What they’re like when they’re sleeping II.
A/n: hello!!!! it’s been so long :) here’s the little something i said i would post two weeks ago akshakagfs. i am not a head cannon writer!!!!! (despite it being the majority of my master list lmfaoo) but i currently hate everything i write!!! however comma!! these are fun and easy to write and i am sick and i need comfort and what do i do when i need comfort????? i read head cannons!!!! so let’s hyper analyze the batboys’ psyche (kinda) through their sleep!!!!!! enjoy!!!!
Dick Grayson
Fetal poison! I like to think that despite his very very big exterior and personality that he so overcompensates with, he has a very very mushy interior! I think that he hates being vulnerable and open and weak and that he puts up a wall, so to speak. (But not shutting people out, he likes to include people and make them trust him) But when he sleeps he subconsciously, still, has this, unprincipled need to keep protecting himself from being open. He clutches his arms tight and holds his legs together and up toward his rib cage. I don’t think that all of this is the reason why he chooses to cocoon himself, however. He also sleeps in an alarmingly cold temperature setting. But if we can pie chart it, it’d be 86% isolation coping mechanism and 14% ungodly, outrageous, barbaric room temp!!!!
Jason Todd
I honestly think he sleeps in any poison given that he can get himself to bed in the first place. But if he had the liberty of choosing, i think he’d go with starfish, and on his stomach. It’s why he has terrible posture and does nothing but complain about his back and neck problems (of which he should have none to begin with he’s quite limber but..) All his vital organs are also in his belly which for safety reasons, sleeping on your stomach is quite strategic and thought out but i wouldn’t give him the credit of thinking all that out . He’s just slept on his stomach since childhood, when bruce took him in. The big bed space and quite, safe atmosphere made for a quite sloppy, carefree sleeping position. Now as an adult he takes up so much space!!!!!. He is very tall and his wing span is pretty sizable, considering. I also think that because of the Lazarus, he runs pretty warm so sleeping in a starfish position makes it easier for him to ‘air himself out’ so to speak. However hot he may be, he still won’t sleep with a fan on, because he doesn’t like the white noise. BUT, coincidentally, if a fan is on somewhere, he would still sleep there. Either because he is too tired to care, or he just,,,, lacks the spatial awareness at that moment.
Tim Drake
He’s a side sleeper!!!!!! His shoulders do NOT thank him for it. However, it has absolutely nothing to do with comfort, and apparently everything to do with practicality (in his mind anyway)he sleeps like that to save space.... For his various files and papers and electronics and whatever else he had for dinner there as well. So in essence, he’s sleeping on his side because he’s too lazy or tired or busy (or all the above, ding ding ding) to move everything he’s strewn all over his bed. He can wake up, work, and fall asleep in the same exact spot if he had to. He also sleeps in a twin bed!!!! god knows why but he’s so anal about saving space in his room for anything, anything except some nice furniture. not even a plant. And even then, his room is absolutely impossible to navigate through to anyone except for him. Need a pencil? He has one under his nightstand, to the right.
Damian Wayne
As far as his memory can go back, he’s always slept on his back. Something about being able to protect oneself from any direction if attacked. He can sleep and wake up in the exact same position without even flinching. (also he isn’t asleep the whole night though, there’s some level of awareness he’d been trained to keep) He sleeps with his arms to his side, with minimal pillows and sheets, since he finds them suffocating. But i think beyond that, beyond the training and self preservation and the forever ingrained childhood habits, he’s scared of... bad posture. Out of all the bad habits you can imagine, i think bad posture is one he can’t mentally let go of. He sits in a proper 90° on a chair, even STOOLS. Stretches before going to sleep AND after waking up. He sleeps so still and so quietly that you’d think he’s practicing for his coffin.
