Samven's Writing Lectures

[kyonides]

Now that you mention Kefka from Final Fantasy VI I would like to center your attention at a fact of our real life that the story writers missed completely, whenever a real tyrant with a defective brain chemistry or point of view shows up in our world, there's always been people who want to get rid of that tyrant and it's not been because they really loved their people or their great nation but just because they grew tire of that maniac and because they had personal or political debts they couldn't be paid off if the tyrant was still alive. (Just take a look at Stalin's death...) If they had thought about that back then, a new villain could have arisen just after Kefka's death to take control of everything. This new villain, well, could have become a new Gestahl or even be a descendant of the Imperial branch family. Some townsfolk may believe that he's up to get things worse but he could calmly say that everything's Kefka's fault not his. Thus he would be capable of fooling the party to think everything's over when it's just taking a small break. I seriously think such series of events could be added to the main story in a remake. Of course, I'm not naive enough to think that they would gladly accept to make one at all. (If that ever happens, I'd demand a compensation for letting them know about this special addition to the original story!)