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Aelita Schaeffer (also known as Aelita Hopper, Aelita Stones, and Maya) is the main female protagonist of Code Lyoko. Aelita is a human-turned virtual being, and the daughter of Franz Hopper. She is the only girl in Lyoko (as only one exists), and one of the members of Team Lyoko. However, Aelita differs from the other members of Team Lyoko in that she is deeply linked with Lyoko, as she remained as a guardian of the virtual world for ten years after being virtualized by her father, Franz Hopper. Jeremie would later discover Lyoko, and in turn, Aelita (and X.A.N.A.) after turning on the Supercomputer.
She was voiced by Sharon Mann. In the Japanese dub from the series, she was voiced by Yū Shimamura, who also voiced Jane Doe.
Bio[]
Aelita started out as the Damsel in Distress in the series. Unlike the other characters, she seemed to have originated on Lyoko, and survived there for years. The first season of the show deals with Jérémie and the Team trying to figure out a way to materialize her into the real world. She originally had two special abilities in Lyoko: she could enter the access towers that XANA uses to interface with the real world and shut them down, and she had the ability to morph the virtual landscape around her to create walls, rockslides, etc. Starting with Season 3, she was no longer in danger of being killed if losing all her Life Points. She gained the ability to attack with spheres of energy as well, and obtained wings in Season 4 with her new outfit.
History[]
Some time prior to the start of the series, Aelita was born to Waldo and Anthea Schaeffer. She lived a happy life the first few years with her parents while they stayed in their large cabin mansion in the Alps, either in France or Switzerland. However, Waldo's work with Project Carthage, a top secret military project conducted by the Swiss government that he was a member of alongside Alan Meyer and 13 other scientists during the later years of the Cold War caused him to realize its true, malevolent intentions, and he chose to defect as a result. In response, the French DGSE, the Men in Black, came to his mansion in the Alps and kidnapped Anthea as punishment for his treason. Not wishing anything to befall Aelita as well, Waldo took her and returned to Paris, moving into the Hermitage near Kadic Junior High Academy, changing his name to Franz Hopper, Hopper being Anthea's maiden name, and taking a job as science teacher at Kadic. He also used an abandoned factory near Kadic to create the Supercomputer, Lyoko, and the A.I. XANA as a counter to Project Carthage to prevent its use of electronic warfare. However, as Franz developed Lyoko and XANA, he used a return to the past program to repeat the same day, June 6th, 1994, 2,546 times, which equals almost seven years, to perfect everything, which also caused XANA to evolve until it became self-aware. Soon, Franz's past would catch up to him again.
One day, just after Aelita returned home to the Hermitage on her bike and went up to her room, she looked out her window after hearing shouting, and saw that the DGSE had arrived to arrest Franz. Having anticipated this, Franz takes Aelita and uses the sewer passage to head to the factory, managing to stall the Men in Black long enough to escape into the sewers by the time they tried to catch up, now with their guns drawn if they needed to use lethal force to apprehend Franz. Reaching the factory, Franz preps the Scanners to transport himself and Aelita into Lyoko where they would be safe from all their enemies, and they exchange the hope to see each other once on Lyoko before the Scanners close and virtualize them. However, XANA, now self-aware, and unaware of how it was designed to stop Project Carthage, turned on Franz and captured him, leaving Aelita stranded on Lyoko for the foreseeable future. The last thing Aelita saw was her father being assaulted by XANA's monsters before she fled to seek refuge in a Tower for her own protection, with Franz telling her she'll be safe there before he draws off XANA's monsters.
Aelita remained on Lyoko for about 10 years before Jeremie Belpois discovered the Factory and the Supercomputer, and had his classmates and friends, Odd Della Robbia, Ulrich Stern, and Yumi Ishiyama be virtualized onto Lyoko themselves to serve as support to Aelita and protect her from XANA. At that point, Team Lyoko was formed, and whenever XANA activated a Tower on Lyoko to launch an attack on Earth, the others would protect Aelita until she could get into the Tower to deactivate it with "Code: Lyoko" to stop XANA's threat, before Jeremy used the return to the past to undo the damage.
However, later, Jeremy is able to perfect a materialization program to bring Aelita back to Earth, but XANA, knowing that Aelita held half of the Keys to Lyoko that were split between her and Franz, stole her Earth memories to keep her tied to the Supercomputer, so if the team tried to shut down the Supercomputer to shut off XANA, Aelita would die as well. They also find Franz's heavily-encrypted diary explaining everything, and after Franz helps Jeremy decrypt it so they can learn everything about Lyoko, the Supercomputer, and XANA, they attempt to enter Sector 5, Carthage, to get Aelita's Earth memories back. Unfortunately, XANA had laid a trap for them, allowing it to finally get Aelita's Keys upon downloading them from her with the Scyphozoa, and escape the Supercomputer, fleeing onto the Internet to infect any supercomputer around the world as part of its larger plan to enslave or eliminate humanity. Franz uses his copy of the Keys to restore Aelita's Earth memories and allow her to return safely home to Earth now that she was no longer tied in any way to the Supercomputer.
Nevertheless, with XANA still on the loose, Aelita, now with her full Lyoko Warrior powers unlocked once her Earth memories were restored, helps the team as they continue to fight it, until they decide to add William Dunbar to the team after learning that XANA, in order to stop them, had been using the Scyphozoa to possess Aelita and use "Code: XANA" to delete the Sectors of Lyoko so they couldn't prevent it from destroying the Core of Lyoko located in Sector 5. This proves to have severe consequences as William is possessed by XANA and personally destroys the Core of Lyoko, leading to his resurrection as XANA's most loyal bodyguard and general of his monsters.
However, thanks to help from Franz and Aelita, Jeremie is able to rebuild Lyoko from the ground up, but then decides they need to travel the Net to find XANA, and builds the Skidbladnir to serve as their means to travel the Digital Sea. Aelita and the rest of Team Lyoko get new outfits and abilities as well, and they soon discover that XANA has created Replikas of Lyoko's Sectors with the supercomputers it has infected to carry out its plans to enslave humanity, including building a robot army in the Siberian base it infected to conquer the world with. After the Skidbladnir is destroyed by XANA's strongest monster to date, the Kolossus, though Team Lyoko do get William back in the process, Jeremie works on a multi-agent program to destroy XANA outright by destroying all of its Replikas and presence on Lyoko in one fall swoop. However, when the time comes, and it is discovered that there's not enough power to carry out launching the Anti-XANA Program, Franz sacrifices himself to provide the necessary energy to launch it. Despite her heartbreak and grief at losing her father, Aelita makes certain Franz's sacrifice was not in vain, and launches the program, leading to XANA being utterly destroyed once and for all as all of its Replikas are deleted, and its presence on Lyoko is purged as well. With XANA gone, the team decide to finally shut down the Supercomputer, but make certain that they'll be ready if Team Lyoko are ever needed again.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Despite her fake identity working for school, it's unknown how far Aelita and Jeremy have thought through follow up identification and monetary issues.
- Her cover story can only work for so long.
- The only reason they needed the Code Earth program to get her off Lyoko was due to Aelita forgetting that she was simply a virtualize human and not an AI.
- Presumably, Yumi helped her do clothes shopping.
External Link[]
- Aelita Schaeffer on the Code Lyoko Wiki