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| − | Lea and Kairi continue their training in the special world Merlin brought them to where time does not matter. When he catches Kairi writing a letter to Sora, she admits it is more for herself. Lea then presents Kairi with some sea-salt ice cream to celebrate them both summoning Keyblades. Kairi catches Lea staring and inquires if he is trying to remember something, to which he confirms. As Kairi gets excited to duel in the ring, telling Lea to promise not to hold back, he has a vision of Xion and cries from overwhelming emotion, though he cannot remember her. When Kairi expresses concern, Lea apologizes and dismisses it before apologizing once more. Kairi tells him to stop apologizing and he relents only on the condition she calls him "Axel" from now on, to which she agrees to. |
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| − | Lea and Kairi prepares for the journey ahead as their training comes to an end. |
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| − | Sometime later, Lea is gazing out to watch the horizon when Kairi greets him, revealing her new clothes and haircut. Kairi confides in Lea about her desire to free Naminé, a sentiment he shares in regards to Roxas. He proceeds to tell her about a young boy he met when he was younger whom he became fast friends with, but disappeared. He confesses he nearly forgot about him until Roxas showed up and he saw they were identical, though he never told Roxas, afraid he would also vanish on him. Concerned that Ventus has forgotten him, Kairi assures him that Ventus does remember him. |
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| − | Back at Master Yen Sid's Tower, Lea attempts to standout and make sense of the events surrounding his allies' connections with each other, though the others seemingly ignore him. When Lea asks where he fits in, pointing out that Ventus and Roxas are identical, Ven takes notice of Lea and addresses him, surprising the latter and revealing their friendship to Sora and their friends. As the group decides their next course of action to save the missing members, Lea pledges to get Roxas back. |
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| − | At the Twilight Town Clock Tower, Lea and Saïx discuss what happened to the girl they befriended at Radiant Garden. |
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| − | Later, Lea sits on the Clock Tower in Twilight Town, eating sea-salt ice cream while holding two others. He expresses regret he has been unable to rescue Roxas yet just as Saïx appears to speak with him. When Saïx asks why Lea bought three sea-salt ice cream bars, Lea is unable to answer him. The two then proceed to recount how they became apprentices under Ansem the Wise in Radiant Garden to rescue a girl they befriended in the castle before her disappearance. Saïx accuses Lea for giving up their original goal, though Lea argues that he didn't, as he helped Saïx climb in ranks to get closer to Xehanort to find out what happened to their friend. Although Saïx believes that their friend is gone forever, Lea declares he will get all their friends back, including dragging Saïx back home. Saïx points out Lea's upside-down tear marks, which stopped him from crying, are gone and Lea scoffs he no longer needs them. Lea vows to beat Saïx in the final battle before the latter disappears. |
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| − | The next day, Lea and the other guardians of light travel to the Keyblade Graveyard. After fighting thousands of Heartless, the group is attacked and overpowered by Terra-Xehanort. When Terra-Xehanort goes to attack Kairi, Lea throws himself between them and is rendered unconscious while Kairi and Riku try to tend to him. A Demon Tide is unleashed and it swallows the group. After Sora manages to rescue everyone's hearts using the power of waking, they return to the Keyblade Graveyard. When they are surrounded by a swarm of Heartless once more, Master Yen Sid appears and opens a path so they can progress to fight Xehanort's chosen thirteen. |
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| − | Lea and Kairi pair up to fight Saïx and a hooded figure wielding a Keyblade. Sora soon joins in but Saïx overpowers them. As Saïx goes to finish Sora and Kairi, Lea defends them, demanding Isa to stop but is pushed back. Then Xemnas appears and condemns Lea for becoming a traitor when he used to be the one sent to deal with traitors. As he prepares to dispatch Lea, the hooded figure stops him, claiming they need Lea alive. Xemnas clarifies they only need his heart before ordering her to kill Lea, as they were former friends. Bewildered and injured, Lea asks who the hooded figure is, who prepares to strike him down. Sora intervenes, pleading with and reassuring the figure whom he calls "Xion", who is then overwhelmed. Xemnas kicks her, revealing her face as her hood falls, triggering Lea's memories of Xion. As Xemnas prepares to destroy Xion, Lea attempts to stop Xemnas, but is helpless to stop him. A heart escapes Sora and Roxas reappears, using a replica as his vessel, and saves his friends, much to Lea's joy. |
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| − | Xemnas kidnaps Kairi and leaves the group to fight the berserk Saïx. Lea, given his injuries, is forced to stand back, with Roxas and Xion aiding Sora in his place and Kairi's. When the battle concludes, Lea rushes over to Saïx who asks why he looks so sad and that he thought Lea outgrew the marks under his eyes as it looks like he needs them. Lea expresses disgust at what Saïx let the Organization reduce him to and says he thought everything was for their missing friend, which Saïx affirms was true in the beginning as he sacrificed everything to track her down. However, when Lea made other friends, Roxas and Xion, leaving the two of them behind, it enraged Saïx and he lost all sense of purpose. Lea insists he didn't forget them and Saïx agrees Lea wouldn't do that. Saïx admits he was jealous before collapsing in Lea's arms as he begins to fade. Lea and Saïx say they will see each other again and Saïx fades away. Having made amends, Lea tells Sora to go after Kairi before wondering what to do now. Xion promptly begins to cry and while Roxas attempts to comfort her, Lea awkwardly remarks he should have brought some ice cream. The three laugh before embracing and crying, finally reunited. |
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| − | As Sora prepares to go after Master Xehanort, Lea reappears with Roxas and Xion, apologizing for the delay. He joins the others in using his Keyblade on Master Xehanort and helping close Kingdom Hearts. After Master Xehanort is defeated, Lea and the others appear alongside Sora, Donald and Goofy in Scala ad Caelum. After Xehanort and Master Eraqus fade into the light together, Sora uses Lea and the others' light with the χ-blade to purify and close Kingdom Hearts before being transported back to the Keyblade Graveyard. Then Lea and the others watch Sora leave a solo journey to bring back the missing Kairi. |
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| − | Later on in Twilight Town, Lea, now wearing his new clothes, sits on the clock tower with Roxas. Then they're joined by Xion and Isa, who hands out sea-salt ice cream before sitting beside Lea. Hayner, Pence and Olette also join before the shadow of a Gummi Ship falls over them. Lea is then seen on the Destiny Islands beach playing frisbee with Isa and Ventus. Then he stands with the others and watches Sora and Kairi from afar. |
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Revision as of 14:46, 10 February 2019
Template:Game Template:TopSuite Template:Character Template:Q Lea is the original persona of Axel and a close friend of Isa, Saïx's original persona. He appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, as a teenager alongside Isa. He then also makes an appearance in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance as an adult, where he chooses to become a Keyblade wielder.
Journal Entries
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
A likable, upbeat boy who tends to jump into things without consulting anybody else---sometimes with disastrous results. He seems to be hung up on other people remembering him, and taught Ventus the importance of making friends.
He and his own best friend, Isa, have bigger plans.
Kingdom Hearts III
A Keyblade wielder who was once a Nobody and member of Organization XIII, at which time he went by the name "Axel."
After regaining his humanity, Lea joined forces with Sora and the other guardians of light. Through difficult training, he learned to summon and wield a Keyblade.
Story
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Lea as he appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
While Ventus is in the Radiant Garden, Lea walks by, picking up the Wooden Keyblade that Ventus had dropped on the ground. He asks Ventus if it's his. When Ventus responds that it is, Lea says it's cute how he still plays with wooden swords despite his age, and takes out his Frisbees. The two introduce themselves, and then Lea calls for a one-on-one fight, finally prompting a smile from Ventus.
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Lea and Isa look up at Hollow Bastion.
After the battle, Lea calls Isa out for not trying to make up excuses for his loss and cheer him up, causing him, Ventus, and Isa to laugh. He then tells Ventus that they'll meet again someday, since they are now friends. After that, Lea tells Isa of how he wants everyone he meets to remember him, that way, he'll become immortal through their memories, though Isa jokes that Lea will be immortal for being obnoxious. The two walk off and look up at the castle, apparently 'ready.' For what it is they are ready for is never actually specified.
Sometime after Terra-Xehanort is defeated, Lea and Isa's plan is revealed, as both were seen being thrown out of the castle by Dilan with Aeleus looking on nearby. In the next scene, Lea buys sea-salt ice cream from Scrooge McDuck and gives one to Isa as they stare up into the sky.
Lea's and Ventus's newfound friendship makes many possible references to the subsequent friendship between Axel and Roxas.
Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
At some point, Lea broke into Ansem the Wise's castle again with Isa, unfortunately making his way to the computer room, where the no-longer-amnesiac Xehanort was unlocking the hearts of others for his plan to gather twelve empty vessels to house fragments of his heart. Lea had his heart removed, leading to the creation of his Nobody, whom Xehanort's Nobody Xemnas named Axel. Axel joined the ranks of the Organization as Number VIII alongside his Saix, the two having formulated a plan to regain their lost hearts. But traces of Lea within Axel influenced him into befriending Roxas due to the youth's resemblance to Ventus. This resulted in a chain of events that ended Axel's friendship with Saix as he eventually left the Organization and later sacrificed himself to protect Roxas after he had long merged back into Sora.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Sometime after Axel's sacrifice, with his Heartless counterpart defeated at an unknown time, Lea has a dream of Roxas reminding him that he promised to always bring them (himself and Xion) back before coming to in Ansem's computer room in Radiant Garden. Lea wonders what happened to him before noticing his reflection in the window facing the Heartless Manufactory and realizing he is a complete being again due to lacking the marks below his eyes he had as Axel. Also realizing that Dilan, Even, Aeleus, and Ienzo are also normal again, Lea notices that aside from Xehanort, both Braig and Isa are missing.
Later, Lea talks with Aeleus and Ienzo in Ansem's study after searching the castle for the other revived members of the Organization. Ienzo, who is surprisingly not angry with Lea for using the Riku Replica to kill him as Zexion, says that the others could have awakened in other worlds between the realms of light and darkness, like Traverse Town. Reading Ansem the Wise's notes about the Door to Darkness, Lea says he will go look for them, stating how he dislikes "always being stuck with the icky jobs."
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Lea enters Ansem the Wise's study in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
From within a Corridor of Darkness, Lea saves Mickey and Minnie from Maleficent and Pete with his Chakrams in Disney Castle. After Pete and Maleficent leave, he proceeds to introduce himself, saying "My name is...Lea" along with his trademark "Got it Memorized?" In the Mysterious Tower, Lea meets with Yen Sid and asks to undergo the training to become a Keyblade Wielder, regardless of the latter warning him of the dangers that might befall him. In a special area where time flows differently, Lea undergoes hastened training with help from Merlin and the Three Good Fairies.[1] Later in Where Nothing Gathers, though unable to utilize a Keyblade at the time, Lea shows up just in time to save a comatose Sora from Master Xehanort's attempt to convert the youth into his final vessel. After answering Braig that he made a promise to Roxas and "would always be there to bring him back," Lea finds himself in a brief confrontation with his ex-best friend, Isa, seeing he's been turned into one of the twelve vessels for Master Xehanort. Tired of having to constantly correct everyone who calls him Axel, Lea finally gives up when Riku calls him by the name of his Nobody, being fine with either name.
Back in the Mysterious Tower, Riku decides to go into Sora's heart to awaken him, and Lea says he will help Riku should he fall into the darkness again. After Yen Sid announces that Riku and the awakened Sora have respectively passed and failed the Mark of Mastery Exam, Lea claims that he will catch up to Riku soon while revealing to them his intent to use a Keyblade. Trying to manifest it once more, Lea is astonished when his Keyblade appears, shocking everyone else as well. Soon after, Lea departs to check on things at Radiant Garden.[2]
Kingdom Hearts III
Weapons and Abilities
Lea's Keyblade.
Prior to becoming Axel, Lea originally used Frisbees as his weapons of choice in Birth by Sleep. In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Lea retained use of the Eternal Flames chakrams and many of the abilities his Axel incarnation used. Lea later acquires a currently unnamed Keyblade that resembles a combination of the Frolic Flame and Bond of Flame Keyblades, with a handle similar to his chakrams and a flame-shaped blade.
Physical appearance
In Birth by Sleep, Lea looks about the same age as Ventus, with short spiked hair with the spikes styled upward. Lea has a slight widow's peak though more noticeable. Lea's eyes are also more of a turquoise color than Axel's striking green. He wears a sleeveless orange jacket with a white, sleeveless shirt underneath, and tan, baggy pants with red and white sneakers and black socks. The pockets of his jacket are a much darker shade of orange than the rest of it. He lacks Axel's purple, upside-down teardrop facial marks in the actual game, but curiously they are present in his official artwork.
He also wears a yellow and brown keffiyeh around his neck. The pattern of this keffiyeh changes abruptly near Lea's neck, from stripes to a very organized checkerboard pattern. Similar to Braig's scarf, the tip of Lea's keffiyeh is frayed slightly. He bears a curious resemblance to Hayner.
Lea carries around two red Frisbees with black edges, each adorned with a Bomb design, which later influence his choice of weapons when he becomes a Nobody: Chakrams.
In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, other than missing the teardrop facial marks, Lea is identical to his Nobody, Axel, donning a Black Coat and wielding the Eternal Flames, and later, an unknown Keyblade.
Personality
In Birth by Sleep, Lea is both childish and competitive, willing to disrupt Isa's schedule for his fight with Ventus. This is also evident during the ending credits when he is seen trying to escape from Dilan's grasp by flailing around his limbs, unlike Isa, who realized they couldn't escape and barely moved.
He wishes for everyone he ever meets to remember him, so he can live on forever through people's memories. Like his Nobody, he uses the phrase "Got it memorized?" on multiple occasions.
In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Lea retains his memories of his time as Axel and acts similarly to the way he did in 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts II. He seems to consider loyalty and keeping promises he made to his friends as his highest priorities and is willing to boldly confront Xehanort in order to save Sora (and by extension, Roxas) from becoming one of Xehanort's vessels, stating that he had "promises to keep" and that he would always be there to get his friends back, the same speech that he had said to Xion in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. As a running gag, Lea gets slightly annoyed whenever he is referred to as "Axel" by those who are more familiar with his Nobody incarnation. Despite how he, as Axel, came to be at odds with Isa when he was Saix, it seemed that Lea didn't share the same view and was visibly saddened by how cold his former friend was when he attacked him.
Trivia
- In an issue of Famitsu PSP+PS3, Lea's name is misspelled "Lia". It was also once misspelled on the Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep official website, though it was later corrected.