Axel (Kingdom Hearts)

After inducting Roxas into the Organization, Saïx places him under Axel's tutelage.

Initially, Axel was unsure how to treat Roxas, as he acted like a "zombie" due to his lack of memories.

On their second mission together, Axel was surprised that Roxas went straight to his room after filling out his mission reports; this lead him to take Roxas to the Twilight Town Train Station to share sea-salt ice cream again.

This leads to him suggesting they spend time there after missions.

As their friendship grew stronger, Axel began demonstrating emotions due to his time with Roxas.

He also explained what friendship is to Roxas, when they observed Hayner, Pence and Olette.

Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Marluxia and Larxene were sent to Castle Oblivion ahead of him, letting Axel spend one last day sharing ice cream with Roxas.

Because of their friendship, Axel explained he where he was going and left to prepare for the trip.

Heading to Castle Oblivion, Axel was informed by Saïx that some of the members at the castle were planning a coup d'etat; he was to eliminate them.

Having received these orders through Saïx, the second-in-command to Xemnas, it would appear that Axel also planned to eliminate one other member who could stop their plans to overthrow the Organization: Zexion who learned of Marluxia's scheme alongside Vexen and Lexaeus, the three devise their own counter with Riku.

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Axel allies himself to Marluxia and Larxene to weasel into their ranks and being the first member of the Organization to reveal himself to Sora.

Upon throwing the first battle with Sora, giving him a card to progress further, Axel admits to testing the Keyblade master's strength.

After leaving Sora bewildered, Axel holds a serious conversation with Larxene in which he professes an interest in the fact that Sora retains his self-consciousness even after becoming a Heartless.

After Vexen nearly reveals the existence of Roxas to Sora, Axel is ordered by Marluxia to dispose of him.

Axel does so effortlessly, and is at last accepted by Marluxia and Larxene into their conspiracy.

Using this to his advantage, Axel allowed Naminé to escape and contact Sora.

No sooner did Naminé escape, Axel pondered on the chaos to ensue before realizing that he was laughing to his amazement.

He later confronted Marluxia, allowing him to figure out that he acted as a double agent during their entire time in the castle.

Citing his previous order to rid the Organization of traitors, Axel readied to attack Marluxia, even after Marluxia used Naminé as a shield, but was interrupted by Sora, whom he eventually fought for the last time.

At the end of the battle, Axel pretends to be defeated and confuses Sora with the words "It was worth saving you after all," and vanishes.

After his battle with Sora, Axel meets with Zexion in the castle basement.

Zexion brought up the subject of Riku of being of no use with Marluxia and requested the Destiny Islands memory card to depose of him.

Despite their previous collaboration, Axel later offers Riku Replica the honor of eliminating Zexion, promising the duplicate that he would gain new powers and be able to defeat the real Riku.

The exact reason for Axel's betrayal is not stated, and seems self-contradictory.

Axel comments that it would be more interesting to see Sora and Riku's future than to save Zexion; however, this may have had something to do with Axel's friendship with Roxas, which could have been the reason why he effortlessly destroyed Vexen—to prevent either Sora or Roxas from meeting.

In Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, Axel states the reason for his betrayal of Zexion, saying: "You just found out way too much."

This seems to be quite ambiguous, as in Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, Axel and Zexion were shown to be friendly with each other (e.g. in one scene it was shown that Zexion and Axel were making bets on which Organization members in the Castle would be the next to die, something that Axel wins when he accurately predicts that Marluxia will be the next to fall), however this could mean Zexion found out about Saïx and Axel's plan to take over the Organization, which is supported in the Secret Report made by Zexion which he stated he had growing suspicions about Axel and Saïx.

When Axel returned to the World That Never Was, he felt that Roxas has replaced him with Xion.

He then ends up accepting Xion and is comforted when she asked him if she could also be his friend, Xion then revealed her face to Axel.

Seeing Xion's face shocks Axel because of how similar she looked to Namine.

Before this time, Axel thought of girls as complicated beings with buttons, press the wrong one and you're out.

At Roxas's suggestion, the three began to spend time together as a trio.

He was often asked about things related to the heart and the nature of Nobodies by Xion and Roxas, who lack any memories of human life.

Some of his answers were vague, but at times, he couldn't understand the question himself and is left rambling.

At times, Axel acted as a sort of "big brother" figure to Roxas and Xion, standing up to Saïx for them.

When Xion lost her ability to use the Keyblade, Axel came up with the plan of putting her and Roxas together on missions to collect hearts.

However, it would seem Saïx knew Axel too well by the way he was acting.

Some time later, Axel found himself before Saïx, and revealed that he regretted not being able to talk with Saïx as he could with Roxas and Xion.

Saïx reminds Axel of the friendship they shared before becoming Nobodies, and the plans they had to take over the Organization; the friendship between him, Roxas and Xion is "make-believe" while the one he had with Saïx was real in his old friend's opinion.

When he learns Xion's true nature as a replica, Axel was left conflicted about what to do.

He got to know to Xion for the person she became, not the copy of Sora that she's supposed to be.

After she left to find herself, Axel lied to Roxas, saying that she had an important mission.

However, it backfired the next day when Xemnas revealed Xion's defection.

Because of the guilt he felt for not telling Roxas, Axel avoided him for a while.

After a week or so passes, Axel rejoins Roxas at the train station; he suggested that even if it's against Xemnas's orders, they'll search every world they know how to get to to find her.

However, their search ends up fruitless.

Since Castle Oblivion was the only place they haven't searched, they decided to look there next.

Saïx receives news that the Organization Imposter had been spotted there, assigning Axel and Roxas to search the place.

However, Roxas collapses the moment they enter, forcing Axel to take him to Twilight Town.

They find Xion there, but she fled after the Imposter blocks their way.

They then try to catch him, but he escapes; they're relieved to know Xion's okay.

However, Saïx orders Axel to destroy Xion since she's come in contact with the imposter; Axel quells Roxas's fears by saying he'll think of something.

Axel eventually catches Xion in front of Roxas despite his pleas; this angers Roxas, who then saw Axel as a jerk.

With him and Roxas not on speaking terms, Axel soon becomes torn between his attempt to save them both from Xemnas's intent to do with any one of them; he saves them from killing each other in Halloween Town, effectively mending the friendship between the three of them.

While assigned to a mission in Wonderland, Xion runs off and Axel makes no attempt of stopping her once she knocks out Xigbar.

A few days later, with Roxas learning of Xion's identity and that Axel kept it from him, he leaves the Organization; Axel refused to tell him who Sora was, so Roxas sought to find someone who knew the answers to his questions.

Axel, who has enjoyed the time he spent with his best friend, is distraught by Roxas's decision as he tried to reason with him.

The next day, under orders, Axel tracks Xion to the Old Mansion in Twilight Town where he realizes her intentions, telling her that he's fed up with her and Roxas being selfish and doing whatever they want, before he manages to knock Xion unconscious.

But the fight took its toll as Axel faints from fatigue once he brings her back to the Castle That Never Was, with Xemnas taking Xion from him.

Later, in his quarters, learning of the aftermath of Roxas and Xion's battle, a depressed Axel discovers an envelope containing a popsicle stick which reads "WINNER", a gift left by Roxas.

Like Roxas, Axel has lost all recollection of Xion by this time (as seen in his final Report in 358/2 Days), but knows he will have to track Roxas down on Xemnas's orders.

After the Organization manages to track Roxas down in DiZ's Digital Twilight Town, Axel appears right after Roxas slays Dusks that appeared from a fake virtual Vivi.

He tells Roxas who he is, but sees that the reports of Roxas having his memory wiped and replaced with an artificial one are true.

Deciding that a fight might bring back Roxas' old memories, Axel engages him in a duel, pulling his punches.

However, Roxas manages to win and DiZ arrives, trying to make Roxas believe that the fake town is real and that Axel and his appearances are a dream.

Axel tries to get Roxas to remember, but he is banished from the program as DiZ rebooted it.

Roxas was dumbfounded by Axel's appearance, lacking any memories of him and awareness of what was going on.

Pressed by the threats from Xaldin and Xemnas, Axel again tries to recover Roxas without destroying him, keeping in mind the Organization's order to either eliminate Roxas or be destroyed himself.

Roxas learns that the two had been best friends from Naminé and mentions this to Axel, but his bluff is called when he is unable to remember "their boss's name."

Axel feels bad, but ends up summoning Dusks to weaken Roxas; he prepares to kill him after Roxas wins, but DiZ intervenes and freezes him momentarily so Roxas could escape to the virtual version of the Old Mansion.

Seeing what has happened, Axel realizes that the Roxas that he knew is long gone and sees that killing him is the only thing left to do.

After Roxas smashes DiZ's computer copy and enters the basement, Axel sends Dusks and Assassins after him, but Roxas proves victorious over the lesser Nobodies.

Axel tells Roxas how amazed he is by his fighting and sees that he has truly regained his memories.

However, Axel is hurt from his previous encounter with Roxas and fights him and his dual Keyblades (which Axel apparently didn't know Roxas could do).

Axel loses the fight and disappears, choosing not to carry out his mission and promising to meet him "in the next life".

While Sora reawakens with Roxas inside him, Axel is entrusted by Riku to protect Naminé.

Naminé's words, about those who are dear to them despite being Nobodies, strangely move Axel.

During Sora's exploits to the different worlds, Axel appears before Kairi on a beach across Destiny Islands, intending to kidnap her to draw Sora out.

Axel's plan was simple; if Sora were to become a Heartless again, then Roxas would be reborn.

However, Kairi escapes through a Corridor of Darkness created by Riku and lands in Twilight Town where she stayed for some time in wait of Sora.

Axel, however, follows her to the town and steals her away again, but not long afterward she is taken captive by Saïx who was under orders to give Axel something to actually worry about.

After the invasion of Radiant Garden by the Heartless, Sora confronts Xemnas, the leader of the Organization.

Xemnas decided to take his leave and Axel later greeted Sora.

Axel hints that the Keyblade caused the hearts that composed the Heartless to flee, but refuses to say what Organization XIII would do with those hearts.

Sora realizes that Axel is Kairi's captor, and Axel confirms this.

Though initially seeming unrepentant for his actions, he soon apologizes for kidnapping Kairi.

However, he soon vanishes into a dark corridor just as Saïx appears.

On the way to The World That Never Was, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey are trapped in Betwixt and Between by Nobodies, but Axel arrives to help.

Sora and Axel battle the Nobodies, but seeing that the Dusk's numbers were too great, Axel decides to put his entire being and essence into an attack, destroying the Nobodies but sacrificing himself in the process.

He did this to save Sora, his best friend's original self, who stayed with him until the moment he faded.

He sincerely apologizes to Sora for getting Kairi involved.

Confused, Sora asks him what he was trying to do and Axel confessed that he wanted to see Roxas, the only one who made him feel like he had a heart.

Oddly enough for Axel, Sora made him feel the same way (possibly since Sora and Roxas are one and the same) and used these final words to urge Sora on to rescue Kairi.

Axel opens the passageway to the World That Never Was with the last bit of strength he had in him before disappearing into darkness completely.

Afterward, Xigbar and Luxord were curious about Axel's foolish and senseless actions; essentially turning against the Organization for the sake of his friendship with Roxas, but Xemnas reveals that Axel's disappearance served to stir Roxas from his rest, claiming Axel's disobedience was not entirely pitiful and meaningless.

Xemnas also states that due to contact with Sora's heart, Axel's own ability to feel emotions could have been affected.

Axel made one final appearance to Roxas, right before the latter's mental battle with Sora, where he gives a final farewell to his best friend.

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