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feeling sad today and i've spent way too much time on a draft for a separate post so i'm dumping a mayzuke (albeit kinda mayday-centric) headcanon here to cheer me up (even though these could probably also pass as just mayday&zuke typical best-friendship) ... i hope anyone reading this gets some value out of it too. ^__^ comments are always appreciated

★    mayday has insomnia and certain sensory issues. it's hard for her to fall/stay asleep normally -- she's got basically a laundry list of things that might keep her up at night:
    -    the room is too dark (one lamp on minimum!)
    -    the room is too quiet
    -    her blanket is too heavy (she prefers to sleep under a semi-thin sheet ... it's already hot enough in the sewers)
    -    she's hungry to an infinitesimal degree (not enough to climb down, but she lies awake and debates on what to hypothetically eat, which in turn only makes her hungrier, and then she's gotta have something)
    -    she's thinking about potential ideas for songs, whether it be melodies or lyrics. (she's thought up some pretty good ideas to the sound of Zuke's snoring below. it's the great ideas that have her scrambling out of the bunk to jot 'em down.)
    -    she straight-up doesn't feel like it, even though she knows she has to, for the sake of her health...

it might be a bit lengthy, but... the list seems to just somehow evaporate whenever she falls asleep on Zuke.  her best naps are always the ones where they're practically slung across one another on the couch, grounded by each other's touch. sometimes they'll even cozy up together in the bottom bunk. Mayday usually sleeps on the inside. i mentioned previously that May dislikes when the room is too quiet... well, Zuke likes having a fan blowing on him at all times, and the hum of it remedies that silence. but. well, ironically enough, she HATES the faint tickle of the breeze it generates. good thing Zuke ends up bodyblocking it for her more often than not!!!

May is suuuper thankful that he's here. and really, really grateful for her best buddy. grateful that they've reached this level of mutual comfortability with one another. really! but May... perhaps her more stubborn half... can't help but feel kind of odd about the idea of depending on him for a good night's rest. even if she can't deny the fact that his presence feels like a shield. and laying on him feels like laying on the perpetually cool side of a pillow. but, like, if the pillow had a heartbeat and smelt good and talked in its sleep.

and even when they're nodding off separately in their respective bunks, lately Zuke's snoring (the mere thought of him always being here to fall back on) has been enough of a narcotic to lull her to bed, so... can she really complain?

|| edit 3.19.25 1:47pm - tweaked some wording) ||