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My gift for @zyuna-arts! This is my 4th year participating in @codesecretsanta!

I really love your Odd redesign, love the eyes you gave him! For those who haven't seen it you can see Zyuna's Odd Redesign here!

I hope you like your gift! Sorry for the late post! >.< <3

Sorry I'm late, here's my @codesecretsanta for @that-g3-obsessive! I liked the idea of Odd and Aelita trying on goofy clothes, so here's a compilation of them having fun in a costume shop.

Merry Christmas to @vexfulfolly I'm your secret santa! So sorry for the lateness this is the first drawing i've done in months and im still getting back in the grove lol I drew odd and ulrich chilling in the mall battling it out while holding everyone's stuff lol

one of them is winning without trying and the other is ready to fight irl lol

- CODE SECRET SANTA 2021 -

Sorry for the extreme delay as I was sick and couldn’t complete it in time, but Merry belated Christmas to @septicabzies for @codesecretsanta!

I went with your suggestion of Jerlita cuteness and thought of them wearing sweaters! I wanted to do something more creative but I had a mental block and did what I could.

Hope you like it! Posted on my DeviantArt as well <3

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Art © zyuna Code Lyoko © MoonScoop/Dargaud

Hello everyone!!!!! Apologies for the short notice but we are back~ hosting a Secret Santa event again this year for Code Lyoko!

While we’re accepting participants from any website, our home ground will be here on this Tumblr blog. You don’t need to have a Tumblr to participate.

We have a form for you guys to complete to let your Secret Santa know what you may like for a gift. Make sure to read the FAQ and RULES because you never know, there might be a secret code needed to complete the form. The link to the form can be found at the bottom of the rules page, and make sure to read the rules while you’re there!

If you have any questions just sends us an ask, and for people that don’t have a Tumblr, you can email us at codesecretsanta@/yahoo.com (without the slash). If you have a Tumblr account and you want to ask a question in private, message me @semie78 or @a-queenoffairys).

We're tentatively allowing participants to mail their physical gifts in the post again this year, but please exercise caution. If there's a risk you could spread the virus by mailing a gift to your recipient, please don't use this option.

YOU HAVE UNTIL NOVEMBER 24 TO COMPLETE THE FORM

@codesecretsanta​

Hi @make-them-laugh! I was your Secret Santa this year! You mentioned you’d be interested in seeing Jim acting as a father figure to Ulrich, so I thought it’d be cute to draw Jim attempting to help Ulrich with homework. I hope you like it and Happy Holidays!

This is my Code Secret Santa for @a-queenoffairys!!! I was so excited to get you and get to do your rarepair! "Hey! Aelita, right?"

Aelita turned to look at the green haired girl running up to her. A twinge of guilt set in her stomach -she’d been trying for the opening spot as well, and Aelita couldn’t help feeling bad about taking the spot- but the girl was grinning widely.

“You were just…awesome in there! I cannot wait to see you on stage at the concert!” She laughed and handed Aelita a slip of paper. “And if you ever want to just get together and jam, you have a really great energy and style, and I would love to just hang out with you! I’m Lise, by the way! No pressure if you don’t want to, I just figured I’d offer.”

Aelita lit up as she realized the paper in her hand was a phone number, and she nodded with a smile. “That sounds like fun! I have to go meet my friends for lunch, but I’ll text you!”

“Cool! I gotta go too, or my mom is gonna kill me! I’ll talk to you soon?” Lise started to turn away, and when Aeilta nodded, she grinned. She ran off with a wave, and Aelita waved back with a smile. As she walked back to Kadic, she punched the number into her phone, sending a short text once the contact number was saved.

Hi, Lise! It’s Aelita! :D

Aelita had barely gone a block when she got a text in response.

Cool! Saving your number! Free Tuesday?

Aelita hummed to herself as she texted back and hummed as she made her way to the table her friends sat at. She slipped her phone into her pocket and smiled widely. “You’re looking at the opening act for the Subdigitals concert!”

As her friends cheered, Aelita smiled and sat at the table, lacing her fingers and resting her chin on her hands. “And I made a new friend! She was one of the other finalists, and after the finals, she ran up to me and asked if I wanted to hang out sometime! We’re going to hang out after classes on Tuesday”

“That’s great, Princess!” Odd grinned. “Maybe you two can collab on some things and make some really awesome tracks!”

Aelita nodded and grinned. “I’m going to work on some new samples to show her. She was really good, and honestly I was a little surprised they picked me instead. But she was really happy for me. She said I had ‘a really great energy and style’ and that was one of the best compliments I’ve ever gotten.”

Her friends all congratulated her again before she got up to get her food, and she smiled as she checked the last text from Lise.

I am so excited to hang out with you!

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Aelita hummed to herself as she looked for the address Lise had texted her. She smiled when she saw a familiar head of green hair and carefully jogged to meet her. She had her mixing table with her, and a few disks to work with, so she was not taking any chances with her equipment. Lise grinned and held her hands out towards Aelita.

“Here, let me help carry your things in,” Lise smiled as she took the table gently. “My older brother is home, but he promised he’d leave us alone. Any siblings?”

“No, I’m an only child,” Aelita smiled as she followed Lise inside. “I go to school with my cousin Odd, though.”

“Oh cool! That sounds awesome,” Lise hummed. Before they made it to the stairs, they were stopped by an older boy who had a mischievous grin on his face. It reminded Aelita of Odd a little too much for comfort. That was a scheming smile.

“Hey, Lise! This that girl you were talking about so much, Aelita?” His focus was solely on his sister, and Aelita was grateful not to be the center of his attention like that.

Lise flushed and glared. “Jonas, get out of the way! Yes, this is Aelita! You promised you’d leave us alone!”

Aelita couldn’t miss the hint of pleading in Lise’s voice, and decided to file that away for later. Jonas shrugged and moved from in front of the stairs with a deep, playful bow. Aelita smiled as she passed him behind Lise.

“It was nice to meet you, Jonas!”

“Oh, believe me, the pleasure is all mine,” Jonas smirked.

“Ignore him, he’s weird,” Lise rolled her eyes as she led Aelita to her bedroom. “I have all my stuff set up if you want to get ready.”

Aelita nodded and hummed as she set her disks down and set up her table. “So I’ve been working on some good sounds, I think! I wanted to get your thoughts and thought maybe you could do something to match? I thought it might be fun to do a collab!”

“That sounds awesome!” Lise smiled and waited for Aelita to start spinning. It was an upbeat, techno sound, and Lise nodded along for a bit until she placed disks in her own mixing table and started mixing them alongside Aelita’s. Lise’s beat was a deep bass, heavy on the percussion, and Aelita grinned as they changed things minutely to match up with each other. They each would experiment with a new mix one at a time until  they both started to record with their machines.

They tried a few other combinations with other disks, and both jumped out of their skin when there was a knock on the door as it cracked open.

“Mom said that she made enough food for Aelita, since it’s been a few hours!” Jonas chuckled as both girls looked at their phones and jumped.

“I just have to text my friends to let them know,” Aelita smiled and sent the text before coming downstairs with Lise. She had a wonderful dinner with Lise and her brother and mom, and afterwards, Lise smiled and picked up Aelita’s mixing table.

“Let me walk you back to your school!” She grinned and held the door open.

“I would love that,” Aelita smiled as she tucked her hair behind her ear, flushing.

They walked to the school in mostly silence, and once they were in front of the gates, Lise bit her lip.

“Would you want to go to the movies on Saturday? With me? Like…as a date?”

Aelita’s eyes widened and she flushed bright pink, nodding as a smile grew on her face. “I think I’d really like that. See you Saturday?”

General rules

Once you have signed up, your match will be sent out by the 1st of December. Please reply to the email to let us know that you have received it.

Please meet the deadlines!

If something does come up and you can no longer participate, let us know as soon as possible, so we can arrange a new Santa for your recipient.

Seriously. If you can’t participate anymore, let us know! We’d much prefer to have people formally drop out than to never hear back from you.

If you change your username/URL during this event, please let us know. It can be difficult to figure out who you are and tag you in your gift if the information you provided us is no longer correct.

If you dropped out of the exchange in a previous year without notice, you are not allowed to participate this year.

This is one of only two reasons your application may be rejected. The organisers will not show any bias towards participants; this event is open to all Code Lyoko fans. The only other reason we’ll reject your application is if you haven’t read the rules. How are you supposed to prove that you’ve read them? Well, read on and find out!

If you need an extension please ask so we can notify the person about the delay.

If you ask for an extension and later find out you can’t finish your gift, please let us know. Otherwise, we’ll count you as having dropped out and you won’t be allowed to participate in future Secret Santas.

Please don’t put off making your gift until the last second. People are working hard for you and everyone else, so have fun and spend time on it.

We don’t like having to chase people up so again, please contact us as soon as possible if you need to drop out or get an extension.

Gift rules

On the sign-up form, there are four specified mediums and an “other” option.

Art refers to something that is hand-drawn (digitally or traditionally) and does not include graphic art. Art gifts should be completed and finished. If drawn traditionally, a scan is highly preferred but if this isn’t possible, please take a photo with good lighting.

Fanfiction should be 1000 words minimum. There’s no maximum. If you would like someone to proofread your fanfiction, mod @a-queenoffairys will be happy to do so (unless she’s your recipient, in which case you’ll need to ask elsewhere).

Video should be at least 45 seconds long and uploaded in good quality.

Graphic art is a work that uses official images from the show such as renders and screenshots, and/or other pre-existing images that can be found online. Examples of common graphic art gifts include mood boards, icon sets, forum packs, profile backgrounds, desktop backgrounds, blog headers, etc. If you’re going to be doing graphic art as a gift, we strongly suggest anonymously asking your recipient which of these they would be most interested in or find most useful so that they can get the most out of your gift to them.

The “Other" option can be used to put your own ideas for gift mediums. Examples include handmade crafts such as sewing or needle-felting.

If your gift is hand-crafted, your submission to us should be a photo of it.

This year we are allowing people to send physical gifts again, but please use caution. If there’s a risk of spreading the virus by mailing your gift to your recipient, don’t use this option. Shipping costs will be the responsibility of the Santa unless they discuss it with their recipient and reach an agreement.

There’s an option on the form asking if you’re willing to share your address so your Santa can mail a physical gift to you. We will only ask for your address if you have answered “Yes” to this question and if your Santa is making a gift that can be mailed to you. The information will only be visible to the moderators and your Santa.

If your gift does not meet the requirements we will ask you to fix it.

NSFW gifts are not an option. Please keep your gift SFW.

Your work must be new.

Your work must be your own.  Don’t steal from someone else.

How to turn in your gift

Your gift must be posted on the blog you specified in the sign-up sheet.

The tag #xana is automatically flagged as NSFW on Tumblr and no posts with that tag will be visible on search or tag pages. If you want to tag XANA in something, use #x.a.n.a. instead.

We’re tracking #code lyoko and #code secret santa on Tumblr. Please include one or both of these in the first five tags of your post and/or mention us with @codesecretsanta.

Please include all aboard the skidbladnir in the “Secret code” question of your sign-up form to let us know that you have read the rules.

Once it’s posted, send us an email with the link (because some people might get a Secret Santa from someone on dA and vice versa) (email codesecretsanta@/yahoo.com).

If you post your gift to a different website such as DeviantArt or Twitter, we will repost it to our blog here with full credit.

If you choose to send your gift via private message instead of posting it publicly, you still need to email us to let us know, or we’ll just assume that you’ve missed the deadline and will chase you up.

Remember, this is a Secret Santa - don’t reveal yourself to your person until the 25th of December! If you want to ask them a question but don’t have a way of contacting them anonymously, let us know and we’ll pass the message on to them.

Post your gift on December 25th.