Hm, but what if he succeeded? If he’s absurdist then he won’t take anything for granted (e.g. his defeat).
To be fair, these are probably Bad-Guys-Union regulations.
Lavos was pretty effective him(/her/it?)self in the time-lines where he(/she/it?) wasn’t thwarted by a team of time-travelers as ‘The Space Parasite’ was rather successful at destroying the world and making utter tools out of humanity. Plus in at least one of the time-lines does it take two full games to fully defeat whatever Lavos is (depending on what you consider the Time Devourer to be).
There needs to be more giant alien parasite final bosses that can turn a generic evil overlord type into a complex anti-hero. :fungah:
Then life really does have no meaning; he was hoping to be defeated and thus proven wrong. This is more similar to the Raskolnikov argument where he secretly wanted to be shown the error of his actions, according to Dostoevsky, than it is to the Camus argument.
I don’t think Kefka wanted to be defeated. I really do think he was out to kill everyone and destroy everything.
However, the creator was obviously going for the point of view that he’d be proved wrong.
Better hope you don’t lose that last boss fight!