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What's Up With Marcone?

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KurtinStGeorge:

--- Quote from: raidem on March 29, 2018, 01:06:09 AM ---I think marcone could have supernatural lineage but he chose to be vanilla mortal.  He likely was a changeling/scion that gave up his other side to be a professional monster.  He did in fact say he chose to be a professional monster.  That can be taken one of two ways: free willed choice, or  something akin to a changeling choosing their mortal half then going the monster route.

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OK that's possible but what would the point be?  I mean from the standpoint of overall story, if Marcone's a mortal now, with no special powers or the chance to make a different choice, then it really doesn't matter if one of his parents was fae or some other supernatural creature.  It might explain how he got clued-in on the supernatural world, but little else. 

raidem:
The point would be that we can't exclude his parentage being non-vanillas.  We can have Marcone as mortal human with him still being having supernatural lineage.  People tend to argue if he is not vanilla or something that it would destroy his character/accomplishments.

Quantus:

--- Quote from: jonas on March 28, 2018, 04:08:03 AM ---No, actually per woj there's millions of them, most simply lack any disconcernable power to leverage as Harry does. The most unique thing about them is they are ordinary it seems. Being so ordinary I think most really never encounter heavy supernatural events/personages. Marcone dispite being ordinary, does. Look at the private relations he's had with both Odin and now Mab, he has influence, strike that. He IS influence.

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The only WOJ we have on it only says that both Harry and Elaine had the potential to be Starborn, and that for that purpose their birthdays (a few months apart) were close enough which ruled out Harry's Halloween birthday being significant.  Nowhere has it been said there are more, let alone millions. 

Mr. Death:

--- Quote from: raidem on March 29, 2018, 11:52:26 AM ---The point would be that we can't exclude his parentage being non-vanillas.  We can have Marcone as mortal human with him still being having supernatural lineage.  People tend to argue if he is not vanilla or something that it would destroy his character/accomplishments.

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Again, what is the point of a supernatural lineage that has no affect on him?

A piece of his backstory that nobody knows about, nobody brings up, nobody notices and has no affect on him and his life may as well not be there.

Now, I will say I can see Marcone trying to acquire supernatural power, but on his terms. Not unlike Xanatos -- but at minimum, I would not be at all surprised to find that he had Gard enchant his jacket to be bulletproof like Harry's, and other such personal-security type stuff.

raidem:
Well, I'm really not in the camp of him having supernatural roots that have no effect on him.  I believe these supernatural roots are what is partly why mab, Odin, Hades have taken notice of him.

You are assuming his parentage is something nobody knows about, nobody brings up, nobody notices, and has no affect on him and his life.  That is a huge assumption that is false.  We only see via Harry so we don't know what other characters know. And I'm sure marcone's parents had an effect on his life.

To go even further, we are limited to seeing via Harry's viewpoint only for a few days every span of months up to a year.

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