Aelita Schaeffer

**Aelita Schaeffer**, also known as **Aelita Hopper**, **Aelita Stones**, and **Maya**, is one of the main characters from the *Code Lyoko* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Unlike the other characters, Aelita seemed to have originated on Lyoko, and survived there for years. The first season of the show deals with Jeremie and the Team trying to figure out a way to materialize her into the real world.

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.

## **Appearance**

### **Cartoons**

* Code Lyoko
* Code Lyoko Season 2
* Code Lyoko Season 3
* Code Lyoko Season 4

### **Video Games**

* Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A.
* Code Lyoko: Get Ready to Virtualize
* Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity
* Code Lyoko: Social Game

## **Trivia**

* Aelita's character might be based upon Alita ("Gally" in Japanese) from the manga Gunnm (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".
* Aelita‘s point of view in Season 1 is similar to the fairy tale princess, Rapunzel.
* Aelita shares her English voice actress with Jeremie.
* Aelita is the only Lyoko Warrior whose farewell clip in *Echoes* is not a reused scene from a previous episode.
* 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.
* 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*.
* 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.
* Aelita has died several times in the series.
	+ In *Just in Time* she deactivated a tower, causing her deletion.
	+ She passed out and her heart stopped beating in "*False Start*".
	+ She passed out and her heart stopped beating several times in "*Common Interest*"
	+ She shut down the supercomputer in "*The Key*"
	+ 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 brought her back to life).
	+ She has had clones fall into the digital sea or get captured by the Scyphozoa multiple times.
	+ She may be legally dead in France, due to having disappeared for a decade.
* In "*Seeing Is Believing*", the gang plays a song called "Mystery Girl" which is dedicated to Aelita.
* It is never revealed who is paying for Aelita's tuition.
* Aelita was defibrillated and received CPR in "*Common Interest*".
* Aelita uses a scooter whilst traveling to the Factory via The Sewers.