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)

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.

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.

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

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