Axis

Axis is a side character that appears in several stories set in the Elsaverse. She is the leader of the Terran army in the parallel universe, and the person who ordered Xara to bring Morland and Crow to justice, imposing her a punishment dream until she accomplish her mission. It hasn't been confirmed whether Axis has any power. __TOC_-

Character Overview
During Axis' first appearance in the Elsaverse, in the short story Royal Guard (2016), Xara describes Axis as a formidable woman, perhaps the best there ever have been at her job. She is intelligent, determined, and tough, but she hasn't ever seen a real combat, and this is proving to be troublesome in the Terran's ongoing war against the Drae. Axis has taken a number of highly questionable decissions, to the point of sacrifice most of their army in a futile effort to save Morland, right before the king could complete his treason. After the whole Elite Guard perished in an ambush, she still sent the last survivor member of the squad, Xara, to protect the king, who took the chance to blind her and leave her badly hurt, using the commotion to flee. Furious with herself, with the war almost lost, and knowing she would be suffering a painful punishment from their enemies, Axis scolded Xara for letting Morland and Crow escape, and then ordered her to chase them in a desperate last effort to save a little bit of her reputation and offer their people a small compensation for her own failures. And, in order to motivate Xara to acccomplish her mission, she ordered a Dream Master to impose the Elite Guard a punishment dream, forcing her to relive every night the moment in which she was betrayed by Morland and blinded by Crow, until she could bring them back to their home world.

Not only did it show an absolute lack of empathy from Axis' side; tactically, this proved to be yet another wrong decission, as Terrans lost their best warrior for some crucial days, just to carry out a mission with low chances of success for a minimal gain. When, against all odds, Xara comes back with Morland and Crow as her prisoners, Axis seems to have understood her mistake, as the situation is now even worse than before; and she looks genuinely sorry when she announces Xara that she can't have her punishment lifted, as the Dream Master who actually imposed her that dream has recently died. All she can do now is to release a devastated Xara from duty, grant her a spaceship, and beg her pardon.