#i could talk about code lyoko forever

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10 Questions for Fic Writers

thanks for the tag @quoththemaiden !! tagging @ninjam117 & @millenniumringg too because why not <3 + feel free to snag it @ everyone else if you wanna!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? Six! But one of them is a collection of artwork that I don’t particularly count as an ao3 work in my head anymore lmao. So five written works!!

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 12,979 words <3

3. What fandoms do you write for? ygo dm bay beee (is bakurae enjoyer a sub-fandom? do we count as our own little sub-fandom lmao)

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes!! I love a good comment discussion and love getting to give director’s commentary on my fics about things ppl commented about!! I try to get to every comment eventually <3

5. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of lmfao (aside from ao3 getting mirrored with “pay the app dev” stuff every so often)

6. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Me and my siblings when we were younger co-wrote ridiculous amounts of self-insert fanfiction together. What a lovely time that was

7. What's your all-time favourite ship? tendies owns my heart forever <33 I used to periodically come back to it every few years before coming back to ygo permanently and now it’s like ahhh we’re almost at ten years of consistent bakurae goodness <33

8. What are your writing strengths? I like to think I have strengths in comedy and dialogue because those are pretty fun and easy for me to churn out… but at the same time perhaps like. Minute details could be a strength of mine. I definitely used to think unusual and innovative prose/emotional descriptions were a strength of mine but I’ve kind of let that skill atrophy so I definitely need to work to regain that skill lmao <33

otherwise I do like my plot bunnies (when I’m able to cultivate them) I like to think developing plot bunnies is also a strength of mine!

9. What are your writing weaknesses? Consistency lmaoooo but nah if we’re gonna like talk real weaknesses it might be like… pacing and connecting scenes together! And also not rambling endlessly. Like. Rambling has its place but often I would find in my work I went on just a tad too long in areas and the pacing would suffer minutely for it. With yami b’s got a crush I really strove to be clear and concise, and I think it paid off so far <3

otherwise also like. choosing a point at which to start the action of a story is hard hard hard for me to do haha. that might also count as a weakness!!

10. First fandom you wrote for? oh gosh. It’s gotta be code lyoko because code lyoko was one of the first two if not first fandoms I ever read fanfic for. The other was I am legend (yes the will smith movie) and I never ended up writing for I am legend so. LMAO

first fandom I ever created stories for and didn’t post tho? idk I cannot remember that far back to what me and my sibs first did as kids lmaoo (we did write a lot of self insert for Narnia and Marvel, tho)

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Chat. Chat I finally finished code Lyoko. No I'm not gonna watch the evolutions stuff no matter how pretty the animation looks. Why am I talking about it here? Well. Code Lyoko inspired au anyone? Very very rough draft lol. I don't even know how serious I'll take this outside of my own personal fun.

Area Zero - Honestly still name impending, but this is what's gonna the digital world is gonna be called.

Penny - As I said before ( i think so anyway) is the one behind the super computer. I'm not completely sure if she's the one that finds Arven first or Luca, but she makes it her goal to help get Arven out.

Luca - If not Penny, then he was the one that found Arven. One of the people who goes in Area Zero to fight.....whatever the equivalent of Xana is in Au. Arguably what keeps the group together before they all truly become friends.

R.B - Still a childhood friend of Arven that moved before he went missing. Bitter by how their friendship ended, but doesn't like the idea of him being stuck in Area Zero forever. While not as tech savvy as Penny, she's still the optimal option when Penny isn't at the super computer.

Nemona - Class president at their school and ever so cheery, if a tad dense. Eventually becomes an Area Zero warrior like Luca and R.B. Loves the digital world,mostly bc she gets to move around so much without losing stamina like she does in the real world ( in the real world though, getting devirtualized kinda hits her harder). She's the groups best fighter by far.

Arven - Stuck in Area Zero for the majority of his life, even growing up there, Arven now requires the help of Luca and the others to boy only save his dearest friend ( Mabosstiff, who I don't know if he would be a pokemon or something else), but also prevent whatever the fuck his mom created from destroying the world. He's pretty much key to stopping it, but can't do it alone.

Prof Sada - The one who created the super computer, along side her ex-husband, Turo. After Turo left and went off the grid, and the government sending agents to go after her work, Sada decided the best option was to digitalize herself, Arven and Mabosstiff into their own paradise, where they'll be safe forever (hm. Maybe the digital world should be called Paradise? Maybe a certain sector of it?). Of course, something goes wrong, and Sada is forced to hide herself within the depth of Area Zero,both for her safety and Arven's. She's out there.... somewhere.

Kieran - After some time has passed ( with Arven being brought to the land of the living), Kieran and his older sister are new transfer students at the school the Crater Crew ( oh that's a way better name that Area Zero Warriors lmao). A very shy kid, who has a very hard time standing up to himself, especially towards his older sisters antics. At some point, he becomes close friends with Luca, and with that, begins to notice more and more when Luca runs off somewhere. He tries to ask Luca about it, but he always brushes it off, or simply lie to Kieran's face. Does he not trust him? Is he already hired with him? Whatever it is, Kieran can't help but feel..... frustrated.

Carmine - The older sister of Kieran and at first, doesn't want him to be associated with Luca's little group. She heard rumors about them, and thinks it's best for her and Kiki to stay away from the lot. But of course, Kieran befriends Luca despite her telling him not to - and well. She guess it's nice that he has a friend. And Luca is kinda nice. Still, she doesn't fully trust them, not when she keeps noticing Luca and his friends keep sneaking off. And why does she keep having these weird dreams? Whatever it is,it's related to Luca's group, and if they're involved, Kiki could end up in more danger than it's worth. So maybe she might do some snooping.....

Again this is a very rough draft of this au. There's soooo many elements that are missing here - the bb league, team star, etc etc. I don't even know if pokemon exist, and if not, how to incorporate the paradox pokemon into this au ( again. Realizing the gang could be called the Paradox Warriors or something). Also like. Very obviously, this is inspired by Code Lyoko, but not exactly a Code Lyoko au. Too many variables that wouldn't make it work completely imo. But yeah! That's my silly little au idea. Some things might change, depending on how much I'll invest in this thing.

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Idk for sure how Warriors au Lyoko could work. Maybe something to do with the tunnels? Like going through them can get you to the different sectors if you know the way or something? And there is canon timetravel (debatably, sort of?) in warriors with the whole Jayfeather's expedition into the past so that could provide a bit of a base for the Return To The Past thing if it exists in this universe. Maybe Aelita could start as a "ghost" in the tunnels like Fallen Leaves but not dead? So many ideas

ohh, that’s true! implementing the tunnels would be a great idea! that could definitely at the very least be a reasonable point of entry to lyoko. i’m not quite sure how the tower system would work, either… maybe instead of towers, its pools of water that xana uses to get through to the real world (like how starclan uses the moonpool), and aelita’s the only one who can purify them. i do like the concept of lyoko being essentially a limbo i talked about in the tags of my last post.

she’d def be a “trapped” or “lost” spirit either way– and that part of the plot where they try to bring her to life would definitely still work. if she was trapped in lyoko and needed a mechanism different to the others in order to come back to the living world, then that’d be the materialization plot.

return to the past is definitely also a difficult thing to figure out… i’d possibly consider removing it entirely or maybe making it like rock’s stick, where there’s some sort of artifact they use to activate it that only goldensky’s really been able to figure out (since jeremie’s supposed to be the only one who can effectively use the supercomputer, lol).

god, once the whole deal with william and the replikas and the skid comes along, i’m not even sure where i’d begin there in all honesty fdsgahd

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A few of my fav childhood tv shows w edgy or goth looking characters bc it seems its all i used to watch

Blaise le blasé (Fred’s Head for the englishers)

One of my favourites EVER. It was a hilarious relatable show (for teen me bc child me didn’t always understand wtf was going on). Definitely recommend (if you speak french watch it in french its wayyy better).

Mona the Vampire

Every now and then i have a sudden nostalgia crisis and i watch an episode of Mona or Ruby Gloom (coming up). I keep forgetting this show exists until i need it LMAO but its really good and i remember reading the books too.

Ruby Gloom

My favourite cartoon show EVER since like forever. I cant remember much of my childhood but i remember watching Ruby Gloom regularly mostly alone, sometimes with my older sister. Misery is my favourite i love her so much, shes such a mess and i relate with her on a spiritual level.

Edgar & Ellen

Okay, this show i didn’t remember until i saw a picture of it while looking up other shows and OMG IT WAS AMAZING HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Billy and Mandy, a classic, what else is there to say other than *chefs kiss*

Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School

My favourite Scooby Doo movie, i watched it a million times. I use to do the “i’m her!!!!” thing with my sisters and i was the tall skinny legend ghost chick and i STILL want to be her

Code Lyoko

Okay if you were a french or french canadian kid you FOR SURE know about this show. I started rewatching it recently and that shit is EPIC?!?! I truly never appreciated it enough but i can tell you the theme song was, is and always will be a BOP. Im not sure if it counts as an edgy looking show in general but my favourite character was Odd so i guess that counts for something (it also explains my neko love)

Emily the Strange (book series)

I genuinely didnt know that so many people liked these books until like a week ago. When i was reading these books i didnt know anybody that even knew of them so i was my own fandom LMAO. I was OBSESSED with these books, i wanted to live like Emily (sleep the day, adventures at night) and i learned how to draw her and her cats

Ghostgirl (book series)

I read those when i was in my first year of secondary school and i l o v e d it. But ever since then i have an actual fear of choking on small stuff (the main character died chocking on a gummy bear) and its probably the reason why i cant swallow pills, now that i think about it. Theyre amazing books but its probably for like 12-14 years olds so dont expect a horror book

Honourable mention: The Hex Girls

I just could not n o t talk about the hex girls, even if they dont have their “own” show theyre still SO UUGHHH. Ive seen every movie/show where they made an appearance (no matter how small) and i know all of their songs and i just love them so much like omg please someone let me be an eco goth wicca vampire-wannabe rock band member with them!!!

Okay that’s all folks! I recommend watching/reading some of these if you’re interested because theyre really amazing and shaped me into the human i am today! (Not saying im a good human but i sure am interesting! XD)

Love yall, stay safe and enjoy!🖤

[ghostlyhamburger]

As somebody who doesn't believe in souls but digs your writing and wants your thoughts, I think it's possible, just possible, that the Adrien-is-a-Sentimonster thing could actually be quite life-affirming rather than tragic. Depending on how it's carried off, of course, because y'know, sticking the landing is everything.

I think Miraculous Ladybug itself has at least touched on the themes involved before. Things like Markov, an artificial intelligence who's treated as a discrete individual, plays on it. His emotions can even get him magically possessed! Ditto Chat Noir quitting after he almost killed Uncanny Valley, who's an android, but also somebody's beloved daughter and sister. They've got off buttons and were built rather than born, but they're still people, is the thing. Someone took the time to treat them that way.

Hell, more than one person on Miraculous previously worked on Code Lyoko, the show where they spent every S1 episode risking their asses trying to get a virtual girl out of a dangerous computer. Because she was a person, and didn't deserve to be trapped that way forever, even if she wasn't "real." She was capable of feeling and being felt for, and that was what counted. That's what made her a person.

(Code Lyoko symbol reference from Optigami, ayy.)

Anyway, not to get all corkboardy, but you remember how Adrien compared Plagg to the genie from the lamp from The 1001 Nights? There are actually two genies in that story, and I think it's relevant.

One is the djinn in the lamp, who grants wishes. The other is the djinn of the ring, who's more of a servant. He has to obey the wearer of the ring... kinda like Plagg (might even have been him). Or, in the theory we're talking about, like Adrien.

The most popular modern adaptation of that story is Disney's Aladdin (also a cartoon). It ends with someone using a wish to ensure that the genie, an all-around nice guy who's finally found a friend, gets his freedom. A thing every person deserves.

It's a big ask to spend a wish on such a "small" thing, but of course Aladdin does it. He loves his friend, and he's become the kind of guy we can rely on to do the right thing.

Before this story is over, it seems very possible to me that someone is going to spend a wish (or equivalent magic) making sure Sentimonster-Adrien gets to be a real boy. Free and clear. Because he deserves it.

In the original Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (from 1883), the story ends when Pinocchio does a very selfless favor for the Blue Fairy. His kindness proves to the audience that he was, and deserved to live as, a real boy. He wakes up in a human body, no longer constrained by the puppet one that had imprisoned him.

I guess all we can do is spend a wish hoping that Sentimonster-Adrien is in the good graces of a kind "fairy" who really thinks a lot of him.

Fingers crossed!

Honestly, I actually really like your view! 

The problem is that the Adrien becoming real part has to be included in a potential sentiAdrien arc, and I do not have faith in the writers to do that well with how much of a rushed angstfest this entire season has been.

It’s all well and good for Marinette to love him just as much as if he were human, but the presence of the amok is an absolute danger. if that’s broken, poof, Adrien is gone. The end.

Ladybug’s cure could not bring him back, otherwise we’d still have Sentibug. Once a sentimonster is gone, then it’s gone forever.

And it makes me extremely uncomfortable that anyone can have that kind of power over him.

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Fic Writer Interview

tagged by @fallen-gravity, @pinesbrosfalls, @fordanoia, and @endae! i think that's everyone agdnshdj sorry i took forever to get around to it, but thanks for the tags 💗

How many works do you have on AO3?

.......four

What’s your total word count on AO3

12981

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

on ao3: gravity falls, pokemon, warrior cats, star trek (technically) (yes the last 3 are all in the same fic)

only in wips: star wars/the mandalorian, undertale, ace attorney, ghost trick, fire emblem: awakening, doctor who

posted elsewhere and lost to time: code lyoko, homestuck, steam powered giraffe

i'm almost positive i'm forgetting at least one lmao, i have chronic Can't Finish Anything Disease

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

only got four ahdjshd but

1. for those once held so nearly

2. Make Me Believe Again

3. Darkened Light, Starless Night

4. go sailing on by

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i try to respond to all of them! i don't sign into ao3 very often and i never check the email linked to it so sometimes months go by before i realize i have a new comment shfjshfkd

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

out of what's currently posted, probably for those once held so nearly (but i do have a second part planned that will end in a much happier place i promise) counting wips, i've got a couple undertale ones that focus on some of the sadder neutral endings, but idk if i'll ever finish them bc damn it's hard for me to write pure angst these days

Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever written?

pikachu/firestar star trek au crackfic drabble (it was a request don't @ me)

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

got a couple "why this" type comments on the aforementioned crossover but i relished in them lmao

don't think i've ever gotten straight-up hate on a fic before, tho i did have a friend who would give me uhhhh,, let's say less than constructive criticism

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

nope! closest i've written was just like, making out lol

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i'm aware of!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

also no, unless i forgot about it, which is possible shfjshdj

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

i've tried co-writing original fiction before but it didn't get very far. have talked about co-writing fics with a couple peeps but nothing's happened yet, would be fun to someday tho! if it counts, i RPed a lot when i was a teen, hahah

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

i'm not sure i have one actually? admittedly i don't ship much to begin with but idk if i could pick an otp out of the few i do, i'm too casual about it. you can probably pick up on some i like by what i reblog tho

What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

like half of them lol 🙃 first one that comes to mind is this big multichapter gaster-centric undertale fic that i was working on back in like early 2016, i have so many chapters half-written and it feels like such a shame to let it gather dust in my wips but i don't have the drive to go back to working on it after all these years

What are your writing strengths?

i feel like i'm pretty good at writing natural-sounding dialogue, and describing feelings/sensations

What are your writing weaknesses?

god i struggle with scenery. i feel like i have to have a literal image in front of me to base my descriptions off of sometimes, esp if it's outdoors/in nature. also don't like writing beginnings! these two things are related!

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i'm cool with it. it can sometimes take me out of the fic a bit if it's a longer sentence or something i need to scroll down to the end to see the translation for tho

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

either code lyoko or pokemon, it's been so long i can't remember which anymore

What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written?

it's still a wip (like 90% of my fics), but there's one that's very special and personal to me and i hope i get to share it someday 💗

i forget who's all done this by now so i'm just tagging @autisticmight and whoever else wants to do it!

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Here’s my idea for a Saturday morning programming block:

Omega, a programming block on The CW

Here’s the programming lineup:

Starting off at 7:00 is Mew Mew Power, formerly aired on Fox’s 4Kids TV. Because screw EI, I want some magical girl anime! Yes, the dub might suck (comes with the territory of 4Kids), but seeing how we need at least an hour of this shit a day, I’d figure we’d start Omega off right!

7:30 is Powerpuff Girls Z. This show never had a proper release in the US, probably because of the hate this show got, but the original would probably get thrown off for being “too violent”, and I am not going near that reboot, so here we are! Plus, I just love this show!

8:00 is Transformers: Animated, formerly aired on Cartoon Network (and later Hub Network). This will forever be my favorite show in the Transformers franchise, G1 be damned. I really think this could have worked well on the last months of Kids WB, considering that the only shows worth watching during that time were World of Quest, The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Tom & Jerry Tales. But it didn’t, and here I am talking about it.

8:30 is Hot Wheels Battle Force 5, previously aired on Cartoon Network. Now, truth be told, I don’t actually remember that much about Battle Force 5; as the only interaction I had with the show was being on the website a lot when I was six, and watching a little bit of the show. But I’ll be damned if The CW doesn’t carry at least one racing-themed cartoon, wether it be this or Speed Racer or hell, even Wacky Races would do!

9:00 is Spider Riders, previously aired on Kids WB, and later This TV’s Cookie Jar Toons. This is one of two veterans from Kids WB, and DAMN! Do I like this one! I remember watching this show on Netflix when I was, like, 6, when my mom took notice of me watching Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, and found it to be to inappropriate for my 6-year-old self, and sent me to the kids’ section, where I looked for anime and found this gem. I haven’t come back to it yet, but mark my words, one day I will!

9:30 is Code Lyoko, previously aired on Cartoon Network’s Miguzi. I remember watching this a lot with my cousin Jeremy (coincidence, right?). And it’s BACK on Netflix, where I have the entire series downloaded. I’m not finished yet, but I will be.

10:00 is Yu-Gi-Oh, previously on Kids WB, and later Toonzai and Vortexx, as well as Cartoon Network and even Nicktoons. Remember what I said about Spider Riders being one of two Kids WB veterans? Well, this is the other veteran I was talking about. You can’t have an anime-themed Saturday morning programming block without Yu-Gi-Oh! It’s unnatural! Science confirmed it!

10:30 is Zatch Bell, previously aired on Cartoon Network. I think this is kid-friendly enough, so we’ll put it here. Zatch Bell is something I discovered when my brother-in-law turned on Crunchyroll while I was on the computer (this was while I was, like, 10) and turned on this. I was hooked, at least while that show was on. Later on, I looked more into it, and I actually kinda liked it. Even wanted to make a sequel, even though my brain wasn’t smart enough to realize that wouldn’t work. But anyway, I really like this one, and I put it here!

11:00 is Dragon Ball Z Kai (the edited version), previously aired on Toonzai and Vortexx, and also Nicktoons. Dragon Ball franchise has gotten some backlash in recent years, due to the somewhat-controversial Dragon Ball Super (which is now banned in Argentina). But I put DBZ Kai on here because this isn’t DBS. And it helps that it’s been on the CW before.

Ending off at 11:30 with The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police, formerly airing on Fox Kids. This is the oldest program on the block, and one of two shows to air on Fox, rather than The CW or The WB, the other one being Mew Mew Power. I rather enjoy this one. Its zany humor really hits the spot, and it’s a great way to end off Omega.

Other shows could include Speed Racer: The Next Generation, Skylanders Academy, Men in Black: The Series, Jackie Chan Adventures, and The Spectacular Spider-Man.

[vahn5]

Just by a Hair

I have had this oneshot just sitting on my PC for a while. It doesn’t quite convince me, but after doing small changes to it again and again, I’m gonna finally share it. Hope you enjoy :D

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The Lyoko Warriors couldn’t contain their emotions. There were hugs, tears and screams of happiness everywhere in the laboratory underneath the abandoned factory. Aelita, on the other side, couldn’t be more confused. Why were they acting in such a strange and chaotic way? Was there something wrong? They were doing so many movements and gestures that the virtual girl couldn’t quite understand, but one stood over the rest.

“Jeremy, did I miss something? Why is there water on your face?” Aelita questioned the excited boy.

“I’ll tell you later Aelita. This time we only missed by a hair” Jeremy laughed, followed by the rest of the group, giving one of the happiest smiles the pink-haired girl had ever seen.

Once the laughter died down, the group decided it was time to go back to Kadic. Aelita was still a bit confused, but was happy knowing that Jeremy would explain everything to her later. With a final “See you later” the image of her friends vanished from the interface, so Aelita decided to continue her research about the real world while she waited for him.

Since there were no more classes that day, Yumi went back to her house while the rest of the group headed for Kadic academy. Whatever Ulrich and Odd where talking about, Jeremy didn’t pay much attention, he was lost in thought. And now I’m supposed to tell Aelita how much of a failure I am? that I almost lost her?! But she deserved an explanation about why her materialization had being delayed once more, and Jeremy would give it to her.

The boys finally reached the academy, and after a quick good bye they went to their respective dorms. Jeremy closed the door to his room, sat down on his chair and stared at the computer’s main screen for a couple seconds before turning it on. In just a few second the PC beamed back to life, Jeremy ran the codes that he was used to by now, and his virtual friend appeared on screen.

“Hello Jeremy” Aelita greeted him, wearing her usual smile, completely unaware of what had happened that day.

Jeremy took a few more second to think on his words. “Aelita… I’m sorry, I have failed you. I-…”

“Jeremy, it’s ok. What you’re trying to achieve is very complicated, but we’ll do it, we just need time” Aelita cut him off, seeing how upset his friend looked.

“No, you don’t understand… I almost lost you forever because I’m an idiot!” Aelita went silent, and Jeremy took this time to breath slowly, trying to calm down. Feeling a bit better the blonde boy proceeded to explain Aelita the previous events about her hair, his mistake, the attack, and how she was eliminated. By the end Jeremy was on the verge of tears, he couldn’t stop blaming himself about everything.

Once Jeremy finished talking there was a moment of silence, Aelita was in what her friend would have called ‘shock’ and needed some time to process all that information.

“Jeremy, we all make mistakes.” Aelita finally broke the silence. “You were just trying to bring me there, which I really appreciate.”

“And I failed miserably…” Jeremy added sadly.

“Besides, you weren’t the one that deleted me, that was my own decision, wasn’t it?”

“Yes” Jeremy confessed, almost whispering, with his head low, refusing to look at her.

“You have no reason to blame yourself, it was an accident. Accidents can happen to anyone, and do I need to remind you that you managed to bring me back from just a hair. I don’t think an idiot would be able to do that” She finally added, trying to humor the situation like she had seen her friend Odd do several times.

“Thank you, Aelita, but I can’t help to feel scared after what happened” Jeremy simply answered, as a tear finally escaped his eye and feel down his cheek.

“You can do it, Jeremy, I believe in you. Why don’t we continue working? Once I’m there we won’t have to worry about anything, right?”

“Oh! Jeremy, you have water on your face again. Are you okay?”

“Hahaha. Don’t worry about it, I am” Jeremy laughed, showing a little but genuine smile, which managed to put the virtual girl’s concerns at ease. Jeremy could see she was doing her best to cheer him up, and he couldn’t just sit around doing nothing.

“You’re right! Let’s get back to work” Jeremy stated, and with that, Jeremy and Aelita got right back to study on her materialization, hoping that soon enough they would be able to see each other face to face and put and end to all their problems.

[kuriboo]

so. yugioh vrains is over. the last episode has aired.and with that in mind, with three seasons of this show, i’ve still got a lot of feelings about this show. especially that last episode. so i guess this is sort of the final thoughts and feelings post about yugioh vrains. not the last post in general about yugioh vrains. just the big opinions post, i guess, because there’s a lot.

yugioh vrains was good

yugioh vrains was very good. i liked it a lot. and me liking it a lot is the only criteria here for whether i’ll say it’s good or bad. i liked it! so it’s good.

i’m also very thankful that vrains has broken a curse yugioh has been suffering for awhile now. we’re talking about the dub. and no, i don’t really care that much that the dub censored some bullets, i think it’s funny, but i don’t care otherwise. this is just about general dub quality. zexal’s dub was bad. written bad quite a bit of the time, and a lot of the voice acting was just, not good. arc v, i can’t speak for the writing, because i only have seen like ten episodes of it, which is to be fair more than most people on this website, but the voice acting in arc v is atrocious, it’s worse than zexal. i’ve seen 20 episodes of the vrains dub, and look, i know. i know arc v’s main villain sounded like iago from fucking aladdin, i know that dub yusaku is voiced by someone who did voicework in zexal. but in 20 episodes of vrains, there wasn’t a single voice i didn’t like. the voice acting in vrains is good. and the dub is written well! it’s actually funny! i think i actually laughed more with the vrains dub than the sub for those 20 episodes. you know how the zexal dub tried to be funny every episode but it was just obnoxious? vrains was actually funny. the jokes are actually good. it’s been awhile since yugioh’s been dubbed well, and it was refreshing. the only thing i don’t like about the dub is that it only airs in canada and it’s impossible to watch in like any way online. i’m not done watching the dub btw eventually i’ll be able to watch more and i will watch more and i’ll be back here in this tag. if nothing else, i’m hoping it joins the other yugiohs on hulu or something when the dub’s done in like, two years. and if there’s a vrains manga i’ll definitely read it but like. shrugs on that.

the show’s got big megaman battle network, code lyoko, and the world ends with you vibes. i’m not saying this to knock vrains or anything. i love vrains. but if you like any of those games/shows, and you haven’t given vrains a chance, even if you haven’t watched any other yugioh series, i highly recommend it. the card games in vrains were very secondary to the story itself, and i think that went a long ways here, it worked well. 

so like, how was vrains, how did i feel about it

season one...season one was really good. in hindsight, season one had some good foreshadowing for season three. season one was probably my favorite season, though, but not by much. season one showed yusaku in school the most and i actually loved all the school scenes. revolver’s a really cool and interesting character, and while i’m glad he stopped being a villain after season one and went the sort of anti-hero route, revolver did make a really good villain. uncovering the mystery of the lost incident was fun. a lot of people guessed early on that revolver was both the person yusaku was trying to take down and the person he was trying to save, way before yusaku himself figured it out, but that wasn’t a bad thing at all. i’m pretty sure the show wanted the audience to figure it out before our protagonist, and the reward itself felt pretty rewarding. revolver has cool dragons, yusaku got a cool dragon, ai got insulted a lot, kusanagi was there, definitely a solid season.

season two was easily my least favorite season. bohman and blood shepherd kinda ruined it for me. thoguh, to be fair, blood shepherd didn’t do much. he gave us an excuse to get some takeru flashback, which we could’ve gotten through other means, and he sort of revealed judgement arrows and helped everyone be able to prepare for it, but like, anyone could do that. i hate blood shepherd a lot, but he’s easy for me to forget. i forgot him between episodes a lot, actually, and when he’d show up i’d have to be like, oh that asshole exists. bohman was worse because he was the main antagonist of season two. and he shouldn’t have been. bohman wasn’t a good villain imo! i feel like he wasn’t written super well. i can sort of make him work out in my head, but i don’t like him, and he kept just pulling ideas out that seemingly came from nowhere. he’d make these leaps that were hard for me to follow, and this was after lightning stopped messing with his memories. and since bohman was the main antagonist and because i really didn’t like him, it made it hard for me to enjoy season two. there were other good things in season two. takeru joined the scene in this season, and i love takeru a lot. i require apologies from everyone who didn’t trust my man takeru. lightning was a really good villain (lightning should’ve been the main antagonist imo), was very interesting, and i liked lightning a lot. and hell, haru was alright! i kinda wish they did more with haru. season two wasn’t bad by any means. we also saw the story of how kusanagi and yusaku met in season 2, and those were some of my favorite episodes of the season, along with the yusaku vs kusanagi duel. the story and message was good (though that doesn’t boost it up a ton given season 3 had the same messages) but honestly i just really don’t like bohman.

season 3 is very close to being my favorite season. this is the season of the protagonist having to face against their partner. it happens in like, any yugioh where the protagonist has a partner. vrains didn’t disappoint on that front. this season felt short! season two felt like it dragged on forever and season three felt short. it didn’t necessarily feel like it needed to be longer, when it ended, though. i just wish the show wasn’t over lmao. everyone got baited super hard like episode 1 when everyone thought queen would be the next antagonist after lightning + bohman and then she super wasn’t, which was kinda funny. most of hte time this season i was just yelling at ai to tell me the truth. i loved roboppy and ai this season. and im SO sad about what happened to them!! ai and roboppy were written really well, they made really good villains. i’ll definitely be making more posts about ai in the future. and also, that epilogue though!!! i didn’t get into it when i watched bc i was in a hurry, but!!! jin looks really happy, i love his haircut! and kusanagi is keeping the hot dog truck open so that yusaku still has a place to come home to! im gonna cry!!!! the knights of hanoi are all super good now and i love them. akira’s the ceo of sol!!! it’s what he deserves!!!!! and the whole takeru + kiku scene was really nice. everyone was screaming about that ship being canon now, which i guess it is? i didn’t read it as romantic, i read it as “kiku is a little scared about everything with vrains and takeru is helping her feel safe and secure, like, making sure she doesn’t fall off his hoverboard and shit”. i honestly read it more as takeru still being gay for yusaku while thinking about how cool yusaku is lmao. but i know yusaku + takeru will never be canon, i never thought it would be, and knowing yugioh, takeru + kiku im sure is supposed to be canon so like. it’s not a bad ship. i’m surprised how many people i see like that ship? but it’s just not for me i guess. im happy for yall who wanted this though. and that last scene!!!! we saw ai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’ll save thoughts on that another time i guess, including yusaku post that time skip.

i liked shima a lot this series. i honestly wish there was more of him lmao. i mostly wanted more yusaku + shima interaction, not in terms of shima finding out yusaku was playmaker, i just wanted the two of them to bond more. i wanted to see more of them being friends (read: shima forcing his friendship on yusaku and yusaku reluctantly goes along with it but actually likes it more as time goes on). and i wish we got to see takeru in the duel club at least once. takeru and yusaku both going to one meeting and yusaku sleeps through it and takeru is pumped and like taking notes and shit and shima is just like how can yusaku sleep through it this is the best!!!

aoi....i have mixed feelings on. i liked her a lot in season one, and i liked her a lot in half of season two. i really don’t like the blue maiden avatar (i did like blue girl!), and i preferred the trickstars over marincesses. i did enjoy her figuring out yusaku was playmaker though, that was a fun scene. i like aoi a lot still, love that girl, but after a point i stopped liking what they were doing with her.

they did ghost gal dirty. ghost gal was GREAT in season one. i loved her. and then they gave her a brother, her brother was shit, and everything about ghost gal got thrown out the window so that her character could revolve only around her shit brother. i feel so bad for her. i mean, i kinda get it? this whole thing’s about bonds, a lot of the bonds focused on were familial bonds (either in the blood family or found family sense, there was both). but ghost gal was already developing a sort of family-ish bond with akira and aoi by that point. i never felt like she needed anything else. she still could’ve done cool things in seasons two and three without having a shitstain forced into her life.

im madly in love with kusanagi and if anyone says a single bad thing about him i will stomp you to death with my hooves

i’m running out of people to talk about here i can’t avoid it anymore i’ll talk about blood shepherd now. i hate him. i hate him. he’s an idiot. i’ve yelled about this before and i’ll do it again. some shit happened to him because of malfunctioning ai or whatever. cool. great. now he has a grudge against all ai. that makes no sense. if im playing basketball and i get hit in the head by a basketball (by accident) am i gonna blame the basketball? no, i’ll either blame the person who threw it or myself for not noticing it and letting myself get hit. if i sprain my wrist playing volleyball am i gonna get mad at the volleyball? no, i’m mad at myself for messing up and playing in a way that caused that injury. if i get in a car accident because my car brake stops working, am i going to blame the car itself? maybe a little, but not as much as either the manufacturer or, if i recently had work done on the brake, the mechanic i visited. see, these things are all inanimate objects with no malicious intent or free will. since vrains is one of those shows, it may sound cruel comparing an AI to a car or a basketball. but the ignis (all generations, we’ll include pandor and bohman and haru in here for simplicitiy’s sake) are a special case. the ignis specifically stand out because they were made with free will. other artificial intelligence does not have that. it cannot have malicious intent. artificial intelligence cannot do anything it is not programmed to be able to do. it cannot hurt or kill someone, unless it is either programmed to have that function, or you’re looking at an ignis. and blood shepherd KNOWS THIS, because he became a hacker, and even REPROGRAMMED AN AI THAT WASNT SUPPOSED TO LIE TO LIE FOR HIM. along the way, he would’ve had to learn that somewhere. an ai malfunctioned and caused blood shepherd and his mom to get in a car accident. the ai itself isn’t to blame for that! that’s the fault of whoever made it!! or if the car was hacked to cause that problem, it’s the car manufacturer’s fault! you blame those people!!! and if blood shepherd went after those groups it’d be fine! instead he goes after artificial intelligences because he’s the biggest fucking idiot the world has ever seen. this does not make sense, even in the vrains universe, because again, the ignis are the only ai with free will and who can make their own decisions. any other ai cannot do something like this on purpose. the solution is to make ai better, not get rid of them. the solution is to improve security. not get rid of ai. at this point ai is so ingrained in society that you’re not gonna accomplish that anyway. oh, and i hate blood shepherd for what he did to ghost gal’s character. other than that, he was cool for two episodes before we learned his bullshit backstory, and he hasn’t done a single thing i liked since except he died twice, and i liked those parts. i fucking HATE blood shepherd. easily one of the worst yugioh characters ever. i could rant on about bohman, too, but im tired.

i don’t have bad things to say about a lot of characters. yusaku, kusanagi, jin, ai, roboppy, revolver, lightning, aqua, akira, earth, go onizuka, windy, i don’t really have bad things to say about them now that the series is over. i liked them a lot!!! they were really good. 

i guess the bottom line of this is, i wish yugioh treated its girls and its “joke characters” or “comic relief characters” better. and i wish bohman and blood shepherd didn’t exist, or were executed better. other than that, very solid.

if you were curious about my preferred ships here, yusaku + takeru is the best ship this show has to offer and it’s a shame more people don’t like it, and miyu + aoi is really good. anything else is like, okay, but i don’t love it. the show’s most popular ships are fine but not for me. yusaku + ryoken is okay but doesn’t really work in universe for me, i don’t love it but it’s fine, and it’s aight in a like real au setting. i don’t think there’s any ships i don’t really like, not like, other than the obvious. but these two are the best. 

all in all, vrains was really good. this show helped me through some real bad times, and will continue to do so as bad times continue. i love it lots, it holds a special place in my heart, and im glad i was able to watch it. im excited for whatever yugioh has to offer next, especially following this, because vrains is definitely one of my favorite yugioh series over all. it was a lot of fun and made me suffer and cry a lot and it was just...a good time. please watch it if you haven’t. thanks for going on this journey with me. i’ll probably end up talking more about bigger characters like yusaku and ryoken and takeru and kusanagi and ai more in different posts. ive talked enough here already

[flamingthespian]

3, 22, 29

Gonna put this under a cut cause it got quite long...

3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with.

*cracks knuckles* HERE WE GO BOYS! This’ll be a long one. Here’s a list, in no particular order:

- Code Lyoko: Aelita Schaeffer.

I adore Aelita and everything about her, tbh. She’s like a big comfort character for me. In fact she may have been a big part of my reconciliation with the color pink.

-Homestuck: Roxy Lalonde

I love Roxy SO MUCH, no matter what form they take. Seriously though like their character arc in Homestuck is hella important to me because they’re the one Alpha kid that gets over their personal issues and pushes it to the limit, smacking sense into the rest of the group and overcoming boundaries to become unapologetically and beautifully themself.

-Hatoful Boyfriend: Ryouta Kawara

This was a hard pick for me because Hatoful will always be my #1 home base fandom, no matter what other hyper fixations I develop from time to time. And I love all of the birds like my own children…but Ryouta is like really special to me. His struggles are like, really relatable to me and I find myself always being like “fuck shit shit damn holy shit thats me I do that same thing my boy.” I just want him to be happyyyyy…and I have cried for him on more than one occasion, believe you me.

-DanganRonpa: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu

Another hard one because this is kind of what I’m currently super into. I love it. And it’s also an absolute trash series, at the same time, lol. I also don’t super identify with any of the characters? The reason I picked Fuyuhiko is because he’s my favorite and even though I’m not like…a hardboiled gangster who has seen death and stuff…I do always find myself coming back to him and just loving him as a character. I’m a huge sucker for dynamic characters, honestly. Give me someone who realizes the error of their ways and changes their behavior and I will go NUTS. I also guess I do relate to him on the “I will murder you if you touch my little sister or my girlfriend” thing, for sure. And I also relate to him on the “How to make up for my misdoings…hm, oh yes, I shall slit my stomach open” front. Like, that’s the kind of dramatic hoe shit I’d do in the death island situation.

-Gravity Falls: Mabel Pines

I picked Mabel because I’m often the naive silly one who just wants to love everybody and throw glitter all over everything. I want everything to be sunny happy funtimes all the time. Oh but I will absolutely go batshit if you threaten my family so we have that in common too. Also I LOVE Dipper but there were a lot of times in the series where I was like “STOP BEING A DICK TO YOUR SISTER SHE LOVES YOU”

-Steven Universe: Pearl

Yeah. Pearl is kind of…everything I hate about myself. I mean she also has a really fantastic story and growth and a lot of good parts which I also believe I share on some level? I guess I’m thinking more of “early series pre-character development Pearl” when she was still just kind of a really possessive character, lol. Hm. Got kinda deep there? Sorry bout that folks

-Undertale: Alphys

SO MUCH IT HURTS. I could easily see myself doing a lot of what Alphys does and I relate to her just, a lot. Her anxiety, her wild bisexuality, her cowardice, her passion. I love her. I do, however, wish I could get a buff fish creature girlfriend. That would be cool as hell.

There’s more fandoms I consider myself a part of but I could talk forever if I kept at it so THAT’S ENOUGH!

22. list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order.

Panicking, games, doodling, singing, social media

29. three songs that you connect with right now.

Haterz by Toddrick Hall, Any Way You Want It by Journey, Freak Flag from Shrek the Musical

THAT WAS A LOT, SORRY! But thank you so much for the ask!!

[felldragxn-a]

((Well since it’s Munday and people are introducing themselves I’m just gonna make a random introductory post

Hello I’m Reefy, I’m a 23-year-old english major with a gf of 9 years and I’ve been writing for... ever, literally forever, it’s the only thing I’ve ever been truly good at and I’m not even that good at it. college is currently sucking out my soul and i’ve been roleplaying since I was like... 10-11 or something.

my first RP fandom was Code Lyoko! (I got grounded for an entire summer once because somebody on the internet in a roleplay I was in said a Bad Word which is the most hilarious thing in retrospect.) I spent a few years exclusively RPing with my gf after getting tired of FB RPing as Remilia Scarlet from the Touhou series, and after a few months of obsessing over Undertale decided to start up my Tumblr career. my first blog bombed, second blog was originally an SU blog, then a Chara blog, now here we are with this side blog.

I like video games, Sony’s where I’m at and has been ever since Jak and Daxter became my favorite game of all time. currently hating Overwatch but still playing it, got MHW, semi-decent at Bloodborne sometimes, played Dark Souls once and was bad at it, Nier is one of my absolute favorite games and Yoko Taro basically owns my soul at this point. my first FE game was Sacred Stones and Myrrh is the best dragon, don’t fight me on that

I’m an aspiring author. my favorite book is called Heir Apparent which tbh deserves it’s own movie. my favorite series is currently up for debate between House of Night and Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I’ve been working on a trilogy with my gf since the day we met about a group of people who come to love each other way too much. I really like writing somewhat sympathetic antagonists who are definitely assholes but not without reason.

...that’s all I can think of to say okay have a good night everybody~

edit: i have like 100+ ocs i could probably talk your ears off about them for the rest of my life if you let me))

[makayla-angelic]

My top favorite Code Lyoko episodes (by season)

Season 1 First place: Code: Earth. Amazing and satisfying. We finally get to see Aelita brought to Earth after so much time. It was nice to see Jeremy forgive Jim and let him help out despite all that's happened. Second place: The Trap. For some reason, I love the concept of Ulrich and Sissi being trapped in an elevator while Sissi tends to Ulrich's broken arm. I don't ship Ulrich/Sissi, but it's amazing what a little bit of trouble will do to the bitch of the school. Sissi, this is how it's done. Just learn to stop being petty and snobby and start having respect and sympathy for people, and maybe you'll get the guy of your dreams. It may not be Ulrich, but you just have to move on sweetie. Third place: False Start. What a nice twist for the supercomputer being shut off means Aelita goes because of her link to Xana. What also a cool twist in bringing Kankrelats into the real world. Honorable mention: Routine(4th place), Ghost Channel(5th place), Holiday In The Fog(6th place), Cruel Dilemna(7th place), End Of Take(8th place), The Girl Of The Dreams(9th place), Just In Time(10th place) Season 2 First place: New Order. Wow, what a way to start a new season! New monsters, new vehicles, Aelita living at the school, and new mysteries to solve concerning Aelita's visions,and the Hermitage. Also, Yumi and Ulrich trapped in the sauna reminded me of Ashely and Ashlyn's tanning death from Final Destination 3. All we needed was the Love Rollercoaster theme playing and I'm pretty sure it would have looked the same. Second place: Common Interest. This episode decides to show us how bad it gets when the supercomputer loses energy, and Aelita is dying, as well as Xana. So Xana possesses a guy to steal some uranium. That's cool and all, but, 1234 for the password code, really? I laughed, but I was still enjoying this episode. This goes in the second place for me because I really love the suspense of fighting to save Aelita's life. If wasn't for the virus, everything would be much simpler. But something felt a bit missing from this episode, I don't know. The first time I watched it, I felt like I was watching a episode of House M.D. It very may have well could been for all we know! The plot sequence is there for it. Patient comes in with unexplainable illness and continues to suffer from bizarre episodes until the brains of the outfit pulls out the solution to the problem that no one could ever think of in a hundred years. Overall, I liked the plot of this episode, it was satisfying, a close call satisfying, like all the other episodes. But it makes me think, "hm, you always have to come prepared, because you never know what can happen." Third place: Temptation and Uncharted Territory are tied together for this one. I chose Temptation because this episode teaches kids that "just because it looks promising, it's not always the good idea." With the case of this episode, Jeremy uses the "Sometimes we have to do the wrong things for the right reasons" kind of path, and destroys his own mental health using Franz Hopper's headset to increase is brain power. Jeremy becomes edgy, smart alec, on the verge of snapping, and misses his classes. I like the plot of this episode because Jeremy tries so hard everyday, and he finally gets tired and loses his steam, which is what Xana wants. Despite Jeremy acting like a jerk because of the headset, I think it teaches a good lesson. Be careful of what you use, and how you use it, you might be under a trap. Uncharted Territory also goes for third, because while discovering sector 5 was a nice, interesting twist, there wasn't much anything else to this episode. This also marks to first appearence of the nightmare inducing Scyphazoa, so that made the episode a little less favorite than the others for me. Honorable mention: The Key(4th place), Contact(5th place), Deja vu(6th place), Cold War(7th place), Ultimatum(8th place), Attack Of The Zombies(9th place), Vertigo(10th place) Season 3 First place: Straight To Heart. A nice, simple way of getting back into the swing of things. But even getting back into the swing of things, there are still twists and turns. Aelita has a new ability; she can shoot pink energy fields out of her hands. Cool! She can be devirtualized and not disappear forever, because she had obtained all her human memories. Extra cool! But I also like this episode because this one too also teaches the reality of life. Yumi friendzones Ulrich, and to some, they saw it coming. While this is sad, I think Yumi did the right thing. Ulrich's jealousy of William and shyness of not making a move is stemmed from his low self-esteem. Until Ulrich can get it together, Yumi doesn't want to bother trying to be in a relationship with him anymore. She's been confused, and she's had enough. This scene, along with William confronting Ulrich after the accident at the pool is one of my favorites, because even though this show had a TV-Y7 rating, (some episodes should have been TV-PG), the writers knew that there would be an older, and more mature audience watching as well, to understand these situations. Second place: Temporary Insanity and Nobody In Particular are tied for this one. For Temporary Insanity, I enjoyed the plot of Odd and Ulrich thinking Earth is Lyoko and Lyoko is Earth. What a wild ride, and their antics inside the mental hospital are funny when they try to shoot at the bloks and crabs that they "see." And a hand clap to Aelita for being the boss on Lyoko when she gets fed up with Odd and Ulrich not paying attention and orders them to listen to her. What a funny episode! Nobody In Particular also goes to second due to the emotion that is set in. Ulrich's body and mind become seperated during a test on sector 5, and his body is stuck on Lyoko, and his spirit is left behind on Earth. Damn, the virtualization program removes souls now? Everyone goes home and cries over Ulrich, leaving the audience watching feeling emotional as well. How can we not? Ulich appears to be dead, and Jeremy feels like absolute crap, because, as the brains of the outfit, knows he's really in it now. But Ulrich appears in ghost form, but since no one can see him or hear him, he enters Kiwi as a resort of communication. This episode was as emotional as it is funny. Seeing Ulrich prance around in Jim's body trying to be the boss was amusing. I laughed when everyone ganged up on him in the cafeteria threw bread and food at him. Third place: Final Round. A wild and interesting conclusion to the short season 3. William joins the gang, only to be possessed by Xana. Brilliant! Only sarcastically speaking, but not for Xana. In my opinion, William makes a good Lyoko warrior, but he was too playful and cocky, which led to his capture. Everyone should have listened to Yumi this time around I suppose. Ulrich's dad showing up was a nice thing as well. Only now we can see why Ulrich is the way he is. Honorable mention: Xana Awakens(4th place), Tidal Wave(5th place), Aelita(6th place), Lyoko Minus One(7th place), The Pretender(8th place), Sabotage(9th place), Triple Trouble(10th place) Season 4 First place: Lab Rat and William Returns is tied for first! I thouroughly enjoyed Lab Rat due to the amazingness of seeing the Lyoko warriors in real life! In 2D Lyoko form that is, we'll get to Evolution later. It was awesome idea for the writers to put this concept into the show, things are really heating up now. (Why are the final seasons of shows, most of them I should say, get so damn good towards the end?) I loved the animation and the idea of traveling to different Replicas and labs to destroy supercomputer's within that region. William Returns is also a good one because first, we see that William is not actually dead, but he's still very much under Xana's control. Congrats to Xana for making it look like William had actually returned to Earth. Second place: This one contains three silver spots on my podium! They are, The Lake, Wrong Exposure, and Music Soothes The Savage Beast. I'm not even sure why The Lake is one of my favorites. It just is. Maybe because I like the idea of the hereoes actually getting a good break for once. Trying to live a wholesome life for once. Also now that William is a threat, things get even more interesting. We also get this interesting scene of Yumi trying to talk to William to make him understand, and he comes back for a second, but only a second. Despite the cliche, "I know you're in there somewhere you just have to fight", it is actually pretty emotional. We see William actually trying to break through. So good job here. Mrs. Hertz being knocked out and Jim almost giving her CPR, or PCR as some of the other students called it, and Mrs. Hertz wakes up and threatens to hurt Jim where the sun doesn't shine if he does. Wrong Exposure earns its silver medal for Aelita finally finding out some more information about her past. I like how the characters handled the principals suspicion about Aelita after Sissi finds out some information about her past. After all, Aelita was 12 when she entered the supercomputer, and being in a virtual world stops the aging process. So I guess this is why time travel has the same effect on a person as well, because it's basically the same as being in another dimension? Is this why Jack never aged for 50 years in Aku's ruling timeline? (I just made a Samurai Jack reference in case somebody reading doesn't know.) This episode almost made it to first place spot, but something was just missing. The Aelita and Ulrich fight sequence was awesome and epic. So we a silver-rated episode, but a gold-rated fight sequence. Then, after the fight is over, we get some sweet moments of Ulrich nudging Aelita towards the tower so she can deactivate it. What a nice episode, what an awesome fight though! And then we have Music Soothes the Savage Beast! Aelita, my girl, is finally shining with the Subdigitals and achieving her dream of playing her remix's on the board. But I am very disappointed with Jeremy in this episode. Yes Jeremy, we all know how strong and powerful Xana has become and what he's up to, but just let Aelita be Aelita! Let her have some fun! Go watch her performance! She spent 10 years of her life trapped in a virtual world with no one to help her, and her earlier years were spent dealing with the fact she had her mother snatched away from her when she was 5 years old! Oh, and let's forget her own father, a second-grade magician as she calls him is the one responsible for all this! Repeating the same day every day for 7 years drove him mentally insane! Come on Jeremy! But I love this episode, because I personally think it shows that Aelita has come a long way. Third place: Skidbladnir and Fight To The Finish earn the bronze medal. I chose Skidbladnir because it was very interesting to see a virtual ship that will carry our heroes through the internet and to the replica's via the digital sea. While this episode was good because of the new ship, there didn't really seem to be much that followed the episode after, other than William's massive attack on the ship and the attack on the real world as well. Fight To The Finish leaves us with a satisfying yet sad end. Xana is finally destroyed, but at the cost of Franz Hopper's life so that he could supply Aelita the power she needed to launch the program that would wipe out Xana. Even though this is the end, there's still one episode left called Echoes, which is basically a filler episode of the heroes thinking back on all the moments of their adventure. I like this episode, but it's sad. How much more can poor Aelita take? It is satisfying to see Xana dead and gone however. I really wish Aelita could have had her dad back though. I haven't seen Evolution yet, even though it's been out for a couple of years, so I don't know if Aelita gets her mother back. Honorable mention: I'd Rather Not Talk About It(4th place), Crash Course(5th place), Maiden Voyage(6th place), Hot Shower(7th place), Lost At Sea(8th place), Distant Memory(9th place), Canine Coundrum(10th place)

[reese-anders]

A typical day at the Ishiyama household?

once again, if you’re not familiar with IWRY this is a pretty generic code lyoko read!

also this turned way the hell more into “yumi and hiroki have a bonding moment” as opposed to typical daily life. woohoohoo

inb4 i put a lot of my personal experience into this one

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Hiroki perked his head to where heheard the door quietly shut. It cost him a hefty portion of hischaracter’s lifebar, and he quietly cussed as he panicked and ranfrom the monster to heal. Sure, not a total loss, but an unnecessaryone. Still, he quietly listened to his sister’s slow and sloppyfootsteps as she shuffled into the kitchen area, rummaging in thefridge.

Their parents were already in bedotherwise he would’ve called a greeting to her. Instead he simplyfocused on his game, waiting for her to enter the living room withtwo glasses full of cold tea. He gratefully took one, awkwardlytrying to drink out of it and play at the same time.

“I could’ve put a straw in it, youknow,” Yumi said, sarcastic but with only exhaustion to back it up.Hiroki blubbered a disagreeing hum, spilling tea onto his nose andchin as he failed and nearly died. Pausing the game to set the cupdown, he failed to clean his chin off before it dripped onto hisshirt. Yumi sighed and sat next to him, curling her legs up in a waythat was too tight to be comfortable.

“You don’t understand,” Hiroki saidas he finally choked down the tea that almost cost his charactertheir life, “If I don’t challenge myself, where am I ever gonna getin life?”

“You’ve been listening to Jim toomuch,” Yumi muttered as if it was a complaint, hunching hershoulders to sip her tea like a reclusive turtle. Hiroki glancedover, noticing the complete lack of humor in her tone despite thefact that she was trying to joke. He glanced at the time, thenunpaused the game.

“Well,” he said after a while, thetone indicating that he meant more than he was saying, “Mom and Dadare asleep, but you didn’t get home that latethis time.”

Yumigrunted, almost like an animal, and pulled her feet under her butt inannoyance. No, it wasn’t even midnight yet—she had comehome early, all things considered for a weekend.

“And I’m sureyou’ll be the one to tell them that in the morning,” she grumbled.Hiroki shrugged.

“Nah, you knowI’ve never told on you before.”

“Thatone time you did—,”Yumi argued, only to be interrupted by Hiroki’s stifled cheer ofvictory as the monster finally fell and died, which he used to segueinto his point.

“Thatone time you came homebeat up with bruises, oh no,no real cause for alarm, onee-chan.”

“Ugh,” Yumigrunted again, looking for all the world as though she was annoyedenough to argue further, but instead she simply sipped her tea,watching quietly as Hiroki collected his spoils from the monster. Heflipped through the rewards screens, and when it was all said anddone she finally spoke again, “Fair enough.”

Hiroki smiled,warm. Yumi pretended not to notice.

The two siblings sat in mutual silenceand Hiroki continued to play and Yumi continued to watch and drinktea. After a while Hiroki’s neutral expression turned to a smallfrown as the game started loading the next quest.

“Like, I know you said that thebruises weren’t from a person, and it certainly looked like it,but…,” Hiroki’s voice tip-toed, knowing that while his sistercould have a short temper she never necessarily blew up before goingdangerously quiet as a warning first, “You just. Certainly haven’tbeen home a lot, even when your friends aren’t with you.”

Yumi took her time on the next sip oftea, drinking as her eyes remained fixed on the TV screen. Hirokisteeled himself in the meantime, knowing that if he prodded he couldignite such an explosion, or he could let it go. But letting it gomeant that his sister would remain silent for the rest of theevening, and he’d get nothing buta lump in his throat for asking what turned out to be such a stupidquestion.

She ran her thumbsaround the rim of her glass and lowered it to rest against her knees.He watched out of the corner of his eye even as he located themonster in the game, curious to see his sister sigh and stare offinto nothing.

“Yeah…,”she answered, surprising Hiroki. He felt his heart pound in hischest, invigorated by the fact that his sister was actuallygoing to talk with him, heart toheart, sister to brother, “I mean…how were they today?”

“Mom and Dad…?”Hiroki clarified with a sad, exasperated sigh, “What do you thinkyou’re gonna hear?”

“The truth,”Yumi replied, quiet and knowing. Hiroki tried to procrastinate,pretending like he needed all of his focus on the game. His sisterlet him, halfway done with her tea. Finally he gave in, knowing hecouldn’t procrastinate forever—knowing that his sister alreadyexpected what he was going to say.

“Yeah…it wasabout you, again.” he mumbled as if his parents were eavesdroppingon their conversation instead of the usual other way around. Yumisaid nothing, just a complacent hum and a small, polite nod, but hesaw her knuckles grow pale as she gripped her glass harder. It wasalways about her. She knew, too, that it was about her to mask thefact that it was really about each other. Instead it revolvedaround her, how she kept sneaking out, whose fault it was, and if shegot into trouble (in other words, pregnant) what they would have todo. But they had different ideas on either side, so each hypotheticalbecame a spider’s web of multi-pronged arguments. When she wasyounger she tried to buy herself some slack and said that she was inlove, which wasn’t false. But then that boy moved away, so what couldshe say now? Lie and say that she was still in love? Now that shestayed out late every night, snuck out later when she came home ontime, and in general avoided them, saying that she was in “love”would earn a massive tidal wave of criticisms and conjecture aboutwhat she did with all her free time away from school. They thoughtthey had raised a good girl, not whatever Yumi turned out tobe.

Hiroki remained ather side, although quiet. He may not have known about why shespent so much time with her friends, but he seemed to accept thatthere was a deeper reason to it other than teenage rebelliousness.Yumi preferred him like that—after all, she was older, she was theone supposed to protect him, not the other way around. Even thoughhis silence protected her more than she gave credit for. But even hewas starting to wear thin with her, knowing the trouble that the newkid was causing her. At least with Hiroki’s worries, though, Yumi wasable to accept that it was actually for her own good, unlike with herparents where she was a weapon to be used against the other.

“And…I wishthat you just staying home more often and not sneaking out would fixthe problem, but then they’d just argue about you in front of you. Orabout something else.”

“And now you knowwhy I stay out late even if I don’t have a reason,” Yumi mutteredin turn. Hiroki grimaced, nodding in agreement.

Still using amuffled voice in case their parents heard, Hiroki’s voice grewindignant, “Sometimes I almost do what you do, just disregard itand go off and do whatever I want, just for a night.”

Yumi smirked, eyingher brother as he pouted with his bright eyes. Apples don’t fall farfrom the tree, indeed. Hiroki gave an annoyed huff, somehow turninghis annoyance into defeating the monster.

“I’m sick ofbeing their golden boy.”

Reaching out one ofher long arms and ruffling his hair to his discontent, Yumi’s smirkgrew wider despite the heaviness of his statement.

“If I wasn’there, they’d fight about you. Or something else. Anything else.”she reminded him, shedding her hard exterior and becoming his bigsister again, affection in her voice.

“I know…,”Hiroki grumbled, “Every day. When the fights get really bad, Momscreams that it was a stupid idea to move to France. That moving hereruined her life, ruined her kids’ lives. Yeah. Her kids, notour kids.” He sank into the couch, deflating even thoughvictory music trumpeted from the TV. Yumi watched her brother becomesmall again, defeated in a way that video games could never emulate.

“If they split,”he continued, his voice akin to a small child, “She’s moving backto Japan.”

“If,” Yumirepeated, looking back to the TV. Though the repetition implied thatshe was trying to instill that it was only a possibility and not areality, the tone of her voice said otherwise. To her, to the both ofthem, the Ishiyama children sitting together on the couch, it was amatter of when. A matter of time.

Yumi finished hertea, then reached for her brother’s as he started another quest. Hestarted to protest, saying that he was still drinking that, when awicked smirk split Yumi’s cheeks. Oh, it was his tea alright, she wassimply just going to feed it to him as he hunted for another monster,regardless of whether he was ready or not. It resulted in more teaspilled on his shirt than he actually drank (even though he tried toindulge her and drink from the glass she was tipping at his lips).Mock-fighting and stifling laughter, the dim atmosphere around thesiblings lifted if just for a moment as they spent the rare timetogether. Effectively, they were able to forget that tomorrow wouldbe a repeat of the fights their parents had all over again—for now,that was all that mattered and all that they needed.

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Please read the first part before this. This is when it gets really weird.

Part 3 The Next Generation of Lyoko Fighters

Chapter 1 The American Reunion  (In the car driving to school)(Amy's POV)  "I can't wait to see all my friends again" I said as my mom was driving to school. "Looks like someone missed all their friends" Mrs. Karren said (Amy's mom). "Yup" i said as we pulled into the school grounds. "Look their they are" I said as I saw my friends walking into the building. "Bye mom" I said getting out of the car. "Bye Amy, see you when I’m done with work" Mrs. Karren said (She is a doctor). I ran up to my friends after I got out of the car. "Hey guys, over here" I said. "Amy, your back" Tim, Bill and Nick said at the same time, "You got bangs". "Yup" I said but i couldn't get the memory of Xana killing my friends back in France. "Is something wrong?" Bill asked. "It's just that, oh I can't tell you it's to horrible" I said starting to cry. "You can tell us anything, we are your closest friends here" Nick said. "Alright" i said wiping my tires, "it's just that in France I made some friend, but before I came back to America they were muttered". "Whoa" Bill said, "who could of done that?". "I don't know" I lied because they didn't know a thing about Lyoko or Xana. Then the first period bell rang (Academic Assist) and we went to our homerooms. During the day I could have sworn I saw one of Xana's ghosts trying to hide from me.  (Cafeteria)(Lunch time)(Bill's POV)  "Well it's a good thing it's cheeseburger for lunch today" I said. "Yup" Amy said as Nick, Amy, and I sat down (Lunch is separated by grade level). "Ya know, during class my veins on my hand formed into this weird sign" I said. "what did it look like?" Amy asked. "Well it looked like 2 circles in a circle, 1 line going up and 3 going down" I responded. "Oh just wondering" Amy said. I was curious why she was so interested. "Hey there is this factory down the street and Tim and I are going to check it out tomorrow morning" I said, "want to come?". "Sure, why not?" Amy and Nick said. "Then meet us there on Saturday (Tomorrow) morning at 10:05AM" I said. "Ok I will" Amy said, "Oh and my parents said it was ok for the sleepover tonight". "Great" Nick and I said in excitement because Amy knows how to throw a great sleepover.

Chapter 2 The Sleepover  (8th Grade Hallway)(7th Grade Lunch)(Tim's POV)  As I went to my locker to get my books that i forgot to bring to class, I saw a girl at her locker. She suddenly dropped all her things and I rushed over to help her. "Are you okay?" I asked. "Yeah I'm fine" She said, "my name is Shanida". "Nice to meet you Shanida" I said giving some of her books to her. "Say, I saw you hanging around some 7th graders, are they your friends?" Shanida asked. "Yes they are" I responded, "well I better get to class". "Ok, meet me by the bench after school" Shanida said. "Ok I will be there and I'll bring my friends" I said as i went to class.  (The Bench)(After School)(Same POV)  "Hey there she is" Amy said as she ran up to Shanida. "Hey Shanida, these are my friends Amy, Bill, and Nick" I introduced. "Pleased to meet you" Shanida said to my friends, "I heard you were going to check out that old abandoned factory down the street, can I come with you?". "Sure, we are planning to go after the sleepover at my place" Amy said, "I’m sure my mom won't mind one more person at the sleepover". "Thanks, I'll come at 6:00" Shanida said as Amy gave her directions.  (Amy's House)(6:00 PM)(Shanida's POV)  Soon a walked up to Amy's porch and rang the doorbell and I waved goodbye to my dad. Amy opened the door and I saw a cool house from the inside. "Wow Amy you have a cool house" I said as I hung up my coat in one of the closets. "Thanks, oh and my mom is ordering pizza is it ok to have just Pepperoni?" Amy asked. "Yeah that's ok" I said and we went downstairs. Soon the Pizza arrived and we told stories, played music, danced, and even swam in her pool. The people in the school were right, Amy sure knows how to throw a sleepover party. "I can't believe your mom died Shanida" Bill said. "Well it's not as bad as losing some of your closest friends" Amy said. Suddenly we all felt a chill run down our spine like something went in us. "Did you all feel that?" Amy asked. "We did" Bill and Nick said. "We felt like something just pasted us" Nick and I said. It was getting late so we went to bed.  (Amy's Dream)(Amy's POV)  Suddenly I was back in France and the factory was ok. "This is just weird" I said. Then the factory exploded and I ran toward it. I saw Xana's ghost go back into the computer screen and it ended up just like reality. "Amy help us" said a voice from nowhere. "W-Who is there?" Amy asked in fright. It was Xana's ghost and they surrounded me chocking the air as they laughed in a taunting manner. Suddenly I woke up with a scream. "Amy what's wrong!?" Shandia asked as I was still shaking from the dream. "She must have had a nightmare" Bill said. "Looks like a very bad one to me" Nick said. "Hello there Amy, it's been a while" said a voice from nowhere. "Jerimie?" I said in confusion because I knew he was dead. "Don't forget us" Odd said as Jerimie, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi appeared floating in the air. "This is impossible your dead" I said. "Yes we are but we are not gone forever" Jerimie said, "we are now spirits". "Hey wait, where is Aelita?” I asked. "Aelita is you, you and you" Jerimie said as he pointed toward Bill, Tim and I. "Huh?" we said in confusion. "Aelita is bonded with you three" Jerimie said. "That is right" Aelita said. "Aelita!" I said hugging her, "how did we get bonded?". "Well a spirit can chose were to go and if to reincarnate or not" Aelita explained. "Amy why are there spirits here and we can see them?" Shanida asked. "I'll explain tomorrow" Jerimie said, "even spirits need to sleep".  (Inside The Supercomputer)(Xana's POV)  "Oh darn" I muttered, "I was hoping I could get rid of her once and for all". "But this could be fun" I said smirking

 Chapter 3 The Lyoko Secret Uncovered  (In the car)(Around 10:05)(Shanida's POV)  "Are we there yet" Odd asked impatiently. "No we are not" Amy said. "Who are you talking to Amy?" Mrs. Karren asked in confusion. "Uh Bill asked if we were there" Amy lied. "Oh" said Mrs. Karren. "Jerimie how come we can hear, feel and see you but other people can't" I whispered and asked. "You all weren't born with mortal senses and that is why" Jerimie responded. "I thought it was because we believe in spirits" Amy whispered. "We are here" Mrs. Karren said, "I'll be back at noon". "Ok mom" Amy said and Mrs. Karren left. We turned around and gazed at the factory island. "It looks just the one in France" Amy said. "Let's go" I said running up to it with Jerimie and the other spirits. "Hey wait up Shandia" Amy said as Bill, Nick, and her ran in with me. "Hey that elevator looks like it works" I said. "We shouldn't go, it could break" Amy said. "Don't be so chicken Amy" Bill said. We all got in the elevator and Jerimie pressed the down button and the doors closed and we went down. The elevator soon stopped and Jerimie entered a code onto the keypad on the side of the elevator. The doors opened and a cool lab was seen. "Now I remember it's the emergency factory" Amy said. "Emergency factory?" Bill, Tim, Nick and I said in confusion. "An emergency factory for Lyoko" Jerimie said. "JERIMIE THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT LYOKO OR XANA!" Amy exclaimed. "Lyoko, Xana?" Nick said in confusion. "Oh great now we half to tell then everything" Amy said. "Or we can return to the past them" Jerimie said. "You know as well as I that it will make Xana stronger" Amy said. "Would someone tell us what you are talking about!?" I asked. "Lyoko is an artificial digital universe created by a man named Franz Hopper or Aelita's dad" Amy started. "Ok then what's a Xana?" I asked. "Xana is an demonic artificial intelligence that wants to take over the world" Amy said. "If Xana is dangerous then why don't you just shut it down?" I asked. "Ok let's do it" Amy said. We went down two floors and we saw an Supercomputer with a strange sign on it. "That is the sign I saw on my veins yesterday!" Bill said in shock. "Looks like you got an inner Lyoko" Yumi said, "which means you have a part of Lyoko in you". "Enough chit chat let's turn off Xana for good" Amy said. "On three" Jerimie said as everyone put their hand on the switch, "one, two, three!". We switched off the Supercomputer and Amy, Bill, and Tim fainted. "TURN IT ON!" I said and I turned Xana on. "Oh great we are bonded with Lyoko" Amy said in sarcasm. "Not only that but you each have one key to Lyoko that I had" Aelita said. "WHY DID YOU GIVE THEM TO US?!" Bill asked. "I knew that the eyes wouldn't be safe with one person so I did you three" Aelita responded. Soon after that Amy, Jerimie, Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita told us all about Xana, Lyoko and their adventures in Lyoko Bill looked at the time. "Oh look it's almost noon" Bill said looking at the Super Calculator's clock. "We should get back up" I said. "Do you all promise to keep this a secret?" Jerimie asked. "We promise" Bill, Tim, Nick and I said. "Good" Amy said, "looks like we are The Next Generation Of Lyoko Fighters". "I like that" I said and we went up to the car and left the factory.

 Chapter 4 The Transfer To Lyoko  (In front of Shanida's house)(Shanda's POV)  "Thanks for taking me home Mrs. Karren" I thanked Amy's mom. "No problem you are welcome to come over any time" said Mrs. Karren. They pulled out of the driveway and I walked into my house. "Dad I’m home" I said. "Hi how was it over at that girl Amy's house?" Shanida’s dad asked. "It was a lot of fun, Amy sure knows how to throw a great party" I responded, "I’m going up to my room now". "Ok" Shanida’s dad said. I went up to my room and laid down on my bed thinking about how are We going to deal with this Xana thing. Suddenly the computer in my room flashed the Xana sign and a ghost came out. "AHHHHHHHH!" I screamed and it pulled me in and I woke up in this strange Ice place.  (In the car)(Tim's POV)  Bill looked at his veins on his hand and tapped me on the shoulder. "I think Xana is attacking" Bill whispered in my ear because Amy's mom was near us. "Bill says that Xana is attacking" I whispered to Amy. "Uh mom can we go back to the factory?" Amy asked. "Why you were just there" Mrs. Karren said. "Uh I think I left something there by accident" Amy lied, "oh and can Bill and Tim come to?". "Ok lets go" Mrs. Karren said. We arrived back at the factory and Amy ran out of the car to the elevator with Jerimie and his part of the gang. "Amy wait up!" Bill shouted and I ran toward the elevator with him. Amy pushed the button and we dropped Jerimie off at the Super Calculator room and headed for the scanners. "I hope we can still go into Lyoko as spirits" Odd said as Yumi, Ulrich and him stepped into the scanners. "Transfer... Scanner... Virtualization!" Jerimie shouted and they appeared in Lyoko. "We made it!" Odd shouted in excitement. "Aelita you should stay here and help Jerimie" Amy suggested as Bill, Amy, and I stepped into the scanners. "Ok" Aelita said and she headed up a floor. "Is it safe?" Bill asked. "Don't worry it's safe" Amy said as the doors closed. "Transfer... Scanner... Virtualization!" Jerimie shouted and we appeared in Lyoko. We were in some ice region and we looked different. "We are suppose to change in Lyoko right?" I asked. "Yes you are" Yumi responded. "You three look similar together" Ulrich said. "We do" Amy said looking at Bill and I, "oh I see now". "Watch out monsters are coming your way!" Jerimie said, "huh that is new". "Hey I've never seen that monster before" Amy said pointing toward a new monster.

 Chapter 5 The Dangerous Threat  (A Graveyard, France)(Franz's POV)  I visited the grave of Aelita and the others once more and still wondered if Amy was alright in America. "Franz, are you here again?" The principal said as he walked up to me. "Yes I am I just miss them so much" I said sighing. "Well I miss them as much as their parents do but we have to move on" Said the principal. "I'm going to America" I said. "What?" asked the principal. "I want to see if Amy is alright over there" I said. "Oh alright you can go" Said the principal. "Thank you, you don't know how much this means to me" I said. Then I headed back to the school to gather my things and head for America. I got on the same plane Amy did and went to America. "I wonder if see found the other factory" I thought.  (Lyoko, Ice sector)(Ulrich's POV)  "This thing looks dangerous" I said. "Well I think that’s Xana's purpose for it" Amy said pointing out the obvious. The monster looked like a huge cyclops with a very small Xana eye on it's forehead. It was browns and black and it looked like it cloud de virtualize you with one punch. The Cyclops roared and tried to punch Nick but missed. "Take this! Sonic Waves!" Nick said as he played a note on his guitar and it seemed to damage the Cyclops. "Keep going, it's weakening!" I shouted to Nick. He did the Sonic Waves thing 3 more times and the Cyclops was destroyed. "Yeah you go Nick" Odd shouted. "Don't celebrate yet 5 more of the Cyclopes are coming your way!" Jerimie warned. "And I thought one was bad enough" Amy said getting ready to fight. "Charge!" Odd shouted and he fired a Laser Arrow at the Cyclops's Xana eye, "one down four to go". "don't you hog all the monster like last time Odd!" Amy said charging in. "One of you should get to the tower" Jerimie said to Amy, Bill and Tim, "since Aelita is boned with you three you should be able to deactivate towers. "Ok I'll do it" Amy said. "Good luck" Jerimie and Aelita said. "Thanks" Amy said, "By the way, where is the tower?" "it's just a ways north from you, do you need a vehicle?" Jerimie said. "Nope I already have it" Amy said. "Huh?" Jerimie said in confusion. Amy raised her staff and chanted "Turnis into helecoptis", and the staff transformed into a hand grip mini helicopter. "Cool it's a weapon and a vehicle" I said. Amy went to the tower and I went with her just in case she ran into some trouble. "AHHHH" A voice yelled from the distance. "That sounds like Shandia!" I said super sprinting to check it out. It was Shanida running from about 10 Krabees and suddenly she tripped. "Shanida!" Amy shouted and she let go of her staff and landed on the ground to help me with the Krabees. "Ulrich here is your vehicle Jerimie said as The Hover bike appeared in Lyoko. "Thanks Jerimie" I said, "Impact". I destroyed a monster and Amy already destroyed three. "How do you do it so fast?" I asked. "It comes naturally" Amy responded. I finished destroying the monster and Amy went to see if Shandia was alright. "Shanida, how did you get to Lyoko?" Amy asked. "Well one of Xana's ghost puled me in though a computer" Shanida responded. Meanwhile Tim made it to the tower and he deactivated it. "Materialization..." Jerimie said and we all came back to the factory. "Wow Lyoko is cooler than I thought" Bill said. "Yeah" Tim said. "I can't believe you landed on your but in the tower" Yumi said. "Hey a Cyclops did it!" Tim yelled. "Sure it did" Odd said in sarcasm. (Airport, Sunday)(7:00AM)(Normal POV)  "At last I’m in America" Franz thought, "now the though part is to find Amy". "Do you need help with your luggage?" Some one said. "No thanks I got it" Franz said, "say do you know anything about a girl coming out of here about a week ago?". "You mean the one with the brown hair, she lives at this address" The person said as he gave Franz a piece of paper with an address on it, "i heard her family talking about where they were living". "Thank you" Franz said. He took a Taxi and gave the driver the address and he was off to see Amy. Meanwhile Amy was still asleep with Aelita and Jerimie. The group took a spirit or two to live with them. Bill took Odd, Tim took Yumi, and Shandia took Ulrich. "Amy wake up" Aelita said shaking Amy. "Aelita, it's 7:00 in the morning" Amy said groaning, "my shows don't come on for an hour". "Jerimie put a Lyoko connection on every computer in the house" Aelita said. "Really?" Amy asked. "Yes" Aelita said. At 8:10 we heard a knock on the door. "I'll get it mom" Amy said rushing to the door. Amy opened the door and to her surprise it was Franz. "Hello Amy, long time on see" Franz said. "Franz, your here!" Amy said in surprise. "Yes I am" Franz said. "Aelita come out, it's your dad" Amy said and Aelita flew into the room. "Daddy?" Aelita said. "Aelita!" Franz said as they hugged.

 Chapter 6 The Talk  (Amy's House)(Jerimie's POV)  "Hey guys, what’s going on here?" I said as I flew into the room, "Franz, is that you?". "Hello Jerimie, yes it is me" Franz said. "I can't believe your here!" Aelita and I said together. "I just arrived in America and hour and ten minutes ago" Franz said. "Really?" Amy asked. "Yes" Franz said, "now has anyone found the factory here yet?". "Yes. me and some of my friends did" Amy responded, "oh and they have been to Lyoko to". "What?!" Franz said. "Shh, my parents are still asleep and yes" Amy said, "one of my friends got sucked into Lyoko by Xana so we had to go rescue her". "I see" Franz said, "by the way where are the others?". "Oh they are at my friends' homes all split up" Amy said. "Where are they, i mean which person are they with?" Franz asked. "Aelita and Jerimie are with me obviously, Odd is with Bill, Yumi is with Tim, and Ulrich is with Shandia" Amy answered. "Ok I just wanted to see if you were alright" Franz said, "i just have this strange feeling something bad is going to happen to you". "Uhh are you sure?" Amy asked getting worried. "Sadly yes" Franz said. "Amy, is someone there?" Mrs. Karren said from upstairs. "Uh no mom it's just the tv" Amy lied. "I'm not sure that was the tv, I'm coming down" Mrs. Karren said. Franz quickly hid in an empty closet and Amy's mom came downstairs. "who was that?" Mrs. Karren asked. "Like I said it was the tv" Amy lied. "Ok" Mrs. Karren said and she want upstairs. "Let's call your friends" Franz said coming out of the closet  (Bill and Tim's Apartment Building, Bill's room)(Bill's POV)  "ODD WILL YOU STOP GETTING YOUR HEAD STUCK IN THE WALLS?!" I shouted to Odd. "Bill keep it down!" Mrs. Morganem shouted in her bed, "and who are you talking to anyway?!". "Uh just my game, my character keeps getting his head stuck in the wall" I lied. Suddenly the phone rang and i picked it up. "Hello?" I said into the phone. "Hey Bill it's me Amy" Amy said though the phone. "Hey, just so you know, no Xana attacks ever since we got out of Lyoko" I said looking at my hand. "I'm not calling about that, just get Odd on the phone" Amy said. "why Odd?" I asked. "Just put him on, there is someone here he knows" Amy said. "Odd, phone for you" i said to Odd. "Ok ok I’m coming" Odd said getting his head out of the wall of the umpteenth time. odd picks up the phone and says "Hello?". "Hello Odd, you remember me right?" Franz said though the speaker phone. "Franz, what are you doing over there?" Odd asked. "Who's Franz?" I asked. "Don't you remember, we said he was the creator of Lyoko and Xana" Odd responded. "Oh yeah" I said. "Anyway, I'm here because i had a dream the night you all died that Xana was ruling the world and you all we gone, and i mean fully" Franz said. "Well it's just a dream right?" Amy said. "I guess, but I’m worried about all of your safety so please be carful in Lyoko" Franz warned. "Don't worry we will" I said. "Bye then" Franz said and he hung up the phone and I turned it off.  (Inside the supercomputer)(Xana's POV)  "Grr why did he have to come to America as well?!" I screamed in anger, "I just got to get rid of him and those keys from those kids in the process". I smiled wickedly and started to plot how I was going to get rid of him.

 Chapter 7 Xana's Plan  (Amy's House)(Franz's POV)  "Well I talked to the others about the dream and they are going to be careful" I said to Amy after the phone calls were done. "Ok" Amy said. Suddenly the tower scan picked up a signal. "Xana's activated a tower!" I said. "I'll tell the others" Amy said and we went to a car and drove off to the factory and Amy called everyone to me us at the factory. Soon something shoot at us and the car span out of control. "HIT THE DECK!" I shouted to Amy so we did. The car crashed and I was find but Amy got a big scar on her left arm and it was bleeding plus she fainted. "I got to warn the others" I thought taking Amy's cell. "May I be of any assistance?" someone said from the shadows. "Yes, this girl is hurt badly" I said to the person. "I'll take her to the hospital" The person said. "Ok and hurry she could die if she is not treated right away" I said starting to dial on the phone. "We'll go on ahead" Aelita said and Jerimie and Aelita went to the factory.  (Forest)(Normal POV)  Suddenly the person transformed into a Krab and was carrying Amy on it's back. Soon the Krab put Amy down on the ground and the Sciphizoa appeared out of nowhere. Amy woke up and saw the monsters and tried to escape but it was to late. It picked her up and started to drain her memory.  (Factory)(Shandia's POV)  "Were is everyone?" I asked Bill, Tim, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi. "No clue" Odd said. "We're here" Jerimie said coming out of the elevator with Aelita. "Were is Amy and Franz?" Bill asked. "Car crash" Aelita answered. "I hope that they are ok" Yumi said worried. "Franz is but Amy has a hugh scar on her arm and is fainted" Aelita said. "I'm going to find her" I said. "I'm going to" Ulrich said and we ran off to find Amy. "Go down to the scanners" Jerimie said. "Ok" Yumi, Bill, Tim, and Odd said and they did. "Transfer... Scanner... Virtualization!" Jerimie said and hey appeared in Lyoko(forest region). "The tower is south south west of your location" Jerimie said.  (Car crash site)(Same POV)  "Franz were is Amy?" I asked. "someone came and took her to the hospital" Franz said. "We got to find her" Ulrich said and turned around, "I see footprints". "If we follow them we'll find Amy" Franz said. ,We followed them to the forest and found Amy and a Krab. "Oh great" I said in sarcasm. "Ya" Ulrich shouted as he cut the Sciphizoa's tentacles causing it to drop Amy. "Amy, you ok?" Ulrich asked. "I'm dizzy but I'm find" Amy said. "we got to get you to a hospital" I said fighting the Krab. "I'll take her to the nearest house" Franz said picking up Amy and carrying her away. I killed the krab and it disappeared then I followed Franz to get help.  (Lyoko, Forest sector)(Odd's POV)  "We're almost there Jerimie" I said. "I'm in" Bill said floating up to the top of the tower. He typed in the code and Jerimie Materialized us. "Amy is hurt bad we got to go help her" Yumi said. "I hope she will be alright" Aelita thought.

 Chapter 8 Amy's Magical Mystery  (along the road)(Aelita's POV)  "We got to catch up with them" I said flying. "I hope she is ok" Bill said.  (A House)(Normal POV)  "I'm sorry we can't help you" A person said. "Well can you at least tell us the nearest hospital!?" Franz asked. "It's like 10 miles away" The person said. "Oh great, she'll be dead by then!" Franz thought. "Get.. me.. into.. the.. water" Amy said in a faint voice. "What do you mean?" Ulrich asked. "Just.. do.. it.. or I'll die" Amy said still in a faint voice. "Look there is a lake down there!" Ulrich said pointing. "Hey guys!" Tim said as the rest of the gang came. "What's going on?" Aelita asked. "Get.. me to the.. lake" Amy said. "Ok we are" Franz said and ran toward the lake. The others followed Franz to the lake and Franz set Amy down on the edge of the water. "Ahhh" Amy began to sing and started to walk on the lake! "What the..?" Bill said in shock. Amy walked to the center of the lake and raised into the sky a few feet. She transformed into her Lyoko form and plopped into the water. "AMY!" Bill said trying to run out to get her. "Don't" Franz said grabbing his arm. The water glowed pink and Amy jumped out of the water as good as new and her scar was gone. "A-Amy, how did you do that?!" Aelita and Jerimie asked. "I don't know" Amy said after she was back to normal. "That was cool and weird at the same time!" Odd said. "ODD!" Yumi said chasing him. "What did I do!?" Odd yelled as he was being chased. "Evelyn" Bill said and Odd exploded. "What just happened?" Shandia asked. "When you say a spirit's fear, the spirit either explodes or falls down temporarily" Jerimie explained.  (Inside The Supercomputer)(Xana's POV)  "It seems that Amy is more powerful than I thought, I must capture her!" I said scheming.

 Chapter 9 Halloween Havoc Part 1  (After School)(The Bench)(A Day Before Halloween)(Shanida's POV)  It's been weeks since I started fighting Xana with the others and I'm happy it happened because it caused me to make new friends. Along with that I got to see Odd get pumbled by Yumi and Ulrich every time he brings a certain memory up and it was something about Yumi and him switching. Franz and Jerimie are always at the factory finding a way to get the gang back to normal but haven't made any progress what so ever. "Well Xana isn't attacking" Bill said looking at his hand. "Ya know he's been very quiet lately.." Tim said. "Yeah I know. He must be scheming" Amy said wondering. "Must be" I said as Odd passed by still being chased by Yumi and Ulrich. "Well tomorrow is Halloween, what are you all going to wear?" Amy asked. "Wait, you can wear a costume to school tomorrow?" I asked. "Yup" Tim said. "I'm gonna wear my green Link costume" Bill said. "Same but red" Tim said. "I'm not doing any costume, just wearing my usual clothes" Nick said. "Same with me" I said. "I'm gonna be a vampire" Amy said raising her hands like she was going to attack us but she wasn't. "Creepy" Tim said. "Well it's Halloween, isn't that the point" Amy asked. "Yeah I guess" Tim said. "Well I hope i win the costume contest to" Amy said. "Costume contest?" I asked tilting my head. "Yeah and if you win you get $50 and a free movie of your choice" Amy said smiling. "Awesome!" I said. "but it's to bad I don't do contests". "Don't worry, it's fine" Amy said patting me on the back. We said our goodbyes for the day and went home getting ready for tomorrow but what we didn't know was that Xana was preparing to.  (Halloween)(Almost school starting)(School)(Same POV)  I got out of the bus and went to the bench to wait for the others with Nick and Ulrich floating next to us. Suddenly the bus Tim and Bill were on pulled up and we saw them in their costumes. Bill looked exactly like he does on Lyoko but it was no surprise. "Isn't Amy here yet?" Tim asked. "No, her bus is late today" Nick said as I saw the bus Amy was on pull onto the school grounds. She got out of the bus and wore a creepy black dress with spider web design and she had those vampire fang things in her mouth. "Well is Xana up to no good?" Amy asked after she walked up to us. Bill looked at his hand and froze after he did. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Xana's.." Bill said but was cut off by a sound of a laser. Amy rushed to see what was wrong and she came back a few seconds later. "I think what Bill was trying to say is that Xana's attacking" Amy said.

 Chapter 10 Halloween Havoc Part 2  (Same time and place)(Tim's POV)  "Oh great" I said in sarcasm. Suddenly there was a laser and it almost hit Nick but he dodged it in time. "Another new monster?!" Ulrich said flowing above us as he pointed to a new monster. It looked like another kind of Creeper and even more deadly as well. "Let's just call it Creeper 2.0" Amy said. Soon my cell rang and we hid from the monsters in a closet in the school. "Hello?" I answered. "Xana's activated a tower" Jerimie said through the phone. "That's news for like 2 min. ago!" I said. "Ok ok, just get over here!" Jerimie said and i hung up. "Spilt up time?" Shanida asked. "Split up time" I said. "ok, Bill, Yumi, Nick, Shanida and I will head for the factory and you all take care of the monsters". "Ok" Amy, Ulrich, Odd and Aelita said nodding. My group ran to our bikes we parked in front of the school, for faster transportation, headed for the factory with half of the monsters following us. "Darn it, I thought they would stay at the school!" Bill said. "We better be careful guys" Shanida said almost getting hit by a laser. "No duh!" Nick said dodging lasers on his bike. Soon we arrived at the factory and the monsters turned around back to the school. "Well I hope they will be alright over there" Yumi said.  (Back at School)(Aelita's POV)  We seamed tired after some more monsters showed up and a strange thing was that they were not trying to hurt Amy as much as the rest of us. "IMPACT!" Ulrich shouted as he stuck his sword into a Krab's Xana sign. "Well looks like you can have your Lyoko powers when you all are sprits" Amy said fighting off monsters coming her way with some things she found. "Now this is a party" Odd said shouting Lazer Arrows. "Odd" Ulrich said shaking his head. "What?" Odd asked. "Your an idiot" Ulrich responded. "This isn't the time to fight each other! This is the time to fight Xana's monsters!" I shouted. "AH!" Amy screamed as she was caught by a Creeper 2.0 monster. "Amy!! IMPACT!" Ulrich shouted as he hit the monster holding Amy. "Thanks" Amy said. The rest of the monsters surrounded us and began to fire but all missed and they were gone. "That was easy.." I said. "To easy if you ask me" Odd said.  (Lyoko tower)(Bill's POV)  Soon I made it into the tower and deactivated it. "Tower deactivated" I said as the data ran down the tower. "Return to the Past now" Jerimie said launching a return to the past.  (Inside the supercomputer)(Xana's POV)  "Looks like they won't give up" I said, "but what they don't know is that my target is the only one who can stop me". I started to plot for my next move and I still wondered when they will figure it out as well.

 Chapter 11 Birthday Bash Part 1  (Amy's room)(6:20AM)(December 11)(Amy's POV)  I was woken up by my mom as usual but today I didn't feel so well. "I'll take your temperature, be right back" My mom said as she got the thermometer. She measured my temperature and showed it to me so I could read it to her cause of her eyesight. "105.1 F" I said in surprise that my temperature was that high. "Well I’m going to be leaving soon" my mom said, "will you be ok here by yourself?". "I'm sure I will" I responded as I laid back down. "This is so disappointing, being sick on your 14th birthday" my mom said. "I know" I said starting to fall back asleep. She gave me a kiss on the head and closed my door and left for work. Soon my sisters left for the high school and woke me up once to leave Honey-Belle(Caviler King Charles) with me.  (The bench)(7:18AM)(Bill's POV)  I got off the bus with Tim, Odd and Yumi and met Shanida and Ulrich at the bench. "Amy's not here yet?" I asked. "Nope, her bus is suppose to be late today" Shanida answered. The Amy was suppose to be on pulled onto the drop off area and Amy didn't come off. "I'll call her" Tim said dialing Amy's phone number on his cell. "Hello?" Amy said through the phone in a sick voice. "Amy, what's wrong? You sound sick" Tim said into the phone. "I'm sick duh" Amy said. "Aww and on your B-day" Tim said. "What?" I asked. "Amy's sick" Tim said to me. "Well that's not good" Shanida said. "I'll keep an eye on her, after all Xana's attacks have been pointed toward Amy lately" Aelita said though the phone. "I know, see ya you two" Tim said. "Bye" Amy and Aelita said together before Tim hung up. "This seems like a perfect opportunity for Xana, doesn't it?" Ulrich said. "Yeah it does" Yumi said floating next to him. "I'll tell Franz and Jerimie" Odd said flying to the factory. Soon the bell rang and we headed to class and I looked at my hand and it seemed Xana was quiet, for now.  (Amy's Room)(15 min. later)(Normal POV)  Soon Xana activated a tower when Aelita was out of the room and came out trough a electrical clock in the room. He noticed Amy was in deep sleep so he turned into the boy he did back at Kadic preparing to attack Amy. Aelita came into the room and saw him. "X-Xana!?" Aelita said in shock. "Well, well, well, I thought you went to that school with the others" Xana said with a smirk. He zapped Aelita and knocked her out and looked back at Amy as she woke up from the commotion. "What the!? Xana!" Amy said in shock before she coughed for a second. All Xana did was smirk and prepare a dark lightning attack at her

 Chapter 12 Birthday Bash Part 2  (School)(7th grade Literature room)(Current time)(Bill's POV)  I looked at my hand while the Mrs. Naska wasn't looking and I saw the Xana sign on my hand. "No, Amy" I thought cause nothing happened here so I knew Xana was attack Amy while she was weak. "Uh Mrs. Naska, can I use the restroom please?" I asked raising my hand. "Ok, make it quick Bill" Mrs. Naska responded as I ran out of the room to look for Tim and Nick to warn them. I stopped and went into the boy's bathroom. "Odd, go tell the other's Xana's attacking" I said to Odd before her flew away. Soon he came back with Nick, Ulrich, Tim, Shanida, and Yumi and they looked concern. "We got to make sure Amy ends up ok" Tim said. "Should we call her?" Yumi asked. "No, knowing Xana he probably cut off the phone line that gets to her house" I said. "True enough then let's get to the factory and deactivate the tower before it's too late" Ulrich said. We got on our bikes and rode to the factory where Franz and Jerimie were waiting for us. "Amy, please be alright" I thought while still riding. (Back at Amy's house)(Xana's POV)  I was about to ready to attack but if I attacked her while she was weak, it would only prove that I can only hurt the weak. I lowered my hand and walked toward her and she want to the edge of the room in fear. "You can't win, give up and come quietly" I said. "Never in your life Xana!" Amy said before she coughed again. "Pity, and I was offing you a chance to have Lyoko live" I said. Amy turned her head to me in shock as if she knew exactly what I was talking about. "Y-you know?" she asked. "Yes and the fact it created you" I said referring to Lyoko itself. "H-how do you know?" she asked. "That's none of your business" I said before I shot a dark lightning attack at her cause her to faint, "that was easier than I thought". I picked her up and disappeared into the way I came, which was the electric clock, and took Amy with me back to Lyoko and the supercomputer.  (The Factory)(Shanida's POV)  I looked at the screen as I came in and the tower was suddenly deactivated. "I’m calling Amy" Franz said dialing. the phone rang and Franz said hello into the phone. "Daddy, Xana he he took Amy away!" Aelita said though the phone. "What!?" Franz said in shock. "I'm afraid it's true" Aelita said. Franz hung up and looked at us in sadness. "Amy was captured by Xana again" Franz said and we all stood in shock. "This time, I’m sure he won't let her get away so easily" Ulrich said. "For sure" Bill said. "We should go to Lyoko, after all it could be our only chance to save her" I said. a message appeared on the screen and Jerimie read it. "Xana want's Bill an Tim's keys" Jerimie said before he paused, "for Amy's life". 

 Chapter 13 Trade Or Trap?  (Same place and time)  Everyone stood in shock to Jerimie’s words he read from the note and said to them. "A-amy's life?" Franz said in shock. "Yes, that's what the note says" Jerimie responded with his head to the floor in sadness and shock. "I told you we all need to go to Lyoko to save her!" Shanida said with her left fist clasped in front of her. "The note also says for if anyone other than Bill and Tim go to Lyoko" Jerimie said raising his head, "that Amy will die with the ones who go to Lyoko". "Xana's pulled out all the stunts this time" Ulrich said. "I know, it's not like Xana to keep his prisoners locked up to tight" Odd said wondering. "I agree Odd" Franz said, "after all he didn't keep me locked up as tight as this". "He must have a good reason for it if he is" Aelita said. "Well then we have no choice, Tim and I must go to Lyoko alone" Bill said walking toward the elevator. "Ok, I'll make it so you'll only lose the keys and not anything else" Jerimie said starting to type. "Ok" Bill and Tim said nodding and then went down to the scanners. "Transfer Bill, Transfer Tim, Scanner Bill, Scanner Tim, Virtualization!" Jerimie said as the transfer process succeeded and Tim and Bill were in the forest region of Lyoko, "the trade is going on in the middle of this sector". They both ran there and saw Amy being guarded by at least 20 Tarantulas with the sciphizoa in front and Xana next to it. The rest of the gang saw this through a visual Bill put up. "Wow, that many monsters just to make a trade?!" Shanida said in shock and confusion. Back in Lyoko, Tim and Bill were ready to make the trade even though they knew Xana would be one step closer to ruling Earth and Lyoko combine. "Sciphioza, they are ready" Xana said grinning and them snapped his fingers. The Scipizoa went to Bill first and took his key after a 30 second period. Bill fell on the floor to make Xana think he was dead. "Before you finish me off, let Amy go!" Tim demanded. "Do you really think I will?!" Xana asked is a bit of sarcasm. The sciphioza grabbed Tim and took his key as well. "Amy belongs to me now and there is nothing you can do about it" Xana said then turned to Amy. "I don't belong to anyone Xana!" Amy said in anger. The monsters started to aim for her but didn't attack yet. "Now you shall" Xana said with a smirk. The Sciphizoa finished draining out Tim's key and both Bill and Tim laid still to fool Xana. Amy stood there grasping her staff in both hands not knowing what to do. She did know either to run or face Xana on her own. "what's the matter? Too afraid to protect the same place that protected you?!". Bill ran up at Xana and slashed his with his sword in an angry look in his eye. "Don't you dare harm her Xana!" Bills aid in anger. "Oh well" Tim said standing up. "I thought you two were dead!!!!" Xana said in confusion and anger. Amy got materialized as well as Tim and Bill so they could make their escape. "Come on do a RTTP" Bill said, "I made it so it won't make Xana stronger, it will make Xana weaker!" Jerimie launched one so they could forget that but they knew it happened.

 Chapter 14 Field Trip Disaster Part 1  School was almost over and the gang was tired of fighting Xana but Amy seemed like she was hiding something from the others so she couldn't take it anymore. Today, Amy, Bill, and Nick's grade was going on a field trip to an amusement park. They were suppose to take an electrical powered bus so Amy knew that it was an opportunity for Xana. Ever since her birthday, Xana has obtained all the keys to Lyoko except for her's, so she has to be prepared for anything. The rest of the gang would have to fight for their lives cause they were no use to Xana anymore.  "I can't wait for this!" Bill said getting on the bus.  "Don't forget, he might attack" Amy whispered to him when she got on followed by Nick.  "Yeah" Nick said. Xana then woke up possessed the bus but waited for it to turn on to make it the driver's fault.  "I hope we make it there soon" Amy said in excitement.  "Same here!" both boys said. The bus driver started the bus and so now did Xana's plan. It was perfectly calm and before they left school ground, Bill checked his veins one last time and tapped Amy and Nick on the shoulder.  "What is it?" both Amy and Nick said.  "He's.." Bill was cut off by the bus moving fast on the road toward the factory.  "Oh great, he always picks his moments" Amy said.  "Well Odd, Aelita, and Ulrich are at our houses, Tim, Shanida, and Yumi are at school, and Franz and Jerimie are at the factory" Nick said quietly.  "We have no choice but to jump out of the bus" Amy said heading to the door with the innocents panicking. She merely touched the door and was shocked(Literally) because of Xana, and she couldn't let go.  "Amy!" Nick shouted as he tried to pull her away, soon the door opened where the factory was letting Amy out and Nick and Bill still on.  "Figures" Amy said walking to the elevator.  “Great, now what?" Nick asked.  "I dunno?" Bill said shrugging. Back at the factory, Amy went down the elevator to the Super Calculator room.  "Hey, where's the others?" Jerimie asked.  "Bill and Nick are on a bus controlled by Xana, I think you know that Tim and Shanida are at school and the others at out homes" Amy responded.  "Then you have to go to Lyoko alone!!" Franz said.  "I know, I'll be careful. I promise" Amy said going down to the scanners.  "Good luck" Jerimie and Franz said as Jerimie started the Virtualization Process. Amy soon got transferred to the mountain region, the first region she was ever in, or was she....  "The tower is dead ahead, please be careful" Jerimie warned.  "Don't worry, I’ll just fly over" Amy said turning her staff into her helicopter and headed toward the tower.

 Chapter 15 The Truth About Amy's Past(Field Trip Disaster Part 2)  Amy steadily flew over Lyoko and gazed in a sorrow manner and the ground bellow. She seemed sad about something but she refused to tell what it was.  "I can't keep it a secret much longer" Amy thought, "I have to tell them sooner or later, it will be the only way for us to truly defeat Xana." Monsters started to come out but didn't attack, they waited for something or someone.  "Amy, watch out!" Jerimie warned. A stream of darkness was heading straight toward her with no stopping. She quickly dodged but it surrounded her in a bubble shape and after a few seconds, the bubble, and Amy, disappeared.  "Amy? Amy!? Amy are you there!!??" Jerimie said typing, searching for her, unfortunately she was nowhere to be found. Deep under the Digital Sea, Amy was inside a bubble, cut from communications.  "What have I done? Bill and Tim are going to die and it will be my fault!" Amy said starting to cry.  "Pathetic, your the one that can save them and you can't even get through this" Xana said appearing in front of her view, outside the bubble.  "Do you intend you keep me in here forever, Xana?" Amy asked wiping her tears away.  "You should know, after all, I've been humiliated time and time again by both generations and I've yet to defeat them all" Xana said, "but with you as my captive there is nothing stopping me from holing back on my attacks!"  "I should have figured as much, you want no one stopping you so bad your going to so much trouble capturing just one person" Amy said without a regret.  "I know everything of your past, you time traveled just to make sure Franz wouldn't come here, and yet you failed. Now your imprisoned in the very same world that created you" Xana said. Amy was quiet and didn't respond, she sat where she was in sadness and didn't move one inch.  "Consider this a warning, give up your life and I shall spare the lives of the ones you love. Think about it and the next activated tower, will signal when time is up." Amy was sent back to the mountains and the tower was automatically deactivated as she arrived.  "Huh? that's weird, Xana deactivated the tower on his own" Jerimie said to Franz.  "That's not like Xana at all, he must be up to something big" Franz said.  "Most likely" Jerimie said looking at the screen.  "Jerimie, can I come back now?" Amy asked.  "There you are! Sure right away" Jerimie said materializing Amy. After school, a meeting was called at the factory and Amy was ready to "Face the music" an expression that mean that she is ready to tell the truth and live on.  "Well we're all here" Yumi said.  "I wanted to tell you all something, so I wouldn't have to tell you all separately" Amy said.  "Tell us what?" Jerimie asked.  "Something tells me this has to do why Xana holds back on his attacks a lot lately" Bill said.  "Yes, it does. I wanted to say, that I’m, that I’m Lyoko's heart" Amy confessed.  "Lyoko's heart?" Everyone except Amy said in confusion.  "In simpler terms, I was created by Lyoko, not Xana" Amy said. "This must be why you didn't want me to go to Lyoko! You knew all this was going to happen" Franz said.  "Yes, I thought I could stop you but it turns out I couldn't. Lyoko created me for one purpose, to stop Xana's evil ways" Amy said, "now I realize the only way to do that, is to shut Lyoko down."  "But if we do that, won't you still die?" Nick asked.  "Yes, Lyoko is a permanent part of me, if I get sick, Lyoko is weakened. If it dies, I die and vice versa" Amy said.  "Then we at least must save Tim and Bill!" Shanida said.  "Xana gave back the fragment to them, they are no longer bound to Lyoko and that's why Bill doesn’t see the Xana sign on his veins clearly" Amy explained.  "Then, all we have to do" Odd said.  "Is shut down the supercomputer" Ulrich finished. Amy nodded and there was silence upon the room for a while. Amy wanted to sacrifice her life to stop Xana but didn't want to sacrifice it to Xana, so the only choice was to shut down Xana. Unfortunately no one had the courage to do so, they didn't want to lose a valuable friend but they didn't want Xana to cause harm to the world either. They didn't know what to do so hey all pondered their thoughts looking for he courage to lose a friend, and save the world from Xana's wrath....

 Chapter 16 The Last Of The Good Times  They all stayed at the factory, gathering their courage but then went home. Bill even insisted coming home with Amy for some reason.  "You really didn't have to come home with me" Amy said getting out of the passage near her house.  "I wanted to, just in case Xana wanted the time limit to be up tonight" Bill said slightly blushing and helping her out of the passage. It was a sewer lid but this time it was oddly in the forest in her backyard. The forest surrounded a river flowing through the center of it. Amy found this passage a few weeks after her birthday, around Christmas, while playing in the snow. They headed back to the house and sat in Amy's room.  "Amy" Bill said.  "Yeah?" Amy asked.  "I I" Bill paused, "can't you turn Aelita and the others back to human with your powers?".  "I could, Odd go tell Yumi, Ulrich, Jerimie and Aelita to come over here" Amy demanded. Odd flew away and after a few minutes they came.  "So, you think you can do it?" Odd asked.  "I might need a long nap afterward but yes" Amy responded walking toward them.  "Why is that?" Jerimie asked.  "Cause my powers take up energy except the healing powers I did when I was hurt bad" Amy said.  "Oh, you mean when Franz first arrived here?" Bill asked.  "Exactly" Amy responded, "ok, take my hand and concentrate on being human again". Everyone except Bill grabbed Amy’s hand and concentrated and they started to glow. Winds swirled around them and soon they were back to normal humans, alive and unharmed.  "Amy you did it!" Aelita said in joy.  "Oh and I like flying" Odd pouted.  "well, you won't get your head stuck in the walls anymore" Bill said.  "Bill, I have to take back for you seeing spiritually now" Amy said walking up to him.  "You mean you caused us to see them?" Bill asked.  "Well duh" Amy said grasping his hand. He blushed furiously at this caress and liked it so, as if he was in deep love. Amy closed her eyes and chanted something quietly and Bill could no longer see spiritually, or so it seemed.  "Well, that's it. I just need to do it to the others" Amy said.  "But, then you'll go?" Bill said.  "It's our only way to defeat Xana for good, and Lyoko's Heart should be in the place it was created" Amy said. Bill hugged her tightly and tears streamed down his eyes.  "You don't know the feelings I have for you, even though your a program" Bill said through his crying.  "And that's why you should be the one to turn the switch off on Lyoko" Amy said happily.  "B-but I-I can't" Bill said, "the truth is that I". He was interrupted by the sound of the activated tower warning.  "You were right, he was gonna do it tonight" Amy said.  "That cheat!" Bill murmured.

 Chapter 17 Before The Last Stand  Amy started to rush to a phone as quick as she could and called everyone as the others went to the passageway to the sewers. Bill was looking at Amy most of the way to the factory and he wondered of a lot of things. Would he ever see Amy again after Xana is gone for good? Was this a trap of Xana's so he could get free and rule the world? What would happen to Odd, Jerimie, Ulrich, Yumi, Franz and Aelita after this? Would they go back to France or stay here in America with Nick, Shanida ,Tim and himself? These questions made him stop halfway there and Amy stopped to see what was wrong.  "Bill, you okay?" she kindly asked Bill before the others stopped.  "Amy, what will happen after this?" he asked and Amy was confused, "what will happen to you and the original part of the gang?"  "Bill you must understand that things aren't always as you want them" Amy said walking up to him. Bill started to cry softly, he didn't want anyone to go, especially Amy.  "Please, I want you to stay! Find a way so you don't have to give yourself up!" Bill pleaded through his crying. Amy put her hands on his shoulders and Bill was encouraged to move on. Soon after that, they arrived at the factory and waited for the others for the final mission.  "A-Amy" Bill said then Amy turned toward him.  "What is it?" she asked.  "I-I........" he trailed off for a few seconds and didn't hear the elevator starting to come down as he finally said, "I love you, Amy!" Amy started to blush furiously and suddenly, without warning, they were pulled into a kiss. Everyone there was shocked and the doors opened reveling the rest of the gang except Nick, His family is now moving to California because of his dad's job, and their mouthed dropped as they saw the kiss as well.  "A-Amy, and Bill!? in love with each other!???" Tim thought as they kiss was broken. Both Amy and Bill smiled at each other, Cupid struck these two hard to cause them to slowly fall in love. A program and a human in love was almost impossible, but not for these two, it was so easy for them.  "oh, hey guys!" Bills said blushing furiously in embarrassment.  "I thought you and Amy were just friends..." Shanida said walking into the Super Calculator room toward them and stopped a few yard away from them.  "Let's just say that when I confessed abut me being Lyoko's Heart, Cupid's arrow stuck both Bill and I" Amy kinda explained.  "So are you ready to do this or not, Amy?" It was Jerimie in the computer chair as he always was. Tim and Shanida were speechless that the original Lyoko gang was alive again! A solution was found and they were overjoyed about this turn of events.  "Yes Jerimie, I'm ready" Amy said looking at everyone, she was about ready to say goodbye to them all, knowing there would be no turning back. Everyone except Jerimie went up to her to say their goodbyes and Aelita was hugging her for a minute at the least.  "I'm really going to miss you" Aelita said through her tears of both joy and sadness.  "It's ready, time to do one last transfer" Jerimie said after the preparations were complete, Amy and Bill both headed to the elevator, ready to go.  "Goodbye, Bill" Amy said after the doors closed on them, "I bet you and Aelita will miss me the most" All he did was nod as another tear went down his face. He was about ready to let her go, forever....

 Chapter 18 The Final Transfer(The Last Stand Part 1)  The doors to the scanner room soon opened up to Bill and Amy and Amy stepped out into, for the final transfer to Lyoko she and anyone else will make. "Amy stop" Bill said and Amy stop and turned around to him, "I don't mean to be rude but, what will we all gain from this? What's going to happen?" The doors started to close and she smiled at him.  "Freedom" Amy said before they closed on both of them, separating them forever.  "Freedom...." Bill said as the elevator went down to the Supercomputer room, containing the enemy they have fought all year, and now the time has come for his end.  "Bill, Amy, you ready?" Jerimie asked as Bill walked into the Super computer room, which possessed their enemy.  "Yeah" Amy and Bill said together. Amy stepped into the scanner and was with fear and courage in her eyes at the same time, but she knew she had to do this, to save everyone. For her, one must be sacrificed in order to save the others, so she chose to do this alone.  "Here we go! Transfer Amy, Scanner Amy, Virtualization!" Jerimie said virtualizing her. Amy soon landed in the forest region and she started running toward the edge of the sector.  "It's time to show them my true form" Amy though starting to glow. she glowed for a few seconds and them she was now wearing a long white gown and a crown of yellow flowers, she had no shoes and her staff turned into wooden staff with an orb at the top that changes color from yellow to blue to green to white to purple to represent each sector.  "is that.." Jerimie said seeing a visual, he was recording Amy's last battle for Bill since he was two floors down at his post.  "My true form" Amy said making it to the edge of the sector. Jerimie typed in the code and Amy arrived in Sector Five.  "You guys better be quiet a bit, if Xana knows of the plan he'll most likely want to get rid of me before I can give the signal" Amy said before the walls opened.  "Okay, we will" Jerimie said. Amy walked into a tall sphereish room with a tower in the middle with a Xana sign on top slowly turning.  "Well, it's about time you came" Xana said appearing a ways from Amy with a big smirk on his face.  "Don't you have any patience? you could at least given me a day you cheat!" Amy yelled.  "hmp, then I wouldn't be able to get out sooner, where's the fun in that?" Xana said in a taunting manner.  "Why that little.." Bill thought.  "Hilarious" Amy said in a sarcastic manner.  "Enough talk, it's time your you decide, will you give up your life to spare the lives of your friends or do we have to do this the hard way?" Xana said raising his arm like he was going to snap his fingers.  "How about you go away and everyone else stays alive!" Amy said charging at him.  "I thought you might refuse" Xana said then snapped his fingers, monsters started to fire at Amy and she was knocked down. Xana walked up to her grabbing her by the hair and tossing her aside like an old useless doll.  "Face it, you can't win! Just give up and I'll make it less painful for you!" Xana said.  "Never!" Amy said.  "Fine, then you'll die in the very same room you were born!" Xana shouted launching Dark Lightning at her. It seemed that this battle was going to decide everything, whether Xana is free or not, whether the world will be safe or cursed with an evil dictator. And this time Amy had only the support of her friends who couldn't come with her, but she knows she can't give up, especially to Xana...

 Chapter 19 The Final Secret Code(The Last Stand Part 2)  Amy quickly dodged the lightning and made a break for the tower with a few monsters following her and firing at her.  "I wish you would just stay still!" Xana shouted as he aimed his Dark Lightning in front of her and she ran into it, causing her to get shocked. The weird thing is that her life points didn't go down, they stayed the same, at 100%.  "Why did that actually hurt?" Amy asked in her mind.  "now stay still and this won't take long.." Xana said as the Sciphizoa neared Amy.  "Lyoko Shield" Amy whispered and a square shaped shield surrounded her, not allowing the Sciphizoa to even touch her. What was she planning? Was there another Secret Code yet to be reviled? Was she really giving herself up to Xana?! Jerimie was in deep confusion cause of all this and he thought and thought until he figured it out.  "Guys.... I think I know what she's doing...." Jerimie said.  "What?" Yumi asked.  "Another Secret Code" Jerimie said with a smile.  "I get it... only she knows the codes and Xana's trying to stop her from using them!" Ulrich said.  "maybe there is another bad code as well...." Odd said.  "That could be the case, even so.. Amy, no, the Heart of Lyoko must win this fight!" Jerimie then was the first to accept that Amy was Lyoko's Heart. Bill and Aelita would probably be that last to accept it because they have been friends for a long time.  "Xana, you have been defeated" Amy said running into the tower.  "Could she be... oh **** no THAT code" Xana thought. Amy soon reached the top of the tower and placed her hand on the scan. It then showed the name "Lyoko Heart" on the screen and then read "Code". Amy smiled and typed in the last secret code; Code Freedom.  "Goodbye, everyone... I’ll always be with you in spirit..." Amy said with a tear running down her face and Bill had many streaming down his. The tower suddenly was changing many colors, white to red, blue to green, yellow to pink and so on. Amy the was strapped to the Xana sign at the top of the tower and she was smiling.  "This can't be! I erased you memory of Code Freedom!" Xana shouted.  "The codes... can never can be taken from me..." Amy said and the Xana sign then spun faster and fast and she turned to sparkling dust and the tower then turned gold. Xana seemed to have the reaction of fleeing back into the supercomputer and out of Lyoko.  "Now.... do it.. I am where I belong...." Amy said and Bill couldn't do it. He still had a hard time accepting Amy for what she was but Aelita then was behind him and they both had their hand on it together.  "I know how you feel, but this must be done..." Aelita said, Bill looked at her and nodded.  "On three" Bill said, "one... two.... three!"  Aelita and Bill then shut down the supercomputer, leaving the Heart in it's place and Xana to his grave.  "W-we did it... WE BEAT XANA!!!" Jerimie said in excitement and everyone cheered for their long awaited victory against Xana.

 Chapter 20 In The End  It was at last, the last day of school before it was out for the summer and Bill and Aelita were still sulking over losing Amy. They were on the bench they would always meet up at in the morning and after school.  "Still sulking?" Ulrich said walking up to them and they nodded.  "I guess you guys need a little more time to get over this" Shandia said from behind.  "Yeah" Bill said as another bus pulled in, the one Amy rode on, "I guess i wasn't ready to let her go.."  "Let go of who?" said a familiar voice coming out off the bus.  "No way.." Aelita said.  "It can't be!" Yumi said walking over with the other young part of the gang.  "Amy?!" Bill said looking at her. Somehow, it was Amy, not harmed and smiling as she walked up to everyone.  "But.. didn't you give yourself up!?" Jerimie said confused.  "What are you... how do you know about my dream?" she said.  'Dream!?" Odd asked, "it was no dream, you did it in real life!"  "I guess you didn't know...." Amy said, "for this past year, I’ve been in a coma"  "Coma?" Ulrich asked.  "And the strangest thing is that I dreamt everything in real life that this other person saw" Amy explained, "she asked me if we could switch one last time.  "You know about the heart, everything?" Aelita asked.  "Yes, every time she needed me, she'd put me in a coma and make me disappear and we would switch for an unknown period of time while I see what's going on" Amy continued explaining. Bill suddenly came up to her and gave her a hug.  "I'm just glad your still with us" He said with a smile. The bell soon rang and they headed to class, for now their friend was back and they have put their past, and Xana, behind them. But now their harder mission, life without Xana..... Epilogue  Near the school, Franz bought a house big enough for Jerimie, Aelita, Yumi, Odd, Ulrich and himself to live in. Amy was so happy to be herself again and now she tells her story to children in a nearby park but uses different names and places, just for fun. Bill now is officially Amy's boyfriend and he comes to her house time to time and they just hang out. Back in France, people still miss everyone but some have gotten over it. In the end, everything was perfect and they just hoped it would stay that way, forever.

[beasts-beauty-lyssaxx]

Wanna get to know me?

1: My name? Elyssa Felber

2: Do I have any nicknames? Lyssa, Syssa, bitch

3: Zodiac sign? Scorpio

4: Video game I play to chill, not to win? Kingdom Heart, Batman Arkham Series, Bioshock, Final Fantasy,

5: Book/series I reread? Crank

6: Aliens or ghosts? Ghosts

7: Writer I trust enough to read whatever they write? Any

8: Favorite radio station? 98.7

9: Favorite flavor of anything? Watermelon

10: The word that I use all the time to describe something great? Holy Shit

11: Favorite song? Lost - Three Days Grace

12: The question you ask new friends to get to know them better? Who you be?

13: Favorite word? Lordy

14: The last person who hurt me, did I forgive them? Hmmm

15: Last song I listened to? Paris - Chainsmokers

16: TV show I always recommend? Futurama

17: Pirates or ninjas? Ninjas

18: Movie I watch when I'm feeling down? Beauty and the Beast

19: Song that I always start my shuffle with/wake-up song/always-on-a-loop song? Wobble

20: Favorite video games? Mortal Kombat

21: What am I most afraid of? Bein alone

22: A good quality of mine? I try to find the good in people

23: A bad quality of mine? I try to find the good in people

24: Cats or dogs? Both

25: Actor/actress you trust enough to watch whatever they're in? Robert Downey Jr

26: Favorite season? Fall

27: Am I in a relationship? Yes

28: Something I miss? The Seasons

29: My best friend? ....

30: Eye color? Brown

31: Hair color? Dark Brown

32: Someone I love? My son

33: Someone I trust? My husband

34: Someone I always think about? Son/Husband

35: Am I excited about anything? Not really

36: My current obsession? Anime (My always obsession)

37: Favorite TV shows as a child? Code Lyoko

38: Do I have someone of the opposite sex that I can tell everything to? Yes

39: Am I superstitious? Yes

40: What do I think about most? Everythin

41: Do I have any strange phobias? Mmmm Don’t think so

42: Do I prefer to be in front of the camera or behind it? Behind it

43: Favorite hobbies? Drawin

44: Last book I read? Seven Deadly Sins

45: Last film I watched? Spirited Away

46: Do I play any instruments? No

47: Favorite animal? Wolf

48: Top 5 blog on Tumblr that I follow? Ehhh

49: Superpower I wish I could have? Power over the elements

50: How do I de-stress? Draw

51: Do I like confrontation? Not really, but i will if need be

52: When do I feel most at peace? At night

53: What makes me smile? My son

54: Do I sleep with the lights on or off? Off

55: Play any sports? Volleyball

56: What is my song of the week? To many

57: Favorite drink? Orange Fanta

58: When did I last send a handwritten letter to somebody? High School?

59: Afraid of heights? Nope

60: Pet peeve? Certain things need to stay in place

61: What was the last concert I went to see? Uhhhh Bullet for my valentine, Three Days Grace, Avenged Sevenfold

62: Am I vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian? None

63: What occupation did I want to do when I was younger? Vet

64: Have I ever had a friend turn enemy? Uhhh?

65: What fictional universe would I like to be a part of? ONce upon a time

66: Something I worry about? Nothin really

67: Scared of the dark? Nope

68: Who are my best friends? My sister

69: What do I admire most about others? Nothin really

70: Can I sing? Ha! No

71: Something I wish I could do? Not care so much

72: If I won the lottery, what would I do? Vacation

73: Have I ever skipped school? Yuuup

74: Favorite place on the planet? To many

75: Where do I want to live? North Carolina

76: Do I have any pets? Yes, 2 cats 3 dogs

77: What is my current desktop picture? Anime Girl in Space

78: Early bird or night owl? Night Owl

79: Sunsets or sunrise? Sunsets

80: Can I drive? Yes

81: Story behind my last kiss? Best one ever

82: Earphones or headphones? Earphones

83: Have I ever had braces? No

84: Story behind one of my scars? Kicked a chainsaw

85: Favorite genre of music? Any

86: Who is my hero? My Father

87: Favorite comic book character? Poison Ivy

88: What makes me really angry? Stupidity

89: Kindle or real book? Real Book

90: Favorite sporty activity? Baseball

91: What is one thing that isn’t tight in schools that should be? Uhhhh

92: What was my favorite subject at school? Art

93: Siblings? Yes, 3

94: What was the last thing I bought? Food

95: How tall am I? 5′8

96: Can I cook? I guess

97: Can I bake? Sure

98: 3 things I love? The moon, Anime, Manga

99: 3 things I hate? Hot, Stupidity, People

100: Do I have more girl friends or boy friends? Uhhh? Equal I guess

101: Who do I get on with better, girls or boys? Both?

102: Where was I born? Pennsylvania

103: Sexual orientation? Bi

104: Where do I currently live? Florida

105: Last person I texted? Misser Mike

106: Last time I cried? Uhhh, I can’t remember

107: Guilty pleasure? Sweets

108: Favorite Youtuber? Uhhhh, 

109: A photo of myself. Nooooooo

110: Do I like selfies? Nope

111: Favorite game app? Word Cookies

112: My relationship with my parents? Is good

113: Favorite accents? Scottish

114: A place I have not been but wish to visit? Japan

115: Favorite number? 13

116: Can I juggle? Kinda

117: Am I religious? Not Really

118: Do I like space? YES!

119: Do I like the deep ocean? Yes

120: Am I much of a daredevil? Kinda

121: Am I allergic to anything? Not that I know of

122: Can I curl my tongue? Sure

123: Can I wiggle my ears? Nope

124: Do I like clowns? No

125: The Beatles or Elvis? Beatles

126: My current project? A drawing

127: Am I a bad loser? Not really

128: Do I admit when I wrong? Sometimes

129: Forest or beach? Forest

130: Favorite piece of advice? Don’t change for anyone

131: Am I a good liar? Sure?

132: Hogwarts house / Divergent faction / Hunger Games district? None

133: Do I talk to myself? Sometimes

134: Am I very social? Not really

135: Do I like gossip? Drama,

136: Do I keep a journal/diary? No

137: Have I ever hopelessly failed a test? Yes

138: Do I believe in second chances? I guess

139: If I found a wallet full of cash on the ground, what would I do? Return it to whoever it belongs to/ give to lost and found

140: Do I believe people are capable of change? No

141: Have I ever been underweight? Nope

142: Am I ticklish? Nope 

143: Have I ever been in a submarine? No

144: Have I ever been on a plane? Yes

145: In a film about my life, who would I cast as myself, friends and family? Don’t know

146: Have I ever been overweight? Still am LOL

147: Do I have any piercings? Yes 10

148: Which fictional character do I wish was real? Riku

149: Do I have any tattoos? Yes

150: What is the best decision I have made in life so far? Don’t know

151: Do I believe in Karma? Yes

152: Do I wear glasses or contacts? Glasses sometimes

153: What was my first car? 1972 Chevy Nova

154: Do I want children? I have one

155: Who is the most intelligent person I know? My Dad

156: My most embarrassing memory? Dating someone

157: What makes me nostalgic? Not Much

158: Have I ever pulled an all-nighter? Yup

159: Which do I value more in others, brains or beauty? Brains

160: What color mostly dominates my wardrobe? Black

161: Have I ever had a paranormal experience? Yeah

162: What do I hate most about myself? Everythin

163: What do I love most about myself? Nothin Really

164: Do I like adventure? Yes

165: Do I believe in fate? Yes

166: Favorite animal? Didn’t I already answer this?

167: Have I ever been on radio? No

168: Have I ever been on TV? No

169: How old am I? 23

170: One of my favorite quotes? “Life isn’t about findin yourself, Life is about creatin yourself

171: Do I hold grudges? Yeah

172: Do I trust easily? Not Really

173: Have I learnt from my mistakes? Nope

174: Best gift I’ve ever received? My home

175: Do I dream? Yes

176: Have I ever had a night terror? Yes, All the time

177: Do I remember my dreams, and what is one that comes to mind? Yes, The one about the Haunted Mansion

178: An experience that has made me stronger? Don’t know

179: If I were immortal, what would I do? Live forever?

180: Do I like shopping? Not really

181: If I could get away with a crime, what would I choose to do? Bank Theft

182: What does “family” mean to me? Everythin

183: What is my spirit animal? A wolf

184: How do I want to be remembered? Nice human?

185: If I could master one skill, what would I choose? Playin the piano

186: What is my greatest failure? Hmmm

187: What is my greatest achievement? Uhhhh

188: Love or money? Love

189: Love or career? Love

190: If I could time travel, where and when would I want to go? I don’t know

191: What makes me the happiest? Sittin at home with my hunny

192: What is “home” to me? Family

193: What motivates me? My son/Husband

194: If I could choose my last words, what would they be? I love you

195: Would I ever want to encounter aliens? Sure

196: A movie that scared me as a child? It

197: Something I hated as a child that I like now? Rice

198: Zombies or vampires? Vampires

199: Live in the city or suburbs? Suburbs

200: Dragons or wizards? Dragons

201: A nightmare that has stayed with me? Watchin a loved one die

202: How do I define love? Somethin not easy to find

203: Do I judge a book by its cover? Nope

204: Have I ever had my heart broken? Yes

205: Do I like my handwriting? Nope

206: Sweet or savoury? Sweet

207: Worst job I’ve had? Ehhh 

208: Do I collect anything? Manga

209: Item of clothing or jewelry you’ll never see me without? My weddin ring

210: What is on my bucket list? Travelin over seas

211: How do I handle anger? Not very well

212: Was I named after anyone? A cabbage patch kids doll

213: Do I use sarcasm a lot? Noooooooo, Never!

214: What TV character am I most like? Rukia

215: What is the weirdest talent I have? Bein Me

216: Favorite fictional character? Poison Ivy

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For the fanfiction questions thing: 1, 3, 6, 11, 17, 21, 25, 27, 36, 40, 41, 46, 50 and 51 (I hope these aren't too many)

 Not too many at all! I like talking about myself lol.

Under a cut because longggggg.

1) What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Oh gosh, definitely Tokyo Mew Mew. I never wrote fanfics for it but I co-owned and then owned an Avidgamers RP site for TMM called MewUSA back in like 2004-2006. Avidgamers was a forum site engine that was pretty damn nice for its time (also FREE, that was a plus) and I spent HOURS creating characters, storylines, and layouts for it. There were TONS of individual in-character boards and I think we may have had up to 100 unique users at one point. The detailed characters/plotlines were BASICALLY fanfiction- I think I did an entire rp with myself between a few of my characters once- and it was a whole lot of fun. Some of the OCs from that site were repurposed into a longrunning rp I have with @liarino on AIM and I am FOREVER grateful that I met them through that site

Fanfic-wise, it was Full Metal Alchemist. I had a horrendous LITERAL self-insert OC fic called ‘Nice of Me to Drop In’ that was based on an RP I did with a different friend. Plot? ‘Fangirl of FMA LITERALLY FALLS INTO HER TELEVISION AND WAKES UP IN THE UNIVERSE AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH ALPHONSE’. The end. I never finished it but holy shitballs it got SO MANY REVIEWS. I’m surprised how many people actually enjoyed it- I did get some criticisms but despite the fact that it was so cringe-worthy that I took it down it still got sooooo much positive feedback. I sometimes wonder if people would still be reading it on ff.net if I hadn’t taken it down the last time I overhauled that account. I still have some Ouran oneshots on there that I wrote TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO that still get reviews. Dayum. 

3) What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

I have to say it’s a tie between the Tokyo Mew Mew fandom circa 2003-2006 and the Ouran fandom from about 2006-2008. My experience with them was limited to RP boards but I had the MOST FUN running MewUSA and a long-running Gaia RP ‘Hosting the Hosts’ because of the warm response to the concepts. The TMM fandom especially was super creative even back in the day- there were so many fan mew mews because the formula was so easy and that was one series that I didn’t mind OCs because the concept was easily applied. In-universe, the creator could have easily made more Mew Mews. So the possibilities were endless. That’s also the fandom I learned the majority of my writing skills from, even if I did get called out a couple times for shitty RPing. I got better and I was so sad when the engine finally kicked the bucket. Aside from the RP sites the TMM fandom had sooooo many fansites dedicated to the show- my other favorite being Neko Tokyo. I think that site might still be up… 

Ouran was limited to that RP I ran but damn I never had one so fun. That group of writers was hysterical and I actually met one of them in person because by sheer coincidence she lived near me. She moved soon after we figured it out but she came back for a convention and we hung out all weekend. Unfortunately I don’t remember her name and I lost her phone number T_T I wonder where she is sometimes. I wonder where a lot of my fan friends from back then are. The problem with early 2000s internet.

Tho I think Boueibu will be my new modern fave fandom.

6) List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

 Ohhhh dear. I’ll keep it to ones that I actually ship characters in because a lot of my early fandoms were MYSELF AS AN OC X HOT MALE CHARACTER. OTL. I was a weeb. Most of these are fandoms I’ve rped in rather than written fanfiction for, however.

Tokyo Mew Mew- PuddingxTart. I like to read IchigoxKisshu fanfics sometimes but that ship is highly problematic looking back on it lol

Code Lyoko - THROWBACK. JeremiexAelita. Adorable.

Ouran HSHC - I’m fond of HunnyxHaruhi (as evidenced by my mostly abandoned ff.net account) but basically AnyonexHaruhi is super cute. I think I read a fic once where Haruhi was in a relationship with ALL of the guys and it was actually super interesting. I don’t think I can find it again, tho.

Harry Potter - Drarry.

Walking Dead - CarolxDaryl FTW. and Richonne. I’ve toyed with the idea of writing fanfics for WD but never quite get up to it.

Mass Effect - Shakarian. Fuck yes. Fun fact I have an unfinished smutfic on the mass effect kinkmeme livejournal that I will EVENTUALLY FINISH ONE DAY AND PUBLISH UNDER MY NAME buuuut for now it will remain an anonymous abandoned fic.

Boueibu - …All of them? OTL I can’t pick one ship… tho if you force me… IoRyuu and BeppuMoto OT3.

YOI - I think everyone’s OTP is Victuuri.

11) Who is your current OTP?

Victuuri.

17)  Who was your first OTP and are they still your favourite?

Since Boueibu is my current fandom- I immediately was drawn to Enatsu since s1 had a relatively large focus on them but I’ve kind of fallen out of actively shipping them. I like them as a couple and I think they’re def boyfriends material but they’re definitely a comfortable ship. Their personalities are just… drama-free, so their relationship to me just seems like a quiet background relationship. IoRyuu is a little more volatile and I really like ships where there is a lot of between-the-lines interpretation and potential for conflict. Also I just really like the Beppus

21) What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The aformentioned ‘Nice of Me to Drop In’ FMA OC Mary Sue Self insert fic. Definitely the first one I ever published on the interwebs. Although I think TECHNICALLY my very first one was a Pokemon story that I was writing for a little kid neighbor of mine back when I was like… 11. I think I had just gotten a computer in my room and I remember typing it up and drawing some cover art for it… it was basically an expanded version of the episode where Meowth and Pikachu were handcuffed together or something… except there were more Pokemon involved and ALL of the characters were friends. Like Brock and Tracey were both with Ash and Misty and all of the Team Rocket people were friends for some reason. Idk I was a weird child.

Ohhh maybe a tie for the FMA fic was a Code Lyoko one I wrote around the same time called ‘Desert Rose’. I can’t remember now which was published first because I deleted them all. Another Mary Sue OC fic but I actually am still kind of proud of how I expanded the Lyoko universe in my head. I came up with new areas to Lyoko and like a central region and how they all connected. Nevermind the fact that the girl with a CAT THAT COULD OPERATE THE COMPUTER was the main character and obviously I shipped her with Odd because YumiUlrich and JeremieAeilita were OTPs. It was weird.

25) What’s your most popular fanfic?

If the story was still up it might have been ‘Nice of Me to Drop In’ because that fic still haunts me. Buuut it’s either ‘Naptime’ or ‘Desire’, one of my two Hunny x Haruhi fics from my Ouran days that I left up on ff.net for posterity. I have no desire to go read the cringe and find out which one has more hits but I bet it’s the G-rated ‘Naptime’ cuz ‘Desire’ is a) the first M rated Hunny x Haruhi fic on ff.net EVER and b) really really bad porn written by like, 16-year-old me. Oops. It’s a smidgen OOC on the part of Haruhi if I remember right buuut I actually still stand by the idea that Hunny is not as childlike as he seems.

Oh dear maybe that’s why I like Yumoto so much. Similar character type. OTL

27) What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

I feel like I’m horrendous at both but lately it’s titles that are giving me trouble. 2 of the 3 Boueibu fics I’ve written had different working titles that got changed the second the story went up to be published. I’m having a brain fart and can’t remember them but both ‘All the Pretty Little Horses’ and ‘Completely’ were titled something really stupid. And your giftfic was ‘?’ until I decided on the central theme lol.

36) What’s your favourite genre to write?

I don’t like reading romance novels but I love writing shippy stuff. Tension, build….smut

40)  What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

Pacing in longer works, definitely. Also just… keeping up with it. I am a horrible procrastinator and if I don’t actually have a deadline with external consequences then I never get anything done. I can’t set my own deadlines because I can always move them. I can’t get my family or friends to set them for me because I know they’ll forgive me if I fail (how horrible lol). I have tons upon tons of unfinished fics from fandoms past sitting somewhere in the depths of my word documents folder and about as many original short stories. I have so many ideas but because I get easily distracted and also because I am now working full time and suffer from typical adult exhaustion I can only put a fraction of them on paper. 

My inner critic is also a fucking bitch. I can’t get her to shut her face long enough to write a sentence sometimes. Again, I have to have a deadline looming before I can put her on mute most times. If I have infinite time, she doesn’t shut up and makes me rewrite a sentence 100 times because it sounds stupid.

41) List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

Ahahahaha… I don’t have 5 simultaneously because I can’t just… not finish reading something before moving onto the next one. I don’t also read things that are unfinished unless they sound REALLY interesting because I’m stupid impatient. But I guess for my current fandom (Boueibu) I’ll link 5 fics I read recently that I liked! 

1) Pink Blood - @magiccatprincess (okay actually this is one I’m going to read soon because it looked interesting… so it fits the question lol)

2) tuesdays - @vagarius (because how can I not love something written for me?

3) Liar - BlackJoker77 (A whoooole lot accomplished here in not a lot of words. Also, Yumoto character study/reading between the lines? Yush.)

4) ….. ok I ran out of ideas. I don’t bookmark anything OTL. I’ll come back to this question at another time with an ACTUAL answer.

46) If someone was to read one of your fanfics, which fic would you recommend to them and why?

I’m most proud of ‘Completely’ at the moment- I really like how I pulled off Ryuu’s voice and it’s most definitely a scene I wanted to see written… so I’m happy that I was able to provide that scene

50) How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

It was basically an extention of RPing for the writing portion of it- ‘Nice of Me to Drop In’ was basically a cleaned up RP and when it wasn’t rping it was fan gratification for the other early fics I did. As a kid I used to (and still sometimes do) make up stories in my head when I was about to go to sleep, and a lot of them were episodes of my favorite shows that I wanted to see. So I’d put some of them on paper. And then it moved into the ~romance~ category; I was a hopeless romantic as a teenager and like a lot of teenage girls I was kind of horny so fanfiction was a way to explore my sexuality in the comfort of my own head, basically. I still like me a good smutfic and bonus points if it’s romantic AND smutty. My bf can definitely tell when I’ve been reading something naughty….

51) Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

Okay, Imma do both! And I have 2 things to rant about because I can’t shut up.

Rant: This is more of a thing that I hate about MYSELF reading fanfics, but I hate that I get turned off of fics so quickly because of writing style. When I can push past beginners writing mistakes or mediocre quality writing I can sometimes find gem fics with plots/characterizations I find adorable, but more often than not I click out of fics after just a few sentences because I can’t stand poor writing. And I feel so elitist about it! Fanfics are free, fan-generated content. A lot of fanfics are written by kids or beginner writers. I have to keep reminding myself that not every fanfic author has gone to school for writing. They may not know the conventions of literature. They may not realize that they’re head-hopping in the middle of paragraphs. They may not know the proper way to punctuate dialogue (and I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW until grad school!!!!). If I let mistakes get in the way of content I may miss out on an up and coming writer. And lord knows I was horrendous when I first started. Everyone starts somewhere. I hate that it takes me so long to get out of teacher/writing student mode and truck through some writing that may not technically be the best but their heart is in the right place. 

Rant2: I don’t like how isolated fanfiction can feel sometimes. It seems like people don’t comment on fics as much as they used to, and I see these posts going around on tumblr about how authors LOOOOOVE comments and want more of them but then comments just… don’t appear. It’s not so hard to post one thing you really liked about the story, and even one thing you didn’t like. Comments help authors grow.I also don’t like how it’s so hard to find a beta reader or three to bounce ideas off of and proofread your work.

Gush: I love communities. I love the events fanfic authors put together. I love how when communities get tight-knit how everyone builds each other up and gives one another ideas. I just love fanfiction in general, really

aaaaaand SHEW. That was a lot. BUT DEF NOT TOO MUCH