### 3.2.1 Macro Timeline Movement Lock, Pre-Writing Pass
The first major contact point is not Vauseman and not month 18. The first major meeting is Nancy / Robin / Lexa at approximately Month 16 after Day Zero.
Part 1 opens through Lexa's Day Zero and her sixteen-month survival route to the Shell radius / the moment
### 3.3 Base Ages on Day Zero
These ages are the calculation source. The age shown in text must be derived from them according to the plot month. If a character has no locked Day Zero age, or if born after Day Zero with no locked birth month, do not build an entrance chapter for them until it is locked here.
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### 3.4 Rachel Pregnancy and Kurt Lock
* Rachel's pregnancy is seeded in current Chapter086, at the Vauseman wedding, around Month 25-26 after Day Zero.
* Part 4 lasts about half a year, Month 27 to 33. Therefore Rachel enters Part 4 around pregnancy month 1-2 and leaves it around month 7-8.
* There is no need to leng
#### 3.4.1 Kurt Name Source Lock, Finchel
* Finn and Rachel's baby Kurt is not named as an outside tribute to the series, but after Kurt Hummel.
* Kurt Hummel was part of Finn and Rachel's heart on Day Zero and in the first month afterward.
* Kurt dies in the first month after Day Zero, before Finn and Rachel leave fo
### 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
### 3.8 Entry allocation and Day Zero age basis
The following are owner-approved entry scope limits. A Part assignment proves arrival only at the earned contact scene. It does not place entrants in every earlier chapter of that Part. Existing chapter numbers remain; exact revised slots must be mapped before the affect
### 3.9 Part 5 arrival, admission and camp-attack continuity
Carina arrives first in Part 5, integrated into Chapter 120; Maya arrives separately with her fire engine in Chapter 121. Neither has a standalone origin or entrance chapter. Their relationship develops through Parts 5–6. Neither is physically present in Par
### 4.1 Locked Deaths and Losses
Control document for losses.
Every death must have an honest effect on the living; it need not be heroic, purposeful or beautiful. Vary causes across bites, mistakes, accidents, drowning, fire, falls, structural failure, illness, infection, untreated injury, human violence and occasion
### 4.4 Part 7 river flood and lasting aftermath
The major non-war civic crisis is severe river flooding after several days of heavy rain. Before it, the city has permanent family housing, education, workshops, farms, docks, stores, road convoys, boats, developing radio relay, layered defense and intake. Power is real
### 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.
* Nancy receives the news a few days after the reunion, not a month later and not inside the first embrace. Physical absorption does not justify a prolonged artificial withholdin
### 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
### 5.2 Combined bus family and loss continuity
Casey and Izzie are 19 on Day Zero; Sam and Paige are 21. Paige is Sam's partner, home from college for a holiday; Sam is home too. Their route continues the family/relationship basis of Atypical without importing every screen-canon event automatically.
On Day Zero Doug
### 5.3 Other family arrivals and slow guardianship
Bo and Lauren are already a family with Isabel, called Izzy, before Day Zero. Izzy is 3 on Day Zero and approximately 7–8 at their Part 6 arrival, subject to the final month. She is distinct from Izzie Taylor. Kenzi is family and a caregiver with her own humor, choic
### 5.4 Cosima and Delphine's community route
Cosima is 30 and Delphine 34 on Day Zero. They do not know each other before the collapse. Each reaches a school-based survivor community independently near the end of the first year; their connection grows through weeks of everyday life, attraction and love. They are a co