I do want to add that "revolutionary," "resistance fighter," and "conservative aristo idealist" all blur together in this situation. He's a revolutionary because he's rebelling against Klaus, a resistance fighter for the same reason, and a conservative aristo idealist because he seems to possibly be allied with an old and romantic view of the aristocrat as both ruler and servant to the people, whose lives and rights he defends.
Given that Klaus HAS been trying to unravel the old aristo system, and has used a number of questionable methods for doing so, the Fifty Families have some legitimate beefs, for all their own flaws and failings. So Tarvek seeing himself as both defending Europa and its people, and also defending the Fifty Families and their way of life, makes sense -- as does Percy Blakeny saving the French aristos from The Terror and Madame Guillotine.
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Re: T. Stormboy
Date: 2012-04-04 01:41 am (UTC)Given that Klaus HAS been trying to unravel the old aristo system, and has used a number of questionable methods for doing so, the Fifty Families have some legitimate beefs, for all their own flaws and failings. So Tarvek seeing himself as both defending Europa and its people, and also defending the Fifty Families and their way of life, makes sense -- as does Percy Blakeny saving the French aristos from The Terror and Madame Guillotine.