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   The Architect of one's own Fortune by InkBlackOrchid

   Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   12 Aug 2022

   Tags

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   • Jack Atlas/Carly Nagisa
   • Carly Nagisa
   • Jack Atlas
   • Izayoi Aki
   • Fudou Yuusei
   • Crow Hogan
   • Misty Lola
   • Angela (Yu-Gi-Oh)
   • Rua (mentioned)
   • Ruka (mentioned)
   • other characters mentioned like once or twice
   • One-off OCs that act like NPCs basically
   • Remember when Carly got no character development post the DS arc whatsover?
   • yeah neither do i
   • This Carly gets something to do a sense of humour and most of all a spine
   • Romance
   • Self-Discovery
   • The romance is secondary to the self-discovery
   • Working through tough experiences
   • That's right lads she gets to REMEMBER her time as a dark signer
   • Kinda introspective at times
   • Jack is mostly an ass in this
   • but he gets better I promise
   • Almost slice-of-life at times
   • Have we as a society surpassed the need for the Bechdel test yet?
   • Anyway this fic passes the Bechdel test
   • Carly gets to actually be friends with the 5d's gang here
   • girls being friends (as opposed to gals being pals sorry wlw folks)

   Summary

   After the bombastic defeat of the dark signers, Carly is left with a suspicious hole in her memory and the feeling that something isn't quite right. As disturbing memories resurface, she must grapple with a lot more than just an increasingly unsatisfying job and the fact that Jack is ghosting her. Overwhelmed by guilt, confusion, exhaustion from work and frustration due to her lacking social life, she's left asking herself who she really is, and, even more so, what she actually wants in life.

   Series

   • Part 1 of I swallowed the Dice, I make my own Luck now

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   English

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