#lmj

semi-formal intro to my(?) new au: the Reinhold Mystery Journey AU!!

based directly from @dearesthershel's (not so glowing) video essay on LMJ, i wanted to really take the idea and try and run with it!! details under cut~

I FUCKING LOVE YURI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Layton’s Mystery Journey is way too over hated.

Whoa, whoa, put down your pitchforks, let me explain. I won’t lie, LMJ has its fair share of major flaws; its storytelling and puzzle design suffer quite a bit. However, we can’t deny that things like the LMJ anime are actually very solid pieces of Professor Layton media that deserve far more attention than they receive. Even though I often find myself disinterested in LMJ and what it adds to the Professor Layton series, I can still find aspects of it to enjoy.

I drew the quartet in the outfits from this post (Fashion show! – @laytontreasures on Tumblr)!

She’s funny, daring, bold, witty, selfish, outspoken, selfish, greedy, and rude. She’s a lot of things I wish a lot of the other PL ladies got more of a chance to be. (Especially Flora. I love Flora, but Level 5 do not care for her story outside of Curious Village.)

Kat’s so much like RANDALL, who seems to be a favourite character for a lot of people. 

Kat is also kind, brave, and lonely. She shows sympathy to other orphans, like Liza and Ernest. She strives to be a true gentleperson, just like her dad. She wants to be so much like her dad…

I wish we got to see more of that vulnerable side to Kat. I wish she got more development as a character. (Not like AZRAN LEGACY levels of backstory and trauma, but something more like what the opening cutscene of LMJ hinted at.)

I wish we could see Kat grappling with the legacy of being a ‘Layton’. I wish we got to see her interact with her whole family, with the ‘older’ characters in the series…