You can thank @kalm5​ for inspiring/prompting me to draw this piece.

It took me a while to draw with kalm cheering me through the process but also brainstorming with me the behind-the-scenes of this piece AKA mixing and matching many headcanons on top of creating new ones.

If you’re interested in the explanation. It is under the cut/read more:

Crosshair doesn’t really sleep for the whole night but relies on napping through day and night. He mostly takes graveyard shifts at the ship. It’s in parts due to the fact that he talks/mumble in his sleep (that is mostly stress related e.g. constant pressure, bullying, need for control, his perfectionism, etc.). Also he was once recorded by Tech, who found his incoherent mumbling interesting, and later refused to delete the vid, making the sniper paranoid – as it showcased that there are parts of him, he can’t control – his subconscious, which resulted with more talking and less sleeping which later evolved to Crosshair sneaking out after curfew to doze off somewhere he deemed more “secluded”.

However one day Wrecker discovered, during many play fights they had in their room, there is a way to make Crosshair less anxious thus “less talkative” during sleep.

Not to mention better rested Crosshair = less asshole-ish Crosshair.

As a cadet, Wrecker discovered that if he wrap Crosshair tightly in a blanket and then trap him under his body, then sniper-in-training would first trash around trying to escape, then go totally still, to finally fall asleep (the whole process, despite sounding like a lot, was much quicker than the regular bedtime routine).

From time to time, when Crosshair became too unbearable, Wrecker would just roll him in the blanket and lie on top of the sniper. As a cadet Wrecker sprawled all over him. As they grew older Wrecker chose to just half-lie, half-lean on his brother, kind of only restricting his torso and arms (one of the reason why, was that the bunks were very narrow).

He also opted for leaning on the sniper after one time, Wrecker had a freak-out that he accidentally suffocated Crosshair because the sniper went still unnaturally fast. In reality, the sniper was so tired he immediately dozed off.

What also makes Crosshair fall asleep quicker is Wrecker’s low chuckling because the demolition man has a lot of fun in trying to pin his brother, who always fuss over the whole procedure (he’s not as irritated by it as he let everyone to believe).

While needing to be still for couple of minutes himself, and Crosshair’s even breathing/chest movement lulls Wrecker to sleep as well, so they tend to fall asleep together.

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I also had additional headcanons that goes along with this picture:

first, that I’ve already voiced out in my another comics, that Crosshair is not white-haired from the start but rather, due to his mutations, he went gray somewhere in his adolescence.

As cadets, Clone force 99 wore standard clothing. After Crosshair hit his growth spurt, his uniform was too short, while Wrecker had to wear bigger sizes after he hit his (at the time he was suppose to wear the red-blue cadet tunic – for early teens, he only fitted fully red ones – for older teens/young adults)

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