#layclaire

[layclaireweek]

Hello and here are the prompts for this year's Layclaire Week! The theme for this year was pairs/antonyms.

Rules, as well as a plaintext version of the prompts, are under the cut.

This event is SFW. Please keep your works PG-13 maximum.

All works should focus on the relationship between Hershel Layton and Claire Foley, though usage of other characters & background relationships in works is fine.

Any sort of participation is allowed; be as creative as you want!

Prompts can be interpreted as closely or as loosely as you want. This year, as we have two prompts per day, I will clarify that you do not have to use both or combine prompts.

I will be tracking the tag "layclaireweek25" as well as any mentions, so please use the tag and/or mention this blog in your posts.

Have fun!

Prompts:

Day 1: Stay | Change

Day 2: Angst | Fluff

Day 3: Warm | Cold

Day 4: AU | Free Day

Day 5: Life | Death

Day 6: Alone | Together

Day 7: Beginning | End

[dipndotz]

random sketches i nvr posted from the past few weeks

[skkm075]

“You won’t forget, will you…?”

(bubbles might be in a weird position bc original was jpn style comic ツ)

[the-au-lait]

Ok, but imagine a scenario in which the prequels are accounted for and Claire learns about the crazy stuff her bf did over the course of the series.

(The “You could be killed!” line hits me right in the feels, btw)

She’s so concerned, here.

Hershel is used to do this kind of thing by now, but it’s her first time witnessing him do something like this. I imagine she’d be wondering when her boyfriend became so willing to put his own life at risk, like that. It’s a stark contrast with how he was in the flashbacks of UF, after all.

Also, just imagine her learning what happened in Azran Legacy.

[tiya-minuscule]

LayClaire sunday anyone ??

[lesiasmadness]

I was convinced he knew it was Claire the whole time, I was so sure they were sneaking inside jokes form their past relationship into their dialogue that would fly over the kid's heads

[ninadove]

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.

[icebarefoxy]

Bisexuality is real ‼️‼️

[justkillingthyme]

Happy Hershel Haturday!

[sophapop]

🛋️💞

[toy-pigeon]

mfw when i post a wip and then immediately turn around and finish the piece same day

happy hershel haturday! i was feeling very normal about the concept of gravity while i didnt have access to digital art so i was basically just thumbnailing this idea a million times in my sketchbook.

inspiration under the cut if you, too, want to feel very normal about the concept of gravity

“death to the mechanisms,” the mechanisms / 17776, jon bois / what if, randall munroe

[stormflute]

Lost Future(s)

This is my gift to @bitchfendi for the @plgiftexchange! I hope you like it, I had a lot of fun working on it :)

[dipndotz]

❤️❤️❤️

[apreslulu]

Happy valentines Layton fans :3

(Pic taken by Eden, one of my lovely Layton meeters, and Layton is Ed who 9/10 is involved with my con BS)

[teenytinyapprentice]

Layclaire week: Day 6 - Future

The presence of your absence

(perhaps this is more loosely layclaire, and not a literal ghost story - but its important to me that despite losing their future together, Hershel is still able to cultivate a fulfilling life full of love and carry his love for and the memory of Claire with him)

[flowertab]

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 :^))