I love a tragic villain as much as the next person; some of my favourite characters are tragic villains who were victims of cruelty or bad circumstances (Ardyn ff15 my beloved). But what I really want in the next Final Fantasy game is a batshit crazy, entirely irredeemable, absolute bastard of a villain who feels nothing but the desire to destroy. I want a villain with no motive aside from making everyone in the world fear them or die. No tragic backstory to make the player feel bad for them, and definitely no apathy (I am looking at you Ultima ff16, why are you so boring). I want a villain dancing in a sea of corpses and reveling in the destruction they cause. An unjustifiably evil person who doesn't just not care if people get hurt, but actively chooses to hurt people, even to the extent that their own comrades think it's a bit much, and rejoices at the sight of suffering. Someone who would gleefully destroy an entire city or even an entire nation for opposing them.
Basically what I'm saying here is I fucking love Kefka despite how much the narrative makes me hate him and I yearn for another villain like that. Give me a guy who's completely unhinged, off the rails, and horrifyingly violent who I'm not supposed to feel sorry for at all, even a little bit, unless I choose to think about how they ended up there. I want to feel satisfied by the narrative allowing me to end that evil motherfucker's entire career. I want to kick a ridiculously terrible person's ass and feel great about it. If I have to watch evil people come into power and use it to do terrible things in real life and can't do anything about it, I at least want to be able to beat them up in a video game.
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