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What's Up With Marcone?

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WereElephant:
This may have been addressed elsewhere, but Marcone seems to be of abnormal interest to the supernatural community. He's the only Mortal free-holding lord of the Unseelie Accords. A Valkyrie is in his service, and Monoc Securities seems to have a vested interest in him. He's made deals directly with the Queen of Air and Darkness.

Now, I like the idea of Marcone just being a regular mortal. Extraordinary in character and accomplishment, but still vanilla. However, he's displaying the same level of impact in the world that we see with the likes of Harry Dresden, Knights of the Cross, and Fae Nobility. I don't see other vanilla Mortals in the series with the same level of impact, apart from Dresden, and to a lesser extent with the Paranet, Elaine Mallory.

Has it been confirmed that Marcone is a Starborn? It would seem a little too obvious, and possibly redundant, but his signature seems to match the profile. If he's not a Starborn, is he really just a remarkable vanilla Mortal? Or is he something else?

peregrine:
Note that Monoc and the valkyrie are the exact same thing, since the valkyrie works for Monoc.  And that's because he hired them.

As for making deals with Mab, yeah, but she makes deals with regular mortals all the time, depending on what exactly she wants.

Mostly I chalk it up to him being a big wig in the Chicago area and Jim only has so many characters he wants to bother dealing with.

Kindler:
I think he's a Genre-Savvy vanilla. You know how horror movie characters never seem to know they're in a horror movie? Marcone realized he's living in an urban fantasy story (not literally, but you get what I mean), and started doing all of the things someone with resources and intelligence should do—build defenses, forge alliances, hire competent contractors, et cetera.

If that city was ever devastated by something—plague, explosions, invasion, whatever—I'd put my money on Marcone to be the one to survive it (and figure out how to profit from it). Marcone is a character who took Clint Eastwood's mantra from Heartbreak Ridge to heart: "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome." Makes sense, as he was a Marine.

raidem:
My bet is that he is Mab's son.  My next best guess is that he is the son of Lucifer or Hades.

I personally like to view Marcone as some screwed up timeline child of Murphy/Mab and Harry.  It makes Harry/Marcone dynamic more interesting than the already interesting one they got going on.  It doubles down on the paternal vibe Marcone likes to give off when dealing with Harry.  And, that same paternal vibe pisses Harry off such that Harry pushes Marcone's buttons because of it.  Storm Front and Dresden Files is devoted to Jim's father.  First chapter or two of SF has Harry and John Marcone interacting with fatherly, grandfatherly, father talking to son references dropped liberally in their interactions.  The soulgaze in White Knight between Demeter and Harry has Harry seeing a young Marcone. The description kinda reminded me of Harry too.  Young Marcone has longish dark hair.

One of Marcone's mission is to save Chicago/world from Harry.  If you ever need someone to put Harry down because he goes bad, I think Marcone would be a good guy to make it so.  I'm reminded sometimes of Marcone telling Harry that he have Harry killed, I'd even do it myself... Thinking upon the temporal effects if Marcone killed his father prior to 'him' being born, that would be saying something.

Rasins:
I kind of see Marcone and Butters as two sides of the same coin.  The real difference being that Marcone has money to be able to DO things in the supernatural world, where as Butters could only use his intellect.

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