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Marcone's Age @ SF

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Rhetoric:
No problem, it's all good. ;D

Anyway, as for Harry's perception of Marcone's age in Helen's soulgaze...


--- Quote from: White Night ---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.

[...]

Marcone had looked a lot younger when he wore his hair longer, less neat, and dressed more casually. Or maybe he'd just looked younger before he'd seen Helen's daughter die.
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It seems like "young" was very subjective in this case, referring more to Marcone's... liveliness, I guess, as opposed to his literal, physical age.

raidem:

--- Quote ---That doesn't make much sense.  Harry saw Marcone in the memory, and commented on how very, very young he looked.  Which would only be 3 years younger than he was in SF.  Which is when he looked like he was in his forties.  Even if he was 40 in SF, and 37 during the shooting, and he had a lot of stress that aged him, he still wouldn't look very, very young to Harry.
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Which is why I think something is off.  First, I don't think we can put more weight on the "ever since I had known him" piece of "He...had looked like an extremely fit forty-year-old ever since I had known him" which occurs 7 books in than his earliest description in the books.
 
Storm Front.
One option is that he might be a scion that chose after that shootout where Amanda gets shot.  It was a pivotal event in his life.  He chose to be a professional monster.

--- Quote ---I am a professional monster.
It sounds pretentious. After all, I’m not a flesh-devouring ghoul, hiding behind a human mask until it is time to gorge. I’m no vampire, to drain the blood or soul from my victim, no ogre, no demon, no cursed beast from the spirit world dwelling amid the unsuspecting sheep of humanity. I’m not even possessed of the mystic abilities of a mortal wizard.
But they will never be what I am. One and all, those beings were born to be what they are.
I made a choice.
--- End quote ---

So prior to the choice, his apparent age was in stasis similar to Sarissa's.  After choosing, he manifested a more mature look.  It has to be as reasonable as going from human to ogre, something completely different.  It would also put him in some way either part sidhe or maybe distant scion of vadderung.  Another option other than changeling/scion is magical spell that morphs his looks.  We have seen that employed quite a few times, his would need to be much more persistent and durable.

Kindler:

--- Quote from: Rhetoric on September 27, 2017, 11:50:36 PM ---No problem, it's all good. ;D

Anyway, as for Harry's perception of Marcone's age in Helen's soulgaze...

It seems like "young" was very subjective in this case, referring more to Marcone's... liveliness, I guess, as opposed to his literal, physical age.

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Seeing a little girl get shot in the stomach and blaming yourself ages you.

Tami Seven:
I've always had the feeling that Marcone was approximately 10 years older than Harry, 34-36 age range as of SF.

raidem:
I could try a poll starting at 31, with 3 year age spans.

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