Genesis can hardly be classes as a friend when he was just up Sephiroth's ass because he was getting all the limelight and when Genesis got less attention than somebody else decided too have a major paddy and destroy a few lives on the way. He was the typical spoilt rich kid in Banora (too me) probably got all his own way and when he got into SOLDIER he didn't like not being the centre of attention.
As for Angeal if he way any kind of friend he would of told Sephiroth everything instead of running off with Genesis.
Finally Sephiroth again CC wasn't about him but Zack so even know we have little to understand of his upbringing is obvious emotional problems. But for whatever reason he doesn't seem to trust people easily
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and thus the "genesis sucks angeal wooles" concept comes up again.... who cares what YOU think, its what S/E says, and im not saying genesis wasnt a bit annoying at all (i just finished the game so i know), and im not saying angeal didnt die waaaay to soon and that it didnt kinda suck. i like angeal. a very nice character indeed.
but your point on "genesis never acted like sephiroth's friend"....well, you have nothing to back it up except "he was a big jerk" (to you) "and he was selfish and he was an idiot and he sucks and why does he get to live and he was spoiled" and blah blah blah. ok...so what if genesis was all of these things? it doesnt change the fact that genesis was sephiroths friend. it doesnt matter how you see it. S/E made it plain that genesis was his friend was much as angeal's. it was REPEATEDLY SAID in the game that "oh, angeal and genesis? yeah they hung out with sephiroth. they were like a trio or something." and "yea, they all hung out together, even when missions werent required for them to be together." in FACT, last i check, (i dont know, point out if im wrong) sephiroth refused to work on finding angeal AND genesis because: (and i quote right from the japanese version) "These two were Sephiroth's best friends." in the english version it said "they were his ONLY friends" like "he sucked at finding friends and was forced out with these two." sephiroth, once again, is no where near stupidity, and im DARN sure sephiroth would have spent his time with angeal and would have not spent any at all with genesis. (in fact it was the other way AROUND.)
oh and have you forgotten? did you forget that sephiroth was going to QUIT shin-ra-THE PLACE WHERE HE PLACED HIS ABSOLUTE LOYALTY AT- all for finding and saving genesis, some dude that "hardly classes as a friend?" genesis believing in the LOVELESS poem also proves he believed sephiroth as a friend. he was convinced the "mysterious three" from the poem was he,angeal,and sephiroth. and they were (oh lookie here) ALL FRIENDS. genesis said this too many times for a fool to forget. from the japanese version and i quote " The three FRIENDS are now gathered. One becomes the prisoner. One will take flight. The last remaining FRIEND becomes the hero." and when sephiroth replied with "That's quite the story" genesis asked "If this were a play, would I take the role of a hero (the hero is a FRIEND), or would you?" this is when sephiroth even goes to the point of appealing with genesis and says "You can be the hero if you want." in his way of saying "i dont care about my fame as a "hero". is this what you wanted all along? than take it. now come back." this is proven when genesis says "Your fame originally should have been mine" and sephiroth replies with "How pointless." and i guess a guy that "hardly classes a friend" deserves sephiroth (joined by angeal) READILY VOLUNTEERING to heal him. and i guess a guy that "hardly classes as a friend" made sephiroth look to the ground in hurt and dismal whenever someone spoke of angeal/genesis or angeal AND genesis. i mean, pfft. yeah. clear as day. totally. genesis clearly wasnt his friend.
sephiroth endangered his 1st class rank multiple times all for saving BOTH of his friends. when he told zach he would "Fail to kill" angeal, and trying as much as he could stretch his 1st class rank finding genesis without getting bumped. if he did get bumped, how could he get assigned to genesis or angeal? only 1st classes were assigned to finding them. so dont think "sephrioth may have liked genesis, but he still wanted his 1st class rank, so he didnt try as hard." remember, he was thinking of QUITING shin-ra in order to find genesis.
also, genesis said and i quote (when zach found him with the gift of the goddess"): "You've inherited Angeal's will and received a part of Sephiroth. The greatest reunion of FRIENDS have been made." its completely funny how your people just put feelings into angeal's and sephiroth's hearts and mold them on what YOU would think a friend they should have would be. genesis was both of angeal's and sephiroth's friend. yes, he acted jerky. im not denying his PERSONALITY. yes, he acted "childish". yes he acted as he was spoiled. and although i dont agree, he acted "stupid" in the training room. but angeal and sephiroth could just take it and forgive it because they saw good in him (i do too) and forgave him as fast as he "attacked" sephiroth. hence why they instantly volunteered when hollander asked for them to donate blood, and sephiroth was left hurt an a bit confused when he was rejected. it says in the wikia :"In SOLDIER, Sephiroth has two friends, Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos. Though the three are rival SOLDIERs First Class, they see each other as close friends." thats all it was in the training room. rivalry. and this is all about genesis here: "Genesis defects from Shinra, making Sephiroth uneasy about his missions against him, and when ordered to go to Banora to track him down, Sephiroth refuses the mission." sephiroth also spent a couple hours spent more on Project G, the cells belonging to angeal and genesis. oh, you know the two that "hardly count as friends".
stop trying to make angeal and genesis look like bad friends from YOUR ideals. sephiroth liked them just fine. a slap in the face could look painful to us, but to someone else it could be nothing more than a pinch. like i said before, he never opened his heart to anything before they came, so obviously they must be what sephiroth's ideal is for a friend. it could suck according to you, and it could not, but we are talking about the friendship between all of them, and all of them like each other just fine. just because their friendship isnt said right out their mouths off the mountaintops like an extroverted version of this game probably would, doesnt make them any less of friends.
and as for "if angeal was any kind of friend he would have told sephiroth".....whut? so you HONESTLY think when genesis told angeal to come with him he didnt say something along the lines of "Oh and don't tell Sephiroth, ok? I want to tell him something myself." and since their relationship is much closer than shared with sephiroth, angeal would say "alright." or maybe he just didnt tell sephiroth because he was just following genesis so he could make him come back somehow, but in the end he realised what genesis was saying had truth in it. this theory can be backed up on the confused face of his when he is with genesis,when zach sees him after the wutai war. angeal was just as much as a friend as genesis was. do you people do anything besides PLAY games? dont you understand and analyze too?
one more thing. that logic on "CC wasn't about Sephiroth so we don't
know"...dont be like that. thats like saying "the lord of the rings was about frodo, not sam, so we cant even POSSIBLY understand what was going on with HIM." sephiroth just didnt appear in every other scene in the game. that didnt make him invisible and impossible to see through.
ok I know I've been Genesis bashing but not without reason. I'm not bashing the writers either I do think CC took a interesting direction. The whole forgiveness thing I really don't understand maybe someone could enlighten me?
