So, I was playing Clannad just now, playing Tomoyo's arc again due to sheer fanboyism, when a funny thought hit me:
What if I poke around AG3Make, and recreate Tomoyo?
Well, half an hour of Hair and Eye tweaking later, I decided "Fuck it. I can't get these just right", so I remade the character, but kept the body form and hair color I had almost perfected.
So, to try this one out, I load the game up, make a new character, and assign her. Boot, game start. I head to the Japanese house. Empty.
Ok, I think to myself. Somewhere else.
I check the western house. Nada. Check the neighborhood. Nada. Check the school. Empty.
Check my house. Nada.
I start thinking "OK, the hell? A bug?", so I head back to bed, switch to First Person, and sleep without saving to see if that would fix it.
When I wake up, I hear footsteps, and I think to myself, The hell?
So, I get up, and look at my right, and find Tomoyo sitting on my bedside, looking bemused.
Scared the hell out of me.
It did occur to me right afterwords that it wasn't Tomoyo, but I had gotten the hair color close enough for it to not matter in that split second "Oh shit" moment.