#pl Layton brothers au

[peachducy]

professor layton spoilers

thinking about hershel and theodore both get adopted au

[jesterday00]

They’re so fun to draw actually

[angermango]

some curious creatures (and Pokémon).

[normalcannibalism]

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

[notllorstel]

In twisted fates au, im pretty sure this hasn't been asked yet but how does cannon luke react to theo? does that break him (again)?

Once Luke settles in a little in this different world, he starts theorising/piecing together what could’ve happened to his Layton aka Theodore Bronev in this world. When learning that an enemy to Hersh is a top hat wearing masked gentleman, he’s pretty much sure he’s connected the dots. So Luke is filled with dread with the possibility of meeting up with his Professor in this world. From how different they would be. So even though he was prepared meeting that man in this world, he was still shocked when he finally presented himself. He cannot help but be curious about this man and worry for them and what things drove them to be on this different path they are on.

Gosh looking back at the pages for those bits, I forgot how emotional it gets.

When your enemy’s (brother) apprentice that’s you’ve only interacted briefly with over the years suddenly looks at you with such familiarity of a concerned friend.

[andymatronic]

Haven't rlly drawn a lot of PL related stuff lately, but have swap Alfendi and Lucy ^^'' ✨

Came up with the swap thingy yesterday and i already love them qwq

[c4n1d43cup1d]

cant remember if i posted her already or not but. layclaire fanchild 👍

her name is eleanor she has no concept of fear and likes to wander off to explore on her own. i might give her a pet pigeon that she definitely caught w her bare hands

[bitter-panacea]

[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...

[plposting]

Anyways back to typing out my frankly way too elaborate script for a pl au in which Des and Hersh never get separated and grow up together with the Laytons

Specificallyyyy an interaction where Randall and Hershel are trying to sneak out to the Akbadain ruins and Des chews em out for it bc protective older brother moments (tm)

[multiversal-madness]

I figured I’d finally draw the outfits Luke has for his various occupations over the years in the How Things Change Au.

From his early 20s to his early 30s, he takes after his adoptive mother and becomes a police inspector. He garners quite the reputation too, solving unique cases like he used to with the Professor. But this time, he’s solving cases with his adventurous assistant Lucille Layton and his number one apprentice Hershel Bronev by his side.

Then Targent happens, he’s captured while Leon and Rachel escape with their kids and gets taken to whoever their base was. None of his years there were particularly good, but his first few were the worst. As an inspector he’d been working against Targent and not only that, but he let the archeologist they were after escape and they wanted to make him regret that. At the start, the only one who had his back was a reluctant follower of Targent by the name of Raymond.

Then the group he’d acquired manage to escape, but not without casualties on both sides. Emmy, who was only a child at the time, lost her mother, leaving her an orphan. Targent lost their leader (and a few buildings). They were on the run for a while but when things settled down to a somewhat normal, Luke used the training he’d gotten in Targent to get a medical degree at Gressenheller University. While there he ends up befriending a certain quartet of younger students.

[peachducy]

[jesterday00]

I mentioned in my Layton Brothers Ask answers that Theo learned what the Look™️ was when Hershel would get angry. I figured I should illustrate a rough idea of what that means, and provide some mild explanation. This is less out of necessity and more because I wanted to lol

Classic Hershel, kind soul. Beloved boy of Stansbury, would paint your fence and water your gardens with the slightest invitation.

Scary Hershel (aka Descole, named shortly before the events of Last Specter), terror of Stansbury. Would get into seemingly unprompted fistfights that more often than not resulted in his victory.

Hershel doesn’t even notice as a teen, but after a coworker at the yard mentioned his Scary Face™️ he found a way to see it himself. It’s one thing to be considered frightening when you’re angry, but it’s another to actually freak yourself out a little when you first notice the change. Eventually, he gets it rebranded to his “Determined” expression lol

Theo only notices after he watches a fight that Hershel is involved with. Hershel does NOT make this face when he’s around Theo, mainly because they don’t argue hard enough for it to escalate that far.

I tried my hand at animating the transition, because it doesn’t take much for Descole to take the lead :3 I’m still a bit shaky at animation (this is really only 5 total frames long) but AUGH I like it

[itsmespicaa]

dude i LOVE this genshin au sm me and my friends keep screaming over it i love the designs so much they're so inspired and pretty !!!!! is diane in this au too?

Yooo thanks so much!! Your kind words mean a lot to us, for real<3

Since this follows the main story, yes! Diane is here as well :D I didn’t change much of her original design because it‘s honestly already pretty fancy lmaoo

Both she and Alfendi are Electro, and she‘s a direct counter to him haha

[pikmininaplane]

The release of the LBMR manga motivated me to make some art for my Layton OMORI AU, starting with the protagonist himself : Al !

Al mostly lives in White Space, but once every two days, he comes out of his room to visit his siblings and his friends, and they all play together !

When fighting the enemies roaming around Al's world, he relies primarily on his gun. Rest assured, it's just a toy gun. It can't hurt him. (Can it... ?)

Apart from that, he relies on many kinds of abilities ; however, unlike his friends he can never get angry. It's weird, really. Each time someone tries to annoy him, he just blacks out for a few seconds, and stays neutral. Why could that be ?

He isn't that worried about it, though. He has more important things to think about, especially when his sister disappears, and the world starts becoming... weird.

What's happening ? Why are all these voices... telling him to wake up ?

(Who is he ?)

[stormflute]

A continuation of this comic, but only in the most irrelevant possible way. 

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