Character asks - Anthea ?
(late cause I realised I forgor)
yay!!!
Anthea is a HARD one oh boy
favorite thing about them: I like that because they had to retcon aelita's humanity they had to also give her bright pink hair. Most anime looking character in the show
least favorite thing about them: anthea your daughter is playing in the snow in the mountains and she is not WEARING ANY LONG PANTS "stay near the house, darling! don't go too far!" how about "please come back inside for a moment, darling! your father and I forgot you could get hypothermia!"
favorite line: not a line but I think the sound effect when she just vanishes in aelita's memory in The Key is really funny. real low budget horror movie.
brOTP: she probably didn't HAVE friends but. I think if she were around at Kadic she'd be friends with Mrs. Meyer. passionate about their subject, the other STEM teacher that isn't Mrs. Hertz, and a little more low-key.
OTP: the happy, sane franz. I think it's a neat detail that franz DIDN'T go after her though. he chose aelita's safety and ran away.
nOTP: I'm avoiding evo 'cause that's a little too hard for me to dig through so I can't just say tyron...uhhhh. delmas. because his hair is like if franz had a/a different beard.
random headcanon: she had like three meals that she could eat over and over every day forever. she liked her eggs medium-boiled.
unpopular opinion: she and franz were pretty good parents based on what we see and given the "running away from the government" circumstances, but also like. Did you really plan to raise that kid alone in the mountains for her whole life? What was the plan there? One could argue that there was an actual community there, but aelita was STILL alone once they moved to kadic.
song i associate with them: there were a couple I could give for other character's association with her, but for anthea herself I'm gonna say Of Everlong (by The Crane Wives)
favorite picture of them: wow what a plethora of options. Not the sweetest picture, but one I find interesting, with anthea standing above aelita and neither she nor franz actually sitting with her
It's inspired by CLE episodes involving Anthea's clone and the finale where Aelita got a locket with a photo of herself and her mom (but I gave her pink hair because Anthea's original design is superb)
It recently occured to me that I should post up the references I have for my A World Without Danger story. All of these are old, and I will probably redo them in the future, but for now, this is what all the characters look like, both main characters, plus a couple of characters that haven't made an appearance until now.
Pre-AWWD Jeremie's avatar is currently being redone.
OK, I made this post a few months ago vaguely musing on a possible modern day continuity reboot of Code Lyoko by its current copyright owners (who, as of this post, are a company named Dargaud) and what would differentiate the reboot from the original. I wanna dump a bunch of ideas here about what the hypothetical reboot could entail. And I would love to see other fans of the show who see this post to reblog with their own ideas of what could be done with such a reboot. Even any ideas that contradict a previous reblogger's or even my own.
This post got big, so I'm putting it under a read more.
Around the mid 2000s, in the height of the War on Terror, an international joint group pulls an old scrapped counterterrorism idea from the 1970s out of the mothballs called "Project Carthage" (if the studio doesn't want to make overt references to the War on Terror in a kids' show, it could at least be vaguely alluded to as a reason for pulling the old project back out). Some of the most brilliant minds are put to work on recommissioning and modernizing Project Carthage, including Waldo F. Schaeffer and his partner in every regard, Anthea Hopper. When Waldo and Anthea discover some in the project have darker intentions for Carthage, they quit in protest.
Like original canon, they move to a cabin in the mountains and have Aelita, only for Anthea to get taken in an effort to get to Waldo, and he runs with Aelita to the suburbs of Paris where he changes his name to Franz Hopper. Covertly drawing from old resources and secretly securing and old bunker below the former site of a car factory on the Seine River, running an underground tunnel from the bunker to a secret passage in the basement of his house as well as the service tunnels below the gymnasium building of the school he works at under his new identity. Over the next several years, he builds a powerful computer server in the bunker based on concepts he'd been helping develop for Project Carthage based around the rise in virtual reality software, as well as three revolutionary chambers with mass-to-energy capabilities to turn real objects and people into living data that can travel through and interact with virtual environments. He calls the world he creates within the server "Lyoko", based on the Japanese word for travel. The agents who took Anthea track down Hopper and Aelita, they escape to Lyoko where XANA turns on them, Hopper turns off the computer form the inside, basically the same song and dance there.
Early 2020s, a prodigy student named Jeremy Belpois with a knack for programming and drone-building attends Kadic Academy, one year in advance. While looking around the gymnasium storage for old discarded robotic parts he can repurpose, Jeremy accidentally wanders into an underground tunnel that gut instinct says probably wasn't officially school-sanctioned. He follows the tunnel until he discovers an abandoned bunker with a large computer server that looks straight out of science fiction. A quick check of the map on his phone tells Jeremy he's beneath Seguin Island, opposite the end where that new music and performing arts center was recently built. Fascinated by the big supercomputer just lying dormant in an old underground island bunker, Jeremy turns it on to take a look at what it contains and see what it may have been used for. He's shocked to discover an entire advanced virtual reality environment within the server and even more shocked when he accidentally awakens a sophisticated AI in the form of an amnesiac young girl.
Over the next couple of days of sneaking out to study the supercomputer's programming and get to know the virtual girl (he could nickname her Maya only to learn her real name later, like in old canon, or they could learn her name is Aelita sooner by means of something like some line of identifying code), Jeremy finds himself mysteriously targeted by minor cyber threats and strange mishaps with machinery, but he's unable to prove anything to school authorities. Ulrich Stern, athlete kid of a wealthy school benefactor and the classmate Jeremy had been assigned to tutor, catches Jeremy in the act of sneaking off, and he reluctantly lets him in on the secret. While studying the hardware and software of the supercomputer, they learn what the chambers, or "scanners", are capable of, which is essentially like putting on a VR set but instead stepping physically into the VR itself, rather than remotely controlling an avatar from the real world.
The cyber threats worsen until Yumi Ishiyama, Ulrich's sparring partner from one grade above them, ends up involved. Together, they discover that the attacks are coming from a disembodied entity within the server's hard drive named XANA, who is using one of the numerous towers within Lyoko to interface with the real world and attack the people who have been messing with the supercomputer. It's discovered that Aelita is a recognized authority within the system that can shut off the towers when they are activated, and the group forms a pact to help Aelita get to these towers in secret while Jeremy works on a potential energy-to-mass ("materialization") program that can create a physical body for Aelita to help her escape the virtual world.
Just a week after the pact is made, a new transfer student named Odd Della Robbia begins school at Kadic, and a shortage of dormitory space prompts the principal to make him and Ulrich roommates, marking the start of the series. Odd is naturally roped into the shenanigans surrounding Lyoko and XANA due to his frequent interactions with Ulrich, and he is let in on the secret as well as the story of how Jeremy discovered the supercomputer in the first place. If the Return to the Past is used in the reboot continuity (RTTP in the original was created per executive meddling initially preventing the use of an overarching plot, but it's still a useful plot device), Jeremy may have figured out its activation sequence after Odd was initiated.
The plot would revolve around fighting XANA in secret as they try to create a means for Aelita to leave Lyoko as well as try to search the supercomputer and the bunker housing it for clues as to who created it. Details that weren't conceived yet in production of the original series' first season could be sprinkled into the reboot's first season. Like obscure gossip about an old science teacher who disappeared one day and an old boarded up house at the far end of the forest that's avoided by students due to rumors of it being haunted. Characters that weren't thought up until subsequent seasons, like Hiroki, could also appear earlier. The Lyoko Warriors may at some point discover that their secret tunnel to the bunker has a side passage with a secure door that's heavily locked from inside the tunnel, exploring what's beyond that door only to discover that they're inside that abandoned house.
Aesthetics-wise, I could see potential in the reboot's crew using some sort of mix between designs in the original series and redesigns that were made for the Evolution sequel series (not using live-action, of course; the real world would probably be animated as it was in the original). Smart phones and tablets would also be prevalent in the setting, as Jeremy would more likely make use of those than lug around a whole laptop computer everywhere. The Lyoko Warriors could easily make use of this kind of technology in keeping track of XANA's activities as well as keep in touch with Aelita while she lives in Lyoko. Odd could also use his own smartphone in creating his short films. Ideally, a new continuity could be taken advantage of to poke a little more at the mystery of Project Carthage, the disappearance of Aelita's mother, and everything that spurred Hopper into creating the supercomputer, Lyoko, and XANA in the first place. While the Chronicles novel series is noncanon and contradicts the show's mythos in numerous ways, lore aspects from there could still be sprinkled into the reboot and retooled to fit the animated version of things.
Aelita had been an artificial intelligence all along.
Franz Hopper created her on June 6th 1994 after Anthea suffered a miscarriage 12 years prior.
The visions and nightmares Aelita sees are false memories that Franz coded into her, and the "missing fragment" at the end of season 2 was a metaphor for the antivirus.
Anthea created Mr. Pück in preparation for when Aelita would eventually be materialized to earth.
Code Lyoko Hopeater edition: The Professor and his family
The Professor is the creator of the Calculator and everything within it, X.A.N.A. included, for purposes unknown. A scientist who was as brilliant as he was mad, he seems to have completely vanished from reality. His notes on the Calculator are as much about the different programs and functions as they are mad rambling about shadows that are following him. His wife, a former soldier, disappeared some time before him and was a major contributor to his going mad, and the whereabouts of his daughter, who would be in her thirties now, are unknown.
There is a framed picture of the three of them, bundled up for the winter, near the screens of the Calculator. There is a copy of it in the files of Lyoko’s heart.
