Dicey question to ask someone with a Gil avatar…
Reminds me a lot of Kid Loki – a really smart person who struggles against his worser angels, but who is so habituated to manipulating people to accomplish things that he can’t stop himself from doing that to his friends and loved ones, as opposed to honestly communicating with them. Someone who assumes his bad reputation will doom his relationships, so preemptively alienates people rather than suffer rejection.
I don’t find his politics that appealing, though. Given what he knows of his own family, the idea that the Storm King monarchy/Fifty Families aristocracy is a good way to rule Europa is insane. Yes, I understand why Tarvek might think that he personally would be an enlightened monarch, but what I don’t get is why he doesn’t see there’s no way of preventing generations to come from becoming just as bad as the cousins he despises.
And I still blame him for screwing up Agatha’s attempt to warn the Baron about the Other, exacerbating tensions between Wulfenbach and the Heterodyne in ways that led to a lot of unnecessary bloodshed at a time when efforts needed to be directed at the Other.
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