Final Fantasy 6 Lore ► Kefka's Origins Explained (The Path To Becoming A God)

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  @lordganma · 8 years ago

  I always believed that Kefka died without saying anything because he just didn't care. He achieved great power and became a God and did his best to rid the world of everything....but, he ultimately failed... There is nothing more to say after that

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  @unknowingreaper6556 · 7 years ago

  One of the villains that didn’t just threaten to destroy the world but he actual did it.

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• LO

  @Locaneo · 8 years ago

  I think him dying in silence proved everything we needed to know how he felt, nothing.

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• -R

  @-roejogan- · 7 years ago

  True sadness is having completed this game hundreds of times, I can no longer be surprised by how good it is.

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• ST

  @stevewhite5045 · 7 years ago (edited)

  The only thing Kefka lost as a result of his experimentation was his conscience.  Kefka is what you get when a naturally-ambitious person loses the ability to give a crap about right and wrong.

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  @kefkapalazzo1092 · 8 years ago

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• MI

  @michaelpollock9166 · 4 years ago

  I liked the no dialogue at his defeat. It more or less spoke volume in his death. He didn't "snap out" of his psychotic trance and become a cliche and realize the error of his ways. He didn't throw an enraged tantrum at losing. He didn't curse anyone for losing. He simply died. There's simple beauty in the nothing he said

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• TR

  @trevormathis1114 · 8 years ago

  Every time I play ff6 I always read Kefka's lines with Mark Hamill's joker voice.

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• NO

  @nooneinparticular5256 · 5 years ago

  To me, Kefka (in the first half) encompasses everything a Final Fantasy villain should be: a presence, and a force you constantly wrestle with. He makes himself known, and gets plenty of time for the player to get to know him. You&apos;re not just fighting a nebulous evil empire, but a powerful madman, who just so happens to be a leader within it--a bit like OG Darth Vader.<br>And what works so well about him, is his regular interactions with the party, and it never feels completely 1-sided. He successfully poisons Doma, usurps the emperor, casts doubt on Celes, and kills Leo. But also, you outplay him in Figaro, you stop his assault on Narshe, you break open the Magitek lab, see him imprisoned by Geshtal, and even when you seemingly play into his hands at the sealed gate, you see him get knocked back on his heels, by the sheer power before you. Unlike Sephiroth, who&apos;s interaction boils down to mostly just following after him, and seeing him do terrible, untouchable things, before you&apos;re finally ready to take him; or Golbez, who shows up to curb-stomp the party, and is constantly above you, until he&apos;s unceremoniously replaced by Zemus.<br>Kefka&apos;s interaction with the heroes mostly encompasses both sides out-thinking &amp; outmaneuvering each other.<br><br><br>...and then the world ends, and he disappears from the game, until the final battle. Uuuuurgh....

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  @alexpratt2742 · 7 years ago

  I&apos;ve seen a lot of people talking about how Kefka won by achieving his goals and creating the world of ruin... but my analysis of him is that deep down he was fighting an ideological battle that he completely lost. Kefka&apos;s mind was shattered, it was chaos in his head. As with most humans who are in chaos, he obsessed over control, and in his mind, he needed power to regain his lost sense of control (though as an orphan from such an early age, he may have never experienced much control to begin with). With that power he sought to project the chaos of his mind onto the world. His belief and desire was to prove that he wasn&apos;t wrong. Chaos would lead to despair, isolation, and a craving for control just like it had for him.<br><br>He had the power to destroy the world, but if he followed through and finished the world off, he would never witness the validation he so desperately craved. The people of the world continued to do the opposite of what he expected. He continually saw people banding together and relying on each other rather than despairing, isolating, and grasping for power and control. He had no choice but to either admit his ideological defeat, or double down and try to impose more despair and chaos. In the end, his godly power could never have given him the type of control he was looking for. Both figuratively and literally, he was defeated by humanity working together and supporting each other despite their individual weakness and individual inability to truly handle the despair and chaos of his projected mind.<br><br>As a therapist myself, I could write a full length paper on how Kefka so beautifully represents the psychological and behavioral tendencies of mankind... but this post is already way too long.

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  @redjakOfficial · 8 years ago

  Not to mention his music. Dancing Mad is IMO the best piece of videogame soundtrack ever composed.<br>Kefka enjoys who he is and what he does. There&apos;s a cheerful method to his madness.

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  @forloveofthepage2361 · 8 years ago

  His laugh will always be burned into my memory. He was truely evil and i hated him for his complete disregard for life. It wasn&apos;t until I replated it when I was older that I saw past the hate to how great a villian he was.

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