Editing March (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
March is a [[Multitrigger]] cape which gives her several abilities. Her primary power is enhanced timing.<ref>“[...] Different. Timing is her main power. Situational, big-picture. Operation-level.”<br/>“She was good on the small scale too,” I said, following Faultline. “Is that stronger because she used what she told us about? The thing that let Goddess take all the power?”<br/><br/>“No comment, not on that,” Faultline said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/06 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.5]]</ref> March's timing ability allows her to organise groups very efficiently, to the point where she can give the exact amount of time they need to accomplish their tasks and complete a given objective.<ref>With only sound cues and awareness of where they had been before, March could visualize their locations.  She knew how fast they moved from how fast they had moved before, she knew how long it would take to get where she wanted them to go, and she knew them well enough that she knew their behaviors and they knew what she wanted of them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref> Further it is a huge help with her own fighting and positioning with which she can pull off seemingly impossible feats.<ref name=Disk>A trio of half-naked teenagers ran through the mansion, hucking vinyl discs at one another.  May skipped forward, her power kicking in, and she caught one of the discs out of the air, her finger at the little hole.  It spun with latent momentum, and her finger traced along the underside, carving out a line of power, which became a spiral rather than a complete circle, as she moved her finger further out.<br/><br/>She judged, connected to the timing, and visualized the avenues it could travel.  She threw it frisbee style, lining up her own body with the ghost images.<br/><br/>The vinyl passed into the boughs of an apple tree, detonating just as it reached the center.  The entire tree shook, and apples began raining down.  The two people beneath shrieked and made a run for it as the hail came down.<br/><br/>May pumped her fists in the air.  As the apples stopped falling, people ran to go get some for themselves. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref><ref>Their March hears rather than sees the gun drop from the base of the dragon-mech’s chin.  She glances back, and she saw the caliber of it, the space between rounds.  She sees it start to spin, and one facet of her power did the calculations.<br/><br/>Every movement was made accurate by the efforts of the three faces.  To make opening fire as difficult as possible, she charges at the hand-boy and Vista, who were making her life so very difficult, making sure that any bullet that passed through her would pass through them too.<br/><br/>A bullet catches her arm, once, a second one following a moment later- punishing her for being a half-inch out of position.<br/><br/>More gunfire came down at an angle, as the craft lifted up.  Zig-zagging meant it was harder to draw a bead on her. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.all]]</ref> When boosted, time appears to slow for March, allowing her to make decisions on the fly.{{cite}} Her thinker aspect is strong enough to make her unreadable to other Thinkers, such as [[Tattletale]].<ref name="interest">“With my power, I can usually figure people out.  With March, I can’t.  When that happens, it’s because there is no answer, or I’m asking the wrong question.”<br/><br/>That was more information than I’d ever had about Tattletale’s power and its limitations.<br/><br/>“You should know I’m baring my throat and showing you some weaknesses as a gesture of good faith,” Tattletale said.<br/><br/>Or as a manipulation tactic. [...]  I drew out the thrust of Tattletale’s explanation, something that I seemed to have to do with regularity.  “You think you can’t figure out if March is one or the other because she’s both?”<br/><br/>“Or neither, but saying it’s neither would mean it’s so far afield it’s not sensible.  Which would fit her.  Either way, if she ''really'' likes someone, that isn’t a good thing.”<br/><br/>“You’re saying not to rely on her, then?”<br/><br/>“Know what you’re getting into.  She’d be useful to have if you pick this fight.  It’s a lot of Fallen and they’ll be going to somewhere there are friends.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/01 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.6]]</ref> An added benefit allows her to inject theatricality into everything she does. However it requires her to be knowledgeable about the relevant factors, environment, fitness, parahuman powers, etc. involved so timing can be worked out, otherwise she can be preempted and defeated.<ref name=baton>A brief and violent struggle.  She was good at timing, but she had to know what her enemy did.<br/><br/>And the people of this cluster did so very many things.<br/><br/>A man, heavyset, with a false magnificence that filled her with equally false strength, just to be around him.  False enough that she tested and exceeded her limits, hurt herself in mind and body.  A telekinetic shield that seemed to parry things just as effectively as her own timing power and enhanced baton did.  He teleported short distances, and made the building shake like it was in the midst of an earthquake when he appeared.  Power and force and when she finally cut him, he grabbed the line she’d drawn on him and threw it away, like it was a scrap of cloth. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>

A dangerous secondary ability of hers lets March access a [[Perfect]] offensive weapon,<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/527ql6/_/d7i4koa Wildbow's comment on Reddit]</ref> while it's a weaker version of [[Flechette|her clustermate's]] power it still lets March cut through nearly any foe's defense.<ref>S/he did get Sting lite. Remember, Sting is a 'shark' of a shard. Can't really do much to improve or vary it. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15081572 Spacebattles post] by Wildbow.</ref><ref name="II12.all eInvulnerable">“I’m invulnerable,” [[Caryatid]] growls.<br><br>“I blow up invulnerable people,” their March answers.<br><br>“She does,” Vista says.  “Go.  Run.  Make sure everyone’s on the same page.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.all]]</ref>

The other [[Homer|clustermate's]] gift manifests as a watermark, spreading from its contact point until it detonates upon reaching its apex; a timed explosion.<ref name=Disk/><ref name="5.12 e2">“Found these guys while researching powers and options.  March put the pieces together about who I am and where I’m from.” <br/><br/>He’d indicated the woman with the bunny mask. March continued pacing around the group.  Her rapier’s tip dragged along the ground.  It left a trail behind it, like the water rippling in the wake of a stick being moved in it, and that water had hues of blue, purple, and black running through it for a second or two after the contact.<br/>[...]<br/>The large thing had fallen over, one hand planted on the ground near some of the civilians.  March ran up its arm, ducking and using momentum to slide up the slope of the arm as a bony claw reached for her.<br/><br/>She ran along the shoulders, cutting as she went, leaped as the head sank into the morass of the body and became two avian skulls that pecked at the air, and then came down, stabbing her rapier into the chest and dragging the point against the giant thing’s torso, cutting as she went down.  The blue-purple-black watercolor spread in the wake of the blade’s tip.<br/><br/>She pulled it free, stabbed at a reaching hand, and used it to reorient her fall.  She landed hard, her feet planted on either side of a screaming teenage girls’ head.  A slight misstep, and she would have caved in the poor girl’s face.<br/><br/>March snapped her fingers and flicked with her blade.<br/><br/>At the shoulder, where the long cut had started, there was a flare of the watercolor spray.  Purple and blue, with deep shadow in the midst of it. [...] The flare was tracing along the line she’d cut like a flame down a cartoon bomb’s fuse. [...] The ‘fuse’ reached its terminus.  What had been a flare became a fierce explosion, right down at the base of the breaker.<br/><br/>I flew toward it, bringing out the Wretch, so I could catch it if it toppled onto March and the civilians.  It didn’t, falling backward and dissolving as it did. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.12]]</ref> It can interfere with breaker effects<ref name="5.12 e2"/> and easily kill people just by applying the explosion effect sans any other damage.<ref name="5.12 e2.5">The breaker form dissipated, and there was only the Fallen with the demon themed skull mask, tipping backward to land on his ass.  March plunged her rapier into his chest, then flicked it up, toward his throat.<br/>[...]<br/>The Fallen was patting his chest where he’d been stabbed.  He touched his throat.  Intact, but the line of watercolor marked him.<br/>[...]<br/>Still floating in the air, I could see the flare appear at the breaker Fallen’s chest.  He brought his hands to it, quick, frantic, then tried to pat it out.<br/><br/>“Hey!” the Fallen cried out.  He lurched to his feet.  “Stop!”<br/><br/>March was walking away.<br/><br/>“Hey!  Fuck!  Help me!”<br/><br/>She flourished with her blade and sheathed it, in the very same moment the fuse reached its terminus.  The explosion was smaller, but it was sufficient to take out the front of the Fallen’s throat.  He dropped to his knees, still moving inarticulately, eyes wide and stunned, and then collapsed to the ground. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.12]]</ref> Related to this is some sort of accuracy power, a major component of Homer's primary ability. It was similarly disrupted by spatial warping as her clustermates was.<ref name="9.2">Vista stepped out into the middle of the road at the edge of the fissure, then concentrated.  She felt her power extend to every solid object in front of her, formed a map in her head.  There was nobody out there, which made it easier.  Slowly, carefully, she began adjusting.  She truncated the length of Lord street, then did it again, repeating the process to make the four lane road shorter and shorter.  The fissure down the center of the road squeezed against itself like a compressed spring.<br/><br/>“This is disorienting,” Flechette spoke, as she gazed at the scene.  “My power gives me a grasp of angles… and I’m worried I might have a seizure if I try to use it to get a sense of what’s happening here.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/17 Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.5]]</ref><ref>"[[Interlude 12.all|In .all]], Vista shortens the rapier as it presses in. It punctures the breastplate and does superficial damage to her, blows up the breastplate. She ends up unconscious, city collapses."<br/><br/>"Hours later, Foil heads out and is joined by Imp and a wounded Vista. Vista repeats the trick to save Imp and Foil. There's the turnaround, meta space fuckery, Vista trips up March a few times, they press the advantage and beat her." - [https://redd.it/b7hb5b Discord WOG], on Reddit</ref>

She is very good at intuiting connections for [[Multitrigger]]s, given her past study<ref name="5.12 e5"/> and possibly personal experiences,<ref>“Multitriggers,” Precipice said.  “She collects them.”<br/><br/>“Why?” I pressed.<br/><br/>“Because I think she gets them.  She understands it, she’s good at finding us out in the wild, she’s good at figuring out weird, wild shit like the power transfers.  The Goddess thing.”<br/><br/>“Because of her power, somehow, or-”<br/><br/>Foil shook her head.<br/><br/>We headed back, flying, jogging, or, in Rachel and her henchman’s case, hopping up so they hung onto the side of dogs with one hand while the dogs did the work of padding through snow and over ice.<br/><br/>Chastity had a suggestion, “Natural inclination.  Some people are good at music, and they were going to be people who were good at making music before they even picked up an instrument or sang a note.”<br/><br/>“Maybe that,” Foil said.  “Maybe she’s been focusing on that stuff while I was getting started as a Ward, getting my gear, doing patrols.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref> such as [[Shard network|getting a peek "backstage"]].<ref name=Grue/>
===Equipment and Tactics===
March has used several objects over her career including a baton and many bladed weapons<ref name=baton/> she now carries a rapier she habitually imbues with her "sting' effect. She also includes various other loadouts based on the situation, including a sniper rifle<ref>I pointed at that, then spun around to point at the other end.  The headlights of March’s vehicle were sweeping into the lot as it pulled in, but March wasn’t waiting that long.  She sat in the open window of the car, leaning over the hood with a rifle in her hands. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/06 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.5]]</ref> and several rubber balls she can charge with her power.<ref>Ten bouncy rubber balls bounce off of the people and the walls.  They scatter on impact and they semi-randomly come to settle to different points around the rooftop.<br/><br/>Each ball is infused with a timer.  Some were still bouncing when they stopped: they were the stragglers she’d focused on more when throwing.  Aimed to be closer to Narwhal.  Closer to the boy in armor that was making the hands.  Closer to Vista.<br/><br/>Some escape.  Most don’t.  Detonations rip across the roof, small and intense, dangerous, and distracting.  All but one go off. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.all]]</ref>