my au! zim works in membrane labs!
it all just kinda started when zim started coming over to dib’s more
professor membrane has noticed that „dibs little foreign friend” has quite a brain for science, so after about 2 months of monitoring him and his knowledge about technology he asked zim if he wanted to work with him in membrane labs cuz he knew that it would be easier for zim to work with him than to pressure dib into it. Zim was hesitant at first but saw this as an apportunity to spend more time on hit irken technology aswell so he agreed.
Not long after he was introduced to the whole world as a partner to professor membrane in his studies, of course many of professor’s fans knew that zim had some sort of relationship with dib and made it a running joke that zim and dib were dating (and they were, just not now)
if you want to know more about this au feel free to ask me questions!