Hello everyone. Your invisible admin *Lioneh here.

Like Genesis waking up after three years of sleep, Red Leather is hopefully going to emerge from inactivity within the coming months. However, in order for this to happen, I need somehow who is willing to step up to the stage. I've been thinking about this for months and it's safe to say that I'm ready to pass this group on to more capable hands. A while ago I was probably the nuttiest Genesis fangirl around, but lately things have been dropping down, my fandom interests have been moving on, and I find I just don't have the same passion or interest these days. I still really like Genesis of course, but with university taking me away from deviantArt much of time, I really feel I owe it to you all to give this club a much, much better leader.

I'd also like to take the time to apologise for being such a pathetic leader in the first place. This group has been pretty much dead for the last two years, and that is entirely my fault since I'm quite bad at time management. I mean, sure, we've grown to over six hundred members, which is kind of amazing considering this club doesn't really do anything...

So, for anyone who is interested in becoming the Founder, please note me. Once I have found someone, I will step down into either a co-founder role or something lower, depending on how committed I think I can be in the future with maintenance. I'm happy to approve deviations and decide on contest winners and the like, but I cannot give my time to organise anything greater, apart from perhaps assisting on deciding on a contest theme.

I also have a final request, one that I hope can be respected, but I will understand if it becomes an issue. I would still like to keep this group family friendly, so I would really like if the rules could stay as they are: no mature content and hence no yaoi, as well as no explicit hetero stuff either. If this is outright impossible for anyone, I'm willing to compromise. But for now...I'd really like it to stay the way it is because that's the way Red Leather has been all this time...kinda why I made it in the first place, apart from finding like-minded people.

So that's my request. Anyway, I hope some of you are interested! It's been fun, guys!
~ Lioneh





For those of you who are unaware of Genesis, I shall now rid you of your ignorance~! Genesis Rhapsodos is the main antagonist from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy, serving as the instigator of many of events in the story. He takes great pride in himself and has suburb fighting skills that are said to be on par with Sephiroth during the beginning of Crisis Core. His choice of weapon is the rapier, and spends much time reading and researching the epic poem and play LOVELESS. He is partially based on Gackt Camui and voiced by him in Japanese, along with Oliver Quinn in English.

During the main course of the story Genesis goes AWOL from ShinRa and rebels against the company, after discovering his true origins. During this time he suffers from a genetic illness known as 'degradation' and bears a large black wing on his left shoulder. He is also able to create copies of himself.

And, if you want to know more [complete with major spoilers], visit his detailed Wikipedia page here.



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