#5ds

[shitpostingkats]

Jack Atlas, sitting across the dinner table from his brother, in their childhood home, right next to the woman who raised them both: How dare you call us friends.

[curiostrix]

Redraw of these stickers from 2 years ago!

[bloodlyst]

[baddyzarc]

Absolutely Insane new 5ds merch line

Go get em girliesssss

[eleanorose123]

some scrunklie sticker requests! (all available on my store)

[emeraldhypothesis]

Thinking about the "Jack can't hold a job to save his life" episode and it is still really funny seeing Jack bounce between jobs like a pinball, but I got to thinking a bit about how it sadly makes sense that Jack would be hopeless in a normal job environment. Poor guy grew up in poverty before forming a street gang, then from there bailed to effectively become Godwin's pet, groomed to perform like a circus animal with no understanding of life outside of the gilded cage he threw himself into once Jaeger came with the offer to leave in exchange for Stardust Dragon. Season 1 even makes a point of showing that Jack has lived a life of nothing but extremes to an extent that he doesn't know how to use a turnstile or that subways require travel passes.

Yusei and Crow are lucky in that they had skills which could convert to a job environment with minimal hassle (Yusei with his repair skills letting him set up a handyman job, Crow with his willingness to use his Duel Runner to become a courier/delivery driver), but Jack never really had to form those skills even in the Satellite, and he's far too proud to do what Crow did and use his Runner for something besides Riding Duels. He was Team Satisfaction's muscle, planning and maintenance never really was within his skill set, and what skills he likely did have with mechanics and technology were atrophied as King by having a pit crew handle that for him. His life begins and ends with his ability to Duel, and while he was King that worked- but now that he's been stripped of that title, he's already faded out of the public interest within six months of Godwin's defeat, and I guess the idea is that the WRGP is just so big that Neo Domino is in a permanent off-season for tournaments so Jack can't even partake in those to get money for the bills (and/or they're just infrequent enough that Jack can't reliably live off those earnings).

Jack getting kicked out every job he tries to work is funny, but it is sad when you think about it that it tragically makes sense because he never had a chance to learn how to function in normal middle-class society- he's lived a life of nothing but extremes where either he scrounged for every meal, or had everyone handed to him with no difficulty. He's lucky to live in a franchise where 99% of your life's problems can be solved with Duels because that's all he's really great at, but his job hunting episode does make a point of showing how vastly ill-equipped he is to handle that 1% where it can't, and how he'd be dead in the water very quickly were it not for Yusei, Crow and Carly having infinite patience for him (and being real, Crow's patience is always one day away from snapping and ending up with one of them being pulled out of the harbour the next day).

[emptypathofthesun]

this was supposed to be low commitment but it got out of hand

[risei-corner]

Chii-Yusei!? 🦀

I blacked out and he appeared on my screen 😳