#bronev brother swap au

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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

[mcfaucet]

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

[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

[lesmond-sycamore]

*grips sink and lifts head to talk to myself in the mirror* your modern+age swap+other changed stuff au-meets-canon au where luke is a tired college student and his adopted brother clive is a successful journalist and they each adopt one of the bronev kids after their parents pass away (luke adopts theodore and clive adopts hersh) and get thrown into canon by some unknown cause to be determined and have to work together with the canon layton, luke, flora, and desmond to figure out what's going on while au luke tries to not freak the fuck out is NOT cringe. you're NOT cringe. everyone likes your au and the cute fluffy moments and your amazing swag. NOT. CRINGE.

[quibbs126]

So I finally decided to go and draw more of my Layton age swap au, so here you go

The first thing is just what I imagine Triton (Luke) and Locklair’s (Descole) first interaction to be like. Locklair gives a dramatic introduction for himself being all confident, and immediately Triton’s first reaction is “okay who’s child is this”. Locklair isn’t very fond of Triton

Next I drew a scene that’s been in my head for a while that I’m not sure I explained originally? Basically for context it’s been 4-6 years since Hershel was adopted by the Laytons, and for the most part his early childhood memories have been repressed, such as his parents and what happened to them. However, he does still have vague memories of having a brother, but they’re becoming incredibly faded, and were this the canon timeline, within a few years he’d forget them completely. But that hasn’t happened yet, so he still has them. But one big thing is that no matter how hard he tries, he can’t remember his brother’s name. He feels incredibly guilty about this, despite the actual reason being that it’s simply because he and his brother share the same name

Next I drew Emmy in this au, who at some point becomes part of the group, but I’m not sure when. Here she’s a teenager, around the same age as Desmond, though possibly a year or two older. In this continuity she’s still working for Targent, but at the same time she’s not very loyal to the group, other than her Uncle Leon and Aunt Rachel. See, some time after Leon and Rachel were abducted and forced to work for Targent, they had met Emmy, and seeing how she was all alone after her father died, and how she was around the same age as their son Hershel (Desmond) would be, they decided to take her in, basically becoming her surrogate parents. She also knows that they had two sons, Hershel and Theodore, though I haven’t decided whether or not she knows Hershel Layton is Theodore. If she does she’d told her aunt and uncle and is watching out for Hershel for them, and she acts like a big sister to him

Speaking of the Bronev parents, I’m not sure what to do with them. On one hand, I want them to reunite with their children and be happy. Rachel is still alive and while they’re both worse for wear, Leon isn’t exactly loyal to the group yet and hasn’t been corrupted by them, at least not to any significant degree. But in the other hand, I want Hershel to keep living happily with Roland and Lucille, and also for Desmond to be taken in by Flora, who acts as both a mentor and a guardian to him (I’ll elaborate on my next page since I have more ideas for this to draw)

Then finally, I wanted to draw Flora and Desmond, but I didn’t have enough room, so I just drew Flora in her working outfit. She builds robots like Bruno (though maybe not to his level just yet), and so she needs a much more practical outfit when doing so

But anyways, yeah, hope you enjoy, and this time I’ll try to spend more time on it and not leave it waiting in the dust for another several months (though I make no promises I am very haphazard)

[northernscruffycat]

Oh, five headcanons for an AU where Desmond becomes the hero and Hershel becomes the masked villain! (I hope that's not too specific :'D)

- If we’re assuming that this is a straight up switcheroo AU, then I’m struggling to see young Desmond being all “ACTUALLY I’LL BE BETTER OFF WITH THE LAYTONS THAN YOU LITTLE BROTHER, BYE!” so instead let’s assume that babby Layton flubbed Desmond’s name-swapping plan and still referred to himself as Desmond instead of Hershel (wow this name change thing is confusing!). So the Layton’s ended up adopting “Hershel”, as in the one that we know as Desmond today. After that, Raymond came along and scooped up the remaining younger brother to train him to be a future masked villain. The older brother came back to look for him later, found out he wasn’t there any more, became distraught and changed his name to Desmond anyway in honour of his younger brother (because otherwise this is going to get confusing for me). So we have Desmond Layton. Meanwhile, the younger brother starts calling himself Hershel, because he thinks that it’s still part of his big brother’s plan and he doesn’t want to mess up again.

- Fast-forward to Stansbury. Desmond is actually much more of a keen archaeologist from the get-go, but he does find this Randall guy to be kind of a pest about it. They do forge some kind of friendship though, because Desmond does kind of like having his ego stroked by this kid who looks up to him. Randall still falls into the pit, all of that stuff still happens and the Layton family still move to London to try and get away from it all.

- Desmond doesn’t date Claire and doesn’t make friends with Clark or Brenda, he mostly just keeps to himself. He kind of develops a slight friendship with Don Paolo though. Claire ends up in the same time machine accident, maybe even sooner because without distractions she becomes even more dedicated to her work. Also, because I don’t want Clive to die, maybe someone else pulled him out of the fire, like Chelmey?

- Fast-forward again. Professor Desmond Layton isn’t taking any of your shit. If you’re underachieving then that’s your fault. If you don’t do your homework then you don’t deserve to be in his class. He’s not very popular with the students or staff, needless to say. He still researches Targent in the background and hopes to find his missing brother, but he doesn’t get directly involved with them. Also doesn’t get called to Misthallery because he wasn’t friends with Clark and Brenda.

- Meanwhile, Raymond has trained Layton into an adorable masked villain and both of them go on regular Targent-hunting outings. By contrast to the canon Descole, the Hershel version of Descole is a lot less flashy and doesn’t do anything more elaborate than needed, he’s more concerned with working out the best way to achieve his goals. He still goes to Misthallery, but doesn’t manipulate Clark or Jakes and thus gets caught out by Luke early. Of course Luke TRIES TO STOP THIS VILLAIN, but then it turns out that they’re both reasonable people and when Luke finds out about Hershel Descole’s plans to stop Targent he actually steps up to help him, thus we have tiny masked villain apprentice Luke. Though they do both find the Golden Garden and cure Arianna without killing any Loch Ness Manatees, so the jury’s out on exactly how evil they are. About the most evil thing Luke does is skip town with Hershel and Raymond without getting his parents’ permission. Gasp.

- After that the two of them go on Targent-stopping adventures, but stay in the background a lot more than they did in the actual games. Desmond does get called to Monte d'Or by Angela and this is the first encounter that the two brothers have with each other. Hershel knows who Desmond is, Desmond does not know who Hershel is. Hershel ends up fighting Desmond in an effort to keep him away from Targent (because this is Hershel, dragging a kid like Luke towards danger is fine, but not his own brother), but all he succeeds in doing is sparking Desmond’s interest further and putting him back on the right track for Targent. Also, by this point Gressenheller/Targent have assigned Emmy as Desmond’s assistant to keep an eye on him, the two bicker constantly. Oh and Randall isn’t dead. Hershel is very sorry about lying to him in a letter probably, but doesn’t stick around to say so. Happy endings all around.

- For Azran Legacy, Hershel discovers Aurora, but doesn’t call Desmond about it, because he doesn’t want him to get involved. So it’s just Hershel, Luke, Aurora and Raymond travelling the world to find the eggs. Meanwhile Desmond and Emmy have discovered the Nest and sneak in to sort Bronev out. This goes terribly. By the time Hershel and the others get there the whole place is a mess. Thanks Desmond. After that it all goes pretty similar to how it did in the game itself, just with Layton and Desmond swapped. In the end, Desmond is determined to drag Hershel back with him to be his brother again, but Hershel still disappears to continue his criminal archaeology adventures with Luke and Raymond. Emmy leaves to travel the world.

- Clark and Brenda finally file a missing child report. The end.

…This is maybe not my best thought out PL AU ever, but it’s what I’ve come out with on the fly, lmao.

[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

[c4n1d43cup1d]

this is technically theodore for my brother swap but i think it works as just a normal layton too

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theodoodles

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they would make beautiful bird babies together

[c4n1d43cup1d]

so been thinking about bronev brother swap. idea is like, theo ruins the name swap plans so that real hershel gets adopted and then he kinda gets a little bit fucked up after that. ive got some lore for him after the name swap i just need to get it properly written out instead of a jumbled mess of thoughts.

anyway this is supposed to be theos version of descole, i need to give him a stupid fancy ass pretentious name but yeah here he is

[c4n1d43cup1d]

brother swap au claire!!! she gets to survive the time machine accident in this au because i said so!!!!! though she didn't come out of it completely unscathed if you cant already tell by her prosthetic and scars

shes more in laytons role than des is in this au actually, des (or hershel in this au ig. but im never gonna get used to calling him that) is more like her assistant. not in the same situation as emmy, theyre friends before the plot of LS would take place, im still. figuring out what i want emmy to do. i think im gonna have her be a more antagonistic character but not entirely of her own accord, still a good person at heart but leon is a manipulative bitch.

i should really compile the brother swap au lore in a doc or something

[c4n1d43cup1d]

layclaire (or theoclaire, clairedore????) for my brotherswap au

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i need to draw other characters in this au besides theodore oh my god

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how the HELL do i draw paul

[quibbs126]

So back to my age swap au, here’s Descole, or rather Desmond Locklair, as I call him

(to be perfectly honest I just called him that because I wanted to and I thought it sounded cool. I mean calling himself that here has the same effect as calling himself Jean Descole, considering there’s no Desmond Sycamore, or if there is he hasn’t done anything worth noting, he’s a literal nobody)

More info about him under the cut!

He probably stole those clothes from a local high school theater. Also I made the mask big because I think that’s how those masks are actually supposed to function. I didn’t give him a hat because I just wanted to see him without one and also he’s not as good at concealing his identity

So Des is about 14-16 in this au, and he and Hershel still have their backstory from the main universe. Here though, I’m gonna say that Desmond was never actually picked up by anyone, and he’s been living alone for the past several years. (Or maybe Raymond found him and he’s living with him, I haven’t fully decided yet, though I am leaning towards the homeless option)

Locklair is trying to take down Targent, same as Descole, but he’s nowhere near as dramatic with his plans, nor do his plans really involve the Azran ruins, considering he doesn’t really know about them or their significance yet, he’s a teenager. He’s just trying to track down this organization and take them down, as well as find his parents. So no giant mechas, though he may be working on a prototype for one

Speaking of which, I do plan to have them show up at some point, though their story’s probably a bit later on in the timeline. Rachel is still alive and Leon isn’t exactly a loyal member of Targent yet, he’s still very much working against his will here

Anyways, back to Locklair, we see him a few times before all that, but he’s probably not as involved in the conspiracies as he is normally, other than possibly one or two times, I haven’t decided yet. He very much dislikes Triton but always seems to act a bit nicer (well as nice as he can be) whenever Hershel’s around. The reason for this is later revealed to be because he doesn’t want Hershel being put in these dangerous situations. On Triton’s end, he’s wondering why this kid is on his own and where his parents are, and if they know what he’s up to. Hershel feels like he’s familiar but he just can’t place where

Speaking of which, given that it’s only been around 4-6 years, Hershel still remembers some of his old life, but not much. Mainly, he remembers he has an older brother, but he cannot for the life of him remember what his name was, and he’s mostly forgotten what he looks like, only that he looks sort of like him but with different eyes. He feels guilty about it

Anyways after the whole Targent and Bronev family thing, Desmond might end up getting taken in by Triton and Flora, and I was thinking that perhaps due to their shared interest in machines, Desmond could become Flora’s apprentice, because I just think that would be neat

Anyways I think that’s all I got for now, enjoy