#edit: while looking for a smaller pic I found his profile and yeah it makes note of him looking a lot younger than he is too

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Something I just noticed, but there’s something interesting about Professor Sycamore’s design. Namely, the fact that he doesn’t seem his age.

Now yes, we don’t know specifically how old he is, but what we do know is that he’s older than Layton, and at the time of Azran Legacy, Layton is 36. Desmond’s likely a older by a few years, the general consensus I’ve seen being 3-5 years. For the sake of argument, let’s say he’s 4 years older, making him 40.

Now, look at Professor Sycamore. Tell me, does he look like he’s around 40?

No; if I had to guess just by looking at him (though to be fair I’m pretty bad at guesstimating ages), I’d say he’s in his late 20s to early 30s, not 40.

And it’s not just his appearance either, I’ve also noticed in the scant voiced lines he has (as Sycamore), he doesn’t really sound his age either, it’s a bit too high pitched. Of course, that could just be me, but he definitely doesn’t sound older than Layton, that much I can say.

So, what’s up with this? Well, there’s something else I feel I should bring up too. We know his wife and daughter to be dead, and in a later scene (I believe it was one of those extra episodes, but unfortunately all I could find was a clip of the conversation on YouTube) he says that it was that day they died that Desmond Sycamore died too.

Now we don’t know how long ago that was, all we know is that his daughter would have been (I assume based on Umid) in her early teens by this point and that it’s likely been some years between then and now, but interestingly, that could very well be the same difference between Sycamore’s perceived age and his actual age.

What if the reason behind this discrepancy is because this is an imitation of the Sycamore from that time, still stuck in the past? Like he says, Desmond Sycamore died years ago, so there’d be no change from then to now; still the same as he was years ago, never allowed to change because all Sycamore is is an empty husk, Descole is the only one left.

Because Descole definitely seems his age, he’s the one who’s been here all those years since.

Maybe that’s why in that final scene of him, when he chooses to find a new path in life, we see him put on his mask as Descole. Because Sycamore’s gone, he’s been gone a long time and now he’s just a shadow of the past. It’s only by letting go of his past that he can truly move forward in his life.