wait what? As in the Goddess Athena? Where did this idea come from??

I don't know, it's come up here and there. Nothing official, just speculation. Might have been a non-Dresden idea thread floating around here somewhere.

Depends on if the Feds have a tech wizard that can take out evidence as soon as it's posted online. Not a literal wizard, but your typical i-can-do-anything-you-imagine guy-in-a-chair. Or they work with Athena, who can connect to any device on the web.

Definitely could work and would probably appeal more to the current anime market. Would have to be updated I think a little, but it's got a good tone.

Yeah, it premiered 13+ years ago, so I'm sure they could update some things for the better but keep the dark tone.  I just don't know that something 3d would be necessary for Dresden, like Clone Wars or Rebels, and I don't like the cartoon animation of other shows like Resistance. (I'm not that familiar with modern anime, so my cartoon exposure is pretty limited to star wars these days)

I do feel it would be more thematic if Behind was related most to Love, as he is the greatest of the Walkers (if memory serves) and Love is the greatest of the Virtues (at least in some interpretations but more importantly in Jim's novels).

Behind is the most *potent*, not necessarily the greatest/strongest. Beside seems to be the brains, possibly the longest lasting, and potentially the greatest/strongest in terms of impact. Behind is just potent in that he can act directly against humans without a host.

I just finished watching True Detective season two and I don't know why we didn't say Rachel McAdams is Murphy ages ago. Surely someone said this?

I side more with the idea that TWG/Creator made a bubble in the middle of nothing that became Reality, and every being in the nothing was pushed out of the way as the bubble expanded, and they want to reclaim the space. That way the physics of the never-never mirror the universal expansion theory.

But that doesn't mesh all that well with Behind saying in the Ghost Story flashback that they ruled 'here' before and will again. He could technically be referring to the space itself, but that's not a great explanation.

Maybe it *is* a combo of the Old Ones being the pre-Reality creatures, and the Outsiders are their creations, but there are also beings that were sent out after the fact.

Yeah, I don't see how he would have to arrest her as an FBI agent. Maybe a minor federal offense? But that goes to my point that we don't know his work history because the information we have is muddled. We know he worked in law enforcement when he was married to Murphy, so almost certainly in Chicago. Then he worked in New Orleans, then Chicago as an FBI agent.

I'm willing to accept that he was a cop in Chicago and then New Orleans, and came back as a cop and applied to join the FBI and got accepted.  The big question is just how much he might know about the supernatural world. If some, then the Feebs might put him on a secret group like SI. If none, then he's probably just a regular special agent.

This may be tangentially related to the FBI agents but there is a WoJ that says Marcone and Hendricks were both Marines. The FBI trains Agents at Quantico and frequently have prior service in the forces before becoming Agents. The potential for people who knew Marcone pre-baron days serving in the FBI is totally there.

I had started writing a fanfic ages ago about Marcone being exposed to the supernatural during his time in the military, but stopped when Butcher said he was going to be doing short stories from his perspective. (I prefer to write peripheral stories that won't be contradictory to canon)

I could see there being a section of the military that knows about the supernatural, and if Marcone crossed paths with them, they could have him on a list. Such connections could easily lead to contacts in different agencies, like you're describing.