Kefka is easily one of the saddest , most tragic and sympathetic villains ever . He finds the very thought of mortality his own or others utterly dehumanizing and is broken far beyond repair . He ' s like a child , experiencing the death of a loved one for the first time , but instead of learning to cope , was driven to obscene madness and believing all life to be a meaningless statistic , never revealing his internal struggle until the final confrontation . Kefka almost represents the first moment all of us experience , tiny , helpless , confused and devastated , sitting in a pew or standing at an alter or watching a casket being lowered into the ground , knowing we ' ll never see a person we love ever again , and the icy cold realization that the same fate inevitably awaits everyone , including ourselves . Kefka truly is the most human Final Fantasy villain . That and his brain was buttered when he became the first magitek knight . He is essentially Terra without any friends . Personally I found that more compelling than a space mistletoe that assumes the form of it ' s host . There ' s also the fact that villain is finally resolved in FF 6 , where as in FF 7 you accomplish nothing , and are no closer to knowing where the fuck Jenova came from .