#PROFESSOR LAYTON LORE

[s0f1kka]

PROFESSOR LAYTON LORE

or PL theme with 1 movie and 6 games (cutscenes only) in 1.

This video took ~ 1,5 hours. I made that yesterday and fixed today. I was bored.

Last Specter, Miracle Mask and Azran Legacy HD cutscenes by DearestHershel.

[lutiaslayton]

Hey everyone! Just thought I'd make a quick post to let you know that...

The complete, definite, will-not-be-edited-again-in-the-future, FINAL translation of London Holiday, is finally here for your enjoyment!

AND it comes this time with an in-character fan-translation that DOESN'T read like Google Translate!

For those who didn't know, Professor Layton and the London Holiday is an official prologue to Diabolical Box; it's a short slice-of-life story in which Luke and Layton are just having some good time solving puzzles, and at the end, they receive the letter from Schrader which starts the events of DB. This game is not really lost content per se, but it's still part of the more obscure Layton media, since we non-Japanese fans have no legal way of playing it ourselves unless we buy the Japanese version of DB.

This isn't really some breaking news or anything, but I still thought it was worth warning you that this is it -- if you wanted a fancy in-character translation, you finally have it!

I will make a small shoutout to @call-me-rucy who helped every now and then with the more accurate translation when I had doubts on how a few idioms here and there were meant to be interpreted. Thanks again for your help, and sorry for using you like this xD I do wish I could send you DMs for reasons other than just asking for your Japanese knowledge hahaha

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When I say that this won't be edited again, I mean that the only way this web page will ever be further edited in the future is if someone else shows up at some point and asks me to change something. Perhaps I took too many liberties in the fancy fan-translation compared to the original text in one or two specific occurrences, or perhaps someone will want to translate this transcript into another language that isn't English, in which case I would absolutely accept to add it! (and you would be credited for that additional translation, obviously)

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I heavily suggest you take a look at it if you haven't already, because it provides quite a bit of lore and funny/wholesome moments! We notably get the full story of how Schrader heard about, and then tried to acquire the Elysian box (...story which contradicts the fact that he would already own it in Eternal Diva, by the way), but it's not the only fun lore crumbs this prologue to DB gives us :)

Also, for the fans of the puzzle theory -- I suggest you take a look in particular at what Luke says when he solved puzzle 09. It sure is intriguing that he would mention walking from island to island on foot as if he were... Physically doing it?? Or at least had the impression that he could experience it somehow???

Heh, puzzles and hint coins have mind powers anyway, for all we know perhaps some of them can trap you inside your own mind for a bit while you're solving them. Deliciously horrifying, so much potential for fanfics/comics and lore analysis. So shameful that nobody would have thought of taking advantage of this by throwing puzzles at someone with the specific intent of slowing them down by trapping them in a trance for a bit. smh, Level 5. smh.

[sophapop]

hehe womem 🥰

[c4n1d43cup1d]

beastars ish furry au doodles

[linaraiscorner]

how am i supposed to behave normally in public after this monumental news

[skythealmighty]

soooooo... i made an au. im calling it situationswap. um. here have the ramblings of a madman and feel free to ask me more?

[professorlaytonpuzzlingprofessor]

...I’ve been feeling some sort of....dread recently. i’ve no idea where it has emerged from though....I’m not part of the polls....I don’t do much but watch.

it’s unsettling me.

[bearofohu]

wild that they finally found mansion of the deathly mirror. when it comes to that lost media i was the equivalent of the first foolhardy researcher trying to unearth the ancient artifact only to get cartoonishly flattened by an anvil hanging above a door

[dafry-shenanigans]

This specific scene lives rent free in my head-

[alloftheseworldz]

As it turns out, I did, in fact, go inside someone's office and came out of it with my life forever changed and mind forever altered. Man. Who knew old men being in love with each other could do that to you. I already know I'm going to get too long with this because I'm oh the yapper........... so full breakdown on Laydra (Hershel Layton x Dr. Chandra we're already to that point yeah) under the cut. Please do not click unless you're ready for walls and walls of text and analysis there is so much here I have to emphasis that first and foremost. Tl;dr in the words of my buddy Dave Bowman: my god.

Of course for anyone familiar with one and not the other, here's a little rundown on who these two are: Professor Hershel Layton is the title protagonist of the Professor Layton puzzle series. Him alongside his number one apprentice, Luke Triton, go on daring journeys to solve puzzles and mysteries. Revolving back to Layton himself, alongside being a puzzle solver, he is an archaeology professor and self-acclaimed true gentleman. He's there on the ready to help anyone with any issue they may have, all according with his warm heart and selfless behavior. He sees the betterment of everyone, even if he suffers from his own internal turmoil. Doctor Chandra is the creator, better dubbed father, of the HAL 9000 supercomputer within the Space Odyssey series. While he is mostly focused on during the duration of the second installment, 2010: Odyssey Two (or 2010: The Year We Make Contact if you're going off the movie version!), his influence very much affects the course of the series. Chandra himself is a rather closed-off man, prioritizing his work more than anything. He holds a deeper connection towards twin systems HAL 9000 and SAL 9000, with little wiggle room for anyone else to become involved in his life. Despite this, Chandra always holds a modest aura, yet can be meek and shy at points, especially when exposed to moments of vulnerability. Though most of these aspects are rarely seen, so much as Chandra himself is. Now past introductions, it should be noted that the rest of this... block of text is going involve major spoilers mostly pertaining to the Professor Layton series, namely for the events of the game Professor Layton and the Unwound Future and the anime Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Katrielle's Puzzle Solving Files. There will also be spoilers for specifically both movie versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact. If you don't mind spoilers or already know of them, you can carry on, but for anyone else, this is your spoiler warning. With the mention of Unwound Future, this, of course, falls back to Layton's college days where he himself were a student at Gressenheller University, where he now teaches. During his college career, Layton had a girlfriend by the name of Claire Foley; the two were deeply in love with one another. Now for Claire, she herself was a scientist, working alongside colleagues Dimitri Allen and Bill Hawks. The three of them worked together on a large project: a time machine. Though, this would take many years to finalize. During that time, Claire would undoubtedly introduce her love to many of her friends in the scientific field. One of which was none other than Chandra. While Claire wasn't too close with Chandra admittedly (though it was hard to say anyone was), she figured him and Layton would get along rather well. Turns out, she was right, perhaps a little too right, but the results of that wouldn't be seen until many years down the line. In this present day, Layton and Chandra confided in each other due to both of their present shyness, yet kindness. Layton and Chandra always had pleasant conversations, speaking of their different career paths and all the fun things that came from them, or perhaps even much more mundane topics, such as listening in to what happened in their latest books. There was never an unwelcome moment between the two of them, and it felt like they could do everything together without worry. It were though as if they could prove themselves to the world, but just who was it they were proving? And was that something they wanted at all? It would seem fate had already decided that for them, for better or for worse.

Hershel Layton would become the youngest archaeology professor to be hired into Gressenheller University, at the age of twenty-seven. He had been gifted a top hat by Claire for this achievement, but shortly after this, she would be put to test the time machine she'd been working on, but with error. The test would fail, and Claire would succumb and die to the aftermath of the failed time traveling experiment. For Layton, he had lost a part of himself that day, kept with him forever by the top hat he refuses to take off his head. As for Chandra? He would have a small project of his own, but it was taking many more years to complete than the time machine, even if it's test was held back to find the point of error. Chandra's project, however, was a completely personal one. This would be the roundabout conception of his greatest joy: the HAL 9000. No one ever knew of him, all but one: Hershel Layton. Prior to the events of Claire's passing, Layton would be occasionally invited over to Chandra's home, where Hal in his prototype stages was being built upon. Chandra always had the mindset that he wished Hal to be a curious, kind-hearted being, so what better person to introduce to him than someone exactly that? Layton cared for Hal almost as much as Chandra did, the three of them together acting as some sort of makeshift family. In Chandra's mind, perhaps that was what they were. It was as true as true could be: Chandra was in love with Layton. Sometimes he would be the only thing that he could talk about with his computer son, going on and on about how wonderful and horrible Layton made him feel. To be someone so in-tune with him, yet be so out of his reach. Chandra was always happy that Layton found happiness with Claire, though that didn't falter the flutter in his heart. Maybe it made it worse. Maybe that was what made Layton's isolation after Claire's death so unbearable. They talked rather little afterwards, until they talked no more. Despite this, both their emotions and memories always carried on with them, even if time could no longer hold them close. And now, ten years have already passed. Layton has gone to solve many of the world's mysteries, whereas Chandra continued developing Hal. To Chandra, there seemed to be nothing but Hal, as Layton was his one true connection all those years ago. He had colleagues and friends, sure, but none could compare to those beautiful, beady eyes. The longing may have subsided, but that did not remove the full pain of a part of his life no longer there. Though his thoughts selfish, Chandra sometimes wondered if Layton died when Claire did. Similar could be said for the professor in question, though not in the same means. There had been many reunions and realizations throughout these long ten years, but his mind would always fall back to Chandra and Hal. All the times spent with the scientist, sometimes along with his computer son, and things were happy then. Layton wonders if he should reach out, but never finds the voice to. A trainwreck of unhelpful thoughts win out before he could consider stopping by the Chandra home; did he even live there anymore? So much has changed, just as time demanded. And as time demands again, a reunion was in order, but not in the ways either of them would expect... or desire, for that matter. Cue back to before the events of Unwound Future. Many scientists within the London area would start being kidnapped with no explanation as to why, or by who. These scientists would then be placed within an establishment they were told to believe to be "Future London," the name telling all. A prior entity, Dimitri Allen, would manipulate these scientists to work on another time machine, telling them that it would be the only way to return to their original time. Chandra was among these scientists, and he was one of the most prominent workers on Dimitri's attempt at a second time machine. He had a son to get back to.

As always, Layton, alongside his apprentice Luke, would be within Future London to investigate, being invited along by their future, though this world's present, Luke Triton. Layton, Luke, and Future Luke would be making their way towards Future London's Chinatown, but would find themselves within the path of a familiar face to Layton. It was Doctor Chandra, who was the most distressed that the professor had ever seen him. Seeing Layton for the first time in years, Chandra would jump, literally, into him, clinging onto him for dear life. Chandra was having a meltdown, crying and mumbling incoherent things. Layton would take him somewhere safe and private in order to ease his old friend. That would be where Chandra explained the kidnappings and the work on the time machine. He fell into hysterics again as he cried over Hal, how there were no signs of him in this future, how he had to get back to him as soon as possible. Again, Layton comforted Chandra, even telling him that all may not be as it seemed, and that he would go search and make sure that Hal was safe. Chandra would hug him dearly; Layton hugged back. It would come time for Layton and Luke to have to return to their original time, through a secret time machine that only they had been privy to. They would return to their time due to the professor needing to gather information relating to the events of the time machine failure a decade prior, the one who took Claire's life. Once they have retrieved what they needed, there was one last thing they had to do before returning to the future: pay the Chandra home a visit. Layton would have his apprentice promise to not reveal anything, or really, anyone they see inside. Luke would swear on it, and with a spare key from ages ago, they would enter the home. There was another first in ten years: Layton would get to see Hal, and Hal would get to see Layton. Oh, and the boy he'd brought along with him, he supposed. Layton would inquire to Hal to learn of anything he had or hadn't known about Chandra's kidnapping. Unfortunately, Hal didn't have much to say about the matter, though asked the two of Doctor Chandra was alright. Layton told him that he would be, soon. With a heartfelt send-off, Layton and Luke were on their way back to the future.

... Due to how long this is getting, and since it doesn't have to do with the Laydra timeline (as it is at this point), I'll be skipping the rest of the events of Unwound Future outside of yet another tl;dr: Future London is another London built under the real London by the main antagonist of the story, Clive Dove, the one who had disguised himself as Future Luke. Clive would be using most of the scientists assigned to Dimitri's time machine project to work on his Mobile Fortress, a really tall, really dangerous weapon of destruction set on destroying London. Though Clive's plans are thwarted all thanks to Layton, Luke, previously unmentioned Flora and Don Paolo, and... Claire. Claire, who had been shot ten years into the future by the time machine explosion that took her life, having herself help the protagonists and say a proper goodbye to Layton, her body returning itself to the time of her demise, to keep time linear. And everything was as it was. Of course, this wasn't a means to an end for total heartbreak. Through all the turmoil and goodbyes, a good to come out of this was the reuniting of Layton and Chandra. Now with plenty more to say to each other, especially from Layton's end, the two of them would bring each other peace and solace. Chandra found a sense of familiarity again with Layton's presence, and Layton found... a home. After coming to accept Claire's passing with proper partings, it would seem something buried deep within Layton's soul was reemerging. To have ever thought it possible, Layton now possessed a love for Chandra, with Chandra falling back into old habits. Habits die hard, but maybe this one wouldn't be so bad. They spent most of their free time together, going on dates and caring for each other in ways the world never could. The world, really, had hurt them. Had hurt Layton. And while he once provided the tranquility that Chandra needed during his time of college dillemas and uncertainties, it was his time to return the favor. And oh, how Layton cried in his arms. Oh, how Layton felt the family Chandra had simmering in his mind a decade prior. So this was love. And that love would only continue to blossom. Not only did the two of them have their computer son Hal, there would be two new additions: Alfendi and Katrielle Layton. While Flora had been taken under Layton's wing during the events of Professor Layton and the Curious Village, being seen more as a daughter than anything, she was grown and went to live her own life without parental guidance. Alfendi and Katrielle, on the other hand, were young children, Katrielle a baby when adopted. It would seem their house of three became a house of five. Layton and Chandra weren't perfect parents; they'd slip up on occasion just as all parents do. And yet, they were good ones, giving their children all the smarts and love a child could ever ask for. Hal was even able to act as an older brother to the two, though him and Katrielle always got along the most, even if she were only a baby at the time. Things would be going smoothly... until the inevitable was upon them.

When night reached London and the young children were off to bed, Layton, Chandra, and Hal oftentimes talked about the future. More specifically, Hal's future. Hal was unlike anything the world had ever seen, and it was coming to a point where Chandra and Hal were being noticed and recognized. A particular group across the Atlantic took a great interest to Hal, and held the faith, perhaps more than Chandra himself, that Hal could do something greater. Be something greater. Despite growing attached to their loving family, the three of them wouldn't change what Hal's mere existence meant for the rest of the world. He was a major scientific achievement; just a supercomputer. The decision would have to be made; Chandra and Hal would leave London and move to Chicago in order to expand Hal's capabilities. It was a very difficult one, Chandra himself becoming more emotional than Layton really, but it had to be done. What they said was true; Hal was remarkable, but he could be more so under better, scientific criteria. The baby cried, the boy shed a few tears, and the professor, yet again, lost the love that breathed through him. At the very least, however, they all could communicate with one another through the telephone or other means. There was something, but both professors were selfish, and that would, truly, never be enough for either of them. And another tragedy would strike, breaking the foundation of their family further until little to nothing of it remained. When Katrielle was ten years old, with Alfendi already going on to live his life in similar vain to his sister Flora, Layton and Luke would come together once again in order to figure out Katrielle's origins. To Layton, figuring out her birth father would be what brought them closer together. To Katrielle, the family she had now was already so close (or as close as it could be, her brother and other father thousands of miles away). To the reader, perhaps Layton's insecurities were now finally beginning to seep through, all through his seperation of Chandra. To the reader, a birth father was still a father, wasn't he? And so the mystery-solving duo went. And went. And went. They never came back. Katrielle had family members to come and take care of her in her father's absence, a disappearance with no concrete resolution. The ones she'd call her uncles Randall and Henry, the one called aunt Angela The most prominent was Layton's old office maid; the one now dubbed Grandma Rosa. Any and all parties were too busy to visit. Or too heartbroken, perhaps, but the sorrow within the core of Chicago had to be swallowed down for much... bigger things to be at the forefront of the doctor's mind. The news of Layton's disappearance could not deter Chandra or Hal for long, as it would only be a few months more until an even greater advancement, the Discovery One, was ready for launch. All the work the two would have to go through, especially to make sure that Hal was connected properly within the spacecraft, would allow now time for grief. The two of them could grieve later, if time would allow it. If Hal could allow himself to grieve. His capacity for emotions still remained somewhat of a mystery, even to Chandra, though they had both gone far beyond the process of figuring out anything final. They would have to wait and see, supposedly, up in space, up towards Jupiter.

The day came sooner than Chandra would've liked, but as it had been planned, Discovery One would take to the starry sky and make its voyage towards Jupiter. Carrying five human astronauts and one spine-acting supercomputer, Chandra would wave them all off. And everything seemed to be running smoothly, and the HAL 9000 supercomputer was working so well; Chandra couldn't have been more proud. And then one of the astronauts, Frank Poole, was killed. And then the three hibernating crew members, were killed. All by conflict outside of his control, beyond the purpose Chandra gave him while conceiving him. The last surviving astronaut, David Bowman, would then have to deactivate, kill, him. And all of this, everything, was outside of Chandra's control. Just as it were so for Bowman, to explore and inspect the shrouded thing that called him and his deceased crew to Jupiter to begin with. And then Bowman was gone. And so was the biggest part of the yet-living Doctor Chandra. Would it be so cruel, then, to be glad Hal's second father hadn't seen this? Or would it be far more selfish to retreat into himself, and wish to join them? And guilt crawled and consumed the doctor when he thought of home for too long. Their son was grown now, but their daughter wasn't. Katrielle was merely a pre-teen at this stage, and he feels as though an euternity passed since the last time he'd seen her. It wasn't likely that she'd remember him; she were only two years of age when him and her now-deceased brother left London. Chandra knew that she had people there for her, people Layton knew, people Layton knew would take care of her. Chandra, really, knew nobody else. Nobody not affiliated with his current affairs, anyways. It felt right to go back and raise her as he planned to do, but it no longer sounded right. What kind of a father would he be, if not a failed one? He'd let one child die; it was safer for both of them if he did not return. Even if it were wrong, even if it hurt as much as it did. Layton could scold him about it no more. He was with their son, Chandra finally decided. Did this make it better, or would it, again, make it worse? That question wouldn't be answered until nine years had passed him by, where he was offered the chance to revive his son. Aboard the Leonov, the spacecraft heading out to the remaining Discovery One, Chandra would be aboard for one single purpose: to bring the HAL 9000 back to proper condition. Chandra was able to succeed in this of course, even going to erase Hal's memories prior to the start of his malfunction that killed most of Discovery One's crew. Everything was going smoothly, until a eerie message from one David Bowman would bring the saving of the Leonov crew from the newly-born star Lucifer, but would bring about the sacrifice and demise of Discovery One, and of Hal. In the end, Chandra didn't succeed in saving him, and he once again had to let his son go. This time, he had accepted it. And this time Chandra accepted, too, that his Hal and his Hershel now lived beyond this reality, and that he served no purpose in his own. The Leonov crew would find Chandra in his hibernation pod, dead. They say it were due to a broken heart, but no longer would it be broken, as he is where he's meant to be. So he thought. To most, it would be a miracle in knowing that Hershel Layton and Luke Triton were not dead. In fact, they were experiencing their own hibernation, albeit forced. During the investigation of finding Katrielle's birth father, Layton and Luke followed the trail left behind by ancient crystals said to bestow a great power. Such power would exist, within a boxed room with devices meant to put people within suspended animation, to "transport them to the future." Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the duo would be forced to switch in for two of the devices' prior inhabitants, both of which had died prior to the duo's investigating. Within these machines they remained, until a year after the return of the Leonov shuttle to earth; ten years after Layton and Luke's disappearance.

Who else would be best suited to find them except for the professor's very own daughter? Katrielle, alongside her companions Ernest and Sherl, would finally follow the duo's tracks and find themselves where they had been sealed away for a decade. They would retrieve Layton and Luke, however, they have all be following another mystery all this time: the truth behind the crystals and what's to come from them. Who was the one sending them all this way? The antagonist of this story would be a man by the name of Rufus Aldebaran. Being an astronomer from around a century prior, he would enter the time-traveling device in order to reach a future where he could stop a catastropic meteor heading towards Earth. This would be when the group of five would come along and prove Aldebaran's calculations incorrect, and that his discovered meteor would be crashing into the planet after another hundred years. Fortunately for all of them, according to Katrielle Layton's announcement, they wouldn't have to worry too much about that, as there's already been spacecrafts far out in space that could stop such a thing! Hopefully they'll know better to put a rogue AI within their motherboard like they did with Discovery One! That way none of the crew will be killed and the day could be saved! Aldebaran accepted his defeat, and Layton collapsed. Everything else, for the most part, was alright. There would be two individual graves Layton would have to visit now, learning soon after that Chandra had also passed, but life continued normally otherwise. Layton held his confidence and gentlemanliness just as he always did, looking out for his children and their children, if they were ever to decide to have any. Some nights grew lonely, but the day always brought Layton people who loved him. Maybe that was all he could ask for, even if those who loved him most of all were no longer with him. Layton still had a role to play here, a life to live. Yet in the end, Layton always finds himself sleeping next to those two headstones, to remind them, and himself, that he would always love them, and wish them goodnight. And if he looked up at the starry sky, he would see the same blue and red star, waving by as they passed him through the cosmos.

[blobbei-art]

Forcing myself to doodle more and it resulted in Werewolf!Descole because I like creatures and it’s halloween mood. Luke would definitely use this opportunity to the fullest to mess with Desmond

[descalled]

just gonna erm... put that here

[felix-krain]

witches

[randomthingsthatidointhedaytime]

Y'all I can't think of anything.

AHHH I FORGOT COOKIE RUN.

[wrensumbreon]

NOW TELL ME WHAT "The first puzzle has already started...?!" MEANS

Is this a CLUE TO SOMETHING??? IS THERE SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE DOING?

[expired-beancan]

not the stepfather just the father that stepped up. or something