What does Dib and Zim's college situation look like? Do they have dorms, are they roomies?? Do they have jobs??? I mean, with Zim's closet he's gotta be getting an income from somewhere,,
Is Gaz in school??? What would her major be?? What about Tak???? I have so many questions I need to know
I'm just so absolutely obsessed with your art and AU, it's so charming and fun ( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́◡ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀⸝⸝)
Ok cue yapping about my au again. It's still in progress 😭 and I don't want to spoil too much cause I am working on something 🤫
I haven't read the comics yet, but my AU takes place 10 years after Enter the Florpus. I mostly take inspo from the original series, because I don't like how the movie sensitized the world and made Dib's family relationships wholesome. I miss the creepy vibe the original series has and I want Dib to have more 'well-behaved college student at day - crazy mad scientist at night' vibes.
They don't have dorms and I don't want to focus on the college thing too much. - The only reason Dib goes there is to get his dad off his back, since his dad is the one paying for it. (And the one who signed Dib up in the first place)
In my story Dib doesn't have a happy relationship with his father. He ruined his childhood and now that he's an adult, he's hyperfixated on Dib working in the Membrane Labs and taking on the legacy of his father's accomplishments. His father insists, but Dib always declines, because he wants to work for the Swollen Eyeball Network.
In short, Dib now lives in his old abandoned grandparent's house that he inherited. He's trying to prove he can live on his own, have a stable job and prove he's not insane (which is not going well). Dib spends his time exploring abandoned places and experimenting in his basement, looking for that one proof of the paranormal that will get his peers to promote him to a higher position at the company, so that his father can leave him alone.
Now canon thing in my au is that the Florpus happened, so the Tallest are either dead or Zim just isn't able to reach them anymore.
Zim is mourning his Tallest (he has an oltar for them and everything), and can't manage to go a day without feeling existential dread and believes he's useless to his society. To Irkens standards he is deemed defective - which is one out of millions and punishable by death and Zim has never told anyone about it so this secret is eating him alive. The only thing that makes him happy is annoying Dib and going to his house all the time. Then he eventually signs up to the same college he goes to just as a provocation tactic.
Zim is frustrated Dib has a 'goal', and Zim doesn't. He just wallows in his misery all day. Zim doesn't want to be left behind, so he makes up any excuse to keep Dib's attention (that wouldn't involve kidnapping of some sorts). And after Dib agrees to be boyfriends in exchange for access to Zim's house, Zim takes this as an excuse to be in his business all the time. Like forcing him to cook for him and watching movies.
Zim doesn't have a job, but he likes hacking into Dib's credit card. :D
And when they get together, they will have a competition on who is the better boyfriend, and Dib tries to win by buying Zim stuff and clothes. But I also like the idea that Zim could also get into sewing his own clothes and designing new garments out of boredom. Even though Zim has body issues in my au....They are both angstyy >:D muhhahaha
I want them to have goofy adventures outside of college. Because I can't imagine them being responsible and going to college everyday. That wouldn't be fun to write for me, only if there was like a B plot for the school. That it's haunted or a cult or something :D
Gaz now passed highschool, and streams game full time. Her major is game development and she's the 'n.1 E-sports player worldwide and out-worldwide'. But she spends more time hanging with Zim than Dib. Dib is trying be friendly to Gaz, but she holds some childhood stigma over him (he did drink her soda that one time...).
To be honest I have no idea where to put Tak into the story yet T~T
