#Wohoo first lenghty hc!

[enjomo-arch]

Ace suffers from narcolepsy which is basically a sleeping disease. He finds it hard to stay awake for long periods of time which causes him to fall asleep suddenly and randomly. He sometimes experiences muscle tone which is basically caused by strong emotions such as anger, sadness and excitement but most of the times laughter is the strongest case. There's no cure to this disease and since Ace doesn't really have medication for this to at least keep the symptoms in check it appears pretty frequently in his case. Most of the times ace falls asleep while eating because, when the meal is rich in carbohydrates and protein which are essential to build up strength he gets an uptake of tryptophan from the protein and then an increase of serotonin. Eating also causes blood sugar levels to rise, which can lead to a decrease in energy and the more he feels tired the easier it is for his narcolepsy to trigger suddenly.

In his case the excessive daytime sleepiness makes him of course fall asleep in random moments or even when he's bored he'll take a nap which can be either few minutes or last around half a hour. After waking up Ace doesn't feel much change in his health because the nap makes him feel refreshed but his body experiences symptoms such as how focused he is. Ace can be very clumsy after waking up right of the bet and his focus is scattered everywhere so it takes him time to regain alert about the situation and last place where he fell asleep.

Sometimes he can even continue performing a task while being asleep for example he can eat while sleeping and he doesn't remember a thing when he wakes up. It's the subconscious reaction to continue what the brain signals sent through his body even if his senses are closed off due to sleep.

This disease also comes up with cataplexy which cannot be controlled by ace. Its a sudden loss of muscle tone and most often it happens when he's feeling positive emotions such as excitement or pure joy but can also be caused by strong enough negative feelings. Basically what can happen is that when he laughs his head can suddenly drop without control or threw back. Symptoms like these last for few minutes and are very rare to experience but when it happens it's nothing to panic about, he regains his muscle control few minutes after.

Another thing is REM (rapid eye movement) during sleeping which is basically a time when dreaming happens. For normal people they enter the REM state around a hour after falling asleep, in ace's case he enters this state about 15 minutes after suddenly falling asleep and it can happen any time of the day. This may sometimes cause hypnopompic hallucinations next time before he tries to naturally fall asleep during the night. It causes him to see things that don't exist for example a stranger standing in the room with him which makes ace either walk around the room, shuffle things around, step outside to get rid of the uneasy feeling and since his guard is up most of the times he usually wakes up people around him because he's just being noisy and loud.