#what can i say. im a weirdgirl enjoyer

[ballwizard]

i just love flora so much as a character like. she's a sheltered weirdgirl who spent her entire childhood in a town where she was one of MAYBE five actual living residents at a time. and then she gets adopted by an equally weird professor and finally gets the chance to explore more and experience the world and she's SO excited to be involved ever, even when it's dangerous. she loves to experiment with weird food and always wants to prove that she can be useful.... in my beautiful mind she would get really into hobby engineering both pre- and post- curious village, with her interest in it peaking afterwards... (unwound future spoilers under cut but more analysis and ideas)

i think post-unwound future she would take up an apprenticeship under don paolo tbh. she gets to learn about his engineering prowess and gizmos and he gets an extra set of hands and a lab assistant.. they get into wacky shenanigans of course, and help layton out when he's in trouble :-) i think she would have so much fun with it. I also think hanging around paul would help her figure out what SHE wants to do; so much of her actions revolve around being helpful to others that she rarely gets to do things for herself, and so taking time to pursue a hobby she enjoys is super beneficial for her. paul encourages her to work on her own and pave her own way, but is still there for her to lean on, or get help from, or springboard ideas off of. they hold a little "press conference" for whoever among the Layton team is in town and show off all the gizmos they've built recently (Paul's idea, to help her with her confidence) and consistently I think Layton is both impressed and a little bewildered. Mad inventor flora rights. I KNOW she's building some weird shit. Maybe in particular shed focus on automatons.... Though it might be a little on the nose lol. maybe shed focus on animals.. i think it'd be cute if she had a little robot bird partner... i have a lot of ideas i wanna doodle out but that was my ramblesesh for 2day.

TLDR: FLORA DESERVES TO GET TO BE HER OWN PERSON AND PURSUE HER PASSIONS 💥💥💥