| Ganoncrotch said: Absolutely know what you mean about the theme being a part of your love of the game, some of the FF music is just amazing at invoking emotion, I get the same with Aeris's theme from 7, I can't hear the haunting melody without it being forever associated with THE scene of her, and it pulls me right back to 97 before I would have the internet to spoil it for me so I just sat there in shock after with just that theme stuck in my head of her. Like I said, haunting theme after playing that game as a teen in my formative years. |
You may have noticed that I have a particular fondness for fiction villains. It's because there's a level on which I feel like I relate, mostly because villains are hated by regular society and, while they may have their moments of glory, you know they're probably going to lose ultimately. That's just how I feel. It's been that way since I was 10. Kefka is a character who was abused and it turns him into a horrible psychopath.
The essential message you get from FF VI is that life is about connections. Love, friends, allies, whatever, but connections. Kefka is held up as an illustration of how monstrous one can become without those connections, once you reach a point of no return and reject them on principle. Not feeling loved by others, and worse, not wanting to feel loved by others, can turn you into a monster. I was kind of at that place mentally-emotionally at that age, when I got FF VI. I needed to be reminded that I was going off an emotional cliff where I just wanted to spend the rest of my life alone.
