#even hand

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22. Team

[landfilloftrash]

✨Back on my silly time bullshit✨

Marcone my dearly beloved; back to my cave I go

. without the lighting + sprinkler water below .

[cheezette-gazette]

Dresden-verse Aesthetic Week Five: 

Gentleman John Marconne

“I am a professional monster.

It sounds pretentious. After all, I’m not a flesh-devouring ghoul....I’m no vampire.... no orge, no demon..... But they will never be what i am... those beings were born to be what they are.

I made a choice.”

-from the short story ‘Even Hand’ found in the ‘Brief Cases’ anthology.

Some songs;

“Moon Over Burbon Street(ft. Stephen Fitzmaurice)” by Sting

“Right Place Wrong Time” by Dr. John

“Money, It’s Pure Evil” by Bigelf

“Die Walkurie, WWV 86b, act III: Ride (Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra)” Composed by Richard Wagner

“Renegade” by Styx

“I Had My Chance” by Morphine

“Leave My Girl Alone” by Stevie Ray Vaughan

“The Dream is Over” by Van Halen

"Shout" by Tears for Fears

“In My Time of Dying” by Tango Alpha Tango

“Imagine(John Lennon cover)” by A Perfect Circle 

"Enemy (with JID)" (from the series 'Arcane: League of Legends') by Imagine Dragons

[strangegiraffesystem]

Jim: "John Marcone" isn't Marcone's given name

The rest of the Dresden Files fandom: I wonder how this would affect magic using his name. Would the name John Marcone still be able to be used against him because he chose it and uses it for himself? This will make his interactions with the fae so much more interesting.

Me: Trans Marcone?! Trans Marcone!!

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Gard tested the edge of her axe with her thumb and drew a smooth stone from her pocket. “Mag is a fomor sorcerer lord of the first rank. He’s deadly— and connected. The fomor could crush you without a serious loss of resources. Confrontation would be unwise.” The stone made a steely, slithery sound as it glided over the axe’s blade. “There seems little profit to be had, then,” I said. “It’s nothing personal, Justine. Merely business. I am obliged to return stolen property to signatory members of the Accords.” Hendricks looked at me sharply. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t have to. I already knew the tone of whatever he would say. 'Are there no prisons?', perhaps. Or, 'No man is an island, entire of itself. It tolls for thee.' On and on. Hendricks has no head for business. Gard watched me, waiting. “Sir,” Justine said, her tone measured and oddly formal. “May I speak?” I nodded. “She isn’t property,” Justine said, and her voice was low and intense, her eyes direct. “She was trapped in a den of living nightmares, and there was no one to come save her. She would have died there. And I am not letting anyone take her back to that hellhole. I will die first.” The young woman set her jaw. “She is not property, Mr. Marcone. She’s a child.” I met Justine’s eyes for a long moment. I glanced aside at Hendricks. He waited for my decision. Gard watched me. As ever, Gard watched me. I looked down at my hands, my fingertips resting together with my elbows propped on the desk. Business came first. Always. But I have rules. I looked up at Justine. “She’s a child,” I said quietly.

John Marcone (Even Hand by Jim Butcher)

I love this! Like, I can’t get over the fact that Marcone can tell what both Hendricks and Gard are thinking just based on the way they look at him. Hendricks knowing that Marcone knows. The fact Hendricks would speak out against Marcone’s decision, in order to defend Justine!! Honestly, Hendricks and Marcone’s relationship is so underrated... And you know Gard agrees with Hendricks, so despite the fact the Fomor could easily wipe them out, all three of them are in agreement. All this, for Justine, who gets to be amazing in a way she rarely is in the books. Even Hand is such a gift.

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Actually, the main reason I’m looking forward to Brief Cases is hearing James Marsters read Even Hand!!

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I TOTALLY THOUGHT HENDRICKS' THESIS WAS JUST FANON! THIS IS WONDERFUL NEWS!

“Hendricks frowned from his seat at a nearby desk. He was hunched over a laptop that looked too small for him, plugging away at his thesis.” ~ Even Hand

I was so shocked when I heard that line for the first time that I had to rewind just to make sure I hadn’t imagined it XD. in Dresden’s mind, Hendricks is nothing but a thug, but we see in Even Hand that Hendricks is an intelligent, thoughtful man with a heart of… if not gold, then at least tarnished bronze. To quote Marcone again: “Looking at him, one would not think him capable of such a thing. But that is Hendricks, generally.”

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Good thinking, Cujo,” I said. “It’ll only hurt for a minute.

Harry Dresden about “Cujo” Hendricks (Small Favor by Jim Butcher)

And then there’s that bit in Even Hand where Marcone makes casual references to Hendricks writing a thesis like somewhere in the distance you can hear Harry dropping his spoon into his Cheerios and yelling “HE’S WHAT?!”