TL;DR relationship/CR meme

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♥ post with your characters
♥ respond to other people's characters with your characters
♥ they tell you in detail what their character thinks of your character, ic or ooc! tl;dr is encouraged.
♥ then you react if you want!
♥ other people do the same thing to you! maybe you harvest your tl;dr to use in a CR chart later!
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(stolen with love from goshdarnspam )

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[got_it_memorized]

[But being more tolerable than Xigbar is like being a better love story than Twilight...]

Lea's relationship with Joe is sort of difficult to really define. Before coming to Port Axel really hadn't given the replica of Riku a second thought since that day in Castle Oblivion. If he had known at the time that Xion was a replica as well, he might not have been so quick to view him as a tool, but... well, Axel's hindsight was always 20/20, we all know that. Upon arriving in Port and being confronted with the idea that this "Joe" fellow was calling himself Roxas' best friend, he of course took it too personally and the reunion did not get off to a good start. However, after talking with Roxas about it he decided that he would do his best to be civil. For Roxas' sake.

Over time, the bitterness sort of abated into a begrudging tolerance, and though Axel would never have called Joe his friend, he might have been willing to go with 'person I don't hate with a passion anymore.'

Lea, however, will be reexamining this assessment a bit now that he's gotten his heart back. He'll ultimately have no choice but to really stop and think about what he did, and whereas Axel could assure himself that he had no heart and so he was incapable of feeling guilty about it, Lea doesn't have that luxury. He was always willing to admit that what he'd done wasn't pretty or nice or gentle in the slightest, but it was a means to an end that he had had no choice but to meet, and Joe had simply been a convenient tool at the time. Now, though, he might find that argument leaves a bad taste in his mouth and a heaviness in that rusty old heart of his. He can't condemn Joe for being a replica without condemning Xion as well, after all, and thus he really has no excuse for his actions.

Axel was sorry things went the way they did, but he wasn't sorry he'd done what he'd had to do. Lea... may find he's sorrier than he thought he was.