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There's a saying in the English language that goes something along the lines of “You can't judge a book by it's cover.” Never was a saying more true than when it comes to Axel, number eight in Organization XIII. In fact, it embodies most of what Axel stands for in the three games he makes his appearance in—the fourth, and perhaps most important to those that know him in canon, is Birth by Sleep, in which the audience is treated to a viewing of Axel before he's Axel, but more on that later.
At the start, Axel seems like a pretty cool guy. There's a certain flare about him that has nothing to do with the fire he controls: he's witty, observant and sharp. He seems like the kinda guy that you could call up on the weekend and chat the night away with. He's friendly, if not a little mocking (dancing around the subject when he faces Sora, seemingly friendly even when he's challenging the keyblade master to a duel to test his strength); he's dorky, if not a little off-putting and hard to read (Axel's delivery is always oily yet punctuated with sweeping gestures and broad grins); he's the kinda guy you want on your side, even if you think he doesn't have much to offer.
Good—while that might not be Axel's driving motivation at the time, it's something he's going to use to his advantage. If he plays his cards right, already Axel has everyone charmed into thinking he's their best friend. When he was Lea, a little pushy, arrogant (claiming an important keepsake of Ven's as being nothing more than a toy), but all together a generally easy to get along with boy, this was all true. Lea was a normal fifteen year old with one odd quirk: he'd ask people to “get it memorized,” because Lea wanted to be remembered in the minds of his friends. That way, he'd live forever. Optimism, that was an important point to the boy. However, one traumatic event and ten years of soaking in one's own bitterness has a way of twisting a person, and what was once a heart-felt desire to be liked by everyone he met has become merely a shadow of what it used to be: a mask, a “book's cover,” and (almost) nothing more.
At his core—in Saix's own words, no less—Axel is a character that can't abide by what he is or what he has become. When he was little more than fifteen, Lea lost his heart and became the Nobody known as Axel. Heartless, unable to feel; this had a deep, scarring impact on Axel, and it shows in the way he deals with people he had once considered his friends, and indeed with anyone else he comes into contact with. As far as he's concerned, they're just pawns he can use until he gets his heart back by any means necessary. Axel is, in very literal terms, a “venomous friend” because he will always put himself first and function in a manner that will suit him best, including lying to everyone around him, including his best friends. If that means pretending to be a friend or brother figure to someone, as he was to Roxas in the beginning of 358/2 Days, then so be it. If that means sucking up to his superiors so that he's not turned into a Dusk, so be it. And despite it all, even though Axel knows he can't feel, he still clings to the memories of what it was like to be whole instead of “all that's left.”
In Chain of Memories, Axel is the tool of the betrayer's destruction. When Larxene and Marluxia were aiming to overthrow the Organization's leader, Xemnas, Axel slipped his way into their little fold and settled himself down nicely—it's that “friendly” side of him coming out to play there. It's easy for Axel to get someone's trust in that fashion. He knows what to say by either trial and error or paying close attention. Even though he taunts everyone around him—Sora, Vexen, and heck even Marluxia and Larxene—he still carefully walks along that cliff's edge before it's time for him to push someone over to save his own skin. He's given orders to murder Vexen and he does so without a second thought, needing to gain the trust of the other two in order to bring them down. Axel is a trump card with a (seemingly) genuine enjoyment of stabbing people in the back. This trait never leaves, even through further character development.
This development comes at the hands of another Nobody, number thirteen: Roxas. At first, Axel is set on the task of being nothing more than a babysitter, walking the blond through his first few days of being “awake.” He lies to the boy, telling Roxas that he's his friend, and over time, that lie becomes Axel's reality. As his time spent with Roxas goes, Axel finds himself getting more fond of the boy, fond enough for a sensation of jealousy to grasp him when he comes back from Castle Oblivion to find Roxas sitting and eating ice cream with Xion, the Organization's puppet. It's true, Axel can't truly feel because of what he is, but in pretending he can and going with what he remembers is right, he can escape that crushing feeling of Nothingness that is a Nobody's calling. With Roxas's—and Xion's, for that matter—training, Axel is a thorough creature, leaving no treasure chest unopened. He proclaims that one learns better by doing than hearing (which is where the infamous “Talking is dumb” line stems from), showing that Axel is very proactive when he sets his mind to something. The problem is actually getting him into gear. He's laid back in between missions, seen in casual conversation with other Nobodies.
But as mentioned earlier, Axel is selfish, and unfortunately this has a detrimental effect on his friendships. As he grows closer to Roxas, his former friendship with Saix falls apart, and Axel doesn't do much to fix it. He simply lets it end, aware of it and kind of hating it, but never doing much to change it—but should his friend find someone else to spend their time with, that jealousy is always there, never outwardly illustrated but instead hinted at with quiet words and awkward pauses.
When it comes to his friends, Axel shows an entirely different side. Sure, there's that “brotherly” persona he likes to wear, but he's also fiercely protective. Suddenly, the orders he had no problem carrying out before become a burden, it's “icky orders” he doesn't like having to stomach. It takes two times before Axel is finally set down to the idea of having to murder Roxas if he won't re-join the Organization, and it's only once he realizes his best friend doesn't remember him any more that his resolve is set.
Unless that purpose is tied in closely with Axel's heart and his own emotions, Axel will most likely let a friendship decay and rot. If there's one thing Axel will fight tooth and nail for, it's for that chance to feel. Again, Axel is a creature that can't abide by what he is, he's self-serving, and if that means lying to himself so that he can live in recreated memories with more or less “shallow” friends, so be it. With Roxas, it's different in a way that's never explicitly explained—is it the influence of Sora's heart that's changing Axel? Whatever the case, Axel's fully convinced by the time Kingdom Hearts II rolls around that Roxas is someone who needs to stay by his side, and he's willing to go to any lengths to get his best friend. Roxas is, after all, the one who made Axel “feel like I had a heart.”
While far from a complete contraction, there's a lot about Axel that seems to clash. He feels without feeling, he forms friendships he seems to genuinely cherish while others fall by the wayside. He's manipulative and sometimes cruel, but always putting himself at the forefront of everything he does. And yet, despite that, he's not a bad guy. Sure he captures Kairi to lure Sora into a trap, but once he realizes his trap will no longer work, he sacrifices himself to save the Keyblade Master and allow him to continue on his journey. The best way to put it is that Axel is a wild card: toss him into the mix and let him give you one hell of a show.
Powers:
In canon, Axel has the ability to completely control fire and its properties, able to summon and use huge fireballs and even go so far as to turn a metal floor into molten lava. He and fire are total bros, okay? You want a looming wall of fire to knock your HP down by 30%? You go to Axel, for he is your man. But his cheater powers don't stop there, even if they are the most important—he's able to teleport himself from world to world (and place to place, especially during a battle) via corridors of darkness. He can also call to his aid the lesser Nobodies "Assassins," which can phase through the floor and attack poor unsuspecting keyblade wielders.
They also explode. Just like Axel.
Last but not least are his chakrams, which he can pull from darkness and flame and solidify in his hands. They have eight spikes and are lethal.
For the purpose of the game, however, Axel's ability with flame will be watered down significantly—still enough to be dangerous to enemies, but nothing on the level of a massive wall or melting rock. I'd like if he can still keep his ability to summon his chakrams out of hammerspace, as those things are huge and awkward to simply carry around. His teleportation skill will also be knocked down to him being able to only travel approximately one New York-sized city block twice a month, and not consecutively.
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Character Name: Axel
Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Age: 25(ish)
Gender: Male
Canon Point: post-death, KH2
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