I imagine she sometimes leaves it on a page with Laurance or Garroth's name on it and they have to do their best not to snoop because, on one hand, "what does Aphmau think of me? Is it possible she might ever feel the same?" but also "I can't look at Lady Aphmau's journal! I am her guard! She trusts me!!"

Garroth chooses the latter nearly every time (for plot reasons he might not one time, who knows 👻). Maybe, he's trying his best to cope after Lilian did the hologram thingy and then he catches sight of Laurance's name and can't help but run away or something.

Laurance teases her about it at least once but never fully pries (he already understands this love is forever one-sided). He also notes how she's spells his name wrong 66% of the time. Maybe he finds her diary when he's blind and gets sad that he can't tease her about it anymore.

Garroth, Zenix, Dale, and Theodora (my OC. sorry not sorry, this is being written for my childhood self) have been with Phoenix Drop since before Aphmau arrived, all of them being guards ofc. I assume Dale would be the oldest guard out of all of them, then Garroth, then Zenix, and then lastly Theo. There are a few other guards but they're irrelevant.

Molly is already married to Dale already. I imagine she does something that could be summed up to "working from home" and but idk what. Maybe she makes stuff? Seeing as time will work... Like how time typically works irl, Brian is currently in guard school or wherever he went. He'll come back when relevant.

Corey is the head miner, he typically has to work far away from home because, before Aphmau, the village had no mine. The nearest one was miles away. Emma is a farmer or something, I haven't decided. Aphmau will likely introduce her to Corey or they'll already be married. Idk. I honestly forgot about her until my rewatch (I'm on ep 47. THERES SM LEFT OH MY IRENE).

Emmalyn is, of course, told to shelter Aphmau since she has nowhere else to go. I'm trying so hard to make this girl hate Aph via terrible miscommunication. To Aph, Emmalyn has no reason to stay in Phoenix Drop. She hates the village really. But she stays because where else is she gonna go that lets her have all these books and run a library? She would never admit it but Phoenix Drop is her home. She's the first one to notice signs of Aph's Irene powers but she always overlooked it as "dumb girl doing dumb things."

Also, Aph learns about what a village needs with a book from Emmalyn's library.

Brendan is still a farmer. As an attempt to encourage trade between Phoenix Drop and other villages, Garroth asked Brendan to build a dock, which he is working on when Aph gets to the village. He tells Aph about how bad the farms are, prompting her to build a farm based on what a book about farms said. After the docks explode, he works with Aph to make a new one. When he gets shot, his little sister (according to the aphmau wiki, it's unclear which one is younger vs older) Kiki comes to visit.

The basement lesbians, Sylvia and Kimberly (i remembered them more than Corey and Emma), are just nice women hanging around the village. I'll try to remember them more than the og. I imagine they own a bakery together.