Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
I said Klaus was a monarch and an authoritarian by heart because "his way" is to beat everybody into submission. Order through force, that's authorianism 101. He thinks the only way for people to work together is the presence of a supreme leader whose decisions cannot be vetoed. Still authorianism 101. He is also a monarch(ist) because he fully intends to pass his empire on to his son, for his son to do the same and so on and so on and so forth. He may have a low opinion of the other monarchs of the world but he clearly believes that system is sound and right. Wether that's true in the context of this universe is debatable but at least one of the many real-world flaws with this kind of thinking is apparent in-comic: as soon as the strongman was out of the picture all the issues he had put a lid on resurfaced as if he had never been there, namely all the madboys started rebelling even without the influence of the Other.
Thing is, Klaus has a point.
The Brothers Heterodyne tried a different way, brought peace the "heroic" way.
And. It. Failed. The Other attacked, they vanished and everything went back to hell.

So I can't exactly blame the Baron, upon returning to the sheer mess Europa turned into without his friends, for deciding "My way then."

Because honestly? It's the only way that works.
Without someone keeping everything in check Europa would burn to ashes.
Voltaire wasn't different. Nor is Albia.
Ultimately the Boys were just a more idealistic version.

And of course he wanted a successor to keep the Empire going. Anything else would be moronic.
Because otherwise everything falls apart. Again.

That everything almost did with the Wulfenbach forces being weakened after Mechanicsburg only proves him right in the end.