Aris Jones was the only male member of Group B, and was Teresa Agnes' equivalent in the Maze Trials. He had a history of working for WICKED before joining the Right Arm. He was named after Greek philosopher, Aristotle.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Film
- 2.1 The Scorch Trials
- 2.2 The Death Cure
- 4 Quotes
- 5 Gallery
Biography[]
The Fever Code
The Scorch Trials
The Death Cure
The Maze Cutter
The Fever Code[]
In The Fever Code, Aris was first introduced as another kid who was partnered with Rachel in building the second Maze. The pair had a telepathic connection. When the Flare broke out among some of the WICKED staff who were not Immune, Aris was told by Ava Paige along with Thomas, Teresa, and Rachel that they would have to kill the infected, to which they agreed, grudgingly. Aris was resigned to doing it for the greater good, though Rachel seemed disgusted by the idea of killing them.
At the end of the book, in the email to the staff apparently written by Teresa, it was mentioned that Aris would actually be keeping his memories while in the Maze, telepathically coordinating events with Teresa but pretending he had amnesia like the others.
The Scorch Trials[]
In The Scorch Trials, Group B escaped from a place called Maze B and took refuge in a gym, where Aris was abducted by WICKED and placed in the room of the only female member of the Gladers, Teresa. He was discovered by a member of the Gladers named Thomas, who was searching for Teresa. Aris said that he didn't know anything about Teresa, and Thomas took him back to the dorm where the other Gladers were sleeping. One of the Gladers, Newt, believing Aris to be a spy of WICKED, decided to interrogate him. During the interrogation, Aris introduced himself and revealed them about Group B and discovered he could communicate telepathically with Thomas. The Gladers discovered Aris' tattoo on the back of his neck, which revealed that he's "The Partner" according to WICKED.
The next day, Aris was informed by a Glader named Winston along with the other Gladers about a man in the common room they dubbed Rat Man. A few minutes later, Rat Man told the Gladers about the Scorch Trials. Rat Man told them that he was an employee of the organization WICKED and that most of the world's governments have disintegrated and the surviving governments banded together to form what would become the organization WICKED. He also revealed that the Gladers have all been infected by the Flare and they must reach a Safe Haven in two weeks where they will be given a cure and that they must use a Flat Trans to depart at 6:00 or they would be executed.
The next morning, Aris, along with the other Gladers stepped through the Flat Trans and found themselves in a pitch dark tunnel. While they walked through that tunnel, they were attacked by molten steel balls that completely enclosed the victim's head and finally cut it off by the neck. The survivors found a stair leading up. Opening a trap door, they emerged to a wasteland known as the Scorch.Somewhere throughout the Gladers'trials, Teresa was telepathically told Aris that WICKED wanted them to make Thomas feel utterly betrayed, and that unless they did it, Thomas would be killed by them. It is unknown if this is completely true, however, as according to The Fever Code Aris, along with Teresa, were both secretly working with WICKED.
After surviving a freak lightning storm and making it into the city (however, they lost 7 Gladers during the storm), Aris, along with the other Gladers, met Brenda and Jorge, a teenage girl and a man who claimed to be a Cranks. Thanks to Thomas, they formed an uneasy alliance, but shortly afterward, they were forced to run for their lives when other Cranks blew up part of the tunnel near them. Aris was separated from Thomas and Brenda along with the others during the evacuation. Afterwards, Jorge led Aris and the Gladers most of the way through the city.
When the Gladers saw Thomas and Brenda in trouble from three crazed Cranks, Aris presumably participated in their rescue. Afterwards, Thomas contracted an infection from being shot in the shoulder. After he was shot, WICKED, who considered this to be interfering with the trials, came with a berg to heal him. While Thomas was gone, Aris stayed in an old shack outside the city along with the others. After Thomas was returned to them, Aris, along with the other Gladers, were confronted by Group B, now led by Teresa. The girls took Thomas hostage and warned the Gladers that if they followed them to their camp to rescue Thomas, they would open fire on the Gladers, leaving them no choice but to continue through the mountains to reach the Safe Haven.
Sometime while in the mountains, Aris snuck away from the Gladers unnoticed. He made his way to where a freed Thomas and Teresa were waiting. As part of the betrayal plan, Aris snuck up on Thomas with a drawn knife, telling him to go to a location in the mountains with Teresa. They went into a cavern, and Aris and Teresa started kissing, which was all part of the betrayal. Then they forced Thomas into a smaller gas chamber built into the rock, striking him on the head repeatedly as he fought back. When Thomas woke up the next morning, Aris and Teresa apologized fortheir actions and said that, on the night Aris was taken to the Gladers, Teresa was abducted by WICKED and given instructions by them to make Thomas feel betrayed or else WICKED would kill him.
The three noticed the Gladers and Group B in the distance and Aris ran down the mountains with Thomas and Teresa to regroup with them. They were reunited with their groups at the Safe Haven. Suddenly, canisters emerged from the ground and released Bulb Monsters created by WICKED for the trials, that began attacking them, killing 2 girls and 1 boy. Aris helped fight and kill the monsters after discovering their weak spots. A berg arrived shortly after the Gladers succeeded in killing the monsters, and Aris, along with the rest of the Gladers, climbed aboard the berg and escaped from the valley. On the berg, Aris and the Gladers celebrated their success before landing at WICKED's Headquarters a few hours later.
The Death Cure[]
In The Death Cure, Aris' third and final trial are unknown. It is possible that, being part of WICKED, Aris, along with Teresa, never went through the last trial at all. It was revealed that Aris is among those immune to the Flare. He was also one of the subjects who wanted theirmemories back (even though he already had his memories). This group escaped and eventually got captured by the Right Arm in Denver. After the Right Arm detonated the bomb, Aris survived and made it to the Safe Haven.
The Maze Cutter[]
In The Maze Cutter, Aris died of unknown causes 73 years after the events of The Death Cure.
Film[]
The Scorch Trials[]
During the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Aris was introduced when Thomas met the Gladers in the cafeteria of Janson's facility. Other teenagers there claimed that Aris had been there the longest, and his Maze was made up of only females, excluding him.
Later that night, after the Gladers were assigned to their room, Aris crawled through the ventilation shaft into their room. He asked Thomas to follow him, and went back into the vent with Thomas behind him. When they got to a point in the shafts above a hallway, Thomas and Aris watched as doctors wheeled multiple beds carrying other Maze Trial survivors into a secured room. Aris recounted that the doctors wheeled new beds into that room every night. They couldn't look further into the room as the ventilation system didn't extend into that sector, so they went back to their rooms with the promise that they'd find a way in the next night.
The following night, while Janson called up more kids to travel to the "Safe Haven", Thomas told his friends about his and Aris' infiltration. As the chosen kids are walking to the door, Aris watched Thomas follow them, but get stopped at the doorway by a guard. They order him to return to his seat, which leads him to attempt to shove past them. Noticing the commotion, Janson walks over and directs the guards to take Thomas and the Gladers to their room. Once in the room, the boys question why Thomas had done that, to which he revealed that he stole the guard's keycard. Shortly after, Aris appears to take Thomas back through the vents. This was how they were going to get in the secured room.
When Thomas and Aris entered the secured sector, they found glass cases containing Grievers being formed in a solution. Opening the next door, they entered a room full of immune kids strung up from the ceiling, their immunity being harvested. Thomas spotted a girl he believed was Teresa, and ran over to her, but discovered it wasn't her. Instead, it was Aris' best friend, Rachel, another member of Group B.
While in the room, the boys heard a sound behind them, and realized Janson and his assistant were coming in. They hid behind the strung up kids, and listened as Janson joined a call with Doctor Paige, who they believed was dead. This solidified the realization that they hadn't escaped WCKD. On the call, Janson stated that the next kids to be harvested would be the most recent subjects to have arrived; the Gladers. Once the call ended, and Janson and his assistant left, Thomas and Aris raced back to the Gladers' room to get them out before Janson and the guards arrived. When they got there, they quickly filled the boys in on what they learned while trying to barricade the door.
The boys escaped through the ventilation shaft, separating into two groups once they got into an empty hallway. Aris and Winston left to search for a way out of the compound, while the others went to find Teresa. They found her, and then made their way towards the compound exit, but got stuck at vault door. They attempted to open it with the stolen keycard, but it didn't work. Running out of time, and being closed in on by Janson and his guards, the Gladers didn't know what else to do. But, seemingly on its own, the door opened, revealing Aris and Winston on the other side. They let the Gladers through, but it closed before Janson could pursue them.
After exiting another door, the group made it into the Scorch. They left the WCKD compound, and found an abandoned mall. Inside, they discussed their next plan. Aris suggested they search for the Right Arm, a resistance group hidden in the mountains. With no other options, the Gladers agreed that's what they had to do. The group then searched the mall for flashlights, supplies, and changes of clothing.
Moments later, when they saw Thomas and Minho being chased by a swarm of Cranks, they ran up the escalator to be confronted by another one. Aris hit it in the leg with his bat and kept running. They reached a corner where the doors were locked. Aris and Winston provided cover for the group while Frypan forced the door open. On the way out, cranks grabbed and injured Winston. Continuing to move, the group made their way to a rundown city, having lost Winston along the way, but they gained Jorge and Brenda.
Jorge and Brenda helped the boys and Teresa make their way to the Right Arm. On a road into the mountains, the group got attacked. Two masked girls appeared, with weapons drawn, and ordered the group to move. They stopped talking when they spotted Aris, and revealed themselves as Harriet and Sonya, two of his friends from the Maze. The two girls were part of the Right Arm, and led them to the resistance group's camp.
After being at the camp for a few hours, everybody began to notice the sounds of helicopters in the distance. WCKD had an informant, and found the camp to take back all of their subjects. During the fight, the WCKD guards collected most of the immune kids, and led them on the Berg to take them back to the compound. These kids included Aris, Sonya, and Minho.
The Death Cure[]
In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, six months later after the events in the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, he gets rescued by Thomas and other members of the Right Arm, who took possession of a Berg aircraft, which they used to carry the cargo container with him, Sonya, and others away in.
After cracking open the sealed container, Thomas enters it to find Aris sitting next to Sonya, followed by Harriet, who happily hugs them both. Later, Aris is given a drink by Harriet while his black eye is nursed via a cloth by Sonya. Thomas asks how he got his injuries and he replies he tried fighting back, then he reveals where WCKD was heading. Aris reveals that he heard about the Last City. When asked by Thomas about why Minho wasn’t on the train with them, Aris replies that he was. Thomas gets a map to help him find out where the location of it was based on Jones' info.
At the end of the film, he is seen at the Safe Haven helping Gally build a campfire and sees Thomas has recovered from his wounds. Later that night, he hangs out with his friends in celebration of victory and sits in a bonfire circle right next to other Gladers.
Physical Appearance & Personality[]
Aris is described as a boy with olive skin and "dark hair cut surprisingly short". It is implied that he was taller than Teresa, as she had to stand on her toes to reach his cheek for a kiss.
In the film adaptations, Aris is portrayed by Jacob Lofland, who has light skin and brown hair, and is medium height.
Quotes[]
- "They bring in new ones every night like clockwork." Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
- "I don't know. This is as far as I've ever gotten. The vents don't even go into that section, but once they go through that door... they don't come back out. I don't think anybody ever really leaves this place." Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
- "I fought back. Tried to, anyway." Maze Runner: The Death Cure
- "All I know is... they kept talking about a city." Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Gallery[]
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