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Marcone's Age @ SF
raidem:
Some years prior to SF [4* years BSF?] [my estimate was 3-7 years BSF]
--- Quote ---I looked over my shoulder to see a very, very young-looking Marcone.
He wasn't wearing a business suit. He had on jeans and a black leather jacket. His hair was longish, a little mussed, and he also sported a stubble of beard that gave him the kind of rakish look that would attract attention from the girls who fantasized about indulging with a bad boy.
His eyes were still green—but they were the green of a summer hunter's blind, bright and intelligent and predatory, but touched with more… something. Humor, maybe. More life.
And he was skinnier. Not a lot skinnier or anything, but it surprised me how much younger it and the other minor changes made him look.
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SF: Marcone's appearance during first Harry/Marcone encounter
--- Quote ---Gentleman Johnny Marcone didn't look like the sort of man who would have my legs broken or my jaw wired shut. His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and there were lines from sun and smiling etched into the corners of his eyes. His eyes were the green of well-worn dollar bills. He seemed more like a college football coach: good-looking, tanned, athletic, and enthusiastic. The impression was reinforced by the men he kept with him.
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SG: [Don't put Skin Game age down in poll, only Storm Front age]
--- Quote ---Seated at her right hand, wearing a charcoal-grey suit, was Gentleman Johnnie Marcone, Baron of Chicago under the Unseelie Accords—and made so, at least in part, by my own signature. There might have been slightly more silver at his temples than the last time I’d seen him, but it only made him look more distinguished. Otherwise, he looked exactly as he always did: calm, alert, impeccably groomed, and as merciful as a lawn mower’s blade.
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So yeah, Marcone has salt and pepper hair as of SF that is going more salt than pepper, aka silver.
Rhetoric:
Found all the relevant descriptions that I could. I might be missing others.
--- Quote from: Storm Front ---His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and there were lines from sun and smiling etched into the corners of his eyes.
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--- Quote from: Fool Moon ---His skin was weatherworn, with an outdoorsman's deep tan. Creases showed at the corners of his eyes and mouth, as though from smiling, but those smiles were rarely sincere.
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--- Quote from: Death Masks ---Central casting would have placed him as the genial next-door neighbor. He didn't have the usual boater's tan, it being February and all, but the crow's-feet at the corners of his pale green eyes remained. He looked a lot like the fictional public image he projected-that of a normal, respectable businessman, an American tale of middle class made good.
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--- Quote from: Dead Beat ---He was a man a little over average height, somewhere in the late prime of his life, his dark hair flecked with grey.
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--- Quote from: White Night ---He was an inch or two above average height, and had looked like an extremely fit forty-year-old ever since I had known him.
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--- Quote from: Changes ---He looked like a man in his mature prime, neat and precise from his haircut to his polished leather shoes.
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--- Quote from: Aftermath ---His short, conservatively cut hair was dark, except for just enough silver at his temples to announce a man in his physical and mental prime.
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--- Quote from: Skin Game ---There might have been slightly more silver at his temples than the last time I’d seen him, but it only made him look more distinguished. Otherwise, he looked exactly as he always did: calm, alert, impeccably groomed, and as merciful as a lawn mower’s blade.
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It appears as though somewhere between Dead Beat and Aftermath, Butcher decided to swap the salt-and-pepper look out for greying temples. That, or Marcone started getting fancy with hair dye.
Also, I don't know how much control Butcher exerted over the comics' character designs, but it's worth noting that in the comics Marcone's hair is colored grey overall.
jonas:
Yeah I went with 36-40 too, but 40-45 might be more accurate. However at that age I would expect more mention of passing his prime, so stuck him as slightly younger.
raidem:
Yeah, I have thought the comics have gotten his age wrong based off his hair. He looks too old in them.
It is interesting though Harry says marcone has looked like a forty year old ever since he has known him in wk.
I still think he might be a scion that chose so his apparent age may be significantly different than his actual age.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Quote from: White Night
He was an inch or two above average height, and had looked like an extremely fit forty-year-old ever since I had known him.
Quote from: Changes
He looked like a man in his mature prime, neat and precise from his haircut to his polished leather shoes.
One has to ask, what age is considered "prime?" That has different meanings depending on the age and sex of the observer, it could mean anywhere from mid to late twenties to fifty... I looked it up and physically prime is considered around the age of 30-35, but mentally/emotional prime it can be as old as fifty to sixty.. So it is possible that Marcone is in his mid to late thirties when Harry meets him in Storm Front, and is between fifty and sixty years of age as of Skin Game.. He is in good health, no doubt works out, so he may look like a man in his early forties...
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