A small scene that shows Professor Membrane being an irken and revealing to your son - well, I wouldn't say revealing himself of his own accord, Dib must have found out...probably.

I've had this concept of "dad alien" in my mind for some time now, so I tried to make a small sample of what I imagined. But it took a little longer than I expected, as I tried to push my limits and make a zim invader art with the more "detailed" style and less squares of the original style.

Dramatic extra scene:

Well, and putting that in as something extra, showing our "no more crazy boy" reacting to his irken dad. Anyway, I tried to make a Dib after the events of The Florpus, having the most conformist personality and with a touch of indirect sarcastic humor.

Dib's style was easier to do, but I wasn't very satisfied..

About the coloring of the men of the membrane family I say: I am blue da bu dee– Lol sorry..

Invader Zim AU: Arc 3

Speacial thanks to @l-ii-zz for being the inspiration behind this AU.

ARC 3 

A year and a half had went by ever since Gaz rescued Zim and her family, and things were going well, until both Irk and Earth were witnesses to different looking Florpus holes, where nightmarish creatures from another universe attack the planets, in an attempt to control whoever they can find in order to expand their army. The army that lands and attacks Earth find and hunt GIR, for he contains something that can help them with their endgame goals. Taking notice of this, Zim was able to get GIR before he was captured and are forced to escape the planet via a recently rebuilt and upgraded Voot Cruiser in order to avoid being caught. They have trouble getting the ship into the air, until Dib risks his life to get it to launch up into space. All Zim could while he head up to the stratosphere was watch in horror as Dib and his family get surrounded by the nightmarish creatures.

During his time in space, Zim’s fear of being alone begins to grow, and the thought of losing GIR, the primary target for the creatures, to the aforementioned hunters, just made it worse. They eventually land and make camp on a planet with no life. During that time, Zim upgraded GIR and set up security measures in order to make sure that the little SIR unit wouldn’t get caught.

Meanwhile, Earth is taken over by the creatures’ leader, Nightmary, while Irk is taken control by her second in command, Dr. Brainmangle. On Earth, the Membrane family, including Dib, who had survived being surrounded the day Zim fled to space, are the leaders of an entire town-sized resistance, while back on Irk, Purple and Tak lead an underground resistance, formed from the Irkens and SIR units who escaped Brainmangle’s control. They each decide to send the people willingly brave enough to head to space and find and bring Zim and GIR back. The candidates were Dib, back on Earth, and Skoodge and Tenn on Irk, as they headed off to space.

2 weeks and a half have passed since Zim and GIR landed on the lifeless planet, and things were going well, until humans and irkens, all under the control of Nightmary and Brainmangle, try to attack the duo, to which they fail, as all they could do was watch them escape. Enraged, Nightmary summons a black portal, sucking the Voot Cruiser in. She eventually does the same to Dib, Skoodge and Tenn half a day later.

Waking up in a black void, Zim and GIR get separated by force, with both ending up in emotionally painful situations. While Zim fights off his fears and repressed emotional negativity come to life, GIR is chased down by repressed memories of his creation, alongside the awoken and vengeful consciousness of all the other SIR unit models he was improperly built on, also come to life. And while GIR shuts down thanks to this trauma and is taken, Zim escapes, yet is face-to-face with Nightmary, who reveals herself to not only be a female incarnation of Dib, but also to be an evil, powerful, growing entity, made out of all the negativity Dib, his family, and others them and Zim know and have met, moved on from, and reveals that she had destroyed GIR with his trauma, putting Zim in distraught agony, as he failed to save his SIR unit as the two fall into a mystical prison.

Just as that ended, Dib, Skoodge and Tenn end up crash-landing into the void. After meeting each other, they each explain what was happening on their planets and start searching for Zim and GIR. They eventually separate from each other. Skoodge and Tenn end up facing Dr. Brainmangle, who traps the two in facing their own fears.

Meanwhile, Dib finds Zim and GIR in their prison cell. Seeing Zim in the same position he had on the day he was depressed months after he discovered that he was an Irken the whole time, Dib was able to sympathize with the Irken and encourage him, which worked. But after freeing Zim and repairing and reactivating GIR, Dib is confronted by Nightmary, and is nearly consumed by fear, until he reminds himself of how much he moved on from the emotional baggage within him, which, much to his surprise, gave him enough strength in order to counter Nightmary’s power, who tries, yet fails to trap the trio in a fit of rage, as she watches them escape.

Using this discovery to his advantage, Dib, alongside Zim and GIR, were able to help Skoodge and Tenn face their fears. But as those two escape, he and the rest face off against Brainmangle, who proudly reveals himself to be the nightmarish counterpart to his father, taking on the exact appearance he’d witnessed from his nightmare at the psychiatrist he went to back then, but with some additions here and there. Dib hesitates, but Zim manages to help him, which ends up with the death of the mad doctor. Reaching Skoodge and Tenn, the trio repair the Voot Cruiser and escape the black void, with the other two irkens following alongside them, flying towards a freed Irk, which was nearby.

Their victory was short-lived, however, as Nightmary, mad with rage, summons her entire army and personally appears, revealing her true from. All seemed lost, until Membrane and Gaz, alongside their army, appear and join the Irken army.

A giant war-like space battle had begun. Both sides couldn’t take advantage of each other at first, until Nightmary unleashes her latest and most dangerous creation yet: a 4-armed Irken/human hybrid gunner/warrior named Zib.

Zib was a force to be reckoned with, as he shot down and defeated many ships and fighters single-handed. He was also feared by his control over his pet: a monstrous, demonic creature that took the form of Gaz, more specifically, her appearance from Dib’s psychiatrist nightmare, much to the aforementioned sister’s shock, rage and dismay. When it attacks Zim, Dib and Membrane, it was unstoppable, until Gaz stepped in, killing it in a fit of rage for what it was doing to her family and friend.

After that, Membrane and Gaz stay behind in order to fight Zib, while Zim and Dib face off against Nightmary. It appeared that our heroes were about to lose, as Nightmary had the upper hand, especially with how she handled Gaz and Membrane shortly after they defeated and killed Zib. But her prey were able to use what Dib and Zim learned from the black void in order to defeat and kill Nightmary once and for all, giving the humans and irkens victory at long last, as the nightmarish creatures all turned to dust, alongside their dimension, free those from their control.

After a month, Earth and Irk establish peace with each other and everything was peaceful, especially for Zim, Dib and his family at their end.

And that's it. Thanks for reading.

My Oc Estela Membrane showing her different outfits

Happy Birthday Zim!

Making a lil changes on this boi

I honestly have the other parts of the comics, but ykw I might change the story anyway

Gaz and Dib are "colleague", working under the Membrane company founded by their scientist mentor. However, although Dib trying as hard as he can to proof himself what he's capable of instead just become a scientist, Membrane remain disapproval and ask Gaz to retrieve Dib back from his "mission".

Zadr but girlies :p

hewloo

moments before disaster, also GIR is building a snowman:

♡ ˢᶠʷ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒⁿˡʸ ♡

more night sketches from earlier

I just think that there should be more stories about them crashing fancy space parties.

A laughing voice from the future sounds on the air(?)  English version thnks to @cup-of-wine-glass-of-tea​ uwu luv u  

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Invader Zim AU: Arc 1

Speacial thanks to @l-ii-zz for being the inspiration behind this AU.

ARC 1

A year after Enter the Florpus, Dib gets bored one day and decides to search for something he had in the basement, which leads him to accidentally finding a secret passageway. He shows it to his father, Professor Membrane and his sister, Gaz, who regain memories about their past life as Irkens, along with the ability to recognize everything that’s alien, Irken included. Their past, clashing with their recent memories, made them realize the consequences of their actions towards Dib, even more so when they enter the passageway, uncovering the truth about themselves and especially about Dib’s birth and life as an Irken. When the two come clean about everything, Dib, shocked by this revelation, along with pent up rage from what his dad did to him finally being let out, emotionally spirals, and despite Membrane and Gaz’s best to calm him down and try to explain, they were futile, for things escalate and everything takes a dark turn, where Dib’s real form, his Irken form, reveals itself, as he goes on a crazed, bloody, city-wide massacre, in search of his family, so that he can kill them.

Speaking of his family, Membrane and Gaz get Zim, who felt worthless and hopeless after finding out the truth regarding his “mission”, involved and escape Dib’s wrath. When finding a safe place to rest, the fugitives explain their current situations to each other and team up to stop Dib before he emotionally spirals further. When they return to town, they are horrified to see it turned into a warzone; dead bodies everywhere, mutilated and destroyed in every way possible, blood everywhere, destroyed property, fires ablaze all across the streets and destroyed police cars all across the road.

When they are found by Dib, they end up being chased at every nook and cranny, as he destroys everything in his way while chasing down his prey, in every scary way imaginable, even killing a few survivors along the way, in ways that were able to scare them, even Gaz. After being chased around, they fight Dib, who was able to overpower Zim and the Membranes whenever he got the advantage, even damaging GIR to the point where he was deactivated by force. He was eventually defeated, but at the cost of him passing out due to his PAK malfunctioning thanks to his emotional spiral. This victory also came at the cost of Gaz’s PAK being completely destroyed and the death of Minimoose, who was crushed by Dib’s bare hands.

During the passing month, Zim and the Membrane family recover and fix their wounds, along with Membrane having to build a new PAK for Gaz, while they work on Dib’s PAK, thinking about their actions towards him during a few breaks. Dib eventually wakes up with a repaired and upgraded PAK, yet succumbs into a deep depression, and to make it worse, while he may have forgiven Zim and his sister, he was still mad towards his father.

2 weeks passed by and little has changed. Dib spent most of his time in his room lying on the floor, while his PAK acted like a hostile guard dog, only going to other rooms to either eat or check on the others, except for his father of course. Speaking of which, Membrane spent his time in his lab, feeling guilty for the events that had happened. Gaz and Zim are at a loss on what to do, until the former reminded herself of a plan she spent the other day and night making, one she decided to set in motion. Zim, interested on this plan, decides to participate.

He enters Dib’s room to try to talk to him. This goes according to plan, as Dib talks to him about his identity crisis and how ironic it was for him to try to expose Zim for being an alien when he himself was one all this time. Zim in return explains his current situation, about his mission and lack of purpose. The 2 boys come to realize that they could be friends and learn from each other. After talking to Dib, Zim talks to Membrane, telling him to stop sulking over what happened and giving him advice as to how to make amends with “what he calls his son-unit”, along with sharing his talk with Dib.

On Gaz’s side of things, she gets to talk to her brother, who talks about his insecurities about his worth as both a human and an Irken. Gaz suspects that it’s because their father considered her his favorite, to which Dib confirms, yet adds details that leave his sister heartbroken and shocked. However, Gaz was able to comfort Dib as he began to breakdown. She then goes to her father and confronts him about his current state and advises him to approach how he comforts Dib, along with sharing her talk with her brother. This gets Membrane thinking hard on what to do for the rest of the day.

At night, Dib stayed awake thinking about the previous events, along with his conversations with Dib and his sister. Next morning after breakfast, Membrane and Dib finally get to talk to each other face-to-face. When the latter starts the conversation by asking why the truth about their lives was hidden, the former tells the truth about it, by giving his son answers about his past and to how he, Gaz and Dib came to be.

Dib explains why he is the way he is, but was having reminders about his bad luck, along with memories of it coming from his father and of him being in a lab. Beginning to break down, Dib assumes that his father intentionally gave him his bad luck for the sake of relief. Membrane, shocked at this assumption, denies this and tries to calm his son down, but to no avail, as he continues to break down, looking back at his entire life, connecting it to recent events and what his father just denied, and was about to spiral out of control, until Membrane hugs him, reassuring him. Dib, still breaking down, continues to deny the truth, but it was until Gaz came, hugging him and reassuring him that overwhelms him emotionally, as he lets out all the tears and emotional baggage within him for a minute and a half.

After that, the family talks things over, giving Dib the closure he longed for after so long. Zim, watching from a room outside the one the Membrane family were in, was finally understanding of human emotions and decides to make his own mission: to study everything Earth has to offer, live among it’s creatures and help Dib learn more about Irkens and himself.

I mean, the thing is that fiction about aliens is almost always going to be about some sort of Other on some level. Whatever it’s about demonizing or fear-mongering about some sort of Outsider Group or trying to get the audience to sympathize with the Other via the metaphor of a lovable alien. 

And Invader Zim is kind of an interesting spot there because, like, it’s not just ‘Bad Outsider Out to Destroy Our Beloved In-Group’ or ‘Poor Sympathetic Outsider Being Put-Down by the In-Group’. First thing first because Zim is kinda both. He is both the Outsider secretly hiding inside the in-group plotting their destruction - but the narrative and framing also sympathizes with him and supports his view of the in-group (that humans are stupid and gross).

So he can’t really be A Scary Demonized Outsider when he gets so much narrative sympathy and support, but also… he is a murderous little world-conquering bastard and most of his suffering is generally just him gets exactly what he deserves so he can’t be your classic sort of Sympathetic Outsider either. 

And the other thing is that the in-group is not even really involved in Zim’s conflict. Zim’s biggest challenge in conquering the earth is Dib, another Outsider. Often, despite being a human and thus part of the literal in-group, Dib is an even bigger Outsider to humanity than Zim is.

Zim and Dib are both Outsiders, and Zim isn’t just an Outsider as an Alien on Earth - among his own people he is in the same situation as Dib is, an Outsider in his own in-group. (Not that he can ever admit to himself that is the case). So these two Weirdos are fighting to protect/further the goals of two in-groups that will never actually accept them. 

And so often their main weapon against each other and the primary danger and the source of their suffering for themselves is the same thing; the in-group conformity and enforcement of social norms. 

Dib’s main evidence that Zim is an Alien is, most of the time, just the fact that he looks and acts weird. But also he himself is constantly bullied for looking and acting weird.

And Zim’s most constant source of anxiety while undercover on Earth is the fact that he’s going to get caught being Too Weird and then not just fail his mission, but get brutally dissected and experimented on. But his best defense against being exposed is… basically just to point out just how much Dib also Diverges From the Norm.

It’s the story of two Weirdos trying to get the other punished for being weird in some way, while the Normies just kinda look on and laugh at them both. And the actual thing they want, recognition and acceptance from their in-group is the one thing they are doomed to never actually get. 

And honestly, I think that's actually what makes a lot of real-life Outsiders cling to IZ, especially while we’re teens. I think, in a way, the fact that it’s kind of a messy Outsider narrative makes it more relatable to the messy middle-school/high-school experience than something more neatly crafted to be uplifting to the Weird Kids.

I mean, I certainly see the obvious value in fiction that’s actually trying to create a positive narrative for queer teens or autistic kids or maybe just scene kids or any combination of the following. This sort of media is very good, and can be just as important to some folks.

But... also the truth is that when you’re an edgy teen wrecked with self-loathing for Weirdness you don’t even fully understand “There’s nothing wrong with me and all the people making me feel like they are Bad!” can be a hard message to really believe in. Sometimes it’s easier to start from “Maybe I am all the terrible things people say that I am but.. still deserve love and sympathy, I can still be the hero of the story”. 

And because, sadly, the problem of Weirdos attacking each other for being Weirdos using the same rhetoric that’s used to hurt them, just for the sake of approval and recognition from in-groups that are never going to treat either of them as nothing but a joke - is not a phenomenon exclusive to the Silly Alien Invader Nicktoon.

And Dib and Zim’s rivalry is a great basic framework to explore it both in analysis of the canon and in fanworks.

I think it would look something like this :^

I know what you are