#unless hes SUPER persistent. then ro is like ughhhh finee

[natelawtism]

im sleepy so tell me some sleepytime (bedtime) scenarios with rowan and nate :3

OKOKKK OH MY GOD I've been so busy but I'll finally have a break after tomorrow so I hope this blog is prepared.

BEDTIME SCENARIOS! First of all, Nate has a bedtime. Self-given bedtime. (Side note this also means that Eve has a bedtime because Nate says that they BOTH need to be asleep by a certain time.) So when they have sleepovers Ro ALSO now has a bedtime.

So, Mr revenge bedtime procrastination is FORCED to sleep at like 9. Especially if they have no work to do? Bedtime early.

And... he really doesn't mind when he can fall asleep cuddling Nate. Nate would rather have a sisyphusian task for eternity than admit they cuddle each other to sleep but on very rare occasions they do!!! (In the future it happens a lot more often)

It's also 110% NOT intentional. Most of the time they're cuddling and doing something or SUPPOSED to be awake and one of them falls asleep... so the other just stays! They can't bear to move 🥹🥹 (at the beginning of their relationship Nate would wake Rowan up but only after a few indulgent minutes :3c) They also don't sleep in the same bed until around 2 years into their relationship.

Nate has a bedtime routine!! It's just a bit of skincare and haircare since he puts extra care into hygiene (but the haircare is very expected, he keeps his dreads healthy). Eve helped him get the products, and now he has a good bit of skincare knowledge! He also totally wears a bonnet to bed to care for his hair, even if it isn't included in his pj outfit in the game. Debating what it looks like tho...

Honest to god, Rowan just throws pjs on, plays video games, conks out. There is NO bedtime routine there. You'd think that he'd have a steady routine- but getting motivation to take care of himself is an upward battle. So sometimes he takes morning showers, sometimes at night, but he always attempts to get stuff done.

Side note yet again- Nate really helps him with motivation by making him do things. A lot of the time he struggles with getting tasks done and procrastinating, but he tells himself "Nate would be disappointed if I don't do this" and it gets him to do it, OR Nate makes him get up and get to things. Sometimes forcing himself to work is all he needs --;

When they're living together, one of them often has to get the other to get to bed shdjdks 😭 and it's Nate 70% of the time. He's never been able to truly break his boyfriend's sleeping tendencies- no matter how hard he tries 😭

But law school is HARD, and so is the bar exam, so on the rare occasion Ro will find a Nate who's lost track of time and has to remind him to sleep. Often on nights like this, Nate is locked onto his work without anything distracting him, and he can get lost in his work easily. Rowan teases him about it since THE ever so punctual Nate Lawson is losing track of time, but ultimately he just wants Nate to rest and to take his mind off of everything complicated.

Days like this he tries to fight Rowan on the fact he needs to do his nighttime routine- but Ro is NOT hearing him. Most of the time Nate is wayyy too sleepy to even manage that, and Ro knows Nate well enough to know DAMN well, so he just has to push him to bed and keep him there.

Rowans cat also often decides bedtime, since her internal clock will tell her that it's time to nap and she wants to nap NOW. She will not let up until they're in bed and peaceful