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smile-files · 4 months ago

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guys. i need your opinion of this. because i'm genuinely so confused now

what time period is the professor layton series in?? the prequel trilogy and the main trilogy. when are they supposed to be taking place

i could've sworn one of the games (though i forget which) mentions that someone's been to the moon already which would put them at least in the late 60s into the 70s going by our world's timeline... but i don't know maybe space travel was discovered earlier in this universe???

#melonposting #professor layton #it would be useful if i just had a comprehensive timeline of events in this series so it would be easier to plot things out #but just for the sake of argument... just for funzies...#let's say randall disappeared in 1949 #then miracle mask takes place in 1967 (18 years after randall's disappearance in 1949)#and then extrapolating backwards - if luke is 11 and hershel is 35 in miracle mask #then luke was born in 1956 and hershel in 1932 #luke is 15 when katrielle is born. so she's born in 1971 #he and layton go missing ten years later. that'd be 1981 #and then it's another eleven years (when she's 21) that kat has her mystery-solving agency and finds her father and everything. so 1992 #(which makes the more modern nonsense we see in her game/anime more plausible)#and just for the heck of it. if we're presuming alfendi is 29 at the same time that katrielle is 21 then he's 8 years older than her #putting his birth year somewhere around 1963 #and then... hm... luke is 13 in unwound future. and the explosion in which claire died was said to have happened 10 years prior #so when luke was 3 years old... in 1959 #and clive was 13 at that time. exactly 10 years older than luke. so he would've been born around 1946 #of course it's hard to pinpoint exact dates when you don't know anyone's birthday or what month a game is taking place in #and of course this is making a ton of assumptions #among other things that the moon landing really did take place in 1969 in this universe #i don't even remember which game mentioned the moon landing! which is annoying!#i think it was unwound future so i tried to have it in the ballpark of 1969 (by placing miracle mask two years prior in 1967)#(going off of luke's ages of 11 in miracle mask and 13 in unwound future as reference of the time passage between them)#at the very least i'm sure the moon landing was referenced somewhere within the prequel or main triologies #so unwound future is the last game it could've been mentioned in. so either it takes place in 1969 or an earlier game in the timeline does #but i'm willing to allow for the moon landing to have taken place before 1969 in the laytonverse. their technology is very weird after all #if i place it somewhere earlier in the 60s then the dates can be pushed back. and this fic i'm reading would be totally canon-compliant!#cuz it describes angela & henry 5 years after randall's disappearance being somewhere in the 1940s #which would only be possible if the moon landing takes place earlier for the dates to be pushed back that far #(of course a minor decade discrepancy does nothing to ruin my enjoyment of the fic. i just think it would be nice to make it all work out)

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