#dib doesnt know all that. he doesnt know anything about how irkens work

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posting zatr on tumblr.........wow...... full circle moment..............

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tell me all of ur invader zim headcanons or like aus or whatever u NEED to talk more

i do have an au i am working on, though i think ill make a separate post for that, right now ill just talk about headcanons!!

disclaimer that u dont have to agree with any of my headcanons, this is just how i see them personally, and there are times when i draw them older, but that's only really for aus or something

also, giving young kids sexualities isnt sexualizing, kids can know when they like boys or girls more, or both! <3

DIB

dib is about 14 when i draw him (probably like 13 and 9 months old, still a baba)

5'0 in height

mexican

he is autistic! his hyper-fixations are aliens, and cryptids in general, i would like to think he also fixates on technology, and building things

the headphones i draw him in are sensory headphones! theyre just noise cancelling but they help him a lot!

he is trans FtM, but since hes young hes just on hormone blockers and practices deep voices and stuff, which is why his voice is still high, but still masc (he/him)

in the show i know he does hack into things, but i like to think he also programs a lot! he makes a lot of stuff for his own use, like for his computer he made a program that helps him keep all his personal info on zim, it has a password and everything so no one tries stealing anything

he has anger issues, not major ones, but he does get mad a lot and easily, he usually calms down by napping or watching supernatural documentaries

he draws a lot more than you think! i know theres silly doodles across his room, but i like to think he has a binder full of all his drawings that arent on his walls or anything, hes a weird kid, so hed probably draw like zims gut anatomy or something

he tries playing the guitar, hes not the worst at it, he just cant play a full song without messing up at least once

he has paranoia, its hard for him to sleep usually, so that's why he's almost always tired, when he cant sleep he stays up trying to find more stuff on zim!

he prefers tea over coffee! while he does love coffee, i like to think he drinks tea more cause of prof membrane, and he doesn't complain about it, his favorite tea is black tea!

i like to think that he knows he's not straight but just doesn't know what he is, he says omni whenever someone asks, but he doesn't really know

he loves, and i mean LOVES gir so much that he gets kinda upset that he cant have his own sir(?) unit, i mean who doesnt

his briefcase is actually a case for his laptop that he just uses as a briefcase at times, sometimes his laptop is in there sometimes its not, depending on what he's set out to do

ZIM

when i draw zim, i personally see him around the age 14-15 (14 and 9 months at least) still a baba

4'11 in height

zim has adhd, though on irk its just seen as him having trouble in a lot of things, or just as a defect, it doesn't bring him down though!

though zim is young, he did go through invader training because of how irkens are made just to be weapons and/or invaders

he used to be a scientist for the irken empire, but quickly got excluded from being one due to messing around and messing up a lot of valuable equipment, the turtle neck was kept from being a scientist as a kind of punishment to "remember what he did" but he just thinks it looks cool

he was never given limb enhancers like the other invaders cause he isn't a real invader, so he thought hed make his own cause he though maybe they just forgot to give him some, it does have a bit more advances than the regular invader one, since they're not allowed to enhance or add onto their enhancers without given permission

zim cant eat many earth foods, but he also cant eat many irk foods, , not cause of allergies, but because of his sensory issues, its hard for him to eat in general (his safe food is waffles!!)

irkens dont have genders, mainly prefered pronouns in which zims are he/it

he made his own hearing aid cause of how much it was pushed off on irk, no one really believed that irkens can be born with defects like that unless their antennas are damaged (only his right antenna is mostly deaf)

he sees gir as his little brother more than he sees him as a sir unit, he doesn't know the term brother, but knows he cares more about gir than anything else even if he finds him annoying

he forgets things, a LOT, in the comic i think its funny how fast he forgets things or pushes things aside, but i like to think he just, actually forgets that fast, even if he tries to remember it

like dib, he doesnt really know his sexuality, mostly cause of how irkens don't have genders, or don't really have the concept of genders in their head, so he just also thinks he's omni, with a masc pref

i like to think he has more of a over bite, but when he's not paying attention he sometimes puts his bottom row of teeth over his lips, just as a little fidget, or just does it while biting the skin off his lips (if irkens have lips?? idk probably not visible ones)

he is still growing, height wise, but when he's older his hight wont be the tallest, probably a few inches or so

GAZ

gaz is 11 and a half (11 and 6 months) she is also, a baba

5'0 in height, suck it zim

mexican

she has adhd as well, fixated on games and pigs

her safe food is pizza!! she loves eating it with her dad and dib, they just like being able to spend time with all of them even if she messes with dib a lot

she likes cryptids to a degree, also isn't as obsessed as dib is, just thinks that only SOMETIMES they're interesting

she tells dibs to make hacks for her in games, and even tells him to make games or addons for games, she usually plays the games dib makes for like a day and then never again

along with the guitar, she can play the drums! she likes playing them while dibs trying to sleep or nap

she is a lesbian and a demigirl! (she/they)

they have a lot of stuff for stress reliving in her room, like a punching bag and a LOT of pillows to punch, she sometimes puts a picture of dibs face on the punching bag, but its not as good as the real thing

she doesnt hate dib, she wont mind if he holds her hand while they walked home or hugged her from time to time, she just likes tormenting him cause its funny

she prefers coffee over tea, which is why they have coffee at their house, she prefers it over tea but would still drink tea if they had some, plus prof membrane basically makes them drink it at times, she prefers her coffee black, but wont mind it being super sweet either

the necklace that her dad gave her actually has a tracker in it incase she ever gets lost, they never get lost cause they're mostly at home, but just incase

she thinks zim is interesting, they think its interesting how he is and how it even got to earth, but she cant be bothered to find out, all she knows is that he's annoying

gaz is sort of blind, they have hyperopia (far-sighted) she does have glasses but only uses them if they really need to, she doesnt wanna look like a nerd like dib

she usually cuts her hair by themself, mostly cause of how when they go get it cut they usually give her a bob instead of what they wanted

probably prefers punk, goth, and emo over scene, but still admires others who can pull it off

has a little case for their game slave! its like a little bag, shes always sure to have it on themself so shes never bored

GIR

gir has no real age mostly cause of how hes a robot, but i like to think theyre always seen as a child, 8 years old to be exact

gir is autistic coded!

3'5 in height

they have no gender as well, obviously, but do have "preferred" pronouns (it usually gets called by it/they/he)

he really does care about zim and his mission, it just has a lot of trouble focusing on it, or functioning right, since theyre literally made of garbage

his sir unit build is the same as mimis (taks sir), but just defected with misprints and messed up parts, thats why he has prints in the same place as mimi, just messed up

adding onto that, he doesnt have the same big arm as mimi on his left, both his arms are from the builds that regular invaders have

a lot of his parts float, his arms can still extend and move freely, its just that they float , there is a sertain extent where if they go too far they just detach or recoil back to the body, they only detach if zim needs to fix anything on gir

a lot of his body can be detached, almost every single part, he can either still be sentient while they do, or be turned off

zim actually made girs disguise, like handmade, so it has different shades of green scattered around on it, its obviously fake, but people fall for it

the blue color on him changes depending on how he feels, usually its just other shades of blue (ex. dark blue for sad, bright blue for happy/excited, a little duller blue for neutral, you get it) , but when he actually takes orders is when he turns a different color (red)

a lot of the foods he eats can actually turn into fuel for him, depends on what it is, if its chips, soda, slushies, donuts, or any foods that would be on irk as well, will most likely be transferred into energy for him, if its foods like pizza, tacos, or just anything thats specific to earth, it will most likely get jammed into his system, to where zim has to clean almost all the time

a lot of his system is messed up, but zim fixed it up a bit, he doesnt know what causes gir to be crazy and silly and just the way he is, but he feels like it wont feel right if gir was just a normal sir unit

ill probably come back to this to add or fix some stuff if i ever feel the need to, but for now these are all the headcanons i have for them!! these are either adding onto or just new ones that werent on the refs i made for them, so yeah!! again this is just how i see them, you dont have to agree or anything

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About the matpat video, I'm writing a fic similar to this concept and I was thinking how the whole disguise thing wouldn't really work. Dib would notice and even tho Gaz made a comment about having a squeedlyspooch, Zim still stole a human organ from her. I kind of gave a convoluted explanation that Dib was given human DNA and the irken DNA is "hidden" which works for an au but not as an intentional theory.

Yeah, the thing about aus are litterally fuckit up all you want yknow like you can put whatever shit in your au and i wont say anything cause its an au, but as a full theory i dont see it yknow!

(Also im a huge matpat fan and i know he doesnt think all his theorys are true and most of them are just for fun, just incase anyone was upset with me, im also jist having fun with it)

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(( my zim makes friends. but he doesn’t like it.

he makes these connections without even thinking about it. he’s so dissociated from these kinds of emotions half the time that he doesnt realize thats what he feels until its so intense he can’t handle it. and even when he is aware of these feelings, he literally forces himself to not acknowledge it. in any way he can. in the same way he deludes and lies to himself about everything else that threatens him emotionally.

zim is a creature who loves and needs to be loved. hell, his first words were 'i love you'. he craves unconditional love and affection and acceptance and validation. but the irken world is a cold and cruel one. and zim essentially had to shut down and repress those parts of himself to survive in every sense. certain things get you killed, and when they dont get you killed, they get you rejected. this was even more a case for my zim with his namesake and all. but that’s a whole other thing.

zim is horrible at making friends and keeping them. hes lack of self awareness is all self inflicted, but his core is aware of his needs, and yearns to fulfill them. he may make an ass of himself but he gets so attached to people in this conditional backwards way in order to avoid pain from all directions. he ‘cant understand’ certain feelings and emotions he used to feel so innocently as a child because theyve caused him nothing but pain and he was forced to reject them. its really the same energy as ‘sounds fake, but okay.’ 

his reality is so fragile and hes completely shut down in so many ways from the traumas hes endured. he could do nothing but delete memories and literally drive himself nearly to insanity to bypass his own defective system. he has to think about things a certain way, delude himself into thinking this/that is his truth/reality. not only to avoid the emotional pain, but because otherwise, his defective PAK will cause him physical pain for having feelings that dont serve the hive or his purpose. 

because he isn’t supposed to need or want these things, especially from beings he’s supposed to destroy. so he has to go about things counter productively. he has to twist his logic and his world views. he has to not Make Sense sometimes in order for him to have his needs met, to do what he wants to do without being in pain. its why he comes to fuck up so often. and it really doesnt always work.

to use one of his current relationships as an example, maranda is someone zim loves very much. he hated her at first, because she was the first catalyst for dib not needing to concern himself with zim for validation anymore. but she wasnt just there for dib, she was there for HIM. even more so, in fact, for reasons im not going to get into here. shes someone who has only tried to know him and understand him. outside of his invader persona. and accept all of him.

this wasnt an easy thing to understand for zim. he was afraid. he was confused and angry and in pain. because after years and years of burying the part of yourself that can love and empathize... after years of being systematically abused, how the fuck do you know whats real? how do you let yourself understand and feel this way again? how do you cope? are you safe? how do you know theyre not trying to hurt you?

and hes not safe. hes never been emotionally or physically safe. and when on earth, its largely in part to him having a defective, brainwashing super-computer stapled to him.

but mar was patient with him. she never forced him to be anything he wasnt, anything she knew wasnt already inherently within him. she only had to nurture the ‘friend’ in him until it took strong roots again. break down the walls slowly. but that didnt stop him from being conflicted. if anything, him realizing his feelings only made things more complicated.

how much he cared about her. how much he wanted to protect her. how much he appreciated and understood her. how much he needed her. how much she cared about him. how she wanted to be his friend.... but he couldn’t give her his friendship. because she’s human. and he has to destroy her. hes only going to hurt her. this is only going to hurt them both. he can’t get get any more attached and neither can she. which lead to a whole lot of lashing out and self-isolating on zim’s part.

but even then, and through everything that’s changed, she’s been the one thing that remained constant. and at a certain point, she becomes the only person the broken irken can dare to hold any faith in any more. he comes to trust in her more than anyone else. zim would literally die for her. he knows he shouldnt (shes expressed what what could do to the timeline) but he would.

honestly, this conflicted, backwards loving nature of his becomes even more of a case with his relationship with Dib. but i used Mar because zims relationship with her is unique compared to even the other ‘positive’ relationships hes had before. also cause if i used Dib, this post would be a whole lot longer,,,, ))