#Layton brothers AU

[jesterday00]

Really really.

Part 1

Oooooh my Shayla 🥺🥺 my boys 🥺🥺🥺 anyway get y’all with a 1-2 punch HYAH

[peachducy]

professor layton spoilers

thinking about hershel and theodore both get adopted au

[the-layton-family]

"It’s a family thing..."

"...isn't that right, Theodore Hershel ?"

[c4n1d43cup1d]

more bronev brother swap au, layclaire (theoclaire??? clariedore???) still happens but since theo isn't in school he works as a librarian and meets claire that way instead. she flirts w him but he doesn't realize until she decides to be more straight forward and ask him out LOL

[angermango]

some curious creatures (and Pokémon).

[mcfaucet]

(spoilers) something something au where both kids get adopted. des in stansbury

[sunnyskies281]

My logic is the absolute

His pity parties simply harm these

Chances of an apt repute

Esteemed regard in place of mockery

The Mind Electric

1/2/3

[popcorndispenser]

Skeleton of my masked!brothers AU that I've mapped out so far:

Everything stays the same up until the backstory of Lost Future - Layton is assaulted at 27 years old by goons as he's trying to investigate Claire's death, and winds up severely injured and briefly comatose in hospital.

Desmond hears about this from out of London and immediately travels to see him, booking a hotel near the hospital until Layton wakes up and he feels relaxed enough to return. What he doesn't know is that Layton is actually semi-conscious, and that the professor even in his comatose haze manages to register Desmond's voice and the blurry sight of him before he flees. Layton is haunted by nightmares for the entirety of his month-long stay there, both of what happened to Claire and this blurry figure that he can't quite put a name to but feels so familiar. It becomes so unbearable he greatly elongates his time spent off work to seek the man out, wanting to at least conclude one mystery.

Desmond is horrified to see his brother at the door, doubly so when his wife insists he reveal his connection to him. Due to Layton's desperation however, he does, and Layton is both incredibly overwhelmed and happy. Having another connection of family in such a hellish time gives him another lifeline to hold onto, and so he asks to keep in contact, to which Desmond hesitantly agrees.

Some time later when Layton is forced to give up on the Claire case due to intimidation, Desmond hesitantly informs him that agents of a paramilitary terrorist organization have begun threatening him, and that it would be best for Layton to cut contact for a while. Layton in fact does the opposite of this and rushes over as soon as he can... to find that Desmond's wife and young daughter have been murdered by said organization, and Desmond himself has subsequently become a depressive suicidal wreck that flits between fits of destructive rage and absolute overwhelming despair. Layton, feeling helpless and also overcome by grief by how awful the situation is, himself begins to dissociate and endeavours to take care of Desmond for as long as he can until his brother is well enough to take care of himself.

While he's out on a shopping trip for his brother, he runs into a member of that same organization - a Targent operative in uniform. He doesn't know if the man was the one who killed his niece and sister-in-law, or if the man even knows about what has happened to them, but for some reason he doesn't care. Layton feels more enraged and detached than he ever has in his entire life, nothing truly feels real, and just as he grasped at a family after losing the most important person in his life, it was wrenched away again.

When he comes to, the man is dead. Layton had killed him, not even really meaning to do so, but he remains dead nontheless. It's an irreversible action, one he would have never though himself capable of. He feels absolutely wretched, but worse than that, he can't find it in himself to feel guilt for the man's death, only that he has himself sunk to that level. He has a choice now - to turn himself in, or to not. He can't imagine leaving Desmond with nothing left in this world, so he doesn't.

At home, Desmond has collected enough of his rage to redirect it into a drive to get revenge, with the backing and unconditional love and support of his butler. He cautions Layton to leave and pretend to have never known him as to not be wrapped up in the dangerous life he is about to enter, but Layton, already feeling as though his capability to live a normal life ended the moment he took one, insists on staying with him, citing that he is himself already hated by a polticial power and thus already at risk. More to the point, he won't let his brother do something so dangerous alone.

Desmond agrees, reluctantly, with the condition that Layton also disguises himself while with him for his own safety. Layton obliges.

And then I suppose I'd have to figure out Spectre's Call, and so-forth! Please feel free to give ideas, I feel like I tend to only go as deep as base-level aesthetics and ideas and I fail at really digging into the meat of an AU.

Is it too edgy that Layton would go that far? I thought so a little, but everyone I know with siblings said that in his position, they'd do the same. Hm...

[tea-of-destiny]

the natural tendency of a layton fan to imagine an au scenario where layton is also running around in some kind of mask

[nebulousboops]

Wanted to draw my NWOS apprentice Clive design and Luke together, so enjoy the brothers having a good thonk

[jesterday00]

First day of the rest of your lives, together.

Part 2

Lazy artist that traces and edits existing character art, fork found in kitchen, what’s new.

I wanted to add more btw but I just couldn’t figure out what else could be added. I’ll make a continuation if I have ideas

[peachducy]

[pentacle-artist]

I binged the Shadows House manga and decided to at least make designs for a Professor Layton AU

This isn't all of them. There's 12 more characters lined up for designs.

There isn't exactly a plot yet because I can't decide on a main character. However, I have come up with a few things

Flora is in Oliver/Ollie's place in the AU. She gets to be a plot important mad scientist. ^v^

Lucielle picked up Lucy's optimistic impulsiveness and tendency to see the best in people but none of her braincells. And her soot power is making arrows like in Mystery Room.

Alfendi is Placid Prof, and Al is Potty Prof. They barely tolerate each other. Alfendi's soot power is like the crime scene reconstruction in Mystery Room via picking up on traces of soot, but it has a roughly 24-hour time limit due to the house cleanings and leaves a big mess after. High soot emission, not much practical use.

I haven't fully figured out Katrielle and Miles' personalities, but I think it'd be funny if they clash while Kat and Ernest have a weird friendship going on.

Haven't thought of much for Luke and Clive yet

Also, I realized while drawing that nobody in the Shadows House wears a hat. Plenty of hair pieces but no hats.

[the-layton-family]

The children of Hershel

[c4n1d43cup1d]

Let's give up. Let's stop. The world is connected

Let's dance. Let's laugh. The dance has already begun

The beginning and the end. Everything that matters will become zero

Don't resist. Accept it. Everything is connected

[normalcannibalism]

this was meant to be a quick doodle. it wasn't :') ddoes anyone else care about duke