DE: A morning cuppa

[bjornwilde]

Good morning and welcome to another week. So tell me, and the rest of us, is your pup a morning person? Or do they need their morning cup of coffee/tea/whatever before they can even deal? Or are they the sort that, even after a pot, still can't deal?

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[a1enzo]

On the one hand, Enzo is a teenager, but on the other, he was conditioned by his time at the Academy. I strongly suspect that if he sets his alarm to play reveille, he can complete his entire morning routine (including shaving) without actually attaining consciousness.

[lady_mary]

Carol: Carol's a military woman, so she's accustomed to a schedule that demands she's ready to get up and go in the morning. Between her personal life and commitment to the Avengers, her schedule is packed, so she's an early riser by necessity. A morning cup of coffee is definitely part of that routine, and if that means she has to use her powers to heat the water to brew it, so be it.

Stiles: Not a morning person, but a high school student, so he doesn't have much say in the matter. Stiles has ADHD, so taking his meds in the morning is an important part of his routine. Coffee is out, since adding too much caffeine tends to crank his anxiety up to eleven.

Mary: Also not a morning person. As an unmarried woman, she does have to actually get up and get dressed for breakfast, but that doesn't happen before 10 am. (On the other side of things, dinners and other evening engagements end late, so she seldom gets to bed early.)

May: Hahahaha. She's nocturnal. The dawn physically weakens her, if only temporarily. Definitely not a morning person. As far as waking routines go, May doesn't have Toby's dependence on coffee, but she knows how to brew a nice pot. She drinks hers with plenty of sugar, and she's not above fancy, syrupy lattes.

[student_of_impossibility]

Eriond: N/A.

Henry: Can actually get up right quick if he has a reason to! If not, er, not so much. And he doesn't go for coffee--but hot chocolate with cinnamon dusted on top? Oh yes.

Evelyn: I think she's about average at waking up, actually. Doesn't hate it, doesn't love it, might go for a cup of tea or coffee but it's not terribly necessary.

Anakin: I think he would like to be averse to mornings if he could. And I think he'd like to be coffee-dependent for waking up if he could. But at this point between everything in his life, including War Going On, he just isn't and can and will just wake up ready to take out lightsaber and slash up some things.

Lois: Not a fan of mornings. At all. Steal her coffee and/or maple donut/bear claw/other pastry and you risk being ripped to shreds. All your coffee and pastries are belong to her. Especially Clark's; she steals his coffee whenever she feels like. It takes either Lots of Coffee and Pastries to wake her or something that gets her attention and just flips the on switch.

Tavi: Was not a morning person when he was a kid. But rather like Anakin, at this point he is just ready to go when he has to be, although coffee-like morning stimulants are frankly very welcome, especially if he's going through days of little to no sleep, or been forced into a nap by someone and coming out of it is still kind of drained. I suspect with enough years of peace he will get slightly more in the direction of taking his time about waking up when he can, but that is-- not often.

[bjornwilde]

OK, now to give my answers.

Ahsoka: Like Anakin, training and wartime have pretty much erased any chance she'd have to a normal sleep schedule. I think even were it not wartime, she'd be an early riser due to Temple duties/practices and even if she had a choice in the matter, I think she'd be an early riser. Or at least would respond to changing light levels.

Quinlan: I think he's a lounger as far as mornings go. At least when he is able.

Izana: They are part of a military and thus are up at what passes for dawn on their space ship.

Sam: Still thinks and acts like a solider. He's up before dawn and doing PT. He doesn't need coffee or tea, but OJ is a great recovery drink until he makes breakfast.

Briareus: Seems like he'd enjoy a lazy morning but doesn't need it to be functional. Nor does he need stims.

Selina: Total lazy morning person if she is certain she is in a safe place. Coffee is a big part of her routine when she can get it, but it doesn't inhibit her if she doesn't get it.

Hank: Needs coffee if he's been up all night working, which happens a lot. He's still polite but he might not be very talkative until he's had some coffee.

Rollo: Doesn't know coffee but a kick or bucket of water tends to accomplish the same thing. He's a late sleeper if he can get away with it. The only times he won't try and sleep late is if he is raiding or preparing for battle.

Luidaeg: Like other faeries from her canon, she feels the sunrise and can't ignore it but I think she reacts more to lunar rises or tides, tbh. She will be as grumpy and surly as she needs. It depends on the person dealing with her.

[genarti]

Enjolras is definitely not 100% awake before he's had a cup of coffee or something to eat. (This is mostly because I find it funny to make somebody who's all about the metaphorical dawn be bleary in the face of actual dawn. Canon says nothing on the subject.) If it were an emergency or something, adrenaline would obviously do the trick instead, but barring that... yeah, he definitely takes a little while to haul his brain all the way awake.

Cosette likes to sleep late, unless there's reason to be up early, but she likes the dawn if she's awake to see it. And once she's awake, she's awake: no need for caffeine for dealing with the morning here. She's ungodly cheerful about it instead.

Thor is another ungodly cheerful morning person, although he's also an ungodly cheerful late-night person. Basically he's ungodly cheerful. (Godly cheerful, perhaps?) He's a bit of an early riser by habit, for weapons practice and stuff, but really that's very flexible depending on what's going on. Caffeine is delicious but not required, especially since it has very little effect on him; ditto for the Asgardian equivalents that would affect his system, which aren't really so commonly consumed.

Kazul can pretend to be a morning person if it will annoy someone who needs annoying. >.> But no, mostly she likes to sleep in some, thank you, and to linger over her morning (bucket-sized) cup of tea and some breakfast. If dragons wore clothes, she would be lounging around in a dressing gown half the morning, but they don't so she's just lounging around in her scales.

[rudderless]

Clementine: Lives off coffee, is a night owl, hates sunlight.

Dixie: Late riser due to work conditions, doesn't appreciate the morning much but can learn to live with it.

Juliet: Annoyingly chirpy morning person with a coffee addiction.

Pinkie: See above.

Eponine: Rises late and prowls the streets.