▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Hibi
CONTACT: decadentarisu; Discord: hibiscuses#9964

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Genesis Rhapsodos
CANON: Final Fantasy VII
CANON POINT: From Crisis Core, after he passes out in the final battle with Zack, but before Deepground soldiers take him away.
AGE: About 27
BACKGROUND: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Genesis_Rhapsodos

PERSONALITY:
At the beginning of Crisis Core, Genesis is characterized as a man of selfish ambition from the very beginning, with high childhood dreams such as sharing a Banora White apple with the hero Sephiroth and becoming a hero himself. As a child, despite being the landlord's son, Genesis had constantly been a competitive young man, winning awards and gaining accolades. Eventually, he would join SOLDIER and befriend Sephiroth, the hero he had once wanted to share his achievements with. Despite being friends with him, he had also constantly been a rival to him, constantly wanting to be recognized as a true equal to Sephiroth's greatness.

But that would be destroyed upon realizing that he was engineered to fail—that his body can never be equal to Angeal or Sephiroth, who were both perfect specimen compared to him. This triggers another side of Genesis: one that was highly destructive, willing to bring down the world along with himself. While this drive in his youth had helped him achieve a great number of feats, that same drive after his body began to degrade becomes an incredibly deadly force as he manages to send the entire world into chaos with his army.

Drive alone isn’t what makes Genesis a formidable soldier to reckon with. He has a few other characteristics that work to his advantage, particularly when it comes to reaching his lofty goals: one is that he is a master manipulator, able to make battalions of SOLDIER operatives turn against ShinRa together with him. He is also able to convince his best friend, Angeal, to leave the company he had been so loyal to (although it may have also been Angeal's conscious choice to go after Genesis to bring him back). He attempts to manipulate Sephiroth as well, but his friend’s emotional turmoil as well as a poor choice of words ends in Sephiroth telling Genesis to rot. Despite his knack for manipulation and persuasion, Genesis also has an incredibly sharp tongue and won't hesitate to cut down anyone who displeases him. Being an only child of a rich family, it may not be a surprise at all that Genesis is used to things going his way.

Although Genesis was well-known for his charisma, being able to round up two fan clubs dedicated to him, he is surprisingly withdrawn in private, only sharing his thoughts and feelings freely with his two closest friends: Sephiroth and Angeal. It shows clearly in Crisis Core how Genesis seems to speak more openly when he is face to face with Sephiroth and Angeal rather than Zack.

After the death of both of his friends and the chance of finding a cure for his degradation pretty much becoming nil, Genesis starts to lose his drive and plots to have his life ended the only way that’s fitting for a warrior. If there’s one thing worth noting about the way Genesis plots things, there will always have some degree of drama to it. Throwing fireballs at the protagonist’s comrade after an impassioned speech, descending upon his ex-friend to stop him from pursuing the doctor in charge of finding the cure for his disease, and setting up an elaborate dungeon to lead the protagonist to come forward and end his life… Genesis Rhapsodos will always be dramatic with the things he does. Even when he wants to die, he will still be some degree of dramatic.

A close encounter with the Planet's Goddess changes his approach to life. In Genesis' last moments on screen before the final scene of Crisis Core, he is seen becoming quiet—almost contemplative to a degree. A later scene (a little after where I want to take him from) shows a possible change of heart. As he is plucked from his seat by Deepground SOLDIERs, he leaves behind his inscription of LOVELESS, Act 5 which leaves clues to the direction his character could possibly take: Instead of the chaotic neutral mess of ambition and desperation he is throughout Crisis Core, the note implies that he would return to "become the dew that quenches the land, to spare the sands, the seas, the skies". According to the Ultimania, when asked by Deepground to join in their own rebellion, Genesis declines and seals himself away underneath Midgar's ruins. It gives light to how his views had changed since then.

At the point of canon he has been taken from, Genesis is in a state of limbo about what to do with his life. While he had been so ready to end things, challenging Zack Fair to a final battle and all, he was told by the Goddess that he wasn’t allowed to die yet and was brought back from the brink of death. A part of him believes that he was brought back to be a hero for the world, but that may change depending on how he deals with a world that isn’t his own. He will still keep his dramatic air and his drive and charisma will return once he figures out what to do with his life, but at the moment, at least for the very beginning of the game, he will be unsure, withdrawn, and might do some quiet soul-searching.


POWERS/ABILITIES:
Genesis' body is imbued with Jenova cells from Project G. Since the Jenova cells he was given were taken from Gillian Hewley (not transferred through conception as with Angeal or injected directly into him as a fetus as with Sephiroth) the cells failed to infuse properly with his own and so he doesn't display anything unusual or enhanced about him upon his birth. But later on he discovers that he has the power to create copies using the bodies of other people (as with the SOLDIER operatives that deserted with him). This power also accelerates his degradation, but since I’m taking him from when the Goddess had already healed him, he has probably lost this ability.

Genesis also possesses the ability of flight and can summon out one black wing which sprouts from his left shoulder. This single wing of his can also be used in battle by summoning its feathers to act as small darts to pierce the enemy.

As with other SOLDIERs, Genesis has mako-enhanced strength, speed and senses. Because of this, he is able to do combat even with a weapon no ordinary human can wield: his oversized sabre/broadsword, Rapier. He is a well-trained swordsman and takes pride in the way he is able to gracefully and speedily move despite the size and weight of his weapon. Despite his status as a "failure" by the Jenova Project, his skills are surprisingly to par with Sephiroth. Among the three First Class SOLDIERs during his time (him, Sephiroth and Angeal), he is the only one who uses magic extensively. His weapon, Rapier, can also channel his magic to become stronger.

When brought to his limit, Genesis can make use of magic to call out Apocalypse, an attack covering a set area, which brings down a wave of concentrated energy to quell his opponents.

INVENTORY:
His Rapier
A single Banora White apple

MOONBLESSING: Cordis (features: fox traits)

Here lies a dump of all the nasty things Genesis has done in the City of Ariel.

In the comments is a record of the various conversations/activities Genesis has done throughout his stay in Death City.

Age: Looks like 26 (Actual Age - Soul Campaign: 32-33?)
Height: Somewhere between 5'10" to 6 ft. tall. He's kind of lean for that height, though.

Backthreading: FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
Threadjacking: Go for it!
Medical Information: Very healthy. No sign of degradation. The most prominent scar on his body is a deep-looking cut on his left shoulder from a training room accident.

Mental Information:
Soul Campaign: Perfect health, very sociable and charismatic, the closest he's been to his attitude before degradation. But infected by Black Blood so he's vulnerable to madness.

Soul Viewing (Soul Campaign Only): Red, with a snobbish kind of expression. The soul has feather shaped "hair" that stick out from the sides, similar to Genesis' hairstyle. Also, it is proud, arrogant, dramatic and charismatic-- but at the same time contemplative and profound when it wants to be.

Triggers:
Soul Campaign: Love. He's come to terms with what he had lost back home, but he hasn't gotten over the pain of losing his lovers in Death City.

Fourth Walling: You can fourth-wall him to some extent if your character recognizes his face and voice as Gackt's/similar to Gackt. He'll look at you weirdly, though.

Physical Contact: Genesis will touch you when he thinks it's a good idea. Otherwise, unless you're someone he knows, he prefers you don't touch him at all. And he won't touch you back.

Romance: Genesis is fine with that, but it needs to be built up over time.

Fighting: He accepts duels from people he thinks are worthy. He will ignore you if he thinks you're a waste of his time.

Winning/Losing: He will put up a very good fight against top-tier fighters such as Sengoku warriors, otherworldly beings (read: half-demons), fighters with years of experience and of course, fellow SOLDIERs. I can't really say whether he will win fights. But he's on par with Sephiroth.

Injure/Kill: Injury, yes. Killing, please ask. I don't mind a spontaneous death, but I'd rather not be shocked into it.

Physical Torture/Mindscrewing: Yeeeeeees~ but please ask first, too.

Hacking: Genesis has enough smarts to hack moderately to put up a prank post, so his filtered posts may be difficult for some to hack into.

Anything else, do ask me XD