A World Without Danger
is a Code Lyoko and Code Lyoko: Evolution fanfic and part of the Season 5/Evolution Rewrite by SepticAbzies. The author intends to make use of the good concepts they feel Evolution had, while working to improve on their execution.
XANA has returned after a year, and the malevolent virus' return leads to revelations about Project Carthage and Aelita's family.
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- Adaptation Expansion: We get to see some of Jérémie's school life before Kadic. It's unpleasant, to say the least.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Actually downplayed, compared to Evolution. Sissi only dyes part of her hair blonde, instead of all of it.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
- The team is much more distressed by XANA's return than they were in canon.
- Jérémie, Aelita, and especially William have nightmares about the time they spent under XANA's control.
- Adaptational Badass: Jérémie now is capable of fighting on Lyoko, whereas in canon, he was entirely a non-combatant.
- Adaptational Context Change:
- William was initially excluded in Evolution because the team didn't trust him to not mess up again. In the fic it has more to do with residual trauma on the other Lyokowarriors parts.
- In canon, William claims his ability to still use Super Smoke is because it was a leftover from his time possessed by XANA. Here, it was always the ability he was meant to have, and XANA merely altered the aesthetics.
- In Chronicles, Jérémie's Lyoko outfit was considered embarrassing because it was based on Peter Pan. Here, before Aelita modified it, it was a blue variant of Aelita's Mr. Pück based outfit, and he considered it embarrassing because it was a visual representation of the fact he loved her.
- Instead of pieces of XANA's source code being stored in Aelita, Odd, Yumi, and Ulrich, Jérémie and Aelita contain keys to Lyoko inherited from Franz Hopper. This also raises the stakes compared to XANA's source code, because draining them will be lethal, just like it was for Aelita originally.
- Adaptational Intelligence: A complicated example with Jérémie and Aelita. When Laura debuted in canon, they were frequently given the Idiot Ball so that she would look more intelligent, but that's taken away here. As such, it's very apparent that they're both still geniuses.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
- While they had feelings for each other, neither of the fics' couples were together in canon, but as of the prequel, The Theory of Evolution, Jérémie and Aelita and Ulrich and Yumi have gotten together.
- Related to the above, unlike in canon, where he was still going after her, William has stopped pursuing Yumi and is supportive of her relationship with Ulrich. Sissi has done similarly, but as she's never seen flirting with Ulrich by the time of Evolution, it's hard to say if this is a change or not.
- Hervé is now cyberbullying Jérémie.
- Adaptational Wimp: In canon, William was The Ace, despite having the least experience of all Lyokowarriors. Here, he starts off closer to Unskilled, but Strong, because while he is powerful, they're much more experienced in general, and especially at fighting as a team.
- Age Lift: Because the timeskip is a full year, instead of six months, the Lyokowarriors are a full year older.
- Birds of a Feather: Aelita notes at one point that while most people don't see her that way, she's just as nerdy as Jérémie is and that's reflected in how they flirt. It's why, despite feeling obliged to ask before jumping to conclusions, Jérémie knows the love note wasn't from her. It's not her style any more than it would be his.
- Cast from Hit Points: Using their powers costs the Lyokowarriors lifepoints in the Cortex. Jérémie is working on a program to avert this, but hasn't developed it as of yet.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Aelita is not at all comfortable with the fact Laura is interested in her boyfriend, especially since up until now no one had been interested in him but her.
- The Confidant: William serves as Jérémie's, when he doesn't want to worry the rest of his friends, and as the only one besides Aelita who can relate to his nightmares about XANA's possession.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Downplayed. Odd is able to wake Jérémie up by claiming Aelita is cheating on him, but the blonde genius claims it was more because he was startled than anything else and that he knew his friend had just been joking.
- Green-Eyed Monster: This is why Hervé started cyberbullying Jérémie.
- Heel Realization: After the Return to the Past, William and Sissi stop Laura from going through with her attempt at Relationship Sabotage by making her understand that even if it did work, and bluntly tell her it wouldn't even if she tried, she'd just be hurting Jérémie.
- Hopeless Suitor:
- Sissi and William both realized they were this and thus both decided I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
- Laura's crush on Jérémie was doomed from the start. Unlike canon, not only does he already have feelings for Aelita by the time she arrives, they've also been in a relationship for almost a year.
- Love Letter: Laura gives an anonymous one to Jérémie much to his confusion and Aelita's outrage.
- No Social Skills: Laura has basically none. Between sending an anonymous Love Letter to a boy she's only known briefly to asking him if he would return her feelings if his girlfriend didn't exist, she doesn't seem to have much understanding of interacting with people.
- Official Couple: During the one year timeskip covered by The Theory of Evolution, Jérémie and Aelita and Ulrich and Yumi get together.
- Relationship Sabotage: Attempted by Laura in "Green with Envy" by pointing out to Jérémie how Aelita and Odd act around each other, and implying it might be more than friendship. However, it only serves to anger and hurt Jérémie that she's spreading lies about his girlfriend and one of his best friends.
- There Can Be Only One: Non-lethal. Aelita says there can be only one Mrs. Einstein before she launches a Return to the Past to erase Laura's memory.
- Timeskip: The timeskip in canon between the original series and Evolution was six months, but here it's a full year.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Anthea was just trying to get away from Tyron. Unfortunately, activating his supercomputer enabled XANA to come Back from the Dead.
