ooo for the time ask game-- how about Annual and Yesterday?
Time-centered OC asks - Accepting!
Annual- Does your OC have any annual tradition they follow? Like a religious holiday, how they celebrate their birthday, or something more unique to them?
She's atheist, so she doesn't strictly follow any religious tradition (other that the ones that are popularized such as Easter or Christmas); as for her birthday, it's a day like another - or at least that's what she says, but her friends and loved ones will always make sure to remind her that she's loved and that it's a day worth celebrating! (Hi @ardate thank you again for this awesome gift art ♥)
Now, as for something she follows 'religiously'... Definitely game events such as the E4 (the Simpsons equivalent of the E3 - supposed it would still be hosted in this universe) or any big conference surrounding video games - first, to check if they're finally going to announce Jimmy 4 or a Baron Disaster remaster, then, to spot a few clients and editors she could perhaps contact later on for translation/editing tasks...
Yesterday- What is a mistake your OC wish they could erase? What would they do differently?
Probably blindly trusting to her father back when she was a kid. Along with her stubbornness to impress him at any given occasion, and believing staying with him was the best choice.
A choice, yes, because during the trial that involved whether Harold could or not keep the full child custody following a Mob incident that nearly endangered Claryce's life, she was asked if she wanted to stay with her mother.
But Giulietta was so entangled with the mafia's affairs that she knew little to nothing about her own daughter, no matter how much she loved her; and Claryce herself barely recognized her own other the less she'd see her. So, naturally, she felt safer with her father.
Especially when he's the one who protected her during said incident - he might be a jerk with anyone else, but the day she was actually in danger and that he stepped in, he knew he cared for her; despite all the resentment for his situation with Giulietta and the Mob. That's the tragedy of it all; wanting his daughter to be safe - because he's a hero ! And the only way for him to achieve that - or so he thinks - is for her to become just like him.
And for Claryce, that was more comfort than her absent mother could offer.
Would she have done things differently, had she known better about her father's intentions? If you asked her, she'd have mixed feelings. Staying with her mother, yes, but at what cost? Having to live with the mob, with the risk to have another mean adult from a rival gang threatening her to get her mother's favors?
She'd say it's awfully complicated. She acknowledges her father wanted her to be safe, she only wishes he'd understand she didn't want to live or think like him in order to reach that objective. And, all things considered, she did manage to leave with some external help, as well as build her own identity, so...
She's glad she didn't fully lose contact with her mother side family, if anything. Or with Bob. For reasons we know.
