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Historical background meaning like things that had influenced some things in FF6?
Well here's the most obvious one, to me atleast.
Say hi to the fall of satan! Also, note the crucified person. Basically in christianity, the anti-christ is suppose to come into power in a good maner and have like good aura about him. Clearly Kefka doesn't have that, but he does have his "Light of Judgement" which is much like how the anti-christ is suppose to behead you when you turn against him. Also, it's named after something that would be religiously redeeming, much like the anti-christ in the rapture is suppose to work. Actually rewarding members of his cult with power and keeping them alive for his own use.
Rumor has it Kefka is named after Franz Kafka, which holds more weight due to the fact Kafka's most popular book is called "The Metamorphis" which is also the title of the song that plays when Kefka comes into full power on the floating continent to the world of ruin.
Another thing about Franz Kafka.
Apparently the translations got lost at some point, and while it seemed that Kafka himself disliked his own existance, it was actually that the existance of everyone around him and in the world he lived in was worthless, because they were the reason for their own struggles.An isolated reading of Kafka's work — focusing on the futility of his characters' struggling without the influence of any studies on Kafka's life was worthless — reveals the humor of Kafka. Kafka's work, in this sense, is not a written reflection of any of his own struggles, but a reflection of how people invent struggles.
This easily could have been taken into the concept of Kefka. The idea that people are the reason for all the evil in the world, and to end it would be to bring everything into a void of no good nor evil. In some way people might see that as Kefka being "noble" but seeing as he's insane, it's just a skewed veiw on morals and what not.
Also, FF6 is set up like a European Opera, and a tragic opera at that.
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