I think that regardless of Apprentice’s faction his results are almost certainly true, since otherwise if someone ever flipped Town with the wincon of, like, eliminating the Mafia or whatever, it would out him as scum
Separately I basically agree with Astand’s thoughts on the villageriness of that slot
W.r.t Derps his posts to me don’t really feel performative/trying too hard the way his posts as scum do, there was some weird tonal stuff earlier but I think that’s just because he was trying to RP and if I set that aside he’s been decently villagery (also the early LW softs are a pretty good look)