Aelita Schaeffer
Guardian of Lyoko
Gender:
Female
Age at start of RP:
14
School:
Kadic Junior High School
Year:
10th Grade
Played By:
Unfilled
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, a dark pink jacket, and matching dark pink ankle boots. 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 a few occasions, she goes barefoot) and an over-sized pink t-shirt with a red letter A on the front.
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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 maroon, light pink-edged sleeveless crop top, off-white detachable puffy sleeves covering her lower arms, a matching skirt, and dark red Peter Pan-styled boots. Unlike the other Lyoko Warriors, her eyes are vivid green, yet appear black in the real world.
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For the first three seasons, Aelita's Lyoko attire consists of an off-white baggy jumpsuit with light pink-and-maroon mini skirt and a matching top over it and matching shoes. In the fourth season, Aelita receives a new pink and pale green form-fitting suit on Lyoko, which has a star-shaped watch that projects a pair of retractable energy wings that enable Aelita to fly.
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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.
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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.
Abilities and Equipment
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Weapons:
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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.
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Lyoko Powers/Abilities:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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Flight: An ability she uses when activating her feathered wings, to fly through the air with ease.
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Personality
Aelita is gentle, kind, compassionate, and intelligent far beyond her years. She is quick-witted and resourceful, as well as supportive and encouraging. Her bravery is beyond measure; at multiple points, Aelita was willing to shut down the supercomputer (and herself along with it) for the sake of her friends and the world.
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However, as the second youngest (physically) of the five warriors, she is also the most naive and vulnerable. During her first couple of weeks on Earth her feelings were easily hurt and she was easily swayed by others, most notably Sissi. Her inability to adapt to life on Earth caused her great unease and worry, and there were times when even her friends' support wasn't enough to convince her that she belonged. This, combined with eventual discovery of her traumatic past, nearly broke Aelita's will entirely. Her true identity (as well as the actions of her father) made her believe that she was 'nothing' and that her life had been 'robbed from her' by her father's experiments and betrayal. It was only the constant reassurance and support of her friends that allowed her to endure and grow beyond her past. She was also eventually able to forgive her father after he sacrificed himself for her.
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Aelita's maturity progresses throughout the series, becoming a de facto leader along with Jeremie while on Lyoko. She 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 occasion. Additionally, Aelita is prone to jealousy and usually follows it up with a cold shoulder.
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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 plotline 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.
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Aelita has a complex connection to Lyoko. She was initially given the 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.
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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 Hermitage and Mister Pück. Also, some things weren't restored when she got her memories back, such as her birthday.