AAAAAAAAAAAH OMG.

[luciazephyr]

omgggggg to the, like, five people who told me to read the Dresden Files, I AM SO SORRY I DIDN'T GET TO IT SOONER. I just blew through the first two books and ffffff, these books are fucking amazing and I love them and everything about them

except Murphy who is kind of a massive bitch, but I hear she gets better later on.

But HARRY. BOB. FUCKING MARCONE, omg, every time he saunters in, I go nuts, he's so fabulous. I must admit, I do ship Harry/Marcone. I KNOW, PREDICTABLE BUT.... He tried to buy Dresden! BUY HIM.

You have no idea how much I want to write an AU where Harry was forced to take Marcone's offer and the fallout thereof. I mean, I spent my entire shitty day at work mentally plotting this out. It involves Awesome. Copious amount of it.

From Fool Moon, which I just finished:

Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted my blasting rod with my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck.

UNF. JESUS H CHRIST. DRESDEN IS FUCKING AMAZING.

[After Marcone tells the bad guys he'd like Dresden for himself, alive please.]
"Do you have any suggestions of where we should start looking [for Dresden]?"
Marcone flicked a switch on the sight of his rifle and pointed it negligently at the tree line. "Over there ought to do."
The red dot of the laser sight settled onto a leaf six inches to the left of my head, and the thready pulse of fear in my chest turned into an icy white streak of terror.
Damn, damn, damn.

DAYUM IS RIGHT, MARCONE IS LIKE THE MOST BADASS NORMAL EVER. 8O

:deeply in lust with these books omg:

Comments

[polarisnorth]

I LOVE THESE BOOKS SO MUCH. And yes, I do ship Harry/Marcone. I... may have an epic fic entirely plotted out and just sitting on my harddrive.

[luciazephyr]

YOU SHOULD TELL ME ABOUT IT. I keep mentally planning how to write an AU with Harry locked in a contract with Marcone would go and think it'd be AWESOMETASTICMAZING.

[polarisnorth]

Well, it happened because I noticed that all the fics were about how they got together, so I wanted one that was when they were already together, and then it turned into "They're together but when Harry tries to tell his friends about it the backlash is so bad that Marcone breaks up with him on the grounds that Harry needs his friends/allies more than he needs a boyfriend, what with the war and all." And then it turns into the story of how they get back together and Marcone and Murphy grudgingly work together when [SPOILER] comes after Harry.

... it sounds better in the longer form.

[luciazephyr]

NO THAT SOUNDS GREAT though I currently hate Murphy, but likely I won't once I get into the later books because I know she's supposed to be more awesome there.

MINE IS LESS INTERESTING. Harry signing Marcone's contract in Fool Moon to save himself from the Streetwolves maybe and Marcone holding him to it. So Marcone owns Dresden but lets him keep his business and everything, but calls him in on more supernatural jobs and Harry grudgingly goes along with it. And whenever Harry needs backup, he gets it. Or rare potion components, he gets them. All of Marcone's resources at his disposal and Harry hates that he likes being able to not take idiotic little jobs.

And one part I had in mind had Harry saving Marcone's life by throwing them both off the roof of a building and using some clever magic mixing to make them not go squish upon hitting the street. Marcone v. impressed.

BUT AS YOU HAVE READ THE BOOKS, I HAVE A QUESTION: Outside times where Harry overuses his magic and wears it out for a while, is there any way to mute a wizard's magic?

[polarisnorth]

Yeah, Murphy is not so likable in the first couple books. To be fair, though, part of that is Harry being an idiot and keeping rather important information from her.

I WOULD TOTALLY READ YOURS. :D

Well, there's that time in the second book where the ghost takes a chunk out of Harry (metaphorically). Other than that, I can't remember any incidents off the top of my head. There may be situations when introducing magic would be too volatile to risk.

[luciazephyr]

IDK, trying to arrest him two books in a row and, oh how charming, some police brutality against him! Yeah, uncool, Murphy.

HOPEFULLY I WILL WRITE IT. I'll try to read the third book first at least.

I think you mean the third book, as the second book was the werewolf one with Marcone being a pimp. That's where my fic would be going AU from.


Reason I asked: the last third of Fool Moon is dealing with Harry having "burnt out the wiring" on his magic by overusing it. I had this idea that once Marcone whisks him away, he gets a magic device to help heal Harry's magic-- a set of bracelets that keep magic from leaving the body. So any spells he tries to cast just flow through the bracelets and back into him, like a self-powered generator. Has the added effect of making it impossible to use magic, which makes Harry D8 as he's recovering.

IDK, I like the idea that you can burn out your magic and have to recover from sloppy overuse, and the metaphorical handcuffs that heal Harry while trapping him. SYMBOLISM~!

[polarisnorth]

You definitely need to read up to the fifth book at least, because that one has some really important stuff with Marcone. Also, come to think, that one would be really awesome to spin an AU plot off of.

Magical handcuffs is a pretty cool idea. They would also be a way to pretty effectively torture someone you didn't like -- I don't know if it's possible according to that verse's magical laws, but what would happen if someone got overloaded on magic and couldn't siphon any of it off?

[luciazephyr]

Is 5 the one with the Shroud of Turin? :has done some research on the series, yes:

OH YOU BETCHA. 83 A lot of "this is for your own good" going on there. And I was playing with the idea that it could backfire like that at some point. Harry purposefully breaking them, for instance, yes. :HAS MANY IDEAS:

[polarisnorth]

Yesssssss, that is the one with the Shroud of Turin. I'm ridiculously fond of it. Also the one with the T-Rex, which I believe is book 7.

[luciazephyr]

I don't even have a copy of Dead Beat, but I have heard of the CMoA in it and am tres excited for it. 8D