#y/n comes along to see him lazily swimming just under the surfacd and thinks he's being scary on purpose
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naffeclipse · 1 year ago
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How does Orca Eclipse sleep? Does he lay on land? Underwater maybe? Or does he do that whale thing and just float upright :3
He mostly sleeps in the water but he can sleep on land! When he sleeps in water, it's much like orcas in that it's unihemispheric sleep, which means one side of his brain sleeps while the other is awake to help him breathe without drowning and keep one eye open to watch for threats; then he switches to the other side of his brain to continue resting. He swims very slowly and steadily by the surface while in this state. He literally sleeps with one eye open in the water!
On land, he sleeps like a human, fully unconscious and both eyes closed, but he's not very comfortable with that as he doesn't have anyone to watch his back when resting, so it's rare. Though, given his current fixation, he might have a reason to spend a night on the ice.
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