"Yesterday I Flew My Kite So High, It Almost Bumped Into The Sun!"

Hello Layton Nation! I made another AU.

Presenting:

This AU is based off of and inspired by The Truman Show.

More below!

(Major spoiler warning for all mainline PL games and for The Truman Show)

Hershel Layton is a Professor of Archaeology who leads a relatively peaceful life in the small town of Haverfield. He's lived in Haverfield for his entire life. He has two loving parents, Lucille and Roland, and a best friend and loyal apprentice, Luke.

Hershel doesn’t mind the rather mundane life he leads for the most part. He is bored, yes, but he’s safe. He no longer likes to go on grander adventures after his mother and Randalls’ deaths. He prefers to stay in his quiet office and research and read.

Hershel loves to solve puzzles, and the people of Haverfield love to provide. In fact, they seem to always have a puzzle on hand whenever Hershel brings up his growing desire to leave. The stability of a correct answer keeps him happy, after all, and so Hershel remains content (enough) with his life in Haverfield.

That is until several anomalies begin to make themselves known. He witnesses from his own driveway a stage light falling from the sky. The waves on the shore stop swelling for a day. A patch of rain falls only on him.

Hershel manages to brush them off with a twitching eyelid, but things spiral when he’s walking off of Gressenheller’s campus and spots Randall. Alive.

Hershel starts to doubt the nature of things. This is a puzzle he’s never been more desperate and frightened to solve.

His newfound paranoia and wariness only sharpen his advertency of the several abnormalities and conveniently placed coincidences happening around him, and the less-than-receptive reactions from his closest friends helps drive him further to the conclusion that perhaps none of it is real.

Details:

Christof: Leon

Truman: Hershel

Truman’s mother/father: Rachel

Marlon: Clark

Sylvia: Claire

Randall takes the place of Truman’s wife, Meryl, in many situations proceeding his return.

Additional non-og characters:

Henry

Angela

Dalston

Clark

Brenda

Luke

Desmond

Lucille

Roland

Since the dome in the Truman show is only like. 15 miles wide. There can probably only be two small towns. This means that Last Specter is the only Layton game that can. Happen. Sorry. Wow I really fucked up the plot of Professor Layton. Whatever. This is my au.

Some of this stuff may change! But here's what I have initially. I might write something for this. Who knows. I also probably forgot something. But that's okay I'll come back and add it later.

If anyone has any questions, please ask!! Questions help me think about things I may not have thought about before. I love answering questions. Grin!

as a person who calls her scribbles art, writes joke fanfic but can write for stuff, cringe roleplays with all friends possible and as offrol as possible, doodles on scrap paper every day, and makes struggle meals even in the brightest moments, please do ! you'll be happier

anyway dont let anyone take away your joy. draw art that isnt good. write writing that isnt good. do cringe roleplay with your friends. doodle on scrap paper. make meals that suck.

[I.D. an edited version of the "is this a pigeon" meme. A man with glasses, captioned "my overstimulated ass" points at a butterfly, captioned "someone making an annoying noise". At the bottom of the image, a dialogue caption reads "is this a crime deserving the death sentence?" end I.D.]

i voted yes .... acyually i would get swept all across the room by audhd derealization me BUT carnival mask and older and cool asf

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i do not know if to count the memoapontadas 1/deadbeat rhythm "au" guys as my ocs. theyre practuacally rhtyhm heaven characters but. human and in a weird artstyle and in a killing game and they die. like. akmost all of them. except donpan 4, paddler, stepswitcher. and presumably tall tapper and yuka. out of like 15characters

maya fey and lucy baker i doodled at school…

"why r u smiling at ur phone" bc my friebds 🌈🌈🥰🌞 and i love friend 😊😊😊🫂💞 Friends 👍👍🌈 And im Happy 😊😊🫂💞👍🌈

i was talking to a friend about ace attorney and we went into narumitsu territory. and then they made a gay lawyer joke in the TV. this must be something right

you should really start being normal about your blorbos and treat them like your ocs. maybe one day they will become your very own silly little ocs with silly little names to fit them and silly little stories to make them feel whole. maybe even a detailed design that gives off the vibes you always saw in your blorbos, or a rather simple one so that it feels good to you. reminder to be normal about your blorbos.

me: yeah look at this cool villain1!1! Cool antagonist moment *makes him terrible*

reader: oughh he uses his riches to cover what his life didnt give him :(( i feel so bad for him :((((

me: no you dont feel bad for him *makes him terrible x2*

reader: THIS IS MAKING ME SO SAD GIVE HIM A HUG :((((( HE DESERVES THE BEST