Here’s narcoleptic Simon headcanons cause I’m so very tired. I’m so tired man. I wanna go to sleep.
Developed narcolepsy after one too many creative ways Eden and/or the COI forced him to stay awake for days on end with work.
Does not know it’s narcolepsy at all. Doesn’t know what that is. Thinks he’s just always bone dead tired all the time because that’s just what life is.
Can fall into REM sleep in under 15 minutes. He’s still a very light sleeper tho so he is acute to waking up fast. He can take up to 10 little power naps a day.
He can fall asleep doing things. He could be doing some mindless action over and over and then he leaning a little too hard to the left and has to snap himself awake.
If his mind is not being actively engaged at all times, he’s falling asleep. It helps to talk mostly, but doing any activity that requires stimulation is usually enough.
Letting out a sudden scream helps a lot.
Can 100% sleep with his eyes open sitting up straight.
Triggers are usually being warm. Not hot, but just body temp warm. A nice 77f (25c) and he’s fighting to keep his head above water. Another is just any droning motion. Repetitive and same, over and over, he’s out like a light.
For the most part, the only thing keeping him awake on the sub was the constant looming death threatening him. And he did still end up getting pulled to sleep by driving the sub around lmao.
He can’t function at all if he stays up past 10pm. 12 hours of no sleep is too much for him. His filter is gone. He’s just saying nonsense and bumping around.
“My head feels all” weird motion with his hands around his face “muddy. Like mud is in there. My body feels like mud. My mouth tastes like bones.”
Good luck giving him instructions.
Has passed out just fully on the ground before. Probably several times but it always gets foggy and he can’t remember much.
In some other universe where coffee or caffeine would be available to him, it doesn’t work. Gives him heart palpitations and the slightest bit of energy, but he is still so fucking tired.
Bonus bloodymary cause whatever
Grace is baffled by how much he sleeps and figured it was maybe a PTSD or depression thing considering his background. He only figured something else was up when he saw in real time Simon passing out doing something mindlessly boring.
He freaked out the first time Simon passed out. He worried about if he was eating or drinking enough, if he was sick with something, but Simon would come out completely fine. Armando couldn’t find anything on him. Simon would take a nap and be somewhat better when he woke up again.
“Are you always this tired??” A shrug “yeah pretty much. I thought it was normal.” Cue a heavily concerned Grace asking too many questions.
He has gotten really good at spotting when Simon needs to wake up. Talking still really helps which is great because Grace is a yapper first and foremost.
The first time he found out Simon would scream to wake himself up he just about had a heart attack. Just a loud sudden shout out of nowhere as Simon jerks back up.
He likes how silly and weird sleep deprived Simon is but still tries to get him to sleep.
