History WMG / ProfessorLayton

* Finally, given the lack of cold-war references (which would be most certainly prevalent in a game set in our 1960s), it's possible that there is no cold-war happening in their 1960s; possibly meaning that [=WW2=] probably never happened due to their WW1 ending differently... If it even happened in the same way at all.

* Finally, given the lack of cold-war references (which would be most certainly prevalent in a game set in our 1960s), it's possible that there is no cold-war happening in their 1960s; possibly meaning that WW2 probably never happened due to their WW1 ending differently... If it even happened in the same way at all.

* She just didn't want her [[OverprotectiveDad father]] obsessing over her. Though she is allowing her personality to take a back seat to Janice, and she's just enjoying the ride.

[[spoiler: Based on the boss of the same name from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'']] He jumped dimensional plains to terrorise the unprotected Azran race, forcing them to create a shrine to him. Little did he know, they'd built a weather machine into the shrine to thwart him from the skies.

[[spoiler:It makes sense after all if you think about it. In ''The Last Specter'' and ''The Eternal Diva'', Descole looks for a cure or some kind of healing item (Paradise and The Elixir of Life), and if he does not find it or get his way he becomes angered and loses control, which really can be attributed to the fact that he's actually panicked and scared for his life and must hide his true feelings to not reveal how he actually feels, but by doing this, all he also does is make it hard to see puzzles like his regular self, which is at all angles and perspectives. (also makes sense if you think of psychology, thus explaining the outbursts). He is Layton not just because he hides himself, but because Layton is the only one who seems to recognize him at all but can't seem to remember where (subconsciously). In the Miracle Mask, it is intentionally made clear that his identity is of someone we know and to put it even further, it seems he recognized Broneph and his organization Targent, and my theory is that he is a Layton from the future that is dying from a condition caused by something in his life or trying to stop a horrible event in the future, and using what he knows about the past and his knowledge gained to change it, that is also why at the end of The Last Specter he tells the Professor that one day there will be a time where he cannot win, because he knows exactly what may happen which caused him to become Jean Descole. Even more to this theory is that Jean Descole is the complete polar opposite of the Professor, as seen in The Last Specter. And for the horrible event, I'd say it has to do with The Unwound Future, which chronologically is the last game in the series, so it may of been an event around that time.]]

The entire plot makes little sense to the point where Layton and co actually traveling into the future makes more sense than the [[spoiler: revealed twist of future London being an underground conspiracy to destroy the UK]]. I suspect the writers for the story wanted the game to actually take place in a [[BadFuture]] where Layton would have to fix it with Luke; but then realized that any sort of actual time travel elements with future versions of their own selves would lead to a paradox, thus creating more continuity issues than actually solving them. That being said, the game would probably be too straightforward if it were as simple as them going into the future, and that wouldn't be fun given the nature of the series.

[[WMG: ''UnwoundFuture'' was [[spoiler: actually supposed to take place in the future early on in development]]]]

[[WMG: The VideoGame/ProfessorLayton series takes place in the 1960's]]
We know that Level 5 was going for a 1960's look for the series, and there are a few clues that the series definitely takes place in that decade.
* The Laytonmobile is an old 2CV, but it's in relatively good condition, implying it's not all that old.
* The Targent uses 1950s styled tanks and helicopters which wouldn't look out of place in Korea, if not, early Vietnam (given they have twin rotor helicopters in a few shots). Due to the lack of cold-war references throughout the entire game, it's safe to say that the world of Professor Layton takes place in a universe where WW2 never happened. In the Unwound Future, there are background stills of a V-2 rocket and a U.S Sherman, putting the game past the 40s at the very least.
* With the exception of the very strange contraptions featured throughout the game, there are very few digital computers shown throughout the series, and most machinery encountered by the group are mechanical or analog - based. Robots when shown aren't futuristic mechs, and have parts that assume they run on gasoline or steam (Which would probably fit the time period well)
* Vinyl records are still sold, and people still have black and white [=TVs=]. in fact, there are no cassetes or 8-track players, or even vintage computers, meaning it takes place before the 1980s at the very least.
* The time machine background for Unwound Future shows the year changing from a year in the 60's to a year in the 70's. Additionally, the prime minister mentions the Space Race, which would have started in the early 60s (And it coincides well, since 1969 was when the Apollo 11 missions took place).

[[WMG: The percieved supernatural and abnormal happenings in the Layton Universe are [[spoiler: caused by displacements from the Time Machine]]]]
This theory runs on the fact that the Time Machine caused Claire to be displaced, thus causing her to exist in two different places at the same time. She additionally mentions that if she stays, then more anomalies will appear, causing their Universe to be more unstable. Due to this, it's entirely possible the Time Machine experiment caused different objects from alternative timelines to merge, therefore creating the extremely bizzare universe the characters find themselves in. The Time Machine experiment happened 10 years before the events of Unwound Future, leaving any possible anomalies in the prequel series to be explained by the experiment. When [[spoiler: Clive's superweapon was destroyed in Future London]], almost all instances of time-displaced anomalies were restored to normal once Claire returned back to the time of the blast, which explains why future installments involving Katrielle and Alfendi are far more "normal" than what is to be expected.

[[WMG: The percieved supernatural and abnormal happenings in the Layton Universe are [[spoiler: caused by displacements from the Time Machine]]

* The Targent and similar military organizations feature equipment and vehicles that were used throughout the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. While there are no mentions toward Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, it's assumed that they exist (And anyways, they're not important for a game about puzzle solving). For instance, instead of using modern Assault Rifles and Jet Fighters, the various militias are shown to be using 1940s Tommy Guns and Airships.
* With the exception of the very strange contraptions featured throughout the game, there are very few digital computers shown throughout the series, and most machinery encountered by the group are mechanically or analog - based. Various robots are made with very little digital parts, and have parts that assume they run on gasoline or steam (Thinking about it, such equipment would have been very expensive to maintain, hence the very dated looks).
* Vinyl records are still sold, and people still have black and white [=TVs=].
* The time machine background for Unwound Future shows the year changing from a year in the 60's to a year in the 70's. Additionally, the prime minister mentions the Space Race (And it coincides well, since 1969 was when the Apollo 11 missions took place).

* He's known Janice for a while now, even after she stopped being his student.

** AND coincidentally, Luke's boat when he comes back to London to visit the Professor *does* sink, but he makes it out alive with a baby to prove it.

[[WMG: Mr. Beluga is a human [[SuperMarioBros Goomba]].]]

[[WMG: Stachenscarfen is [[SuperMarioBros Mario]]]]

I was just watching the new game trailers from YouTube when I noticed this: [[spoiler: [[http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h282/pangyagirl036/OMFGDescole_zpseb7fe854.png Simon's butler LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE Descole's butler]]! ]] Coincidence? I think not!

Edit: I saw a video of the newly-released Azran Legacies that spans the first 70 minutes plus of the game on YouTube. It was all in Japanese so I couldn't understand EVERYTHING. [[spoiler:However, listen to [[http://youtu.be/GmH4_CaRV7s Sycamore's voice (39:56)]] and tell me you don't think it's strange that it sounds like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFLjK-KQ4XM&feature=share&list=UURNFknL8LwS8uQ9SeQERjvw Descole's Japanese voiceover (1:42)]]. Of course, this could just be a case of having the same Japanese VA. But that voice sounds like Descole's whenever he's calm.]]

WMG: Luke was supposed to be Layton and Claire's child.
Basically, Luke's spirit was waiting to be born as Layton and Clair's child. But when she died, his spirit had nowhere to go. But he still wanted to be born so he could meet the professor. So he went into Clark and waited until he and his wife had a baby. Now, he doesn't remember any of that. But his since his spirit was supposed to be around the professor, that's why he took an instant liking to him. So much so, he even left behind his own father on many occasions.

Think about it. All of the endings to the Professor Layton games are absolutely insane. A world based on puzzles? It is clear that what is going on is Layton's method of amusing himself in purgatory. What I think was going on was that Layton stumbled onto Don Paulo's assassination of Simon, and began making false links, such as assuming that a gear found near Simon had to do with the case. However, Don Paolo killed him with the ferris wheel, and the rest of the games (even the prequel ones) are Layton making up complex stories and scenarios to stay busy.

The series uses robots to explain anything from [[spoiler: villages with strange inhabitants (Curious Village)]] to [[spoiler: monsters attacking towns (Last Specter)]], so it could be that Layton himself is a robot akin to the ones from [[spoiler: ''Curious Village'']]. It would explain his great intelligence, improbable MacGyvering skills,and the way he seems bizarrely invulnerable despite getting into sword fights, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy getting fired at]], having wolves released at him, having FerrisWheelOfDoom 's released at him, etc.

[[spoiler: Shortly after the events of ''Unwound Future'', when Luke moves to New York City or Dublin or Boston wherever it was Luke was moving to, something terrible happens to Luke involving his parents and the legal system/society. This gets Luke sent back to London under the care of Professor Layton. Luke is glad to be with Layton for a time, but something about Layton seems different since the last time Luke saw him. As Luke grows older, Layton becomes less and less able to help Luke as he did before, and Luke starts to resent this as the professor starts to drive him insane. Once he is able to drive, Luke goes by himself back to Saint-Mystere to recover Flora's fortune, which he then uses to reactivate Dmitri's time machine he remembered from a previous adventure. Luke then gets this crazy idea that he can right Layton, his clueless youth, and his crazy society by setting up a massive scam involving Layton, his younger self, and the country's top scientists and prime minister taking place a few years ago. He uses the time machine to rack up money by buying winning lottery tickets, and then travels into the past to begin his plot. Once he is done, he invites Layton and his former self to the crazy fake future he built just for them, both wanting them to save him from complete madness and yet wanting to vengefully harass them. He laughs when Layton says he is really some guy called Clive because that's how Luke knows he has the professor fooled. The first thing Luke did with the time machine was to travel 20 years into the past, when Layton lost claire, to create a false identity for himself named "Clive Dove". No one would suspect who he truly was. He then rushes to the Mobile Fortress of Mass Destruction he built to destroy the world as he knew it, yet wishing his mentor and his former self would stop him from doing so. After he is arrested, he soon disappears back into his own time, both feeling guilty for the ghastly deeds he had done and smug about the fact that he had the country's smartest man -- his own beloved Herschel Layton-- fooled, and the way that meant he would never get caught.]]

[[spoiler: That's why Clive looks identical to Luke without the aid of any disguise, knows Luke's past, and calls for Professor Herschel Layton of all people to help him with his issues. He IS Luke.]]

*** Booby-trapped fortune. you touch the money, something unpleasant happens. My guess is the drawbridge collapses to give Bruno time to do something about it, rather than the town shutting down. probably Bruno or somebody has a bypass that can get at the wealth without setting off the trap if it's needed.

** If Layton is Luke's godfather, there's still the question of why Luke doesn't seem aware of their relationship though given the amount of trouble Luke's gotten into just by being Layton's apprentice, one can imagine that being known as Layton's godson would be even more dangerous.

* Given what we find out in Azran Legacy, it's probably closer to [[spoiler:Leonovich]]

* This is practically canon, since it's actually the butt of the entire situation in the Japanese version,. They make out that the one who ultimately looks after Flora could refer to a spouse as much as a guardian and turn it into a running gag in which Flora constantly insists that she's Layton's wife. This was flat out left out of the localization for obvious reasons.

* Layton assigns her to other assignments

** This seems Laytonesque, but to do that, Emmy's character will have to developed more and more emotional attachment will have to be placed on her for her death to be dramatically successful.

** [[spoiler: In a trunk episode he outright say "[[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/dscn0472g.jpg/a world without [his wife and daughter] is meaningless, and the world could just perish"]]. They also just learned moments ago that solving the Azran Mystery could cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and Descole used Aria's dispirit over learning that to get the Key Stone and run off to solve Azran. Everytime his motivations comes up it is always "revenge against Targent"/"revenge against Azran". Saying this wmg is confirmed is really stretching it.]]

* He's an archeologist, so why else would he move to Misthallery? [[spoiler: "Doland"]] talked about needing Clark's knowledge of Misthallery’s geography, climate, soil, and geological makeup is vital to him.

[[WMG:Emmy married Grotsky at some point after the third prequel.]]

** [[spoiler:But then again, Laytons real name is Leppard Reinel, which would suggest L stands for either his real first name or fake last name. So then it could be any of the Reinels, Flora or Randall...mysterious.]]
* Or perhaps - just perhaps - [[spoiler:Flora '''R'''einhold? No law says a woman can't wear a top hat, her in-game profiles call her Layton's protegee, and she is for all intents and purposes his ''daughter''. It's not out of the realm of possibility that she could succeed him in puzzling out mysteries.]]

* He's known Janice for awhile now, even after she stopped being his student.