Yes but at that point wasn't Joe already battling Lung, and thus March was already making her immortality bid?
Nope, as per the last interlude with Victoria, March somehow dragged herself dozens of feet to the wreck of the motoroid despite injuries equivalent to a high-speed car-crash and only reached it after Joe was over the water with Lung, at which point the Gundam had been deployed. If I'm not forgetting anything, Victoria saw the Gundam enter the fight prior to going to search for Triumph - indeed, depending on how long it would take Victoria to find Triumph, this means that the Gundam was in the fight for at least several minutes at this point, and possibly upwards of ten minutes.
(honestly, the dragging herself dozens of feet is the thing I have a bigger issue with, but I've talked that to death, so I'll skip it.)
As such, not only should Fleet in the motoroid have passed over her when flying towards Lung, but she should have been visible to a clone if he was in docks or (and I figure this is possibly more relevant) when he was in the Gundam as he's flying into the scene.
In fact, going by this impression, she should have been visibly moving towards the wreck of the first motoroid during this, making her a priority target if anyone detected her.
So, her surviving basically hinges on neither Fleet in the motoroid nor the Clone (either outside the motoroid or in the Gundam later) taking so much as a moment to scan the area March was launched into before engaging against Lung. Something that should not have seriously impacted any sort of response.
What makes this even more damning, is the fact that March's location should have been visible from the sky, considering I saw no mention of any sort of roofing or cover in the scene with Victoria.
As such, either latecomer to the fight should have been able to see March moving (if slowly) towards the motoroid, which should immediately raise her to a top priority.
Garment's shop is not that nearby the dockyards. But then neither was the fight with Lung at that point, it was as far from Brockton as Apeiron could make it. Joe's clone was nowhere near where March was, and was focused on saving Apeiron's life and destroying Lung before he totaled Brockton Bay.
More importantly, we've been over all this. In the name of the Two Trees of Valinor. In the name of the ancient Fey princes. By all the Gods of Olympus. By the Aedra and the Daedra, by the God-Emperor of Man, and by Merlin, can we please let this go.
Thank you.
As I mentioned multiple times in that reply tree, I am not arguing against the lack of double-tap. I was primarily talking about someone who was disregarding a legitimately logical point and I decided that I should at least provide a minor degree of support to someone who was trying to be logical about this, something that I'm generally in favour of.
So, just to reiterate. the fact that march did not get doubletapped is not my issue. It's technically within SoD, but only so far as saying 'this is a work of fiction, I won't begrudge the author forcing fate'. More than a surface-level reading of this section would immediately show the hand of the author in the story forcing things.
As I've mentioned before I have other gripes that I feel are more pressing, but I don't expect Lord Roustabout to change the story to address them, only read my feedback, and hopefully not write another unsatisfying 'climax'. Or, at least another 'climax' that is unsatisfying for me, and the remainder of the obviously vocal group of people who saw this as a weak point of the story.
RE Joe's workshop position: Joe was evacuated by Aisha, and done so relatively quickly, to some extent this can be attributed to Aisha's hardsuit, but it can also reflect one of Joe's clones opening an entrance to Joe's workshop near the docks. If Aisha was in the workshop when the entrance was moved, or was otherwise informed of the moved entrance, it would have made the medical evacuation much faster and smoother. I'm not saying it happened, but it does open up an additional possibility.
