Took the bus to the big city yesterday and it only stops near where I live in the early morning and late at night, so I left a bowl for Pandolf with enough food for his 2 meals of the day. He didn’t start eating because it was too early for breakfast and he’s punctilious about mealtimes, but I told him “Bon appétit” to Authorise The Kibble, then left. When I came home at night it was long past his normal dinner time yet I found the bowl half-full—he had eaten the breakfast portion but since he only got 1 bon appétit he didn’t dare to eat the rest for dinner. I don’t think if I had said it twice in a row he would have understood that one of them was a Bon Appétit voucher for his next meal unfortunately. But I’m always amazed by his scruples, he is the most principled animal I know. When he was a puppy he would try to stick his head in his bowl while I poured the food so I taught him to wait until he heard ‘bon appétit’ before going anywhere near it—and very quickly in his mind the words became an incantation that turns the contents of his bowl from a miasma of forbidden unthinkableness into edible food that belongs to him.
This is Pandolf waiting for me to cast the Legal Food spell:
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Teens sleep headcanons
Can you tell what im supposed to be doing rn lol
Taylor:
-Taylor has to build himself an exosuit of pillows in order to be comfortable (hence the exorbitant number of bodypillows)
-he has a large bed but always presses himself into the corner
-falls asleep very easily even when he's trying to stay awake
-one christmas morning when he was 8 Cassandra found him asleep in the living room with a sword
-when she woke him he cried because he'd missed his chance to challange santa to single combat and would have to wait another year to try again
-morning person, somehow in a non-obnoxious way
Normal:
-Normal always kicks off his blanket
-he moves around a lot and has fallen off of his bed on more than one occasion
-when he was 10 he begged his parents to let him have a bunk bed but they were justifiably worried he'd hurt himself
-he always has trouble falling asleep but once he's out it's very hard to wake him
-he tried using an alarm for a while but it didn't matter how loud or long it was, he always slept through it
-usually Hero has to wake him and more often than not she just drops a cold washcloth on his face
-pretends very hard to be a morning person
Scary:
-Scary tried to make herself sleep in a coffin pose but it didn't work
-She sleeps with socks on
-one time she had a dream where Terry Junior had been her dad since she was born
-after that she didn't really talk to him for about 2 days
-when she was younger (before tj) she always made sure to arrange her stuffed animals so that they would all be equally close because she didn't want any of them to feel left out
-is genuinely not a morning person but also plays it up quite a bit
Lincoln:
-Lincoln has to be against a wall or he has a hard time sleeping
-he keeps his windows wide open, even when it's cold outside
-no problem falling asleep but usually wakes up multiple times a night
-is extremely comitted to making the football asmr thing work (at this point it kinda does but for the first few months it kept him awake and he just really didn't wanna admit it)
-is basically a morning person but not used to waking up for school yet
Bonus:
-Hermie has insomnia
-when he can't sleep he lies in the dark and 'runs lines'
-sometimes it's movies or plays he likes, sometimes it's rehearsed conversations and monologues
-when he can't remember a line (or hasn't thought of it yet in the conversation/monologue case) he repeats the last thing he said over and over until he figures out what comes next
-as part of his deep cover operation to steal the mascot costume he conviced his parents that he'd started taking a special morning class at chaparral. He needed to do this because his father always dropped him off on the way to work and he needed enough time to take the bus over to san dimas high in time for actual school to start. (Yes, this means that he hasn't been attending high school for the better part of a year and that his parents have somehow not noticed this)
-has to get up so so early for this stupid fucking scheme why is he doing this to himself i don't even care about chaparral high (internal monologue of the unfortunate compulsive scammer)
-tries (read: fails) not to nap throughout the day in hopes it'll fix his sleep schedule
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