What would be the best way to deal with personal NPCs, like Santana's family? The feedback I've been getting so far has geared toward limiting the NPC journal to just the weekly guest stars, to give those canon elements a voice even when we can't really justify casting them long-term, and still keep things at a controllable level for a shared journal -- but could NPC family members be run off of their primary's journal? Like, Santana would also have Diego and Isandro and her parents and Nico attached if you needed them for something?
But then again, Santana's grandmother appeared in-show, so she might qualify as a canon NPC, even if she's not one of the big highly-buzzed guest stars, and if they ever got around to showing Santana's mom as has been rumored all season, she'd qualify as well... hmmmm.
(Incidentally, if you need/want more interactions for Diego, to try to keep him a full character, let me know!)