#code: swap 2021

[semie78]

My @code-swap gift for @bohemianreuiem <33 Sorry for the wait! I drew Yumi and Aelita getting ice cream together <33 I hope you like it <33 

[vexfulfolly]

Dearest @japanda-draws I hope you enjoy your @code-swap gift <3

All of your prompts were so good I had trouble picking!! These two are just so much fun together and I feel like their chaotic gamer lingo would make them unbearable to be around.

I included pics with and without text, but if you’d like them without the background as well, just let me know!

(Gift part 2: electric boogaloo. The surprise is that I didn’t pick just one prompt. A Willodd hand holding always does wonders when the dark thoughts start creeping in again. I hope you enjoy ;)

[a-queenoffairys]

My @code-swap gift for @secretcodelyokan! Sorry it's a little late. Your prompts mentioned the Chronicles and Odd/Yumi friendship, so here's a collection of scenes that really stuck in my head after reading books 3 and 4! Hope you enjoy 'w'

[leoriowithaknife]

look me in the face and tell me they wouldn’t make some good music...!

this is my piece for @a-queenoffairys as part of @code-swap 2021

[image description] A stylized, sketchy fan art illustration in a vertical aspect ratio and a limited color scheme; the fan art depicts Aelita and Odd from Code Lyoko, each in casual clothing; Aelita is wearing a striped jumper over a collared shirt, paired with some plain pants, sneakers, and a basic-looking pendant around her neck. Odd is wearing a short-sleeved shirt over a hoodie with some color-block style cargo pants and sneakers. His nails are painted dark purple. They are each seated on adjacent stools, playing a musical instrument; Aelita is pressing buttons on a synthesizer keyboard while Odd strums an acoustic six-string guitar. Aelita has her eyes down, looking at the keys of the synthesizer while Odd is looking back at her. Both of them are smiling. The background and instruments are various shades of light blue while Aelita is shown in monochrome pink palette and Odd in monochrome purple palette. [end of image description]

[kittygirl255]

My gift for @zhinyart as part of @code-swap! Honestly all the promts where so good I had a hard picking, but I couldn't resist drawing a cute pic of Jeremie and his mom making robots together!

[make-them-laugh]

For @yoshistack for Code Swap 2021! They wanted some Ulrich/Aelita BroTP!

Ulrich scowled at the cast on his leg before looking out at the soccer field where his teammates were playing. He glanced over when a blur of pink sat next to him and sighed.

“C’mon, Ulrich. You’re just making yourself feel worse, sitting here and watching everyone else play.” Aelita crossed her ankles and smiled softly. “They’ll still be here when you’re healed up. Why don’t you come hang out with me instead and I’ll try to take your mind off it?”

Ulrich bit the inside of his lip and looked away. “They might not be...”

“What do you mean?” Aelita inched closer and put her hand on his back.

“My dad wants me to give up soccer and focus on my schoolwork as long as I can’t play right now,” Ulrich crossed his arms and sighed. “He really doesn’t want me to bother with soccer when ‘it’s not doing me any good’...”

Aelita stood up and when Ulrich looked at her, he saw a fury on her face he’d only seen a few times. “Wait here, Ulrich. I need to go ask Jim something.”

“O...kay?” Ulrich watched as she hopped down the bleacher steps to approach Jim. When she got there, he could see she folded her hands behind her back and she was smiling again, the picture of innocence, and nothing remaining of the furious Aelita that had just left his side. He couldn’t hear what they were saying, only saw Aelita hug Jim before running back to the bleachers and skipping back up the steps with a triumphant grin.

“Jim says that if I help you get your grades up while you’re in the cast, then he’ll let me sit out of gym class to keep helping you, so that by the time you’re healed, the only reason he can take you off the team is because you ask him to. He doesn’t have to no matter how hard your dad pushes for it.”

Ulrich’s eyes widened, and he looked at the hand Aelita extended to him. “Wait, really?”

“Of course, Ulrich! Now c’mon, I’ll help you get caught up, and then there’s gonna be no reason Jim can take you off the team!” Aelita grinned as Ulrich took her hand and she helped him up and handed him his crutches.

Ulrich chuckled softly and followed her to his room to grab his books, then to her room so they didn’t disturb Odd’s video game marathon. She pulled out a card table from behind her wardrobe and set it up along the bed, so they could both sit on it.

“This is easier than clearing off my desk for all our stuff,” Aelita laughed as she placed her books on one side and scooched in so Ulrich could sit down as well. Ulrich sighed as he set his books down and looked at them, lost.

“Okay, let’s start with making a list of all the assignments you’re missing. Do you have the gradebook app on your phone?”

“No, there’s an app for that?” Ulrich pulled his phone out, unlocked it, and handed it to Aelita. She typed a few buttons, and smiled as she handed it back.

“The login is your student number, and the password you use to get into the school computers,” Aelita rummaged through her bag for a notebook.

Ulrich started typing, and hesitated before he hit enter, looking at Aelita warily. She just smiled softly and put her hand on his arm.

“We’ve been really busy with XANA. I’m not going to judge the grades I see,” Aelita rubbed his arm gently and scooted closer. Ulrich took a deep breath and hit enter. Aelita glanced at the grades and nodded. “Okay, click the top one first, and we’ll figure out what you’re missing.”

Ulrich did as he was told, and scrolled through the assignments. Aelita jotted down the assignments as they went, and she did this for all the classes, writing class names and assignments in her large, bubbly script. When they had the list, Aelita smiled.

“This isn’t so bad! We’ll be able to knock this out in no time!”

Ulrich looked at the list warily and then to Aelita. “You’re sure?”

“Of course!” Aelita pulled out the first book they’d need and tore the assignment list out of her notebook so Ulrich could write in it. “Let’s get started.”

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Ulrich stared in shock at the grade report in front of him.

History - B

French - A-

English- B+

Physical Education - A

Computer Sciences - C+

Mathematics - A

He looked over at Aelita next to him, and he could see she was dying to see. He waited until the teacher’s back was turned, and slipped it to her. She unfolded it carefully, and he watched as her eyes lit up. She turned to grin at him, and he grinned back as she passed him his grades back.

After class, he hugged her tight and laughed.

“I can’t believe this! I got an A that isn’t in PE, and nothing is a D or F!” Ulrich looked at the grade sheet again, and sighed. “Thank you, Aelita. This is...this is awesome.”

“Hey, you put in the work yourself, Ulrich, I was just there to help.” Aelita smiled. “And now that you’re getting your cast off in a few days, you can go back to playing soccer without a worry.”

Ulrich nodded and put the paper in his bag. “Hey, would you want to maybe learn to play soccer or do Pencak Silat?”

“I would love to do either of those!” Aelita nodded. “You and I need to spend more one on one time together.”

“We really do, studying with you was actually pretty fun,” Ulrich smiled. “Now, if I remember breakfast right, you actually have a coding date with our other resident genius, so I’m gonna go show my report card to Jim, and you can go work with Jeremie and figure out how to do...whatever it was you were trying to do.”

“Sounds good,” Aelita smiled. “See you at dinner?”

“Only if you two lovebirds don’t lose track of time,” Ulrich chuckled, and laughed harder when Aelita gently punched his shoulder.

[code-swap]

Welcome to the first annual Code: Swap! A chance for creators to gift one another with art, writing, animation, music or whatever your heart desires and to receive gifts from fellow fans.

Rules for both gifts and prompts may include the following:

Must be Safe For Work. This is non negotiable.

Must be Code Lyoko related.

Prompts may include ships, themes, scene ideas, Au's etc...

Prompts and gifts cannot include: topics about abusive, abusive ships (incest, pedophilia, etc...) extreme gore, hate speech, and nsfw. (If any of these are included in a prompt you will be removed, if any of this is included in a finished piece, you will be banned from future events.)

Gift requirements:

Art (Digital and traditional) - lineart and flat colors must be done.

Writing- must be 1k words minimum.

Animation- full animation must be at least 30 seconds long, and animatics must be at least a 1 minute long.

Music must be at least 2 minutes long.

If you have questions about any other forms or art (cross stitch, resin work, needlepoint, doll making, etc...)

The timeline is the following:

Sign-ups: April 29th—May 13th

Matching period: May 14th-May 16th

Creation period: May 17th-June 19th

Check-in: May 30th-June 12th

Posting: June 19th-June 22nd

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[the-writing-artist]

Code: Swap Gift

Specifically, a gift for @Semie78 as part of @code-swap 2021. Here’s a little fic for you, hope you enjoy it. / Aelita-centric, present tense, post-Evolution / No pairings, just group fluff

Second Chance

The textbook definition of 'giving someone a second chance' is to allow someone another opportunity to do something or to prove their ability or worth.

To most people, it means that the person screwed up in some way, and their friend(s) or significant other has decided to see if they're still worth the effort. It makes sense, giving someone you care about an opportunity to learn from their mistakes and become a better person, but sometimes, enough is enough. Sometimes, the person screws up the chance they were so gratiously given, and then it's over.

(It's this definition that probably means the most to William, and it's understandable, but it's unfair for her to assume how he feels about it.)

But to Aelita, 'second chance' means something entirely different. It's something her friends had given to her, and she would never, ever dream of messing it up, but thinking about it always causes her to start crying, no matter where she is.

Mind you, it's not the bad sort of tears. The emotion she carries from this is not negative in any way, and never will be.

No, these are tears of joy.

And the evidence is in all the names she's ever had.

Aelita Schaeffer was a normal girl...well, as normal as one could be while being the daughter of a scientist on the run from the government. To be honest, she still doesn't really understand why her father was being hunted down. All she understands is that, at the time, she never expected for their mountain house to be invaded by the men in black that still haunt her nightmares to this very day. This Aelita never expected her mother to be taken away by them, nor did she ever expect to be forced to run away with her father. She had a normal life before that, and she was as sweet and innocent as a child her age could be.

(She remembers how enraged she was when XANA used this picture-perfect life to trap her.)

Aelita Hopper was her name when in hiding at the Hermitage. She was homeschooled and not really allowed to leave, so she didn't have any friends. This Aelita was very lonely, often crying herself to sleep every night because she wanted to be social, wanted her mother...wanted everything to go back to the way it was. Unfortunately, things only got worse when the men in black found them, forcing her father to virtualize them both onto Lyoko. Her father had tried to get XANA to understand who they really were, but failed, and he was forced to shut down the Supercomputer, trapping the two for the next decade.

(But it was also this Aelita who allowed her to remember her past and gave her friends more tools to fight XANA with.)

Maya was the name given to her after Jeremie had turned the Supercomputer back on. Ten years being trapped inside a virtual world had apparently allowed XANA to steal a crucial piece of her, giving her amnesia and forcing her to forget who she really was. According to Jeremie, her new (and very first) friend, she was apparently a program in the computer. This Aelita was probably the least tragic out of all the Aelitas on her list. It was through this name that she also met Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi. Together, the four of them managed to find a way to free her from Lyoko and eventually XANA's grasp.

(Yes, yes, she knows that Maya was her name for only a while, a whole week at the very least, but she honestly considers it the true key to her current happiness.)

And finally, Aelita Stones is the girl who resulted from all of this. This Aelita actually has friends, has things to wake up for and look forward to, is allowed to feel without to fear of being judged. This Aelita is vastly different from Aelita Schaeffer. Schaeffer was innocent and sweet, her mind numb to all the horrors of real life, only to have a brutal wake up call at such an earlier point in life. Stones is sweet too, but she's no longer innocent, having been hardened to the realities of life, and as such, is fully grown and matured. This Aelita has befriended people like Sissi and William.

(But not Laura. That's a rabbit hole to steer away from.)

Aelita Stones is the version of her that she always wants to be, and forever will be, because that is her true identity now. Aelita Schaeffer is dead, gone, mostly because she is presumed to be dead by the government, and it often makes her sad to realize that she can't go back to that life, whether she wants to or not. Whether her mother is still alive or not.

She remembers watching Jeremie stay up late to complete a government file that he and the others had forged, filling out the necessary information in order to give her a brand new identity before they materialized her into the real world for the first time: Aelita Stones.

Aelita Stones is her second chance.

This Aelita is the one who has a truly normal life, even more so now that they have XANA trapped and unable to attack them anymore. This Aelita is the one who has interests and hobbies, and most important, friends to share them with.

Jeremie is her study buddy, the two of them being the smartest of the group and always having to help the others with their homework, and his prescence always calms her.

Odd is her music buddy, the two of them always working together to work on music, and if he cracks a bad joke or two, she doesn't mind; in fact, she adores them.

Ulrich is her athletic buddy, the two of them always running the track together, and lately, he's also been teaching her how to fight like him and Yumi.

Yumi is her girl buddy, the two of them being the only girls of the group, and Yumi is always the person she turns to whenever issues concerning the female body comes up.

William is her relax-time buddy, the two of them often coming together just to talk, and despite how his first appearance made him look, William is actually a great friend to have.

She has different activities to do with each of them, due to their differing interests, but no matter who she's with, she can always count on them to validate her feelings. They each have their own ways of doing so, but the end result, her being grateful to have them in her life, is always the same.

All of this comes to mind when Aelita remembers that her birthday is tomorrow, the one Jeremie made up for her, and realizes that the date Jeremie chose is the same day they all first met, the day when Maya remembered her true name, the real day Aelita Stones was born.

And it's in this moment that she understands that it's a very special day for all of them, and she knows why.

It's the day Jeremie shed his skin as the lonely nerd and gave him true friends who allowed him to use his smarts in rather creative ways.

It's the day Odd realized that his status as the new kid wasn't as bad as other kids often made it out to be.

It's the day Ulrich gained a new, unlikely friend in the form of Jeremie, and he was the first person Jeremie chose to trust.

It's the day Yumi was no longer an outcast, a day when she realized she had friends who genuinely cared about her.

It's the day William probably wishes he was there for, as it eventually led to him becoming their sixth member, and later on, gave him his own second chance.

She really just wants to pay them back for everything they've done for her, to show them just how grateful she is to have them in her life. After all, it's a day that belongs to all of them, not just her. It wasn't just the day Aelita Stones was born, but also the day the Lyokowarriors become a family.

While some of them do have pleasant home lives, the Lyokowarriors are definitely more tightly-knit. After all, they have placed their lives in each others' hands, trusted Jeremie to keep them safe from the controls, trusted Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and William to keep Aelita safe, and trusted Aelita to deactivate the tower in time, more times than one could count. When you've entrusted your life to someone you know you can trust multiple times, you've definitely built a unique bond with them.

So yes, the six were a true family, through and through. And they were her family now.

The only problem is that she doesn't know how to pay them back. Her gratitude is just too vast and too deep that there is no sure way to truly show it all to them in just one sitting.

But she can sure as heck try her best.

They were her family, after all.

THE END