#it's way too easy to rope me into drawing approximate floor plans for fictional apartments lol

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So weird question- I remember seeing a post analyzing Yusei, Jack, and Crow’s apartment to determine its actual layout and I know I saw it because of you but can’t remember if you were the OP or if I saw it because of your reblog. Was that you originally?

I ask because I’m rewatching 5Ds and I’m in Carly’s death episode and delaying the pain by paying too much attention to her apartment. When we first see her it looks like she’s living out of her car, then when Jack stays over she seemingly has a small one bedroom place, and in this episode the opening scene makes it look much bigger than mine as far as combining kitchen and living room space

And I’m not sure if you are the right person to ask about fictional building layouts

The post you are looking for is this one! And I wasn't the original OP there, but I was the one who figured out the conundrum with the stairs in the boys' apartment. It was a joint effort trying to make sense of that mess. That said, I AM a floor plan nerd and will absolutely start overanalysing characters' apartments unprompted.

As far as Carly's apartment goes, my memory and what screenshots I have confirm your idea. We at first see Carly in her messy car which clearly includes things like a clothesline, but when she invites Jack to crash at her place later, she has what amounts to a one bedroom apartment. Now, I don't know the size of your apartment, obviously, but I'm assuming you're referring to the episode where Carly gets the unfortunate idea to infiltrate the Arcadia Movement. What we see of her apartment there is basically just this:

Wall 1, which holds her whole kitchen plus a washing machine (which makes me realise I described her apartment wrong in Architect, fuck)

Wall 2, with a big window and a couch (presumably either Jack or Carly slept on this while Jack was crashing at her place, and given his personality, it likely wasn't Jack)

And wall 3 to the left here, which is just windows.

What this gives us is a room setup that probably looks something like this:

(I once again demonstrate my mastery of MS paint. Disclaimer: Not to scale + I fumbled the couch placement.)

Orange is all the clearly visible furniture, blue all the clearly visible windows and green is the area that isn't shown. Presumably, since we see no bed in the shots of Carly in her apartment, something like a bedroom and bathroom would have to be by the left wall here, the entrance maybe in the corner next to the kitchen. So it's definitely not a big apartment, but it also doesn't exactly look like Carly's one step away from living on the street.

Hope that helps!