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### 3.5 Theo, Birth, and New Age Calculation Lock * Theo does not exist on Day Zero. He is born around Month 9 after Day Zero. * Alex and Piper do not simply find him as an abandoned baby. They actually deliver him at the end of Chapter 31, in the Vauseman axis. * Theo's biological mother is named Thea. She is not bit
### 3.6 Chapters 34-36 Lock, Vauseman, Theo, Holly, and Clexa * Chapters 34-35 are Vauseman and Theo's first two weeks in the pack's existing shelter. * Chapter 34 covers the first week: rescue, field check for Theo, Vauseman gaze, Alex's emergency bag, return to the shelter, reaction to Beta and Scout, Piper beginnin
### 3.7 Vauseman Family Contact and Absence Lock Cal, Neri, and Piper's parents are outside the United States / in another country when Day Zero happens. During the early partial-infrastructure window, Piper manages one brief phone contact and one or two short text / message exchanges with them before the old communi
## 4. Deaths and Losses
### 4.1 Locked Deaths and Losses Control document for losses. Every death must build something, break something, or change an institution, and must not be a dramatic checkbox. Every row also creates a continuing aftermath obligation: individual reactions, delayed recurrence, triggers, relationship / role changes, and
### 4.2 Caution Rule Do not kill a central core character, do not break the four central couples through death, and do not kill central animals for shock. If there is a cost, it must create an institution, a continuing wound, or a real change in city behavior.
### 4.3 Jonathan News to Nancy Lock * Nancy does not know about Jonathan's death at the end of Part 3 or during the first reunion of Part 4. * The news is delivered only in later chapters, after the camp has already absorbed Steve, Mike, Will, and the Hawkins group's return. * Present in the scene: Will, Mike, Steve,
## 5. Custody, Adoption, and Chosen Family
### 5.1 Custody / Adoption / Chosen Family Control document for adoptions, guardianship, chosen parenthood, children, and animals. This document exists so every child, teenager, animal, or dependent is written through action, body, bed, food, guarding, and actual responsibility, not through a generic “everyone is fami
## 6. Global Continuity QA Locks
### 6.1 Continuity QA Locks Canon check after the age, time, adoption, and loss pass.
### 6.2 Locked Items * Henry is 10 on Day Zero. At the start of Part 3 he is almost 12, and in Part 5 he moves from 12 to 13. He remains a smart child, not a manager and not a tiny screenwriter. * Theo is born around Month 9 after Day Zero. In Chapter 29 / Vauseman meeting, around Month 19, he is around 10 months old.
### 6.3 Check Before Every Chapter 1. How much time passed since the previous chapter? 2. How old is Henry now? 3. What developmental stage is Theo in now? 4. Is Rachel pregnant / postpartum, and what does it do to her body? 5. Where is Kurt, who holds him, who wakes for him? 6. Which child or animal is in the scene,
### 6.4 Storybrooke Return and Survivor Roster Lock The Storybrooke return mission is a city-stage mission only, in Part 6/7 timing after the city has vehicles, fuel, radios/relay, maps, teams, medical support, and internal stability. Regina goes on the mission. Emma does not. Emma stays in the city with Henry becaus
### 6.5 Hawkins Families, Children, and Part 6 Return Wave Lock The Hawkins children with Steve and Anya are Mike, Dustin, Will, Lucas, Erica, Max, and Eleven. They receive a major child-journey focus before Steve reaches them and major presence across the Steve/Anya/Hawkins travel chapters. After joining the larger e
### 6.6 Part 7 Radio Relay and Piper Closure Lock By Part 7, the city has a developing radio-relay network with other survivor communities. This is not the old cell network returning. Old phones, SMS, and cell towers do not come back as a functional old-world system. The relay allows scheduled messages, short voice c
## 7. Part 1 Continuity Locks Part 1 locks cover the first pack, the Shell station, Steve's apparent death and rescue mechanism, the first sign language rules, and the Anya seeds that must pay off later.
### 7.1 Anya Seed Baseline * Anya exists as an old and meaningful bond of Lexa's before Day Zero, not as a romantic past but as a battle-sister / field-sister. * In Chapter 1, Lexa tries to call Anya after the call with Costia, and the line does not connect. * In Chapter 11, Anya is identified by name in the trauma te
### 7.2 Robin and Steve Sign Language and Steve Parallel Line
#### 7.2.1 Steve Belief Until Chapter 16 Until Chapter 16, Nancy and Robin believe Steve is dead. Before Chapter 16, do not write any sentence that assumes conscious hope that he is alive, for example: “if he is alive”, “if you are alive”, “if you find”, “if you arrive”, or “he knows where” when the meaning is that h