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Enzo has grown accustomed to it, due to reveille. I wouldn't say he's 100% happy about it, but he now does so automatically even on days off.

I can understand that. My body's been slightly retrained to wake up early for my new job.

Exactly. On weekends, I wake up no more than an hour after the time I do on weekdays. Of course, after breakfast and reading my webcomics, etc., I usually go back to sleep.

Gordon sleeps about four or five hours a night on the good nights. This used to be almost solely because of nightmares. These days it is because he has twins. He has gotten to the point of not caring what time it is any more when he is awake.

Shephard is perfectly happy to wake up before dawn; he is not only a morning person, but a George Takei-style morning person- you know, the kind that will come to your door at quarter to six in the morning and ask you to come on their three mile run with them, and then attempt to hold an extended, cheerful conversation with you before you try to strangle them.

Varric's a night owl and prefers to sleep late.

Ellen grew up on a completely arbitrary day/night schedule thanks to the nature of the Vault and the fact that the lights were on pretty much any time someone was in a given room. She tends to wake up around dawn or somewhat before dawn now that she's on the surface and does not see anything unusual about this.

Arcade tends to work late and is grouchy in the mornings. This is not always distinguishable from his everyday demeanor, but usually there is more smartass Latin when he is grouchy.

Medic is usually up fairly early, but this is not because he is a morning person. It is out of spite. He has teammates who tend to keep him up late, particularly Herr Demoman, and if he can annoy them in the morning or during hangovers then he takes the opportunity to do so.

Hektor sleeps when it's dark unless he's on campaign and has night watch duty, in which case there is no point to complaining about not getting to sleep, so why bother?

Zira is quite happy to work late into the night, but getting up in the morning is one of the things that she's not that fond of. One of the privileges of being department head is that she can make junior chimps take the early shift.

Ray takes a long time to wake up in the mornings unless he is awakened by the Firehouse alarm bell. There was at least one incident where someone had to shake him awake because of a visitor and he did not come fully up to consciousness until he was standing in front of the President of the United States in a t-shirt, sweatpants, and Mr. Stay-Puft slippers.

And Mordin Solus does not sleep. He waits. ... well, no, he does sleep, kinda, but salarians only sleep one hour out of every twenty-five. Mordin has taken the same approach to sleep that Thomas Edison did, namely taking catnaps throughout the day and then only sleeping about one-third of a standard sleep allotment at night. For Mr. Edison this was twenty minute naps and 2-3 hours at night. For Mordin, this is naps so short he can take them standing up, and about fifteen to twenty minutes at night. He does not actually have a bed. So, morning largely irrelevant to him.

Oh Ray, that must have been an interesting meeting and is something I can sympathize with a lot. As I can do mornings but they're not easy for me.

Oh yes. I found the incident, in fact- it was not one of Ray's favorite birthdays.

That's a great OOM and poor Ray, what an awful morning.

He's had one worse, now that I think about it. One morning he woke up and it was 1905.

Sunshine likes sleeping in, but long habit and necessity have led to her automatically waking up at 4am nearly every morning, even if her alarm doesn't go off. Even if given the choice to sleep in, she likes seeing the sunrise.

Zelgadiss is also an early riser by habit, because he's usually traveling.

Yrael would like to tell the diurnal crowd where they can shove their circadian rhythms. He sleeps and wakes on his own schedule and nobody else's.

Heh, of course Yrael wants to sleep when he wants to sleep.

Mako and Voodoo are both up and done with morning PT before dawn.

John rises with the sun.

That makes sense. All of your pups seem good at routine.

Some of mine operate on military schedules and/or ship's time - Louis Hoshi, Bucky Barnes, Laura Roslin (although she has a little more flexibility, these days).

Sam sleeps as little as he can get by with.

Kim Ford is a morning person. A very early morning person.

I'd have to think harder about the rest to figure it out, and since it's morning and I have no caffeine yet... that'll have to happen later.

I understand the feeling. I put this up because I didn't get enough sleep last night and I'm feeling aware of not being a morning person.

Bilbo enjoys a good lie-in, but he usually rises sometime after sunrise. (Have to fit all those meals in somehow!)

Merlin has little time for sleeping, between looking after Arthur and assisting Gaius. He still manages to be pretty perky in the mornings.

Stuart would rather sleep than do nearly anything. No early-morning lectures for him.

Steve can go for several days without sleep with few ill effects, and wakes up quickly after a regular night's sleep. When he spends extra time in bed it's not for sleeping, nudge nudge wink wink. He spent enough time being bedridden growing up to find much pleasure in just lying there now.

I hadn't thought about that aspect of Steve, but it makes sense that capacity would be part of the serum.

Oh, I've thought about it :D. I think it's effected every part of him from his normal temperature to how often he needs to eat.

Meg is very much a morning person. Alain, decidedly, is not.

It actually works out well for them -- she gets some quiet time to herself in the morning, and he gets to drag himself out of bed to find that someone has already made his coffee.

They're a wonderful partnership.

Thank you for getting today's DE, work and this morning have been nutty!

Ben, after years of college football and military service, is stuck being a morning person. He balances this out with naps though.

Hank isn't a morning person per se, he just never went to bed.

Val loves the morning.

Jessica doesn't care either way, but if she had a choice, she'd sleep in.

Andrea is another who's up early, usually doing PT.

Palamedes greets the sun everyday. He doesn't have much faith, having met some of the Gods, he still does this as an almost ritual.

Thalia totally sleeps in and hates the morning.

It's very much a Monday morning, grabbing the DE has helped me feel more awake. I love that line for Hank, which makes complete sense.

Another reason Carol and Jess shouldn't live together... I can see Carol being irritatingly peppy in the morning while Jess just wants to sleep more.

I have a hard time seeing anyone who was in the military not getting up early. And I definitely see Jess as a nightowl.

Speaking of military, sometime in December I'm likely going to have Ben spend his week human. Would Carol be interested in giving him some flight time in a normal aircraft? It doesn't have to be a threaded thing, but I may write up an OOM if you like the idea.

Carol has her own plane now, so I'm sure she'd be up for that! If you want to do a threaded thing, I'll have to warn that this is shaping up to be a super busy month, so I'll probably be slow; if not, feel free to just have Carol and Ben go flying in her Cessna.

Lady Mary doesn't rise early, because there's no particular reason she should. It's not as if she has any actual responsibilities. Since she's unmarried, she does have to get up and dress for breakfast, which is served at 9, at which time she's as well-rested and friendly as she ever is. (Several hours later, she'll have to change for luncheon, then again for dinner at 8. Basically her schedule is built around having enough time to change for meals.)

I can't recall any particular canon regarding Carol's sleep schedule, but I imagine military life has made her fairly adaptable. If anyone is Captain Sourpants in the morning, it's Steve, not her.

That's a great comic and I love how Steve is so focused on his coffee.

My love for Avengers Assemble knows no bounds. Steve has his coffee while he and Carol make kale smoothies. KALE. And Carol is so enamored of her new uniform that she chops carrots in it, gloves and all.

It's a great uniform and suits her.

When you spend your formative years underground "morning" takes on a rather relative meaning.

When the boys were young, it was safer for Splinter to keep them on a more night-shifted schedule. They were less likely to be discovered during their wanderings around the sewers in search of food and diversion if they went at night.

The Never Be Seen rule helped enforce a rather nocturnal lifestyle, though only Raph really kept it up after the boys were old enough to go topside. Which meant he was a PAIN IN THE ASS in the regular morning times.

Unless there's a reason for him to be awake quickly, Raph does not wake quickly.

Mike's the same way, but is far less violent about it than Raph.

Even Splinter needs just a bit of alone meditation time at the beginning of each day to clear his mind.

The new day starts at dawn, and that's when Aang usually got out of bed. He's pretty genial all the time, so unless he's slept poorly, I guess one could say Aang is a morning person.

Nearly forty years of military service, not to mention being raised in his father's house, has made Bumi a morning person by default. He can function, but...if given the choice he'd much rather stay in bed.

The Loompas do not adhere to your time schedule.

Waking Raph seems like it could easily be a punishment for someone.

Cata and Sam are night owls by nature, but they're also whatever kind of person the current contract requires. (When Cata has the chance to have advanced classes and those alone, I think she's going to set them all as late morning/afternoon classes. No point in getting up early if you can arrange things so you don't have to.)

Claudia prefers to stay up late and get up late. I think she and Pete are the later risers of the Warehouse set; Artie's up early working too much, Myka's an early riser by habit and Leena has five people to make breakfast for. (Pete and Claudia would cheerfully stay in bed even longer if breakfast didn't lure them out.)
--No wait, six people at the moment. But I can't peg HG to a particular sleep schedule for the life of me.

Sleep is mostly irrelevant to Apollo, but he takes a few hours' down time when he can. Regardless, he's up before the sun out of necessity.

Imp is a morning person out of the sheer novelty of it. I personally get really disoriented on cloudy days; I can wake up at 10, not realise it's ten and go back to sleep for another hour because 'it's not light enough to be noon, what are you talking about?' I think Imp has a bit of that problem as well, now that he's not living somewhere it rains all the time and morning is something other than a lighter shade of gray sky.

Regulus would cheerfully sleep in all the time, if he could get away with it. He doesn't often get the chance, though, between Hogwarts and his mother.

Red is a morning person out of necessity, exception: full moons she changes on. (Ruby, on the other hand, is a total night owl.)

Cloudy days are awful, Michigan seems to have settled into cloudy for the Winter months and its not good for my sleeping.

Breakfast is an amazing lure.

Ako finds a fair deal of comfort in an early morning routine. Going back to school is still going to be a terrible shock to her system.

Artemis wants more sleep. She's going through growth spurts, heavy physical and mental activity, plenty of social stress and her body wants a chance to catch up. She's... kind of terrible at listening and is patching that issue with proper nutrition, meditation, and mild self hypnosis. Also occasional bouts of Milliways time stealing.

Robo doesn't sleep. Thanks Mr. Tesla.

Tyler's love life went out and finished the job of killing his sleep patterns after his old job worked them over. Blackout curtains and caffeine all the way!

Janet sleeps in, stays up late and cat naps. Pinning down her schedule has to be a tremendous pain in the butt for anyone going after the Avengers, not on purpose, which could be planned for, but because she's as likely to turn in early as she is to insist that JARVIS pull up a zombie movie marathon or to go out and play 'zap-a-mugger' in which ever parts of town are bad where ever she is.

Oh my, yes, a superhero's schedule must be a chaotic thing.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Artemis is pretty sure that Batman is actually a team of workaholic, insomniac triplets.

This does nothing to explain Robin, mind, but she's pretty sure there's no excusing him anyway.

Jack lives to Reveille. He doesn't particularly mind, though.

Alfred rises with the dawn too. Previously, it was because of Reveille, then it was to make sure the cooks were in the kitchen and getting breakfast ready for when the Wayne's rose, which wouldn't be long after. Well, Thomas, anyway. Then Thomas died, and he kept rising, because, while the rest of the household was let go, and that meant there were no cooks to oversee, it also meant he was the one preparing breakfast for young master Bruce. Now, he simply keeps in the habit for when Master Wayne comes back.

Bean gets up when he gets up. Assuming he's gone to sleep in the first place.

Erik is not particularly a morning person. He can do them when he has to, courtesy of a certain level of self-control (and coffee), but he'd rather be working late than rising early.

Max is similar to Erik, but gets up a bit easier, in general. Though he's also more likely to have been up half the night tinkering with something, or scribbling down crazy ideas. So.

That makes sense that Alfred is an earlier riser, it allows him to see all that's going on.

He's been known to nap in the middle of the day, on occasion (especially if he knows he'll be up particularly late with a dinner party). But otherwise, he survives on less sleep than his masters, as a general rule.

Eve points out to Mark, early in the comic, that superheroes become coffee drinkers at an early age. Mark keeps late hours, but has to get up early enough to go to school. He's not crazy about waking early, but the resilience of youth (and a Viltrumite metabolism) keep him from being a complete wreck. Weekends are a different matter, but he still gets up earlier than he would otherwise, because Debbie will have roused him to work on whatever chores she needs him to do before he suits up and goes out to patrol. On occasion, she'll let him sleep late, but he's rarely in bed after 10 am. He's just too active a person to lie around.

Personally, I hate mornings, but I think what I hate more is transition. If I'm awake, I want to stay awake, and if I'm asleep, I want to stay asleep. Also winter mornings just remind me that EVERYTHING IS COLD :(

Elle is a very light sleeper. She has no real preference concerning when she'd prefer to wake up - she can pretty much ignore any "biological clock" and get her (preferably six, though it's less than that a lot) hours in when she has the time.

Asami is a morning person, but it's usually out of habit. She'll sleep in if she can and she was up late the night before, but generally she's found it's easier to slip out in the morning than stay out at night. Republic City can also be a little quieter early in the morning, which makes it a good time to go for a drive.

I think in life Manny probably wasn't a morning person, but his intensive competitiveness won out on that. In death, it's pretty much the same, except that sleeping isn't quite as important.

Leslie doesn't sleep. She's late to bed and early to rise. She rarely gets more than four hours of sleep. The only times I can think of are when she passes out on Ann's couch after getting no sleep for two nights in a row, and when Ron locks her in a room with a bunch of cats.

Marceline hates the morning. But then again, the sun does burn her flesh, so that's understandable.

You've summed up really well why I hate mornings as well and I have this bad habit of dragging transitions out. I worry about oversleeping so don't get enough proper rest.

Tommy has insomnia and suffers from nightmares -- on the one hand, he'd like to get a normal amount of sleep, but he'd rather not because of the bad dreams. Plus he's on an irregular sleeping schedule because of his job. I don't think he's the type to sleep in if his situation were normal, since he's kind of a workaholic. But whatever the circumstance, he's up when he has to be, and is grouchy before and after his first cup of coffee anyway.

I am now instantly reminded of this song. So I sincerely thank you for coming up with this prompt.

Jim is definitely not a morning person. He's hung over far too often. And he's usually unpleasantly surprised by where he wakes up.

I like to think Borgel likes mornings. More than late nights, I suspect. He is at least 111 years old, after all. Still, I've never taken him for the "Dinner at 4, Bed at 7" type. All times of day have their charms to him.

Leela is a light sleeper and an early riser. The realities of tribal life in a hostile environment demanded it - there's work to do, food to hunt and gather, and any number of creatures who can creep into the village unnoticed. It's not the kind of habit that's easy to break. Consequently, she wanders around almost as much as the Doctor does.

The sleep habits of Kane are shrouded in mystery, much like his origins, history, and favorite color of Skittles. But he can often be seen in the early hours of the day, plotting and scheming.

Atrus (much like me) keeps highly irregular hours. Sometimes he's up very late working on an age, or some new contraption he's built. Sometime's he's up very early to do much the same thing. To him, sleep is something that can afford to wait.

Tuco isn't a heavy sleeper - a man with his lifestyle can't afford to be. But that doesn't mean he has to like getting up in the morning.

I am absolutely NOT a morning person. I'm at my best when the sun is down.

Edited 2012-11-27 00:34 (UTC)

It was inspired by how I'm not a morning person, but I have to be with my new job. It just means when I sleep in, I really sleep in.

Morning means breakfast and I can see Borgel as someone who appreciates a good breakfast.

Trowa is a morning person, although that's as much from lifetime military habit as anything. He can keep all kinds of irregular hours if he needs to for a mission, but under normal circumstances he goes to bed around probably 10, and wakes around 6. This is mostly because he believes firmly in keeping your body well fueled (with food, with water, with sleep) so that it'll do what you ask it and you'll have reserves when you need to draw on them, but the timing of it is it's also because he likes having an hour or two to himself in the morning before his sister wakes up and before the rest of the circus gets moving.

He has coffee with Cathy when she's up and moving, but he tries to avoid needing a stimulant to wake up. Again, so that if he needs to keep himself awake, he won't be battling a high caffeine tolerance to do it (or, worse in his opinion, battling a physical dependency if he goes without.)

All that said, the circus travels between time zones a lot, so Trowa does a lot of resetting his circadian rhythms to match the local time. Usually this isn't too big a jump, but sometimes the colony-to-colony or Earth-to-colony transition makes it more of an adjustment.

River is a morning person. She tries not to be too chipper at people if they're bleary-eyed and grumbly, though. Unless it's funny. Anyway, she tends to wake around 8 or 9 every day, and doesn't stay up all that late, either. I think that between some of her medication, general inborn inclination, and the amount of energy it takes for her to function in the real world and in conversation, she needs a fair amount of sleep, and her body doesn't really let her skip it for too long.

Unlike Trowa, she doesn't really bother to reset herself to local times, as a rule. Trowa travels and stays in one place; River lives on a ship, and she lives by ship's time unless there's some reason to rearrange that. She doesn't much like readjusting, either.

Regan... I can't remember if I've millicanoned anything. I think she's a bit of a night owl -- not extremely so, but she does like to sit up late reading, when she can afford to. She's trained herself to wake up early, but she's never liked it, and she's not good for much before she's gotten some time communing blearily with her first mug of tea.

Clare doesn't sleep. She waits.

Uh, honestly, I'm pretty sure Claymores don't need a lot of sleep. And, unless they're really flat-out exhausted, they sleep sitting up with their swords as backrests. Clare naps when she needs to, but I suspect it's two or three hours a night at most, and light dozing sleep at that.

Thor is hard to say, because canon has not yet told us anything about how Asgard's circadian rhythms work in relation to Earth's! I don't even know how long the days are.

I'm going to tentatively make him a night owl, because most of mine seem to be morning people judging from this list. But that's a little misleading, because by human terms he doesn't need a lot of sleep -- he'll take it, sure, and he enjoys a good night's comfortable rest, but he can go for a few days without if he needs to before he starts to feel any ill effects. He also has probably been rousted out of bed at the crack of dawn plenty of times by diligent armsmasters. I'm pretty sure "sleeping in" for him means more the Asgardian equivalent of 10 a.m. than the Asgardian equivalent of afternoon.

I do think that, much as Thor might enjoy spending an extra hour or two lazing about in the morning, once he's up, he's wide awake and formidably cheerful. Thor doesn't really do bleary-eyed mumbling slouching; there's not a lot of middle ground between "fast asleep" and "brimming with alert energy" for him, in either direction.

Edit: Oh, and I am a complete night owl, the opposite of most of my characters. I find it very easy to stay up into the wee hours without even noticing (especially, but not solely, since nighttime is my primary introvert time), and very hard to wake up in the mornings. I've gotten a lot better about getting up with my alarm in my years of being a working stiff, but it's never fun and it never really comes naturally. On weekends, I sleep till noon at least if I don't have any reason to set an alarm for earlier, and if I'm left to my own devices I pretty much become nocturnal.

Edited 2012-11-27 02:16 (UTC)

Thor would be someone that it would be nice to have in the house in the morning if he didn't wake you up. He seems like someone who gets there should be food and coffee in the morning, but also that sometimes people have hangovers and need more sleep. I could imagine Fandral or Loki tossing something at him in the morning as he says hello in the morning.

To answer your edit, I'm the same way. Adjusting to my new job and early mornings isn't fun. This break was wonderful for staying up late and sleeping late.

Edited 2012-11-27 02:19 (UTC)

Heh, yeah! Thor doesn't actually clatter and bang around in the mornings as a rule, but... in an Earth house you would probably have to explain to him that the cupboard noise carries through the walls, and so forth and so on. And basically get him to mentally tag your sleep habits as fragile/delicate/easy to disturb, so that he would be careful about them.

If you try conversing with him, though... he's not gonna be bombastic at somebody who's clearly bleary-eyed or hung over, but the general emanating aura of alert cheer if he's in a halfway decent mood might get old really fast.

And heh, yeah, breaks are wonderful for that! But then Monday morning hits...

Thor just makes me snicker.

...there's not a lot of middle ground between "fast asleep" and "brimming with alert energy" for him, in either direction.

...the general emanating aura of alert cheer...

He is totally the golden retriever of Asgard! Either learning a lesson and retrieving his hammer in Thor, or retrieving Loki in Avengers.

Walks... I like them. ANOTHER!

This game... I like it. ANOTHER!

Clementine is the antithesis of a morning person. She's a night owl who lives off coffee when she's on the morning duty roster.

Dixie stays up at night for professional reasons, but not via choice - she likes sunrise when she's allowed to see it (She is not, naughty Brisco-spoken puns, an early riser).

Pinkie is the most irritating morning person ever.

Jules is much the same, though her love of coffee might suggest otherwise.

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