Kefka Pallazo

Kefka Palazzo

"Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go? None of that junk is enough to fulfill your hearts! Destruction... Destruction is what makes life worth living! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Let's destroy everything!"

— Kefka’s monologue

Kefka Palazzo, also known as Lord Kefka and the Mad God of Magic, was a court mage of the former Gestahlian Empire, Kefka was their first experimental Magitek Knight, giving him the ability to use magic. However, the process was not yet perfected and the infusion damaged Kefka's mind, transforming him into a maniacal harlequin with an unquenchable thirst for blood. Chaotic and unpredictable in his drive to cause destruction, Kefka eventually turned on Emperor Gestahl and seized control of the Warring Triad to become the god of magic, and used their power to destroy the known world. At the rise of the Heartless Empire, he received a seat among the 13 Warlords and one of th most powerful Warlords of the Heartless Empire

Biography

Heartless Empire

Warlord Position

After the emergence of the Empire of the Heartless and word of them seeking candidates for the position of a warlord, Kefka 'invited' himself before Maleficent and Xehanort Cheirismos after causing some chaos with Jafar and Hades, the latter who was familiar of his reputation outside his realm knew him to be insane to have in their empire, however Xehanort was intrigued and to Hades' shock, he offered Kefka the position which he did as long as he swore loyalty to the Empire. Kefka had no problem as long as he can have fun inflicting chaos wherever he goes. With the Gestahl Empire now part of the Empire gained a strong ally thanks to Kefka.

Personality and Traits

Kefka cared nothing about anyone or anything but himself and he found 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 manipulated 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.

Kefka revealed that in his previous life before becoming a God of Magic, the ultimate revelation he has achieved—that life is meaningless. All things that live will die, everything people care about will be destroyed, and everything they achieved will be forgotten. Thus Kefka declared 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 that confronted himrefutes his claims with their personal reasons for living, Kefka flew into a rage and declared that he will destroy those reasons, and the concepts of love and hope are worthless and he will destroy them as well.

Kefka is so insane and twisted by Magitek experimentation that he is incapable of understanding love and hope and only feels joy when destroying, and his actions are born out of a continuously escalating need to satisfy destructive urges that are never fully sated. He eventually resorts to destroying himself to see if that will finally be enough, self-destructing in a mournful cackle.

Kefka is flamboyant and childish. He is shorttempered 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. It is stated he enjoys playing with dolls and hates General Leo, who is a morally upstanding soldier. Though he enjoys hurting others, Kefka cannot stand to be hurt himself and the sight of his own blood sends him into a violent rage.

At the time of the Malican Worlds War and the rise of the Heartless Empire, Kefka saw this as a chance to make a new start after his revival and see it as fun, especially when he learned about the war in many universes, many saw him as unpredictable, bizarre and... insane. Even had moments of toying with his fellow Warlords and members of the Empire just for the amusement such as using his magic to make them fight each other or create summons when bored to scare them.

Despite seeking destruction, it is surprising for him to have standards when working with other insane psychopaths such as Hitt'lon Zizz'lii when finding him too crazy after reading about his past, and only seeking to destroy just to make it boring for him than make it an eternal chaos.

Powers and Abilities

Magic

Kefka's powers grow he accumulates magicite and absorbs power from espers. He prefers ice and poison spells, as well as the Drain spell. When faced as a cinematic enemy using his field sprite, Kefka wields a Morning Star as his weapon.

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. Kefka's main use of elemental magic were Firaga, Blizzaga, and Thundaga, and his Heartless Angel. He possessed a powerful physical attack called Havoc Wing, which in spin-offs is depicted as Kefka using his wings to strike. His other attacks include Hyperdrive, sending a wave of explosions along the ground at a target; Trine, using a triangular field of energy to inflict status ailments; Meteor, summoning a swarm of meteorites to bombard the party; and Ultima, creating a sphere of energy that grows and explodes.

Kefka's ultimate attack is Forsaken, which assaults the party with a wave of magical energy with a distinct visual effect similar to television static. Though he does not use it as a boss, Kefka also possesses the "Light of Judgment", a beam of destructive light that he fires from high atop his tower to destroy towns that anger him. In spin-off titles, either Forsaken or the Light of Judgment are often depicted as Kefka's Limit Break ability or equivalent mechanic.

A recurring theme in Kefka's attacks is that they hit in erratic patterns that are difficult to predict, such as his Firaga spells zigzagging in the air before converging on enemies, he can invert the areas his spells affect, leaving the spots they would normally hit as the safe areas.

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. Kefka's Light of Judgment is strong enough to sink towns into the sea and severely alter the landscape around them, and it is implied it may create monsters in its wake.

Quotes

• “Read my lips - mercy is for wimps! There's a reason "oppose" rhymes with "dispose"... If they get in your way, kill them”
• “There’s this guy who runs a inter dimensional empire and only seeks to cause mayhem? Sounds my kind a guy!”
• ”Now, you just sit back and watch the world go kaboom!”
• ”Well, well what do we have here? Is the imperial princess going soft over a boy? Don’t think your mommy will approve of that if she found out.”
• Confronting Ven and Roxas: ”Either I’m crazy, or I’m seeing double!”
• "I would have been tempted to work for that guy to bring the universe to destruction... but from what I heard of his past, realise even I find him creepy."