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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.
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...
It can be the thing Bob sees that you can exchange with other humans while hugging them or it can be an abstract thing, the essence of your being as Mother Summer describes it. Becoming evil can be described as loosing your soul because you are no longer the person you were so your essential You-ness is gone but you are still something.
Given this WOJ:"@BillyYank Marcone was a Marine", I really don't see Marcone on active duty as a Marine from the time of Amanda Beckitt's shooting onward. During this time, he is actively fighting to take over a criminal enterprise. Therefore, he served as a Marine prior to his appearance as quoted below:Or, he joined the Marines after the shooting but didn't serve a full term, or much of a term at all.
So, Marcone's age for me is at least 31-35 during SF, that is the lower limit then. Harry is 25 during SF per Priscilla timeline.
That said, we actually didn't see Marcone appearance in the shootout which "a very, very young-looking Marcone" is based off of; we saw his appearance via a soulgaze between Harry and Helen Beckitt.
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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.
Or, he joined the Marines after the shooting but didn't serve a full term, or much of a term at all.
We know MacFinn was in Vietnam. Don't know about Marcone though.
Now for Marcone
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@BillyYank Marcone was a Marine. [Age>17 when he entered service]
I'm having some difficulty making some of the facts we know about Marcone mesh.
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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.
Why? Because he was busy taking over the criminal enterprise in Chicago after that shootout or so I suppose and the shootout wasn't that much earlier than Storm Front.
From what I recall he was a marine in Vietnam. Though I might be getting Michael carpenter confused in with the woj. You definitely remembered correctly that he was a marine.
Margret knew Harry would be a starborn, and made that pentagram just for him. He has used it as a focus before, I wonder if she might have made it just for a starborn.
Probably not that much older than Cassius, time enough to be saved if the dresdenverse follows Christian mythology.
The difference is that Every time we learn to understand Mab a little bit better we get a better understanding why she is doing what she does and why it is important.Then rapidly turn to dust... He is a couple of thousand years old after all.
Every time we learn to understand Nicodemus and the denarians better we better understand that the best thing Nicodemus can do is drop the coin and get out of it.
All the translations I've got a super kid friendly and super christianised
Yet to find the legendary Grimm and Gruesome tales of Cinderella's Step-sisters cutting off their own feet. I've download 1810 and 1812 translations, but I still seem to be getting the watered down version. Even though a couple are clearly academic standard discussing the merits and nuances of a particular word in German translated to English. Love those footnotes.
True. What I wonder though is; why enthrall them to begin with? It's quite clear looking at Harry's memories with Justin that he was trying to go with old-school indoctrination at first- which is kinda a waste of time if you're just gonna mind-jack them.
That said, given that even Butters is apparently a better Wizard then him (in spite of having literally zero magical talent) Harry may well be over-estimating himself.
He's In the top 50 for raw power, but in terms of actually ability he's like, apprentice level. He just compensates for it with raw energy.
Well, yeah, he hasn't needed to use it. I'm saying that for someone with an orphan complex as bad as Harry, it's a bit odd that he hasn't spent time examining or studying the thing that lets him hear his mother's voice.
The knowledge in the gem was recorded like personal notes. What else is on there besides directions through the Ways? Seems like something Harry would want to know—in fact, be desperate to know.