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saltedcoffeee · 1 day

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rip clive dove you would've loved neon genesis evangelion

#professor layton #unwound future #professor layton unwound future #clive dove #luke triton #yass boyboss serve (that life sentence)#myart

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beezonia · 3 days

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@ninadove I had thoughts on clives team

So I gave him water types not only because I believe that Luke himself is a water type fanatic (alluding to future Luke)

[Clive’s team is fully evolved (apart from Yamask) due to Clive being quite strong and insanely intelligent and I wanted that to show in his team!]

But because clive himself is like waves, one minute he’s calm and the next he’s crashing into almost everything in a fit of rage (alluding to the mobile fortress)

Salamence is there because it’s Clive, I feel like he’d dabble in dragon types every now and then and this one just stuck with him

Yamask is there because the past haunts him and it’s a manifestation of his parents and his hurt

Doesn’t evolve until the end of lost future when Clive speaks about how the professor has helped him

Yeah brain had thoughts hope you like!

#professor layton #professor layton and the unwound future #unwound future #clive dove #bee rambles #pokèmon au

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ninadove · 2 months

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I’m sure many others have pointed this out before, and this is certainly not the first time I ramble about it, BUT:

Notice how Clive’s parents look like Hershel and Claire.

Notice how they disappear to the right of the screen, which is symbolically associated with the future, while Layclaire exits stage left, remaining in the past.

Clive represents the child they could have had. Hence why he’s so smart he can rival our protagonist in a battle of wits. Hence why he’s saved by both Hershel and Claire at different points in his story. Hence why the mobile fortress is defeated by a simple pocket watch, the ultimate symbol of their love. Hence why he’s close to the Professor on the box, where Luke would typically be:

It’s him! Clive is their Lost Future.

#professor layton #clive dove #hershel layton #claire foley #layclaire #professor layton spoilers #lost future #unwound future #random ramblings

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flowertab · 1 month

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LayClaire Week Day 2: Rewind

The hands turn back to that day,

an echo of who we were.

(you can’t really see it but, as a small detail, the clocks are ten hours apart to represent ten years :^))

#layclaireweek24 #layclaire #professor layton #hershel layton #claire #claire foley #fan art #flowertab #unwound future #lost future

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sweeetrandall · 4 months

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unwound future youtube poop

#some jokes made by mags ballwizard #unwound future spoilers #professor layton #video #unwound future

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fatfart200 · 8 months

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please shut them up

#professor layton #fatfart200 #unwound future

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kingsketchdoodle · 4 months

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It has taken me far too long to colour and clean up this animation buuuuut it's done!! (for now)🧩

Trying to fit this around work and other projects was a nightmare but I will have more free time after Christmas to start animating more Layton stuff!! Plus add some needed backgrounds to this project and finish off the rest of the song ( I have it sketched out and roughed)

#professor layton #doodle #animation #luke triton #art #my art #fanart #professor layton art #professor layton and the unwound future #professor layton and the lost future #fan animation #lost future #unwound future #future luke #clive dove

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melon-official · 10 months

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hello professor layton enjoyers

#pl #professor layton #unwound future #lost future #luke triton #future luke #clive dove #dewdles

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bearofohu · 3 months

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ive been in the layton fandom since i was naught but a pile of goop in the womb and let me tell you there is no worse fate. i wish i couldve joined fandom during this nwos era where its just ranlay and desmond sycamore giving birth. there is no worse fate than having been a layton fan from 2008. imagine being a 9 year old girl and you come back inside from eating dog food and pretending to be a warrior cat in the backyard, and you go into the computer room to see some professor layton stories on fanfiction.net. you see one story written abt some guy called legal luke and you realize theyre talking about lukes adult future self from the new game you can only find clips of recorded by someones docomo phone on youtube and theyre speaking japanese bc the games not out in english yet

you think "why do they call him legal luke. he tried to destroy the city with a big robot thats actually illegal people cant do that"

10 years pass. you are 19 years old. luke from professor layton is just like you fr so youre transgender now and named after him. you just got back from your shift from burger king where you fantasized about a bomb going off. as soon as you lay down on your bed it hits. you realize why they called him legal luke. yuo thought abt killing yourself that day

#professor layton #pl #clive dove #luke triton #unwound future

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archiveoftragedies · 7 months

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Curious village: multimillionaire dies and locks his daughter in an attic to be raised by robots in total isolation until someone solves this puzzle

Diabolical box: come freely, go safely, and beware of the hot twink and his hallucinogenic gas

Unwound future: losing every person you ever cared about doesn't necessarily turn you evil, the Luke cosplayer who built an exact copy of London under normal London was an outlier adn should not have been counted

Last specter: local man allows his uni friend to take his son on a dangerous hunt to find a real life monster that's destroying their town

Miracle mask: queer coded villain turns some amnesiac guy into another queer coded villain cause they both have beef with this one archaeology professor in particular

Azran legacy: there's a lesson about progress at all costs here somewhere but we're also trying to kidnap a magical zombie girl back from the archaeology mafia and wait why am I crying

Bonus

Eternal diva: who cares about death when this pipe organ can store people's souls

Phoenix Wright: how to become an omniscient narrator, step 1: poison the city's water supply

#professor layton #layton #curious village #diabolical box #unwound future #last specter #miracle mask #azran legacy #eternal diva #professor layton vs phoenix wright #i needed to do one of these i know there's thousands but it was eating at me #professor layton spoilers #jonay.txt

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working-dreamer · 1 year

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The Person Within: An Analysis Of Professor Layton's Hidden Character Development

Spoilers for practically all of the Layton games!

Hershel Layton as a character is sometimes criticized outside of the fandom for having no personality other than his gentlemanly nature and taking the concept of enjoying puzzles to the extreme.

While I think this criticism shows a blatant misunderstanding to his character, I do think from a different angle that perspective makes Professor Layton more interesting.

Think about it. Most of his personality is taken from the tragedy of those around him. Randall was the one who was originally obsessed with archaeology and puzzles. Claire was the one who originally perceived Hershel as a gentleman (thus giving him the idea.) We don’t really see Layton take these aspects of his personality onto himself until tragedy strikes and these people are taken away from his life.

In the case of Randall's death, Hershel blamed himself for surviving and moved out of town because of his self-loathing and guilt. And when Claire disappeared Layton paused his studies for an unknown amount of time trying to find out what happened until he was beaten into a coma by a group of people associated with her death.

And yet instead of grieving like you’d normally expect from a person who lost his best friend and girlfriend, he internalized their interests and aspects of their personalities into himself. He wears their passions and dreams as his own to remember them. In a way, he’s always reminding himself that he couldn’t save them.

However one might wonder how Layton really feels about those things outside of his previous losses. Does Layton even enjoy archeology and puzzles? Or is it something he has grown to accept in his life simply because he is living out Randall’s dream? Does he feel like he has a choice in the matter?

I can easily imagine Layton having doubts deep within himself: Randall didn’t get to live and it’s my fault. His dreams should live on. I don’t deserve anything else.

Same with Claire. She saw him as a gentleman but he certainly didn’t feel like one after her disappearance if his memory of events is to be taken seriously. How long did it take for him to turn into the perfect gentleman? Especially if it's just a painful reminder of her loss?

It’s probably after waking up from his coma that he starts to really embrace the idea that he has to be the perfect gentleman because he knows he can never get her back. So all he can do is embrace what she thought of him before she died. So with all of this in mind is Layton’s gentlemanly persona genuine to who he is as a person? Or is it just a persona created in order to keep her memory alive?

Layton has kept the shadows of his lost loved ones close to his heart for years and probably would have always done so had he never gotten any closure. However, when Randall turned out to be alive Layton now has the opportunity to let go of that guilt. Claire came back in the future momentarily and Layton got to say goodbye. He no longer needs to keep their personal traits as his own.

So why does he still embody Randall's passion for archeology and puzzles and Claire's perspective that he's the perfect gentleman?

I think it's because Layton doesn't know who he is without these borrowed parts of his personality. Without those aspects that he adopted into himself… who is Hershel Layton? Deep down he is someone who has silently mourned his loved ones and repressed those emotions. And yet most of his life has been embodying said grief. It makes me wonder if Layton would ever look deep within himself and realize that he doesn’t have anything to claim as his own. His entire personality revolves around past guilt and trauma from people he loved and lost.

Shoot even his name isn’t his own! Hershel Layton was actually the name belonging to his brother and in a moment of sacrifice switched names so our Layton could be adopted. So our Layton loses the only family member he has left without even knowing who that is for the majority of his life!

So we have a man who feels guilt and remorse for the deaths of his best friend and his girlfriend so he doesn’t allow himself to develop his own interests and personality because he doesn’t feel like he deserves to be his own person. It's even implied that he believed for a time that he didn't deserve to be the one who survived the events that killed his best friend and girlfriend. And then adding to the fact that he never knew his real family so he most likely felt a different kind of loss by not knowing where he came from. All and all we find a man that feels alone and tries to make it right by embodying the traits of those he cared about.

We don’t get to see Layton develop his thoughts on all of this but we do see an interesting development later on. I’d like to think that Layton slowly began to heal after his adventures thanks to adopting Katrielle in the anime.

This is because, for the first time in Layton’s life, he had a family to look after. Someone who doesn't need a mystery-solving archeologist or a perfect gentleman detective. Someone who doesn't need the grand "Professor Layton." This little girl just needs someone to be her father and, while he tries his best, he doesn't really know how to do that.

Sure he had a familial relationship with Luke and Flora, but he never called himself their father. I don’t think he allowed himself that privilege because of all the self-loathing he had been dealing with before. When he adopts Kat it feels like it’s the first time we see Layton truly allowing himself to be a father figure. And yet he is still uncertain about if he should be the one in this role.

Layton feels like his adopted daughter should know where she came from (something he didn’t get to have) before he can start thinking of himself as a father. He’s scared that if he gets attached then it'll hurt worse when she eventually returns to her own family should she decide that is her wish. But if he finds her family first then he doesn’t have the go through that heartache. He wants to find them first so she can make an informed decision.

And he says this with the logic that he always had as “Professor Layton” with that calm and collected smile. Notice that he says "I want to solve this puzzle so that we can become a true family." He doesn't say "so that we will become a true family." It’s almost as if he is going to let Kat decide if she wants to stay with him or go back to her real parents and that choice will be up to her. However, it's somewhat implied that he already thinks that she would naturally choose her real parents if she had the opportunity.

Despite his wishes to be her father, he still seems to be internally preparing himself to say goodbye (hence why he disappeared for so long in the first place.) He just doesn’t want to get too close to another person only to lose them and suffer alone again.

It makes sense why he is distancing himself, but he’ll still solve the mystery. It's what “Professor Layton” would do and he’ll have to accept whatever happens once Kat learns the truth. He doubts that she would still see him as her dad if she could be with her real parents. He doesn't even know himself outside of the role of "Professor Layton" so how can he be a true father to her? She'll go away with her real family eventually anyway. Why would anyone choose him?

And yet when he sees her again Layton is surprised when she immediately cries out for him. She still calls him papa. She wants him to be her papa.

In a public display of overwhelming emotion, we see Layton openly weep for the first time. He is so overcome by these emotions and for once doesn't repress them. He's just so happy to see his daughter again (to truly call Kat his daughter again) and allows himself to fully express those feelings for perhaps the first time in decades.

If Layton from the original game trilogy saw himself like this he would have been mortified by this “un-gentlemanly” behavior. His mindset back then was that a gentleman never cries because he has trouble coming to terms with his emotions. He even chastised Luke in Unwound Future because “a gentleman never makes a scene in public.”

However, he was never a gentleman for himself. It was always for holding onto the guilt of losing his loved ones while trying to honor their memories at the same time. But he doesn’t have to hold himself to those impossible standards anymore. He no longer blames himself for their deaths, he found closure, and now he has found himself in a family who chooses to love him not because of those attributes “Professor Layton” embodied, but because she loves him for the person hidden under that persona. And that is enough for Layton to openly weep as he embraces his child.

I believe Kat's words here helped Layton more than she'll ever know.