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Alright y'all I'mma tell you about something that really peeves me. Alright so you know how people will headcanon characters as like trans or gay or a certain race and then will draw art showing their headcannon well I’m peeved when people do that with characters like ones from games with their race like it’s ok with book characters but game characters that have a set design it kinda annoys me because your messing with a iconic design I see the need for poc characters but do you really have to change the race of the main characters

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As you’ve put this in the main tags, I hope you don’t mind me replying publicly.

Do people have a right to headcanon characters as trans, gay or of a certain race etc.? Yes, of course they do. And they have just as much right to draw characters in this way and display their work in the main tags, as long as they’re not shoving their headcanons onto others and declaring it undeniable canon. (I’ll admit, this is a problem I’ve seen in the fandom and it has to stop.)

There is never any mention in the PL games of what race the characters could be, and nor does there really need to be in a puzzle-solving mystery game. Your perception of race is based on appearance alone, and maybe the origins of the character’s name. Well, guess what? Most of the names differ with each regional version of game.

And what would be the most ‘iconic’ part of Layton’s design? His top hat? His orange shirt? His weird green shoes? It certainly would not be the colour of his skin. Also, Layton and Luke’s appearances aren’t even consistent... Have you seen them in Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney? When did Layton get so stretched-out?

Yes, it would be great if Level 5 could provide us with more POC characters... just a greater variety of main characters in general. They’ve definitely shown some improvement with Layton’s Mystery Journey, giving us characters like Emilianna (an Italian woman, with noticeably darker skin). This just proves how lacking the variety of main character designs there were in the original series. Every main female character with a voice actor who accompanies Layton practically looks the same: fair-skinned and petite. There’s nothing wrong with these features at all... but it does become a little repetitive.

So, in conclusion, who the heck cares if fans put their own spin on a classic character? (Comic book artists do it all the time with their characters!) No one’s forcing you to look at others’ work.

P.S. Hershel’s first name is Yiddish... which is a Jewish language. Just saying.

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Ernest’s infatuation...

I think we can all agree that Ernest’s crush on Kat could’ve been a little more... subdued. As adorable and as loyal as he can be, he doesn’t need to scream his feelings at the top of his lungs. Kat’s obviously noticed his infatuation and she even teases him about it. (’If only someone would give me a kiss...!’)

THAT BEING SAID, I can understand why Ernest would be so forward not only with his feelings, but with his friendships. LMJ ending spoilers under the cut...

I can’t wait until everyone’s finally played this game and I can live without fear of spoiling someone

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Imagine...

If Professor Layton… really was presumed dead. It would either bring all his friends and family together, or drive them apart, giving a good reason for why there’s no mention of any of the old cast during LMJ. Luke and Emmy have gone off on their own to hunt down Layton’s suspected killer. Maybe they had a falling out with Flora about her staying in London where it’s safe and looking after her younger siblings. But Flora sets out on her own by the time Al and Kat reach their twenties.

Desmond assumes the worse, of course, and starts working on a Detragon Version 2. Because ‘dead and buried’ doesn’t always apply to the PL universe. Melina, Randall, Claire, Aurora and even Lady Dahlia (formerly the robot Lady Violet) could all attest to that.

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Ah.

This could be why, yes. The puzzle family is falling apart.

Layton’s missing. It’s been months; all of them rushed to London at first but now Scotland Yard has called off the search. (For reasons still unknown to us players, the whole thing’s had to be kept quiet, and it’s a terrible drain on the Yard’s resources to search and search and find nothing.)

Alfendi might have enough connections to get things going again, but he’d have to take the lead himself and the half of him that Lucy will dub Placid Prof is still dominant, and barely up to leaving the office. The rest of the family knows this, knows he can’t do it right now, but there’s still an enormous row about it when he tells them so.

Emmy calls her old boss at the World Times and asks to be sent back out on the road, to the strangest and most puzzling stories they’ve got. When she gets to those places, she photographs for the Times but also for herself, and starts asking a fair number of off-the-books questions.

Luke is grown now; a veterinarian, maybe, or a zoologist. I like to imagine he has a daughter, four or five now (her name is Aurora, of course). He’s used up most of his leave from work and no I mean it I can’t go running around the world with you, Emmy, it’s not about whether I want to, a gentleman doesn’t just abandon his responsibilities—of course I’m worried about him!!!

He still scours London and the Scotland Yard archives every weekend, though, and starts talking to migrating birds, asking for any news and passing the word: have you seen a short human with a tall hat, kind to everyone, really smart? Where was he? What was he doing? It is, perhaps, the world’s first avian intelligence network, though the twittering snippets it garners him have yet to coalesce into a clue. (He writes them all down anyway.)

Before she leaves Emmy asks him to look after her bloodhound, who really doesn’t like going on planes. Luke agrees, and it’s as close as they get to reconciling. There are weekly phone calls, over time becoming less strained. No leads.

Flora has been making quiet inquiries in the upper echelons of society—nothing. She found herself at the heart of a second huge family row after being the first to suggest that Layton might be dead. (She doesn’t want to believe it, no. But all the clues, well, lack of them, do seem to point to—)

More than any of them, however, Flora is used to her father disappearing. If there was somewhere to follow him to, she’d be leading the charge. But there isn’t. So she orders pizza delivery to Alfendi’s office (her cooking has really improved since he first came to live with them, but brothers are nothing if not stubborn) and makes sure Emmy has enough sweaters and helps Kat hunt for the perfect office. At night she scribbles computer code in a notebook and builds prototype clockwork drones. She’s used to waiting, but when and if there’s a trail to follow, she means to be ready.

(If you believe in the canonicity of the crossover game, Luke settles the question by calling Maya. It’s not “official” proof—they don’t bother bringing it to the Yard, and Alfendi scoffs a bit—but the whole family sleeps better after that.)

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The ‘first avian intelligence network’, you say...? Does Luke call it ‘Twitter’?

All of this is amazing and I’ll be sad if the old gang’s whereabouts isn’t explained like this.

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Imagine...

If Professor Layton... really was presumed dead. It would either bring all his friends and family together, or drive them apart, giving a good reason for why there’s no mention of any of the old cast during LMJ. Luke and Emmy have gone off on their own to hunt down Layton’s suspected killer. Maybe they had a falling out with Flora about her staying in London where it’s safe and looking after her younger siblings. But Flora sets out on her own by the time Al and Kat reach their twenties.

Desmond assumes the worse, of course, and starts working on a Detragon Version 2. Because ‘dead and buried’ doesn’t always apply to the PL universe. Melina, Randall, Claire, Aurora and even Lady Dahlia (formerly the robot Lady Violet) could all attest to that.