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It's because he can't perform evil deeds anymore. Dying kinda puts a damper on his ability to continue his evil killing spree of rampaging destruction and it's not like he committed suicide to unleash even worse devastation upon the world. He just sorta dissolved like everything else the party killed, except in a more granular fashion. Remember I'm not factoring in his intentions, just his observable actions and their perceived acceptability. This is the only objective way of doing it, since anything else would require reading between the lines. I think all deaths are equally acceptable, unless you used it to achieve particular means, which Kefka really didn't, hence his 'evil' disappears.

As for his evil, whilst we see he's very effective at whatever it is that he does, he doesn't come out and state his original goals like Sephiroth did. If you think about it, it's a bit of a chicken and the egg scenario really. Does Kefka commit evil because he wants to fulfill an insatiable power lust or is his power lust a result of the sheer and utter evil glee he partakes in? We don't know him from an early on enough point to really be certain. I think that's a key consideration of determining whether he changed or would've just done it all just as vilely regardless of circumstance because it makes him happy. Whatever did happen, it's clear that he developed quite a taste for his deliciously rotten ways though.

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 30th March 2010 16:17

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Role reversal at its finest.

Maybe he just had a bad childhood.

He was conceived under a trapeze and his parents worked as part of a travelling circus. This would explain where he got his costume from. One would assume he murdered his parents or drove them away. Bad times.

My theory