Once a talented mochi culinarian, Layne has "lost his spark" after resting in peace for so long. His passion of mochi still glows, but the powerful and precise strikes that made his confectionaries divine are now quite rare, something he considers now purely "strikes of luck". He holds great fighting potential but doesn't consider himself much of a warrior; instead, he stays back and diligently keeps his party healed and their bellies full.
Despite his shaggy appearance, Layne is quite pillowy to the touch, probably from all the rice cakes he eats. It's easy for your hand to sink into his stomach if you press against it. When he overeats, his bottom-heavy body gets even more... well, bottom-heavy, as no matter what he does, everything goes straight to his hips.

During character creation on ATLYSS, I wanted to make Fanta, but there weren't really enough patterns/options that I liked, so I settled on trying to make a new character entirely, with the eventual goal of fleshing him out into an actual OC. My goal with his design was to give off a "mochi maker past his prime" vibe by giving him a disheveled look. To try and differentiate his body shape from Fanta, I leaned more toward making him bottom-heavy, inspired by kagami mochi and monobutt art I've seen, lol. I wanted to add more singe marks on him, referencing both burnout and yakimochi, but I couldn't get it to look right. Who knows, there might be another one on his back.
The mallet he yields is a mix of a traditional kine and a uchide no kozuchi.
A ref with a more finalized design should be coming soon, I hope! Play ATLYSS btw its soooooooo good.