Characters and couples research

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6.1 Project update — Ronance in the living-dead saga

In this project, Ronance does not stay only at unrealized tension. In chapters 2–6 we need to build real private intimacy: deep conversations, sleeping close, treating wounds, kisses, willing fear, and a slow recognition that they are already a couple.
Their first time is written in chapter 6 as a full explicit sex scene between two adult women with clear consent. It needs to be a character-driven sexual scene, not a reward scene, not a magic-fix for grief, and not erasure of Steve.
Steve is part of the emotional room of Ronance, but not a romantic triangle. He is Robin's person, Nancy's loving past, and the loss against which both choose to keep living.
Jonathan remains a real love/past/friend of Nancy's. When the news of his death arrives later, Robin holds the couple-place opposite Nancy without turning grief into competition.
Ronance sexuality needs to sound like a natural continuation of their dynamic: Nancy through control, examination, and deep want; Robin through speech that stalls, anxiety, humor that breaks, and then a silence that frightens both of them.

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