00:00Lazy Prince
00:08Once upon a time...
00:10Wait, scratch that.
00:12This isn't one of those stories.
00:14It's about naps.
00:15About a kingdom where tiredness was treated like treason.
00:19And at the center of it all was a boy named Dorian.
00:22Known today as the Lazy Prince.
00:25He was once called His Highness of High Potential.
00:28He called his parents Father Checklist and Mother Hyperia the Spreadsheet.
00:33Officially King Leontis and Queen Verelda.
00:37But he never got to the real them anyway.
00:40Pennstorian, excellence is not an achievement.
00:44It's a baseline.
00:48I've scheduled your next ten years.
00:51That way you don't waste time dreaming.
00:54Thank you, your productivities. I mean, majesties.
01:03His childhood was a checklist.
01:05Applause replaced affection.
01:07Gold stars came easier than hugs.
01:10Maybe if you match their expectations, they'll love you the way you wish.
01:15So, he tried.
01:17Dorian didn't have friends.
01:19He had mentors.
01:21He didn't play.
01:22He performed.
01:23And the more he excelled, the more invisible he felt.
01:30Then one day, he stopped.
01:33No more trying.
01:34No more performing.
01:36And no one noticed until he disappeared behind his silence.
01:40Maybe I'm just lazy.
01:42That's all.
01:43He grew up and became whom we know as the Lazy Prince.
01:47They said he was lazy.
01:49What they didn't see was the weight he carried.
01:52Tired in his bones, in his breath, in his will to care.
01:56Your Highness, the military budget awaits your sign off.
02:03Oh.
02:04Has it been three months already?
02:09Time flies when you're horizontal.
02:12The kingdom needs leadership.
02:15The kingdom also needs naps.
02:21You are royalty, not a rug.
02:25Sit up.
02:26But Mother, the floor and I are bonding.
02:30One day, you'll regret wasting time.
02:34I'm not wasting it.
02:36I'm savoring it very slowly.
02:39Everyone eventually stopped pushing.
02:42Ironically, he made them tired.
02:53Your Highness, perhaps you shouldn't nap during a hunt.
02:58This tree has exceptional lumbar support.
03:02I'm merely communing with nature.
03:06And that's when she showed up.
03:09No fanfare, just honesty.
03:12You're the Prince.
03:13You look like a nap that got dressed up.
03:16And you are?
03:18Grelda, Peasant, Hunter.
03:20You?
03:21Um, the Prince?
03:23That's what they call you.
03:25What do you call you?
03:28Mostly decorative.
03:29Occasionally clever.
03:32Well, that's a clever introduction for sure.
03:36Prince smiled and Grelda left.
03:38But they met again and again and again.
03:41Sometimes a meet is enough, they say.
03:44And for once, Dorian didn't feel like he had to be more.
03:48Just enough.
03:50Well, at least he's walking.
03:53It happened on a morning like any other.
03:56Too early, too loud, too scheduled.
03:59The court was assembled.
04:03Dorian was slouched, half listening.
04:06And then they heard it.
04:08The minister spoke in gasps.
04:10Your Highness, they are just gone.
04:13King Leontis and Queen Verelda vanished without a word.
04:18Just gone.
04:19No storm.
04:21No magic spell.
04:22Just absence.
04:24Nobody could make sense of it.
04:26The nobles gasped.
04:28The guards shouted.
04:29The kingdom tilted.
04:31Crown Prince Dorian, before the kingdom notices the throne is empty.
04:38He doesn't care, probably.
04:40But it doesn't matter anymore.
04:42And that's how our lazy prince was now the nap king of the kingdom.
04:48Days slipped by and finest search parties returned with nothing but dust on their boots and confusion in their eyes.
04:57Rumors swirled.
04:58Prayers multiplied.
04:59And the throne sat empty for the boy who wouldn't rise to fill it.
05:04Then, one dusky evening, under the excuse of restoring order, the rival lords summoned a closed council.
05:13Your Majesty, the late king had a project for moments like this.
05:17You know, the visionary that he was.
05:20The ritual involves activating an ancient orb.
05:25It releases certain chemicals in the air to calm the panic.
05:29For better governance.
05:31Nothing more.
05:32But it must be done tonight.
05:35Before rumors grow.
05:37So, I pressed the magic heirloom and everyone stopped freaking out.
05:42Precisely.
05:44Well, yeah.
05:46Activate it.
05:47Whatever.
05:48He didn't understand it.
05:50He didn't care to.
05:52He just wanted to go back to sleep.
05:55Dorian pressed his palm to the orb.
05:58Ugh.
05:59Neat.
06:00Now someone wake me when it's over.
06:01The kingdom just stopped trying.
06:03Ugh.
06:04I haven't seen the apprentices in two days.
06:06They just stopped showing up.
06:09Not that I want to deal with them anyway.
06:11The kingdom just stopped trying.
06:17I haven't seen the apprentices in two days.
06:22They just stopped showing up.
06:25Not that I want to deal with them anyway.
06:29I am so tired.
06:32I can't remember the last page I read, or why I was reading it.
06:45Horses aren't eating. Neither am I.
06:50But there was one person the fog hadn't touched.
06:53Grelda decided to inspect this royal project that Dorian had activated.
06:58She climbed to the highest attic of the palace, where even the spiders were asleep.
07:04There, under dust and silence, she found the scroll.
07:09It's not just the fog. It's the looming...
07:16Dorian, what did you wake, Dorian?
07:21Grelda, what are you doing here? And what did I wake?
07:28It's the looming! It was created for enemies!
07:32They tricked you! You have to save the kingdom!
07:36Grelda, your eyes!
07:38Dorian, you were never lazy.
07:41Just burned out. And now it's spreading.
07:46It began where most noble quests begin.
07:50Not in battle or prophecy, but in the royal kitchen, around snack time.
07:54If I don't find cheese in the next ten seconds, I might start a rebellion.
08:03And then he saw it. A cloth on the floor.
08:07Nothing royal. Nothing glowing.
08:09Just misplaced laundry.
08:13I've been buried under crumbs and crackers for a week!
08:17Finally, a hand with blood pressure low enough to match mine!
08:22What are you? A fork with delusions of grandeur?
08:26The writer had to write me in here because when faced with high stress,
08:30this lazy highness would not go anywhere else!
08:34You'd never venture beyond your bedroom or snack shelf to find me!
08:38Or your spine!
08:39Wow. A sword with an attitude problem.
08:44I am the prince, you know.
08:46Bah! Strap in, Nap King!
08:49You just became the main character by default!
08:53Now stop stress eating and follow me!
08:55I'm your emotional and all kind of support!
08:59Fine. But I'm not skipping second breakfast.
09:03I don't believe I'm listening to a kitchen sword.
09:06Dorian didn't want to accept, but he was doing this for Grelda.
09:11Off to the quest!
09:15The heart of the looming was never a battlefield.
09:19It was a memory.
09:21Should have known better.
09:23Failure.
09:24Not enough.
09:26Embarrassment.
09:28Try harder.
09:30Why can't you be, like, lazy?
09:33This is basic.
09:35Weak.
09:36Again?
09:37Disappointment.
09:39We expected more.
09:43Burden.
09:44This isn't like you.
09:47Grow up.
09:49Useless.
09:50Lazy.
09:52This is what everybody is hearing in their heads?
09:55Who calls them this?
09:57This is what they call themselves.
10:00The looming is just a mirror.
10:01A maze of every pressure everybody has ever felt.
10:05And bits of every conversation they had with their own self.
10:10Didn't you call yourself lazy for the longest time?
10:14No time, Prince.
10:22Time to slice some smog.
10:24Let's make this fog cry for its mummy.
10:27Wait.
10:28Wait.
10:29It's reacting.
10:31The more he raised the sword, the thicker the fog became.
10:36Why doesn't your mind bend like the others?
10:41Why does your color remain?
10:45Ha!
10:46You demotivate individuals.
10:48Well, guess what?
10:50Our prince is never motivated for anything.
10:53He's been depressed longer than your curse has existed.
10:56Take that.
10:58The looming.
11:01Um, thanks?
11:04No one escapes the looming.
11:09The illusions struck.
11:11His parents yelling, awards shattering, voices sneering.
11:15Lazy.
11:16My fight was never with you.
11:32It was with me.
11:33I'm not lazy.
11:34I'm tired.
11:36I was born tired.
11:37They called it potential.
11:39Then punished me for not living up to it.
11:42This angered the looming.
11:44And it shivered for its final blow.
11:46But Dorian didn't pick up the sword.
11:49He closed his eyes and embraced it.
11:52Grelda saw me.
11:54Even when I couldn't.
11:55She didn't expect me to be better.
11:58I was always enough for her.
12:00And I didn't save her.
12:02I couldn't even save myself.
12:04But I will not live in the past of things I couldn't do.
12:08You feed on ambition?
12:11Then starve.
12:12Because I have nothing left to prove.
12:15Not to my parents.
12:17Not to this kingdom.
12:18I don't want to be king.
12:20I don't want to be loved.
12:22I am enough.
12:23Even here.
12:25I am enough.
12:27The fog faded like a bad dream.
12:39The kingdom exhaled.
12:41Oh, I just let it shine.
12:44Yawn.
12:45Oh, I feel like I've been holding that in for so long.
12:49The missing royals were found.
12:54Locked away by the rival lord, who was now awaiting trial for treason.
13:00We pushed too hard.
13:03You were always enough.
13:05Even when we didn't see it.
13:08I thought I was preparing you.
13:10I didn't see I was exhausting you.
13:12I'm sorry, son.
13:17You didn't have anything to prove.
13:19And yet you did.
13:20That you are the best leader this kingdom could ever have.
13:29Well, I have a reputation to maintain.
13:33I am the lazy prince.
13:36Gralda, you're in charge.
13:38I'll be supervising from the nap chamber.
13:42You what?
13:43Wait!
13:46Prince Dorian, you created a midday unmotivation hour?
13:51It's a revolutionary pause in kingdom productivity.
13:54You wouldn't understand.
13:56Night-night.
14:08He never matters.
14:12Oh, I love you!
14:14Let'spin his journey!
14:15Come to my parents.
14:16I love him!
14:17Let'spin his chance to stay up.
14:23Let'spin his time!
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