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and so you get *archetypes* of a Self, which is busted into a million pieces, and which can never really be made whole again. Kefka is a monstrosity because he encompasses all of them, in the figure of the Clown. but the laughter is hollow, and lethal. again, not unwarranted: here's another guy who pretty much had the story of his life written for him before he had any say in the matter. he takes it out on the world as an act of revenge. in a sense, the World as such deserves it. everything Zizek has ever told you tells you that there is no *counter-weapon* for a Light of Judgement. the Light of Judgment is the Truth, as brutal and inquisitorial as anything. there's a true weapon for the internally blinded: This Sucks. Everything Sucks. FF7 will use apocalyptic themes as well, Holy et al, and for different effect...but this is a story about a Doomsday weapon that really delivers. and it delivers because *the world has it coming.*

but therein lies the rub. you go on living, even in a World of Ruin, which cannot be put back together, nor can you build a time-machine to go back and prevent it: Empires gonna Empire. that the world melts down isn't Kefka's fault, or Gestahl's fault, or Cid's fault, or even the fault of the Warring Triad. it's *nobody's* fault. fault-finding is fucking silly. it doesn't mean things don't *hurt,* it's just that you can't appeal to a higher power to make the case for revenge. the Warring Triad doesn't know what the fuck they're doing either, and what a creation myth this presupposes. there's no artful composition of the universe here - the gods show up and begin fighting, this is how you get the Espers in the first place, press-ganged into armies and rendered divine, but even then the divine is simply the human at peak intensity. the gods seal themselves up, like monks.

idk senpai. this one just eludes me, which is a good thing. if you're interested, check out this rather short thread i made some time ago, it was what sold me hard on Deleuze (and mostly because Deleuze didn't so much 'solve' the questions i had about FF6, but more because FF6 was only really understandable to me in terms of Deleuzian ideas, or Deleuze-on-Leibniz ideas). have a look.

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