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got a lot to say to you

your eyes are always glued to me and it makes

Pieces of My Heart is my extended shrine to Axel and Roxas, from both the animanga and game adaptations. ♥ it's currently under quite a bit of construction since I'm working on another one first (so I don't let either die), but this is more likely to be here sooner than you think! It covers Roxas, Axel, and of course, their relationship together. One word of warning - I support the romance side here, so the site is yaoi friendly.

your little spies

scribbled out the truth with their lies

A Fanlisting is a group of people who like something; ie a group of people who like Wolves. All a fanlisting is is a list of fans to do with that particular person, item, or object; it joins together people with similar intrests. This fanlisting is for the relationship between Axel and Roxas. If you don't know who they are, I highly recommend you visit my shrine.

wanna play it like a game

rather waste my life pretending than have to forget

Why? Where do I even start with how much I like these two. The first point to make is that, hands down, I can say that I'm not really a fan of yaoi - now think about this again. What lengths have these two together gone to to make me like them more as simply a friendship, but to lovers as well? Great lengths, I can tell you. This pairing has grown on me over time. When I first started playing Kingdom Hearts II, I didn't like Axel; I thought he was weird and strange, you name it, I just didn't like him. I didn't like Roxas either. But they as seperate characters crept up on me till I liked them as much as the main cast and characters that I had previously loved. And also the underlying sense of loyalty and trust they once had for one another occured to me as well. All that time they spent together in the Organization, and so on. Before I knew it, I'd finished the game, and these two came to mind, and they just growing on me. Now, years on from that time, I still have the same reaction as I do then: seeing them together makes me smile. Whether on screen, in the manga, or in the game, whichever - I'm always smiling about them.

For the pairing and friendship itself, there's certain levels that grew on me first. The first one is the pure randomness of the relationship when they first 'meet' in Twilight Town, when Roxas is in the situation. Of Axel almost being a stalker and Roxas being scared out of his wits. That amused me, and drew me in. Then there was the angst and sorrow over the fact Axel remembered Roxas but Roxas didn't remember him. That broke my heart. And that led onto the serious side of things. Axel really does love Roxas, whether it be friends as it's probably intended, or lovers as I'd like to believe it is. It transpires both side of things in my opinion. As I've said, Axel does love him - he even admits it, well, as far as he's allowed to, being a Disney inclusive thing and all. I've considered things more and more, and they've made me cry, they've drawn me in, they've never quite let me go ever, no matter what fandom I next get into. It's so darn sad, this pairing. There's nothing closer to canon. I love pairings for adversary: I'm so horrible. And these two go through their fair amount of adversary; the organization, being nobodies, and so forth.

Anyways.. when I saw this fanlisting open for apps, I was so excited and spent ages debating on to apply or not in both places. As you can probably tell, I'm glad I did for tfl, and I'm glad I took the opportunity from Samantha to adopt the game fanlisting too, since they are my original love for them, though the manga is awesome in its own way (point: the end of volume 1). This is one of my big wishlisters, and sometimes I wonder how it got there. They just.. crept up on me, and before I knew it, I was obsessed.

something to sing about

that never happens, i guess i'm dreaming again

This fanlisting has gone through a lot of names; for me, it was previously helloGoodbye, whilst the game version has previously been known as The Last Sundown and Day After Next. Now, it's known as In Another Life.

Due to this being one of my biggest all time wishlisters, I had the biggest nightmare trying to come up with a name for my darling. My first rule was not to take the shrine name - that is, Pieces of My Heart - and carry it over. When the fanlisting was just the animefanlisting, the name I used was helloGoodbye, since I thought that fit. But as time went on, I began to dislike it, and when the two fanlistings were brought together, I decided it was time for a brand new name to celebrate, since I had been thinking about one for a while. That's when I settled on, with help from my friends, on In Another Life.

I've always pondered 'Another Life' as being a good name, but 'In' just sums it up for me. It's the song by The Veronicas that inspired me to name this fanlisting this afterall. It really does fit Axel, and Roxas, as Axel says to Roxas that they should 'meet again in the next life', even though they don't have one. Roxas sees Axel one last time before he rejoins with Sora - there's a lot of meetings between them, and it would be nice to think that next time, maybe things would work out better between them, and they wouldn't be nonexistant beings doomed to fade out into nothing-ness. That they could be whole people - and that they could meet each other again in another life and start over.

be more than this

just the two of us who's counting on

A small list of thank yous that made this site possible. ♥

TAFL Staffer Army - for choosing me, me, out of the pool of super graphic designers and fans to run this fanlisting. I can never thank them enough.
SQUARE ENIX - for creating one of the best games in the universe to me, and bringing me the only yaoi pairing I'll ever support.
Shiro Amano - for creating the manga adaptation of the games.
Maiki @ lj - for taking the time to scan in the manga for all us who are not fortunate enough to lay our hands on it.
LJ friends of July '08 - for helping me to choose a new name for this site! I would still be thinking about it if not for you guys.
Kristel - because she's the biggest fan I know, and without her, I would never have found my love for this pairing.
Samantha - for adopting the game version of the fanlisting to me, so that the two could be finally be combined and joined as one. Thank you very much!

• Site & Layout © Espo.
• Game images found via google. Brushes from a now closed resource. Fonts are Grimmoire and Journal, both from dafont.
• Songs used around the site on the layout and headers are: Crushcrushcrush by Paramore, In Another Life by The Veronicas, Life in Technicolour ii by Coldplay, You and Me and One Spotlight by Yellowcard, Heaven Forbid by The Fray, Which To Bury Us Or The Hatchet by Relient K, Tell Me by Queen of Hearts, and Breakeven by The Script.

• Game version of fanlisting previously owned by Samantha and Europa. Thank you to both of them!
• Kingdom Hearts, Axel, Roxas and all related characters © Square Enix and Disney. Manga adaptation by Shiro Amano. All manga images featured scanned by Maiki. Coloured by me.