Layton NPC Appreciation Week

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It's Time!!

I cannot believe it is now our third year. Or is it the fourth year? I've honestly lost count of how many Layton NPC appreciation Weeks there have been!

But no matter how many we've had, I always get excited to see what you'll create!

This year, the week will run from Monday 17th November to Sunday 23rd November 2025

Here are the prompts:

Day 1: Curious Village/Diabolical Box

Day 2: Unwound Future/V.S Phoenix Wright

Day 3: Last Spectre/Eternal Diva

Day 4: Miracle Mask/Azran Legacy

Day 5: Mystery Room/ Mystery Journey

Day 6: New World of Steam/Obscure Characters

Day 7: Free Day

A few eagle eyed of you will have noticed Day 6 has a new prompt! That's right, while New World of Steam hasn't officially been released yet, the demos have allowed us to briefly meet some brand new NPC's from Steam Bison! Have any made an impression on you yet?

Don't worry if you want to avoid all spoilers from the game, any submissions from NWOS will be tagged as #NWOSspoilers.

As usual, don't forget to tag @layton-npc-appreciation-week so I can reblog all your amazing submissions!

Please reblog so as many people can see this and take part! Thank you!

[artisticgoose]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week Day 6 - New World of Steam/Obscure Characters

I wasn’t sure what to do for this prompt so I rewatched the demo and found these girls in the background. So naturally I decided they were girlfriends (the pink and orange colors may or may not have contributed lol)

[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 7: Free Day

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[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 7: Free Day

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[the-river-of-light]

@layton-npc-appreciation-week day 7: free day. this is Lacy Rolland from Phantom Deity (yaaay more novelposting). novel spoilers under cut

do you think this is the type of thing she was doing while descole was replacing her in london

[lesiasmadness]

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Free Day

I just thought it would be funny if the identical policemen and the identical family thugs got together and there was just a bunch of confusing identical couples around

Art itself under cut

[hotsaucewmilk]

do you ever feel like you live amongst zombies?

NPC Appreciation Week: Day 7 - Free Day

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[muzzable]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week Day 6 - New World of Steam / Obscure Character

(I know I'm technically late, but Day 7 is a free day anyway and it's probably still Saturday somewhere.)

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If Chara Melendy has 0 fans, I'm dead, and all that. She's like the ultimate level of ignored Layton woman to me (Rambling about it under the cut).

So if you ask me, the Relics arc of the anime is essentially about how chasing after something you don't need to chase after can come at the cost of the relationships you hold dear.

Layton thinks he needs to verify that Katrielle's biological father isn't around anymore in order for her to want him as her true father. He never needed to do that--Katrielle always saw him as her real dad no matter what--but he ignored Rosa and Luke confronting him on it and because he kept digging deeper into a mystery that didn't need solving, he missed out on 11 years of watching his daughter grow up.

Layton's story is paralleled by that of Rufus Aldebaran, who shows a more extreme and unfixable version of the same consequences. Rufus learns about a legitimate danger, but because he's not believed, he puts himself in a cryogenic chamber for over 100 years to fix the problem himself. He gets so fixated on what is ultimately just his own messiah complex that he misses out on a life with Chara Melendy entirely. Layton only lost 11 years; he can still catch up. Rufus denied himself the chance to ever know what became of Chara after he left her.

Did she find someone new? Did she find satisfaction in a life alone without him? Did she hold onto the past too much and never move on? The story doesn't tell us, because it can't. Not being told the ending of her story is the consequence of Rufus choosing to make himself the hero over being with her.

She's such an ignored and abandoned Layton woman that she only gets to show up in two scenes, when it's directly relevant to Rufus. The narrative has to ignore her because he wrote her out of it. And because she can't be part of the story, she doesn't even get to have fandom appreciation that characters like Flora or Rachel have; she's just left behind and forgotten almost entirely.

And I just find the tragedy of a character who illustrates being left behind so much that she's left behind by the story and fans themselves to be fascinating.

[artisticgoose]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week Day 5 - Mystery Room/Mystery Journey

Of course I had to draw Madame Doublée for this one. She is incredible and I love that LMJ gave representation to crazy lizard ladies, I felt so seen <3

[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 6: New World of Steam/Obscure Character

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@layton-npc-appreciation-week day 6: obscure media...I miss my blorbos from the light novels when will more people read the light novels

[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 6: New World of Steam/Obscure Character

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[lesiasmadness]

@layton-npc-appreciation-week day 6 New World of Steam/Obscure Characters

Hope he counts as obscure, as I nearly missed him completely had it not been for me leaving the action scene min-ending and backtracking

Anyway, gambling is bad, kids

[aquamarineglow]

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Day 5: Mystery Room/Mystery Journey

While the NPC's in LMJ might not be as memorable as previous games, I remember really enjoying talking to Gudrun Weldon.

I felt like drawing her in a different outfit because, as an athlete, I don't think she gets the chance to wear cute dresses much. Maybe she's trying to impress Katrielle.

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[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 5: Mystery room/Mystery Journey

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my yuri #myyuri for day 5 of @layton-npc-appreciation-week

[justkillingthyme]

Layton NPC Appreciation Week 5: Mystery Room/Mystery Journey

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