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1. Carl's Quarter Life Crisis by Aule

   Fandoms: Dungeon Crawler Carl Series - Matt Dinniman  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   02 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Carl & Princess Donut (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Carl & Asher (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Carl & Tami-Lynn (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Asher (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Princess Donut (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Beatrice (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Tami-Lynn (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Eventual Carl/OC
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Carl is Demisexual
   • Touch-Starved Carl
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Fix-It of Sorts
   • there is likely no fandom appetite for this but I wrote it anyways
   • Alternate Universe - No Dungeon (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Slow Burn
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Found Family
   • behold the third time I've written a trauma recovery fic for a character I've latched onto
   • oh well two cakes
   • and all that
   • fix it of sorts because im fixing carl not the plot
   • Accidental Therapy Cat Donut
   • Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl)
   • Book 8: A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

   Summary

   Carl is absolutely not having a quarter life crisis. Sure, he just left his girlfriend of over four years, found out she was cheating on him with multiple people, and spent an inadvisable amount of money buying her spoiled show cat off of her, but that's just a bad breakup. Besides, how's he meant to play COD properly without Donut in his lap?

   I guess, in addition to his normal stupid dreams he's now having really weird ones where all of civilization is flattened and he goes and lives peacefully in the woods, but that's just dream shit. Can't control that.

   Yeah, his best friend (and one of his only friends) of over a decade is now moving across the country with his new girlfriend, he found out he has a eight year old little half-brother, and that his crazy ex got someone fired from his job which is now making everything at work awkward on top of all this other bullshit — okay, maybe he's having a little bit of a quarter life crisis. Jesus, back the hell off.

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