Axel—201

He was on a mission in Twilight Town when he first spotted Roxas. His objective was to find the new Nobody that the dusks had sensed, so of all the people he was expecting, Roxas was not one of them. He had first been surprised (or as surprised as one could be), he remembered this boy from his own childhood and so he approached him and only when the teen was unresponsive-or was it catatonic?-did he take a closer look. The shirt was not black to the left, the clothes were missing their shining armor, and also (perhaps more importantly) were the waves of power and light coming off of him.

He realized three things then. One, this was not the same boy who once defeated him with a giant wooden key (though the image was uncanny). Two, this was clearly the Nobody he had been sent to find. Three, the rumors were true, and this was the Nobody of the keyblade master. He later wondered, for a very brief second, when he brought the boy before the Organization, that if he had a heart, would Xemnas' almost triumphant smirk have alarmed him like he suspected it should have?