Waking up to pain and panic, Hershel Layton goes through the struggle of forcing himself to a mirror (despite nearly collapsing numerous times) only to end up making a terrifying discovery based on https://www.instagram.com/p/CGseasHFtsT/?hl=en made by ssplashii ( https://archiveofourown.org/users/ssplashii | https://www.instagram.com/ssplashii_/?hl=en ) i did not ask for permission before writing this, but i will take this down if requested by ssplashii and no idc that this au is from 2yrs ago, it inspired the more angsty side of my au and i want to make some kind of tribute to it ======= wrote this, put it on ao3, remembered wattpad existed, copy-pasted it over to here https://archiveofourown.org/works/44521480