Thinking about how early S1 Aphmau looks in my rewrite...
I want to make Aphmau's amnesia more emphasized and have a bit more conflict in my rewrite.
I imagine that Aphmau wakes up a little confused and disoriented. She wakes up to find that she's all alone in a small clearing in a forest. A part of her calls out to people (she doesn't even know their names. Just the absence of their presence) she thinks that are supposed to be with her. (She even realizes that she doesn't even know her name)! The only person she sees is a man clad in green. But once they locked eyes, the man bolts. Aphmau chases him in hopes of some answers. But eventually loses him in the forest.
So Aphmau just.... survives in the forest. She doesn't really have anywhere else to go and what else to do than to go on as normal? Aphmau finds a nice hole to settle in and starts to build a small base there. For the next week, she survives by herself.
I imagine that Aphmau has basically lost most of her memories. The ones she does have aren't as clear as they should be. She has some knowledge that she's a player and has the normal skills that a player has (at least someone who has played for a good amount of time). She also doesn't have the vocabulary for all things relating to players, magic, etc. However, she knows this is a new world and that it was supposed to be a "multiplayer world." She knows how to start up a base and do your normal average player stuff. She knows how to do stuff but not why. For the first part of Season 1, Aphmau is still discovering bits about herself that she doesn't know about.
Some ideas I've had for the first week that she's there:
She finds Thorgi. She just so happened to have some skeleton bones on her so she tamed a dog to make her feel a little less lonely.
She also has strange feelings of deja vu. Like once, she came across these bandits. But they were dead. And seemingly recently attacked. A strong feeling of grief comes over her, and she goes up to one of them and reaches her hand out. Only for nothing to happen. This worsens the grief. Aphmau is so confused about what is happening, and she just wants answers!
Throughout the week, she ends up coming across the green man a couple of times. But that latest encounter led her to a village! She ends up meeting Garroth and Zenix. But she ends up running off again. She does take account where the village is.
Over the next few weeks, Aphmau visits the village. She helps around and even makes the village more nicer at times. She sometimes even trade with the locals. I imagine that is an incident that has Aphmau stay in the village more. (Aphmau ends up staying with Emmalyn similar to Rebirth. Even if Emmalyn doesn't really like her.)
This is where the events of the story take off.
At some point after the Scaleswind arc, Aphmau accepts that she might not be able to find out who she was before. She decides to give up on it in favor of focusing on lordship and taking care of her newly acquired son!
Her past only hits her full force after she experiences the events of the Irene dimension.
