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[themightyspazz]

From minkhollow:

What are your character's sleeping habits like? Do they sleep on their back? Side? Stomach? Do they snore/wiggle/sleepwalk/something else that would drive a hypothetical bed-sharer crazy? Do they require absolute silence or white noise to get to sleep?

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[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark sprawls, generally on his back, in a loose pile of sheets and blankets that have been pulled free in the night. (He also doesn't make his bed, which causes Debbie a brief moment of maternal exasperation every morning.) He doesn't snore, unless he sleeps in a weird position, like in a hard-backed chair.

Should he share sleeping space with someone, intimately, he's a cuddler, and prefers to spoon. Though he doesn't know that yet, at this point in canon.

Of course, at this point in canon, he's in a stage 1 coma, so it could be said that his current sleeping habits involve being totally motionless and unresponsive, hooked up to a large number of medical devices, and in a government hospital.

[alsoagreengrass]

Scorpius is a cuddler, so if someone is in the bed with him, he'll eventually drift their way. I suppose that could drive a hypothetical bed-sharer crazy? Especially as he doesn't even have to be intimate with the person, really. Basically: If you're there, you're getting cuddled by him. If he's alone, he'll end up hugging a pillow.

[honourbyname]

D'aww. That's the cutest.

[alsoagreengrass]

Cute, until it means squashed!Albus!


Y'know. If they shared a bed. And stuff.

[honourbyname]

Which.

They will.

And stuff.

;)

[alsoagreengrass]

Ooh, baby.

[genarti]

Trowa sleeps on his back or side, never his stomach. (This is for reasons of sightlines, because Trowa always wants to be able to wake up and monitor his surroundings without giving away that he's awake. Trowa's paranoia is really ingrained, and it comes out in some ways more when he's asleep, because he's necessarily more vulnerable then.) He doesn't tend to toss and turn a lot, or to sprawl; he's used to small bunks, both from his childhood and from living in a pretty compact circus trailer.

If he can't arrange himself so that his back isn't to a door or window, he'll sleep more lightly and restlessly. Ditto if it's an unfamiliar room that hasn't been fully checked over by someone he trusts. But noise or light or movement are fine; if he's catalogued something as "not a danger or a concern, can be safely ignored," he'll sleep through it just fine.

River shifts around, although I think she mostly curls up on her side when she's actually falling asleep. But she doesn't have a lot of strict habits so far as that goes.

However, as in this OOM, River at some point in any given night has biofeedback/training/conditioning dreams. Whether it would bother a bed-sharer or not depends on how sensitive they are to their partner spending a while lying very still except for infinitesimal twitching. If they wake her up mid-dream, though, that will be -- memorable! Again, as we played with in that thread.

Thor sprawls. And there is a lot of Thor to sprawl. If you plan to bed-share with Thor, get a very large bed or plan on using him as a body pillow or both, is what I'm saying. (He does not, however, snore. I see no reason why Asgardians' unfairly superheroic physical condition shouldn't extend to sinus construction.)

Clare, unless really really deeply exhausted, sleeps sitting up with her sword as a backrest. Uh. It's kind of hard to bed-share with that! Although it's probably disconcerting to anyone expecting her to bunk down in a bedroll like a normal human.

Regan sleeps... like a normal person? I'm sure she tosses and turns and twitches in dreams sometimes, but it's not a major notable thing. She usually spends a little while reading in bed before turning out the light for sleep, and takes a while before she can fall asleep anyway.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy is a sprawler -- back, front, sides, whatever-- although he's been conditioned to sleep on couches for the past several years. Get him on a mattress bigger than a twin and he'll take up most of the space. He's not a cuddler or a spooner by nature, so if he's sleeping with someone, they have to initiate it. He'll also talk in his sleep and wake up suddenly from chronic nightmares. Since he currently has bouts with insomnia, he just needs to be either completely exhausted or in the right state of mind to fall asleep (which will then inevitably be interrupted by a nightmare).

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Gordon sleeps around five hours a night, and while his nightmares aren't as bad or as frequent as they used to be, he just generally does not look forward to REM sleep any more. Sleeping in close proximity to Alyx helps. The babies have disrupted what sleep cycle he has, so he's doing his best to take naps when he can. Mostly he tends to sleep on his side and will do his best to get his arms around Alyx if she's there. Also he keeps the crowbar under his pillow as long as he's in the bed.

Adrian can sleep pretty much anywhere, in nearly any position, although even he can't manage to sleep standing up. Given a bed to sleep in he tends to ball up pretty tightly. He doesn't snore unless he has a cold and has to prop his upper body up, in which case it sounds pretty awful.

Ray mostly sleeps on his back. Occasionally Romana has to poke him because he has a tendency to sleep with his eyes open and rolled back, and it's kind of weird to look at.

Medic sleeps on his back and prefers to have his bed or cot oriented such that his head is pointed north, as he has some odd ideas about alignment with magnetic fields. He does not insist on this, he just says he gets his best sleep and his best ideas for experiments this way.

Mordin does not sleep, he waits- well, no, that's not quite true. Salarians sleep one hour out of every twenty-four or twenty-five. Mordin has trained himself to do the equivalent of Thomas Edison, who slept three hours a night and took several twenty-minute naps during the day. This translates into Mordin periodically stepping away from his lab work to take a five-minute standing-up nap, from which he can easily be awakened by approaching footfalls. This is why there are no signs of a bedroom or bed for him on the Normandy. He doesn't need one. If he has to sleep for more than about ten minutes he'll sack out on a medical table and be done with it.

Zira tends to sleep on her side and hogs the blankets. Cornelius finds this simultaneously endearing and annoying, especially since she has really cold feet at night.

Varric sleeps on his back and sprawls and prefers a lot of pillows, and tends to snore thanks to that nose of his and a slightly deviated septum. He can, however, quite happily bunk down on the road- he'll just bitch about it the next morning in between shooting things.

Arcade sleeps on his back and is a fitful sleeper who tends to wake up halfway through the night, read for an hour, and then go back to bed. If he's following Corazon around he'll usually take a stint of guard duty while he's awake, although the fact that he's only good for an hour tends to bug Boone.

Hektor has a wooden bed that his father's father acquired from an Egyptian trader long ago, and he is quite fond of it. It rather resembles the one in this article; the mattress is made of wool. There's also one of those weird Egyptian head-rests, which is covered by a small cushion, and he's fond of that too. He'll sleep on the ground on campaign without batting an eye, though.

Ellen is used to sleeping on a hard platform bed or cot with very little spring to it, as Vault 101 was stocked with durability rather than comfort in mind and the mattress in her Megaton house's bedroom was not exactly memory foam to begin with. She sleeps on her left side for preference and is quite capable of sleeping in horrendous noise or during daylight, as the Vault's day/night cycle was more a question of activity than of light being turned on or off. Something touching her or crawling on her will snap her awake and she'll reflexively strike out or throw whatever it is as far as she can, but noise is not a big thing when she's sleeping.

[ceitfianna]

Will sleeps small and tends to gravitate towards whoever's nearby for warmth, only cuddling if there's been romance. He's used to not having much space to go to sleep so tends to curl up to take up the least amount of space and be the warmest. He sometimes has nightmares which are of the twitchy kind.

Charles is a pretty still sleeper as he always puts up his shields before he sleeps and that helps him sleep. He's a definite cuddler and spooner if someone else is in the bed as he loves being close to someone else.

Sameth sprawls while he sleeps and has awful sleep habits. He tends to get working on something and then forget to sleep and will end up falling asleep in a chair or someplace else if he doesn't make it to his bed. He has nightmares that will wake up him in a cold sweat.

William shares his bed at home because he and his brother Mark are in the same bed. He's very tuned into Mark when he sleeps because a lot of Mark's health problems come up when he's in bed. So William tends to sleep quietly, he does have nightmares but he tries to not be loud about them, also sometimes his cat, Horus comes into the bed.

Moist is fairly compact in bed because its warm and gets him ready to go at a moment's notice.

Jane has a small bed, so she doesn't sprawl but she will wake up at odd times to write. Also as canon showed, if an idea is in mind, she'll toss and turn and possibly get up to write, that could annoy someone if they're not used to it.

Demeter is a snuggler and sleeps best when with someone else.

Tumnus sprawls a little bit and is used to people snuggling up to him for warmth. That seems to fit the way the forest works.

The Pirate King sprawls a lot, he's a tall man and loves to share a bed and be used as a pillow.

[bjornwilde]

Ben sleeps like a rock.... buh dum ching.

Okay, actually he does sleep pretty soundly but he doesn't move much; even in his sleep he's aware of how much damage he can cause the world. I imagine him a side sleeper as I can see him having trouble breathing on his back. Of course, he shouldn't be able to breath or move in the first place if normal physics and biology were present in the Marvel Universe.

Andrea sleeps poorly due to nightmares and tosses and turns, occasionally even sleep walking. There's been times when she's woken in strange places in her apartment.

[minkhollow]

Sam and Cata both tend to sleep with the nearest door in their line of sight, usually on their sides. The assassin skill set is such in canon that you can tell yourself to wake up at a certain time, if you need to. I think they both sleep pretty soundly unless they're startled or disturbed, and... well, then you'd better look out for a knife flying your way. (It'd take a lot for either of them to share a bed comfortably.)

Claudia tends to sprawl, when left to her own devices. She sleeps soundly unless she's having a nightmare (fortunately, that doesn't happen often).

For Apollo, sleep is optional, but if there's someone there to snuggle he will. Until he has to go take care of sunrise, anyway. (You know he likes you if he comes back after that.)

Imp snores. If he'd been enough in his right mind to notice, during the music with rocks in mess, the fact that Glod or Cliff never said anything about him snoring would have been a big tip-off that something was wrong.

Regulus is a pretty light sleeper if it's not quiet; good thing for him he's good at silencing charms. It comes from having a lot of privacy charms on his room just as soon as he was able (the better to keep his mother out). When he's at Hogwarts he tends to put the silencing charms on his bed's drapes, with an internal alarm so he doesn't accidentally sleep through classes.

Red can sleep through just about anything. Conversely, Ruby is a lot fussier.

[mnt_mike]

Splinter sleeps much the same way as a human that he did as a rat, ie. on his side in the fetal position, one hand covering his nose.

Mike is fluid in his sleeping arrangement, meaning that he will expand to fill just about any space available to him. In addition to this he's pretty notorious for stealing blankets. He can also sleep through pretty much anything. Not exactly the world's greatest habit for someone trained in Ninjitsu.

Raph is a back sleeper, and one that prefers hammocks to mattresses. For a long time he preferred to sleep without anyone touching him, but in the last few years now finds it difficult to sleep without Abigail close by.

Ida powers down...that's about it.

The Loompas aren't used to beds that allow for space enough to move about, so they're stationary side sleepers.

Bumi used to be a sprawler, but military life has pretty much trained him out of that. Unless he's sharing a bed, in which case there's probably not a whole lot of sleeping going on in the first place, he sleeps on his back with his arms folded across his chest. Also, he's so used to the background engine hum of his ship that he actually has a hard time sleeping if it's too quiet.

Aang is a side sleeper who's preferred place to sleep is on Appa.

[jjprobert]

Jack West: sleeps light but still. He's a soldier, if he couldn't learn to be awake at a moments notice, he wouldn't have survived basic training.

Max Epper: Is a bit of a cuddler, when Doris is in bed with him. (AKA when he isn't off on various trips round the world or to Archaeology dig sites). Otherwise, he prefers to lie on his back.

Erik Selvig: Erik has a tendency to sprawl. If he's been up stupidly late, working through some idea, this can be in a chair, during office time. Often though, he'll turn in and get some proper sleep before it gets to that point, in which case he sprawls on his bed, with no thought to his positioning.

Alfred Pennyworth: As an ex-soldier, and then 'always on call' butler, Alfred has lived on the basis, like Jack, of being able to rise at a moments notice. He's not changing the habit of a lifetime, just because he's not on call any more.
On his side, back to the wall in a single bed is his preferred position.

Bean: Curls up tight for warmth. Once he gets out into space, he'll learn to sleep under sheets, straight and stiff on his side, but it will take a year or so to get used to the changes.

[saphyria]

Sunshine never gets enough sleep, but when she does sleep, she sleeps on her side. She tosses and turns less if she's on her side when there are nightmares, which there frequently are. She isn't a light sleeper by any means, and general city background noise doesn't bother her at all.

Zelgadiss sleeps mostly on his back, with his sword within reach if not in the bed with him. He's a very light sleeper, but thankfully, doesn't need much sleep to begin with.

Yrael sleeps every way imaginable, and very soundly. Stomach, side, back, curled up with someone, hanging upside down off a rafter, sprawled on the couch, curled up on the bar, flopped across a tree-branch, tangled in a kittypile, stuffed into a knapsack, whatever. He doesn't move when asleep, usually, unless he's been exposed to catbalm and is having happycat dreams.

[death_gone_mad]

In the past, I have written Amascut as being comfortable with sleeping up in a tree on a tree branch as a leopard would sleep.

She tries not to do that. It gives people ideas.

In a proper human bed, she sleeps on her side. Not curled up, though. Think something more like this. Just cause old habits and I am a mean mun. Plus, it is easier to roll out of bed and spring into attack mode.

'course, that is when she sleeps. I don't know how often that is.

[saphyria]

She tries not to do that. It gives people ideas.

Yeah, they might make a catty remark. :D

[ladyoflorien]

Leela - eyeeyecaptain - Sprawler. She sleeps with a face mask on, and tosses and turns until she finds a comfortable position. Once achieved, she's pretty dead to the world until morning.

Porthos - srspirate - Porthos is the "he keeps going and going and going until he passes out face first into the first convenient thing he sees" type. When he's not drinking or reveling, he tends to sleep light. Once drunk, he's pretty dead to the world until roused.

Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - I'm resisting the mental picture of Grace falling asleep with a cigarette in her mouth. >_< I get the feeling she mumbles in her sleep, but sticks mostly to lying on her back/sides. 7 hours is a pretty luxurious night for Grace, who tends more toward 5 or 6.

Renee Walker - whathastobedone - Renee has a pretty routinized sleep pattern, thanks to her militaristic background. She leaves work, hits the gym, either grabs a light dinner or a power bar depending on the time she gets home, showers, and falls into bed around roughly the same time every night. Sometimes she sleeps with earplugs and a sleep mask, thank you DC. She rises at 6:15 sharp in the morning, fully rested -- with her coffee maker on a timer so it's ready the instant she rolls out of bed. Of course, this is pre-canon Renee.

Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - Ray sleeps all the time. On the job, off the job, at his desk, during stakeouts -- but never at the pub. He stays up drinking, gambling, playing darts, falls asleep almost the minute he gets home, and then it takes a stroke of the divine to get him to work on time. He also snores, and I daresay farts, in his sleep.

Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - Lily goes to sleep at an appropriate time every evening, and rises at an appropriate time every morning. She sleeps on her back, though sometimes she cannot get comfortable without Robert beside her.

Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - Zoë likes having her own space while she sleeps, which takes some compromising with Wash, who prefers to snuggle. Most of the time they find a happy medium. Wash swears she snores (which he calls cute), while Zoë swears the War long trained that out of her.

Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - Regina sleeps how and when she wants to. Bad habits are absolutely impermissible, and there's no use using sleep as an excuse, as her mother always used to say. She must be queenly, from sunrise to sunrise.

[inlovewithwords]

...I swear I will play more once I am slightly less brain-twisted from family stuff.

Henry is a fairly boring sleeper--on his back or side curled up a bit.

When Tavi was a kid and under-sized, he had that special gift of taking up way more space than is reasonable for his size. Now he's six-four or so. He sprawls.He's a military commander, he's always on call and sleeps lightly. Besides, now that he's got crafting and his bond to Kitai, he can go a lot longer than is reasonable without proper sleep.

Lois is freaking hilarious. (Unsurprisingly.) She sleeps deeply. When alone, she's on her back or stomach in fuzzy PJs. With company, she likes the left side of the bed. Often she'll be turned away (side or stomach), clutching a pillow and her boyfriend's arm, though she's not snuggly. Late/post-canon, she generally sleeps with her husband's chest for a pillow, curled against/draped over him, and knows when he arrives or leaves. She talks in her sleep, anything from total nonsense, nonsensical comments relating to dream-exposés, or oddly accurate football plays. And this is all canon.

[lt_blade]

Sonya sleeps half on her side, half on her back. Always with her back to the wall if possible. Later in her canon, when she's at home, she'll sleep with a gun or a knife under her pillow because she never gets over the fear that something might happen.

She doesn't wiggle or snore, and actually sleeps in a quasi fetal position, as though she's used to sleeping in tight areas.

In terms of actual sleep, she's habitually a light sleeper, so absolute silence is preferred.

[arrin]

AndrAIa

can sleep anytime and anywhere, thanks to the Games. She also sleeps very lightly. These days, she sleeps on her side, curled against her husband.

Thirteen

also possesses the ability to sleep where and when she can, as a side-effect from her days on House's team. This consists of many of a graceless position while sleeping, be it sprawled awkwardly on a couch or flopped face down on her bed, still dressed from work.

Kaidan

is a lot like the previous two here, in the sense of sleeping anytime, and anywhere, though he has trouble sleeping when his migraines kick in. When he has a choice about it, he tends to favour his right side for sleeping.

Hawke

grew up sharing a bed with her brother and sister, she's learned to sleep as small and as still as possible, in case she ends up on the floor come morning, or slept on by one of her sprawling siblings.

Kanaya

sleeps either in a pile, or in her cocoon filled with slime. Trolls are genetically predisposed to having horrible night terrors without the aid of said slime in the cocoon, but being of the middling blood castes, she tends to have an easier time of things regarding those nightmares.

[a1enzo]

Enzo tends to sprawl a bit, but stays fairly still; he sleeps in a top bunk, after all.

Guardians are usually notified of trouble, but it tends to be notification that trouble is happening right now; therefore, his training has included occasionally being woken at odd timestamps. As a result, while he's not an especially light sleeper, he can get moving very quickly once woken if he needs to.

His favourite way to sleep is zonked out with Dani on her parents' sofa after a movie marathon. It's not actually the most restful position, though.

When he finally has the opportunity to share a bed properly, he will be a spooner.

[iambetadraconis]

Rabastan likes it [and sleeps best when] his room is as close to total darkness as possible, This is a hold-over from his time in Azkaban, but now that he regularly shares a bed, he's come to accept some compromise in this area. He's also quick to wake up if he feels like he's in regular danger [see: first and second Voldemort Wars], but not nearly so much now that he's not worrying that someone will kill him in his sleep.

Rad is a robot and it goes without saying that he doesn't sleep as organics do. For one, sleep is more like a computer restart, and varies in length as well as from one or two systems to full shut-down [think "repair mode" from Beast Wars], with full shut-downs performed only when he's in his own quarters [for obvious reasons]. Full shut-downs are not undertaken often, since, like a dolphin he can remain functional even when some parts of him are off-line, rendering them mostly unnecessary.

Unicron sleeps in a similar fashion. Full shut-downs are rare though.

Xamot and Tomax are either side sleepers or on their backs. On their side, they favour their dominant hand [*has decided this now*].

Not sure how Megabyte sleeps. I don't know how viruses sleep in general.

Matrix has slept in some very uncomfortable as well as very unlikely places during his time in the Games. He has a very comfortable mattress now, and you'll only get that from him once he's stone cold deleted. He's a sound sleeper, and no one except AndrAIa, his daughter, the family and the poor soul put in charge of notifying him of an incoming Game when he's on duty [who he is 99% of the time rude to if they wake him up in the middle of the night] would dare wake him.

Sleep is not something Wheel or Strength need, given that they're not actually human, but Strength for one loves a soft mattress, with a nice goose-down pillow and duvet or other similar bed spread, and is very inclined towards cuddling Justice when the two of them are in the castle at the same time. Wheel is an "I'll sleep any time, any where, any position" type of person. "Comfortable" is as changeable as his form is. He has no real requirements.

[cameoflage]

Aradia sleeps like a troll! Which is to say, in a container full of green slime that staves off the gruesome nightmares. Or atop a pile of random objects, if she can't make it to a recuperacoon.

Dr Thurlow is almost always plagued by nightmares, unless they've recently either had a relaxing bit of downtime or gone completely insane and then recovered. (There is a Nightmares stat in-game; for me it's usually between 3 and 5, with 8 being rock bottom.) This means they often wake up screaming, frequently in the middle of the night. Wouldn't be very restful for a bedmate. Between having come to hate sleeping and all the times when they awaken prematurely from sheer terror, Thurlow doesn't get much sleep. When they do, their position of choice is either curled into a little ball or flopped across the furniture.