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Kefka
Kefka is a colorful, misanthropic madman and Final Fantasy VI's main antagonist.
Kefka serves as Emperor Gestahl's Court Mage (as stated in the GBA remake by Edgar, when Kefka first visits Castle Figaro). He was the first volunteer for an experimental Magitek infusion, under the supervision of Cid. The process was still flawed, and although Kefka gained the ability to wield magic, it warped his mind, turning him into a nihilistic and brutal sociopath. Kefka has a penchant for lying and manipulation, claiming multiple times that events like Celes's betrayal and Terra's escape from the Empire were his deliberate doing. He is also a rank coward, running from almost all in-game fights involving him, or employing Imperial Soldiers or illusions to fight for him.
It was Kefka who forced the Slave Crown upon Terra and used her to lead an attack on Narshe to claim the frozen Esper. Kefka also appeared at the Magitek Research Facility, where the party observes his physical abuse of weakened Espers whose power he had drained. During a siege battle, Kefka grew impatient with General Leo and poisoned Doma's drinking water behind his back, resulting in mass casualties and a swift victory for the Empire.
Citing the poisoning of Doma, Gestahl eventually has Kefka imprisoned, but a plot twist later revealed this to be a ploy to gain the Returners' trust; Gestahl later accompanies Kefka to Thamasa to seize Magicite from the Espers congregated there. When the honorable General Leo tries to intervene, Kefka deceives him by employing a shadow of him, and then backstabs and kills him after impersonating Emperor Gestahl.
Using the power of the Espers, Kefka helps Gestahl revive the Floating Continent. When the Returners confront Kefka and Gestahl on the continent, Kefka freezes them (except Celes) with the power of the Warring Triad's statues, the source of all magic in the world. He tells Celes to kill her friends to show her loyalty to the Empire, but she in turn stabs Kefka instead. Enraged, Kefka knocks her aside and attempts to command the statues to kill them all. Gestahl, fearing that the statues' balance will be broken, urges Kefka to calm down and not to upset the statues. The power-mad Kefka dismisses the emperor's warning, forcing Gestahl to attempt to kill Kefka with his own powerful spells. The spells, however, are absorbed by a protective field generated by the statues. Kefka directs the statues to unleash their power on Gestahl, whose body Kefka unceremoniously boots off the Floating Continent to certain death. He then moves the Statues from their delicate balance, unleashing enough raw magical energy to reshape the face of the planet.
Imbued with the power of the statues (as well as countless Magicite taken from Espers he's slain), Kefka taps into powerful energy and wields godlike power. He uses the Statues to forge a massive tower of random debris to serve as his headquarters, as well as to smite millions of people who refuse to worship him. Many towns are destroyed by Kefka's 'Light of Judgement', a beam of incinerating light capable of cutting fissures into the planet's surface. Many global inhabitants even form the "Cult of Kefka." Members of the Cult are in a zombie-like state, wandering mindlessly. Some join the cult because they have lost their loved ones or purpose in their life (in the case of Strago in the World of Ruin), but it is likely that many joined out of fear of Kefka.
At the game's conclusion, confronted by the protagonists, Kefka finally reveals his nihilistic motivations, explaining that all life is meaningless, and that the lives of mortal humans are without purpose. Thus, he proclaims that his new goal is to eradicate everything in existence. The party questions his claims--citing examples of meaning in their personal lives--and Kefka goes berserk, turning the Light of Judgment on the World of Ruin one last time before the party attacks him. The ensuing confrontation with Kefka is the climactic battle of Final Fantasy VI, in which Kefka descends in a robed "god"-form with both feathered and bat-like wings. The music played in this fight is Dancing Mad.
Kefka's personality resembles that of a mad clown. His defining attributes are his flamboyant, colorful dresswear, Evil laugh, and sardonic jokes. A good example of Kefka's crass humor comes near the finale of the game, in which he dismisses the heartfelt affirmations made by the main characters, calling them "chapters from a self-help booklet". Before Kefka, most videogame villains acted as distant or monstrous figures, often devoid of much hint of personality outside of their brutish archetypes. Kefka, on the other hand, was required to scheme, double-cross, and overcome obstacles to win his power. Due in part to his irreverent and comical personality, Kefka has enjoyed a steady degree of popularity amongst fans of Final Fantasy.
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Powers & Abilities
Kefka obatined Godhood, and with it mighty powers. He have various spells that cause huge damage and the signature attack is called Fallen One, that reduced the hitpoints of the enemy to 1. His body is also immensely powerful so his normal attacks are also quite formidable.
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