Forum:Vanamonde is a traitor

Think about Perfect Coffee for a minute.

When Vanamonde drank the perfect coffee, he was given a vision involving light, flying, the whole nine yards, and heterodyne humming. He was able to reproduce the hum in his own mind. The best guess on the hum right now is that it's some kind of proof that the hummer is a Spark, or is actively doing something very Sparky. So...

1. Vanamonde drank the coffee. 2. He experienced something of what it feels like to be a Spark. 3. The first thing he seems to do with his limited sparkiness is to recognize what he's just done: That is, he is able to correctly identify the coffee as Perfect. He then goes off and seems to declare everything around him as perfect, which sorta shoots holes in my theory that he's gained Spark powers for a minute.

Anyway, here's my allegation: Vanamonde had his consciousness raised (for a very short while) upon drinking the Perfect Coffee. His drinking it seemed like the noble, prudent thing to do at the time to protect Agatha, but is that really born out? What if she had been exposed to the coffee? Perhaps The Future Agatha is from an alternate timeline in which she was.

Another thing: he'd be a great traitor. He's been trained in the art of keeping his ear to the ground and his head below the waterline (ie, he's basically a great spy), and he's got power in Mechanicsburg, but not all the power. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he's really working for someone else.