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I have a system with two pumps running, I want to turn one pump on and off from a raspberry pi,if the raspberry fails, I want the second pump to run

I have been trying (for a week) to design a circuit where the first pump is controlled by an NPN transistor and the emitter is connected to the base of the PNP, I have assumed that when the NPN is closed, the PNP is off but either i have the circuit design wrong or the resistance values are not correct but it doesn’t work as expected. I have used LEDs in LT SPice to mimic the loads. Any guidance, very gratefully received, I am new to working with transisitors and having a struggle with how the PNP splits the inbound current