LOVELESS LOVELESS is an epic from the world of " Final Fantasy VII " that has made several cameo appearances in the " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " and plays a major role in " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . Originating as a book of poetry , the story has been adapted into a play and has a street named after it in Midgar . The story focuses around three men who set out on a quest to find the fabled " Gift of the Goddess " . Posters and billboards for the play show a woman with the words " Open 6 / 25 6 : 00 " and " 18 : 00 " , and many posters also include the text " My Bloody Valentine " . Loveless poem . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Appearances . " Final Fantasy VII " . Posters of LOVELESS are scattered around Midgar , first seen in Sector 8 , and their appearance makes apparent that the name derives from the 1991 album by , an Irish shoegaze band . " Loveless " is regarded as their best work , and is generally highly regarded , usually doing well in British music press polls . The woman on the LOVELESS posters resembles My Bloody Valentine ' s singer / guitarist Bilinda Butcher . In the PlayStation 3 technical demo , and the cutscene at the end of " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , the scene that features the poster is remade , and the poster has been changed . Near the end of the game , Cloud can talk to Cid Highwind , who mentions he went to see the play and fell asleep , being awoken in time for the final act , and he quotes the following from the final scene , between a woman and her lover , who is leaving : This bears a slight resemblance to the opening lines of " Final Fantasy VIII " . In " Advent Children Complete " , LOVELESS is only hinted at ; a poster is present in the opening before the scene cuts to Denzel and Marlene , and another poster is seen behind Rude when he and Reno appear at Edge to challenge Yazoo and Loz . A LOVELESS poster is seen when Aerith Gainsborough walks into Midgar with a flower basket . And finally , a LOVELESS billboard falls and hits Rude on the head before Reno falls on him , knocking him down momentarily . If the shot is paused at the right moment , the head of a woman can be seen on the billboard . The woman resembles Aerith ' s menu portrait in " Final Fantasy VII " . " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . In the beginning of Episode One , a billboard for LOVELESS can be seen while the camera pans Sector 8 . It is located in multiple locations in the sector as the game unfolds . " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " . LOVELESS posters can be sighted in Edge during Chapter 3 . The posters are placed outside on the streets , and inside houses . " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . Genesis Rhapsodos is obsessed with the story of LOVELESS and recites quotes from it during each encounter Zack has with him . Genesis envisions himself and his two SOLDIER First Class comrades , Sephiroth and Angeal , as the three men foretold in the epic , and thus hopes to find the fabled " Gift of the Goddess " . The phrase " My friend , the fates are cruel . There are no dreams , no honor remains " is told to Zack early by Genesis referring to the fateful duel between the two friends in the story of LOVELESS , making a parallel to himself and Angeal . The stage play of LOVELESS is apparently largely based on acts II and III , being told from the viewpoint of the girl who helps the male lead . To make it closer to the original context , it contains additional scenes of two friends . Kunsel emails that he has seen the stage production and quotes the last line : More of LOVELESS is engraved upon stone tablets within the cave in Banora Underground where Zack faces Genesis for the last time . The tablets tell a short story of a group of three friends who go in search for the " Gift of the Goddess " taking on the roles of a " Hero " , a " Traveler " , and a " Prisoner " . The Prisoner escapes and is critically wounded , only to end up in the care of a woman from the enemy faction whom he falls in love with . He lives a peaceful life , but is tortured by the promise he made to his friends . The final chapter of LOVELESS is lost , with only a single line remaining : " Even if the morrow is barren of promises , nothing shall forestall my return " , although there are many in - world theories on the story ' s denouement . When Genesis is extracted by Deepground , the missing final act is added to the LOVELESS book , by the means of the Lifestream marking it down on paper and a black feather finishing the text . The context of this scene is enigmatic , meaning either several things ; this is either a line Genesis thought up himself ( making it unlikely to be the original missing act ) or it is , in fact , the original missing act Genesis finally found , and wrote into his book . Further compounding this , is its significance to its appearance in Genesis ' s Digital Mind Wave Limit Break Apocalypse , revealed long before its recital by the end of the game and its addition to the official collection . The " Crisis Core Complete Guide " states the biggest mystery is what happened to the world after receiving the " Gift of the Goddess " . Official Interpretation . In the " Crisis Core Complete Guide " , the developers of " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " discuss the various interpretations of LOVELESS , acknowledging that both in - game and among real world fans it has many possible meanings . Genesis attempts to reenact LOVELESS with him as the Hero , Zack as the Prisoner , the goddess statue as the Goddess , and the statue ' s Goddess Materia as the Gift of the Goddess . Genesis tells Zack that through his S - Cells and the Buster Sword , he carries the legacies of Sephiroth and Angeal with him to the duel , thus reuniting the three friends . Genesis thinks that by fighting Zack he would obtain the Gift of the Goddess , and be cured of his degradation . Zack wonders if re - creating LOVELESS in this manner was always his plan , but the developers clarify that Genesis only began working to this goal after Hollander ' s promises of a cure failed him . After the battle Genesis regains his pride as a SOLDIER , and is cured from degradation by the power of the Lifestream . Genesis realizes he is not the Hero , but the Prisoner , and by accepting this receives the Gift of the Goddess — his pride as a SOLDIER — that was lost to him through his rebellion against Shinra . Because he receives the gift by battling Zack , who had inherited the will of Angeal who championed honor and pride , Zack himself is the Gift of the Goddess for Genesis for giving this chance . The guide also offers the interpretation that as Genesis is the Prisoner , Angeal is the Wanderer who took flight from Shinra , and Zack is the Hero who saves Genesis . This is reflected in Zack ' s words at the end of the game , " Hey . . . Would you say I became a hero ? " On the fifth verse that is revealed at the end of the game , the guide explains this is not the true lost verse , but a verse composed by Genesis himself that reflects his new mindset . With Angeal and Sephiroth gone , the verse symbolizes that Genesis will take up their legacy to protect the Planet himself . The verse ' s mention of " the sea " refers to the flooded chamber Genesis appears in at the end of " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " . Merchandise . A silver pendant of the book of LOVELESS Genesis reads from in " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " was released as official merchandise in December 2007 . In 2012 a LOVELESS print shopping bag was released , based on the design of the billboard seen in " Final Fantasy VII " .