Since fools wanna reblog my post that was explicitly NOT in the ship tag, cause let’s be real since when did shippers care about common decency, I decided to make my little reply it’s own post. Please if you’re an IZ blog that does not post/reblog za//dr then reblog this so word can get around. I honest to god have no idea where the idea of zim being a child ever came from.
I remember watching the trailers on nick for the new show about a green alien and getting excited. I remember when youtube first launched and ppl made cringey bad-quality iz fanvids. And I remember when Dib and Zim got shipped together. I was a child myself and was really into the ship, and even back then we all knew Zim was not a child. I literally never encountered that rumor until I recently got back into the fandom and it’s blown my mind. So here’s some pics I used in my response to that moronic, unwelcome reply.
This is a little pic I took of the script from the unfinished episode The Trial. I have scripts, boards, and VA lines from several unaired episodes because yes, I was THAT obsessed with this show. Here Zim clearly states that he’s at least TEN YEARS OLD at this point in his story. As in, already before his official invader training began he was around Dib’s age.
It’s long-established Irken lore that Irkens are trained underground in the planet Irk for many years until finally seeing the surface. Heck I’m pretty sure in the Tak episode she talks about long year gaps that would definitely make her and Zim adults.
And here we have one of the first issues of the official Zim comic, this issue was written by the creator and one of the tv show’s writers, so it’s as canon as canon can get. Tak’s AI states VERY CLEARLY that Zim has has “untold decades” of training. That would literally put him way older than Dib, even if it meant the guy was 20 yrs old that’s still too old for a tween yall.
There is of course more evidence in the show and comic but I’d hope that actual IZ fans would already watch/read those and, yknow, hear/read the proof for themselves, but maybe that’s hoping for too much when it comes to assholes who go into the anti tag to purposely start petty fights and make nonsense arguments.
So once again, please spread this one around if you can so idiots might actually see it, cause all the fools who responded to my post either ignored me, insulted me, or worse so I’m not bothering with them anymore.
Oh and if it aint clear enough for some of you? DNI if you’re a za//dr shipper
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