someone: why is s4 of code lyoko your favorite
me:
DUA LIPA photographed for i-D magazine, december 2021
If you still remember me, please, forgive me
One day you woke up and they are practically confirming that Timebomb is canon
Okay, but I just wanted to make clear how Timebomb literally destroyed me. Not only because they could've had EVERYTHING on a different time line: being together, working together, living their best life inside a really well done and sane Zaun. They made millions of parallels between the bridge scene and the dance scene, just to make Ekko see that, no matter how hard he tries, how desperately he wants to believe that Jinx is all that the women he fell in love with has left, he won't be able to stop loving her. Being Jinx. Being Powder. He loves her entirely, even after all the bad things she had done. When they fought, he saw Powder in Jinx's eyes, and when they danced and talked during the kiss scene and when he arrived there, he somehow knew that, no matter how many timelines the world had prepared for him to see, she will always be the girl of his dreams in every one. And then he came back just to stop her to end her own life and tried multiple times to talk to her when she thought that everything was lost, that she didn't deserve to live after the little girl she practically adopted sacrificed herself for saving everyone. Then she just stoped detonating the bomb knowing that it will kill Ekko too if he stayed, jumping into the void to avoid hurting him. But he just wanted her to see that she had much more to see, to fight, to live for. That she wasn't alone, that many people still believed in her, loved her, cared about her, and were waiting for her to come back again. The story literally built all this to just make Jinx sacrifice herself at the end and give us and scene where is insanely obvious how much Ekko misses her. He saved everyone. Sacrificed a better life just to save his timeline. Saved her before she gave up. And then they gave him an ending full of sorrow and loneliness after losing the woman he knew that now could've been with him after the battle is done. They are tearing me apart.
Ulrich Stern development through the series
He’s tired of hiding it and she’s tired of denying it
What Wouldn’t I Do For You?
They had a really long story since s1. Their relationship grew stronger and their individual characters made changes that transformed their union into something much better compared to the firsts seasons.
In terms of character Ulrich changed the most in better ways. He had a good character development that made him show a much more mature, rigid, strong and solid evolution compared to other masculine characters in the series. Yumi is much more complicated to understand, cause she grew colder, fiercer and her fears were palpable since she told him that they should be just friends and put and ending to any romantic stuff. You can tell how badly they want to be together, but there’s something that just put an space between their feelings, an space that could be described as a fearful feeling that makes the love forbidden.
Of course, in terms of character and not that they wanted to maintain the drama and the constant tension from the writers.
But yes, they could work as enemies too if the reason is too serious or strong to take that decision (they would be devastated but it will pretty much work as a battle between feelings and duty).
Ulumi but make them enemies (to lovers)