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This exhaustion tends to lead to him nodding off in unusual situations, including once while being shot at.

Bungo Stray Dogs's Lovecraft constantly talks about how exhausted he is and how he just wants to finish up his work and go to sleep.

Bokurano: Jun is often seen napping in the manga timeline.

In fairness, he doesn't exactly have the best sleep schedule.

Blue Exorcist has Yukio and his tendency to fall asleep at his desk when he's trying to study.

Ironically, she's also very quick to anger if any of her students fall asleep in class. On her off days, she'll sleep in until the afternoon if nobody wakes her up. In this case, it mostly indicates her childishness and apathy toward her job. She often falls asleep during class while she's teaching, even sleeping at her desk during the theme song.

Yukari is the series' other main example.

noise) and The Sleepless, who simply lacks the need to sleep. If depressed or otherwise mentally ill, they might be a Sleepy Depressive.Ĭontrast The Insomniac, who wants to sleep but finds it elusive despite the lack of 'external' interference (e.g. Senior Sleep-Cycle is when this trope gets treated as an inherent trait of old people. They're probably Not a Morning Person as well - the eccentric type will be grumpy, and the earnest type completely out of it when the alarm clock goes. Usually not, though.Ī Sleepyhead may or may not be a Heavy Sleeper and it may or may not overlap with Really Fond of Sleeping. Occasionally they will actually have narcolepsy, or another real-life medical condition causing excessive daytime sleepiness. Their bedroom is often filled with creature comforts, tons of stuffed toys, and the world's comfiest bed. They are often distinguished by their Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes and Exhausted Eyebags. The sleepyhead really likes their bedtime, and under times of stress will usually be heard complaining that they're tired, or longing aloud for a pillow. Characters who pull all-nighters and then go thwump at an inopportune time don't come under this trope - that's just exhaustion, while a sleepyhead will get a good eight hours and still doze off in Biology class. These characters seem to sleep pretty well at night.

In anime at least, this character tends to be female.

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Unlike the Cloudcuckoolander, whose snoozle-fits reflect their dissatisfaction with/divorce from reality, the implication with an earnest character is that they put so much of themselves into everything they do that they wear themselves out.īoth types will have exaggerated reactions to the things that naturally cause sleepiness, like a full stomach or a warm day. They'll blush and stammer when woken up, but by contrast, other characters usually see it as an endearing trait. The other sleepyhead is the hardworking-but-kinda-dim character, and unlike their more eccentric cousins, this is a source of major embarrassment for them. Other characters, however, often yell at them and tell them to be more responsible. They couldn't care less if they get caught sleeping, and may complain about being disturbed. The first is the Cloudcuckoolander, and it's part of their social inappropriateness schtick. There are two main character types that are prone to having the sleepyhead trait. or at least hauling them into a vertical position so that no one notices that they're actually unconscious. They constantly end up at the last stop on the train/bus because they fell asleep on the journey, the teacher routinely throws things at them because their snoring is getting in the way of the lesson, and their friends spend half their lives prodding them awake. These characters have a habit of nodding off anywhere, at any time.

However, a select few of us, both in real life and in fiction, raise this odd habit to an art form, becoming the official Sleepyhead of their social circle. Sages with the 'Idle' personality, Disgaea 5: Alliance of VengeanceĮveryone has had an experience where they've dozed off at an inopportune moment.