#lost future spoilers

[jesterday00]

A melancholy Luke Lunes for you all, because this was the only idea I had :,(

Hershel had to carry Luke to the boarding dock because he couldn’t stop crying

[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 :)

[justkillingthyme]

A compilation of every voiced line of Hershel laughing

Minor spoilers warning for all games

*do please tell me if I’m missing one and I’ll go back*

[princema-k]

erm now draw clive covered in blood....

chat can we fucking kill this guy already

[teenytinyapprentice]

a chance (almost) encounter

adorable commission for Flower @rosescarves - always fun to do some pencil crayon work

[cayenne-twilight]

Why is processor latent so sad 😢

[justewil]

hey .is this anything

[altho-arto]

Here's my piece for Our Shared Past by @hauntedhikingsociety , a story about the Professor visiting Dimitri after the events of Unwound Future, and interesting discussions they have together as the months go by :) i really recommend it !! 🎩🔬 This was drawn for the @proflaytonbigbang 2024 event, and it was a joy for me to participate in a fandom event around this dearly beloved franchise <3

The image description for this is under the read more, feedbacks on accessibility more than welcome btw.

Also check out the other piece made for this story by @kirbro here ! ✨

[ID : Professor Layton fancomic where Hershel Layton visits an incarcerated Dimitri Allen. The comic layout shows a big establishing panel on top of the page followed by two rows of three panels each under it. The big panel shows Hershel taking a chair to join an already seated Dimitri, the two men in the middle of a discussion around a prison table. A jaded Dimitri says "Fine, since we've established we're both busy men, I'd suppose it'de be a waste of time to spend out whole day arguing." Hershel answers "I thought we established that I'm a busy man", the "I" part of his sentence in highlight. Dimitri hand-waves the remark with a sparse "Details". Panel 2 shows a relaxed Hershel sitting down, gamely answering "Besides, I can think of bigger wastes of time than arguing with you". In panel 3 Dimitri leans back in his chair and rolls his eyes at him, answering with a smirk "Good lord Hershel, what a romantic you are." Panel 4 is shaped like an exclamation bubble and showcases a surprised Hershel sputtering "R-romantic ?", his face a shade pinker than before. The three bottom panels show Dimitri going from surprised to panicked to mortified in response to Hershel's embarrassment, the both of them realizing their banter developed an unintentional flirting tone. Dimitri's blank stare of surprise transforms into a flustered look in the penultimate panel as he starts clarifying "I-I only meant !", before interrupting himself. The blush appearing on his cheeks finally spreads to his face and neck in the last panel, where he slouches over the table and hides his face in his hand, sighing and adding "You know I'm no good at talking". End ID]

[noneaazures]

Digging for answers, looking deeper

Close ups under the cut

[qaiou]

[another-clive-blog]

Found this audio and it fitted just too well (except the marriage part ahah), so I just had to try and do something with it. Clive fandom I will never truly leave you even if I suck at social media <3

[jesterday00]

just want to keep this forever tbh

[heal-the-ashes]

i'm thinking about pl and—like always—i get emotional after anything regarding this series. these stories. the ebb and flow of cherished laughs and pained expressions, the give and take of funny dialogues and heartbreaking reveals. when the end credits songs just wash over the entire experience with additional thoughts (usually angst-y in my case). when you've realized the story you just witnessed and the story that you felt apart of will stay with you for times that seem ephemerally immemorial...

[Slight Miracle Mask and Unwound Future Spoilers near the end]

these games don't show happiness and sadness. they don't show the positives and negatives of how a scene should flow. they don't just have dialogue and action and tone and intonations. 

they have perseverance amidst tragedy, the rose within the thorn, the sun within the bleak clouds. they show that everyone in this series is human. they somehow made me feel—and not in some type of pity way—for those npcs who were stuck on what i thought was the easiest puzzle in the world. there was no humiliation, no real sense of judgement. there was respect and patience and... and there was disappointment, only in one's self. there was no invalidity of emotions. yes, there were invalid actions, but i don't have a single memory of anyone saying another character was stupid for feeling a certain way. there was passive acceptance all around and across the series, there was no stuck-up sounding laughter; no one (to my memory) ever called another stupid for messing up.

and hershel layton is one of the most human characters i have ever seen. 

i saw a fanart that consisted of hershel in different stages of life. it made me emotional, because: 

in each stage of his life that was depicted there… it wasn't growing up. it wasn't milestones of age, it wasn't certain accomplishments in his character. it showed each time he has lost someone. and god does it break my heart to see and realize that he. is still. here. the amount of pain PL characters have gone through just breaks my heart.

and i am so glad and so honestly inspired to know that. and i feel so awful for thinking my problems are bad when i look at the greatest person to ever exist in media ever, who was shaped by traumas far beyond my own. and that is not an understatement: i genuinely believe professor hershel layton is my favorite character in any media. because he and his games tell you that there is more to life than pain. and it is a lesson that i am so glad that i can finally see someone else tell.

miracle mask and unwound future are two of my favorite games because they're the games that tell the audience that he is human. it reveals how he despises—he loathes, he hates—… not emotions. no, not sadness, not regret, not remorse, not disappointment, not pain. no, none of that. 

he hates certain parts of himself. he hates how he dealt with grief. he hates it when he's shown with "proof" that he's gone and done the very thing he swore not to ever do. he doesn't even hate anyone else even though he has so much right to. he should've cussed out bronev off screen. he should've yelled at bill hawks. he shouldn't of saved clive but god what did he do. he saved clive. he saved randall. 

oh, how love is a weapon. this is it. this is one of the greatest examples of how love is a weapon in storytelling. it's not even platonic love between the characters, its the love the audience has for the characters. stories like these twist this and they do it well. but, anyway—

when i was younger, i thought hershel layton was foolish. i thought he was stupid. i used to think: "what is he doing? someone hurts him, why doesn't he want to hurt them back? what's wrong with him that he doesn't want revenge?"

i couldn't of been more... wrong about how he sees the world.

no, he's the one of the greatest persons i've ever seen in media. i've learned so much from him and the PL series as a whole. i've learned something from each and every character. [what i learned from bronev and bill hawks is just to not be them.] 

layton is the kindest person i've seen. there is no earned malice anywhere near him. he doesn't purposefully aggravate others. he isn't mean, he's not one you'd call angry. he's patient and understanding, and he was made from pain. 

if every person was at least a little bit like him, i think the world would be a better place. a place where no one has to be made from pain.

[justkillingthyme]

Unwound Future Chapter 9

[whoops-im-obsessed]

If I had a nickel for every time I had a character who was an english puzzle enthusiast turned unwitting detective with an L name that isn't his own, childhood trauma, and an estranged brother, and where the plot involves some kind of identity hijinks and swapping with the brother in some way, and he is assisted by a redhead and a child and one of them has a name which means 'of light/light-giving', and he at one point goes to visit his school mentor who taught him about puzzles as part of an investigation, and there is some angst about how he has no significant other or family and he's a terrible driver

I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but is better than no nickels at all ig anyway go play professor layton and watch ludwig

[teenytinyapprentice]

cozy evening by the fire

very cute commission for @ferfaix and her friend :)

featuring her oc Mary Gold with Clive - a really interesting take on a fake "future Flora" to Clive's "future Luke", these two are super cute