A/N: Hehe... Xemnas' little profile of Axel seems to deviate slightly from the strict profiling that I've been using so far. But not much, so it's cool. XD
Axel, the Organization's charming wild card. From the moment the redhead had first been found and named, Xemnas had no illusions about how much trouble the Nobody would prove to be. Mischief had been written all over him for the start, it just took him a while to obviously exhibit it.
Number Eight had handled becoming a Nobody just as a Nobody should, calmly, logically, easily, and it wasn't until he met the the other members that Xemnas noticed anything. Xemnas was aware that Eight and his latest recruit, Saïx, had known each other as humans; he was using the knowledge to test his new members and their resolve.
The only thing that had 'surprised' Xemnas when Axel laid his eyes on his friend only to be disregarded completely by the stoic young Nobody, was the speed at which the hurt flashed across Axel's face. It was too fast to be dredged from old memories and prepared in the redhead's mind as it should have, and it almost seemed instinctive. Almost seemed like a real emotion.
But after that initial slip-up, Number Eight had been spectacularly unremarkable. He'd learned and achieved at much the same rate as any other new recruit, only exhibiting petty bad behaviour and pranks once other members started joining.
But Xemnas would keep watching the Nobody. He hadn't missed his correspondence with Saïx, and he knew that he hadn't even penetrated the surface of Axel's many façades. Xemnas had big plans for the redhead, and he had a feeling that Castle Oblivion could prove very interesting indeed with Axel added to the fray.