INFO ON AXEL TST
CHARACTER INFORMATION-
Canon Character and Series: Axel from Kingdom Hearts
In-Game Name: Axel Harkin
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Position & Ship: Serenity - Gunner
Appearance: He’s a little bit over average height, skinny and pale. His arms and torso are slightly muscular, but he isn’t one for strength. Speed and agility is all he needs to slip past and away from trouble. His hair is red, long, and spiky, which resembles a porcupine of sorts. It’s pretty much unforgettable by anyone. Even if you don’t know his name, you’ll know him by his hair. On his pale face are two face markings. Tattoos in a way. They are two upside down tear marks, just under his eyes and almost on his cheeks. Usually he can be seen with a smirk on his face and a confident attitude. He is rarely seen crying or in a depressive state.
He usually wears dark clothing. With his clothing, you can see his favorite colors, red and black. He doesn’t usually wear hats, but wears a bandana around his forehead, tied in the back. He wears a black and red vest over a white tunic, which is tucked into dark brown pants, held up by a black thick belt. On the belt he has gun holsters and a buckle for his chakrams (explained later). And those said pants are stuffed into large black boots.
Personality: Axel is a cocky bastard who loves to banter with other people. With his sly plans, he tends to get away with some things, just under the radar. He looks out for himself, and only close friends. Axel can be selfish most of the time and gets things done when he wants to. He makes little effort to do things for others, unless it totally involves or affects him.
Besides all that, he loves to stir up trouble and gossip with the latest news and events. Even though he's lazy sometimes, he can be on his toes in a matter of seconds. In any situation, Axel will always be a snaky jerk. He isn’t one for deep emotional relationships. Usually he doesn’t have time for them. But, if given the patience and time for it, he could grow close to someone.
Axel doesn’t take well to people who like to be dominant or pushy. He never likes to be pushed around. This man won’t follow orders or requests unless it is absolutely his last option or instructed by a higher up. If he does have any other options, he will fight back as much as he can with all the strength he has in his skinny body. Axel doesn’t want to be seen as weak or have any kind of disadvantage in any situation. If anything, he tries to stay two steps ahead of his competition. When he isn’t ahead of the game, he’d grow mad and frustrated.
He loves to have his way. Axel gets motivated by his achievements, and it fuels the ‘fire’ in him. Then again, fire sometimes can get out of control. A downfall he has is being too confident sometimes. Getting high on all of the things he achieves creates a vulnerable spot for Axel. Getting praises or getting yelled at those who he had the upper hand on tends to let his mind wander in the high. With his mind in the high, sometimes he makes silly mistakes. Then again, mistakes can grow into problems, which puts a damper on Axel’s confidence
Abilities/Weapons: He is a fire manipulator. His magic consists of him controlling existing fire, and creating fire out of thin air. He can also manipulate heat in certain ways. He sometimes carries a pistol with him, but he mainly uses his magic to defend himself. He does have some gunning skills, with the pistols, thanks to hanging out with the Organization and spending too much time with his brother.
For example, for his fire magic, if a candle was burning quietly on a table top, Axel would be able to make that small flicker of a flame into a large roaring one. He can also take that fire from the wik itself and manipulate it as he pleases. He can also summon fire, thanks to his days in the Organization and playing around with Mana. He can throw fireballs and shoot a steady stream of fire from his fingertips, which he only uses for his job as a blacksmith; molding together metals and such/ The technique is also useful for escapes, but all things have their drawbacks (which is explained more in the WEAKNESS section)
He can manipulate his body heat. If Axel were to get aggravated at something, his hands would heat up. There’s no discoloration to his hands when this occurs, but if he touches something metal, that item will melt. He can control how much heat he produces, but it depends on how concentrated he is.
With his fire, he uses chakrams, which he made himself after he perfected the art of blacksmithing. The charkrams are large wheels with sharp daggers on it. They are throwing weapons, and used in combination with his magic. When the chakram is engulfed in flames, he is able to control where it flies through the air, when thrown.
His chakrams are summoned by his magic. It makes it easier for Axel to walk on enemy territory without being too conspicuous. But when he does want to carry them around, they fold up in half, for easier portability. When he does carry them around, they’re hooked on his belt, on a buckle.
How well can your character hack?: Easy-Medium, he had time in the gang to learn a few tricks. He had learned from other members of the Organization on how to hack. Pretty much, he knows the basics of hacking. If it is semi-hackable, he won’t be able to get through it all too well, since he didn’t bother getting into details with hacking. He took in hacking skills over time, sneaking into some of the members accounts on their computers, to a point, until the encryptions and such got too complicated. With that, Axel would get too frustrated with trying to figure out how to hack into more advanced systems and would easily give up, if given too much time into it.
Weaknesses: His anger is a weakness, in a sense. He sometimes can’t think clearly when he gets too mad, and makes stupid mistakes. That just tosses him further into complications and issues and he can sometimes crumble under pressure.
His fire abilities aren’t only just a positive to him, but it is also a negative. As everyone knows, fire is weak against water. This also applies to Axel and his fire magic. He doesn’t mind baths or drinking water, since those are essential. Other than that, he doesn’t like to be near water. Why? Well, if he were to be drenched in water, his fire and heat magic are rendered useless. That’s another thing that Axel hates the most; being useless and vulnerable. Any chance he gets, he likes to avoid water. And he, being avoidant of water, doesn’t know how to swim. Thank goodness everything is in the air right?
And if his concentration is broken when working with his magic, sometimes the fire could explode in front of himself or wherever his attack is directed at. Plus, if he gets too mad, sometimes he can’t control his magic, and it gets out of control; possibly hurting those around him.
Another weakness he has is that he is very protective of his friends and his brother. This is bad, due to the fact if someone has something against the man, they could simply use anyone Axel cares about to bend his will. He’ll fight, to the end, to save those he cares for. He’d even go to the ends of the world to do so.
History: Axel is the older twin of Reno. Originally they were both born in Kropmork-Nahk. Being a child of a prostitute, he and his brother weren’t supported enough by their mother, so they were dropped off with their birth father at a very young age. As they grew, more issues came up with their father. Sick of the stress of their father and school, they both dropped out of school and went their separate ways. As the years progressed, being around the age of 15 or 16, the twins went their separate ways, Reno having joined a group called Shin-Ra
While on his own; Axel was introduced into magic mana crystals. He took a liking to the fire magic he had and played around with it, becoming very familiar with it. He took pride in the fire and was just engrossed in it all. Out of desperation to keep this ability, he injected liquefied mana crystals into his body. It was a painful experience and was reduced to days of bed rest. His body took its time to take in the foreign substance and grow immune to it. Axel had a fire inside of himself, but the mana crystals helped him open it up further.
Once he was healthy enough to move on his own, and a few years later, Axel turned towards a group called ‘The Organization’. He had heard that this group had elemental mages, such as him, and they could help with controlling his magic. The man took it into consideration and soon joined the group willingly.
He started to adapt to his new powers of controlling fire. There was a new power he hadn’t used before the crystals were injected in. That ability was the power to use heat. It was his innate magic he had. He took a few years to grow accustom to his new powers and perfect them.
In the gang he was called a two-faced backstabber, but he usually got away with things, sneaking just under the Organization’s radar a few times. Usually he was seen as a jokester who would pick and pick at the other members until he pressed the right button. Hey, he had to make himself entertained somehow when he had no missions to do. But when he did have missions, he was usually given jobs of getting information and mana crystals. He had to do it all seamlessly so he wasn’t traced back to the Organization, unless he wanted to be punished severely. The main purpose if the Organization was to obtain the Heart Stone. The whole group wanted it in order to help their powers, and Axel was all up for it. For signing up with the Organization, though, he could never resign. He was there until he was six feet under. They’d find someone to fill his spot anyways.
Axel soon heard his brother was having troubles with his gang, along with a rival one. He took some time away from the Organization, since he wasn’t ordered on any missions at the time, to help his brother take down both of them. The attempt worked, but it resulted in both of them becoming wanted men on the run. After escaping the gangs in Kropmork, Axel helped his brother get off his mako dependency that he acquired in his days of being in Shin-Ra. For a few years, they went around Reial, conning people to get money and basically survive. Eventually, they took interest in the 4423 ship and joined up. It was only after they joined did they know that they had to acquire passports. By conning a few people, they were able to get their own passports.
Later, Reno relapsed onto Mako again. It made Axel furious. Being his loyal brother, he worked to help his brother off the drug yet again, and has since kept a close eye on his little brother. Shortly after he helped his brother, he was called out by the Organization again to complete another mission. Sadly, he left the 4423 without telling his brother and spent a few months on that mission he was assigned with. Obviously his twin was furious about his brother’s disappearance, but out of the blue, Axel returned again. He explained to Reno that he was concerned with his brother’s safety, saying he thought people from Shin-Ra were after them. So he was simply tracking down whoever it was, without any result after a few months of searching for them. Unknown to Reno, it was a lie. Axel had to lie though. The Organization was to be secret, plus, he could never resign, as stated before.