"Have you known many puppets?" he asks, though the question is more despondent and lamentatious than accusatory. At her next question, though, he looks at her sharply, something tired and haunted in his eyes.
Would he do the same thing? If he were to be faced with the same issue all over again... what would he do? Knowing what he knows now... there's no way the three of them could have just lived happily ever after, is there? Wouldn't Xion and Roxas have ultimately destroyed one another? Even before Xion had started burning through missions at fever-pace, before it had become clear that the stronger she got, the weaker Roxas became, they were both still drawing water from the same well. Could a safe, happy medium even be achieved?
Axel sighs heavily.
"I don't know what I would do, if I had to do it again," he admits, and meets Ryoko's eye, "but... I do know that I would... do more than I did the first time. Xion deserved a better friend than I ever truly was to her, and... that much I would definitely do better."
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"Have you known many puppets?" he asks, though the question is more despondent and lamentatious than accusatory. At her next question, though, he looks at her sharply, something tired and haunted in his eyes.
Would he do the same thing? If he were to be faced with the same issue all over again... what would he do? Knowing what he knows now... there's no way the three of them could have just lived happily ever after, is there? Wouldn't Xion and Roxas have ultimately destroyed one another? Even before Xion had started burning through missions at fever-pace, before it had become clear that the stronger she got, the weaker Roxas became, they were both still drawing water from the same well. Could a safe, happy medium even be achieved?
Axel sighs heavily.
"I don't know what I would do, if I had to do it again," he admits, and meets Ryoko's eye, "but... I do know that I would... do more than I did the first time. Xion deserved a better friend than I ever truly was to her, and... that much I would definitely do better."