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the writing is poor. I've selected some ridiculous dialogues.
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Eriksen wanting to destroy Luna and the MC's mother out of revenge is acceptable, but him telling everyone about it, and them accepting it as if they were part of the revenge, is totally ridiculous and forced, especially since Claire is Luna's friend. The justification is even worse.
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Gotta 99% disagree abt Erikson telling Julie and Claire. Your position is not consistent with given info within the story.
Firstly, not only is Julie Erickson's daughter, but she's also the head of Felare, which puts her in THE key position to manipulate Luna. Thus, it is 100% REQUIRED daddy would tell HER.
Furthermore, regarding Claire, her Felare membership was likely conditional on her involvement in the plan (though she is also very much of the slutty temperament necessary for the sorority). It is clear Ericson has excellent information sources and knew how everyone was connected so was leveraging these relationships, and he realized Claire would be a key tool in this matter.
Claire already saw the MC as a "weak worm" enabling Luna's parents to hold her back, so once it was scouted out that she was in a position to leverage Luna away from Nate (who is the actual effective target here, since hurting him hurts Andrew, along with Erickson recapturing Elyise), it makes PERFECT sense he would inform her in order to use her.
As Claire is clearly not overly intelligent, has ZERO willpower when sex is involved, AND is clearly a spiteful (and likely JEALOUS) bitch, she would be very easily manipulated, so giving her the information she needs to correctly accomplish her mission AS INTENDED would have been appropriate (she needs to know enough to stay on target and not waffle on any key elements; sometimes NOT telling an asset something can compromise your objective). It's clear she would never reveal anything to Nate before the trap was already tripped, but she was clearly anticipating gloating to him about it.
(EDIT: actially, Claire was probably only directly contacted by Julie. In fact, it occurs to me now that Erickson might not have wanted Claire told the full deal, but Julie, who HAD to know everything, might have fully spilled the beans, whether or not Erickson wanted her to. This makes it even more realistic, if it was spiteful girl gossip which led Claire to get all the intel. That said, she did still need to be kept on target, and she's not exactly militarily disciplined, so probably needed more information than a professional asset).
Remember too, that Erickson thinks he can get away with anything, and Nate can't do anything because of E's ability to manipulate information.
The plot, as is, therefore makes perfect sense in this regard. You simply weren't considering all the factors.
It seems more like you were misidentifying Claire as a kind, loyal, considerate best friend who has Luna's personal wishes at heart, which clearly is NOT and was NEVER the case.
Nate's comments in the early game indicate she was ALWAYS a problem with regards to him, almost certainly from well before her contact by Felare, tho it's almost certain that she was contacted before the game began, since the girl in the toilet scene was certainly a setup that she actively pushed him towards.
Claire, by her own admission, believes Luna needs to be retrained into a cock-hungry slut and E's new baby-mommy (both of which will degrade and humilate her"best friend"), and to have her relationship with inhibition-facilitating "weak worm" Nate blown up, to facilitate this.
Simultaneously, Claire herself (at least temporarily) pursues sexual encounters with Nate, her BFF's boyfriend, albeit for a dom rush, and to make sure he doesn't intervene in Luna's slide to slutdom.
So... She seeks to completely trash her "best friend's" life (with the flimsy claim that she's freeing her) while trying to get her friend's boyfriend for herself. This is, unfortunately, a VERY typical case with female "friends" IN REAL LIFE, so this plot device absolutely works as is.
My only problem with her initial statement is that it's grammatically incorrect. It should read: "Once she gets ravaged by Erickson's fat cock, I'll be there.". It might even be better as "when she gets ravaged" not "once she gets ravaged", but that's probably just more a former English major's quibbles.
As to mommy..
She has a history with Erickson already, although she did dump him. Furthermore she knows he's large in charge in regards to her husband's career.
I haven't played far enough in to see what happens, long term, but it's highly probable that E did a number on her back in the day, and she likely actively loves Andrew, but E's a much-better-built, and highly confident man, with a lot of money and power (especially including life-changing power over her husband) and who used to fuck her. That all goes a LONG way.
As the old saying goes: "women are like a tile floor: lay them right the first time and you can walk all over them forever." And, again, he's a rich "alpha" type, so he already has her dressing up.
