#the most wonderful thing about Layton game holders

[probablygayattorneys]

Since deciding to replay all the puzzle games I used to love, naturally, I needed somewhere to keep them when I wasn’t playing them. I looked at existing game holders but none really spoke to me, so I reached out to ROC3DStudio on Etsy about getting a custom holder made and he and I worked together to make this - a hint coin holder! It just arrived today but I’m so happy with it!!!

[shittyclive]

if you’re comfortable sharing it, I am very much interested in the plural Hershel Layton thoughts!!!

. -still bigender Clive anon I don’t know how better to communicate that but I am not coming off anon I would die of anxiety

SO heres literally where it started and where i ended up.

i think a baseline for why i thought he would be an interesting fit to explore in a plural sense is that we dont really get a good look at his thought process in the actual games. there could be anything going on in there. there could be guys in there.

then i considered that he has quite an impactful amount of trauma (a huge piece that he himself described as being "repressed" having happened in childhood) throughout his life, and he would probably have some kind of trauma holder/protector to keep it from him. especially considering i think the first time he cried since randall fell was during lost future (thats ~20 years).

i wouldnt consider him a very distinct system, much closer to something like a median system. very closely knit together, this being due to not only how hard he represses his own feelings and issues, but that most of his trauma occurred in his late teens/adulthood. also, again, we dont get to know much about his thought processes, which gives me the idea that he's got a covert system that hides itself and works very internally (he probably doesnt even need to switch unless theres a big emotional disaster)

so in my eyes, at bare minimum, he's got: 1. protector/trauma holder 2. guy to discuss things with and bounce ideas off of

i also started thinking about a guy who would play devils advocate during these internal discussions? which stems from layton's clear understanding of the villains in the series (yet seemingly not understanding the feelings of flora, so this sort of analysis is probably situational).

fuck it im just gonna paste in the discussion i had with pip @soweli-musi under the cut

and heres an edit of that hting with vincent

i dont know i'll probably end up having more thoughts on it in the future but heres where this wonderful morning lead me. o^_^o