Aelita Schaeffer

Aelita Schaeffer is one of the main characters from the Code Lyoko series.

Aelita also known as Aelita Hopper, Aelita Stones, and Maya is a human-turned virtual being, and the daughter of Franz Hopper. She is one the members of the Lyoko Warriors. However, Aelita differs from the other members of the team 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 is Jeremie's love interest and Laura Gauthier's rival.

Appearance
Aelita's hair is pink both on Lyoko and in the real world. Aelita wears different outfits at different times on Earth. Her original outfit in which she was first virtualized in 10 years ago is a maroon skirt, yellow shirt and a dark pink jacket. In the second and third season, she wears a dark pink jumper dress over a light pink hooded long sleeved shirt with two fuzzy pull strings and pink knee boots. In Season 4, her outfit consists of a dark purple dress that comes to her knees and light pink quarter length leggings underneath. Her night clothes consist of white, later pink socks (usually; on few occasions, she goes barefoot) and an over sized pink t-shirt with a red letter A on the front.

On Lyoko, her ears are pointed, like an elf's. Her left ear has a small dangle earring that looks like a fishing lure. Her Lyoko ID card shows a picture of her face and body as do the rest of them. She also has light pink, maroon-edged sleeveless covering her lower arms. Unlike the other Lyoko Warriors, her eyes are vivid green, yet appear black in the real world.

For the first three seasons, Aelita's Lyoko attire consists of a light pink-and-white mini skirt and a matching top that go over trousers and a long shirt that are both off-white, and matching shoes. In the fourth season, Aelita receives a new pink form-fitting suit on Lyoko, which has a pair of retractable energy wings that enable Aelita to fly.

She is in 8th grade for Seasons 1-2 and in 9th through Seasons 3-4. In Season 1, she is 12 (being skipped ahead). In Seasons 2-4, she is 13 (though it is stated in Common Interest that she is still 12). In Evolution, she should be 14-15 starting in the 11th grade.

Aelita is technically the oldest one in the group, (chronologically) being 22 years old at the start of the series, but due to her stay in Lyoko, she has biologically remained the age of 12 for the last 10 years.

Personality
Aelita is quite intelligent beyond her years, shows kindness, generosity, and compassion towards her friends, but is also quick-witted; she is good at making up insults for Sissi (as seen in Unchartered Territory and Maiden Voyage) and good at outsmarting monsters on Lyoko. However, as the second youngest (physically) of the five warriors, she is also the most naive; during her first encounters with Earth her feelings were easily hurt and she was easily swayed by others, most notably Sissi. With the support of her friends, she adapts to her new environment quickly, however, and her maturity progresses throughout the series, becoming a defacto leader along with Jeremie while on Lyoko. Frequently, Jeremie and Aelita worked for programs, such as Lyoko's recreation and the Skid, showing she has inherited her father's skill in computers and mentions in passing her high grade point average, due to math grades.

Her relationship with her father is slightly complicated: it's implied he loved her and vice versa, but she showed resentment towards him in The Key for being "insane" and possibly for abandoning her. She forgave him after he saved her life and tried to find and materialize him, only to eventually lose him for good, to great regret.

Aelita always blushes when she talks about something secretive with Jeremie and her and is frequently implied to have feelings for him, as he does for her. Despite their attraction, neither of them have confirmed a relationship (similar to Ulrich and Yumi) and have fought on occassion.

Along with being a math prodigy, Aelita has a good skill for music, specifically remixing. It's implied this appreciation came from her father playing piano for her. This skill was first brought to light in Final Mix, when she repaired a mixing board. After being given some general instruction from Odd, William convinced her to act as a DJ for a school dance. This became a small plot line for her when Jim's nephew, Chris from the Subdigitals, selected her mix to be part of an opening act and beat out two other finalists in Crash Course before performing in Music to Soothe the Savage Beast.

Aelita has a complex connection to Lyoko. She was initially given Keys of Lyoko by her father, either before or during her first virtualization. This granted her the ability to deactivate towers, among other things. These keys were stolen in The Key when X.A.N.A. drained her memory, leaving her brain dead. She retained the ability to use them after Franz Hopper resurrected her soon after and gained the ability to be devirtualized like the others and use her own weapon, which allowed to take on a more combative role in the group.

Aelita's memories were partitioned from her by either X.A.N.A. or the supercomputer's long inactive time. As an incomplete being, Aelita would "die" whenever the supercomputer was shut down when she was not on Lyoko. Jeremie interpreted this connection to be a virus given to her when she was materialized back on Earth after a decade and sought on various ways to fix it, until discovering she was human and she was missing a fragment of herself. Jim and the Lyoko Warriors discovered this problem in False Start, when she "died" when Jeremie shut down the supercomputer. This was a problem in Common Interest, when the Uranium battery was dying. However, after starting to live on Earth, fragments of her past began to resurface and she exhibited several traits that would indicate she was not simply a highly intelligent artificial program but a human. Prior to the events in The Key, Aelita would have occasional flashbacks when she encountered things from her life like the Hermitageand Mister Pück. Also, some things weren't restored when she got her memories back, such as her birthday.

Abilities

 * Weapons:
 * Energy Fields  - Aelita from Season 3 onwards, she can create areas of deep pink pure electric energy with gelatinous form, which first appeared in the episode Straight to Heart. Jeremie says she developed this new power on their own during the holidays, now showing that Aelita can fight like the rest of the team. They are slower than Odd's laser Arrows and are somewhat easy to dodge, but they have no need to hit the eye of X.A.N.A. to destroy a monster. However, for a Megatank, its shell has to be opened. Like Odd and Ulrich with their attacks, when Aelita creates or throws an energy field, she yells out "energy field." When the ball hits an enemy, the energy field disappears and the enemy is covered with pink electricity before exploding. In the case of a Lyoko Warrior, he/she will immediately devirtualize or be stunned for a short while. A single sphere with a single blow can devirtualize any (except when Aelita is possessed by X.A.N.A. in Season 3), it can also do great harm to any object or destroy it. Aelita has a protection technique to join two energy fields together, creating a small shield impenetrable. In Season 4, Aelita learned to expand the fields of energy, making them more powerful in Lyoko, also if the spheres are combined with Creativity. Aelita can create a temporary yellow barrier of pure energy when needed. In the episode Skidbladnir, she launched a larger and more powerful version of her regular energy fields, and used it to devirtualize X.A.N.A. William in a single shot. However she was totally exhausted after firing it. When Aelita is teleported to earth as a spectre, her fields look different, being a yellowish orange color, surrounded by a red aura with four yellow rays and act as bolts similar to electricity. On earth, her energy fields are ten times stronger and ten times more powerful than on Lyoko.


 * Lyoko Powers/Abilities:
 * Creativity - This ability allows Aelita to alter, control and manipulate the landscapes and terrain of Lyoko or create invulnerable clones of herself. While energized as a polymorphic spectre on Earth, it is capable of cracking computer codes and opening sealed doors.
 * Petrification - This seems to be a small part of her Creativity, as it lets her lock monsters temporarily in blocks of ice (a clear example is in the episode Vertigo where she freezes the Scyphozoa). The petrified monster can be used as a column or platform to reach higher ground. This ability also serves as a means to easily destroy monsters or to block opponents.
 * Connection to Lyoko - Aelita and Lyoko have a connection, which is due to the fact that she had one of the keys of Lyoko (the other one is her father Franz Hopper / Waldo Schaeffer). This gives her a psychic link to the Supercomputer, allowing her to feel if it is turned on and how well it performs. However, this also gives advantages, as Aelita has an extraordinary intellectual ability. Aelita can also sense X.A.N.A's presence by meditating and sensing pulsations before anyone can track down the Tower, and can perform actions through the network into the real world, similar to X.A.N.A.
 * Tower Control - Aelita, because of her connection to Lyoko, has the power to control, activate and deactivate a Tower at will. This power allows her to float to the second platform of a Tower and use interface by typing codes such as:
 * Code Lyoko - If X.A.N.A. has activated an Tower. In all seasons and among all Lyoko Warriors, Aelita is the only one (until Code Lyoko Evolution) with the power to control Towers and neutralize the attack of X.A.N.A. (William's power is only because of being possessed by X.A.N.A).
 * Code: X.A.N.A. - which gives X.A.N.A full access to one sector's data. If entered in any of the Way Towers, the sector will be immediately destroyed.
 * Border Code - which had to be entered into four towers of four sectors, so Aelita could recover virtual memory lost, as seen when she does it to save Jeremie after his failed virtualization. This was exclusively shown in Frontier.
 * Jeremie also typed or used other codes for Aelita such as the Code Earth program, which allowed Aelita to materialized on Earth (appears at the end of Season 1 and used until the end of Season 2, where Aelita regained her human memory).
 * Vehicle: Aelita doesn't have her own vehicle. However she sometimes uses and shares other vehicles. She is really skilled in riding the Overboard (which she rarely uses) but usually uses an Overwing for transportation. When she shares the vehicle, she doesn't drive.
 * Skidbladnir - A submarine which was made by Jeremie and Aelita to navigate the Digital Sea. Aelita knows best how to pilot the ship, while in the main cockpit.
 * Angel Wings - Although not an actual vehicle, they are often Aelita's primary mode of transportation. Wings are integrated in her new suit. They first appeared in the episode Double Take, where she and her team changed their costumes and equipment on Lyoko. By waving her hand over a star-shaped bracelet she wears on her right wrist, a pair of wings will appear on her back which allows her to fly. Usually when Aelita lands, her wings disappear but she is able to reactivate them when the need arises. If Aelita is attacked while in flight, the wings will disappear. They also allows her to fly through the air at incredible speeds similar or superior to those of Ulrich's Super Sprint. Aelita is also able to transport someone else. For example, in episode Double Take, Yumi was transported and Odd in episode Kadic Bombshell.
 * Flight: An ability she uses when activating her feathered wings, to fly through the air with ease.

Trivia

 * Aelita's character might be based upon Alita ("Gally" in Japanese) from the manga Gunnm in Japanese. Also known as "Battle Angel Alita") by Yukito Kishiro; both characters lost their memories, have an extraordinary background, and are threatened by malicious forces.
 * Her avatar in Lyoko (during seasons 1-4) also has markings under her eyes, just like Alita's.
 * Her "angel wings" in Season 4 could be another reference to the same: "Battle Angel".
 * The name 'Aelita' also means "voice of protection", a possible reference to her soft melodic/angelic singing when using her Creativity.
 * Aelita‘s point of view in season 1 is similar to the fairy tale princess, Rapunzel.
 * Aelita shares her English voice actress with Jeremie.
 * In the Spanish, Latin-American dialect, she is played by Xochitl Ugarte. In the Spanish, European dialect, dub, she is played by Olga Velasco.
 * In the Japanese dub, she was played by Yū Shimamura. Her name was spelled and is pronounced as Airita.
 * Aelita has several false surnames. When Yumi asked her parents if Aelita could stay with them, she said that her last name was Lyoko out of panic. Later in Season 2, they decided that Aelita was enrolled as a border, and given a new identity; her surname became "Stones". When the team found out that Franz Hopper is her father, they made a false conclusion that Hopper is her last name, which was then proven wrong when they discovered that Hopper is her mother's maiden name, which Franz Hopper used as a cover name. Since Wrong Exposure, it's established that "Schaeffer" is her true last name, although due to her new life, she is now and forever "Aelita Stones".
 * In Code: Earth, Yumi tells her parents that Aelita is her pen-pal from Japan, while Odd tricks Mr. Delmas by saying Aelita is his cousin from Holland. These all, of course, are lies so Aelita can stay on Earth and to make people believe that Aelita is a normal girl.
 * In New Order, Aelita tells Jim she is Odd's cousin from Canada. This is another lie, but Jim believes it, obviously not remembering everything that happened to him in False Start.
 * Aelita uses a scooter while traveling to the Factory in the sewers. Jeremie later gives her a pink cellphone to use. It seems all the things she owns have been bought for her by Jeremie.
 * Like X.A.N.A., Aelita has the power to use Lyoko to act in the real world. In Ghost Channel, Aelita ordered the pipes in the boiler room to destruct, allowing Jeremie to elude Jim and Mr. Delmas. Unlike X.A.N.A., Aelita doesn't require a tower to create such attacks because she is a virtual person with the Keys to Lyoko, giving her a certain advantage.
 * When Aelita was a child, she had a doll named Mister Pück. This same doll would be used by her father to hide the key to a locker containing his diary.
 * Aelita is the first person other than Yumi to use her Tessen Fans in Attack of the Zombies.
 * Aelita is also the first person who was able to devirtualize X.A.N.A. William in Skidbladnir.
 * Other people can activate Aelita's wings for her, as seen in Kadic Bombshell when Odd fired a laser arrow at her bracelet, which releases her wings to save her from falling into the Digital Sea.
 * The background for Aelita's computer resembles the logo electronics artist Deadmau5 uses without ears.
 * In Revelation, Aelita's grade point average was 95.2.
 * Aelita and Odd are the only Lyoko Warriors who were virtualized while they were wearing their pajamas.
 * In the Finnish dub, she was played by Marianna Alanen.
 * Before she rediscovered her name in X.A.N.A. Awakens, Jeremie named her Maya. Autodesk Maya is the name of a piece of animation software, which was used on Garage Kids and the first two seasons of Code Lyoko.
 * Aelita may have, if not has come close to having died twice in the series. Once in Just in Time where she deactivated a tower, causing her deletion (starting the theory that Aelita's current state is just a mere clone created by Jeremie using the hair he got in the materialization test). The second was in The Key, when her keys to Lyoko were taken from her, and her data was lost, and she perished with Lyoko (until her father restored her).
 * In Seeing is Believing, the gang plays a song called “Mystery Girl” which is dedicated to Aelita.