Summary: Everyone knows about Roxas and the mental grey he came into the world battling. No one thought to ask Axel the same questions about his own awakening.
Axel/Lea post-BBS, pre-COM/Days one-shot.
In the beginning there was the Word, and it was a name. It spoke to him like a lover, warm and familiar, but wholly different than he remembered. He woke in its affectionate, welcoming embrace, but couldn't find it in him to reciprocate, to accept it as his own.
He couldn't find it in him to do anything other than stare at his own body, prostrate in front of him, and wonder if he was supposed to feel something about that too.
In his final m