1 INTRODUCTION  
2 OBSERVATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS  
2.1 The Dark Energy Survey  
2.2 The Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields  
2.3 Star-Galaxy Separation  
2.4 Light Curve Construction  
2.5 Variability-Selection Procedure  
2.6 Photometric Redshifts  
2.7 Stellar Mass Estimation  
2.8 Variability Analysis  
3 RESULTS  
3.1 Detection Fraction  
3.2 Dwarf AGN Candidates  
3.3 Spectroscopic Properties  
4 DISCUSSION  
4.2 X-ray Properties  
4.3 WISE Properties  
4.4 Comparison to Host Scaling Relations  
5 CONCLUSIONS