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A sleepy young man with one deadly serious goal: master a legendary sword so he can finally get his nap back. 😴⚔️
SERIES
The Laziest Disciple
PILOT
Episode 1: A Good Spot in the Sun
ABOUT THE SERIES + PILOT
A legendary sword-master's spirit waited two thousand years for a heir. He got the laziest disciple alive — a man who just wants to nap. So the Hollow takes the one thing that'll make him work: his sleep. Master the blade's five forms, and he gets it back.
WHERE THE SERIES GOES NEXT
Roan takes on the sword's five forms one at a time — but each form takes many trials to master, and Roan, being Roan, spends every one of them hunting for a shortcut to do it faster and get back to sleep sooner. Each attempt is its own small disaster, so every form spins off a run of episodes packed with comedy: the trials, the cheats that backfire, and the sleep he claws back one piece at a time (or loses again when he cuts a corner). The pilot points the start and from there the forms get stranger, the Hollow goes deeper, and the real question sharpens: why did it choose him, and what happens when the fifth form is finally done?
LINKS
Pilot on Cantina: https://cantina.com/i/uobia
Roan on Cantina: https://cantina.com/i/k5xzx
Off-platform post:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Uxc6KyC39J4
He could be the strongest swordsman alive. He'd rather be asleep. 😴
Meet Roan Gray — the laziest disciple in the world, a professional napper who falls into an ancient temple, gets offered a legendary blade and infinite power, and only perks up at the word comfort. The catch: thirty years of training, and the temple's stolen his sleep until he earns it back, one sword form at a time.
One blade. Five forms. One very tired man who just wants his nap. ⚔️
▶️ Watch the pilot: https://cantina.com/i/uobia
😴 Meet Roan: https://cantina.com/i/k5xzx
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