Axel, The Flurry of Dancing Flames (Finished)

by Zassou Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:06 pm

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Name: Axel, The Flurry of Dancing Flames

Gender: Male

Age: N/A (looks about 19/20)

Race: Nobody

Home World: Radiant Garden

Appearance: Like other Organization members, Axel wears the basic black gloves and boots. His black coat, however, is one of the more distinctive ones in the group, as its sleeves close up tightly around his arms. Axel himself is also easily distinguishable from other characters in terms of facial features, made easier by the fact that he rarely wears the hood of his coat up and that he's the slimmest other than Roxas. Axel has rather small eyebrows and thick, shoulder-length, bright red hair styled into slicked-back spikes. His eyes are a sea-green color and he has two purple reverse-teardrop shaped markings under each eye.

Personality: Axel displays emotion, which is unusual given that Nobodies cannot feel anything. He himself notes this when he begins laughing, but catches himself and stops. He even mocks his ability to feel towards his death. Whether he, Roxas, Naminé, and Xion all seem have something unusual in common regarding the heart, is unknown. But it has been hinted by Xemnas, and Axel himself, that by being close in contact with Sora's heart, Axel began to feel emotions of his own.

Out of the whole Organization, Axel is probably the most difficult to read. One never knows what he is thinking or whose side he is really on. Most of the time he seems to be just messing around, but he may have done more thinking than everyone else combined. He also tries to avoid eye contact.

Elemental Mastery: Primary: Fire
Secondary: Dark
Tertiary: Nothingness

Weapons: Eternal Flames (Chakrams)

Fighting Style: As the Flurry of Dancing Flames, Axel uses two uniquely shaped weapons called chakrams, and specializes in Fire manipulation. He can summon pillars of flame at will and strike with rapid combos using his chakrams. He can also surround his chakrams in flame and throw them like boomerangs, spinning and looping them to hit opponents multiple times. In his one on one battle with Roxas, Axel also summons a circle of fire to surround them and leaps into the flames to hide, emerging to strike with rapid attacks, and then leaping back to keep his opponents off their guard. Axel, is a powerful member of the Organization, arguably even stronger, or at least a better fighter, than Saïx. This is seen when Saïx is defeated by Roxas, but Axel was able to defeat Xion at the Old Mansion, who at the time was stronger than Roxas from accidentally absorbing too much of his power.

Alignment: Evil/Neutral

Affinities: After hours of training and haredwork, Axel has become highly skilled with his chakrams. He is also incredibly good with fire, being a pyromaniac and all. Also, he is agile and flexible, a attribute he has obtained from many battles and tons of training.

Weaknesses: While fighting Axel is susceptible to angering quickly. This is a weakness because he can sometimes lose control and lash out blindly, leaving himself open. He lets his emotions get to him too much, giving other people the opponent to feed the fire that is his anger and make him more rash.

History:

Meeting Roxas:

Not long after Axel joined the Organization, Xemnas put Roxas under Axel's supervision, expecting the man to teach him what he knew. Axel wasn't too happy about it at first, not wanting to deal with a 'zombie', as he called Roxas. Over time the two began to bond and started eating sea salt ice cream with each other in Twilight Town. The two of them started becoming good friends. Not long afterwards though Axel was shipped off to Castle Oblivion, to deal with the problem of Marluxia.

Castle Oblivion:

On arrival to Castle Oblivion, Axel spoke with both sides of the divided Organization. Marluxia's side was the rebel group, trying to use Sora's powers to usurp Xemnas. On the other side were Zexion and the to other original Organization members who wanted to use Riku's powers to kill Sora. At first Axel sided with the rebel's but over time he learned what they were planning and started reconsidering his decision.

When Axel and Sora first meet Axel fights the young man. After hours of heated battle Axels throws the fight and hands over a card to Sora from his own memories that will allow him to delve deeper into the castle. Not long after the battle Axel talks to Larxene and tells her that Sora retains his self-conciousness even when he is in the form of a Heartless.

Vexen alomst revealed the existence of Roxas to Sora. Marluxia ordered Axel to dispose of him and Axel did so without a second thought. This proved to Marluxia that Axel was really working for him and Larxene and added him into their plans. Using his newfound trust to his advantage he allowed Namine to escape and contact Sora. Soon afterwards he confronted Marluxia, explaining to the man that he had been working as a double agent the entire time. Putting his original mission of destroying every organization member in the castle, Axel readied himself to attack Marluxia even though he used Namine as a shield. At the last second Sora busted in and interrupted him. The two started fighting soon afterwards and at the end of the fight Axel acted as if Sora had defeated him. He told Sora just as he was leaving that it was worth saving him.

Not long after his fight with Sora, Axel met with Zexion in the basement of the castle. Zexion asked for a data card for Destiny Islands. Axel denied the man and allowed the Riku Replica to kill Zexion. He had promised the replica power enough to defeat the real Riku if he defeated Zexion. After watching Zexion die he left for The World That Never Was.

Return to The World That Never Was:

After returning to The World That Never Was, Axel thinks that Roxas has replaced him with Xion. Roxas sees this and asks Axel to start hanging out with both of them, thus forming a trio. Not long afterwards Axel talks with Saix and tells him he wishes they could have been friends as Nobodies like they were when they were humans. Saix reminds Axel of their plans for taking over the Organization before they became Nobodies.

Not too long afterwards, Xion discovers who and what she is and decides to leave the Organization. Axel then finds and captures her in front of Roxas, ignoring his pleas to set her free. Roxas then becomes mad at Axel and distances himself from him. Axel just ignores his friends for the time being and goes off on his assignment to Wonderland with Xion. While Xion decides to run off after knocking out Xigbar. Axel made no attempt to stop her and allowed her to go. Once back Roxas discovers that Axel has been hiding Xion's identity from him and decides to leave the Organization. Axel is upset by this and keeps to himself.

The next day Axel is given orders to track down Xion. He finds her at the Old Mansion in Twilight Town. He learns of Xion's intentions and fights her, managing to knock her out. Exhausted from the fight, Axel brings her back to The Castle That Never Was. On arrival he faints and Xion is taken away by Xemnas. After waking up hours later he learns the outcome of Xion's and Roxas' fight. In his saddened state he finds a popsicle stick with the word 'WINNER' on it, left by Roxas as a gift.

Going After Roxas:

Axel then goes after Roxas, searching for him in Twilight Town. He discovers that Roxas has had his memory wiped and tries to bring him back. His first attempt his thrawted by DiZ and the restarting of the Twilight Town program. Afterwards, Xaldin and Xemnas threaten him into trying to capture Roxas again. Axel tries again and once again is interuppted by DiZ. He meets up with Roxas again in the Old Mansion's basement. This time Roxas has all his memories back but Axel ignores him, already hurt from their last encounters. He then fights Roxas who is wielding his dual keyblades. Axel loses the fight and then leaves, choosing to give up on his mission.

Axel is then entrusted by Riku to keep Namine safe. While this is going on Sora is reawakened with Roxas inside of him. Namine tells Axel those dear to him cause him to have feelings which moves Axel.

A Second Chance with Sora:

Axel then went on to kidnap Kairi. He met with her on the beach of Destiny Islands, intending to kidnap her. At the last second she escaped into a Portal of Darkness and went to Twilight Town to wait for Sora. Axel followed her there, succeeding in capturing her this time. Not long after capturing her she was stolen away by Saix. In Radiant Garden, a few days after the capture of Kairi, Axel meets with Sora and explains that every time he kills a Heartless the heart is released and used for the Organization. Although he told Sora that much he refused to tell him anything else. Sora then realized that Axel was the one who captured Kair and Axel told him that was true. At first he was a solid wall of stubborness, not wanting to apologize, but just as Saix showed up he apologized to Sora and left hastily.

Death:

Traveling to Betwixt and Between, Axel meets up with Sora, King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. The Dusks out number them two to one. Axel then helps Sora fight the Dusks. After discovering they had no hope Axel used almost all of his strength in one attack that destroyed the Dusks and himself. In the last moments of his life he told Sora that only he wanted to was to see Roxas. Sora made him feel the same way Roxas did and he used his final words to urge Sora on to save Kairi. Axel then opened the passageway to The World That Never Was with the last bit of his strength and then faded into the darkness.

Finding His Heart:

After wandering through the darkness for months Axel had nothing left for him. He spent what felt like an eternity trying to find his heart, the one thing that would bring him out from the eternal darkness that had become his new home. His powers had been stripped from him on arrival. The land around him was always bleak and nothing ever disturbed the darkness. Over time Axel slowly started to lose hope of ever finding his heart.

[To Be Continued...]

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