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Nicholas is up every morning at six, regardless of whether or not he's got a shift that day. He tries to be in bed by 10pm, but that doesn't always work out, especially if he does have a later shift. He's weird about personal space, so the bed-hogging thing is rarely a problem.

Travis goes to bed when he gets tired, and he sets his alarm each night, depending on when he starts his shift the next day. He often says he doesn't like to be touched in his sleep, as a way of getting away quickly from a one-night-stand, but if he honestly likes the person he's with, he can be a bit of a cuddler.

The others all pretty much make their own hours, being either self-employed or unemployed. Lots of late nights and sleeping in. Tim's very cuddly, and will find a way to share even the smallest of beds. Gary will take the whole bed, the duvet, and a bit of the floor if you let him. Gus legit doesn't like to be touched in his sleep, and he's not at all cuddly. Unless he's in the mood to rob you blind, so, uhm. Don't cuddle with him.

Knox has the crazy habits of a beat reporter. Up late, up early, naps, lots of coffee, and would never have enough sleep if he didn't have the Bar. The fact that he hasn't been a beat reporter in years hasn't fixed his sleep patterns at all.

Kirk tries to follow Starfleet's recommendations for sleep. He prefers to stick with a set bed time and wakeup time. It rarely works out perfectly, but thinks it will do. But he does tend to drink a lot of coffee. He's also very used to the standard issue starship bed, and tends not to sleep well in anything bigger or with anyone else in the bed unless there is a lot of room.

Howard still puts in college student hours. You know the q

What was that? Stupid keyboard.

Anyway, you the quote about how a mathematician is something you put caffeine into and get equations out? It's similar for engineers. He's often up till all hours of the night inventing stuff. He likes to sleep in silk pajamas because he can afford them. And tries not to use the air conditioner in the summer because he thinks he ought to not do everything the easy way.

Cy lies on a special table and plugs in for the night. He needs a minimum of four hours to recharge properly. His sleep is weird. (Though pre-reboot, we saw that the comics Cyborg was disassembled every night and while his head slept, the rest of him was cleaned. Creepy.)

Gibbs can sleep anywhere at any time. All the booze helps, though he is not the sort of drunk who needs to be drunk to sleep.

And Charlie laughs at your pathetic sleep cycles. Like any good zenmaster, he sleeps two to four hours at most, in a nearly perfect alpha state, and then meditates to complete the relaxation cycle. He is pretty sure that Batman sleeps less, though.

Gordon sleeps in fits and starts. He can get something like four or five consecutive hours if Alyx is in bed with him, and even get back to sleep for a few more, but without her around he still feels the aftereffects of Black Mesa and isn't likely to get more than three hours' sleep in a given night. Having the twins around does not make sleeping any easier but that's purely because they're young children and they wake him up.

Shephard can sleep more or less anywhere if he has to; they found him wedged into a janitor's closet once because it was the only place he could find to get some downtime. He's usually fairly good at waking up after exactly as many hours or at exactly the time he intends to. He prefers to be up and about pretty early, because there are things that need to get done before everyone else is awake.

Ellen does not particularly notice where she sleeps so long as she has Dogmeat or some other guard on hand to do so. She's had to sleep on the ground in the Capital Wastes often enough that as long as the surface is not completely lumpy and nothing is actively trying to eat her, she's good. She also spent the first nineteen years of her life sleeping on a two-hundred-year-old mattress with no boxspring, so she's adapted to a lot. Not, however, to soft beds or quiet conditions; when she visited Bryan Mills' world she found it impossible to sleep in the bed the hotel provided and when he came to her room the next morning she was sleeping on the floor nearest the air vents so that there would at least be familiar sounds.

Medic prefers a nice neat bed where possible, and tends to sleep on his back and snores a little. Unlike most snorers he sees no point in denying this. Since RED and BLU's war tends to operate on an agreed-upon schedule he gets very angry if someone wakes him up out of cycle, although he will rein it in if it is someone he actually likes.

Santo sleeps with his mask on. A special version made for sleeping in. Look, his canon shows him sitting up in bed reading a book at one point and he's got a mask on, I'm going to assume he carries that all the way through and sleeps in the thing. Sparkly pajama mask it is.

Stacker has responsibilities that do not always answer to the schedule of the human race. He makes a point of getting the required amount of sleep to fulfill his duties and stay healthy, but given what he has to deal with, this often means retreating from Shatterdome duties and napping for twenty minutes at a time so that he only has to do four hours of consecutive sleep come night.

Varric has a big bed (seriously, the thing is queen-sized for a human at the least and he's a dwarf) with what look like really nice blankets and sheets given the fact that it's in his rooms at the most scurrilous tavern in town. I'm not sure how much of his time in that bed is spent sleeping and how much time is spent with company, but it's pretty obvious he's fond of it. Given his mushed-looking nose, if he doesn't sleep on his side, I think he snores.

Mordin Solus does not sleep. He waits. No, seriously, salarians canonically only sleep one hour out of every twenty-four or twenty-five and consider other species weird for wasting a third of their lives in sleep. Mordin has learned to be the equivalent of Thomas Edison, who slept two or three hours a night and then took naps during the day; in Mordin's terms this comes out to scattered five-minute naps which I think he takes standing up. At one point he uses the phrase 'makes it easier to sleep at night', but I'm pretty sure he's using that metaphorically rather than actually referring to morality-induced insomnia. I don't think he even has a bed (I know there's no sleeping quarters coded for him in ME2 or ME3, I mean in-universe I don't think he has a bed).

Fic might come later, however, for now:

Joshua snores. It's not bad, but it can be annoying. He also sleeps wherever he can. He's been known to sleep at his desk, or on a couch, or on the futon in his lap, mostly because he is absolutely passionate about not driving while half-asleep (which is what killed his parents). Also while he's asleep, he tends to end up cuddling anything in range. Embarrassingly, one time it was his sister's pants. Oops.

Helena is a fairly light sleeper, but most of all, a very skittish sleeper. Until lately, she never had anyone actually in bed with her, so she's still not used to it. Anyone who actually spends the night in the same bed with her, if she's startled, might accidentally get bruises. Comes from sleeping with someone who knows martial arts.

Fantine curls herself into the tightest ball possible when she goes to sleep. It's warmer, and she takes up less space.

Valentine hasn't actually thought much about her sleeping habits. She does sleep with a stuffed-something-or-other, though.

"Just know this, Tommy," said Lou before he walked away, "I don't spoon."

"Oh yeah? Since when?" Tommy smirked over his shoulder.

-----Sorry, that wasn't really fic, just a variation on some actual canon dialogue.

Bascially Tommy is kind of an insomniac and seems to function just fine on a couple hours of sleep if he's lucky, and lots of coffee, even on early mornings. He's a sprawler, taking up most of whatever surface he's on. If he's sleeping with someone, he'll most likely end up spooning them.

Lou is a heavy sleeper. He snores mightily and is prone to talking in his sleep, usually as he dreams about food.

Thor sleeps exactly like you'd think: very soundly, and sprawled across all available space with loose-limbed abandon. And without many blankets, because dude is a furnace. (He does not, however, snore. Asgardians' aggressive good health extends to sinuses.) A lifetime of being kicked out of bed for training practice by fighting instructors has left him the kind of person who can carouse all night and still haul himself awake in the morning, but he's a big fan of luxuriating in a lie-in now and then. And once he's awake, he's generally cheerful and energetic, no matter what hour of the morning it is.

Enjolras is a light and somewhat restless sleeper -- not the battle-reflexes-and-hypervigilance kind of light sleeper, but the more normal sort who just wakes easily at noises. I doubt he snores, but he probably hogs the blankets sometimes (and kicks them off the bed other times.) He's also prone to insomnia, of the sort where he often finds it hard to shut his brain off and sleep when whatever he was thinking about or working on seems much more urgent/compelling/important than sleeping. For all his love of metaphorical dawn, however, he is not in fact a morning person; when woken up, he's bleary-eyed and low on words for a while.

Trowa's light sleeping is the battle reflexes sort, and he sleeps by preference with his back to a wall. (Not necessarily right up against the wall, but what I mean is without a door or window behind him, so that if he opens his eyes he can immediately see all entrances without moving.) If he's startled awake, his impulse is to freeze, pretend to be still asleep, and scan the room while surreptitiously slipping a hand towards one of the places where he used to keep weapons (but hasn't for years.) He sleeps on his side or back, without moving around much at all, and in a larger bed he tends to still sleep as if he's in a smaller one -- only using a bunk-wide slice of it. He's not a cuddler, but his boyfriend is, which basically means that in a shared bed Trowa is the body pillow (and fine with that). He's vigilant about getting plenty of sleep unless there's a crisis, which means he's early to bed as a rule, especially since he's a morning person. He tends to get up around 6, which gives him an hour or two alone with coffee and his computer before his sister wakes up. (If he's staying with Quatre, Quatre goes to sleep later and wakes up earlier, because Quatre is a ridiculous workaholic who runs himself into the ground. Sigh.)

River isn't as extreme a morning person as Trowa, but she still wakes up around 8 or 9 naturally, and she also tends to reliably get 8-9 hours of sleep. This is in part because River spends a certain portion of the night having biofeedback combat-practice dreams instead of restful sleep. Otherwise, she tends to be a blanket hog, to sleep curled up on her side, and to be moderately cuddly but not a human limpet if she's sharing a bed.

Regan is about as much of a morning person as her daughter, but more prone to insomnia. She usually reads in bed for half an hour or so before sleep, which is enough of a ritual habit that she finds it discombobulating to be unable to do so. She does snore just a little, sometimes; nothing major, though. She doesn't hog the blankets, but she does appreciate being able to sleep under thick covers -- she likes the weight of a comforter and duvet and such.

Clare does not sleep. She waits. ...No, canonically Claymores sleep sitting up with their swords as a backrest, as a rule. Some of them appreciate the luxury of a bed now and then, but most of them find beds too soft and comfortable to actually fall asleep in, and I think Clare is in the latter camp. The only times she sleeps lying down are when she's really, utterly exhausted in a 'collapse where you stand' kind of way. (Which... she's done. Er.) She sleeps very lightly, and wakes with the dawn unless there's reason to do otherwise.

(And I am a night owl who sleeps like a log. A dead log.)

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If I haven't said it lately, I love your Thor. ♥

Ha, thank you! <3 right back.

I'm fond of the big lug myself. He's so ridiculous.

He's very... (trying to think of a way to say this without offending 90% of the fandom...)

REFRESHING, that's the word. He's very refreshing in the face of HAIL FELLOW WELL MET WHERE ARE THE POPTARTS NAY WHAT DOES THIS CONTRAPTION DO? Thor you get all the time.

Ohhhhhhh believe me, I am living a quietly tetchy Fandom Thor The Big Stupid Golden Retriever anti-appreciation life. *wry*

I mean. He is definitely on the brawn side of the brawn-brains divide (which he and Loki are loudly embodying for anybody who cares to look at them), and he's done some stupid stuff, and he charges straight into things, and he faceplants into the culture gap sometimes, and there are solid reasons for the golden retriever comparisons! And yet. I get tetchy. So: *fistbump*

Thor makes me want to app someone like King Vultan of the Hawkmen of Mongo. Unfortunately, I don't think Milliways could handle both Thor and BRIAN BLESSED. It might explode.

...now I want to watch Flash Gordon again.

BUT IT WOULD BE A GLORIOUS EXPLOSION. SONGS WOULD BE SUNG AND STORIES TOLD OF THE HONOR AND VALOR OF THAT DAY FOR GENERATIONS.

*cough*

I will join you in that anti-appreciation life! I live that life, just like I live the Fandom Loki is an Abused Woobie who is made of Spun Glass and Who Can Do No Wrong anti-appreciation life.

I hate that Loki. SO MUCH.

(Haven't written anything in forever. So. Yes. That's my excuse for any failings.)

There he is, curled around his pillow as always. Such as he's been sleeping for the whole of his life - and Astoria would know, being his mother. She's quiet as she makes his way to the bed, noting that he's fallen asleep in his smart dinner attire again and - Clutching a letter?

Yes, definitely the mysterious letter from the mysterious sender delivered earlier that evening, she sees on closer inspection. (Not that she's reading it, mind. A cursory glance at the letters nearly hidden beneath her son's fingers to prove it's not Rigel or Olivia writing - she knows their handwriting well.)

She glances at the almost peaceful expression on her son's face then, only with the slightest draw of his brows. A clear improvement from what it's been for the better part of the summer since returning from his sixth year at Hogwarts. (Whatever had happened at school - Well. He won't talk about, and Draco and her won't press him, regardless of how his pained expressions broke her heart.)

Mindful of Red, who has taken a spot by the top of his head, she bends to kiss her son's forehead, who squirms from the disturbance but doesn't wake, and extinguishes the burning candle on the bedside table.

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At 11pm it was the Frightful Four, reformed yet again cause the Wizard is a glutton for a clobberin'.

At 3am it was the Kree, who never seem to get it.

At 7am it was Johnny, who never seems to have a clue.

And people wonder why he's so irritable.

(Yeah, it's more that three. Sue me. ; p)

Autor hates sleeping. First of all, he's vulnerable (curled into a tight little ball, no less), and secondly, sleep gets in the way of actually doing stuff. Canon has a ritual/initiation rite to "sharpen the mind and spirit" where a person stands for three days and nights, doing nothing, so he's probably used to the strain.

He sleeps four to five hours at most, mainlines super-caffeinated tea with sugar, and doesn't dream. When focused on a project or stressed (see: Dossiers), he'll not sleep for days at a stretch, eventually collapsing and getting sick, as you do. Additionally, his body sometimes just... forcibly requires twelve hours or so, which puts him in a temper.

Mark sleeps the sleep of an adolescent recovering from a mild case of PTSD. Nightmares of the beating are becoming less frequent, but they still wake him, dragging up out of REM abruptly. And then, just when he's settled back down, the pager goes off, and he's got to fly to Egypt to deal with somebody animating the Sphinx again.

I don't have any specific thoughts about most of mine, but I know Roshaun is hypervigilant. The slightest noise will wake him up with a pre-prepared translocation spell one word from activation (startle him too much, and he'll be gone without even thinking about it) and he sleeps better if one of the few people he trusts is in the room.

People have been trying to kill him since he was born. You'd be paranoid too.

I have no muse today.

Henry - sleeps like a little kid with a fairly secure childhood. On his side.

Tavi - likes to sprawl. These days he takes up a lot of space, Kitai probably has to sleep more or less on top of him. He got to be a light sleeper (he wasn't always) because spy and officer-on-call. Other than that, pretty quiet. He doesn't sleep much, partly from work, partly from active mind that just doesn't let him sleep. (Family trait.)

Lois - when she has a boyfriend, she likes to cuddle, generally head-on-chest and probably half-sprawled on top of him. Alone, eh, whatever position feels comfortable. On her stomach curled around a pillow is less frequent, but not unheard of. She'll often sleep in t-shirt and panties (possibly her boyfriend's when possible). She talks in her sleep. Sometimes it's total nonsense; sometimes it's nonsense mixed in with dreams about interviews she has done or wants to do; she sometimes babbles about football plays. She generally sleeps deeply enough not to notice consciously when a boyfriend gets up from bed, though I suspect at some level it registers. She dislikes mornings but enough coffee lets her survive them; she's often up late working.

...Lois has way too much canonical information about her and beds.

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