My dear Axel...
Name: Axel.
Number: VIII.
Title: The Flurry of Dancing Flames.
Weapon: Chakrams.
Element: Fire.
Crimes: Attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, murder, kidnapping, treason, and assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe even trespassing when he broke into the digital Twilight Town. (Funny how 'arson' is ironically not on this list...)
Can SOMEONE please tell me where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego THAT Axel at? I have not seen him in the fandom in soooo long.
-Where is the guy who killed one of his fellow Organization members to prove to two others he was on their side, only to screw THEM over because he really wasn't on their side to begin with--he just wanted to know what they were up to/foil their plan to take over?
Ok, so he has a kind of sadistic way of entertaining himself because apparently he thought that whole Riku!Replica-Sora-Naminé-Marluxia-Larxene thing was one hell of a show for himself to watch, and he really didn't care that he killed Vexen considering he just said he weeded out the garden, but that manipulative backstabbing is a part of Axel. USE IT. You never really know what he's up to, which makes him predictably unpredictable. Just seeing how he acts in CoM and then in KHII shows this at least that's what I tell myself to answer the question of "BAH? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?!. The dude is shifty. He plays it down the middle just to be safe, but weaves in and out of both sides to keep tabs on people. It seems like everyone loves to skip over the fact that Axel is, as the term has been coined here, Not Nice. Sure he's a bit dorkish in KHII, but even then he is *not* to be played with. So why is it I keep seeing Axel basically portrayed as this guy who, at most, will slap you on the hand and say "stop being a meanie!"? Soooo not Axel. Not even drunk/high/on medication and sniffing paint would he act like that. And am I the only one who remembers when Marluxia put up his Naminé!shield when he was going to kill him and Axel was pretty much like "...uuuhhh...is that suppose to stop me?" He will kill you no matter how cute you are.
Where is the guy who will take YOUR words and use them against YOU in a matter that makes so much sense, you can't even begin to turn it back on him?
He has mastered the art of twisting other people's words for his own benefit. Why is this not being used?! Not very many people can do that effectively and Axel is a freakin' pro. Just as an example:
Marluxia: Rid us of our traitor.
Axel: Done. There's no taking that order back later.
(later)
Marluxia: You're a fool among fools to show your face here, traitor!
Axel: Traitor? I don't know what you're talking about.
Marluxia: Why did you let her go? You and your cursed meddling! He was ours! The Keyblade master could have been our slave!
Axel: Right, your big plan. You use Naminé to rewrite Sora's memory piece by piece. He becomes her puppet. Then, using Naminé and Sora, you and Larxene overthrow the Organization. Did I get it right? 'Cause that would make YOU the traitor, Marluxia. Not me.
Marluxia: But you eliminated Vexen!
Axel: Yeah, come to think of it. So what? All I did was weed the garden. And I had to be sure you two trusted me.
Marluxia: I see...a double agent. You've been investigating our conspiracy from the start.
Axel: Moving on... I believe you ordered me to "rid us of our traitors." I always follow orders, Marluxia.
....that's freakin' brilliant. Cruel and so not right, but brilliant. But it brings me to my next point...
Where is the guy who always has something sarcastic to say?
He is, as we would call him in the Stargate: Atlantis fandom, "snarkastic". That's snarky and sarcastic combined--best of both worlds. Yes, his catch phrase, although only said a few times, is "Got it memorized?" and I'm sure he was spelling bee champ when he was in the third grade cause he sure does love to spell, but he is sarcasm central.
Larxene: Throwing the battle back there really wore me out!
Axel: Throwing the battle? Looks to me like you plain old lost the battle...
"Man, you're slow."
"Talk about blank with a capital 'B'..."
Axel: ...Oh, almost forgot--Sorry for what I did to her.
Sora: When we find her, you can tell her that yourself.
Axel: Think I'll pass. My heart just wouldn't be in it, you know? Haven't got one.
Even as he was DYING, he still found it in himself to conjure up something smart ass to say and thought it was funny, too. He is totally a jerk. But even with that, he still has his moments where that shield of sarcasm comes down and you see some" sincerity" if only for a second, which is a nice counterpart to all that and gives him some more depth despite the whole "no emotions" thing.
However, that doesn't mean he's complete mushy goo-goo and sits around watching soap operas all day while eating bon-bons and drinking red wine. Yeah, Roxas made him feel like he had a heart, he said he would miss him after he left, and he spent pretty much the whole game trying to get his friend back or at least see him no matter who he had to step on, but he'll put all that aside to do what he has to do, even if he doesn't want to do it.
Axel: Look at what it's come to. I've been given these icky orders to destroy you, if you refuse to come back with me.
Roxas: We're best friends, right?
Axel: Sure, but I'm not getting turned into a Dusk for...Wait! (finish the rest here)
I'm almost willing to bet the next word out his mouth after "for" would have been "you" cause you see, along with being snarkastic and a manipulative bastard, he is also totally self-beneficial and selfish. Axel rocks the cause for himself. If he's not benefiting from it in a good way, to hell with you and your idea. In the end, he did something for someone else when he helped Sora out with fighting and the shiney kamikaze attack, but I also like to think him opening that portal to TWTNW was just a last big "screw you, I never liked any of you, and I hope Sora kills you suckaz" to the rest of the Organization. So there, he helped Sora and in a way helped Roxas despite him not coming out the whole time.
You would think with as much screen time as he has gotten in Chain of Memories and KHII, people would at least know the basics about his character but nooooo. You see everything BUT Axel--Drag queen, man whore, wussy punk...it's embarrassing. But much like I have to do with the Kairi bashers, I have to kinda thank the people who make Axel look like a huge joke because it made me do some research on my own to see how he stands up in canon to what fandom says and boy is there a difference. It made me love him more when I was able to take in Axel for Axel and not fandom!Axel cause he's really not the anorexic super model/flaming homosexual who does low budget porn movies for crack money everyone makes him out to be.
So, to all those fan brats out there, I really don't care what pairing or situation you put Axel in**, but at LEAST try to remember who Axel IS before you do that. Hey, try to remember who ANY of these characters are before you write that next *insert character name here* sucks *insert character name here* *insert thing to be sucked here* fic. Memorize that.
**Disclaimer--Actually, yeah, I do care because that's how characters get twisted in the first place. That crap makes its way to "canon" and all hell breaks loose. Please make it logical. thx.
Number: VIII.
Title: The Flurry of Dancing Flames.
Weapon: Chakrams.
Element: Fire.
Crimes: Attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, murder, kidnapping, treason, and assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe even trespassing when he broke into the digital Twilight Town. (Funny how 'arson' is ironically not on this list...)
Can SOMEONE please tell me where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego THAT Axel at? I have not seen him in the fandom in soooo long.
-Where is the guy who killed one of his fellow Organization members to prove to two others he was on their side, only to screw THEM over because he really wasn't on their side to begin with--he just wanted to know what they were up to/foil their plan to take over?
Ok, so he has a kind of sadistic way of entertaining himself because apparently he thought that whole Riku!Replica-Sora-Naminé-Marluxia-Larxene thing was one hell of a show for himself to watch, and he really didn't care that he killed Vexen considering he just said he weeded out the garden, but that manipulative backstabbing is a part of Axel. USE IT. You never really know what he's up to, which makes him predictably unpredictable. Just seeing how he acts in CoM and then in KHII shows this at least that's what I tell myself to answer the question of "BAH? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?!. The dude is shifty. He plays it down the middle just to be safe, but weaves in and out of both sides to keep tabs on people. It seems like everyone loves to skip over the fact that Axel is, as the term has been coined here, Not Nice. Sure he's a bit dorkish in KHII, but even then he is *not* to be played with. So why is it I keep seeing Axel basically portrayed as this guy who, at most, will slap you on the hand and say "stop being a meanie!"? Soooo not Axel. Not even drunk/high/on medication and sniffing paint would he act like that. And am I the only one who remembers when Marluxia put up his Naminé!shield when he was going to kill him and Axel was pretty much like "...uuuhhh...is that suppose to stop me?" He will kill you no matter how cute you are.
Where is the guy who will take YOUR words and use them against YOU in a matter that makes so much sense, you can't even begin to turn it back on him?
He has mastered the art of twisting other people's words for his own benefit. Why is this not being used?! Not very many people can do that effectively and Axel is a freakin' pro. Just as an example:
Marluxia: Rid us of our traitor.
Axel: Done. There's no taking that order back later.
(later)
Marluxia: You're a fool among fools to show your face here, traitor!
Axel: Traitor? I don't know what you're talking about.
Marluxia: Why did you let her go? You and your cursed meddling! He was ours! The Keyblade master could have been our slave!
Axel: Right, your big plan. You use Naminé to rewrite Sora's memory piece by piece. He becomes her puppet. Then, using Naminé and Sora, you and Larxene overthrow the Organization. Did I get it right? 'Cause that would make YOU the traitor, Marluxia. Not me.
Marluxia: But you eliminated Vexen!
Axel: Yeah, come to think of it. So what? All I did was weed the garden. And I had to be sure you two trusted me.
Marluxia: I see...a double agent. You've been investigating our conspiracy from the start.
Axel: Moving on... I believe you ordered me to "rid us of our traitors." I always follow orders, Marluxia.
....that's freakin' brilliant. Cruel and so not right, but brilliant. But it brings me to my next point...
Where is the guy who always has something sarcastic to say?
He is, as we would call him in the Stargate: Atlantis fandom, "snarkastic". That's snarky and sarcastic combined--best of both worlds. Yes, his catch phrase, although only said a few times, is "Got it memorized?" and I'm sure he was spelling bee champ when he was in the third grade cause he sure does love to spell, but he is sarcasm central.
Larxene: Throwing the battle back there really wore me out!
Axel: Throwing the battle? Looks to me like you plain old lost the battle...
"Man, you're slow."
"Talk about blank with a capital 'B'..."
Axel: ...Oh, almost forgot--Sorry for what I did to her.
Sora: When we find her, you can tell her that yourself.
Axel: Think I'll pass. My heart just wouldn't be in it, you know? Haven't got one.
Even as he was DYING, he still found it in himself to conjure up something smart ass to say and thought it was funny, too. He is totally a jerk. But even with that, he still has his moments where that shield of sarcasm comes down and you see some" sincerity" if only for a second, which is a nice counterpart to all that and gives him some more depth despite the whole "no emotions" thing.
However, that doesn't mean he's complete mushy goo-goo and sits around watching soap operas all day while eating bon-bons and drinking red wine. Yeah, Roxas made him feel like he had a heart, he said he would miss him after he left, and he spent pretty much the whole game trying to get his friend back or at least see him no matter who he had to step on, but he'll put all that aside to do what he has to do, even if he doesn't want to do it.
Axel: Look at what it's come to. I've been given these icky orders to destroy you, if you refuse to come back with me.
Roxas: We're best friends, right?
Axel: Sure, but I'm not getting turned into a Dusk for...Wait! (finish the rest here)
I'm almost willing to bet the next word out his mouth after "for" would have been "you" cause you see, along with being snarkastic and a manipulative bastard, he is also totally self-beneficial and selfish. Axel rocks the cause for himself. If he's not benefiting from it in a good way, to hell with you and your idea. In the end, he did something for someone else when he helped Sora out with fighting and the shiney kamikaze attack, but I also like to think him opening that portal to TWTNW was just a last big "screw you, I never liked any of you, and I hope Sora kills you suckaz" to the rest of the Organization. So there, he helped Sora and in a way helped Roxas despite him not coming out the whole time.
You would think with as much screen time as he has gotten in Chain of Memories and KHII, people would at least know the basics about his character but nooooo. You see everything BUT Axel--Drag queen, man whore, wussy punk...it's embarrassing. But much like I have to do with the Kairi bashers, I have to kinda thank the people who make Axel look like a huge joke because it made me do some research on my own to see how he stands up in canon to what fandom says and boy is there a difference. It made me love him more when I was able to take in Axel for Axel and not fandom!Axel cause he's really not the anorexic super model/flaming homosexual who does low budget porn movies for crack money everyone makes him out to be.
So, to all those fan brats out there, I really don't care what pairing or situation you put Axel in**, but at LEAST try to remember who Axel IS before you do that. Hey, try to remember who ANY of these characters are before you write that next *insert character name here* sucks *insert character name here* *insert thing to be sucked here* fic. Memorize that.
**Disclaimer--Actually, yeah, I do care because that's how characters get twisted in the first place. That crap makes its way to "canon" and all hell breaks loose. Please make it logical. thx.