Invader Zim Deathmatch:
ROUND 3, FIGHT 3:
NIGHTMARE BITTERS VS MS BITTERS!
The rules are as follows:
1. We’re assuming that both participants actively want and are willing to kill each other unless actively specified otherwise (for example: Chammy Wamboo).
2. The fight must be one on one so no outside help is allowed, but prep time is allowed.
3. The rule for prep time is that if one contestant gets prep time, the other contestant gets an equal amount of prep time as well.
[Masterpost]
Information about both contestants (who they are, powers and abilities, etc) can be found under the cut.
Contestant Stats:
Nightmare Bitters:
“Big F***ing Spider”
Appearances:
Nightmare Bitters only appears in the episode “Halloween Spectacular Of Spooky Doom”
Powers and abilities:
Monstrous physiology (Nightmare Bitters possesses extreme size, strength and durability)
Shapeshifting (Nightmare Bitters can change from a humanoid form to a massive bug-like creature and presumably vice versa)
Fun Fact:
Despite being a nightmare version of Ms Bitters, Nightmare Bitters shows more positive emotions in one episode than Ms Bitters does in the entire series.
Ms Bitters:
“Not originally from Invader Zim”
Appearances:
Ms Bitters appears in many different episodes, to the point where I won’t list them all
Powers and abilities:
Shadowmancy (Ms Bitters has shown to be able to move through and materialize from shadows)
Shapeshifting/Extreme Flexibility (Ms Bitters has been shown to move and bend in unnatural ways, twisting around and moving almost like a snake. Whether this is due to shapeshifting or Ms Bitters simply being incredibly flexible is unknown)
Fear (Ms Bitters terrifies just about everyone she interacts with, so the physiological effects of this in combat should definitely be taken into consideration)
[possible] Bug communication? (If skoolchildren theories are to be believed, Ms Bitters may be able to communicate with bugs, being one herself. However, this is only a theory, no matter how much evidence there may be to support it, so take this power with a grain of salt)
[Weakness] Sunlight (Ms Bitters needs to wear a hooded cloak whenever she’s outside, and it’s heavily implied that she’ll burn up and possibly even die if exposed to direct sunlight)
Fun Fact:
Before Invader Zim was made, Ms Bitters appeared in the Squee! Comics also made by Jhonen Vasquez.
Ms Bitters is also shown to play favourites with her students, seemingly treating Zita the best out of all her students and treating Dib the worst.
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I've been curious about this for a while since I read you mentioned none of the firstborns are 'siblings' and left it up to our headcanons, essentially?
What would a relationship between the firstborn of Summer and the firstborn of Autumn look like? How would they have become mates? How would their personalities go together in a relationship?
There are such differences yet similarities, and I'm curious how a relationship between Dream (who is shown to usually stay in his Valley) would go with Nightlight (who i remember almost never leaves Nightmare's area)?
Please do feel free to disregard this ask if you see fit, thank you for making such a truly lovely au, it's always fun to backread again whenever I have the time. Thank you for sharing your au with us :D<3
Before Nightmare’s corruption, a relationship with Dream would have been pleasant and filled with gentle touches and soft poems made of song and dance. They would frolic on the Meadow of the Firstborn as they were free from worry and grief, flying either naked or with flowing silks that made them giggle sweetly. They are different, that is true, but their earliest days were slow-moving and filled with nothing but time and patience, so they slowly drifted closer and closer, until eventually they interlaced and became inseparable… Up till the fateful day of Nightmare’s corruption and the demise of his innocence.
Their relationship would have become gloomy and distant. Nightmare would appreciate the support and love Dream gave him, but his broken soul would no longer be able to fully take it in, at least not yet. He’s split apart, changed, covered in corruption as thick and sticky as tar that he’s not yet mastered full control over. He shoves Dream’s love away, and Dream is left in the growing dark of autumn’s new visage.
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Now, you specifically ask for Nightlight, so I will show you how him and Dream end up together and how this development will affect Nightmare.
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Dream might rarely leave his valley of summer, but at the arrival of Nightlight, he will quickly begin to make frequent visits to Nightmare’s underground nest. He’s beside himself with delight at the sight of the fragile fairy and he cannot help himself but to weep from joy, grief, and relief. He cannot help the fact that he reacts this way, nor can he truly be blamed for not thinking it all through properly. Nightlight holds the memories of Nightmare’s early days, so his love for Dream is as present and strong as back then, too.
Their embrace completes a puzzle left undone for centuries.
Nightmare is happy at their love for one another. He’s happy that Nightlight is loved in more ways than one, and he’s happy that Dream is smiling like that again. He’s happy with this outcome.
He is happy.
… Then why does his happiness sting in his sockets and hurt so badly in his throat?
Nightlight looks and acts the way Nightmare did before his corruption, so of course, Dream would be drawn to him. He is what Nightmare lost, the pleasant sight of colours of early autumn and the gentle breeze of a cooling wind not yet biting cold. Nightlight is sweet and lovely and pure, and he and Dream are so wonderful together. They’re beautiful.
And that is what hurts so badly.
Nightlight is Nightmare in a way, but he’s a past version of him, the second half of Nightmare’s soul that broke apart and died. Nightmare is what was left, what survived the cruelty done by the Big Folk, the harsher and darker part of autumn that could withstand the defilement brought upon him. Nightlight is the part of him that fit so well with Dream, the part of his autumn that still held onto summer and cherished it as much as summer valued its gentleness.
Nightmare isn’t that. He’s not someone who can be careless and free together with Dream anymore, he’s the wrong kind of autumn for Dream, and he’s as deceptive as half of the season he represents, the one giving false promises of a prolonged pause before the bitter winter cold’s arrival. As such, it’s easy to lie right to Dream’s face as the firstborn fairy of summer cradles his cheeks in remorse and pleading mercy for his sudden reaction at the sight of Nightlight.
Dream realises that he’s gone past Nightmare and straight for his lighter counterpart, and he’s remorseful and sorrowful as he begs for Nightmare’s forgiveness and gives away terrible promises that he’ll stay away if he’s hurt him too badly.
Nightmare loves Dream and it breaks him to see Dream so willing to cast himself down just because he was overcome with joy and love for the rebirth of someone that he’d lost so very long ago. Nightmare doesn’t ever want Dream to feel guilty for expressing his raw and wondrous emotions, so he lies. He lies and tells him that it’s okay. That he wants Dream and Nightlight to be together and that he’s moved on. And he doesn’t even stop to think about offering himself to Dream, too, because he doesn’t think Dream wants him like that anymore.
After all, Nightlight is made of the best parts of him, he’s everything that used to be good about him. Why would Dream want him as he is now… melancholic, sarcastic, stubborn, sullen, withdrawn…
If only he’d asked Dream he would have known that he’s not below Nightlight. He would have known that Dream wanted him, too. But now Dream believes that Nightmare isn’t interested, that he has indeed moved on; Nightmare is too good at lying so Dream doesn’t see the grief in his soul, and with how Nightmare’s grown to endure the pain from centuries of being without half of his soul, he’ll be able to endure the heartache from seeing Dream and Nightlight together.
He will endure it, no matter how much it stings and numbs him.
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Invader Zim Deathmatch:
[Round 1, Fight 3]
Nightmare Bitters vs Countess von Verminstrasser!
The rule for prep time is that if one contestant gets prep time, the other contestant gets an equal amount of prep time as well.
[Masterpost]
Information about both contestants can be found under the cut.
Contestant Stats:
Nightmare Bitters:
“Big F***ing Spider”
Appearances:
Nightmare Bitters only appears in the episode “Halloween Spectacular Of Spooky Doom”
Powers and abilities:
Monstrous physiology (Nightmare Bitters possesses extreme size, strength and durability)
Shapeshifting (Nightmare Bitters can change from a humanoid form to a massive bug-like creature and presumably vice versa)
Fun Fact:
Despite being a nightmare version of Ms Bitters, Nightmare Bitters shows more positive emotions in one episode than Ms Bitters does in the entire series.
Countess von Verminstrasser:
“The Delouser”
Appearances:
Countess von Verminstrasser only appears in the episode “Lice”
Powers and abilities:
High-tech anti-lice devices (Verminstrasser’s arsenal includes electric razors that shoot electricity, electrically charged tarps, literally just regular land mines, anti-lice chemicals and a bazooka that shoots said anti-lice chemicals, and a handheld skin peeling device)
Combat training against bugs (Verminstrasse has experience fighting creatures such as lice,the lice queen and presumably most bug-related creatures)
Fun Fact:
Verminstrasser also has access to a large amount of loyal assistants and teleportation technology, but those things won’t be counted in the fight. The assistants because they’re outside help and the teleportation devices because they seem to be short range devices meant only for transportation (like entering the Skool or quickly entering another room) with no combat applications.
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