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emeraldspiral · 8 months

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I feel like we don't talk enough about how Gaz is also a victim of Membrane's neglect and how that affects her sibling rivalry with Dib.

Like, I think because Dib is the deuteragonist of the show and Gaz is a supporting character it's easier to focus on analyzing him and everything going on in his life that influences his maladjusted behavior. But not a lot of people talk as much about why Gaz is the way she is. Why are her main emotions apathy and anger? Why is she the only other kid at skool besides Dib and Zim with no friends to hang out with at lunch or recess? Why are her revenges against Dib over things like cereal and pizza so over-the-top? Why does she purposefully try to destroy all human life and then get mad when it doesn't work?

Some of Gaz's behaviors have a pretty clear-cut cause and effect. She and Dib don't get to spend much time with their dad, so she gets upset when Dib's actions threaten their time together. Dib is also selfish and inconsiderate of Gaz, frequently stealing her food or talking her ear off about stuff she doesn't care about and expecting her to take an interest while never asking about her hobbies.

But I think some of her hostility toward Dib and general sour attitude can also be explained by Membrane's unequal treatment.

I've seen elsewhere that some people think Membrane favors Gaz because she's his "normal" child. He actually respects her gaming hobby and doesn't treat it like a phase she needs to grow out of. He doesn't talk down to her or try to push her into giving up something she loves in order to win his approval. Where Dib is constantly arguing with his dad about the legitimacy of his version of science, he and Gaz seem to have an easy rapport free of that kind of tension.

But is Membrane's behavior toward Gaz really a sign of favoritism, or just a different form of neglect?

The main conflict between Dib and Membrane stems from Membrane wanting Dib to be his successor. In Chickenfoot he specifically calls Dib "the future of the Membrane Empire", against Dib's wishes. In Mopiness of Doom, he and Dib finally bond when Dib decides to temporarily give up paranormal science and assist him with "real science". And supposedly, part of Eric Trueheart's clone Dib concept was that Membrane engineered Dib specifically to carry on his legacy.

But all of this begs the question, where does Gaz fit into Membrane's grand designs? Is she just the spare? She's just as smart, if not smarter than Dib, but we never see any indication that Membrane's trying to push her toward a career in science the way he is with Dib. It's one thing for him to not be bothered about her gaming hobby because it's not "disreputable", but there's no indication that Gaz has anymore interest in becoming a "real" scientist than Dib. So does Membrane just assume that since she's never shown any other ambitions she'll just fall straight down the path that's already been laid out for her, or does he just not care what she does with her life because he's only focused on living vicariously through Dib?

We don't know exactly how Membrane views his kids, but it's easy to see how a little girl might come to some pretty negative conclusions about what her status is in her father's eyes. Even if it's not true, Gaz might very well believe that he favors Dib. That despite Dib rejecting the legacy she was never considered for, despite him constantly getting into trouble and being weird and annoying and embarrassing, and putting his stupid hobbies ahead of their family, their dad doesn't give up on him as a lost cause. Even when he has another perfectly good child who mostly behaves herself and stays out of trouble, would never try to upstage him or ruin an important moment for him, who appreciates what little time they have together and would never jeopardize it by running off to play with some stupid alien, and who's just as smart and capable and not a weirdo paranormal-obsessed freak, Membrane still wants Dib to be his successor and not her.

Not only does this add more layers to her contempt for Dib, it could also explain her apathy and misanthropy. If her dad doesn't care about her, why should she care about anything? If he isn't concerned with her future, why should she concern herself with anything other than the immediate gratification of video games and pizza? Her dad and her brother both think their work is so much more important than spending quality time with her or talking about anything other than their "important work" whenever they're together. They both think they're saving the world, but they're either too blindly optimistic or too egotistical to realize that the slack-jawed idiots populating the planet are beyond salvation. But maybe if there was no humanity left for them to save, no heroic ambitions to fulfill, they'd finally treat her like someone worth paying attention too.

#invader zim #gaz #gaz membrane #professor membrane #dib #dib membrane #gaz is just as messed up as dib #her trauma just expresses itself in different ways

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ms-scarletwings · 2 months

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Irken Zim’s 8 biggest fans

For funsies! As we are well aware, this guy has a lot of gut-haters and censurers across the galaxy. Over his long years of life, he’s gained a proud infamy from every corner of the Irken empire, all the way to the fringes beyond, and the number of critics snapping at his heels only grows with every adventure. Whole civilizations sit at their seat’s edge waiting for this invader’s downfall, but what of those who defy all odds, expectations, maybe even logic? Even devils somehow find worshippers, even criminals get fan mail, and even Invader Zim has someone rooting for him within the 4th wall. Weirdly quite a handful of them, actually, let’s recount.

8. Table Headed Service Drone Bob

It’s humorous, how odd circumstance can make for strange advocacy. The show’s universe operates on the rule of funny, and Bob just so happened to be in the right place and time to comedically become the only Irken alive with something to gain from Zim’s success, and so much to lose for his failure. The sheer unfairness of what the Tallest put him through along with Zim serving some hope for a miracle ticket out of his low standing seemed to snap something in him, even if just for an episode. It would make sense for anyone in his position to have a much more dampened love for their society and leaders, to the point where cheering on its greatest enemy would be preferable than another moment of being a doormat. An underdog rooting for an underdog, even if for purely selfish and coincidental reasons.

7. The Judgementia Control brains

Even more deliciously ironic, isn’t it- That Zim’s praise was be sung once from the very bottom rung of Irken society and then again from the highest spike? What better to follow up poor Bobby than another victim of astronomical circumstance, or rather, three victims together? The nutshell recap of “The Trial’s” plot climax spells out the tragedy of, what is basically Irk’s highest court officials, to become he first ever victims of Zim’s malignant code becoming a contagion. They’ve joined the Fanclub, even if against their will, and all the better for Zim this time to have support from such a high place, seeing that it literally saved his hide in this instance.

6. Dib Membrane

Yeah, that’s freaking right. He’s on the list. You think being a hype man and a mortal rival are mutually exclusive? You either haven’t been watching enough DBZ or you haven’t been watching enough Hellsing and should fix that. Anyway, and I’m speaking within the actual canon dynamic of these two… it is very important to Zim that Dib is perceived as a formidable opponent to bluster his own ego, and vise versa. Dib is not in any self-serving position to accept what an actual mess Zim’s operation is, even though he has more evidence of the alien’s horrible tactics, nonsense plans, failures, etc. than anyone else on the planet. Gaz can see Zim for exactly what he is and why fighting him doesn’t have to be this 24/7 urgent priority. Dib refuses to get that because stopping Zim’s pop-up schemes only keeps the score tied for them. They’ve both been at this long enough to get incredibly frustrated with the lack of progression regarding the big picture goals, taking over the world, and exposing a live alien to the world, respectively. I don’t think he has to keep describing this space goblin as some ultra-cunning master of villainy, or GIR as this nefarious minion because that’s what he actually thinks of them, but because if he admits otherwise, that’s not a great reflection of his own merit for the obvious reasons. Just the presentation of another dimension’s version of himself succeeding against Zim before him causes a spiral of self doubt, just as it can bring Zim to a minor panic watching other invaders leaving him in the dust. Dib wants this guy to be a challenge worth the victory lap when he finally gets what he’s been fighting so hard for.

When Zim is getting on some truly idiotic antics, Dib doesn’t actually revel in his disorganized stupidity, but meets it with a baffled or annoyed disappointment. Like me watching a character I thought was super badass suddenly do something that reveals them to just be utterly lame. Too often he almost comes off like he is critiquing Zim’s performance as a villain rather than,, you know, the fact that Zim is a villain in the first place. It more than once has led to accidentally giving the guy new ideas or pointers on how to do his own job better once in a while. If I were in Dib’s place I would under NO circumstances be giving Zim advice or corrections on what he’s doing “badly” when it comes to the invader thing, but, whatever makes you feel cool & smart, you little dork. There’s also the whole “Dib’s hatred for Zim belies his geeky fixation with aliens broadly” angle I’ve mentioned here or there before, and don’t mind to again. Studying/stalking Zim is only partially about defeating him. His curiosity over Irken tech, biology, etc. is still coming from a place of genuine scientific passion, as literally all of us know. And of course, on occasion the two make for unlikely allies against much bigger shared enemies.

5. Minimoose

Oh come on, how much could I even have to say about this moose-weapon? He has two fathers and is fully aware that Zim is one of them. Assuming we all here know about the cute Florpus quote; no need to recap the whole existence of the lil guy.

4. Invader Skoodge

Now this guy… this guy ain’t right. Exactly here, at this (I say with love) loser of an invader, we reach two tipping points when it comes to Zim-affinity. One, the tipping point where Zim ceases to ask for and ceases to appreciate the toadying. Two, the point where I actually kind of struggle to find any rational explanation for the toady’s behavior. Like I’ve tried and I genuinely don’t know how to put together how Skoodge keeps jumping into this position other than ‘it’s that funny’ or some weird familiarity from smeethood factor. All of the invaders know what Zim has done and what he’s capable of. He’s a consistent terrorist of his own kin and defamed as the greatest disgrace to the Empire. The two options for how to feel about Zim as any random Irken soldier are fear, and/or loathing. If Skoodge were just neutral or indifferent of Zim, that’d be pretty freaking odd. But Skoodge interacts with Zim on the level of at least a lukewarm acquaintance, readily even deferring to his command, despite the fact that he nearly dies every single time he does so. He survives miles of being chased by a monster on Hobo-13, he makes it to the finish line, and his first reaction is to let Zim know he’s made it in one piece. He decides to lay low and slack off after getting fired (into the blighted surface of Blorch) and out of the entire universe to choose from, he decides to go hole up at Zim’s place and stay conveniently out of the way for some time. Dude finally shows himself in the unfinished scripts, and it’s to motherfucking help Zim troll around with Dib. I’m up at night wondering what is going on in Skoodge’s head because he’s n o t an idiot. He’s a real invader in all other respects, just as competent and nationalistic as the rest of them. Easily suggestible, yes, but not stupid. There’s basically no way for him to be ignorant of the big lie the Tallest sold Zim, yet he chooses not to utter a peep on the matter. Pity? A bizarre sense of solidarity?? A delusional one sided friendship??? Don’t look at me like I know other than the fact that he’s on our protag’s team, in spirit. The wannabe Irwin to Zim’s Billy, essentially.

3. Keef

So yeah of all things to blow Skoodge’s unhealthy attachment clean out of the water, we stumbled into this freak of a human child. Keef is a loyal compadre to a fault. A huge, creepy fault. Kid was originally supposed to make a return as well, wherein he was no less of a stubborn stalker than already proven once. And extra points for the irrational selflessness. Even while demonstrating an understanding of what Zim did in Dark Harvest, possibly even with the memory of that whole squirrel incident, he still wishes nothing but for the ability to put a smile on his green friend’s face.

2. The Amoeboid Cult

And when none thought that the scary conviction Zim garnered on Earth could be his biggest fans, you find this little ditty in the comics, and it starts turning into an irresponsible god analogy fairly quick. The short recap is that following a crash on a strange planet, the Voot Runner starts leaking fluids that inadvertently spark abiogenesis, which results in the creation of a rapidly evolving race of blob-things. Seizing an opportunity, Zim at first demands their followership, and then shortly after gets fed up with it as he did the previous fanatic on the list. Nonetheless, the cell people continue to reproduce and age thousands of years their time in the span of a couple minutes, never losing that zeal for their unintentional creator, even going so far as to repair the cruiser despite Zim’s rejection of them. Out of what little they gathered about him during his short visit, they correctly learned he’s a destructive god who planned to abandon them as soon as he could. Their last wish as a civilization? For this god to also obliterate them, as final treat. Such was their devotion that it even left Zim himself completely baffled for a moment when its full depth was revealed.

1. GIR

You watch this show, right? Yeah? Henchman and sidekick number one? Chaotic thing this whole fandom can’t decide to perceive as an adoptive child or a talking pet? He may not be as competent in pleasing Zim’s wishes as minimoose, or as focused, but his heart and loyalty are ultimately with their intended master, unconditionally and for as long as this setting has continued.

#invader zim #iz #iz analysis #scarlet talks about things #long post

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unlikelytrashcreation · 8 months

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Sad sad sad shit...as well as some lore and info about the Z-tech boys!!

Zim has some sirous abandonment issues this didn't make him soft nor dose it make him a sweet little shmoopty alas it just means he's volatile and fucked up and cry's and smashed shit in his office after hours, it's one of the reasons he's so controlling with dib. On the outher side of this he works his little ass off to prove that he's good enough he dose the most for his busnuis his brand and his image (he even dose the most for his dib rat but he would never tell you so and is absoulotly loathed to admit it)

Tw for visuals of drugs and vage alusions to child abuse (dib is not ok)

Hi my apologies if your a fan of prof membrane but he was a really REALLY bad gross person in this universe particularly to his son and daughter gaze treated dib poorly but only to gain favor with her father and it seldom works witch she wrongfully takes out on dib. Bouth gaz and dib struggle with addiction as adults but gaz recovered and is employed as chief of security at membrane labs living with he's misterios Fiance in a nice apartment uptown a few years previous to the events of z-tech. Dib on the he outher hand is a nightmare mess he's mostly forgiven gaz or would like to tell himself that. I think that nightmare membrane is mostly how dib remembers his dad (his memory is badly warped by a lot of drugs AND A LOOOOOT of trauma) he was treated worse than gaz it wasn't by a large margin but it was noticable he's afraid to be within a mile and a half radius of membrane labs and has to many self esteem issues for even the strongest among us to get through. Spite is keeping him alive.

In the beginning of his relationship with Zim he struggles a lot with being himself communication and being honest. He still struggles to understand he dosnt need those things (among outhers to survive) but he dose genuinely love Zim even if there relationship looks a bit weird and he has a hard time stoping walking in eggshells.

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inbarfink · 5 months

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If I may ask do you feel Gaz being warmer to Dib in Florpus was natural development or too ooc? It felt kind of jarring to me at first glance.

It's funny, I actually have a Very Long Post buried very deep in my Drafts that takes a very deep look at the Membrane Sibling Dynamic and their interactions - focusing on the actual main show itself, but also keeping the existence of ETF in mind. And while I am not just gonna dump it here (it still needs to be polished a bit), my main conclusions are

There were a few Shifts in the way Gaz and her relationship with Dib was written within the show itself.

Her behavior in 'Enter the Florpus' is actually perfectly in line with most of her actions in the show. Especially when you consider ETF was really a perfect storm of Special Circumstances we haven't really put Gaz in the actual show - a situation where she has to see Zim as a genuine threat, where she is genuinely as emotionally invested as Dib is in the Stakes, a situation where she has to see her brother be Actually Emotionally Vulnerable and admitting his own faults to her face.

And even the few episodes where it doesn't work quite as smoothly is more like... the general Shifts in characterizations when we're dealing with serial media written by a collective of people. Like I mentioned above.

And especially when you consider my personal reading of Gaz's character as just... a very messed-up kid who has a lot of Genuine Frustrations she is channeling out in some really Bad Ways. It's not an Absolute Objective Fact but her Big Emotional Moment in ETF to me reads less as her explaining to Dib something she always knew she felt and more like her figuring out herself that she has limits to how much she wants to watch Dib suffer.

Really the thing that bothers me more in terms of OOC-ness in ETF is not Gaz, but Professor Membrane -

#Cause Gaz like I mentioned is seen under Very Different Circumstances than any interaction she had in the Actual Show #so when she behaves differently it makes sense as Character Development or just a Unique Reaction to a Unique Situation #Membrane thinks this is all an Illusion #by design of the Plot he is Not Allowed to Learn anything #so we ARE supposed to pretend he has always been a better parent then he obviously was in the actual show #invader zim #enter the florpus #gaz membrane

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dodgeballstuckonthegymceiling · 1 year

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Dib Membrane & Gaz Membrane X adopted sibling reader? Could add in profesor Membrane too since it’s more of a family dynamic

Maybe the reader is overly happy all the time and agrees with everything that Dib says when it comes to aliens or even cheers Gaz on when on a hard part of a video game, even going along with some of Prof’s silly little experiments.

Just so you know i'm going to make the sibling around 2 to 3 in this. Also I love this concept!

Dib and Gaz & adopted sibling Reader

Prof Membrane

★ Who gave this man another child? Where did you even come from? Why are you now apart of his family? Those are just a few of the questions that will never be answered.

★ He might not be the perfect father but he's trying. He takes a more hands on approach with parenting you, by that I mean he's not absent all the time. (No joke, Prof Membrane from the original series was a pretty awful dad)

★ "Can I press the button?" Yes, yes you can. He actively encourages you to mess around in his lab (assuming that all harmful chemicals are put away and out of reach) and shadow him while he's working. Observation is an important part of science after all!

Dib

★ He's a little off put by the fact that his dad brought a literal baby home (ur like 2/3 not, so not a baby >:( ) and said it was his new sibling. But after the initial shock and confusion wears off he just accepts it. I guess he has another sibling now?

★ He really acts like a big brother. He looks after you when dad is out doing something or at work and he tries to keep you out of trouble. Dispute getting himself into trouble fairly often.

★ Sometimes he sits you down on his bed and practically rants about whatever paranormal creature is on his mind. He very much enjoys the many questions you ask, no matter how basic. "What's a bigfoot?" He's so glad you asked-

★ You are literally the only person who supports his paranormal interests in this whole family. His interest in the paranormal rubs off on you and you end up becoming a mini-paranormal investigator yourself. He's very proud!

Gaz

★ "Listen, dont go in my room, dont drink the soda in the fridge and don't bother me. Got it?" Is the first thing she said to you. Assuming you listen to her she will eventually warm up to you.

★ She gives you a unplugged controller if you want to play a game with her. It works surprisingly well untill you get to old for that trick, or untill somebody points it out.

★ When you cheer her on while she's playing a game she tells you to hush up. But it's not in a rude or mean way, more of a "I heard and acknowledge what you said" kinda way. But she's bad at expressing it so...

★ After awhile of letting you play with an unplugged controller she eventually lets you "borrow" one of her older handheld systems along with a handful of some of the kid friendly games in her collection. She does get a little upset when you delete her old saves though.

#invader zim #invader zim x Reader #invader zim fanfiction #invader zim x reader #dib #dib headcanon #dib membrane x reader #dib x reader #dib membrane #invader zim dib #gaz x reader #gaz headcannon #invader zim gaz

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enamis1 · 1 month

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Crack AU where the Membranes are chasing Miyuki for the alimony she owes them. Please, just hear me out. puts on tinfoil hat & shipping goggles from Transformers fandom (Possibly OOC for certain characters) 2 major things happen: 1.)Violetta doesn't die in an accident & gets to be a mom to her test tube babies. This results in Gaz being a lot less aloof (tho still sarcastic) & Dib having slightly better social skills. 2.) Miyuki decides to be a bit of a heartbreaker & ditches the polycule Membranes after they've started up the process to create Dib & Gaz, right in the middle of the night. She takes back control of the Irken Empire & doesn't say much regarding where she was. Zim only survives because Miyuki shows up again after he was sent to Earth, & she doesn't remember the coordinates back there. No, she doesn't still have feelings for the Membranes that she buried because they would get in the way of ruling the Irken Empire, shut up about it. When Violetta meets Zim, she instantly realizes what he is, & this convo happens: Violetta: "VICTOR, GET THE SPRAY BOTTLE!" Prof Membrane: "My dear Violetta, what brou-" Violetta: "We have a Code Gold." Cue an absolute mess where Zim is confused as to how these humans know about Irkens beforehand, Dib realizes his parents are aliensmoochers, Skoodge seriously questions what his Tallest was thinking & the Resisty are really confused by their new "allies". Things get even weirder when the Florpus Hole is brought into the equation.

firstly i must congratulate you for one-shot k.o.ing me with that opening sentence 😂

and secondly, put them shipping goggles down you don't need them. you (very nearly) nailed the whole main au in one go 🤣🤣 i've had this one drawing knocking around for ages and now's reason enough to post it

the filename was ot3

anyway

you are absolutely right, the Membrane family would have remained (partly) sane(er) if Violetta would've stuck around. or at least they would have been terrible parents in completely new and weird ways! ("dad let me bring the portable particle accelerator to school, why?") ("idc you have a math test today, we're flying to japan for the GameSwatch launch event")

and when Zim would show his face. uh.

Vi would absolutely take no shit. woman scorned and all that. poor guy would get sent packing in speeds Dib could've never dreamed of. having an alien empress crashing on you couch removed all threatening mystique the species might ever have had

As for Miyuki herself? alimony? nah. there's better ways to fleece the Irken Empire

#invader zim #tallest miyuki #membrane family #ask

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random-iz-stuff · 11 months

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Invader Zim Deathmatch:

ROUND 3, FIGHT 6:

RECAP KID VS GAZ MEMBRANE!

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:

Recap Kid:

“Confuses And Terrifies Me”

Appearances:

Recap Kid appears at the beginning of all 50 of the main comics

Powers and abilities:

Yes.

Dear god yes.

In all seriousness though:

Extreme durability (Recap Kid has been seen surviving being rammed by Zim’s Voot Cruiser at Full Speed and being sucked into one of the Massive’s vents)

Extreme speed (Recap Kid is one of, if not the single fastest character we’ve seen in the series. We know this because in all of their recap panels, they say everything in one panel with one speech bubble, implying that Recap Kid is moving and speaking fast enough to do and say all that just a few seconds. This also implies that out of the four Recap Kids in a panel, the first three are afterimages. (I don’t have the exact math but those 3 afterimages put Recap Kid’s top speed somewhere around 50 KM per second. However, this is just an estimate of Recap Kid’s top speed that may very well be very off))

Shapeshifting (Recap Kid can canonically shapeshift and manipulate their hoodie into various other forms as well. Unlike the other shapeshifters in this competition, Recap Kid’s exact limits here are unknown)

Pyrokinesis (Recap Kid can generate explosions powerful enough to destroy a rather large Irken Ship, and can control fire, creating a ring of fire on command around Zim and DIb on one occasion)

Creation (Recap Kid can create objects from thin air, including objects that don’t exist in-universe (like a Gir Costume, The Comics they’re currently in and a copy of Enter The Florpus)

[Not Useful in this scenario] Fourth wall awareness (Recap Kid is aware of the fourth wall and can talk to the audience, but cannot physically mess with the fourth wall (they can’t move outside the confines of the panels or mess with text bubbles or anything), making this power way less useful in general)

[Unusable] Future sight (A common way Recap Kid uses their fourth wall and creation powers together is creating a copy of the comic they’re currently in and reading ahead to see the future. However, no comics or anything of the sort exist for this fight (a live Deathmatch on Tumblr), so Recap Kid can’t see the future by reading ahead)

Vacuum immunity (Recap Kid has been shown to be able to breathe in environments with no air, although they can still choke and run out of breath)

Time Change Immunity (Recap Kid is able to remember the events of any previous comic, even if it was seemingly retconned with no one else (but Dib, who is also immune due to his own canonically confirmed reasons) remembering)

[For this fight only] Gaz Fear Immunity (Recap Kid is one of very few characters that canonically shows no fear of Gaz and any threats she makes)

Fun Fact:

Recap Kid was originally a planned character for the show, who would have listened to Dib and give him credit for his battles, but only because they thought Dib was making it all up and liked the stories. Also they probably aren’t human.

Gaz:

“Supreme Gamer”

Appearances:

Gaz appears in many, many episodes and comic issues, so I’m not going to list them

Powers and abilities:

Enhanced strength (like her brother, Gaz shows feats of incredible strength (most likely because she’s a genetically modified clone), including but not limited to being able to throw Dib clean through a wall)

Enhanced agility and stamina (also like her brother, Gaz has enhanced agility and stamina, with the most notable example of this being her climbing up the side of an over 50 story building in the rain without equipment)

Fear (similar to Ms Bitters’ fear ability, Gaz is able to scare most people with threats of extreme violence. Unlike Ms Bitters however, it’s been shown that this ability has limits, with people like Zim showing no fear towards any of her threats. Gaz’s ability to cause fear doesn’t appear to work on anyone that already believes themselves to be on par with or stronger than her and people that are simply too egotistical or arrogant to care, making it a weaker version of Ms Bitters’ fear causing, which works on seemingly everyone)

Intelligence (Gaz is one of the smartest humans in the show, being one of the only people able to see through Zim’s disguise. She also shows skill with engineering and invention, being able to make her own machines (like the robot toys that guard her room) and fix alien technology, not unlike her brother’s skills with tech)

[Mostly Unusable] Gaming (although this seems like it shouldn’t affect anything, Gaz’s gaming skills are an advantage. The reason for this is that a lot of alien technology (mostly vehicles) use controls that are very similar to video game controls, meaning that Gaz can use alien vehicles extremely effectively. Sadly, Gaz doesn’t have any alien technology to use right off the bat)

Fun Fact:

Despite evidence in the show pointing towards the contrary, Jhonen Vasquez has confirmed that Gaz has no magic or supernatural abilities and that she is simply "someone you don't want to anger". This is why I don’t list any supernatural abilities in her Powers and Abilities section.

Additional Thoughts:

The two most powerful children in this competition are finally fighting each other.

#invader zim #invader zim deathmatch #polls #recap kid #gaz membrane

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rissynicole · 2 years

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“ let me look at you… ““ are you okay with me touching you? ““ does that hurt? “ Professor Membrane saying one or all of these to Dib, whose been having a really bad stomachache. He actually has appendicitis. I hope a sickfic is okay!

Hey, a sickfic is always okay!

Context: this was part of a whump/injury sentence-starter ask game. I got really carried away with some asks people sent in, and it took me an absurdly long time to finish the stories.

This was fun. I don’t write enough of Membrane. Or Gaz. This was a really good writing exercise for me! Also, shoutout to my cousin who coincidentally got appendicitis while I was writing this. Thanks for the additional insight on appendicitis, I guess? Hope you feel better, Cuz.

Prompts:

“Let me look at you…”

“Are you okay with me touching you?”

“Does that hurt?”

Characters: Dib, Gaz, Professor Membrane

Relationships: Just good ole’ family dynamics. Brother and sister have each other’s backs, dad is overprotective.

Words: 1,544

“Let me look at you.”

Dib pulled the mess of blankets over his head and turned his face towards the wall. “No,” he groaned. “Just… go with Gaz.”

Membrane stood by his bedside for a moment, obviously rethinking his tactics. For all his quick wit in the more linear side of life, it somehow hadn’t managed to translate to interpersonal matters—something that was more a little problematic when handling things like this. His son hadn’t bothered to leave his bed since the night before and was presently curled into a ball and clutching his stomach. Meanwhile, Gaz was still in her room, getting ready for her high school graduation rehearsal.

“I would really feel better if you let me examine you downstairs in the home lab,” he tried again.

Dib didn’t budge. “I just have food poisoning or something. I’ll be fine.”

“But—”

“—Dad?” Gaz appeared in the doorway, donned in a creased cap and gown. “We’re going to be late.” She reached up to adjust one of many bobby pins keeping her cap in place.

“In a moment. Your brother is ill and refusing treatment.”

Dib uncovered his face slightly cast an exhausted, low-lidded stare at her. She met it briefly and pursed her lips. She turned back to their father. “So? He’s nineteen. He can handle himself. Let’s just go.”

Membrane looked ready to start arguing again. Under the pressure of his children’s expectant gazes, though, he warily trudged back to the doorway. He gave one final glance at Dib from behind his thick lab goggles before softly shutting the door.

Dib buried his face into his pillow and groaned as another sharp pang tore through his stomach. He could still hear the two of them outside his bedroom. Words here and there, especially Gaz’s higher tone, managed to permeate through the thin walls and make their way to his ears.

“—We haven’t exactly had great experiences with your medical ‘treatment,’” Gaz said deadpan.

Instantly, memories of her media-circus extravaganza as “pig girl,” when she was ten circulated through Dib’s head.

She wasn’t wrong. If anything, she was saying exactly what Dib wanted to say, but couldn’t. The last thing he needed was to be roused from bed and forced downstairs to the lab to be poked and prodded. Normal children enjoyed sick days at home with game shows and chicken soup. He and Gaz had grown up riding out malaise in a freezing basement atop exam tables, shivering away while their father took notes and attempted to create permanent cures for the uncommon cold or invent a mayonnaise that never spoiled. His intentions were good—he even went so far as to give them second-hand anxiety in his frantic concern for them. In practice, though, it was far better to just avoid even letting him know they were sick.

Dib couldn’t avoid it this time, though. The pain had come on almost immediately that morning, and he’d spent a substantial portion of the day vomiting and drifting in and out of strange, shallow slumber while cramps wracked through his abdomen. He found himself falling asleep again as his father and Gaz continued arguing in the hallway. Their voices felt farther and farther away until disappearing completely.

-x-

The crash of the slamming front door echoed throughout the house.

Almost instantaneously, Dib jerked awake in a nauseous sweat. He didn’t sit up, but simply stared wide eyed into his now-dark room as his father and sister noisily tromped through the kitchen. They must have just gotten back from the graduation rehearsal.

How long have I been asleep?

He craned his neck to glance at his clock but couldn’t see anything beyond a dim red glow across his nightstand. He was still curled in the fetal position on his side, still holding his stomach. “Uuuughhhhh.”

His dreams had been bizarre, filled with dizzying repetition and strange, anxiety-inducing plotlines that could only make sense to an unconscious mind. Just remembering them made him feel woozy again…

His queasiness coincided perfectly with another rush of sharp, stabbing pain. He uncurled just enough to lean over his bed and vomit noisily into a bucket sitting nearby for this very purpose.

Just as he finished, his father knocked at the door. “Dib?”

“Yeah?” he weakly asked the dark room.

“I’m letting you rest,” he started, somewhat begrudgingly. “But… are you okay?”

Dib paused a moment too long before answering. “Mmmhmm,” he said after a minute.

“Okay then…”

Even in his state, he could tell his father was holding back everything he could to not haul him down to the basement to run tests on him. He didn’t stop to consider this for very long, though, before drifting into a shallow sleep.

-x-

“Have you checked on your brother?” Membrane was sitting at the table the next morning, nursing a cup of tea.

Gaz ambled past him and began rifling through the refrigerator. “No. But I think he’s just trying to sleep it off. Stomach bugs suck.”

A patch of sunshine seeped through the kitchen window and landed in a patch on the ground. Membrane watched it speculatively.

“Have any of your classmates been sick with something similar?”

Gaz poked her head out of the fridge. “I don’t think so.” She shrugged and continued searching for the strawberry jam.

“Anyone at Dib’s college? Did he mention anything?”

Gaz simply shrugged again. “No? I dunno.” She plunked the jam onto the kitchen table and began messing with the coffee maker.

Membrane stood up, slowly at first, as if he was afraid Gaz would catch him and force him to sit back down. “I’m just going to go check in on him…”

He scaled the staircase, perturbed at how quiet the upper level was. He stopped outside Dib’s room and knocked.

Nothing.

He knocked again, this time a little louder.

“Uuugh…” A small, hoarse groan answered him. He took this as invitation enough and opened the door.

“Son?”

All that was visible was a very limp, very mussed lock of scythe-like hair strewn across his pillow. The rest of Dib was clearly balled up beneath the comforter.

“Are you okay?”

The mass of blankets was silent. Then, very softly, “…No.”

Membrane quickly crossed the room and uncovered the blankets.

Dib’s skin had taken on a sallow, waxy tone and he was covered in a thin sheen of sweat. Both hands were in the same place they’d been the day before, pressed against his stomach until he was gasping for air.

“How long have you been like this?!” Membrane demanded. Already, his head was swirling with a million different possibilities.

A shaky pull of breath prefaced Dib’s words. “It got worse a few hours ago. I’ve never had stomach pain like this before.”

His father reached down, then paused. “Are you okay with me touching you?”

Dib nodded, then cringed into his mattress and pressed his hands tighter into his stomach.

Membrane waited for the pain to pass then, with considerable trepidation, he tried to move Dib’s hands away from his abdomen. With the same amount of unease, the latter obliged.

The tips of two prosthetic fingers pressed into the upper left of his son’s torso. “Does that hurt?”

Dib shook his head frantically, grabbing his father’s hand and guiding it to his lower abdomen, right next to his belly button.

Membrane’s eyebrows raised over his goggles. “There? That’s where it hurts?”

He nodded, tensing up again. His stomach was bloated outwards, looking odd against what was normally a very lean build.

It would have been very easy for Membrane to burst out with his diagnosis in triumph before carting off his child to surgery. It certainly would have been a needed release for the rush of panic that had washed over him. Instead, he looked down at his now-adult son and composed himself the best he could. “Dib?”

One eye cracked open to glance up at him.

Membrane paused before speaking. “You are showing classic signs of appendicitis. It is vital you come with me.”

Dib’s eyes flew open, and he lifted his head off the pillow. He somehow managed to go even paler. “W-what?”

Membrane simply nodded. “Can you stand up?”

Filled with sudden adrenaline, Dib stumbled out of bed, still hunched over in pain. “Okay. Okay… I’ll go downstairs… I just—”

“—No,” Membrane interrupted. “Not the home lab. The hospital wing at Membrane Labs. If I am correct in my diagnosis, you’re going to need emergency surgery.”

Dib froze up, looking queasy. “And you’re sure?” he squeaked out.

“I won’t know for sure without running tests… an ultrasound… but…” he paused, knowing that each word he said was just making Dib more apprehensive about going with him. “… I am fairly confident.”

Dib shuddered and held his stomach, then stumbled forward. Membrane caught his arm and held him steady. Dib was just as tall as he was, something that was disarming to see up close. He leaned his weight against Membrane’s shoulder. For a moment, he stood there, head down and facing the carpet. Then, in a quiet voice, “Okay. I trust you. Let’s go.”

#invader zim #appendicitis cw #vomiting cw #my writing #dib #professor membrane

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tinyinvadr · 11 months

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I’m finally back with another chapter! In this installment, Recap meets the scary gamer girl!

Borrowed Family

Chapter 7

“Okay, are you sure you’re ready? Do we need to go over the plan again? It’s not too late to back out, we can think of something else.”

Dib was more nervous than I was about this whole doll clothes heist thing. I couldn’t blame him, though. From what he told me about Gaz, she did sound pretty scary. But I was ready. I was gonna go on my first borrowing mission, and I was gonna be great at it!

“I’m ready! Let’s go!”

He let out a sigh as he brought me over to Gaz’s bedroom door, then put me down on the floor.

“Okay, she’s downstairs right now, and the plushies won’t activate unless she’s here. I still wouldn’t touch any of them, just to be safe. All you gotta do is get the clothes and get out of there as fast as you can. I’ll be out here keeping watch.”

“I’ve got this, Dib! Trust me!”

With that, I ran inside the dark and spooky bedroom. There seemed to be a bit of a running theme going with the decorations. Lots of skulls, and pigs, and posters with scary-looking creatures on them.

I crept around the room, searching for the doll clothes. Soon enough, I found a plastic bin full of tiny clothing. And just like Dib said, it looked like it could fit me. Not perfectly, but good enough!

I couldn’t take all of them, so I just dug through and picked out a few favorites. Of course, I had to take the little coat that kinda looked like Dib’s, and just ONE of the goth dresses! Not really sure how well I pull the look off, but it’s cool.

I was about to leave with the clothes, but I stopped when I heard footsteps approaching. Dib glanced into the room to check on me, but then turned his attention to the person in the hallway.

“Son, what are you doing? You know your sister doesn’t like it when you snoop through her room.”

“Ah- no, I wasn’t-“

“No need to worry about it, I won’t tell her. But, there is something I wanted to show you. Come along.”

All I could do was watch as Dib’s dad dragged him down the hall. I wasn’t sure whether to stay put or head back to his room on my own. It would probably be safer to wait, but I had no idea how long it would take him to get away from his dad, and there was no telling when Gaz would show up. So, I decided to make a run for it.

My little legs can only go so fast, though, so even as I ran, It still took a while for me to get to the doorway.

Just as I was about to head for Dib’s room, I heard footsteps again, and when I turned to see who it was, my eyes were met with Gaz.

I didn’t want to wait around and find out if she saw me or not, so I darted back into the room and hid in the shadows of the nearest corner.

I held my breath when she entered the room. All humans are scary, but there was something about her that was extra intimidating.

She walked further into the room, and it was then that I realized that I sort of left a mess when I was gathering the doll clothes. And she noticed right away.

“Dib…” She scowled, looking around for him. “I know you’re in here. Get out before I force you out.”

While she was clearly angry, Gaz was also trying to remain calm. But for some reason, that was still terrifying.

“This is your last chance, Dib. Show yourself!”

I pulled my hood over my head and curled up into a ball. I didn’t think she’d be able to find me, but I didn’t wanna take my chances.

But, it turns out she didn’t need to find me.

“SECURITY!!!”

All of the creepy plushies in the room sprang to life, with robotic limbs bursting out of them. They jumped off their shelves and started to prowl around the room, searching.

Before I could fully react, a plush tail wrapped around me and pulled me out into the open. I let out a scream as I saw the head of a rattlesnake hissing above me, its sharp metal fangs ready to strike.

A shadow fell over me, and I turned my attention to Gaz, who was looking down at me in confusion.

“You’re not Dib.”

“N-No… No I’m not!”

She snapped her fingers.

“Release the kid.”

The snake let me go, and all the plushies went back on their shelves and took on their regular appearances. It was freaky how quickly they could change back and forth like that.

I started to run again, but Gaz grabbed me and lifted me off the floor.

“Hold it! I’m not done with you yet. What are you? What are you doing in my room? And why are you stealing my doll clothes?”

I wasn’t sure what to say, so I just went with what I thought would make her less likely to kill me.

“I-I’m Dib’s friend! And I was just borrowing! I’m a borrower, that’s kinda what I do!”

She stopped to think for a second, then shook her head.

“You do realize borrowing involves asking the person for permission first, right?”

“I’m sorry! D-Dib said you-“

“Ugh… I see, he put you up to this. Typical.”

She put me back down on the floor and backed up.

“You’re free to go, kid. Just don’t let this happen again. Now, where’s Dib?”

As if on cue, Dib came running into the room, looking out of breath.

“Recap, I’m here! I’m sorry, my dad was giving me a lecture and it was so BORING! C’mon, let’s go before Gaz- OH MY GOD!!!”

He looked back and forth between the two of us, clearly panicking.

“Gaz, I can explain! Please don’t hurt them, this was all my idea!”

“Yeah. Figured that much out already.” Gaz said with a scoff. “You should’ve just asked me if you needed doll clothes.”

Dib let out a defeated sigh.

“You’re right… Just, please don’t tell anyone about Recap, okay? They’re just a kid, and they need a place to stay.”

Gaz shook her head. “You really think I’m gonna tell people? I hate people, you know that. And anyway, this is none of my business. Just stay out of my room and don’t make them steal stuff from me again. Simple.”

Dib nodded, then scooped me up in his hands. He immediately pulled me close to his chest, and I could actually feel how fast his heart was beating. He was clearly even more shaken by this than I was.

“It’s okay, Dib. I’m alright.”

I turned to look back at Gaz, and her expression softened slightly. I could tell that even though she acted mean and scary, deep down she was a good person.

We returned to Dib’s room, and he set me down and took out the miniature furniture we got from the craft store. After everything was all set up, it was like I had my own little room on his desk.

“I know it’s not much, but I really hope this helps you feel more comfortable. It must be off-putting when everything’s so much bigger than you, so I imagine having stuff that’s suitable for your size is helpful.”

With that in mind, I plopped myself down on my bed. Yes… my new bed… in my new home… wow…

But everything was gonna be okay. I had a human, one of the most dangerous creatures for a borrower to face, that was willing to take care of me. This was the safest I could possibly be. And yet, it still felt wrong. This went against everything I’d ever been taught.

“Alright, after that stressful situation, we should do something more relaxed. Maybe watch a movie? Do borrowers have movies? Does anything I say make sense?”

I chuckled. “You’re good! I’ve heard of movies, but we don’t really watch them, since we don’t have TVs. But I’ll totally watch one with you! That sounds cool!”

Dib smiled and pulled up a movie on his computer, and I sat and watched the giant screen from my bed. It was about spaceships or something. I dunno, I couldn’t really follow the plot, but there were lots of explosions and it was really cool!

After the movie, it was about time for dinner, so he went downstairs to get food for us again.

He came back with a plate of spaghetti and let out a little laugh.

“It’s a good thing we got you those utensils, ‘cause this would be kinda messy to eat with your hands.”

Yep, he definitely had a point there. Having my own fork and knife allowed me to cut my noodles into little pieces. It was still messy, but at least I wasn’t getting sauce all over my arms.

By the end of the night, I was feeling a lot better. I actually managed to get a decent night’s sleep without any nightmares. Maybe being in an actual bed again helped. Or… maybe it was knowing that I had someone who truly cared for me.

#giant/tiny #g/t #giant tiny #invader zim #borrowed family

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verm1c1de · 10 months

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2 3 and 6

2. Any sleep habits either had to get used to? 3. Jealousy issues? 6. Double Date? Thoughts? Who?

2: zadr: zim doesnt sleep unless dib furcefully drags him into bed kicking and screaming. and then dib wiggles and kicks and sleeptalks and drools on him and squeezes zim like a teddybear the whole time. oh how zim suffurs

pradr: again, dib is just a horrible bedmate. redrick and purpur are getting their well deserved beuty sleep in and their human is kicking like a dog and messing up their good sheets with his sweatiness!!!!! god. un-fucking-grateful

3: zadr: dib is a jealous ofurpawssessive bitch. and so is zim. it works out

pradr: in which dib is a jealous ofurpawssessive bitch and it doesnt work out beclaws mew cant have a stupid little internal meltdown ofur efurrything theyre impurrtant figureheads with fuckin jobs to do!!! also sometimes they do it on purrpose. mostly dib and pur,,,, purple likes watching dib and red scowl at eachofur

6: zadr: no. they think this is stupid. dib briefly considers it as a bonding activity with gaz befur he remembers that tak would purrobably maul zim in public and thatd just be embarrassing fur efurrybody

pradr: who the Fuck else would they invite????????? theyre a triple date as it is. thats enough people

#ask #ask game #vermi.txt #zadr #pradr #spectralwiitch #long post

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emeraldspiral · 7 months

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I feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity to not have Zim and Gaz interact more in the show or comics.

Like, I guess it's kind of a consequence of Gaz being characterized as apathetic and actively not wanting to get involved in anything having to do with Zim because she sees him as an idiot not worth her time. But the result is that she ends up on the sidelines a lot. Even when she gets a story centered around her like GameSlave 2, it's completely divorced from the main premise of the show.

You can count the number of times Zim and Gaz talked or interacted with each other in the show on one hand, and excluding that one extremely OoC non-canon bodyswap issue they had maybe five more interactions throughout all the comics.

Consequently, Zim and Gaz have basically no rapport with each other. There's even a joke in one comic that Zim can't even remember Gaz's name.

But like, what if they actually did do a story about Zim and Gaz that kinda deconstructs why she and Zim don't go together. Like, Dib works perfectly as a rival to Zim because he was created for that purpose but when you try to put Gaz in that role it just doesn't work.

We got a little bit of this in Bloaty's Pizza Hog, where Zim talks to Gaz the same way he'd talk to Dib, making grandiose speeches about how her pitiful rescue attempt is a pitiful failure, but her responses are all no-nonsense because she didn't come to fuck around, she just wants to get Dib back home in time for dinner.

So imagine an episode where Zim and Gaz happen to bump into each other. She's just trying to live her life while he's got an evil scheme cooking. Dib's not around, so Zim starts treating Gaz like his substitute, but she won't play along. This cheeses Zim off so he tries to bait her by insinuating that her apathy is really just cowardice; she doesn't bother to try stopping him like her foolish brother because she's already accepted that she can't win. But then she defeats him effortlessly with the most banal, mundane solution. Zim keeps coming back from every failure trying to get Gaz to take him seriously and every time she shuts him down easily and doesn't even have the decency to gloat about it like it was a real accomplishment. Then Dib finally enters the picture and Zim switches his focus to him, because he's giving him the attention and validation he wants and missing all the easy, boring, practical solutions Gaz would use because he's trying to show-off.

Alternatively, Zim makes the cardinal mistake of messing with Gaz's food/video games and she makes him regret it just like Iggins.

It'd be nice if whichever way the story went it had a lasting effect on their relationship moving forward. Like, if we went with scenario 1, every time they saw each other afterward Zim would make some snide remark because he's still bitter about Gaz acting like she's too good for him, and maybe they'd get into the habit of trading barbs like Niles and C.C. on The Nanny. If scenario 2 happens, Zim is terrified of Gaz forever after and will instantly drop whatever he's doing if he thinks it'll incur her wrath, go out of his way to avoid her, run screaming if she comes his way, and if she wants something he'll do whatever she asks if she promises not to hurt him.

#invader zim #zadr #zadf #zage #zim #gaz #gaz membrane

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messinwitheddie · 2 years

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It’s been awhile since you’ve drawn it, but can you draw some more of that smeetry zim au agian? Honestly was pretty wholesome how you drew zim and the smeets together.

Sorry I probably won't get a chance to finish this, but here's a comic excerpt and some old dialogue for the smeetery au I dredged up.

Zim, in the living room, pacing in front of the TV. “Computer!! Disable the alarms already! Run a full security sweep of the whole base then activate code-"

Computer “Wait! Master, that might not be necessary.”

Zim “What?!”

The tv screen shows an image of one of the lower lab's interior. Dib is hogtied/ suspended by a mess of wires. Four smeets are zapping him with their Pak legs.

Dib “AGGGHHGGGHHK!”

Smeet “Zim, look! We shocked the monkey!”

DIB “That-- that's not what that means.” -gets a second shock" AHHHHGGGHHHK!!”

Zim -wipes away a single tear- “What cut-throat soldiers I'm raising. Zim is so proud. COMPUTEEER!! Lock down the genetics lab! I'll be right down. GIR! Guard the front door!”

Gir (salutes in duty mode) “Yes, my master!!” Sits in front of the door, returns to default mode and starts to play with a paddle ball.

Zim -exhales a frustrated growl. Looks back at the TV. “ Smeets!! Get away from the weasely Dib-human right now!! He's dangerous! And filthy!”

Smeets -disappointed- “awww…”

Gaz jumps into view; covers one security monitor with spray paint then tosses the can at another monitor, shattering it and causing it to crash to the floor. Just off screen, two other smeets empty Dib's SE briefcase then sneak inside to explore.

Computer “Woops. Spoke too soon. Second intruder detected.”

Gaz unties Dib, shoving him along. “Ok, I’m calling it. Mission aborted. Let's GO.”

Dib “But--"

Gaz “NOW!! -shoves harder- Haul ass, Dib! Full ass!”

Dib looks back as he grabs his brief case. “This isn't over, Zim!! I WILL expose you to the world!!”

Gaz, growling, drags Dib along. They manage to exit out the same vent.

A continuation of this post

Hope this suffices. ^^

Smeetery au credit goes to @megxolotl and @tearinglight

#invader zim #smeetery #au #dib #gaz

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gotta-resisty · 1 year

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OOC: Resisty Weekly News

This Week: A bit of peace

So many people finding out @agents-pinkies , Skoodge, was alive was a mess. @commandor-lard-nar dealt with it as best he could, Agent Discord, @the-cooler-gaz , was pissed about it, but Agent P, @resisty-tak , comforted her.

Agent Overlord, @resisty-zim , and @agnt-of-chaos , Dib, did get into a fight over communication, but they made up after two days apart. Dib also found out just how traumatized Zim was now, having an extremely difficult time eating or sleeping. He proposed some things to help Zim recover and they worked on it while Dib's leg healed.

@resisty-agent-fox , Sarshe, recovered as well and fit right in with Tyr/Purple and Terua.

Skoodge and his kidnapped guard went to @zee-of-the-irkens 's casino. He ditched the guard, Drea, who started bartering for a ride to the Armada until Zee offered them a job.

Gir went on a hunt in Tenn's lab for Opal.

Zim brought Dib to the canteen to eat, and Dib was being stubborn about not eating. Which incidentally activated some of Zim's smeet feeding instincts and he accidentally regurgitated into Dib's mouth. This horrified Zim more than it did Dib, who analyzed the substance to figure out it was for feeding the smeets which would hatch in a week and a half.

Skoodge, reportedly switching his name to Artichoke, met up with @skoot-over--u20disconnected in the void for a not-date. They exchanged snacks and had some cuddle and petting time, with Artichoke/Skoodge learning he could chirp. It got emotional, they agreed to meet again.

Meanwhile, Zim was having an extremely hard time adjusting to mother instincts and hormones, misunderstanding and blowing out of proportion several cues from Dib. He accidentally scared Dib by being in his lab twice in strange positions right as Dib was waking up.

They looked at an abandoned smeetery, they didn't find much, but the past few days ended up stressing Zim out so much that his analgesics system went out.

Aside from anons trying to mess with Zim's mental state, things were fine. He even made up with Dib in time for them to test out a nest he made in his lab.

Time passed and Dib and Zim's eggs hatched, revealing two girls that they named Drow and Zia. They started adjusting to parenthood.

Skoot and Artichoke/Skoodge had another cuddle session in the void, and Arti revealed his new arm.

Lard Nar and Tak helped Tenn through some growing pains as well.

Gaz and Zim had a skirmish over Skoodge opinions, but they made up. She also finished her new mobility aids and discovered a new planet that she dragged Purple/Tyr to look at with her.

But there was something wrong at the planet.

Tune in next week to find out what happens next.

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snappedsky · 11 months

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Fanatics 99.10

Tak starts off round 3.

*Links to previous and next chapters in reblog*

Greatest in the Galaxy Part 10

Pepito dumps half a gallon of milk down his throat, swiftly followed by half a box of sugary, marshmallow cereal. Excess dribbles down his chin, much to the disgust of his friends and everyone watching it on the TV.

“You’re disgusting,” Zim comments.

“Thanks,” Pepito grunts, wiping his mouth.

“You feeling better?” Squee asks.

“Much,” he replies, “I just needed some sleep and food and I’m back to one hundred percent.” “Some?” Dib scoffs, “you slept for twelve hours and ate every bit of food in the house.” “Still,” Pepito snarls, clenching his fists. “I hate that I lost to that self-important jerk face Irken. If I was at full power, or even half power, I could’ve beat him.”

“We couldn’t have predicted that you would go twice in a row,” Kio points out.

“But we can predict it this time,” Gaz retorts, “it’s happened twice now- to Dib then to Pepito. That can’t be a coincidence.”

“She’s right,” Tak agrees, “whoever plays the game today has to be prepared to do the battle too.”

“But why does this keep happening?” Shmoopy muses.

“Are we just unlucky?” Dib questions.

“I doubt it,” Squee grumbles. “I mean, we are, but I just don’t think that’s the reason.”

“Whatever the case, we have to break this tie with Irk,” Zim demands, “the only way we do that is by winning the game and the battle. So shape up, team. Let’s show Irk they can’t mess with Earth.”

Everyone else nods agreeably and leave the house to head to round 3.

The stadium is going wild with cheers as the team enter their sky box and Mic welcomes everyone back.

“Can’t I participate today? Please?” Dib begs, “I have to redeem myself.”

“I told you, Dib, your ribs are still too fragile,” Shmoopy insists.

“Ugh, this sucks,” he pouts, “Pepito got hurt yesterday and he’s well enough to play.”

“I’m not nearly as delicate as you, Dibby,” Pepito smirks.

“Let’s start round 3! What will the game be?”

Everyone watches as the holographic wheel spins through the games, landing on ‘Stuff Your Face’.

“Oh, this is a fun one folks! Players must eat selected foods from each participating planet. Whoever eats the most wins!”

“An eating contest?” Dib questions.

“Oooooh, that does sound fun,” Squee chimes, “I wanna do it.”

“No way, pick me!” Gaz exclaims, shoving him over.

“No, me!” Pepito snaps and shoves her.

The three of them push into each other as they watch the player wheels spin, hoping for their name to come up.

“And the players shall be...Mixa of Irk, Agil of Swif’el, Wrinch of Techon-03, Bikeps of Mus’ular, and Tak of Earth.”

“Awwww,” Gaz, Squee, and Pepito sigh with defeat.

“Finally,” Tak grins and leaps off the balcony. She lands perfectly in the arena and marches into the middle, where the rest of the players meet.

“We got another arena game today.” A section of the ground falls away and is quickly replaced with a large table holding different food or food-looking items. There’s also a large touchscreen displaying a wheel with five different words. “Our committee carefully selected one dish from each of the five competing planets that they feel best represent that planet. Each player must spin the wheel and eat at least one bite from the dish that comes up. Whoever can eat the most wins five points for their team!”

“What Earth food did they choose?” Dib asks as the Battalion struggle to read the words on the wheel.

“Tacos!” Zim exclaims.

“Tacos?” Gaz scoffs, “they feel that dish best represents Earth?”

“I agree,” Squee grins.

“We got a bigger problem,” Kio grunts, “they’re beef tacos.”

“Why is that a problem?” Pepito questions.

“Irkens can’t digest meat.”

“Ohhhh...”

The team look at Tak with worry, as she glares at the pile of steaming beef tacos on the table.

“Tak will burn her guts out!” Dib exclaims.

“Maybe we’ll be lucky and she won’t get tacos before everyone else drops out?” Shmoopy hopefully suggests.

“We’ve already established we’re unlucky,” Squee mutters.

“Let’s begin! Player order will be decided by the wheel!”

Everyone looks up at the holographic screen as it spins a wheel with the players’ names.

“Agil, Bikeps, Wrinch, Mixa, and Tak!”

“Tak’s last,” Dib observes.

“Good. Gives her more chances for the others to drop out,” Zim says.

Agil steps up to the table and spins the wheel of food on the screen. She watches it tensely until it stops on ‘nuts ‘n bolts’.

“Nuts and bolts?” Gaz questions.

“Like the trail mix snack?” Pepito asks, “another Earth food?’

“No, it’s Techon food,” Kio replies.

Agil grabs a plate of metal screws from the table, shuddering.

“They eat literal nuts and bolts?” Squee exclaims.

“Much of the Techon biology is actually made up of mechanical parts,” Zim explains, “they’re basically cyborgs.”

Wrinch licks his lips hungrily as Agil picks up a spoonful of screws and shoves them in her mouth. She swallows hard, gags and heaves, but manages to not spit it out and chokes it down. She puts the plate back on the table, rubbing her abdominal area as she backs away.

“Agil has managed to down one bite, which is the bare minimum. Next is Bikeps.”

The large muscular alien moves to spin the wheel, but as soon as he puts his finger on the screen, it cracks. “Oops.”

“Can we get another screen please?”

The table sinks back into the ground and swiftly returns with a new screen. Bikeps much more carefully touches it and spins the wheel. It lands on ‘Mus’le Bar’.

“Yes!” Bikeps cheers, grabs a plate of what looks like big, black brinks, and begins shovelling them into his mouth.

“Lucky for Bikeps, he landed on the Mus’ules delicacy, mus’le bar. This may be a while.”

As everyone watches him stuff his face, Mixa sidles up next to Tak.

“So, what’s your deal?” she asks, “you’re like an Irken cyborg? That’s not regulation.”

“It was the only way I could survive,” Tak replies, “with the help of my SIR unit, I repaired myself after my body took extensive damage from an explosion.”

“So why are you with another planet?”

“Because Irk abandoned me.”

Mixa flinches and looks at the surrounding cam-bots. “You can’t speak badly of Irk. The Tallest can hear you, you know.”

“The Tallest do not scare me,” Tak scoffs and grins into the camera.

In their lavish sky box, the Tallest both scowl with annoyance.

“Uppity defect,” Purple grunts.

“She’ll regret that in the battle round,” Red says.

When Bikeps has finally finished eating, he tosses the empty plate onto the table and backs away, smiling with satisfaction. Wrinch steps up next and spins the wheel. It lands on ‘Snack Stick’.

“Lucky,” Mixa and Tak both grunt as the little alien grabs the Irken food. He looks extremely nervous as he pulls a white stick out of its plastic container, extends his tongue, and licks it.

Wrinch gags and heaves with disgust, twitching and convulsing wildly, before collapsing in a heap.

“Oh! Wrinch’s body just couldn’t handle the Irken delicacy. He’s out!”

Mixa steps over the unconscious alien and spins the wheel. She lands on ‘Speed Dust’.

“Ecstacy?” Squee questions.

“Cocaine,” Pepito corrects him.

“Swif’el food,” Kio corrects them both.

Mixa picks up a plate of white powder.

“Are you sure? That looks suspiciously like crack,” Pepito says.

The Irken scoops up a handful of powder and dumps it in her mouth. She shudders with disgust but is otherwise fine and backs away. Tak steps up next.

“Okay, only the Techon got out this round so that’s one less to worry about,” Zim states, “as long as Tak doesn’t get tacos, we’ll be fine.”

She spins the wheel and it lands on tacos.

“Fuck,” the team sigh.

Tak eyes the plate of food with worry as she hesitantly picks it up.

“O-okay, well, who knows where they even got those tacos,” Squee says reassuringly. “I mean, Taco Hell doesn’t even use actual meat in their tacos.”

“She just needs to survive one bite,” Dib adds.

Tak picks up one of the meat filled shells, lifts it to her mouth, and takes a bite.

Before she can even start chewing, steam rises out of the corners of her lips, as if her mouth is literally on fire.

“Oooh that doesn’t look good,” Gaz comments.

The plate of tacos falls from her hands as Tak covers her mouth and forces herself to chew. Her face contorts painfully as she tries to swallow. Then she lurches, doubles over onto her hands and knees, and throws up brown and pink sludge.

“Oh!” her team exclaim.

“Tak is out! What is Earth food made of? This will definitely need a warning for our more sensitive viewers.”

Tak heaves and falls onto her back next to Wrinch, pink drool still oozing out of the corners of her mouth.

“I gotta go help her,” Shmoopy says and rushes down to the arena. The rest of the team continue watching as Agil takes her turn.

“Well, maybe the Irken won’t win,” Dib suggests hopefully.

After a few more rounds, Mixa is the last standing, after Agil and Bikeps couldn’t stomach what they had to eat. She picks up a snack stick and takes a celebratory lick.

“And Mixa takes the win, earning her team five points, putting Irk solely in first with 23 points! Irk is back on top.”

“As it should be,” Red grins with Purple in their sky box.

“Disgraceful,” Tak groans from where she’s lying on her stretcher in her team’s sky box. She grips her stomach painfully as Shmoopy attempts to wipe the ooze that is consistently leaking out of her mouth. “I’m too much of a disappointment to live. I’d end myself, but as I can’t move right now, one of you will have to do it.”

“Well, you tried your absolute best to eat it, so we can’t blame you for that,” Kio says reassuringly.

“I can,” Zim grunts and Pepito smacks the back of his head.

“The biggest issue is what comes next,” Dib points out.

“Time for the battle!”

“With how the last two rounds went, it’ll be me,” Tak says as she painfully sits up.

“No,” Squee grunts, glaring at the spinning wheels. “Make it me.”

One by one, the five wheels stop on the selected players. The Earth team wheel starts to slow on Tak’s name, then suddenly jumps to Squee’s.

“The players will be Zinather of Irk, Nimbel of Swif’el, Bo-olts of Techon-03, Peccs of Mus’ular, and Squee of Earth!”

“What?” the Tallest exclaim.

“Squee...” Zim gasps as the rest of his friends stare in shock. “What...did you do?”

Murderous rage almost radiates off Squee, the likes of which they’ve only seen from one other person, as he leaves the room. “I’m ending this now.”

Even the cam-bot keeps its distance as it follows Squee through the halls. On Earth, his friends watch him on the TV with concern.

“Squee is pissed,” Colton remarks.

“Of course he’s fucking pissed,” Devi snaps, “Dib and Pepito were both beaten by this Zinather jerk, and he’s in the battle again, for the third time. This smells rotten.”

“This is gonna be bad,” Johnny warns, “no matter who wins, it’s gonna be bad.”

#invader zim #invader zim fanfiction #johnny the homicidal maniac #johnny the homicidal maniac fanfiction #iz jthm crossover #myocs #myart

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The alien was at his house. Nearly every day after school. Dib was incensed.

It seemed where ever he went he'd see that green face. And possibly the worse part, Zim had mostly stopped giving him any attention. Not that Dib wanted the alien's attention! Of course he didn't, but it'd be much better if he was the focus and not his sister.

Gaz passed Zim a ranch bottle barely looking at him.

"Thanks," he said, obviously trying to get her guard down! His tongue stuck out slightly as shook it. It let out a fart as he squeezed it. It was quickly capped and placed up right on the table. Dib instantly snatched it while shooting the invader a glare. Zim stuck his tongue out at the human before returning to his food.

Gaz sighed.

"He didn't do anything to the ranch, Dib."

"You don't know that!"

"But I did tamper with the sauce!" Zim proclaimed a hand on his chest. Gaz shook her head. "You will never know of the horrors that await you dirt child! The horrors of the sauce!" He laughs evilly.

"See I told you!" He jumped up onto the table. "I know your games Zim! Gaz may fall for them, but I won't!"

"Yes, yes, we know zit boy." The irken waves him off. Dib's smile dropped to a frown. "Go on then. Thwart Zim's masterful scheme." A carrot crunched loudly in his mouth.

"Don't talk with food in your mouth. It's gross," Gaz said.

"You're gross!"

"You're a child."

"There are no Irken children. You either are a smeet finishing development fresh out of the pods or you're an irken." Gaz raised a brow.

"is that so? When do irken's stop growing?"

"It's different for everyone, but most never truly do. There are just tiny, tiny spurts of growth, then nothing for long periods of time. Normally. Obviously, there are expectations." Zim smiled proudly. "I was the tallest in my plug for a while!" Gaz hummed.

"Did you grow all at once then?" Then took another bite of her sandwich.

"Yes!" He said brightly. "Yes, I did." He deflates. "I finished growing as soon as I left the smeetry."

"Is a smeetry like skool?"

"No, that's an education plug. A smeetry is more like a nursery, perhaps? I don't know if there's a human equivalent."

"How long are irken's in skool then?"

"However long it takes."

"Do irken's have families?"

"No."

"Not even as smeets?"

"Especially not as smeets."

"That's pretty messed up."

"Is it?"

Dib leaped off the table, unintentional interrupting the conversation. He cursed to himself. That was some good information. With the ranch grasped tightly in his hands, he went into the living room. Lingering behind the wall didn't have the desired results. No. The topic had quickly shifted to video games.

After another ten minutes of nothing he went downstairs to the lab with the bottle. But somewhere he knew this was a ploy to distract him from Zim's true plan.

#refriedrambles #of clones and conspiracies

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