Editing March (section)

==History==
===Background===
May and her mother are refugees from [[Japan]], her mother meticulously planned out and scheduled nearly all aspects of her life,<ref name="12z 2"><!--recut to empathize time --> "An actual playdate for a thirteen year old, my ‘date’ chosen carefully, because their parents are the right people and they’ve never been in trouble." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref> which May found oppressive.<ref>Happiness was by accident only.  Happiness was when the tutors got the times wrong and there was a break in the schedule, and mom just so happened to be busy with something.   Or when mom had just bought the violin and cupboards and fridge were running empty, and mom messed up the timing on the preheating for the chicken kiev, so it was raw on the first bite, and there had been money only for a dollar burger and side salad. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>

May was part of the [[Lily's Cluster|same group trigger]] as [[Flechette]] in [[New York]],<ref name="SB eNemesis">Foil is 17 and a senior. She triggered 3 years prior to her appearance, as part of a group trigger in New York. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17584328 Private message] by Wildbow, posted on Spacebattles</ref> taking place sometime in January 2008.<sup>[[Timeline#2008|&#91;*&#93;]]</sup> May and her mother got accidentally dragged on the rails by Lily's friends. May instinctively hid in the alcove, confusing her dazed mother. A moment later, the train arrived and May [[trigger]]ed after realizing the results of her actions. In a seeming daze, she proceeded to the scheduled audition. Her personality was notably altered as she resented the officials' concern for where she was instead of the scheduled audition.

Newly orphaned, she used her equally new powers to slip away from her guardians, embarking on a dizzying spiral of drugs and partying.<ref>The party was one of about fifteen benders that May had participated in since her mom had died.  She had a hundred thousand dollars in inheritance, and after the state had found someone who qualified as a relative, she’d ducked out, grabbing the folder that her new guardians had been left, with details on her trust.<br/><br/>They were leaving her access to the account, probably because they thought it would help lead them to her.  As far as they were concerned, she always just barely got away.  For her, it was trivial. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>

Later, she was contacted by [[Homer]], the third cluster-mate, and he provided some insight into their situation.

March became a bodyguard for an independent parahuman investigator. Together, they tried to assist the remains of the [[Goddess' Cluster|smugglers cluster]] and were captured by the most aggressive member alongside other clustermates. Suffering from blood loss, March experienced near-death visions that reveal to her the [[entity|artificial afterlife]] and upturn her world-view. She gets resuscitated by [[Cauldron]] rescue team.

Driven by her newfound obsession with Flechette March returned to New York. She repeatedly joined minor villain groups that were targeted by the [[wards]]. But her habit of escalation and brutal efficiency forced her to move on, as those groups quickly deemed "unsafe" to engage for the Wards.<ref name ="game">She joined a villain group my Wards team was already dealing with.  Low-level, nonviolent, safe enough that our bosses were okay letting us try.  She made them more effective and she blew up enough things that our bosses withdrew that permission.  We moved on to another sanctioned target, and March joined them. [...] She would disappear for months at a time, then show up with friends.  What got me was that I was trying to treat the cape stuff like a career, right from the start.  Getting away from… from whatever pulled my sister down.  For March, it was always a game.  Not the usual way, where it’s a specific meta-approach to crime and criminality.  Like an actual game.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref> She gained an eclectic criminal record, unattached to any particular operation.<ref name="5.12 e1">The woman with the bunny mask walked, almost ''strutted'' around the periphery of things, her rapier in hand.  The capes with Valefor kept their attention on her, while Valefor was oblivous{sic} or uncaring.<br/><br/>Rain was- he’d contacted people I barely recognized.  I’d seen March’s mask before, but it had been in passing.  An article about one of the big cities.  There’d been a weird dynamic there, but I couldn’t afford to dwell on it.  My mind went to a bizarre combination of upper-class and low-class crimes, like corporate espionage and petty vandalism, but I knew almost right away that I was thinking of the wrong person.<br/><br/>It had been ''something'' offbeat like that, though.  If the people hadn’t been screaming, and if I wasn’t focused on Valefor’s body language and Mama being somewhere nearby, I wanted to think I could’ve placed it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.12]]</ref>

===[[Timeskip]]===
March visited [[Brockton Bay]] when the portal went up, twice. The second time she kidnapped Parian to get at the newly renamed Foil.<ref> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5y II]]</ref>

At the same time she had run-ins with local [[Brockton Bay]] heroes and presumably other native parahumans.<ref>Vista was in play.  Vista was getting in her way.  They’d had a few run-ins already, when March had paid visits to Foil and had run afoul of the city’s heroes.  ''This'' city’s heroes, she had to remind herself. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>
===[[Gold Morning]]===
Likely had a similar experience to other Parahumans.

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
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March was able to survive [[Gold Morning]] and started seeking out other cluster capes. She reached out to the recently triggered [[of5]] and offered information and assistance with their unfortunate group trigger dynamic.<ref name="R1.4">'''Private Message Exchanges: Coded Name, Of5, the group chat'''<br/><br/>of5 is reached out to by someone with a long, coded name, with a coded message. of5 asks the people from the larger group convo about it: their female friend suggested it's a bot. After briefly wondering if it's [[Garotte|'S' (dismissed as S "Isn't that bad with computers")]] they're told to ignore it and move on.<br/><br/>But the person from the coded message starts speaking in plain english. of5's searches & comments on the broken multi-trigger articles have been noticed. Coded-name goes through all the instances of multi-triggers they've heard of, working out who of5 could be, and decides that of5 is the 'runt' from 'the mall'.<br/>
*Coded-name already talked to someone else from the mall and was turned down. Lucky for of5, coded-name says, because of5 will need all the help they can get, and coded-name is offering that help.
*The mall group has a woman, a man, and two boys, four individuals. Three members of the group are coordinating to go after one of the two boys, the runt. The woman is hiring mercenary help for the deed, and the man is talking to an information broker named Tattletale to find the runt.
*Coded-name remarks 'a case of [[Kiss/Kill]] like I never saw and I don’t think they’re reaching for the chapstick.' - and the response from of5 is 'You’re wrong / It isn’t Kiss/Kill.'
*But, of5 says, they're open to assistance. - [https://redd.it/7ckqaj/ Synopsis by Wildbow] for [[Glow-worm P.4]]</ref> Unknown to Rain she had also tried to recruit his Clustermates as well, though they seemingly rejected her overtures.<ref name="5y e1"/>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Rain was reluctant to reach out to March given how much of an unknown she was to him.<ref>Rain stood a very real chance of dying.<br/><br/>He was standing there, not responding, his thoughts tearing through his brain.  He had options but none of them were options.<br/>[...]<br/>The person online- no guarantees. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/13 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 4.b II]]</ref> The Runt finally reached out to March when he had nowhere else to go He met her and her team at her hideout in the city.<ref>[[Interlude 5d II]]</ref>

===[[Mathers Compound Assault]]===
Later they deployed against the [[Fallen]], separate from the [[Hollow Point]]ers and [[Wardens]].<ref name="5y e1">“You know March?” Snag asked.<br/><br/>“Did you invite her?”<br/><br/>“No,” he said.<br/><br/>“Yeah.  I know her,” Foil said.  “She’s been after me since… forever ago.  She turned up in Brockton Bay twice, after the portal, before the end of the world.  She kidnapped Parian once.”<br/><br/>“She wanted to recruit me, months ago.”<br/><br/>“She collects multi-triggers,” Parian said.<br/><br/>Cradle, Love Lost, and himself, then? - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5y II]]</ref><ref name="5.11 II e1"/> She personally apprehended [[Mama Mathers]] and killed several Fallen members. After the [[Thomais Family]] revealed themselves, March hung back to see how things played out.

After a quick side chat with Parian, March decided that that her team would leave.<ref>I was aware that March and Parian were talking, further away from the wall and the group.<br/>[...]<br/>March saluted, made a sound like she was chuckling under her breath, and ducked beneath a branch as she headed further into the woods.<br/><br/>“Good riddance,” Foil hissed under her breath.  In a different, softer tone, she said, “It’s been a long time, Victoria.”<br/>[...]<br/>I turned to Foil, looking to change the topic, “What’s the story with this March thing?”<br/><br/>“Long story.  We’ll talk later, but- not in polite company,” Foil said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/14 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref> It is not known if she lingered in the area.<ref>“We’re with Prancer, you know,” Foil said, behind us.<br/><br/>“I know,” I said, turning around.<br/><br/>“If you go, we’re staying.  We’ll do what we can here.”<br/><br/>“We’ll have to dodge March if she’s still around,” Parian said, quiet.<br/><br/>“Yeah,” Foil said. “This isn’t a good day.”<br/><br/>“Be safe,” I said.<br/><br/>“That’s the plan,” Foil said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/17 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.2]]</ref>
===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Some weeks later March upticked her group's harassment of [[The Needlepoints]] and by extension [[The Undersiders]]<ref>“March,” I said, an instant before the image of her ‘hare’ mask and the brimmed hat with the masks’ ears poking out the front came into solid, crystal-clear focus.<br/><br/>“She recruited,” Ashley observed.<br/><br/>“''Yeah'',” Rain said.<br/><br/>“She didn’t try to recruit you?” Sveta asked.<br/><br/>“I was in ''jail''.  Maybe she tried?”<br/><br/>The Undersiders hadn’t gone running to Parian and Foil for refuge.  Or maybe they had, but it wasn’t necessarily the primary focus.  They’d gone there to protect them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/03 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.4]]</ref><ref>[[Blinding 11.3]]</ref>

The Balance of the [[The Mall Cluster]] reached out to March and her group after their surveillance showed that that was exactly what the new alliance of Breakthrough and the Undersiders didn't want them to do.<ref>
“I know.  They said it before.  They’ll be more insistent, try deals.  They said the worst case scenario is that Cradle allies with March and then takes you out of commission.  Second worst case scenario is you ally with March, Tattletale seemed pretty sure you wouldn’t go after Cradle.”<br/>[...]<br/>- Disjoint continued, “There was other stuff, Cheit’s mercenaries and some follow-up to the portal or something that they’re planning, but they didn’t talk much about that.  Mostly their focus was on teaming up and trading enemies.  Making sure March doesn’t get in contact with any member of your cluster, and making sure Cradle [doesn’t steal the powers of another member of the cluster.]”<br/>[...]<br/>Cradle seemed to know what was being typed before any phones rang, because he added Love Lost’s line, “And if they don’t want us getting in contact with March… I think that’s exactly what we need to do.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/29 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref>
===[[Assault on the Time Bubbles]]===
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March took part in a larger game [[Teacher]] and [[Cradle]] were independently playing,<ref name=pawn/> she was focused on her own objective however.<ref> - [[https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/26 Excerpt]] from [[Blinding 11.9]]</ref>

March hired some powered mercenaries from [[Deader and Goner]] and visited with her [[March's Megacluster|army]] the ruins of [[Brockton Bay]]. She recovered [[Ixnay]]'s clustermate - [[Jotun]], casually killed several defending heroes, and unleashed three [[broken trigger]]s, including [[Dauntless]].<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref>

The next morning, she was tracked down and eventually killed by [[Foil]], some [[Missy Biron|ungrateful kid]] and [[Imp]].<ref>[[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>