APP; il promenade
PLAYER
✧ NAME: Toastbat
✧ LJ USERNAME: thanatoast
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): [AIM; hueco blanqueado] [PLURK; holeinmysoul]
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: Shirosaki Hichigo
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Axel
✧ SERIES: Kingdom Hearts
✧ HISTORY: See the wiki!
✧ TIMELINE: After fading away near the end of KH2
✧ PERSONALITY: Axel is a man of many faces and has many facets to his personality; surprising for someone who supposedly has no heart. At the beginning of the series, Axel shows himself to be much like the other Nobodies. He is cold, callous and out for only himself. He tended to be a little more on the joking side than some of the others, with much stronger memories of what it was like to be human. Still, his merciless nature earned him the title of the Organization's assassin. When he is sent to Castle Oblivion, a secondary headquarters of the Organization, Axel acts as a double agent, growing close to a group of betrayers and even mercilessly killing an ally in order to earn their trust, only to double-cross them. He crosses yet another group in the castle and his actions lead to their inevitable demise. By the end of it, he is the only one left.
However, when Axel returns alone from Castle Oblivion, he begins hanging out with Roxas and Xion (the two newest members of the Organization) more frequently, enjoying ice cream with them after missions on the clocktower in Twilight Town. However, as Xion and Roxas begin to question their very beings, Axel, being the selfish man he is, withholds and even lies about information in order to keep them from leaving the Organization... and, by extension, him. However, this move backfires when the two's curiosity gets the better of them and both end up leaving anyway at separate times, leaving Axel in charge of bringing them back (what he calls an "icky job").
Once Roxas merges with Sora, Axel has still not learned his lesson and still selfishly looks for a way to get Roxas back, by any means necessary. This includes trying to make Sora lose his heart in order to get Roxas back. As the story progresses though, Axel begins to feel more and more guilty about his actions and eventually sacrifices himself.
This is not to say Axel is NOT selfish. He's still very selfish, and a very good actor to boot. While he does have the inklings of true feelings thanks to Emotional Osmosis™ from Roxas, Xion and Sora, he still doesn't feel with the same intensity as humans do, and his feelings of guilt and related emotions are especially dulled. He is not all business, though, and prefers to relax and bend the rules. His days off are spent taking long naps. When with his friends, he can be downright dorky.
In short: He can be calculating and cruel, but he also likes to have fun and craves companionship. He can be prone to bouts of angst over his lack of heart, but gets over it pretty quickly. He is fully neutral and morally grey.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: Axel has power over the element of fire. He can create it and manipulate it at will. Being a Nobody, he has far above average strength, endurance and speed, and he is capable of traveling through the Corridors of Darkness without harm. The corridors allow him to move quickly over long distances, and even teleport at short distances. His weapons, twin chakrams called Eternal Flames, can be summoned or dismissed at will.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Day
✧ MASK DESIGN: Firebird
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: Xion brought the clocktower from Twilight Town, Axel is bringing most of the rest, including Sunset Hill, which overlooks the town.
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: At Trial By Dreams!
✧ THIRD PERSON: It had been a whirlwind few days for the Flurry of Dancing Flames. Whirlwind? Maybe more like a hurricane. He was exhausted and he had barely done anything. Only thirty hours ago he’d been dead. Well, whatever it was that Nobodies did. Vanished? Obliterated? It wasn’t death, it was more just… oblivion. Then, the next thing he knew, he was awake, lying on the ground in the middle of a sidewalk, looking up at a beautiful blue sky. In one hand was a small computer and in the other, a mask. A mask designed to look like a phoenix.
Lying on his back in his room, Axel looked up at the mask and scoffed. A firebird, huh? It consumes itself in flames, only to be reborn anew… someone thinks they’re real damn clever, don’t they? He traced his lithe fingers over the painted and gilded edges of the carved leather mask. It really was beautiful…. But what a pain in the ass it was. But no one had to tell Axel twice. If wearing the mask outside during the day meant he didn’t get yelled at or have shit thrown at him, he’d do it in a heartbeat (ha).
But the silence of night had been even stranger. He had to admit, he’d felt the echoes of panic in his gut when he tried to speak and his vocal chords went dry. And the TENEKA? What the hell was up with that? Axel had never been psychic before, and he’d never been happier to see the morning sun. Guess being a night owl isn’t for me… well, early to bed, early to rise, right?
The redhead groaned and rubbed a hand through his hair, setting his ornate bird mask aside. His head hurt. That was the other thing… finding someone here he thought he’d never see again. Someone he didn’t even remember until he saw her face. Those blue eyes, that short black hair. The memories, that had been wiped clean from his brain and from all of existence, came rushing back with a painful migraine that had yet to wear off. There had been three of them, not just two. Axel, Roxas and Xion. Axel looked out the window of his room over the sunlit city of Promenade, but he looked through it. It disturbed him, shook him to his very core that something like that could happen. That a person could just disappear. And she was a person. Axel knew.
He put a hand to his chest and furrowed his brows. Tch. This feeling crap… he was just getting used to it again. Maybe he never would; he’d been without for so long.
Suddenly a young female voice rang out from the other room, “AXEL!! I have a question!” Axel, shaken from his thoughts, smiles and calls back, “What is it? Can’t figure out of the toaster?”
“No!! I know how to use that! I want to know what… lederhosen? Is. Do you know?”
“… Xion, why do you need to know what lederhosen is.”
“I just do!”
Shaking his head and rolling his eyes, Axel got up from his bed and headed out to the main room. Curious as ever, that girl. I guess I’m explaining fancy German pants today.
It beat being dead.