Character Corner: Axel

Name: Axel (Lea)

Age: Undetermined.  Physical age: early-to-mid-twenties

Weapon: Chakrams.  Preferably flaming ones.  Also, fire.  And, if dark corridors can be considered a weapon, those as well, because he does use them.  (Much to some people’s chagrin.)

Quote: "Congratulations, Axel.  You've just found the world’s Keyhole and you are lacking a Keyblade wielder to come seal it.”

The Pyro who Wants to Leave a Legacy.

Axel has had quite the journey since becoming a Somebody again.  He had retained his ability to wield double chakrams, even after his Nobody-state’s death.  He regained his ability to both wield fire, form dark corridors, and control the Assassins after Xehanort messed with the darkness inside his heart in an attempt to win him back over to his cause.  Axel refused to side with Xehanort once again, however, choosing to remain on the side that Roxas was on: Sora’s side. 

In regards to controlling the Assassins, Axel cannot tell them to attack something with a heart because it will cause the darkness inside of his heart to rear up painfully.  Axel does not like pain.  He has also been warned many times that forming and using dark corridors will be detrimental to the state of his heart.  Since the Battle of Castle Oblivion, Axel has been doing his best to keep dark corridor use to a minimum, travelling by star shard whenever possible and dark corridor only when necessary. 

Axel has moved past almost all aspects of his “dark past” that was his time spent in the Organization.  He knows that there are still a select few members of the Organization that are alive and not at all sympathetic to him.  However, he is confident that since he has eluded death in the past, he will continue to do so in the future; he simply has no fear that anyone who used to work for the Organization could possibly harm him now. 

Axel is still as cocky as he always has been.  He has no sense of self-preservation and is often the cause of headache for people like Kairi and Riku, who worry for both his safety and the status of his heart.  He has completely reformed his friendships with Roxas and Xion and the three of them are still known to meet up on the Clocktower in Twilight Town after a long day of work.

Currently, however, most of Axel’s time is taken up by trying to track down a mysterious woman named Kuin.  Most of what Axel knows about her are things that he has had to figure out for himself.  He does know that she has quite the history with Xehanort and that she can pack quite a punch with her pistols.  He kinda likes her, but refuses to admit it. 

Axel also has a tiny obsession with trying to figure out what Saix’s last words to him meant.  “Remember me as I was,” were the words Saix had said as he was consumed by darkness during the Battle of Castle Oblivion.  Axel is now thinking quite often about his past with Saix, and before Saix, Isa.  He is on a mission to determine that Saix was not always all bad, something that he refuses to believe, despite feeling as though Saix had forsaken him at times.  Saix is easily Axel’s biggest loss. 

Generally, Axel doesn't care about what happens to other people.  He will not go out of his way to help others.  However, there are certain people whom he will answer to.  He doesn't consider himself to fight for any given side, just the side that most pleases him at the time.  He's determined to live out the rest of his existence in a way that pleases him and no one else.  Currently, that life is a life on Destiny Islands; where he spends most of his days off travelling, but he has a bed to come home to at night.