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Aris Jones was the only male member of a group of female teenagers called Group B. He used to work for WICKED before joining the Right Arm. He was named after Greek philosopher Aristotle.

Biography[]

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 for their 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 their memories 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.

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The Scorch Trials[]

During the Scorch Trials, Aris is introduced when Thomas meets up with his Gladers in the cafeteria of Janson's facility where others from different Mazes are saying that Aris was the longest one whose been there and that his maze had nothing but just females. Before Janson announces a few to come up to be sent to a Safe Haven he spots Thomas concerned when he sees Teresa being escorted by doctors so he walks up near the door til the guards inform him that they just need to run more tests on her causing Thomas to return to his seat.

Later that night after Thomas and his group were assigned to their new room, Thomas washed his face and lay down on his bed upon hearing a noise and the word “Hey” coming from under his bed he saw it’s Jones in the ventilation shaft telling him to follow him. Reaching their destination in the vents, they see doctors bringing in many beds of human bodies being carried in a secured room where the vents don’t go there as Aris shares with him that they brought new ones in every night and that no one ever really leaves the facility and that he trusts that Thomas could convince others to believe him which is why he told him before they hurry back to their bunks and he answered his question for his name which he said.

The next night, Janson calls up more others to the door while Thomas tells his friends about his and Aris' infiltration. The group asks who Aris is, which he points out is the kid in the hood eating the orange that doesn’t thrill them. As the chosen are walking up the door, Aris sees Thomas follow only to have the guards order him to return to his seat before he forcibly attempts to pass them but gets pushed back starting a scene the group tries to stop and Janson orders for the Gladers to be taken away to their room.

Angrily causing the others to question if Thomas thought he’d be let through only to find that he did it to unnoticeably steal the guard’s keycard to access the restricted door and Jones opens the vent to meet with him to get to it.

As they make their way in the door they investigate the room to see Grievers being manifested and unlocking the next room filled with countless immunes being harvested out of their blood where Thomas thinks one of those test subjects is Teresa but turns out to be an unfamiliar person to him but not to Aris whose he knew as a girl named Rachel from his Maze that’s been there since the first night they arrived telling her “It would be ok.” They heard a sound from the door as it was Janson and his assistant coming in the two hid from them while they walked in and started a video chat with Ava Paige who discussed that she’ll be arriving there by tomorrow and that the results of what the maze did to subjects are promising but not well enough to the latter's request after receiving approval from the board that all the remaining subjects are to be sedated and prepared for harvesting before then.

To Janson's credit, he tells her that the pace of that process is going as fast as he is managing and to do something else faster, for the sake of security, and tells her it was his job to keep them secured under 24-hour lockdown assurance that they were secured. Bribing Paige to ask if he found the Right Arm who hit two of their instillations and wanted the immunes as badly as they did which he tracked as far as the mountains causing the doctor to say she couldn’t afford another loss since being close to finding a cure and that she’ll find someone else for the task. Janson suggests they start with the most recent subjects and that “They wouldn’t feel a thing” ending the chat for him to get to Thomas and his group after the boys return to the vents rushing to get the others out before the doctors and armed guards showed up. Once arriving at the room, Aris is seen in shock at what he and Thomas found about them being under custody in WCKD's compound and telling the others that just in time to escape the room which eager Janson to find them.

Exiting the ventilation shaft, the group separates to rescue Teresa while Jones goes with Winston to do something to help them get out of the complex. Then once they reach the main vault door, Aris and Winston open it to see it closing as Thomas runs fast to slide under it before Jones smashes the control panel to prevent them from following them and the group makes it to the entrance to run into the Scorch til they enter an abandoned mall to speak about WCKD’s plan to have them harvested and that they’ll have to get as far away from them as possible. Newt asks for a plan which Thomas replies he doesn’t know while Aris suggests they find the resistance in the mountains hoping for refuge they walk around the area to find flashlights and start to pack some supplies with them.

Moments later, when they see both Thomas and Minho being chased by a swarm of Cranks they all run up the escalator to be confronted by one Aris hits it in the leg with his bat and reaches a corner where the doors are locked and he and Winston provide cover for them long enough for Frypan to bash it and opens it before a few briefly grabs Winston and the other pull him out to then stay hidden under rocks until the next morning. Everyone wakes up and starts exploring the broken building in the dessert Scorch until Thomas tells them to stop and listen for the winds of helicopters approaching the area the kids hide under a bunker before they get spotted and then continue to move up a hill of sand to view the mountains and witness Winston too hurt to walk due to the injuries of the Cranks. For everyone to carry him on a foot through a sandstorm reaching a pit stop where he was attempting to shoot himself with a gun before he vomits and pulls up his shirt to reveal his infection spreading and begs them to end his life before he turns to the latter’s case they do after walking away to hear him fire the gun on and Jones gathers more wood for a campfire.

A day later they walk through the desert to rest on the ground during the night only for Thomas to see lights in front of their position and wake up just in time for them to, start running in a thunderstorm that causes Minho to be hit by lightning and dragged by the group into a nearby building. Once they enter inside, Minho awakens well before they use their flashlights to find themselves surrounded by dozens of Cranks chained up as Brenda walks up to escort them to Jorge. Who’s in charge of the gang of survivors as they meet with him at his office, Jorge questions them about their history and destination point. Thomas said his group was on their way looking for the resistance army known as the Right Arm which other local survivors laugh at for Jorge himself compliments "You’re looking for ghosts you mean" Before asking their previous whereabouts Minho replies that it stays private causing Jorge to demand they pin and hold the Gladers down. Brenda grabs a scanner to scan the Swipe tag on the back of Thomas' neck confirming that they come from WCKD making them valuable and hangs them upside down for interrogation. As Jorge stands near the control console of the ropes that hold the Gladers, he tells them that his group was thinking of bringing them back to WCKD unless he gets a deal on cooperation with them by asking them what they know about the Right Arm which Newt said he told him earlier that they’re ghosts before Jorge compliments back they he believes in them before pulling the lever that lures them down once causing them to answer his request. When the resistance attacked WCKD got out a bunch of immune children which the man buys before he walks away to his desk to quietly collect.

The others get Teresa to the control console of the ropes to safely release them off of theirs to untie themselves and head to escape but are held at gunpoint by Barkley who contacts Janson on a communicator. Threatening them to follow him, Thomas redirects the shotgun away with his friends behind to watch his head-butted to the nose which briefly concussions him before getting back up with a bloody nose to fire at them only for Brenda to kill him and lead them to the zip lines to escape the warehouse before it exploded.

Once they reunite at Zone A, a club owned by Marcus Jorge beats him for information about the Right Arm’s current location in the mountains which he gives them along with a truck to ride to it. When they are stopped by multiple rusted vehicles in the way, that are defunct, and the group is ambushed by snipers which causes them to take cover and for Jorge to instruct Thomas how his explosive device works and they can use as a distraction until they get aimed at gunpoint by two masked girls who order them to move with the rest of their group but stop as they recognize Aris to reveal themselves as Harriet and Sonya who the three were in the Maze together and helps lead them to the Right Arm outpost. Arriving there, they are introduced to Vince leader of the Right Arm who spots Brenda who has deteriorated she drops on the ground breathing rapidly, and lowers her bandage to find she’s infected and draws out his gun on her until Mary Cooper walks in ordering them to stand down as she recognizes Thomas and his blood could slow Brenda's infection as she and he knew each other before and that he was the source of the resistance’s informant of every WCKD compound, trial, and lab changing Vince’s mind of ending Brenda’s life.

As the night begins, he is seen talking with both his former Gladers about how he helped escape the WCKD Compound and waves at Frypan after his name gets called. However, hours pass and WCKD ambushes the army to round up the immunes. After witnessing the death of Mary Cooper, he is next to Sonya who watches Thomas pulling out the bomb and detonator to threaten to blow up or he and his fellow Gladers will commit suicide which they almost do however they pause as it buys enough time for Jorge to honk the horn on a truck he drives straight towards the helicopter causing it to crash and collapse for other comrades to fight back. But WCKD flees away with him, Sonya, and Minho.

The Death Cure[]

In Death Cure, six months later after the events in Scorch Trials, he gets rescued by Thomas and other members of the Right Arm who took possession of a Berg aircraft they used to carry the cargo container with him, Sonya, and others away in.

Once cracking the sealed container, Thomas enters it to find him right next to Sonya being approached by Harriet who happily hugs them both and is being given a drink and bandaged from his black eye given by WCKD. “Counting that it took them long enough to rescue them,” he says to Thomas who asks how he got his injuries which he replies he tried fighting back and where WCKD was heading and he tells them that the only clue he had was about the Last City. And is questioned about why Minho wasn’t on the train with them, answering that he was and 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 in the Safe Haven helping Gally with the building 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 Films, Aris is portrayed by Jacob Lofland, who has light skin and brown hair, and is medium height.

Quotes[]

  • "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

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