Nah, personally I'd consider it a slightly different problem. See, for all their many problems, Sachiel and the Sorting Hat are at least vital parts of the setting that you have to actually change more things to avoid. In-setting, the Third Angel is the first Angel to show up, and everyone gets sorted. They are actual stations of canon, which is to say, the line goes through there and you're going to have to notably divert to avoid them.



The Lung fight? That's not a station. That's an incredibly unlikely event. Taylor has to go out on that specific night and go to that specific area of the city where those specific actions are happening for it to occur. Even tiny changes should completely remove it (up to and including "a butterfly gets in Lung's face and he decides to delay going after the Undersiders another day because his eye is hurting from that damn bug flying into it") [1].



The Lung Fight isn't a Third Angel. It's a Guiche Fight. It's an incredibly unlikely plot occurrence which any crossover which changes... well, pretty much anything should remove, but people feel obliged to put in.



[1] This can be taken as a categorical statement, incidentally, that... well, readers will already see that it isn't happening in Helminths because Lung has fucked off to New York as Brockton Bay is a quarantined plague city with a heavy government presence, and it's vanishingly unlikely to happen in the same way in Imago.

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