Kefka Palazzo

Kefka Palazzo is a male video game character who features in Final Fantasy.

Biography

Kefka Palazzo (Japanese: ケフカ・パラッツォ, Hepburn: Kefuka Parattso)

Kefka was in fact the first experimental Magitek Knight, a process that gave him the power to cast magic. The process was imperfect however, and Kefka's mind was damaged, transforming him into a destructive madman. Kefka became infamous in the Empire for his cruelty, not hesitating to murder even women and children. These behaviors alienated Kefka from the Imperial soldiers, but earned Emperor Gestahl's appreciation and he began to trust Kefka with more important assignments.

When word came that a frozen esper had been dug up in the northern town of Narshe, Kefka used a Slave Crown to take control of Terra. As a test of his control over her, Kefka ordered her to burn fifty Imperial soldiers, which she did; the incident was heard of in lands beyond the Empire, sparking rumors of a dangerous "witch" in their ranks. He also attended, alongside the other high-ranking Imperial military officers Celes and Leo, Emperor Gestahl's declaration of war speech, proceeding to salute him, though he neglected to motion for Terra to do the same.

Kefka sent Terra to Narshe with Biggs and Wedge as her escort to retrieve the frozen esper. Though the three defeated Narshe's guards and found the esper, the creature reacted to Terra's presence, killed Biggs and Wedge, and damaged the Slave Crown, knocking Terra unconscious. Terra was smuggled out of Narshe by Locke, a member of the Returners, a resistance group opposed to the Empire. Gestahl sent Kefka to Figaro Castle to investigate Terra's disappearance while Locke took her there; the king of Figaro, Edgar, was publicly an Imperial ally but secretly backed the Returners. Kefka made little secret to hating the mission due to Figaro's location in the middle of the desert, not caring if the orders came from Emperor Gestahl, as well as forced his accompanying men to dust off his shoes.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Kefka Palazzo had long blond hair tied into a ponytail, worn with a feathered headdress. His face is painted white with red around his eyes and his lips are variably bright red or purple. He wears a large, ruffled collar that is primarily yellow with red stripes. His eyes are green.

Kefka cares nothing about anyone or anything but himself and he finds no greater joy in life than in inflicting suffering and death unto others. He has no long-reaching goal for his destructive actions, destruction itself is the goal. He manipulates the emotions of others and will readily lie without hesitation, but his purpose for doing this is again usually nothing but his own amusement in tormenting them. Kefka's need to inflict suffering drives him to continuously greater heights to satiate his urges, culminating with the ruination of the entire world and the deaths of countless creatures.

The ultimate revelation he had achieved was that life was meaningless. All things that live will die, everything people care about will be destroyed, and everything they achieved will be forgotten. Thus Kefka declares that struggling to continue living in the face of death is pointless and stupid, and people should accept their fates and surrender themselves to destruction at his hands. When the party refutes his claims with their personal reasons for living, Kefka flies into a rage and declares that he will destroy those reasons, and the concepts of love and hope are worthless and he will destroy them as well.

Kefka is flamboyant and childish. He was short-tempered and flies into rages at the slightest provocation and has no self-control or restraint. He cracks dark jokes about the atrocities he commits and frequently breaks into hysterical laughter. He is a narcissist who enjoys crossdressing and admiring his own appearance in mirrors.

Powers and abilities

Kefka has an aptitude with machines: he uses a Slave Crown to control Terra, operates a pair of cranes to attack the party, and his tower contains extensive factory areas still in operation with upgraded forms of Imperial Magitek machines. Prior to becoming a god he was strong enough to neutralize the powers of espers and possessed a spell to instantly kill them and transform them into magicite, which he could cast on groups of espers after taking a moment to channel his power. The ability he used to neutralize esper magic was also implied to be capable of killing non-espers. At this level of power he could also create convincing illusions of himself and others and have them fight for him while he remained hidden.

As the god of magic, Kefka possesses some of the strongest magical attacks.

As the god of magic, Kefka's telekinetic powers are strong enough to levitate debris from around the world to form a massive tower to serve as his lair. When the party confronts him he levitates them and throws them around with ease. He creates monsters to defend his tower and he revives the Warring Triad from their petrification for the same purpose. He possesses at least a minor level of omniscience, able to see things around the world, and an man in Tzen claims he felt like Kefka was watching him shortly before the Light of Judgment struck the town.

Notes

• Kefka Palazzo was created by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Ito where he featured in the setting of the Final Fantasy VI universe.
• The character was designed by Yoshitaka Amano where he was voiced by Japanese actor Shigeru Chiba and English actor Dave Wittenberg.

Appearances

• Final Fantasy VI:

External Links

• Final Fantasy Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

This article is a stub. You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it.