#doubletroubleau

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.