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### Relationship state at opening To be expanded in skeleton pass. Always check Clexa, Ronance, Vauseman, SwanQueen if present, plus Finchel once introduced.
### Emotional shift in the chapter The shift must happen through scene: choices, body, objects, argument, touch, route, and risk.
### Relationship state at ending Update only what the scene actually changes. Do not jump ahead emotionally.
### Constraints The chapter must feel like fanfic and story, not a technical report. Logistics must be alive, voiced, intimate, funny, painful, or dangerous.
### Future seeds Allowed only as physical details or incomplete present knowledge.
### How future seeds are allowed in prose Through present-tense objects, actions, blocking, incomplete knowledge, and character-specific perception.
### How future seeds are forbidden in prose No reader-facing explanation, no prophecy language, no `they did not know yet`, no future-summary framing.
### Active-file contradictions to resolve Check during skeleton pass against `canon_ledger.md`, `chapters_summaries.md`, `worklist_by_parts_part2.md`, and adjacent chapter entries.
### Files to update after this chapter `chapters_summaries.md`, `part2_chapter_logic_map.md`, `worklist_by_parts_part2.md`, and `canon_ledger.md` if canon changes.
### Status Full organized planning slot. Awaiting new skeleton pass.
## Chapter 030, Things That Broke Before the End of the World
### Existing working summary Vauseman history begins before Day Zero. Alex and Piper are already complicated, already wounded, already bound by history, prison-married energy, desire, betrayal, and the kind of love that knows how to hurt and return. Day Zero must arrive into an existing mess, not create it from nothing
### Chapter role in Part 2 To carry the Part 2 transformation from first-pack survival toward a larger moving system. Specific role for this chapter: Vauseman history begins before Day Zero. Alex and Piper are already complicated, already wounded, already bound by history, prison-married energy, desire, betrayal, and t
### Physical opening Pre-collapse Vauseman life, then Day Zero fracture.
### Physical ending Their old ending is interrupted, not resolved.
### What the previous chapter leaves that must matter here Chapter 029 leaves physical and emotional consequences that must be visible here. Track injuries, vehicles, water, food, weapons, children, animals, intimacy, and Steve-sign continuity.
### What the next chapter must receive from here Chapter 031 must receive the exact physical state created here: location, group composition, supplies, wounds, emotional pressure, knowledge limits, and any objects or signs placed.
### Physically active characters To be finalized in the skeleton pass. Start from the block focus and include only characters physically present in the scene frame.
### Characters active through speech, memory, object, or absence Steve may be active through jacket, signs, route language, grief, or Robin/Nancy memory. Costia, old families, Storybrooke, prison history, and lost futures may appear only when the chapter focus allows it.
### Characters who should not appear physically No characters from later parts unless this chapter specifically introduces them. No Avalance, Waverider crew, Anya, Mike, Dustin, Karen, Holly, or Part 3 payoff figures physically in Part 2.