I have to say, I'm not at all sure what Tarvek's plan was, and given the whole spark-slaver wasp thing I am uneasy.
The bottom line is that I can honestly see Tarvek as he starts out feeling that Klaus is in every way a valid candidate for wasping. Klaus IS a usurper, he HAS put together a far from stable Europan union, he has kept the Fifty Families from what many would consider their "proper" national sphere while letting them pretty much do what they like without checks within their dominions, and from Tarvek's POV he's proven himself to be unreliable, unjust, and unlikely to be willing to reason or compromise...if only because Klaus doesn't DO politics, and politics is how Tarvek sees the world working.
If the way to ensure a stable union and a peaceable transfer of power was by way of a spark-wasp, I can see Tarvek deciding that, yes, this was the best answer. But we've seen the cost, and we disagree. So we're left with the real possibility that Tarvek gave the spark-slaver wasp to the Giesters fully intending to act on the plan he presented.
The trouble is, we also know that the current state of affairs was in no way what Tarvek wanted or aimed at...and the way he laid out was never confirmed as his actual intent. So much of what he did in Sturmhalten was a juggling act trying to survive far too many factions.
It's just...if Gil decides that Klaus' wasping, and his (possible) death are Tarvek's fault, I can't for the life of me decide if he's right or wrong. Mostly wrong, in that Lucrezia-in-Agatha's the one who opted to wasp Klaus then and there. But...
And then there's Lunevka. I don't know if Tarvek even realizes she's still out there. But I also don't know who he thinks is puppet-mastering Klaus. He knows someone is...his reaction to realizing Klaus was wasped was too extreme for me to doubt it. He knows SOME Lu has control. But who does he think it is? Zola doesn't have the voice. At least, we don't think so.
I wish I knew that little bit more. Because the trouble is, if Klaus does die, Gil's going to be entirely within his rights to consider Tarvek responsible even if this is in no way what Tarvek wanted or was aiming for--just really, really crappy collateral damage. Nor is Gil ever likely to accept that Tarvek's own goals and motives were not necessarily "evil."
Tarvek's original goals...(fret-fret)
The bottom line is that I can honestly see Tarvek as he starts out feeling that Klaus is in every way a valid candidate for wasping. Klaus IS a usurper, he HAS put together a far from stable Europan union, he has kept the Fifty Families from what many would consider their "proper" national sphere while letting them pretty much do what they like without checks within their dominions, and from Tarvek's POV he's proven himself to be unreliable, unjust, and unlikely to be willing to reason or compromise...if only because Klaus doesn't DO politics, and politics is how Tarvek sees the world working.
If the way to ensure a stable union and a peaceable transfer of power was by way of a spark-wasp, I can see Tarvek deciding that, yes, this was the best answer. But we've seen the cost, and we disagree. So we're left with the real possibility that Tarvek gave the spark-slaver wasp to the Giesters fully intending to act on the plan he presented.
The trouble is, we also know that the current state of affairs was in no way what Tarvek wanted or aimed at...and the way he laid out was never confirmed as his actual intent. So much of what he did in Sturmhalten was a juggling act trying to survive far too many factions.
It's just...if Gil decides that Klaus' wasping, and his (possible) death are Tarvek's fault, I can't for the life of me decide if he's right or wrong. Mostly wrong, in that Lucrezia-in-Agatha's the one who opted to wasp Klaus then and there. But...
And then there's Lunevka. I don't know if Tarvek even realizes she's still out there. But I also don't know who he thinks is puppet-mastering Klaus. He knows someone is...his reaction to realizing Klaus was wasped was too extreme for me to doubt it. He knows SOME Lu has control. But who does he think it is? Zola doesn't have the voice. At least, we don't think so.
I wish I knew that little bit more. Because the trouble is, if Klaus does die, Gil's going to be entirely within his rights to consider Tarvek responsible even if this is in no way what Tarvek wanted or was aiming for--just really, really crappy collateral damage. Nor is Gil ever likely to accept that Tarvek's own goals and motives were not necessarily "evil."