- "I'll see ya when I see ya. After all, we're friends now. Get it memorized."
- —Lea to Ventus
- Lea is the original persona of Axel, and a close friend of Isa, Saïx's original persona. He appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, as a teenager, alongside Isa, and then in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, more grown up, almost identical to axel