In case anyone is interested, I've just updated after a long hiatus my Zim x OC fanfiction 'One Stand', come read it it's very fluffy and romantic and funny and *dramatic* (I hope), just beware the last few chapters are nsfw so obviously minors steer back from this story
It think im addicted to making old-timey ETF screenshot edits to make it look like Zim is saying something else... more-so for my own amusement, but still...
It must really suck that most Irkens don’t ever get time to rest or take breaks. Imagine just constantly going and doing work until you either get killed or die
No but for real, he’s an unstoppable death machine, you know.
I don’t know what Zim’s bodycount is, but I know he has one. At absolute–ABSOLUTE–minimum there are at least three that we know of if we don’t count the Florpus, but since it’s a Nickelodeon show and death was a thing the execs wouldn’t let ‘em do, I consider most deaths to be implied. Everything in the mannerisms of his fellow Irkens imply he has killed other Irkens, purposefully or not.
I always considered Impending Doom 1 his major bodycount. Aside from “you blew up all the other Invaders”, just stomping around the planet’s surface in a battlemech absolutely had to kill some people. He was technically piloting it and likely at the very least stepped on someone. You could argue the part of the blame is also on the fellow Navs in the mech, but they were acting under his orders so at that point it feels more like a “technically the bullet killed him” argument. Being a little guy who can’t beat many people in single combat and is so small he could be blown away by his own gun’s kickback, Zim always struck me as someone who fights and kills through tech and bombs. It’s just a smarter way to fight.
I can get the argument that Zim doesn’t kill anyone directly it’s more a result of Zim screwing up than anything else, but… come on. He went through several stages of military training and from a militaristic species that has an obsession with destroying stuff and doom. Like, you don’t spook an entire auditorium of Invaders plus two Tallest from just showing up by not killing several hundred people. Accidents happen, but after a certain point those accidents became habits and Zim has no intention whatsoever to curb those habits. There’s accidentally hitting someone with your car, and then there’s making every drive into accidental Carmageddon and refusing to get driving lessons. At some point, the onus is on you.
Nah, Zim absolutely 100% killed a guy. Probably several guys, and at least some of them had to be on purpose, even if it was though blind luck, just by numbers. Someone tends to explode when Zim just… breathes.
Concept: Zim finds out that Dib is allergic to cats so he turns himself into a cat(?) to hopefully kill him. but Zim get picked up by animal control almost immediately so naturally his plan can’t be completed
Course his plan wouldn’t have even worked because he’s hairless
y'know sometimes fanfiction is just an increasingly convoluted series of setups to make characters sit around and talk about their feelings, and that's ok
Sometimes I think about how invader zim accidentally led to the creation of avatar the last air bender and I’m just just..woah!!! Things can impact other things just like that. Crazy.