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Fae-CaptainofDreams — ''How Could They''
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Published: 2017-01-30 20:08:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 7350; Favourites: 159; Downloads: 0
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Dib sat with Zim in their bed and held him close, the small Irken crying into his arms and clutching at him."H-How could they d-o this?
I-I need him!"
"I know," Dib said sadly.
"I can't believe it, either.
I'm so sorry, Zim..."
He rubbed the back of Zim's head with his thumb, but nothing could numb the pain at this point.
With Zelle busy in conferences for the next few hours, there was no way to reach her and ask why this was happening.
How could this happen?
How could Red and Purple just swoop in and place an order for GIR to be taken apart?
Zim may not have casually admitted it, but deep down he truly cared for GIR.
GIR was all he had when he first went to earth, and at times could be oddly helpful (though in ways far less conventional than the standard form of "help").
As he sobbed into Dib's shirt, the human just cuddled him more, and kissed the top of his head.
It broke his heart, too.
GIR may have been a robot, but he was innocent enough.
Sometimes, GIR reminded him of a dog.
Could he have a soul?
Either way, it was sad, and seeing Zim so destroyed over the impending loss of his little minion made his heart crumple.
All he could do was hold him, and kiss the top of his head a few more times until Zim's crying put him to sleep.
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WHAAAAT?!
SAY IT AIN'T SO!
RED AND PURPLE ARE ERASING GIR?!
Will they go through with it?
Will Zim have to live on without his dumb little SIR unit forever?
FIND OUT...
Later.
Whenever i get around to it
Also, woo!
ZADR at long last!
It feels good to do these two again
Btw i'm not trying to demonize Red and Pur, but this is totally something they would do.
I mean they made GIR so why couldn't they take him away? :/
---DO NOT STEAL MY CONCEPTS, ART OR IDEAS!!! I DO NOT OWN IZ BUT I DO OWN THIS ART!!!---
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Comments: 48
I'm not crying your crying qwq
This is very well made my dear! I love the expression you gave Zim and I also love the story~! Keep up the fantastic work <3
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I love this. Would it be okay to use this in a video edit, like the ones where you put pictures together?
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AWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH, yes of course!!
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I am AWFUL man, something ya learn quick around here X)
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Zimmy boi sad i cri he cri dibber cri all of us cri
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AHAHA XD HE DO THE BIG CRAI
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Pooooooooor boi
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THANKFULLY HE LIVES ;AAA;
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo~! Not GIR!
Love the pic. XD
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IKR ;;A;;
Thank you X3
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IKR?! ;A;
How can this be?!?! *grips heart*
Thank you so much :"D
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Ooo, you've been doing lots of Dib pix lately 
But oh no, this is a sad one! DAMN YOU RED AND PURPLE!! How do you two still even have any authority to do something like that!? Poor little Zimmy green bean
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Ohhh yeah, it's happening
I KNEW you'd love to see the Dibby ;3
IKR HOW COULD THEEEY??!
SOON, you will see!!
And ikr?
All cryin' and sturrff
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No problem!! <3 <3 <3
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AHAHA sorreh X3 not
Ikr? ;;n;;
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UUGGHHH x'D
...but I just think in the show he'd be all like *giant sniff in* .......*blank stares*
...gets home...
....
*Cries for days*
then this happens and Dib's like o.o;
lol
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Well, that's how it happens in my head anyways xD
I know ZaDr will never be a thing ;_;
curse you comics!!!!!
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HNNNNNNNNGGGGH *clutches chest*
THAT ZIM... DAT ZIM .... The little piece of me within that's an absolute sucker for crying innocent Zim is screaming and rolling on the floor right now.
HONESTLY HOW DARE YOU, i try so hard to suppress it because it's so anti-Zim and his Zimmy ways but I love it, I LOVE IT. And just the fact that he's all small and bundled up in Dib's arms, i justsnfkdsnfnfdsjnfn;smfd;
*resurrects* Okay but, headcanon time again... imagine for a moment that Irkens are pretty consistently told not to express their feelings because it's considered anti-irken behavior. A soldier should never FEEL anything, and a proper soldier worthy of the Irken Elite certainly doesn't cry, whether it's for a fallen comrade or anything else. He/she is dignified and needs no one, not even friends and certainly not romantic lovers (because EW, feelings!) In spite of this, Irkens DO have feelings and their species as a whole hasn't come to terms with the expression of feelings being necessary for emotional health.
Thus emerges a sort of 'trend' where soldiers who get their own Sir Unit end up developing a bond with the robot. Bonds span from a genuine emotional attachment where the 'victim' feels they cannot leave their Sir Unit, while most invaders at least eventually name their Sir Unit, identify it by pronouns, and assign personality and feelings to their Sir. Giving it a name and a sex are considered fairly normal and expected, but it's considered odd when you start feeling emotional towards your Sir. This trend was first identified by Vortians who study Irken (and other alien) behavior, and they described this habit coming about because Irkens in general don't feel they have anyone to go with to express their emotions. They feel embarrassed to go to other Irkens to vent even though they generally desire the same level of intimacy and thus they find a sort of refuge in their Sir. Being a robot, the Irken identifies the Sir as a non-judging entity that they can vent to while at the same time keeping their emotional side a secret. This theory was disregarded at first by the Irken population and many got angry when the theory was mentioned, but it was later accepted and called Sir Attachment Syndrome, or SAS (that's my name for it currently anyway
Lonely Irkens, or Irkens without another method of emotional release, are more suspendable to the 'disease.' Gir is aware that Zim has SAS and occasionally ribs him on it while Zim either denies it (or more likely has never heard of it) .
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I AM THE DEVIL OF EMOTIONS, AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAA HAA!!!
I KNEW you'd have a breakdown over this!!
I was sooo amped for this X3
AWWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH THOUUUGH!!!
That head cannon is sad as hell but also seems so fitting ;;___;;
Irkens really DO feel feelings, not being allowed to express them has to be so hard.
Thus, i imagine Dib is the only person Zim will break down in front of :"(
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Omg fox. So amped to DESTROY MY FEELS, I MEAN MY GOODNESS. The nerve of some people!
Please never stop ;_; I need the feelios.
YES, it's a sad headcanon but it's all part of the conflict that leads to the culmination of irkens changing their ways and freeing themselves emotionally.
Going back to our other convo on our headcanons not always paralleling each other, we actually DO share this part in common with irkens eventually letting go of their old bad habits, the freeing of several slave species and the 'freeing' of planets, some bits on the Resisty, and a lot in the zadr field 
In my headcanons Zim and Dib don't become a couple (you know who i ship Zim with instead xD) but I've played around with it a little and I like shifting around what love means outside of Earth's expectations. I see them as viewing love a lot more loosely with little to no regard towards various earth restrictions (such as one single mate or gender.) personally I view irkens as being disgusted with love and ESPECIALLY sexual love as a whole and I also view Zim as more or less asexual (or at least VERY picky) so I have a hard time envisioning him with Dib and an even harder time with Dib sharing those feelings because he's grown up in a society that's much stricter about love (dating other species, same gender, wide age range, etc is all taboo where he's from) BUT...I see both of them relaxing a lot from their cultural upbringing with both of them having more difficulty with some parts of it than the other. Things like talking about his emotions, for example, takes Zim much longer than Dib who sprung into talking about his feelings as if it were no big deal (something that creeps Zim out at first) Dib will struggle a lot with internalized xenophobia and fear while Zim will immediately accept Dib as a friend or at least a partner (having grown up with other species all his life) etc. the only thing I have for zadr is Zim at some point suggesting they attempt a relationship (though he doesn't have a full grasp on what human love is) to which Dib declines. This is earlier on in their relationship so Dib finds the idea repulsive, but as he gets older and more accustomed to alien society versus his own culture, he accepts the idea a lot more and takes it as a request for a more intimate friendship. They never actually end up dating though ^^
The zadr relationship is yet another thing I someday need to document...
Edit: fffffforgot to mention what I was gonna say in the friggety first place: YES, I was going to mention that irkens do reach out to other species for emotional backup instead of other irkens but making friends with other species, especially slave species, might even be worse than expressing your emotions at all. So yes, though my *personal* view on zim&dib has their relationship develop after a big revolution on the goals and culture of irken society, those fears of expressing his emotions are still built into him and Dib being another species makes it a little easier on him. He learns earlier on to talk about it with skoodge, but it probably feels more, I don't know, sneaky with him? Like he's doing something he shouldn't, while a number of things (new irken standards, skoodge being a sort of guineapig to test his emotions on) helps him talk to dib about it too.
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I'll never stop girl
Wow, all so interesting!
Hahah, i actually made shit go by really fast with a new head cannon i'm considering trying to put up soon, to explain why even though Miyuki was a benevolent ruler, Irkens still ended up becoming so emotionally detached and disgusting by love and feelings, and how they were able to revert a little when Zelle rose.
It's aaall gonna be in their PAKs
But i know you like the slow tragic way, which is STILL AWESOME!
I tend to like those things for stuff i hold at arm's length, if that makes sense, like i myself love tragedy but when i'm working on something up close, my favorite thing to see is people go from hurt and abused to full of life, healing and turning themselves around.
With the relationship stuff with Dib by the way, makes perfect sense!
I myself actually need to really work on how Zim and Dib ended up together, and yes it started with them being friends.
They weren't fighting one day and then just started humping each other
But yeah it's all kind of vague even in my head, i gotta fix that :"L
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oh man....Irken ID Paks...are they ever NOT the bomb? You could literally take any concept and make it badass just by being "WELL YOU SEE, PAKS PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS BECAUSE...-" !
But yes, very excited for what you have in mind.
Hm, I don't feel I have a total grasp on what I love most of all when it comes to tragedy. As we've discussed, I do like my tragic endings, but that's not always the case. I do know I like things rendered realistically though- for example I don't know if you've seen the movie "The Road to El Dorado" but I'm very critical about my female leads, and Chel was like....randomly the ONLY NATIVE who didn't believe in the Gods that her society worshiped (and she was rolling her eyes at it pretty much) and that sort of thing just bugged me. Like her character and motives are supposed to be vague, but her level of detachment just struck me as too odd. BUT that's another thing and just an example 
And, yes, I wouldn't think you'd just suddenly have a relationship pop up between Zim and Dib 
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AHAH right?
PAKs are fucking badass
I am excited to work on it!!
OH yeah, i haven't seen that movie in a LONG ass time, but even as a kid i thought Chel was weird...
I miss that movie XD
Anyway yeah it all makes sense, and hey i have SOME tragedy!
I put Pepps in prison for YEARS and years on end, constantly slipping in and out of sanity, being tormented, and having to live with the pain of missing one of his closest friends, who ended up being someone he accidentally played a part in killing (though not really because it was a freak accident) and i have tragic characters, but...
ME AND TRAGIC ENDINGS ARE COMPLICATED XD
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Yes, get excited for that!
And yes not to say you don't have any tragedy or I don't have any happy endings. We're both complicated about it I think 
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Yo.
Now THAT is a great headcanon.
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Why THANK YOU, random spectator 
Also, yo wolf, what's new and happenin' compadre
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Aah nothin' much, dude! drawin' and stuff. the normal snizz.
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AAA HA HAAH THE FEELZ!!
THE ZADR!!
IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!
MY EYES, AH F*CK.
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OMG YES YES I MISSED YOUR ZADR SO MUCH! MOUR PLZ!
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I INTEND TO DO MORE THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
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