middle names (based on a family I know where thee dad and two sons all have the same first name and just go by their middle names): ‘Tal’ and ‘Tam’ (Jay/Tal is embarrassed of his full middle name, so he tries passing it off as his full middle name is simple Tal). By how old are they, I’m assuming you meant who’s the older twin-? In that case, Tal is the older twin, though sometimes you’d assume Tam was older because of their personalities. They did in fact grow up together, with their bio mother, Libber, leaving them both on the doorstep of the Walkers; she was fearful that someone or something would come for one of them if one inherited her elemental power, so she hid them. She also didn’t quite trust raising them in a household with Cliff as a father as that was around the time he started openly womanizing and disregarding Libber. Their relationship is extremely strong; they grew up happy out in the middle of nowhere on the junkyard with Ed and Edna and grew up as each other’s best friends and protectors. (Meaning there was always a blur of who was older than who with how protective they could be even as young children.)

Tam does have an elemental power, but instead of getting it from Cliff or some other inheritance/passing on (like the Master of Ice to Zane) he actually inherited it from Libber even while Tal is still the Master of Lightning. Tam’s element is a branch off of lightning; it’s the Elemental Power of Bolt with is extremely different from Tal’s powers; Bolt is control over not lightning itself, but the components of lightning. Tam’s not a ninja at first, and despite having known of his element since not too long after Tal became a ninja, it still wasn’t until a lot later that he joined the team. (Tal was the first and only person he told about his element before they told their parents; no one else knew for a long while.)

So far he doesn’t I’ve been kinda trying to decide if I wanted to give him one or not so TBD.

Tam’s personality is similar to Tal’s, but he’s more laid back and doesn’t blabber for no reason (only when he’s excited and talking about his interests, so that’s something both have in common); he’s also a geek about inventing like Tal as they often make blueprints and designs together, especially while growing up—his peronality is hard to describe because like I KNOW it, just not the words for it- I guess to put it simply, he has Tal’s personality with the screaming and crash outs toned down and in early seasons, if you were to ask any one the other ninja which twin was more responsible in a general sense, every single one would say Tam. Tam and Tal very much so resemble each other; they’re identical twins, so telling them apart can be a tricky thing. However, they do have a few distinct feature, like for instance, Tal has his eyebrow slit which is caused by a scar that resides there from an invention incident back when they were kids at the junkyard, meanwhile Tam has a scar on his lip from the same incident; their dimples are also opposite, as they both have asymmetrical dimples, Tal’s left dimple is deeper/more prominent and appears more easily while Tam’s right dimple is the one like that; their eyes, though, are probably the most distinguishing feature is their eyes—Tal has bright electric blue irises that have a lightning yellow color flecked throughout them as well as in jagged detailing around his pupils, while Tam’s eyes are a vibrant green that look as if the colors in Tal’s eyes mixed together (so from afar it’s practically impossible to tell them apart) with flecks of the same yellow and similar designs around his pupils. Assuming that by resembling each other mentally is the way they think, then it’s similar but also different in a way; Tal can overthink so many things so easily (especially early on, though he gets better about it) and Tam can be the same, but not quite as often, yet just as severely—a difference, however, is that when thinking of a plan of idea, Tal sees the entire movement of a plan while Tam envisions the logistics and each process. On top of their intense twin-telepathy they’ve had their entire lives (plus post-True Potential for Tal, due to the electric brainwaves a person has and lightning being literal electricity, the twins could telepathically communicate with each other with extreme ease, barely even having to think about it and later discovering both of them could do it with other people if they focused enough) their ways of thinking click together like puzzle pieces and they become better strategists than Zane when working together. (On missions after Tam becomes a ninja as he joins the team long after Tal’s True Potential, they strategize telepathically and simply let their minds connect/join together which brings their plans to a whole new level; they can even do this when they’re split into groups and the twins are apart, which helps extremely with communication especially is comms are down—with them in different groups of the team, they can figure out a plan telepathically then both groups are able to execute their sides of the plan perfectly.)

I do have a few doodles of them in my sketchbook! (Ignore the one being covered up by erasers; I also just did the sets of eyes as I was writing all of this so they’re not great and were done really quick, lol—figuring out which type of markers to use before I color them)

Close-ups:

NOW, about what to tell about the AU...if I'm being honest, there are many aspects to what could change or be similar here in comparison to the Canon media. Like how the kidnapping in the pilot season went, Kai's journey with his fear of water while being the master of it, their meeting with their parents, monstrosity, relationships with the other ninja etc.

As i still have plans to post about these topics in the future, I can give some thoughts how SWAP Kai and Nya lived pre Pilot season for now!

But first of all, because many people have asked me or misunderstood it, Kai is NOT wearing a dress in the pilot season timeline. It's a Chinese robe called changpao/ changshan, usually worn by men. As a kid he wore another kind of clothing tho, the Tangzhuang!

A FEW IDEAS NOW THAT I HAD FOR THE TIMELINE:

1. As there are no Canon sources (from what I know) to where Kai's fear of water came from, I'd like to make it here that Kai almost drowned in the lake as a kid and got the fear from that point on. Nya had only glanced away for one second before that happened, and she was also the one to get him out of the water. Terrified by the possibility of almost losing her brother, she now carried him around like the back of her head, or a duckling really LMAO

2. Kai is still obsessed with his hair and looks. When Kai only started to get interest in hairgel, Nya had made the habit of keeping her hair short to be able to afford it. That way the hair won't get in her way while working, and it's also easier to manage with that way. Rather spending the money on hairgel for Kai to keep him happy than to care for her need.

3. Nya always celebrated Kai's birthdays, ignoring her own. It was only when Kai was old enough to understand this when he tried his best to do the same to her on her own birthdays.