Kefka Pallazo

Kefka was the first experimental Magitek Knight, a process that gave him the power to cast magic. The process was imperfect, however, and Kefka's mind was damaged, transforming him into a destructive madman. Kefka became infamous in the Empire for his cruelty, not hesitating to murder even women and children. These behaviors alienated Kefka from the Imperial soldiers, but earned Emperor Gestahl's appreciation and he began to trust Kefka with more important assignments When word came that a frozen esper had been dug up in the northern town of Narshe, Kefka used a Slave Crown to take control of Terra. As a test of his control over her, Kefka ordered her to burn fifty Imperial soldiers, which she did; the incident was heard of in lands beyond the Empire, sparking rumors of a dangerous "witch" in their ranks. He also attended, alongside the other high-ranking Imperial military officers, Celes and Leo, Emperor Gestahl's declaration of war speech, proceeding to salute him, though he neglected to motion for Terra to do the same.Kefka sent Terra to Narshe with Biggs and Wedge as her escorts to retrieve the frozen esper. Though the three defeated Narshe's guards and found the esper, the creature reacted to Terra's presence, killed Biggs and Wedge and damaged the Slave Crown, knocking Terra unconscious. Terra was smuggled out of Narshe by Locke, a member of the Returners, a resistance group opposed to the Empire. Gestahl sent Kefka to Figaro Castle to investigate Terra's disappearance while Locke took her there; the king of Figaro, Edgar, was publicly an Imperial ally, but secretly backed the Returners. Kefka made little secret to hating the mission due to Figaro's location in the middle of the desert, not caring if the orders came from Emperor Gestahl, as well as forced his accompanying men to dust off his shoes.

Kefka has long blonde 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.

In his original concept art, which has been used as the basis for his spin-off appearances, Kefka wears robes with an erratic mix of colors and patterns. The torso of his robes is a mash-up of white with pink polka-dots, black with yellow stripes, and plain purple. He wears a long red cloak with a yellow lining and red triangle trim along the interior and yellow and red tassels along the edgeEmerging from above his left shoulder is a mass of material in different patterns. The largest is white with red triangle trim and with it are three more swatches of material; yellow with blue crown-like patterns, blue with red and white stripes and red trim, and the last is a solid green.

His left sleeve is red with an elbow-length yellow glove that fades to white at the wrist and has green accents along the fingers. His right sleeve is a puffed purple pattern with red polka-dots and ends above the elbow at a yellow material.His glove is orange with a large cuff, white fingers, red claws, and white swirl patterns like flames emerge from under the cuff and run up his sleeve. His leggings are red, his left leg runs down to his boot, which is two-toned black with pink and gold lining, and the right leg has the red end above his knee over a single blue tight and his boot is white with a black triangle trim and pink lining. Both of his boots are pointed and curled. Finally, he has a yellow skirt wrapped around his waist and a red sash dangling over his right leg, which bears a pattern of black triangles with red lining and half-black, half-white spots.

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. 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. grant a more tragic insight into this mindset: 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 short-tempered, 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. His Ultimania profiles state that he enjoys playing with dolls and hates General Leo, who is a morally upstanding soldier.