Quote Originally Posted by Avarice-ness View Post
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.
That's not as conclusive a link as you may believe. "The Metamorphosis" is just the English translation of the title of Kafka's novella; as he wrote it, the title is "Die Verwandlung," and in Japan, it's known as "Henshin." Furthermore, the actual title of the FFVI track is "Metamorphose."
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.
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.
Kefka's philosophy had less to do with self-demonization and more to do with the belief that life's efforts are meaningless because the persistence of death and decay will eventually erase all achievements with time. He was a skeptic, if not a nihilist, which would put him more in line with Nietzsche than with Kafka.

I'll give you that their names are similar, though.