It’s upsetting that Ever Crisis First Soldier provided us with Angeal and Sephiroth’s backstories around their swords but with the end of service coming soon, we won’t see the same for Genesis. :(

But I’d like to think that Rapier could be related to the Cetra. Looking at it, it’s not very rapier-like, it’s broad, long, and not the daintier style usually seen for rapiers. It has symmetrical wings at the hilt with an additional single wing acting as a knuckle guard. The purple stone embedded would give hints to Jenova, but the blade also has what appears to be script on it. Could it be the Cetra’s indigenous language? The way the sword is used also makes me want to see it as something with the Ancients’ power.

Genesis is already magically inclined, and his sword acts as a medium to extend these abilities. We see him charging it up to attack in many scenes, and it often glows as he fights.

And how might he have obtained it? Maybe instead of in ancient ruins like Masamune or as a gift from family like the Buster Sword, what if Rapier was created from Genesis’s studies and forged with transcriptions of Ancients’ texts? Instead of being found or gifted, Genesis drew up the design plans himself and studied Cetra battlemage incantations to put on it…WHAT IF??!