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Hello October, sorry I'm late
May I offer you some pumpkin boys?
I dunno if your drawing prompts are still open so if they aren’t just ignore this XD
But I loved your headcanon that Elite Red and Purple used to care for Smeet Zim. Maybe draw them feeding him apple sauce? 🥺
Love your art!!💕
The tallests promoting healthy eating? No way!
Thank you for the prompt this was super fun to draw X))
Zims entire personality is completely fabricated
Let me explain.
Zim, as we know him, is just a mask made up by.. well, Zim.
Zim doesn’t exist.
Because Zim, at his most genuine, loves.
And Zim is not supposed to love.
It’s been thrown around throughout the entire course of the series that Zim is, in fact, a very intelligent individual. Moreso than irkens, renowned technology-thieves, are known to be. It’s for this fact, that it would make sense, that Zim would not be completely ignorant of how the rest of Irken society views him.
The defect, the worst irken to ever exist, et cetera.
There’s no way to be that obtuse about your own infamy, and if there is, there’s enough hints and clues in the series to allow viewers to come to the conclusion that Zim isn’t unaware of it all.
And no, this is not a “Zim is a genius and knows absolutely everything” post. He’s definitely gullible. He absolutely has the worst priorities, he doesn’t know when to quit, too stubborn and set in his own beliefs, but he does Know a lot more than he lets on.
Multiple instances of Tallest Purple nearly revealing the truth about Zim’s mission or being too careless with his words are brushed away, either spoken over by Red or ignored completely by Zim, as if he didn’t hear it at all. Similarly, Sizz-Lorr exists as tangible evidence of everything wrong with Zim’s falsified identity as an invader. He shows up for one episode and that episode introduces some of the most important building on Zim’s coding and the consequences derived from his destructive actions on Irk. And his response to this, is to flat out deny it. Because with Purple, he has the expectation to not be aware. With Sizz-Lorr, everything he’s done is laid out in front of him, forcing him to acknowledge it. He won’t.
Zim, at his most genuine, is paranoid.
Paranoid enough to fabricate an entire personality from nothing after having the entirety of Irken knowledge downloaded into his PAK, only minutes after having been freed from his tube.
Zim is a bootlicker. Zim couldn’t care less about the Tallest. Zim seeks absolution from the Tallest because he knows that he was Made Wrong and that the things he’s done are unforgivable, but he can’t help himself. Zim only goes out of his way to gain their attention because he knows that’s what the average irken desires. All of these are true.
Zim is only drawn to invading in the most superficial way possible for an irken. He enjoys the idea of invading, not because it is personally "appealing" to him in any sense of the word, but because he knows that it is for others. It's an esteemed title. An invader gets to have respect. An invader gets to be addressed directly by the Tallest.
Being an invader is the best thing. Not for him, but for his act.
He needs the act. The act will save him from his imperialistic society. The act is the worst thing to ever happen to him.
Zim is nothing without it. He’s nothing with it.
He hates the act.
(“Hey, you’re a worse flier than I am!”)
And it’s very, very likely that he hates himself because of it. Much more than anyone else could ever hate him, because their hate for him is as superficial as his allegiance to the Empire is.
Zim does not fit in on Irk because Irk doesn’t need a Zim. Irk doesn’t need an irken soldier whose sole identity is to destroy.
Which is why Zim fits in so much better on Earth as its villain. On Earth, he gets to be a part of the story, not a fool that has to force himself on stage to even have some semblance of a spotlight.
Zim was already firmly set into his role before arriving to Earth; but coming there, and meeting Dib, further instills Zim with the drive to keep it up. Dib exists to be a hero, after all! And heroes need their villains. Zim fits into that role perfectly. And of course Zim, being nothing BUT a role, is drawn to it. He'll feed into Dib's alien obsession because Dib's alien obsession fits into Zim's "character". The big bad guy that needs to be fought against.
Which makes sense.
If he's the big bad that everyone hates, he doesn't have to worry about wondering if anyone loves him, because he knows they don't.
His first words were “I love you.”
The Zim we know does not love.
The Zim we know is nothing but an elaborate, one-irken act, stuck playing the same role in the same show for as long as he draws it out for.
One which would collapse if anything ever brought attention to it.
this post would not have been made without the help of @short-and-ugly and @animatorfun. seriously. like they wrote it. they were my editors.
this is NOT a headcanon post, im for realsies. this is metatextual analysis. i genuinely believe this is what zims character is supposed to be ((even if not necessarily intentionally))
Meeting your younger self gone wrong
I'm pretty sure the kiddo Zim and Dib wouldn't be a fan of my older version of them, which made me a little sad in the past BUT! Finally, I decided to go full-on messiness and hatred with each other! Make them both despise each other! Make them think how much the other version is stupid! Let them be this hot mess that isn't able to have a civil conversation even with themselves! xDD
The paranormal squad! but in kindergarden xD
I like the idea of Zim and Tak coming to Earth earlier and being forced to work together despite hating it.
I see it could be like a training process and punishment for both of them. Brains sees great potential in Zim and Tak, but their continuous fights cause a lot of destruction. That's why they get sent to an unimportant planet to invade before DOOM 1 starts to check if they can manage the given task or die. Either way, it's a win-win for Armada.
Zim episode where Zim and Dib are assigned to debate a topic. The topic is if aliens are real. Dib has to argue against it and Zim has to argue in favor.
This is my interpretation of what happens after dinosaurus_maj's fic "What's the use of feeling (blue)?"
Red has become Tallest and she eventually married and had two children. They eventually accept that neither of them would see one another ever again.
Or course, as fate would have it, Red's rash decision of humouring Zim leads to the defective landing on the very planet Red was forced to leave behind.
Zim experiences an earthquake for the first time in his life
Invader-in-trainings Purple and Zim were tasked with an assignment. It was supposed to be easy. But unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan.
And for the first time in his life, Purple had use for all the medical knowledge he had stored in his brainmeats.
Dib told Zim that humans were meant to live short lives, that an existence of a million years would be no life at all for a human. Zim couldn't understand it. But he was learning to live with it.
Zim wasn't afraid of anything. Then he discovered Earth...
Keef had always been someone who felt very deeply for things, and for other people. Zim happened to be the one person he'd felt the strongest for.
halloween is approaching! i think it'd be neat to see your take on zim & dib's costumes, assuming they'd be willing to celebrate :)
redrew an old drawing