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65- Final Round

favorite thing about the episode: i mean. them losing everything is absolutely great. we had a losing situation in the season 2 finale but this time it's way bigger and i think it'd hit even harder if they didn't recreate lyoko mostly off-screen (and so fast) but when you're watching the ep it's really great

least favorite thing about the episode: everybody having a dumb excuse for not showing up ig because usually they'd get there wayy quicker. but i guess that's not entirely a bad thing bc honestly a random attack unexpectedly being their doom hits harder and is more realistic since they're constantly fighting. also like i said before i didn't like that the only long term consequence of that finale was william being imprisoned

favorite character in this episode: aelita! she did her best in a situation where she ultimately had to babysit william in the middle of the attack but also i just love her behavior in the ep in general

favorite scene: the ending where they all sit in the hermitage living room defeated in every sense of the world i absolutely love this scene!! but honestly the ep is full of great scenes

favorite line: ulrich saying “well i finished listening” is the absolute banger of bangers, honestly the scenes with him and his father are so incredibly written #tome. also when odd says “can't you like somebody without being in love?” and ulrich says “sure i can but you're totally in love buddy” i looove it they're so fun!!!! and milly and tamiya asking jeremie a bunch of dumbass questions and him answering in the most fuck off manner ever sharon mann killed it 😭😭

🖇 (class of '08)

gotta start with my favorite background character! she was my icon loooong before i became a woman with long red hair so she's always been # goals

obligatory disclaimer: we don't know anything about these characters! these are just my headcanons! everything i say in this series is just random shit i made up!

🍒 her first and last names have slavic and french origins, so i think that's what she is: slavic&french! her natural hair color is brown but red became her signature color and now nobody can imagine it being any different

🍒 she's a sagittarius, born in early december. she has an older brother who taught her how to skate when she was little but he moved away and she really misses him. she picked up skating again to feel closer to him but had to basically learn everything from the top

🍒 her best friend is sorya abulabbas (class of ‘08) and they stay best friends forever because i love them and they deserve it

🍒 she's bisexual! her first relationship is with jean-baptiste pujol (class of ‘08) but they don't stay together very long. the break up is a bit messy and bitter for a while but they become pretty good friends closer to graduation

🍒 her first sapphic relationship is with sissi. they date in high school but break up during last year at kadic because they don't see it going anywhere after school + sissi still has identity crisis (while also falling in love with yumi)

🍒 with hair like that she needs no advertising as a hairstylist. that's how she reconnects with a lot of people including emmanuel maillard (class of ‘07) who becomes her regular customer because these two deserve to be besties

oh my god... did you HAVE to hate me? 😂

favorite thing about them: i'm not gonna lie i'm on the side of people the government doesn't fuck with 😭 and he's pretty hated by the guys so that kinda makes him cool as hell in my book

least favorite thing about them: the fact that he could contact them in s4 and he only ever contacted jeremie like tf? you got a whole daughter? don't you wanna say smth to her like idk SORRY since yk damn well you can't say anything on lyoko. i'm telling you aelita should've realized he wasn't real in “distant memory” simply based on the fact that he texted her and not jeremie this man dgaf 😭

favorite line: june 6 1994, day 67 😋😋

brOTP: jerlita i guess?? i just think it was hilarious how he lost his whole life to lyoko and these mfs named a program “big fat cheesehead” gtfo 😭😭😭

OTP: i mean ig anthea there must've been something here because anthea looks incredible and the dude's got a fucking mustache she must've REALLY loved him

nOTP: can i choose the easy way out and say xana? pwetty please

random headcanon: he actually had like 50 pairs of these same glasses 'cause my guy's been wearing them forever. also he looks like the guy who would scratch his chin saying hmm.. intriguing....

unpopular opinion: i'm actually not sure if i have one since most takes on him are pretty lukewarm in nature but as much as i understand the distaste for him i think calling him “the real villain” kinda destroys the whole point

song i associate with them: rät by penelope scott i mean 🤷‍♀️ been thinking this for years i'm afraid

favorite picture of them:

Character ask: Sissi Delmas

okay i got her twice i gotta do my precious girl !

favorite thing about them: the fact that she's a leader. she organized a whole protest back in the first season, she's charismatic and intelligent enough to lead. and yes i said intelligent because this girl is smart as hell, she's a strategist

least favorite thing about them: it'd be really obvious and boring to say “the way they reserved her character development” and luckily that's not the only thing because i hate the way she's written in the first place. not because she's a mean girl, but because writing wise she's such a victim of 2000s misogyny. this boy crazy obsessive girl is such an incel fantasy and it's genuinely sad to see. ik the show's the product of its time but yeah :(

favorite line: the one in straight to heart where she's talking about there being no classes on saturday and herve goes “it means we can go to the moves?” and she says “it means i can go to the movies”- icon!! and her whole monologue in ultimatum that's my favorite scene of hers!

brOTP: ulrich and odd! i think she was friends with ulrich at some point and i like to think they'd reconnect later. and i love her dynamic w odd so much i will support their lavender marriage for tax benefits

OTP: yumi but also. well. tania grandjean. i don't have anything to back me up here except for vibes and hcs guys sorry just trust me that ik ball!! i guess!! but yeah her and yumi are the ultimate enemies to lovers duo and the future power couple!

nOTP: i mean i hc her as a lesbian so all of the male characters but if we're being specific herve and william

random headcanon: she has a great singing voice and when she became close friends with aelita in high school they'd record songs harmonizing with each other. they make a mini album just for friends and everybody still listens to it

unpopular opinion: she was completely justified and right for telling a trusted adult about the big machine of incomprehensible horrors and the fact that her classmates are going to fucking die. at the same time i don't think she'd ever be a part of the group but i can see her as a great ally and close friend. their group is complete and it's fine, they can have friends outside of the lyoko warriors circle

song i associate with them: god save the prom queen but also her vibe is so marina 😭 at the same time give her some 2000s europop and watch her dance to some inna

favorite picture of them:

Aelita (I'll be nice unlike what I got)

oh my god what did you get? but hell yeah my favorite girl ever!

favorite thing about them: how versatile, out of the box and just overall alive she is. alive not in the happy bubbly character who loves everything and has rainbow fairies singing above their head, but in the feel so much good and the bad and extremely overwhelming typa way. her overall compassion and empathy go hand in hand with her deeply disturbing morals (she will sacrifice herself for her friends but she'll also sacrifice the world for them). her witty comebacks sometimes end up being weapons to hurt people she loves. her sharp and quick intelligent mind doesn't save her from being irrational and hotheaded. she'll tell her friends to be kinder to william but will have no trouble almost killing delmas in a fucking terrorist attack. she feels so much her joy and love for life quickly turns into unhealthy coping mechanisms and literal attempts.

least favorite thing about them: i think the show should've allowed her to fuck up way more. and not with the silly mistakes like going into the wrong bathroom i mean letting her impulsiveness cause trouble. we saw it mostly when she self-sacrificed herself (although it was good sometimes like in the missing link when she genuinely thought she was doing the right thing. it was arrogance and it was great!!) but i'd love to see her make mistakes and be held accountable and grow in a much more realistic way.

favorite line: “to win, sometimes you have to know how to lose” is a classic and obviously is thee quote, it deserves all the applause. i also love “we should be proud of ourselves!” because i love aelita knowing her worth and recognizing her own skills and intelligence

brOTP: all of them lol i love their friendships!! i'd say my personal fav is with ulrich but also when we're talking brotps nobody can compete with aelita and odd point blank period. they're thee found family ever, it's like they whole-heartedly believe they're related atp 😭

OTP: well obviously jerlita they're like the only ship ever but i also heavily fw yumilita, they have incredible potential of being the most complicated but utterly devoted girlfriends ever and i'm so here for it!!

nOTP: tbh i don't really see her with anybody outside those two in general but i also gotta say willita. i never liked it personally and i can't see it. also i don't count nicholas here 'cause i deadass don't consider it a real ship lmao sorry 😭

random headcanon: she starts wearing glasses later in life, her eyesight isn't that bad, but she needs them for reading. also her hair is curly!!!!!!! that's my favorite hc ever i will always draw her as a curly girl that's my agenda!!

unpopular opinion: i think most of my opinions on her are unpopular tbh 😭😭 but in no particular order: her style is not this clean girl coquette lolita aesthetic i see being pushed everywhere; music is her hobby and she maybe gets some occasional dj gigs but it's not her career; she goes into tech/science/teaching math to feel connected to her family; her s4 personality is her real fully fleshed out personality and people disagreeing with it gives me an ick because it feels infantalizing. and i HATE how infantalized she is.

song i associate with them: by subdigitals obviously mother earth! but also omg so many songs. i'd say saturn's return by zara and maybe controversial take but moody girl by my fav meg thee stallion. but also if you're open minded consider some penelope scott 👀

favorite picture of them:

starting off strong!! my son

favorite thing about them: he's the friend-oriented character despite having the most romantic interests ever. i actually think the whole “kadic bombshell” episode with its talks about dying for love is about that. everything is always about romantic love but odd would die for platonic love he has for his friends and that's unironically one of the greatest sentiments i've seen in media

least favorite thing about them: i think it's more on the writers than anything but i think a lot of time his genuinely shitty behavior was shown as funny and “sassy” and it's doing him a disservice. he's a funny and sassy character but it doesn't mean he's right in every instance! he was an asshole in st. valentine's day (which is ok! they all are sometimes) but he gets praises for it. i don't get it

favorite line: the specific tone he uses when he cheerfully says “don't bother!” in maiden voyage. it's so fun it puts a smile on my face instantly. also personal favs: “excuse me while i'm having a heart attack” (the key), “you guys are gods!” (william returns)

brOTP: all of them since like i said he's a very friend-oriented character, but!! i love his friendship with the girls (aelita, yumi, sissi) but most underrated in my opinion are with yumi and jeremie! they got such an interesting and sweet dynamic with yumi, i am forever thinking about them going to the dance together in that first episode. and his dynamic with jeremie is top tier, by season 4 you start asking if he actually considers jeremie his dad 😭😭

OTP: i've grown very very fond of oddrich but i also really liked odd and sam together. i think ulrich and sam are his true soulmates in every sense of the word but in my mind he probably ends up with ulrich

nOTP: as much as i don't see romantic oddlita, i do love their platonic relationship, so i gotta say.... bringa. i didn't like the whole “you don't need anybody if you've got me” thing in general but i think it's specifically not the move for a character like odd. his friends are his everything. it was the lowest blow :(

random headcanon: in college he asks sissi to dye his whole head purple then grows it out with no haircuts so for a while he looks like a giant purple splash with his outfits and long hair. they call him lumpy space princess

unpopular opinion: i think i pretty much said it all but ig my most controversial opinion is that while he's undoubtedly a very entertaining character he's not the funniest. a lot of times he's not witty he's just loud which is totally fine too but i wish the witty moments got more appreciation even if they're not as “funny”

song i associate with them: well since i am thee subdigitals fan i'd have to say surfing in cyberspace. but also party 4 u. and ik he loves the shit outta everytime we touch by cascada!

favorite picture of them: