So it’s entirely intentional for it to be this fast paced because well it puts you in the head of the MC who is also puzzled at the suddenly change of their life in one second
The way I want to get readers to know the family characters is throughout the flashbacks as those will continue as the chapters go on. They will last longer but I need and wanted chapter 1 to be like a sprint. The ROs will be known more in the present because technically the don’t have such a strong relationship to the MC before that, so the gaps are just those. Gaps in which the ROs and the MC have no significant progress in their relationship to go back to.
Chapter 1 is starting something in the middle, as the chapters go on we’ll start going back and forth between the beginning and the middle for certain characters and events that led to what happens in chapter 1