What. What do you mean by that? In truth he's what???? I KNOW he's not your son, adopted or otherwise (as much as I wish he was 😔) so if not your apprentice then WHAT

barton for the ask thing because I'm a broken record lol

Barton!! favorite thing about themhe is a sweet, sweet boy. good intentions. not always the greatest with words and a bit naive but he just wants to put joy on everyone's face and serve the world justice and honestly??? that's all any man should strive for.Also I think its so wonderful that he doesnt have the same toxicly masculine traits that some other certain gentlemen have *cough cough* least favorite thing about themit's not something I hate about Barton himself but i hate how everybody treats him like a child????? or at the very least like their lesser and it's like,,,, uh, no????? treat him like you would any other cop???? he deserves respect????? he's just as smart as everybody else???? thanks????favorite lineI don't have one, sorry. my memory is hazy and honestly none of his lines stick out to me too much :/brOTPBarton and Chelmy!! Chelmy will never admit it aloud but he really likes Barton and often invites him over to watch movies and geek out over police stuff, and Barton enjoys every minute he spends with his bestie solving mysteries and delivering justice!! You also can't tell me that Barton and Luke would get along super well solving puzzles together. Hed be so fascinated by Lukes ability to talk to animals.OTPuhhhhh idk i don't really have one? I don't really ship him with anybody. Maybe he's AroAce and perfectly fine with that! or maybe he's not and just isn't interested. idk.nOTPBarton x Chelmy. They'd be great wonderful friends but i don't think Barton would be keen on ever giving chelmy a kiss? Also Barton x Layton is a grand ol Nope from me. random headcanonAroAce Barton!! Also I hc hes probably neurodivergent in some form or another. like he has a form of autism but that never stopped him from deciding to be a cop and a wonderful person!! it's also why it further angers me that everyone treats him like a little kid kdkshfkshunpopular opinioni think that in the series (especially the first few games) they kinda low key fat shamed him imo, which I really hate. like he's tubby and they made him sorta dim witted and dense and everybody almost treated him like a child, whereas the main "better" cop, chelmey,  who is more often than not quicker to understand the subject is more socially acknowledged as attractive and I don't really agree with that. There would have been nothing wrong giving him that gorgeous chub AND letting him be the head cop with a good heart who's treated like an adult. but that's just my opinion. if you don't agree that's totally cool too!! I think they (partially) redeemed themselves when Barton became the head inspector in mystery room (even tho I never actually played the game)!! I am so proud of my sweet, sweet boy.song i associate with themhgkdhdkf uhhhhhhhhhhhhhidk man. maybe I'm Coming After You by Owl City? favorite picture of themhonestly any cute post game yellow frame of him being the Best Boy is all I need 💖💖💖Thanks for asking!!

WLKDKDJDKFJF LUKE NO

Lskdkdkf I was so upset when Layton was being accused of murder, but look at his little smile. I think he's got it handled lol

So Layton fingerprints are on the vase which is why he's a suspect, but the question is why isn't the guy who gave Layton the vase's fingerprints on it as well? He's clearly not wearing gloves?

OK LISTEN ACCUSING LAYTON WAS MEAN BUT ACCUSING LUKE IS TOO FAR!!! He would never! Has he committed theft/animal kidnapping at least 6 times when ppl are mean to cats? Probably! But that is unrelated!

Ok smashing the evidence vase was bad enough, but knowing about the tower key? Inspector Chelmy is looking more and more suspicious by the minute. I don't think he's evil cuz Tumblr seems to like him, but I'm eyeing him suspiciously

CUTSCENE CUTSCENE CUTSCENE

I have only played Curious Village and Kathrielle Layton the Millionaires Mystery, and I also thought Flora was adopted. And from what little I've read about the other Layton games I thought he was at least unofficially adopting kids left and right which made me feel Level 5 did him real dirty in Kat's game. I think the newest Layton game (is it even released yet?) is supposed to be from the Professor's PoV again and they better give him some damn good redemption in it otherwise they really ruined his entire character that was established in CV imo

I've only finished curious village and I'm part way through diabolical box rn so I can't speak to the millionaires mystery game, but from looking at fandom stuff it definitely seems like Layton is unofficially adopting kids like he's going for the world record lol. I don't think the new game is released yet, but I do hope his character stays consistent with how he was in curious village. I really love his characterization in that game, especially when "inspector Chelmy" was accusing him of murder and he's just like "😌 me? Oh well I'm terribly sorry but. No I don't think so. Unfortunately, uno reverse card 😊"

Like look at his little smile. Not a worry in his head ❤️

Again, haven't played the vast majority of these games so I truly do not know! All I know it curious village, part of diabolical box, and random snippets from people on Tumblr. I could be completely wrong about his characterization or what goes on in the other games! I just hope they don't deviate too far from curios village

Yeah I uh. Don't like this face

OH FRICK OH FRICK OH FRICK HES AN IMPOSTER!!!! did he get robot-ified???? (Don't tell me I'm theorizing lol) smart move by Layton, using the wrong name on purpose