Fairy Godmothers

[Mira]

Torturing Harry within the confines of the story seems more his gig. Not with any random thing we can come up with.

Marcone might fit the Kringle mantle, as leader of the Wild Hunt, but he does not fit the Santa mantle as the great gift-giver at this time. He'd have to change too.

Then again, the classic "mob-boss/godfather" modal is someone offers and hands out protection and gifts to those who are weak, kind of Kringle like.  In turn they are loyal and pay tribute in various ways, except if you get on the "naughty" list your can get a hell of a lot worse than a little coal in your sock.

[TrueMonk]

Marcone does not strike me as a man who loves something, magic or knife throwing for it's own sake. But he loves it for the power it gives him. As opposed to Harry who loves magic for it's own sake.

Harry spent all of his life on not taking the wrong kind of power up and mostly succeeded untill the point where he touched a coin briefly to save a baby. Then he never picked up the coin for real and only took bits and pieces of power from the shadow when strictly necessary.

I imagine Marcone got hold of the coin, sat alone in a room and carefully considered it and decided he wanted more power than he currently had because he would need it to continue growing in power. And the he took it in as fast as he possibly could.

It could almost not be more different. As a result I am quite sure that it would be extremely hard for Marcone to put down the coin.

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Then again, the classic "mob-boss/godfather" modal is someone offers and hands out protection and gifts to those who are weak, kind of Kringle like.  In turn they are loyal and pay tribute in various ways, except if you get on the "naughty" list your can get a hell of a lot worse than a little coal in your sock.

Depends how the sock full of coal in then used by this version of Santa’s ‘little helpers.’

One telling thing is that Marcone has never been into succession planning, that much is clear from Small Favour, he is aging out and aware that Harry still has centuries ahead of him. A coin (or a Mantle) allows Marcone to think genuinely long term, something he alluded to in Battle Ground. His two objectives has always been (1) get more power and (2) maintain power. The coin (or a Mantle) achieves both objectives, as soon as he judges that it doesn’t or there is a better alternative he will drop it, he is beholden to no one.

Taking up the Kringle Mantle doesn’t mean that he would necessarily swear fealty to Mab, but would free him from the coin, he could decide to go Wildfae, he genuinely respects Mab and likes working with someone with such a cold logical mind akin to his own (Mab and Marcone are very similar personalties) and Marcone is learning a lot from her, but even so he would not want to be a Vassal. He would take the Mantle only if he could be free, and Mab currently owes him big after the battle of Chicago. He would I think be an ally rather than a vassal.