diff --git a/PARITY.md b/PARITY.md
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@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ gate and is exact.
 | Beta/RES sampler | Yes | H3 replay is bit-exact for all 12 captured sampler calls and RES update is bit-exact from captured denoised; direct raw-output to model-wrapper denoised conversion retains small BF16/state boundary deltas |
 | Video VAE decoder | Yes | Same final sampled latent decoded through direct VAE versus Comfy PNG frames: mean abs pixel delta `0.0833898`, max `6` |
 | Audio VAE/decode/mux | No | Preview intentionally produces video only |
+| End-to-end prompt-only FL2VA preview | Yes | Direct 320x192x22 dragon smoke video generated with Sage2 at `/home/daniel/StoryStudioAssets/H3-output/h3-blackwell-runtime/direct-fl2va-dragon-e2e-55e2073.mp4`; seed-exact Comfy initial AV state parity is not implemented |
 | Full Ref2VA | No | References, vision conditioning, VAE encode, audio, and muxing are unimplemented |
 
 ## Remaining Gates, In Dependency Order
@@ -198,8 +199,9 @@ unless the checkpoint, Comfy version, prompt, or backend changes.
 
 1. **Final video latent layout.** Compare direct `unpatchify_video` output
    with Comfy before entering the sampler.
-2. **End-to-end FL2VA preview.** Generate the reference dragon only after
-   gates 1-8 pass. Compare its raw final latent first, then video.
+2. **Seed-exact prompt-only initialization.** Replace direct preview's local
+   `torch.manual_seed` video-only noise setup with Comfy-equivalent joint AV
+   initial latent generation before claiming identical seed output.
 3. **Feature/performance work.** Only then add audio, Ref2VA/reference paths,
     Sage3, CUDA graphs, and multi-GPU execution.