Your Character in Mother of the Year is the main protagonist of the Mother of the Year book.
Although her default name is "Tara", the player can choose to name her as they wish.
Appearance
Your appearance is customizable according to the player's preferences. You can choose skin tone, facial features, and hairstyle.
Personality
Although most personality traits are determined by the player, you are generally a loving and dedicated mother as your daughter is the one constant in your life on whom you depend. You can be hot-headed especially when speaking about your ex-husband, or you can control your anger towards him.
Chapters
Mother of the Year
Mother of the Year
- Chapter 1: New Beginnings
- Chapter 2: Get to Work
- Chapter 3: Tough Cookie
- Chapter 4: Out of the Blue
- Chapter 5: Ancient History
- Chapter 6: Elephant in the Room
- Chapter 7: Trouble Brewing
- Chapter 8: Behind the Mask
- Chapter 9: Empty Nest
- Chapter 10: Failure to Launch
- Chapter 11: Trial and Error
- Chapter 12: When It Rains...
- Chapter 13: Candles in the Wind
- Chapter 14: Face the Music
- Chapter 15: Trial by Fire
- Chapter 16: The Aftermath
- Chapter 17: Liftoff
Relationships
Daughter
She is your 10-year-old (as of Chapter 13) smart yet polite and obedient Daughter.
Thomas Mendez
Thomas Mendez is one of your potential love interests and the father of your daughter's best friend, Luz. He becomes your lawyer in the custody trial.
Eiko Matsunaga
Eiko Matsunaga is one of your potential love interests and one of your daughter's teachers.
Levi Schuler
Levi Schuler is one of your potential love interests and one of your neighbors.
Guy Ledford
Guy Ledford is your ex-husband. Your relationship with him spanned eight years from the time you were college sweethearts until you two divorced and he disappeared. You two married during senior year when you discovered you were pregnant. You dropped out of school to handle the pregnancy, and you thought you could as you believed Guy to be your soulmate. However, after graduation, neither of you were able to get jobs and Guy blamed you for tying him down and for all your troubles. After a few years of marriage, you two divorced and Guy left. You haven't seen him for over four years, feeling he abandoned you and Daughter, only to show up unexpectedly at your new home. You can choose to be spiteful or calm your bitterness when you speak to him, but you can still read his eyes when he is not pleased with your answers.
Character Customization
Gender, Faces and Hair
Outfit Choices
Miscellaneous
Trivia
- A version of Your Character is shown on the cover of Mother of the Year.
- If the player decides to keep the name Tara, she subsequently shares the same forename as Tara from the #LoveHacks series.
- She will share the same surname as Your Character (The Freshman) if the latter's default surname is kept - which will also result in her parents Maureen and Stephen sharing the same surname, Day.
- The book reuses the female faces and 3 out of the 4 female hairstyles from Your Character (Open Heart).
- One of the outfits is from Your Character (Red Carpet Diaries).
- She went to school in Seacrest Heights.
- In a premium scene in Chapter 9, if you choose the "Indescribable" option when Faye asks you about the painting, she will ask if you're a robot - a reference to Perfect Match, when Hayden, Steve, and Dames were asked on what they think about art.
- In a premium scene with Levi in Chapter 11, she reveals to be in her thirties when she states that nobody knows better than her "how hard it feels to try to reroute your life in your 30s."
- Like the MC of Perfect Match, she can exclusively date one of the LIs or more than one.