976.1 — #imposterToot: Pick a character. How do they, or how would they, react to sleep deprivation? (by @sfwrtr
MC Bella can't sleep much for several nights in a row when she realizes what she has to do. She's exhausted, looks sick, and is a bit grumpier than usual. But since she's still very young and healthy, it doesn't incapacitate her or anything like that.
#PennedPossibilities 976.1 — #imposterToot: Pick a character. How do they, or how would they, react to sleep deprivation?
@floofpaldi : Get some rest. Feel better. —RS
I'll pick the devil-girl. She's #autistic like her author, and seemingly OP thanks to her training and study and logical-literal take on the world, which grants her plenty of ability through raw unfettered stubbornness, but she's got lots of defects, emotional and psychological. Physical too, but that's because she refuses to take into account her body's limits, and has the scars to prove it. People say she has a death wish.
May be true.
She reacts to sleep deprivation by powering through, regardless. Her trained-into-her sense of responsibility causes her to have the back of anybody she's responsible for, or anyone hurt, or, if innocent, threatened. She makes herself sick fighting exhaustion. Logic requires mental energy and exhaustion obliterates it. This inevitably leads to mistakes. In this she demonstrates that despite her apparent maturity, she's still a teenager.
The good thing is that she's taught herself the soldier's trick of falling asleep instantly. Once it's over, boom, out.
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