#professor huh

[emiko-matsui]

awww i just realised fred was so annoyed by the puppets specifically because it reminded him of his daaadddd

[womenofwonder]

No you don’t understand I don’t ‘ship’ these characters. I want them divorced due to political differences. I want them to share custody of their adopted children. I want them try to kill each other in a sexy way. I want them to be tragic but also very stupid. 

[xxplastic-cubexx]

YOUR APOCALYPSE CHARLES IS SO CUTE!!!!HIS LONG HAIR AHHH IM OBSESSED

thank you so much !!!!! it's twisted irony that his hair looks the best in the movie he loses it in ......

[simona-artista-artblog]

I really wanted to participate in narumitsu week this year but I caught a cold right at the start of it and haven’t been able to do anything T^T I did manage to finish this piece I was working on though! My first entry into the Ace Attorney games was actually the Professor Layton crossover XD So I thought it would be cute to have an old friend drop in on the Wrightworth family!

[windcloudii]

Svsss × Orv

Just two authors are having fun and brainstorming.

Ps. No hamsters were harmed

Ps2. Also, Shang Qinghua is higher than Han Sooyoung? Man is the same height as Kim Dokja. ☠️

[princema-k]

someone on discord requested layton getting hurt. happy hallows eve

[superfallingstars]

Snapetober Day 7: Flame

There is a light that never goes out...!

[wishchip106]

even in mortal danger he’s still serving cunt

multitasking queen love to see it

bout to pull out the trauma beam 😻

he got cake too holy moly 🤯

Magnus might’ve won the lottery here 👀

[zikadraws]

I drew HIM during like probably 50% of the time before going for one of his plans. I'm guessing immortality + way too much power must get really boring

Follow-up :

Demons need hobbies, Professor

(this is way too eyestrain 😵)

[0livdocx]

These bitches be wearing matching lipsticks like girlie besties:

Fabulous glam looks for the two divas in the whole X-men series 💅✨

[pigeons-paintbrush]

i love randomly seeing things rise in popularity across my dash when i havent done anything to initiate it. its like fandom news except no one will explicitly state the recent events for you, so youre just sitting there like: hello ghost trick fandom. what happened to make everyone finally play this game lmao. i’m glad we’re thriving, but what happened? oh good morning prof layton nation. it seems ive missed an update on nwos lore, thats exciting.

and sometimes you get to figure out the puzzle. like “why is gravity falls going bonkers on my dash all of a sudden” and then you find out they got a book about their favourite sentient cheese pizza slice being fruity or something and you’re like ah. i get it now

[deranged-kotek]

get a load of this guy (drawn on my shitass tablet during a lecture, the lighting in this room is shit so please excuse the fucked up colors)

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Reading an article on how no one truly knows how to read a book front to back anymore is making me so terrified I literally don’t gaf if I’m a biochem major it’s looking more and more every day like I’m going for that literature master’s degree for no reason other than to feel something

[merrinpippy]

on masks

so shockingly miracle mask has huge mask theming in like every aspect. basically every significant character is 'wearing' a mask literally or metaphorically, except for luke who remarks in ludmilla's costume shop that he doesn't think any of the masks suit him (since the events of the previous game luke can be authentically himself now.) this is fun to notice on its own, but there's more to be discussed than just the presence of masks.

every mask in miracle mask backfires on its wearer to some degree! the most obvious case of this is descole and the masked gentleman straight up underestimating their own mask/s and failing to see their plans to the end, and the resulting consequences. dalston and henry's masks of stoicism turn out to have kept them from years of friendship they could have enjoyed, and paint them both as suspects in the masked gentleman case. angela's aloof facade and distance from everyone around her allows her to be kidnapped for a significant portion of the game without anyone but the professor noticing (and even then, he notices that something's up with her, but chalks it up initially as not knowing her anymore). less obviously, emmy's mask only means she'll end up hurting the people she has come to care for even more when the time comes.

most interesting to me, though, is hershel! even as a teen he's remarkably reserved, though clearly passionate. he keeps himself very controlled, and seems to care very much about coming across to others as helpful, grounded, and 'normal'. the interests that we know he has he keeps locked up, literally hidden away in cupboards, not to be acknowledged aloud to himself or others. he never gets angry or ever really displays any stereotypical teen behaviours apart from awkwardness.

now what this means is he is treated as the reliable one who will nonetheless go along with whatever randall wants him to do. he's never particularly assertive (something he will learn to be as an adult) so his willingness is taken for granted. he's put in mortal danger in akbadain because it never occurs to randall that hershel's protests are anything more than for appearance's sake.

and when randall falls and hershel is alone, he yells! he falls to his knees, completely overcome. he cries. he pushes through. and when he reaches angela and henry, alone, covered in dirt, looking completely haunted... they don't even ask him if he's okay. angela bodily shakes him. in the past and present, nobody treats hershel as if he's been through something traumatic - to everyone else, he was either a bystander to or complicit in randall's death, but controlled, mild-mannered and rational hershel is never considered a victim in his own right even after years have passed for everyone to think on it. years after the fact angela apologises to hershel... when she realises she needs his help. and henry immediately accuses him of betraying randall's memory and abandoning him.

and to be clear this isn't me saying oh they're evil or whatever but it's significant that they acknowledge how the trauma affected them and their behaviour from that point forward but it doesn't occur to them that hershel's behaviour and life trajectory was also altered forever! because hershel has for his whole life masked so well that to everyone else he does not have an interior life that isn't puzzle solving.

and the absolute funniest thing about it is that when hershel confesses this all to emmy and luke.... it's immediately back to the investigation, "where do we go now professor!" i'm sure there's no reason to ask if hershel's okay, he's probably unaffected by all that, let's go! readers i laughed out loud. tfw you mask so well everyone forgets you're a person

[heal-the-ashes]

I feel like Hershel and Desmond would both be afraid of themselves.

If they stop and look at themselves. If they realize what they're doing came from years of pain. Would it all lead to a question of "Who else am I going to hurt?" "How many people have I unintentionally hurt because I never realized what I was really doing?" "How many things of my life have I missed because of this?" "How many things do I—or will I—regret?"

I feel like Layton self-sacrifices to a fault. That others get hurt trying to protect him. That he unknowingly drags other people through pain to get to where he thinks he needs to go. To solve every mystery there is. To get rid of his pain from outside sources, he needs to make as much of it himself under the titles "Determination" and "Amazing at solving things" and "Helping others" because then, how could those things ever hurt him? How could they ever be seen as pain? They're not like his (other) traumas. They don't cause pain at all. Not to mention what he thinks about danger. Danger? What danger? There's no danger here. Just people who are willing to hurt others to get what they want—Which is very sad and shows their pain and he'd very much like to help them in any way possible, if possible. If they show that they don't want to be helped, then it's better to leave them be.

But then again, nothing can ever be someone's fault other than his around him. I think he goes over betrayals thinking, "There must have been something I could have done." or "There must've been something I did." or "If I learn from this, I can make sure it never happens again." or... ... I think he has a hard time accepting that things really aren't his fault / there's really nothing he can do about some situations. Actually, when it comes time for Unwound Future and the whole Evil Layton arc... The only time in which he actually raises his voice is at himself. Is at the version of him that betrayed all of the morals in which he's held onto for so long. But a part of me thinks that, if he knew things were actually his fault, he'd have a problem with that, too... I mean, look at how he reacts to him getting puzzle answers incorrect in CV. In CV. In the 4th game of experience that he's had with puzzles. And a movie. With all that experience and he gets something wrong... he's disappointed in himself. Going back to the UF/LF thing... "I demand an explanation!!" I don't think I'll ever forget that line. I think, from his journal... We know he was trying to think of reasons why he would do something like this. Idk. I'm. Thoughts are not thinking anymore. Um. Wow I really lost my thought process. I was also gonna talk about Desmond. But I guess that's not happening at the moment.

[justewil]

i love these little .icons ... they're so silly ...