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'Aelita' (known as 'Aelita Stones' at Kadic) is a character from the French animated television series ''Code Lyoko''. Sharon Mann voices Aelita in the English version.

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Character outline

Synopsis

Powers and abilities

Character outline

Aelita is the younger female in the group and the more naive one of the four, having had comparatively less experience with the real world than her friends. At first thought to be an AI within Lyoko, Aelita's former life is slowly explored as the series progresses. She is the daughter of Franz Hopper, the person who designed both the supercomputer and Xana. She manages to settle into her new life by the start of the third season, making more jokes and generally being less naive in such matters. She also becomes noticeably more daring and brave, reflected in her combat skills after this point.
Aelita wears two different outfits, changing from one to the other over the transition from the first season to the second. The first outfit consists of a maroon skirt, yellow shirt and pink jacket (in "The Key", this is shown to be the outfit she was wearing when she was first virtualized). The second consists of a dark pink jumper dress over a light pink hooded long sleeved shirt and dark pink knee boots. Her night clothes consist of white socks and an oversized pink t-shirt with a red letter A on the front. In the fourth season, her outfit consists of a dark purple dress that comes to her knees and light pink pants underneath. Her boots are a deep red, with each one having two puff balls like the ones from her jumper dress.
Aelita's main interest is music, specifically mixing it, which she has a natural talent for. Her childhood memories show that Franz Hopper taught her to play the piano at an early age. She, like Jeremie, is also a capable programmer and an excellent student, usually assisting Jeremie with the former in her off time. The two also have a close relationship, Aelita having even kissed Jeremie at one point. Unlike Ulrich Stern and Yumi Ishiyama, however, their relationship isn't made as much of an issue, though it's touched upon at certain points.

Synopsis

As revealed in "Xana Awakens", Jeremie Belpois discovers Aelita asleep within the supercomputer after stumbling upon and reactivating it. Aelita, knowing nothing of her past, is nicknamed "Maya" (possibly after the computer software used to create 3D graphics) by Jeremie as a placeholder. She later remembers her name after it's spelled out on the tower interface screen.
Throughout the first season, Aelita is stuck in Lyoko, the program necessary to materialize her still in development by Jeremie. She serves as an early warning system of Xana's attacks, detecting the pulsations from Xana's activated towers and relaying the information to Jeremie. The two talk about the real world at great length whenever they have the chance. At the end of the first season, Aelita is finally materialized, but her time on Earth is short as Xana takes measures to make sure she remains linked to the supercomputer. Jeremie eventually develops a scanning program that removes the need for her to remain there.
During the first two seasons, Aelita's connection to Lyoko also serves as a handicap. Since bringing her to Earth requires a special materialization program used while inside a neutral tower, Aelita would die if she lost all of her life points, adding an extra plot element to the standard "get Aelita to the tower" motif. With the restoration of Aelita's memories at the end of the second season, this handicap is removed.
After Jeremie finishes his materialization program and completes the super-scanner program, Aelita is able to live on Earth on a permanent basis. She enrolls at Kadic under the asumed name of Aelita Stones, Odd Della Robbia's cousin from Canada.
After this point, a few episodes touch upon her relationship with Jeremie, namely his stubbornness and lack of understanding in regards to her interests. He always manages to put things right by the end of such episodes, however.
Near the end of the second season, Aelita learns about her past life, having had visions of it throughout the season. Though initially disturbed at the thought that Franz basically stole her entire life, his sacrifice of his own life to revive her at the end of the season drives her to find him once more.

Powers and abilities

On Lyoko, Aelita's outfit consists of a pink mini skirt and a matching top that go over pants and a long shirt that are both off-white, with maroon gaiters that wrap around them, and matching shoes. She also has elf-like ears, with a small dangle earring in the left one. Aelita's Lyoko ID card has a pink Eye of Xana on the back. For long-distance travel, she usually rides with one of her friends, but uses any available vehicle when alone. She also serves as the main pilot of the virtual ship Skidbladnir, with her friends operating a series of "NavSkids" in conjunction.
In the fourth season, Aelita receives a new pink form-fitting suit on Lyoko, in addition to a transparent skirt and other similarly transparent adornments. The suit has a pair of retractable, angelic energy wings, enabling Aelita to fly; she simply has to wave her hand over the star-shaped bracelet she wears to create them. However, if she takes damage during flight, the wings disappear.

Aelita's weapon on Lyoko (which she didn't receive until the third season) are her "energy fields", energy orbs created in the palms of her hands capable of destroying any monster on contact. The orbs cover a target with energy on contact (hence the name) to destroy it, regardless of where they strike. It is also capable of shattering even the elliptical laser of a Megatank in two hits. The drawback is their creation, which takes several seconds. Aelita can also amplify the effect into a single massive energy orb, which is powerful but exhausting to use. Additionally, Aelita can create a makeshift shield by forming an energy orb in each hand and mixing their energies. The shield, while powerful, has a very small surface area and takes precision aim to block attacks, though they can hold off the Megatanks' lasers for a short time, after which they are shattered like glass.
Aelita's main purpose is to deactivate the towers activated by Xana, stopping his attacks in the real world. She accomplishes this by accessing the interface at the top of the tower and entering the code "Lyoko", which shuts the tower down.
Aelita's skill on Lyoko is that of spontaneous generation or destruction of matter, referred to as "creativity" (in the episode "Rock Bottom"). Using this power, Aelita can create anything she wants on Lyoko, or remove sections of land, though doing so costs half of her life points for each use. Her power is normally used to create barriers or other such surface features to stall the advance of monsters. She also creates a powerful energy barrier in "Replika". The shield is red in color, and can take only so much damage before finally shattering. She can also create simple clones of herself or others. The clones possess no will of their own and have a limited range of movement, basically only running in a straight line, but are nigh-indestructible. She also possesses some sort of second sense which allows her to see the landscape of Lyoko when invisible, as seen in "Attack of the Zombies", but it seems to be ineffective by "Tip-Top Shape".