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They have reveille at the Academy, and a designated lights-out time. It being a school, plenty of kids don't actually settle down until they feel like it, but since it's harder to get away with sleeping late than staying up late, there isn't a huge amount of either.

I think Enzo would prefer to be able to wing his schedule, but he doesn't mind terribly.

How do they do reveille? Is it an actual horn or musical equivalent or more people coming into the rooms going wake up?

They play it over loudspeakers. Given the setting, it's probably a MIDI file. ;-)

I'll answer for my pups.

Will doesn't have that much routine. I think morning and evening there is some because the outlaws' days are defined by when the sun comes up. The rest of the day though is much more up in the air depending on what problems need to be dealt with in Sherwood and change for each outlaw.

Charles likes his routine, but he doesn't have as much now that he's with the CIA. Each day is full of different changes and surprises, some of which he likes but others are more complicated. I think routine and especially having time every day to be on his own and center himself keeps him as balanced as he needs to be.

William like Will lives a life defined by the sun, but his life is more tightly controlled due to the requirements of his chores and the farm. Its what he's used to and I think would get a little confused at the idea that he could alter his schedule.

Jane also lives a life set by the needs of chores and the sun, but she does find moments to read and write that she makes herself.

Sameth is probably my pup who ignores his routine the most, because he sets a lot of his own schedule. So depending on the project sometimes he'll be up quite early or forget to actually go to bed, because he wants to finish something. There is routine created for him as part of his duties as prince and court, but he prefers having his schedule set by his work.

Moist is my least scheduled pup because every day changes depending on the con he's working on. He loves this as routine makes his feet itch.

Demeter's schedule depends on the season. When its Spring and Summer and she's with Kore, they have a schedule, its a loose one but does exist. When its Winter, she has much less of one as she's constantly on the move.

Tumnus has a schedule defined by the Narnian court, which is always changing. He loves the various new challenges that come through the court.

The Pirate King gets to set the schedule for his ship, because he's the Captain. I imagine though that Ruth has created a sense of domesticity on it which the Pirate King doesn't actually mind.

Oh, I haven't given much thought about this for Amascut. I haven't even decided if she needs sleep. Sure, sleep is nice, but. Things are even more confusing when timey-whimeyness re:Milliways and semi-demi-godhood is involved.

I am mostly here to complain about being back on a strict schedule myself after a 4 day vacation in a later timezone. NNnngghhhhh.

Oh readjustment always sucks. I had a long weekend and got myself up extra early because I was afraid of being late.

Felix is a very interesting case. He's earth-aligned, which means he would like structure and consistency. But his self-imposed nomadism (much more an air thing, which is one of the things his CWDP is going to call out) means that his actual schedule is immensely variable. He does keep some level of structure if he's got kids he's teaching, but that's not itself consistent.

Fluttershy probably has no formal schedule. She does have responsibilities to the animals she takes care of, though, which probably means Angel makes sure she's up at some particular time. He's been known to do similar things.

Kain holds himself and his men to a rigid schedule, insofar as the situation around him permits. He doesn't think that what he wants is important.

Cranky just does what he wants. I don't really have a feel for how that shakes out. A lot of what he wants is to be left alone, though.

Huh, I had the sense that Fluttershy had some sense of routine at least going by the episode where the Crusaders visited her.

It seemed like they kept changing what she though should be getting done. Maybe I was reading too much into that.

Hmm. That's not the feel I get from that episode, but I can see how you might have. What it seemed like to me is that she has preconceptions about the sorts of things that should happen at a sleepover, and the Crusaders were... not fitting those preconceptions.

Which is a similar concept, but I don't think it's quite the same.

I see what you mean and yes, they do look a little similar.

Mia goes by a schedule for the most part, though Cepheus and Scorpius like changing that around nowadays. And with the family soon taking a trip to Pao, schedules will be the last thing on her mind for a bit. But once she returns and things have settled down again, she'll be back to the daily routine. Her schedule is stricter during the school year while she's teaching than the summer, which turns into take care of whatever government stuff she has to take care of.

Lucas doesn't particularly have a schedule but his time is limited. There are three Needles left to pull and another person trying to pull them before him.

Lohengrin's current schedule is more or less the same as Elsa's due to being her protector.

School's really do like their schedules, I've been learning that.

Trowa keeps a pretty regular schedule, both because he likes to and because the circus tends to. It's not strictly regulated or anything -- there's a lot of "do whatever you feel like" periods in there -- but a lot of his days are arranged around the days' shows (if any) or set-up or take-down, and also around caring for the lions and fitting in practice time. And he tends to wake up at a consistent early time, insofar as traveling around through time zones allows.

But he's totally fine with throwing his schedule out the window if something requires it.

Thor... you know, that's a good question! Not heavily scheduled, I don't think. There are court events -- whatever kind of court Odin holds, and dinner at least is served in a big feast-style gathering even when it's not a special party -- which he's expected to mostly be at, but can skip on any given day if he wants to. He used to have tutoring and warrior training; now that's a lot more self-directed, because he's an adult. Training is now practice with peers, and tutoring on being a prince is going to shift more and more in the future to talking with his parents and various advisers about the state of the realm(s).

So it's not totally loose, but it's not as if he has any kind of strict schedule he's expected to go by. And Asgard's time sense, I suspect, is somewhat looser than the modern world's -- not so much of timing things by the minute.

River's is even looser. They have communal dinners on the ship, at least most of the time, but people also just wander in and out of the kitchen and grab food when they want. And shipboard time is consistent, but how it matches up to any given port or space station varries. When there's a job, they go by what needs doing, and when not... do what you want? Though life is probably a bit more structured for the Warren-Washburns depending on what level of structure Naomi needs, and I suspect the rest of the crew more or less goes along with that.

Clare's life is strictly regulated, but it's not really structured. She doesn't even have a lot of the biological necessities that humans mark their time by, or at least only rarely has them. (Like, you know, food. And sleeping -- Claymores usually sleep sitting up with their swords as a backrest, because that's comfy.) I'm not sure she even really pays attention to time other than "days passing" and "that fight took a while."

Regan is probably my only one who pays close attention to time and has a busy schedule in the way we usually think of it. Her day planner is always full! It's not always the same schedule day to day, though.

I like the idea of how there are relaxed schedules but people have a sense of where to be. Time sense and scale is one of those fascinating ways of seeing how pups think and approach the world.

I especially enjoy playing with time sense with Thor; it's one of those things where I'm still poking at it in my brain, and figuring out exactly how I want to play it.

Because Thor is over a thousand Earth years old*, in a society where everybody lives that long, and movie canon gives us no real indication of how Asgardian timescale works. Does the Asgardian year match the Earth year? Is an Asgardian year, like, fifty Earth years long? To what extent do they have seasons? Do they measure time in anything like the divisions we do? WHO KNOWS. We never see a clock or a calendar, unless some of that fancy scrollwork secretly doubles as that. And this is a society of alien semi-immortal quasi-gods who have interstellar travel, regard magic and science as more or less the same thing, and ride horses (or horse-shaped beings) and use swords and armor and war-hammers, and inspired Norse myths but don't arise from an actual Norse background.

What I've millicanoned so far is that they track time and calendars and, say, what Earth year (or Muspelheim year or Alfheim year) corresponds to what on Asgard, but that doesn't mean Thor knows it offhand. (It's kind of the equivalent of asking a modern city person what phase of the moon it is, or asking your average Christian American what date it is by the Islamic calendar -- they know the data's there, and they could google it or ask a Muslim friend or wait till moonrise and check, but they don't know without looking at an external source.) But in general, the idea of tracking things by the Earth year, or any division of similar size, is kind of weird and foreign to his mindset. He thinks in terms of smaller units like days and hours, and larger units like the equivalent of decades and centuries.

Keeping track of years is like, oh, keeping track of how many days old your hamster is -- it may be meaningful in a hamster's lifespan, but it doesn't come naturally to a human. And with days, too, they're meaningful to him, but anything more than a few days will sort of blur together unless he stops and counts back.

*The one thing I am discreetly retconning about canon is the date of the war with the Jotuns. It makes exactly zero sense for Loki to be an infant in 975 AD, when that's fairly late in the Viking era, and there are stories about Loki and Thor as adult gods that predate this by centuries. So I'm kicking that war a few centuries earlier, which puts Thor closer to 1500 than 1000 by Earth reckoning.

Ben Grimm's schedule is entirely centered on Frank and Val or any world threatening events. Other wise he gets up at dawn out of habbit but usually goes back to sleep after an hour or so of exercising and breakfast.
Mars has a very strick schedule being a martial deity and all.
Hank McCoy has a pretty clear schedule as well between CIA meetings and keeping tabs on his experiments. He enjoys the comfort of knowing what he is doing ahead of time.
Beast Boy has no schedule and resists Nightwings attempts at enforcing one on him.
Palamedes has a pretty clear schedule and depends on it to keep him from getting "soft". His day would be filled with Balls and holding Court if he didn't insist on training or hunting.
Kate Kane not only went to West Point but grew up in a military family. She doesn't know how to live without a schedule though she uses peoples assumptions of her being a dilettante to sleep in after a long night patrolling.
Julie Finster is a kid and only has a schedule while school is in session.
Jessica Drew says "Eh, whatever."
Thalia Grace does need a schedule. She takes care of things when they need taking care of. I am sure Camp Half-blood has some sort of schedule though even if it's never mentioned in the books.
Val von Doom is like Hank in that her schedule is centered around experiments.

And thank you for taking DE today as I am having trouble waking up again. = ]

I'd be interested to see how Hank and Charles' schedule lines up with other peoples, because I imagine that they could get sucked into things rather easily. So even though there's when they say they'll start and end, it doesn't always happen.

Very true. I also see Hank has being up at the crack of dawn and already getting lots of things done when Sean and Alex finally wake and him pouncing on them to do chores and things while they are still groggy. I imagine it will add tension to things. = p

Hee, yes, and in a fic I created some headcanon that Charles is usually the first one up as he likes the quiet of the morning.

Sunshine is the only one of mine who has any sort of routine. She habitually wakes up at four a.m., if not already awake from her likewise habitual nightmares, because it's when she's used to getting up to go to work. If it's her day off, or if she's been mostly spared bad dreams, she can usually go back to sleep for a while. It used to be that she also had an additional day off from the morning shift, when she had an apprentice, but now she's back to six-day (or thirteen-day, if Monday is a holiday) work-weeks where she has to be up at four. If she's at Milliways, she works on a few recipes for the day's baking, and goes for a dawn run around the lake while the dough rises.

Yrael does what he wants, when he wants. He thrives best with no set schedule, ready to do whatever strikes his fancy whenever the whim hits.

Zelgadiss technically has no set schedule, but he is used to rising early, and nearly always does. When he's traveling alone, he likes to get at least ten to twelve hours of progress towards his next destination before stopping, though will choose staying in a reasonably-sized town over camping out if it's an option. Traveling with friends is, necessarily, slower. :)

I couldn't do what Sunshine does, she just works so hard.

Jack Sparrow laughs at the very idea of a schedule. Loudly.

Sam Winchester doesn't have a schedule per se, but he and Dean have something of a routine.

Louis Hoshi follows Galactica's scheduled watch system. I don't think BSG canon ever specifies exactly which watch system they use (there are a variety, see?), but I have taken to thinking in general of it as matched somewhat to the US Navy's three-shift underway system, which has the benefit of incorporating a parallel 12-on, 12-off schedule for air force/pilots serving side-by-side with naval personnel.

Bucky Barnes also follows a military schedule, but with significant variation due to special operations duties that come with his assignment to the Howling Commandos under Captain Steve Rogers.

Kim Ford has a daily routine. She gets up very early in the morning, tends her herb and flower garden, writes letters and puts things in order, and then heads to her practice clinic to start her work day. At the end of the day there's a reverse flow, often involving grocery shopping, some sort of activity with friends, and calls to people overseas. It's a peaceful, quiet life, and she's content with it (at least for now).

Moiraine has a daily routine of sorts, but it is shifting slowly into flux. More on that as it develops.

Gabriel Tam's schedule could be best described as "extremely full." It varies depending on whether or not Parliament and/or the Council of Seven is in session.

Laura Roslin has a workday defined by ship's time, the limitations imposed by her current illness, the exigencies of the current Cylon War, and the needs of the people she serves.

Nick Sayre doesn't have a schedule or much of a routine at present, and the current restrictions on his movements are driving him wild.

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I'll be curious to see what kind of schedule Sam and Nick end up with, because they're both so flexible with their time.

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Not quite! I hit post before I noticed that I'd not transferred the whole thing from my notepad composition window to the comment window. :) Fixed now.

ETA: so will I. :)

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Ah, that makes sense. Yes, it will be fun to have an OOM of the two of them in Belisaere.

Cata has more structure to her days when the Guild's running classes. Otherwise, her time is her own. Sam hasn't really had a routine since he finished his training, and that's fine by him.

Claudia's routine on days she's not in the field: Get up, check for pings, do inventory, go to bed. (Obvs there are breaks for food etc. in there, and if she can get away with upgrading something she does so.)

Apollo laughs in the face of routine, other than that whole 'being responsible for sunrise' thing.

As much as Imp would like less routine and more time to work on his music, he will admit there's something to be said for financial security.

Regulus probably has the most structured days of any of mine, what with Hogwarts (and then his mother, when he's home for hols). He's used to it.

Red doesn't have much routine, and she's just fine with that. (Ruby has way more structure in her life than she wants.)

I love Apollo's answer and Red and Ruby are interesting in how different they are.

Heh, none of my pups have a really consistent routine... Shawn and Fry are both too flighty/easily-distracted, and Brisco's usually out on the trail where such things aren't as important. Brisco's the most likely to keep to a schedule when he needs to, though.

That makes sense as Brisco lives a life that's got more structure to it, not by much but more.

I think working on a set schedule is one of the reasons he decided being a lawyer wasn't his thing after all. He likes his freedom.

"What can I say, Dix...I'm an early riser." ;)

Meg's life is very scheduled, even beyond the fact that she still basically lives on a university schedule of classes and semesters. She likes it that way. She likes plans and routine and sticking with both. (Alain, on the other hand, is fond of a fair bit of spontaneity. They'll be doing some getting used to each other on this front.)

Amy's life is scheduled to the point that it makes Meg's look quite haphazard. Even when Amy has "free time" at home, it's actually been carefully built into the schedule, generally. She'd probably be very happy to have a lot more flexibility with things, but it's not going to happen, so she adapts.

Lily and Remus both have the structure of being students with set meal times, classes, curfews, etc. Both are the sorts who are responsible enough to keep to a schedule when they've got one, but would probably not go for quite so much routine if they could. Looking at non-day-to-day, Remus is also always very aware of the phase of the moon, when plans are being made. Lily will become moreso.

Anna has no routine and no schedule. Which is not the same thing as having no plans.

And the TARDIS . . . yeah, I don't think I can get "routine" and TARDIS to co-exist. What would be the fun in that?

I love your last line about the TARDIS, she's a fascinating character.

Tyler has no working circadian rhythm. Once upon a time, maybe he did but it died years ago. Now, as long as he makes his promotional tour stops (booked by a travel agent with a very, very small map of America) and the target dates for book drafts he pretty much has no other real schedule.

Ako tries every so often to be on a set schedule while she's Bound. It doesn't generally hold. Luckily she's going back to MahoraFEST so the entire school is sleep deprived and hyper so a little Millilag shouldn't be noticeable.

Poor Tyler, his body must get confused a lot.

A lot of his friends now are functionally immortal or better. In a few years, if the bombs don't get dropped (Why yes, I do have the post nuclear war supplement. Why do you ask?) he's going to have to start working out more, eating better and looking at moving to a new species.

His vampyre girlfriend is already pushing the first two.

Bilbo Baggins's schedule is built around meals, and the preparation and clean-up thereof: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, luncheon, dinner, supper, afternoon tea.

Merlin has to work two schedules into his day, plus the extracurricular activities of protecting Camelot. He has to do his duties as Arthur's servant as well as be Gaius's assistant. Little wonder he comes to Milliways to study, is it?

Stuart Dakin is a student, and so has classes, lectures, tutorial sessions, essays...I also see him being active on campus, playing a sport or two and participating in some sort of creative outlet like a choir or an improv group. The days are just packed.

Steve Rogers spent a very short time as an ordinary soldier. As a USO performer he was where he needed to be to catch trains or be on stage, etc.--probably the first one every time, too, while the chorus stumbled in sleepily behind him. As Aspen said, the Howling Commandos unit doesn't keep regular hours, though Steve does try to get his men to eat and rest regularly. An army marches on its stomach, after all. When he's in Milliways, he tries to keep some sort of disciplined schedule--so much time training, so much time drawing, and so on--unless his significant other is being particularly distracting that day.

The Green Man normally scoffs at the idea of daily schedules, but since his kids are school he enforces regular meal time, bedtimes and homework times. He feels the progress of the seasons day by day, though, and that's what he ... not exactly functions by? But it informs his day-to-day emotions and activities the way that sunlight regulates a regular person's.

It's really amazing that Merlin gets as much done as he does with all that he's doing.

In canon, it seems like he really gets very little sleep.

Jack is a member of the Australian Military, so he keeps to military schedules.

Erik is much better at keeping to a schedule when he's in term time, and he has classes to teach. When he doesn't? His schedule revolves around whenever interesting phenomena are due to occur.

Alfred keeps to a very strict schedule. First it was because he was military, then as butler, he was expected to be up early, and looking after the house. Then he had the young Master Wayne to look after, and structure is generally recognised as a good thing for young people. These days he can afford to be a bit more lax about it, but he isn't, because it doesn't feel right.

From Thor, it seems like the schedule with Jane Foster was quite chaotic. I can really see Alfred being such a stabilizing force on Bruce, he's good at that. I loved the thread with him and William, I can see him being helpful there as well.

Also I was going to tag Jack with Will but then was busier than I expected and we had William and Alfred. Would you like that? I'm thinking it might be rather nice to do a time with Horus and the two of them. That could end up as an OOM if that would work better with flexible time or I can tag that last EP.

I agree, the schedule with Jane Foster was chaotic, but it definitely revolved around 'when are the interesting things happening? Okay, we need to be up then, and for the 2 or 3 hours before hand to prep and get to site, we can do data analysis when we wake up the next morning.

Alfred, I don't see so much as a stabilizer, well, he wasn't proactive about it, he was more trying to maintain the stability that was already there, at least, initially. And I think we're at a good fade point with William and Alfred.

As for Jack and Will, I agree, time with Horus, and a further general natter over the details of falconry and what's needed to look after a bird safely etc.

I think an 'oom but not' probably works best, we can then millitime it to whenever seems best. :)

Do you want me to set something up or do you want to? Millitime is the best thing.

Here we go

Clementine's routine is structured by her job. Depending on when she's on the duty roster, she's either up late or down early, and her off-hours are shaped by her need for extra money and/or male companionship.

Juliet rises early and sleeps early.

Dixie's languorous, a late riser who doesn't start living 'til it's past noon.

Pinkie's up at the crack of dawn EVERY day.

There's only one of those four who I recognize the canon from, so I'll comment on her. You have to wonder where Pinkie gets her energy from.

I'll always blame it on the sugar, and the fact that she wants to spend as many hours she possibly can spreading around happiness.

Because of Chris' military background, early mornings typically are not a problem for him. He probably was strict with his schedule until his canon rolled by. Now he's slightly more relaxed I think, but still gets up early by habit.

From I've seen about Pokemon Trainers: Zoey has a very flexible schedule. She helps out her friends when possible, and like most trainers/breeders/coordinators etc, she is probably an early riser.

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