Genesis Rhaspodos

Genesis Rhaspodos is a character in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII who was created in the PlayStation 2game Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. His initial appearance was in a secret ending for players who reached a certain requriments. Genesis would then appear again in the prequel to Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Genesis appearance was modelled after Japanese singer Gackt who voiced him in the Japanese versions.

Background
Genesis was born similarly to his friend Sephiroth while at the fetal stage he was injected with G-Cells which gave him great powers. Genesis grew up loving the book Loveless a collection of the words of the Godess Minerva. Genesis was also a childhood friend of Angeal. The two both joined SOLDIER and rose to the ranks of First Class with another companion, Sephiroth.

Betrayal
Genesis would always spar with Sephiroth with the help of Angeal due to Sephiroth being better than both of them. But during the last time the three friends were united Genesis decided to fight Sephiroth alone. He failed in his attempt to kill Sephiroth due to Sephiroth's skills and Angeal's intervention. During the Wutai War Genesis began to degenerate due to the presence of G-Cells.

Desperate he kidnapped Dr. Hollander and forced him to try to find a cure for his degeneration. He created many copies of himself using Second and Third Class Soldiers with his DNA molded onto them. Zack and Angeal were charged with finding Genesis. After searching greatly Genesis discovered that Jenova cells could stabalize his condition. But when Sephiroth went insane and took Jenova's head this proved impossible. However Genesis discovered that Jenova cells had been experimented on Zack and Cloud. Genesis however proves too weak to fight Zack and is defeated but still alive. Weiss takes away Genesis.

Awakening
Many years later all of Genesis records and history are removed except for several cryptic notes in the G-Report. Genesis awakens suddenly when Weiss body is dropped to him. Genesis walks up to his body and says "It is not yet time for slumber. We still have much work to do my brother."
 
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